Six interlocking stories. One spellbinding novel. The year is 2013, & Hong Kong`s greatest detective is dying. For fifty years, Inspector Kwan quietly solved cases while the world changed around him. Now his partner Detective Lok has come to his deathbed for help with one final case. Where there is murder, there is humanity. This bold & intricate crime novel spans five decades of love, honour, race, class, jealousy & revenge in one of the most intriguing nations in the world. This is the story of a man who let justice shine in the space between black & white. This is the story of Hong Kong. ...

Where there is murder, there is humanity. Hong Kong`s greatest detective, Inspector Kwan, is dying. For the past fifty years he has been quietly solving crimes while the world changed around him. Now on his deathbed, his partner Detective Lok needs help with one final case. Through the story of six different but interlocking murders, this bold & intricate crime novel spans five decades of love, honour, jealousy & revenge, in one of the world`s most intriguing nations. ...

In this delightful, funny & moving first novel, a librarian & a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. Lucy Hull, a 26-year-old children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper & kidnapped when her favourite patron, 10-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly anti-gay classes. Lucy, a rebel at heart beneath her librarian's exterior, stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours, with a knapsack of provisions & an escape plan. Desperate to save him from the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian. The odd pair embark on an improvised road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets & an inconvenient boyfriend thrown in their path. Along the way, Lucy struggles to make peace with her Russian immigrant father & his fugitive past, & is forced to use his shady connections to escape discovery. But is it just Ian who is running away? Who is the strange man on their tail? & should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents? ...

Julian Woodford uncovers the breathtakingly appalling life of Joseph Merceron (1764-1839), gangster & corrupt magistrate, who accumulated enormous wealth while presiding over the creation of the poorest slums in Georgian London. Ruling Spitalfields & Bethnal Green from his base in Brick Lane for half a century, Merceron gave the East End the bad reputation that still lingers today, while the exploits of recent mobsters & political miscreants pale by comparison with his staggering violence & ruthlessness. Julian Woodford`s shrewd biography
- the first on this subject
- is essential reading for all those interested in eighteenth century London, anyone fascinated by the capital`s criminal history & everyone who loves an exciting true story well told.

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In this elegant & impassioned synthesis from one of the world`s leading experts on Africa & poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world`s people are beginning to climb from desperate poverty & to benefit from globalization`s reach to developing countries, there is a ”bottom billion” of the world`s poor whose countries, largely immune to the forces of global economy, are falling farther behind & are in danger of falling apart, separating permanently & tragically from the rest of the world. Collier identifies & explains the four traps that prevent the homelands of the world`s billion poorest people from growing & receiving the benefits of globalization
- civil war, the discovery & export of natural resources in otherwise unstable economies, being landlocked & therefore unable to participate in the global economy without great cost, & finally, ineffective governance. As he demonstrates that these billion people are quite likely in danger of being irretrievably left behind, Collier argues that we cannot take a ”headless heart” approach to these seemingly intractable problems; rather, that we must harness our despair & our moral outrage at these inequities to a reasoned & thorough understanding of the complex & interconnected problems that the world`s poorest people face.
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” Among the best city-centric series.”--New York Times THE BOWERY BOYS` OFFICIAL COMPANION TO THEIR WILDLY POPULAR, AWARD-WINNING PODCAST The Bowery Boys podcast is a phenomenon, thrilling audiences each month with one amazing story after the next. Now, in their first-ever book, the duo gives you an exclusive personal tour through New York`s old cobblestone streets & gas-lit back alleyways. Featuring fascinating guides to: * Hell`s Kitchen & Columbus Circle * The Bowery & Astor Place * Tribeca & Foley Square * Chinatown & Little Italy * & all the rest of New York! ...

Ben Robson can`t remember a time before he had the box, with its three mischief-making demon occupants: smelly, cantankerous Orf, manically destructive Kartofel, & fat, slobbering greedy-guts Djinn. When Ben was a kid it was fun, & he enjoyed their company. Now he`s twelve they`re nothing but trouble. Then one day Ben has an angelic visitor who tells him that he can be rid of the box forever if he sends it back to hell. There`s only one catch
- the box has other plans.. . The Box of Demons by Daniel Whelan was the winner of the 2012 Write Now! Prize. It is now available in paperback with gorgeous illustrated cover by Chris Riddell.
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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container`s creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, & the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. But the container didn`t just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors & from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges & Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took Mc Lean`s success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container`s potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York & London & fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakl&. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world`s workshop & brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe. Published in hardcover on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive & imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, & made the boom in global trade possible. ...

The psychological thriller everyone will be talking about this summer. Perfect for fans of Friend Request, He Said/ She Said & The Couple Next Door. ` Unsettling, layered, bold, unpredictable, dark. EXCELLENT` Will Dean, author of Dark Pines. What would you do for the perfect life? Would you LIE? Would you CHEAT? Would you KILL? Cecilia Wilborg has THE PERFECT LIFE. A handsome husb&, two beautiful daughters & a luxurious house in the picture-postcard town of Sandefjord. But Cecilia also has A DARK SECRET. A secret so damaging it can never be brought to light. Then Tobias enters her life. He is a small, friendless eight-year-old boy who just wants to find a home. But he threatens to bring Cecilia`s world crashing down. `STUNNING.. . Intricate & twisted with dark secrets emerging at every turn` ALEXANDRA BURT, author of Sunday Times Bestseller Little Girl Gone. ` Heartbreaking & HEAD-SPINNING` MARY TORJUSSEN, author of Gone Without a Trace. ` Remarkable.. . GRIPS LIKE A VICE` CRIME TIME. ...

When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 & the Second World War is fast approaching; & this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler`s wing, & is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets & betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape. ...