`UNPUTDOWNABLE. A MUST READ` WILBUR SMITH on Sunday Times bestseller Nomad. MOVE OVER JASON BOURNE, MARC DANE IS HERE.. .A vicious Serbian gang whose profits come from fake nuclear weapons. A disgraced Russian general, with access to the real thing. A vengeful Somali warlord, with a cause for which he`d let the world burn. A jaded government agency, without the information to stop him. Only one man sees what`s coming. & even he might not be able to prevent it.. . Racing breathlessly from uncharted CIA prisons to the skyscrapers of Dubai, from stormbeaten oil rigs off the African coast to the ancient caverns beneath the city of Naples, Marc Dane returns in the incredible new action thriller from the internationally bestselling author of NOMAD. NOMAD WAS EXPLOSIVE. THIS IS NUCLEAR. ...

In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo`s perverse mutant protagonist
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Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. From the moment he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jaime, whose allure draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy, the vibrant play of heart & body. The second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman`s youth, Amy Bellette, companion & muse to Zuckerman`s first literary hero, E.I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted by illness, guarding the memory of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation. The third connection is with Lonoff`s would-be biographer, a young literary hound who will do & say nearly anything to get to Lonoff`s ”great secret”. Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, & animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid & poignant possibilities. ...

Shortly after the dramatic events of 1989, Eva Hoffman spent several months travelling through her native Poland & four other Eastern European countries which had just undergone an historic transformation. This is the personal narrative of that journey & a portrayal of a social landscape in the midst of change. While making her way from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Hoffman ranged from capital cities to wayside villages & sleepy provincial towns; she visited shipyards, museums, homes & coffee-houses of the intelligentsia; & she talked with a great variety of people, many of them struggling with the transition from an unwanted past to an uncertain future. Most of all, she uses her bi-cultural perspective to enter deeply into Eastern European minds & sensibilities & to convey what the larger social shifts mean to particular people: to former dissidents wielding political power, deposed apparatchiks turned successful entrepreneurs, artists & technocrats, literate ex-censors, Polish aristocrats, Hungarian gypsies & Bulgarian Turks. ...

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERGUARDIAN TOP 10 BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER2017 most anticipated books pick -- Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New York Times & many more...` Spare, crystalline prose, mixing the real & the surreal & using old fairy-tale magic... An unnervingly dystopian portrait of what might lie down the road` Michiko Kakutani, New York Times An extraordinary story of love & hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist Nadia & Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing
- to fall in love
- in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now & how we might live tomorrow, of a world in crisis & two human beings travelling through it. Civil war has come to the city which Nadia & Saeed call home. Before long they will need to leave their motherland behind
- when the streets are no longer useable & the unknown is safer than the known. They will join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world...


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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERGUARDIAN TOP 10 BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER` Mixing the real & the surreal, using old fairy-tale magic... Compelling, crystalline, unnervingly dystopian` Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An extraordinary story of love & hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour & a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night. This is Saeed. He is sweet & shy & kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for star-gazing. This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now & how we might live tomorrow. Saeed & Nadia are falling in love, & their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis & two human beings travelling through it. Exit West is a heartfelt & radical act of hope
- a novel to restore your faith in humanity & in the power of imagination.
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You are on a trip to the Florence Natural History Museum, intent on visiting the sunken treasure of the Santa Maria. Your relaxing day at the museum is quickly derailed by an incredible adventure! Can you solve the mysteries of the museum & find a way out? Difficulty Level: 2 of 5. This game can be played only one time because you must markup, fold, & tear the game materials to solve the riddles & escape. ...

A classic tale of murder on the Orient Express, reimagined. The culprit of a grisly crime is still on board your train. It’s a race against time to piece the clues together before the train reaches its destination. The case is perplexing, & you must solve it quickly so the assailant does not escape. Difficulty Level: 4 of 5. This game can be played only one time because you must markup, fold, & tear the game materials to solve the crime. ...

On an Egyptian holiday, players are visiting the highlight of the entire journey: the stone pyramids! But after rising through the narrow, labyrinthine corridors, they discover that they`ve lost the rest of the group. After wandering for hours, they end up in a mysterious grave chamber & suddenly the stone door closes behind them. The players are caught. On the floor is a s&-covered notebook & an ancient spinning code dial. Will the players escape in time or be forever buried under stone? In EXIT: The Game The Pharaoh`s Tomb, players must use their team spirit, creativity, & powers of deduction to crack codes, solve puzzles, collect objects, & earn their freedom bit by bit. ...

A wonderfully mild morning in the Arctic — only -15° Celsius! You belong to a large research organization, which is divided between several stations. As part of Division IMB-Q-12, you are researching climate change at the North Pole. Everything is strictly secret & you have no idea what the missions of the other teams are. From Division IMB-Q-13, for example, have not seen or heard anything for weeks. Suddenly the evacuation alarm goes off! You run to the door, but it has already been locked automatically. Through the window you can see your colleagues from the other stations run to the helicopters. You are left alone in the freezing Arctic.. . You crawl into an adjacent station via a ventilation shaft. Again, the door is already locked. The lab is devastated & you wonder what happened here. Then you find a notebook & a strange disk. Everything in the room is secured with numbered locks. Then it dawns on you that only if you can figure out all of the codes to unlock the locks in time, can you escape. If not, this will be your bitter (cold) end. This game can be played only one time because you must markup, fold, & tear the game materials to solve the riddles & escape. ...