` Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable` The New York Times`A nail-biting escape story` Financial Times At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is the incredible story of how one incredible year in Churchill`s life
- an adventure involving war in South Africa, imprisonment, endurance & escape
- would be the making of one of the most extraordinary men in history. ` Few can match the originality & narrative power of Candice Millard`s elegantly written & surprisingly revealing account of the young Churchill`s exploits` Saul David, Daily Telegraph`A thrilling account.. . This book is an awesome nail-biter & top-notch character study rolled into one` Jennifer Senior, The New York Times, Books of the Year` Gripping.. .thrilling.. . Millard tells it with gusto.. .casts an interestingly oblique light on Churchill`s personality, & on a traumatic war` Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Observer, Books of the Year ` Completely engrossing` Andrew Roberts

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` Completely engrossing` Andrew Roberts From The New York Times bestselling author Candice Millard, this is the gripping true story of one dramatic
- & emblematic
- year in the early life of Winston Churchill At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of becoming Prime Minister he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Although he had put himself in real danger in colonial wars in India & Sudan, & as a journalist covering the Spanish-American War in Cuba, glory & fame had eluded him. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899 to write about the brutal colonial war against the Boers. Just two weeks later, he was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape
- but then had to traverse hundreds of miles of enemy territory alone. The story of his escape is extraordinary enough, but then Churchill enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought in several battles & ultimately liberated the men with whom he had been imprisoned. Churchill would later remark that this period, `could I have seen my future, was to lay the foundations of my later life`. Candice Millard tells a magnificent story of bravery, savagery & chance encounters with a cast of historical characters
- including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener & Gandhi
- with whom he would later share the world stage, & gives us an unexpected perspective on one of the iconic figures in our history.




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The edge-of-your-seat, monstrously-exciting, laugh-out-loud adventures of the most unfortunate monster-hunter ever to don armour... continue. Things can`t get any worse. Legends are running riot. Half-hunters are out of control. Darkmouth has been taken away from Finn & Emmie, & Finn`s dad Hugo
- proud Legend Hunter
- is washing dogs for a living. But something even more terrifying lurks beneath the surface: an ancient horror threatening both our world & the Infested Side. So scratch that. Things can get worse. Much worse. More than ever, Darkmouth is going to need a hero... Sadly, all it`s got is Finn.

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Michael Korda`s Hero is an epic biography of the mysterious, Englishman whose daring exploits made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as ` Lawrence of Arabia. An Oxford Scholar & archaeologist, T.E. Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916 & vanished into the desert in 1917. He united & led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks & eventually capture Damascus, an adventure he recorded in the classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A born leader, utterly fearless & seemingly impervious to pain & danger, he remained modest, & retiring. Farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, & acclaimed writer, Lawrence was a visionary whose achievements transcended his time: had his vision for the modern Middle East been carried through, the hatred & bloodshed that have since plagued the region might have prevented. The democratic reforms he would have implemented as British High Commissioner of Egypt, are those the Egyptians are now demanding, 91 years later. Ultimately, as this magisterial work demonstrates, Lawrence remains the paradigm of the hero in modern times. ...

The heroes of John Pilger`s narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult & often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union; victims of conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa, India, the Middle East & Central America. They also include the Irish labouring generation of his great-great-grandfather, transported in irons to Australia for uttering `unlawful oaths`. It is a vivid, engrossing & sometimes blackly amusing personal story covering the periods for which his journalism is renowned. John Pilger has witnessed many of the major world upheavals of the past thirty years, as well as the daily realities of injustices normally hidden from society`s view. His reporting of these events has always been distinguished by his tenaciously researched facts
- especially facts that governments & powerful interests would prefer to keep secret
- & by his unerring & always compassionate pursuit of the truth.

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Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold & heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly & triumphantly as Greek heroes. In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic & timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See Atalanta
- who was raised by bears
- outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx & discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera. Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of
- at our worst & our very best.


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War correspondent Colin Frere is on assignment in Malia, a Southeast Asian stateconsumed by civil conflict & revolution. He is abducted by the Communistguerrillas
- actually by prearrangement. His mission is to understand the rebels andtheir charismatic leader
- not least because his own elder brother once foughtalongside them. But he soon finds that idealism trumps journalistic detachmentand he becomes an active soldier in the revolutionary cause. His journey & thatof his adopted country involves heroism, romance, comradeship
- & ultimatelybetrayal. Heroes in the Evening Mist was the last novel by the prolific author William Ash, who died in 2014, & it has hitherto been unpublished. Ash was born in Texas butfought as a Spitfire pilot in the Second World War before spending three years in a German prisoner-of-war camp. His repeated attempts to escape made him oneof the models for the character played by Steve Mc Queen in the film The Great Escape & were chronicled in his best-selling memoir Under the Wire. He wasa lifelong socialist & his final work shows a rare sympathetic engagement notonly with the cause of post-colonial liberation but also with the problems faced byrevolutionary governments once they have won power


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From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a brilliant new black comedy about modern America A mother & her two young children rent a battered old RV (optimistically christened the ` Chateau`) & embark upon a journey through the Alaskan wilderness. At first their trip feels like a vacation: they spot wild animals, build bonfires, enjoy the scenery. But as Josie drives her kids deeper into the forest, dodging wildfires & increasingly eccentric locals, we learn more of the events that forced her to escape her old life. Fraught with unexpected encounters from the sublime to the ridiculous, her tiny family must survive this surreal adventure at all costs, in order to finally discover something clean & redemptive out at the very edge of civilization. Heroes of the Frontier is a captivating & hilarious novel about family, loss & recovery, & a powerful examination of contemporary American life. ...

From the bestselling author of The Circle, a hilarious & heart-warming misadventure through modern America: it`s time for the family vacation... Josie`s life is falling apart
- lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain & a feckless husband long gone
- so she gathers up her two kids & lights out for the wilderness. The Alaskan wilderness, to be specific. This is a story about the trip of a lifetime. It involves one battered old RV, one highly sensitive eight year old boy, one fearless & hyperactive five year old girl, several forest fires, a large supply of pinot noir, & a deeply misguided sense of optimism. It may well be that things don`t turn out quite as Josie expected
- but then again, some of the best places in the world are found at the end of a road you didn`t mean to take... Heroes of the Frontier is an uproariously funny portrait of modern America & the modern family, an entirely contemporary novel gleaming with Dave Eggers` trademark intelligence & originality.


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` For the past five weeks I`d prayed that I`d never see my brother`s name spelt out in poppies. In the weeks that followed I often wished I had.` Jammy & Sonny Mc Gann are brothers, but that`s where the similarities end. One is calm when the other is angry; one has a plan while the other lives purely in the moment. When Jammy returns from Afghanistan a very different man to the one who left, it`s Sonny who is left to hold things together. But just how far will he go to save the brother who always put him first? Inspired by S.E. Hinton`s ” The Outsiders” & by the battles facing young soldiers all over the world, this is a devastating novel about brotherhood & sacrifice, from the award-winning author of ” Being Billy” & ” Saving Daisy”. ” Being Billy” won the 2012 we Read Book Award, & was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children`s Book Prize & Branford Boase Award. Phil Earle was born, raised & schooled in Hull. His first job was as a care worker in a children`s home, an experience that influenced the ideas behind ” Being Billy” & ” Saving Daisy”. He then trained as a drama therapist & worked in a therapeutic community in south London, caring for traumatized & abused adolescents. After a couple of years in the care sector, Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of a bookseller, & now works in children`s publishing. Phil lives in south-east London with his wife & children, but Hull will always be home. ...