`A riveting true story of greed, serial murder & racial injustice` JON KRAKAUER `A fiercely entertaining mystery story & a wrenching exploration of evil` KATE ATKINSON `A fascinating accountof a tragic & forgotten chapter in the history of the American West` JOHN GRISHAM From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller & Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI`s first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their l&, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions & sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he & his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.` David Grann has a razor-keen instinct for suspense`LOUISE ERDRICH ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION `A riveting true story of greed, serial murder & racial injustice` JON KRAKAUER `A fiercely entertaining mystery story & a wrenching exploration of evil` KATE ATKINSON `A fascinating accountof a tragic & forgotten chapter in the history of the American West` JOHN GRISHAM From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller & Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI`s first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their l&, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions & sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he & his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. ` David Grann has a razor-keen instinct for suspense` LOUISE ERDRICH ...

January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain`s history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I & now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings & hold Charles I to account for the appalling suffering & slaughter endured by his people. A tribunal of 135 men was hastily gathered in London, & although Charles refused to acknowledge the power of his subjects to try him, the death sentence was unanimously passed. On an icy winter`s day on a scaffold outside Whitehall, in an event unique in English history, the King of England was executed. When the dead king`s son, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he set about enacting a deadly wave of retribution against all those
- the lawyers, the judges, the officers on the scaffold
- responsible for his father`s death. Some of the `regicides`
- the killers of the king
- pleaded for mercy, while others stoically awaited their sentence. Many went into hiding in Engl&, or fled to Europe or America. Those who were caught & condemned suffered agonising & degrading ends, while others saw out their days in hellish captivity. Bestselling historian Charles Spencer explores this violent clash of ideals through the individuals whose fates were determined by that one, momentous decision. A powerful tale of revenge from the dark heart of royal history & a fascinating insight into the dangers of political & religious allegiance in Stuart Engl&, these are the shocking stories of the men who dared to kill a king.



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January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain`s history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I & now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings & hold Charles I to account for the appalling suffering & slaughter endured by his people. A tribunal of 135 men was hastily gathered in London, & although Charles refused to acknowledge the power of his subjects to try him, the death sentence was unanimously passed. On an icy winter`s day on a scaffold outside Whitehall, in an event unique in English history, the King of England was executed. When the dead king`s son, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he set about enacting a deadly wave of retribution against all those
- the lawyers, the judges, the officers on the scaffold
- responsible for his father`s death. Some of the `regicides`
- the killers of the king
- pleaded for mercy, while others stoically awaited their sentence. Many went into hiding in Engl&, or fled to Europe or America. Those who were caught & condemned suffered agonising & degrading ends, while others saw out their days in hellish captivity. Bestselling historian Charles Spencer explores this violent clash of ideals through the individuals whose fates were determined by that one, momentous decision. A powerful tale of revenge from the dark heart of royal history & a fascinating insight into the dangers of political & religious allegiance in Stuart Engl&, these are the shocking stories of the men who dared to kill a king.



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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Orthodox Jew Yigal Amir, twenty years ago this November, remains the most consequential event in the country`s recent history. Killing a King relates parallel stories over the two years leading up to the assassination, as Rabin plotted political deals he hoped would lead to peace & Amir plotted murder. Dan Ephron covered both the rally where Rabin was assassinated & the subsequent murder trial. This deeply researched narrative is based on a trove of documents from the era & interviews with the key players, including members of Amir`s family. Only through the prism of the murder is it possible to understand Israel today, from the paralysis in peace-making to the relationship between Netanyahu & Obama. ...

“ Killing Dragons” is the most hair-raising, hilarious account of the birth of mountaineering ever written. Above the pastures of Switzerl&, it was long believed, dragons & ghosts inhabited the realms of ice & snow. No-one in their right mind considered climbing into these inhospitable regions
- & certainly not for pleasure. In the late enlightenment period, however, certain scientific gentlemen began to turn their minds to the highest places. What would they tell us about our atmosphere, about weather, about glaciers? & so they set off, armed with gallons of good wine, roast fowl, theodolites & barometers, walking in their ordinary clothes up the glaciers of Switzerland into the unknown. But then the British came on the scene, & mountain-climbing as an obsession, an art form & a sport was born. Public schoolboys, scientists, showmen, the daftly amateurish & the fiendishly competitive were all entranced by the majesty & challenge of the great mountains, which they vanquished peak by peak. By the end of the century only the suicidally dangerous north faces of the Eiger & Matterhorn remained to be climbed by protegés of Hitler & Mussolini.
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After breaking up with the man she thought she`d marry & losing her job as a magazine editor, Camas Davis felt totally lost. Out of love with her life & the world, she knew one thing: that she wanted to make a change. Camas had spent much of her career writing about food, but she had never forced herself to grapple with how it actually got to her plate. & so she set off for France. There, in the rolling countryside of Gascony, she was welcomed in by the Chapolard brothers, a family of pig-farmers & butchers. They would teach her the art of butchery, & with it the art of eating & drinking the Gascon way. Surrounded by farmers, producers, cooks & food-lovers, eating some of the world`s least processed & most lovingly made food, Camas discovered the very authenticity she`d longed for in her old life. She just needed to return to America, & bring what she`d learnt back with her... Killing It is a book about a woman doing something simultaneously extreme & unexpected, yet incredibly simple
- a return to a relationship with food we only lost a few decades ago. Funny, irreverent, & totally inspiring, this is a story about turning your life upside down & starting again, it is about falling in & out of love, & it is about understanding what it means to be human & what it means to be animal too.
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Get ready for saucepan solos, nosh pits & air guitar caviar
- Killing Me Souffle is a veritable feast for the ears (and stomach),
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Over then past fifty years the British countryside has changed out of all recognition. A wide range of wildlife species are disappearing
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The Number One bestselling, award-winning Queen of crime fiction Val Mc Dermid delivers a searing psychological suspense thriller. A serial killer is on the loose. His victims? Crime writers...A murderer is at large, hunting with a bloodlust that shatters all the conventional wisdom on how serial killers operate. Professor Fiona Cameron is a psychologist who uses computer technology to track serial offenders. She vowed never to work for the Met again after they went against her advice & screwed up an investigation as a result. But when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered, Fiona can`t help taking an interest. With the killer striking again, Fiona is caught in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal & professional. ...