Need experience on your Gap Year? Try murder. Bored of the `mango smoothie` trail & keen to spice up their Facebook albums, & perhaps also their sex lives, Jake & Will take a tour into China`s jungle borderland with Burma. Their guide, however, has his own agenda & gradually the two gap-year students slip into a nightmarish spiral of murder & moral decay; their chance of survival determined by a game of hide & seek played out with deadly crossbows. This is a fast paced, adrenaline ride of a novel: ” Deliverance” meets ” Lord of the Flies”. ...

With an introduction by novelist Rachel Kushner In the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, & their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole`s search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand & an ill-fated romance. The Crossing is the story of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham, who sets off on a perilous journey across the mountains of Mexico, accompanied only by a lone wolf. Eventually the two come together in Cities of the Plain, in a stunning tale of loyalty & love.A true classic of American literature, The Border Trilogy is Cormac Mc Carthy`s award-winning requiem for the American frontier. Beautiful & brutal, filled equally with sorrow & humour, it is a powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood & violence are conditions of life. ...

The Borough area of London in 1872 in a series of exceptionally detailed reproductions of old Ordnance Survey street plans for areas of larger cities which have undergone substantial redevelopment in the late 19th or the early 20th century, published in the Alan Godfrey Editions. The plans, printed in back & white, have been taken from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1, 056 & reproduced at 1:1, 760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. The maps provide an unrivalled, house-by-house picture of streets & individual buildings with inner courtyards, outbuildings, pavements, covered passages, etc. Many important institutions are named; within the National Galley on Trafalgar Square even the individual rooms (the map is from 1871, so no French Impressionists as yet!). On the reverse are historical notes about the area covered by the map, plus extracts from contemporary street directories. These maps provide a fascinating addition to Alan Godfrey’s huge series of some 2, 000 titles presenting reproductions of street plans at taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:2, 500 (25” to 1 mile) & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). ...

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. ...

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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The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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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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