From Jack the Ripper to the modern day drug cartels, discover the most notorious crimes & criminals in history. With a foreword by bestselling crime author Peter James, The Crime Book explores over 100 crimes & examines the science, psychology & sociology of criminal behaviour. See the gory details of each crime & how it was solved, with renowned"es & detailed criminal profiles letting you delve into the criminal mind. The Crime Book looks at the big ideas & concepts in criminology spanning from pirates, kidnapping & political plots to modern con artists, serial killers & rogue traders, including the Black Dahlia investigation, the Mississippi Scheme, & the notorious Jeffrey Dahmer. The Crime Book is the perfect introduction to law enforcement & criminology across history`s most infamous crimes. ...

The ultimate guide to the criminal world through its slang
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' Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.. .' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen & prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can. Be prepared for a mesmerising tale of passion, intrigue, ambition & revenge. ...

Foreword to this title is written by General Sir David Richards. ` Accurate & rattlingly good story-telling
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A magical new classic in the making from the creator of the beloved favourite, The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Once there was a little boy called Matty, & he was very sad... From the creator of the iconic picture books The Tiger Who Came to Tea & Mog the Forgetful Cat, comes a brand new story about joy, parties...and crocodiles! Matty is sick, & very sad because he`s too sick to go to the Queen`s birthday party! But when he gets an unexpected visitor, it seems that Matty might not miss out after all... ...

Vienna, 1948. The war is over, & as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after discovering her husband`s infidelity. She has come back to find him &, perhaps, to forgive him. Traveling on the same train from Switzerland is 18-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home to his stepfather`s sickbed & the secrets of his family`s past. As Anna & Robert navigate an unrecognizable city, they cross paths with a war-widowed American journalist, a hunchbacked young servant girl, & a former POW whose primary purpose is to survive by any means & to forget. Meanwhile, in the shells of burned-out houses & beneath the bombed-out ruins, a ghost of a man, his head wrapped in a red scarf, battles demons from his past & hides from a future that is deeply uncertain for all. In The Crooked Maid, Dan Vyleta returns to the shadows of war-darkened Vienna, proving himself once again `a magical storyteller, master of the macabre` (David Park). ...

The Second World War is over
- & yet it lives on. As the initial phase of denazification draws to a close, people across Vienna
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The Cross & the Crescent is a highly praised account of relations between Christians & Muslims – the ‘peoples of the book’ – from the emergence of Islam after the death of Muhammad in 632 AD to the European Reformation. Links forged through conquest, diplomacy, pilgrimage & trade brought peoples of both faiths into frequent contact – sharing inventions such as paper & the abacus, while merchants travelled throughout the Mediterranean trading textiles, furs, spices, incense, ivory & even slaves. Yet despite these fruitful interactions, Christians viewed Muslims as bloodthirsty pagans, & Islam looked on Christendom with scorn as a jumble of confused sects. As Richard Fletcher argues, it was this failure to understand each other that spurred them into frequent & bloody conflicts. Fletcher provides a clear-sighted & illuminating description of the ways in which Islam & Christianity have coexisted & clashed since their earliest encounters – a story that has lasting implications for our own time. ...

When James Cracknell & Ben Fogle decided to compete in the Atlantic Rowing Race, they thought they knew what awaited them: nearly three thousand miles of empty ocean, stormy weather & colossal physical stress. But as the security of dry land became a distant memory, the full enormity of what they had committed themselves to became apparent: they were surrounded by ocean on all sides, hundreds of miles from home, trapped together in a tiny space for every waking moment. & as their epic journey would became at times a living hell testing the strength of every fibre of their being, winning the race was clearly the least of their worries... Yet, forty seven days later, James & Ben were the first pair to cross the finishing line, overtaking one of the fourman teams in the process, & becoming the first British pair ever to win the race. They had pushed themselves physically, psychologically & emotionally to the limit. They survived without water rations, lost the few clothes they had, capsized, hallucinated, wept, fought, played games, grown beards, nursed blisters & rowed a staggering 2, 930 miles. The Crossing is the extraordinarily honest account of James & Ben`s epic race. From cooking in a force eight gale & rubbing cream into one another`s blisters to swimming with whales & believing your partner has drowned. They are never going to be the same again. ...

She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world`s curve & beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known. Who else has entered Tim`s life the way Maud did? This girl who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood & walked. That was where it all began. He wants her
- wants to rescue her, to reach her. Yet there is nothing to suggest Maud has any need of him, that she is not already complete. A woman with a talent for survival, who works long hours & loves to sail
- preferably on her own. A woman who, when a crisis comes, will turn to the sea for refuge, embarking on a voyage that will test her to the utmost, that will change everything.. . From the Costa Award-winning author of Pure comes a viscerally honest, hypnotic portrait of modern love & motherhood, the lure of the sea & the ultimate unknowability of others. This pitch-perfect novel confirms Andrew Miller`s position as one of the finest writers of his generation.

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