When faced with global instability & economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth & solidifying power. We have seen it at various times in Japan, France & Italy & now it is infecting all of Europe & America, as the vote for Brexit in the UK has vividly shown. This insularity, together with increased inequality of income & wealth threatens the future role of the West as a font of stability, prosperity & security. Part of the problem is that the principles of liberal democracy upon which the success of the West has been built have been suborned, with special interest groups such as bankers accruing too much power & too great a share of the economic cake. So how is this threat to be countered? States such as Sweden in the 1990s, California at different times or Britain under Thatcher all halted stagnation by clearing away the powers of interest groups & restoring their societies` ability to evolve. To survive, the West needs to be porous, open & flexible. From reinventing welfare systems to redefining the working age, from reimagining education to embracing automation, Emmott lays out the changes the West must make to revive itself in the moment & avoid a deathly rigid future. ...

The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined & predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchildren going on strike in support of their teachers, & celebrity aviators thrilling spectators by looping the loop. A theatrical diva prepares to shock her audience, while an English poet in the making sets out on a midsummer railway journey that will result in the creation of a poem that remains loved & widely known to this day. With the coming of war, England is beset by rumour & foreboding. There is hysteria about German spies, fears of invasion, while patriotic women hand out white feathers to men who have failed to rush to their country's defence. In the book's final pages, a bomb falls from the air onto British soil for the first time, & people live in expectation of air raids. As 1914 fades out, England is preparing itself for the prospect of a war of long duration. Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. His first book Vera Brittain: A Life was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR Non Fiction Award, & the Fawcett Prize. His books also include the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Lives for Sale, a collection of biographers' tales; Because You Died, a selection of Vera Brittain's First World War poetry & prose; & Florence Nightingale: The Woman & her Legend, which was named as a Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2008 & awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. He is currently consultant on the forthcoming feature film of Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth. ...

In the second book of the Carve the Mark duology, globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth reveals how Cyra & Akos fulfill their fates. The Fates Divide is a richly imagined tale of hope & resilience told in four stunning perspectives. The lives of Cyra Noavek & Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable. Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: he will die in service to Cyra`s family. & when Cyra`s father, Lazmet Noavek
- a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead
- reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer than ever. As Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra & Akos are desperate to stop him at any cost. For Cyra, that could mean taking the life of the man who may
- or may not
- be her father. For Akos, it could mean giving his own. In a stunning twist, the two will discover how fate defines their lives in ways most unexpected.



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Diego is an employee at the Ministry of Justice in Rome & the father of a gravely disabled boy. Though the birth of his son sent shockwaves through his life & marriage, Diego is managing to give himself & his family some semblance of routine & normality. His calm is thrown into turmoil, though, when he meets Walid
- a mysterious Middle Eastern man who is also father to a disabled child. But soon events suggest Walid is someone more sinister than he would have people believe. To find the truth Diego must eamine his relationship with Walid to the frightful end.
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How does a child become a criminal? How does a father lose a son? An epic crime novel reminiscent of The Godfather, Heat & Shantaram, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who held Sweden to ransom, committing ten audacious bank robberies over just two years. None had committed a crime before. All were under 22 years old. All of them would be changed forever. In this intoxicating, heartbreaking thriller, the fourth brother, who was not involved in the real robberies, tells of three boys who grew from innocent children to become public enemy number one
- & of the man who made them that way.
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This is a beautiful foil hardback edition of the multi-million number 1 bestseller, now a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley & Ansel Elgort. ”I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.” Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel`s story is about to be completely rewritten. ” Insightful, bold, irreverent, & raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green`s most ambitious & heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, & tragic business of being alive & in love”. (Sunday Times (Culture)). ”A touching, often fiercely funny novel”. (Sun on Sunday (Fabulous Magazine)). ” So good I think it should be compulsory reading for everyone!” (Daily Express). ” John Green brilliantly captures the voices of a young generation while instilling it with the wisdom of a life that has lived too much yet will never live enough. Rather than depressing, the book is filled with dark humour & is written with a beautiful simplicity that draws the reader in so deeply that it`s not just the twist & turns but the gently bends & curves that you feel tugging at your emotions... No doubt in the end you will cry but you will also feel that you have discovered a little something about living”. (Daily Telegraph). ” The novel, written for teenagers, but proving even more popular with adults”. (Metro
- 2013 Best Fiction). ” The YA crossover hit of the year. The love affair of two terminally ill teenagers could be mawkish. In fact, it`s funny, clever, irreverent & life-affirming”. (Guardian). ”A Smart Book”. (Grazia). ” So good!” (Good Housekeeping). ” John Green may write for young adults, but his intelligent sensitive style means The Fault in Our Stars defies categorisation.. .as funny as it is heartbreaking.. .we defy you not to fall in love with its main characters, Hazel & Augustus”. (The Tablet). ”A humourous & poignant love story... It`s terrifically funny.. .as well as a moving exploration of loss & grief. & no, it`s so much not just for teenage cancer sufferers.. .it`s for everyone”. (Bliss).” If you need inspiration when it comes to making the most of a moment, this one is for you”. (Mizz). ” Exploring the funny, thrilling & tragic business of being alive & in love, this is a life-affirming tale of two teenagers who are terminally ill. Insightful, bold, irreverent & raw, if this doesn`t make you cry, it`ll definitely make you think, laugh & maybe even fall in love yourself!” ”A thought-provoking love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns &
- with David Levithan
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson. John Green has over 2.3 million Twitter followers, & more than 2.1 million subscribers to Vlogbrothers, the You Tube channel he created with his brother, Hank. The Fault in Our Stars will capture a crossover audience in the same vein as Zadie Smith, David Nicholls` One Day & Before I Die by Jenny Downham. ” Electric... Filled with staccato bursts of humor & tragedy”. (Jodi Picoult). ”A novel of life & death & the people caught in between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. You laugh, you cry, & then you come back for more”. (Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief). John Green is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author whose many accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, & the Edgar Award. With his brother, Hank, John is one half of the Vlogbrothers (youtube.com/vlogbrothers), one of the most popular online video projects in the world. John lives with his wife & children in Indianapolis, Indiana.


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An award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where the push/pull between old empires & new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in two-first by the Iron Curtain & then by the artificial scaffolding of the EU-moving through vibrant cities & abandoned villages, some places still gloomy under the ghost of these imposing borders, some that have sought to erase all memory of it & jump with both feet into the West (if only the West would have them). In The Fault Line, he is a sublime & lively guide through these unfamiliar landscapes, piecing together an atlas that has been erased by modern states, delighting in the discovery of communities that were once engulfed by geopolitics then all but forgotten, until now. The farther south he goes, the more he feels he is traveling not along some abandoned Eastern frontier, but right in the middle of things: Mitteleuropa wasn`t to be found in Viennese cafes but much farther east, beyond even Budapest & Warsaw. As in Ukraine, these remain places in flux, where the political & cultural values of the East & West have stared each other down for centuries. Rumiz gives a human face not just to what the Cold War left behind but to the ancient ties of empire & ethnicity that are still at the root of modern politics in flash-point areas such as this. ...

` The most powerful indictment of Mugabe`s regime yet written` The Economist `A brave, sensitive & observant account of Zimbabwe`s tragedy, exposing the cruelty of Mugabe`s regime & the remarkable courage of those who have defied it` Financial Times In mid-2008, after thirty years of increasingly tyrannical rule, Robert Mugabe lost an election. Instead of conceding defeat, his supporters launched a brutal campaign of terror -- Zimbabweans called it, simply, The Fear. Peter Godwin travels, at considerable risk, to see the havoc raging at the heart of his country, but what emerges from the brutality are the heartbreaking tales of resistance & survival, the astonishing moments of humour & goodwill, & the unforgettable characters who will not be subdued. `A beautifully written chronicle of his journey through his ravaged but still achingly beautiful homeland` Independent ` An important book detailing the violent realities, the grotesque injustices, the hunger, the sadness, & a portrait of Mugabe, the tyrant who is the cause of it all` Paul Theroux ...

He doesn`t know it but dognut is about to set off a chain of events that will affect every kid in the city. The sickness struck everyone over the age of fourteen. Mothers & fathers, older brothers, sisters & best friends. No one escaped its touch. & now children across London are being hunted by ferocious grown-ups.. .they`re hungry. They`re bloodthirsty. & they aren`t giving up. Dog Nut & the rest of his crew want to find their lost friends, & set off on a deadly mission from the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace & beyond, as the sickos lie in wait. But who are their friends & who is the enemy in this changed world? ...

The Second World War was one of the most catastrophic events in human history. But how did the experience & memory of bloodshed affect our lives? The new order, as it emerged after 1945, saw the end of European empires & the birth of two new superpowers, in a new, global Cold War. Scientists delivered new technologies, politicians fantasized about overhauled societies, some argued for global government, others for independence. It was an era of wonder & terror, & it resonates in the arguments about nationalism, immigration & globalisation that we have today. As well as analyzing the major changes & they myths that emerged, The Fear & the Freedom uses individual stories to show how leaders & ordinary people coped with the post-war world & turned one of the greatest traumas in history into an opportunity for change. This is the definitive exploration of the aftermath of WWII
- & the impact it still has.
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