Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time of Thatcher, anti-apartheid campaigns & Aids, but also of postmodern art, post-punk rock, & the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Adrift in a city cast in shadow, he falls in love with a German artist while living in derelict artists` communes. When Etienne finds the first of three reels of a German film from the 1930s, he begins searching for the missing reels, a project that turns into an obsession when his lover disappears in Berlin. It is while navigating this city divided by the Wall that Etienne gradually pieces together the history of a small group of Jewish film makers in Nazi Germany. It is a desperate quest amid complications that pull him back to the present & to South Africa. However, his search for the missing film continues. Ambitious & cosmopolitan, the material of S. J. Naude`s The Third Reel is as disparate as the cities in which the book is set. Architecture, cinematography, sex, music, illness, loss & love all collide in this exquisitely wrought, deeply affecting novel. ...

The Third Reich was the name Hitler & the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 & ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany & Hitler`s suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third Reich was one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, Hitler`s movement came to dominate German society in the 1930s, bringing with it the militarization of German society, the apparatus of state terror & a policy of violent discrimination against political opponents, the so-called `asocials`: gypsies, homosexuals, &, above all, the Jews. The history of the Reich is bound up with territorial aggression, total war & genocide. The end result was the complete defeat of Germany & the annihilation of millions of Europeans, a historical drama without precedent that still lies as a shadow over modern-day Germany. Richard Overy charts the rise & fall of Nazi power in a compelling narrative of the period, amplified by extensive"ations from documents, letters, diaries & oral testimony, & accompanied by many original & striking images of the era. There are also fact boxes which explore many of the important aspects of the Third Reich in greater detail. Authoritative, informative & sumptuously illustrated, written by a scholar steeped in knowledge of the period, The Third Reich brings the bloody realities of war, conquest & genocide vividly to life. It is an ideal book for anyone fascinated by the stormy history of the twentieth century, World War II & the age of dictators. ...

War-games champion Udo Berger & his girlfriend Ingeborg are on holiday. There they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly & Hanna, & a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace. Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home. Increasingly frightened, the situation slips beyond his grasp & he suddenly realizes that the consequences of this `game` are much more serious than he ever imagined. ...

In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war & charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites & scenes had once exercised a strange & terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals & inevitable self-revelations. From Venice, he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna, to st&, fulfilling a lifelong dream, before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale. This journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly, & at times painfully, up against an explosive present, producing some memorable observations on the social wonders & existential horrors of Mussolini`s new Roman Imperium. Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Best known in the West as a novelist & short story writer, he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature. Debarred from a university post by reason of his Jewish ancestry, he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp, in 1945. Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light, the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance, wry humour & understated irony. Pushkin Press`s publications of Szerb`s work include his novels Journey by Moonlight, Oliver VII & The Pendragon Legend, as well as the short story collection Love in a Bottle & the history The Queen`s Necklace. ...

THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETSA woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer.AND HE’S OUT FOR BLOODUnder pressure from the media to solve the crime, the force know there’s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case… ...

This title is presented with an introduction by Stella Rimington. It`s May, 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure
- a desperate hunt across the country & against the clock, pursued by the police & a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay`s life & the security of Britain are in grave peril, & everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine steps?
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With an introduction by Stuart Kelly. Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot & is then promptly murdered in Hannay`s London flat, he becomes the obvious suspect & is forced to go on the run. He heads north to his native Scotl&, fleeing the police & his enemies. Hannay must keep his wits about him if he is to warn the government before all is too late. ...

A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan`s ” The Thirty-Nine Steps” is edited with an introduction & notes by Sir John Keegan in ” Penguin Classics”. Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa & is thoroughly bored with his London life
- until a spy is murdered in his flat, just days after having warned Hannay of an assassination plot that could plunge Britain into a war with Germany. An obvious suspect for the police & an easy target for the killers, Hannay picks up the trail left by the assassins, fleeing to Scotl&, where he must use all his wits to stay one step ahead of the game
- & warn the government before it is too late. One of the most popular adventure stories ever written, ” The Thirty-Nine Steps” established John Buchan as the original thriller writer & inspired many other novelists & filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock. In his introduction to this edition, historian Sir John Keegan compares Buchan`s life
- his experiences in South Africa, his love of Scotland & his moral integrity
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Includes:: notes, a chronology & further reading. John Buchan (1875-1940) was born in Perth, & first began writing at Oxford University, producing two volumes of essays, four novels & two collections of stories & poems before the age of twenty-five. During the First World War he worked both as a journalist & at Britain`s War Propaganda Bureau, eventually becoming Director of Information. He published his most popular novel, ” The Thirty-Nine Steps”, in 1915
- & it has never since been out of print. If you enjoyed ” The Thirty-Nine Steps”, you might like G.K. Chesterton`s ” The Man Who Was Thursday”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ” Richard Hannay is...a modern knight-errant”. (” Observer”). ” Once you`ve started, you can`t put the book down”. (Stella Rimington).






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A special edition of The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan`s 70th anniversary. When a strange man turns up on his doorstep with stories of spies & assassinations, Richard Hannay is drawn into the murky world of international espionage. Four days later, the stranger is dead & Hannay is caught up in a dramatic race to prevent a world war. Hunted across Britain by enemies unknown, he must outwit his pursuers & try to reach the site of the mysterious ` Thirty-Nine Steps`. Set in 1914, this classic British thriller has been adapted many times for stage, television & film. ...

June 1940. As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier & adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In Paris an individual code named ` Roland` has disappeared & is assumed to be in the hands of Nazi agents. Only he knows the secret of the Thirty-One Kings, a secret upon which the whole future of Europe depends. Hannay is dispatched to Paris to find Roland before the Germans overrun the city. On a hazardous journey across the battlefields of France Hannay is joined by old friends & new allies as he confronts a ruthless foe who will stop at nothing to destroy him. The lights are going out across Paris & time is running out for the world as both sides battle for the secret of the Thirty-One Kings. ...