The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found. Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true. ...

CIA agent John Wells has been undercover so long. Wells has been building his cover in the mountains of Afghanistan. But now he's coming home. He is a man alone, used by two adversaries & trusted by neither. & as terrorists prepare to unleash the most devastating attack in history, Wells knows he is the only man who can stop them. ...

Details: Following on from We Are Celtic Supporters, Richard Purden tackles a variety of subjects in his second book
...

Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because

...

Sort the facts from the fiction in a wide range of true or false questions & then challenge your friends, parents, grandparents

...

In 1982, Argentina rashly gambled that a full-scale invasion of the Falklands Islands
- ownership of which had been disputed with
...

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise & fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell from the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal. Robert Maxwell was a very British success. Born an Orthodox Jew, he escaped the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, fought in the Second World War, & was decorated for his heroism with the Military Cross. He went on to become a Labour MP & an astonishingly successful businessman, owning a number of newspapers & publishing companies. But after his dead body was discovered floating in waters around his superyacht, his empire fell apart as long-hidden debts & unscrupulous dealings came to light. Within a few days, Maxwell was being reviled as the embodiment of greed & corruption. What went so wrong? How did a man who had once laid such store on the importance of ethics & good behaviour become reduced to a bloated, amoral wreck? In this gripping book, John Preston delivers the definitive account of Maxwell's extraordinary rise... ...

When Leonard Franks & his wife Ellie leave London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor, everything seems perfect. But then their new life is shattered. Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood from the back of the house
- & never returns.
...

A fascinating reconstruction & re-evaluation of the causes & consequences of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, covering everything from high politics to the everyday experiences of ordinary Italians as war continued to ravage their country. ...

Details: Claire Danvers never thought she'd leave Morganville, but when she gets accepted into the graduate course at
...