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.
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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
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Thanks to its unique mix of human & vampire residents, Morganville, Texas, is a small college town with big-time problems. But it isn't the only town with vampire trouble. Claire never thought she'd leave Morganville, but when she gets accepted into the graduate course at MIT, she can't pass up the opportunity. Saying goodbye to her friends, especially her boyfriend Shane, is bittersweet, & her new life at MIT is both scary & exciting. Enrolled in a special advanced study programme with Professor Irene Anderson, former Morganville native, Claire is able to work on VLAD, her machine designed to cancel the mental abilities of vampires. But Morganville & its inhabitants are never really far from Claire's mind. When she begins testing her machine on live subjects, things quickly spiral out of control, & Claire begins to wonder whether leaving Morganville was the last mistake she'll ever make. ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. This book explains why the wall was built, reveals its devastating impact on the lives of people on both sides, & provides an account of the events that led to the wall's destruction & the end of the Cold War. ...

There was nothing special about San Diego detective Robbie Brownlow, until he plunged six storeys from a burning hotel. He was left with broken bones, a large scar, & synesthesia
- a condition where words take on shapes & colours that indicate the speaker's emotions. Now, he's a human lie detector.
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First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across London & made it to the Natural History Museum alive
- just. But the fight will never end while the Enemy lives, unless there's another way...
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17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross.. .only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, & that they have spent lifetimes finding & losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart. Get ready to fall... ...

Sequel to the bestselling The Testament. In a hidden cave in the mountains of Lebanon, a man makes a fateful discovery. He has been chosen to be the carrier, to bring what has been forbidden for thousands of years out of the darkness & into the light: the Testament of Lucifer. ...