August 1845 in New York; enter the dark unforgiving city underworld of the legendary Five Points... After a fire decimates a swathe of lower Manhattan & following years of passionate political dispute New York City at long last forms an official Police Department. That same summer the great potato famine hits Irel&. These events will change the city of New York for ever. Timothy Wilde hadnt wanted to be a copper star. On the night of August 21st on his way home from the Tombs defeated & disgusted he is plotting his resignation when a young girl who has escaped from a nearby brothel crashes into him; she wears only a nightdress & is covered from head to toe in blood. Searching out the truth in the childs wild stories Timothy soon finds himself on the trail of a brutal killer seemingly hell bent on fanning the flames of anti-Irish immigrant sentiment & threatening chaos in a city already in the midst of social upheaval. But his fight for justice could cost him the woman he loves his brother & ultimately his life... ...

Lucius Falerius is dead & Rome in its entirety mourns the passing of its most powerful senator. It falls to his young son Marcellus to carry out his fathers legacy & restore the rights promised to the defeated Sicilian slaves yet there are those who will not see the honour of Rome compromised & the slaves assuaged. On the Roman border provinces there is trouble & the legions move north to neutralise the threat posed by the Celts. The confederation of Celtic tribes is united under one Chieftain the formidable & unpredictable Brennos yet there is a plot to see him dead & the confederation broken. For Brennos the treachery comes from within his own family for which he will exact a brutal & bloody revenge. ...

The ultimate Rome story Fresh from triumph in Britain & Gaul Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. To unseat Pompey now dictator of the empire he must make the terrible decision to wage war on his own people. The glory that Julius Brutus Mark Antony & Octavian enjoy is short lived. There are lands to conquer & choices to make that may yet tear them apart. What cost will Caesar suffer for the path he has walked? Who will make him pay? The final instalment in the bestselling Emperor series. ...

You have been had. A risk-prone privatised profit-driven economic model overseen by a largely unaccountable greedy & arrogant elite has resulted in one of the worst financial crises in history. The over-paid heroes of Wall Street & the City worshipped the gods of globalisation financialisation & speculation & during the years of economic growth we & our governments worshipped them too. But high in the boardrooms of Mount Olympus the reckless lust of banks for big bonuses & bigger profits led to excesses that have proved unsupportable. The warning signs were ignored
- now the Masters of the Universe are toppling & were footing the bill. Find out how an unregulated elite were able to run riot with your cash & find out how to stop it happening again. Markets are not magic. Debt is not freedom. The gods have failed. Its time to live without them.
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In Gods Without Men" Hari Kunzru the award-winning author of " The Impressionist" & " My Revolutions" takes you on a trip to the Mojave Desert where things are not always what they seem...A small autistic child goes missing. A British rock star goes quietly mad. An alien-worshipping cult is born. An Iraqi teenager takes part in a war game. In a remote town near a rock formation known as The Pinnacles lives intertwine stories entangle & echo & the search for meaning pattern & connection in a dying universe continues. "" Gods Without Men" is a dazed erudite & unforgettable novel". (David Mitchell). " Extraordinary smart innovative a revelation. Has the counterculture feel of a late-1960s US campus hit
- something by Vonnegut or Pynchon or Wolfe. Genuinely interesting & exhilarating... Will appeal to fans of David Mitchells " Cloud Atlas". Clever & extremely enjoyable". (" Guardian"). " Dizzying scope... It is a testament to Kunzrus ability as a writer that " Gods Without Men" presents so many characters sketched so vividly". (" New Statesman"). " The literary skills of Hari Kunzru are evident throughout this complex & disturbing novel... Careful readers will find Kunzru himself is something of a trickster". (Annie Proulx " Financial Times"). " Consistently atmospheric richly detailed... For all the wit this is a dark portrait of modern morals... Kunzru tenderly teases out the humanity to powerful emotional effect GQ Smartly sharp social detail high-fidelity dialogue vivid evocation of place.. .ironic wit & exuberant guyings of paranormal gobbledegook". (" The Sunday Times"). Hari Kunzru is the author of " The Impressionist" " Transmission" " My Revolutions" & the short story collection " Noise". He has won the Somerset Maugham British Book & Betty Trask awards. Granta named him one of the best young British novelists in 2003. He has written for " The New York Times" " Guardian" " New Yorker" " Washington Post" " Times of India" " Wired" & " New Statesman"."
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Challenge your friends in the board game starring the world&8217;s coolest collectibles. Move around the board marking other player&8217;s home bases with your cards. Duel together in dice battles. But watch out your opponents could out trump you with their battle score. First player to mark three bases & return safely home wins the game. Contents include game board with spinner 24 character cards 6 player movers with stands 2 battle dice plus 2 bonus Gogo&8217;s crazy bones collectibles. Carries EU Toy Safety Directive not suitable for children under 6 years ...

A playground sensation based on a game played with real bits of bone 2 000 years ago is selling out as soon as it hits toy store shelves! With 80 characters currently available the toy range is selling millions each week. & now here comes the Official Handbook! This is the ultimate read for any fan of Gogo's Crazy Bones. With amazing facts & top stats on all of the Gogo's loads of brilliant different games to play & a chance to design your own Gogo this is pure Crazy Bones fun! ...

Paul Winslow was old enough to know better when cricket finally gripped him in its thrall. Having ignored its myriad charms for years he let his guard down & found himself conscripted into the Barmy Army blindly following the England cricket team to Belfast Barbados Brisbane & beyond to feed his new addiction. His career stalled homelessness ensued & relationships came under strain but none of it mattered as long as there was a cricket tour to go on. Going Barmy is not a history of the Barmy Army; it is a story of gradual cricket obsession & a personal insight into what life is really like with the Barmy Army both on tour & as a business. This unique consideration of a sporting & cultural phenomenon opens the door on the songwriting the camaraderie & the relationship with the players one of whom England off-spinner Graeme Swann who wrote the foreword & says: Im glad that Winslow has written this book. Hopefully it will give you an insight into the life of the real & often misunderstood Barmy Army. They are not hooligans they are not troublemakers they are just cricket nuts who fly the flag for this brilliant country we live in. They are the very heartbeat of our Test team abroad. & I love them for it."" ...

Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. Shes not even sure she likes boats. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model she finds her options alarmingly limited. Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. But as The Big Day approaches her cold feet show no signs of warming up
- & accepting Jos offer of refuge aboard The Three Sisters seems the only alternative. As Jo & Dora embark on reorganising their muddled lives they realise they both need a practical way to keep themselves afloat. But despite their certainty that theyve sworn off men for good they havent bargained for the persistent intervention of attractive but enigmatic Marcus & laid-back charming Tom who both seem determined to help them whether they like it or not.. .
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A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition & assimilation between the Netherlands & England during the 17th century revealing the ways in which Dutch tolerance resilience & commercial acumen effectively conquered Britain by reshaping its intellectual landscape long before Dutch monarchs sat on the English throne. Working backwards from the bloodless revolution that set William & Mary of Orange on the English throne in 1688 this bold & ambitious work redefines the history of cultural & commercial interconnection between two of the world's most powerful trading empires at a time of great intellectual & geographical discovery. Weaving together the lives of the great thinkers of the time Lisa Jardine demonstrates how individuals such as Anton van Leeuwenhoek Christiaan Huygens & Margaret Cavendish usually depicted as instances of isolated genius in fact evolved within a context of easy Anglo-Dutch exchange that laid the groundwork for the European Enlightenment & the Scientific Revolution. Beautifully illustrated throughout this is a fascinating history of big ideas & remarkable individuals. It denounces the traditional view that the rise of England as a world power took place at the expense of the Dutch asserting instead that what is usually interpreted as the decline of the Dutch trading empire was in fact a 'passing on' of the baton to a Britain expanding in power & influence. ...