One foggy night Deborah Harrison is found lying in the churchyard behind St Mary's Eastvale. She has been strangled with the strap of her own school satchel. But Deborah was no typical sixteen-year-old. Her father was a powerful financier who moved in the highest echelons of industry defence & classified information. & Deborah it seemed enjoyed keeping secrets of her own.. . With his colleague Detective Constable Susan Gray Inspector Alan Banks moves among the many suspects guilty of crimes large & small. & as he does so plenty of sordid secrets & some deadly lies begin to emerge.. .' The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling evocative deeply nuanced works of art' Dennis Lehane ...

This is a new edition of Robinson's acclaimed novel coinciding with a major new ITV adaptation. In the early hours of a cold January morning two narrow boats catch fire on the dead-end stretch of the Eastvale canal. When signs of accelerant are found at the scene DCI Banks & DI Annie Cabbot are summoned. But by the time they arrive only the smouldering wreckage is left & human remains have been found on both boats. The evidence points towards a deliberate attack. But who was the intended victim? Was it Tina the sixteen-year-old who had been living a drug-fuelled existence with her boyfriend? Or was it Tom the mysterious lonely artist? As Banks makes his enquiries it appears that a number of people are acting suspiciously: the interfering 'lock-keeper' Tina's cold-hearted step-father the wily local art dealer even Tina's boyfriend.. . Then the arsonist strikes again & Banks' powers of investigation are tested to the limit... ...

When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother Roy he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile DI Annie Cabbot is called to a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale where a young woman has been found dead in her car. In the victims pocket scribbled on a slip of paper police discover Banks name & address. Living in Roys empty South Kensington house Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew nor even liked. & as he begins to uncover a few troubling surprises the two cases become sinisterly entwined.. . The Banks novels are simply put the best series now on the market STEPHEN KING ...

Thomas Szasz (1960) suggested that the myth of 'mental illness' functions to 'render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflict in human relations'. The medicalization of distress enables the mental health professions to manage the human suffering that they are confronted with & also the suspicion that there is little that they can do to help. But the medicalization of misery & madness renders people unable to comprehend their experiences in ordinary meaningful terms. In this collection we restore to everyday discourse a way of understanding distress that unlike contemporary psychiatry & psychology recognises & respects the essential humanness of the human condition. De-medicalizing Misery is a shorthand term for this project. The book resists the psychiatrization & psychologization of human experience & seeks to place what are essentially moral & political
- not medical
- matters back at the centre of our understanding of human suffering.

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The Dead" is the second book in Charlie Higsons jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus & now the kids must keep themselves alive. A terrible disease is striking everyone over the age of fourteen. Death walks the streets. Nowhere is safe. Maxie Blue & the rest of the Holloway crew arent the only kids trying to escape the ferocious adults who prey on them. Jack & Ed are best friends but their battle to stay alive tests their friendship to the limit as they go on the run with a mismatched group of other kids
- nerds fighters misfits. & one adult Greg a butcher who claims hes immune to the disease. They must work together if they want to make it in this terrifying new world. But when fresh disaster threatens to overwhelm London they realize they wont all survive..." Lord of the Flies with zombies.. .tons of nail-biting action". (Rick Riordan creator of Percy Jackson). " Higson has got the balance of blood & gore just right". (" Daily Mirror"). Charlie Higson is the author of the bestselling " Young Bond" series of novels for young readers including " Silverfin" & " Double or Die" & the spine tingling teen zombie-horror series " The Enemy". Cant wait for the next instalment? This edition contains the first chapter of the thrilling third book in the series The Fear. Check out website for more blood more zombies & more terror."
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Dambisa Moyos Dead Aid" reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid unable to escape corruption & reduced in the Wests eyes to a childlike state of beggary. We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa with rock stars & actors campaigning for more. But this has not helped Africa. It has ruined it. " Dead Aid" shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case Moyo shows how with access to capital & with the right policies even the poorest nations can turn themselves around. First we must destroy the myth that aid works
- & make charity history. " Articulate self-confident & angry.. .this book marks a turning point". (" Spectator"). "A damning assessment of the failures of sixty years of western development". (" Financial Times"). " Kicks over the traditional piety that Western aid benefits the third world". (" Sunday Herald Books of the Year"). " Dambisa Moyo makes a compelling case for a new approach". (Kofi Annan). " This reader was left wanting a lot more Moyo a lot less Bono". (Niall Ferguson). Dambisa Moyo worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years having previously worked for the World Bank as a consultant. Moyo completed a Ph D in Economics at Oxford University & holds a Masters from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Her other books include " Winner Take All" & " How the West was Lost". She was born & raised in Lusaka Zambia."
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Iain Banks daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted carpark ten storeys below then they start dropping other things; an old TV that doesnt work a blown loudspeaker beanbags other unwanted furniture... Then they get carried away & start dropping things that are still working while wrecking the rest of the apartment. But mobile phones start ringing & theyre told to turn on a TV because a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Centre. At ease with the volatility of modernity Iain Banks is also our most accomplished literary writer of narrative-driven adventure stories that never ignore the injustices & moral conundrums of the real world. His new novel displays his trademark dark wit buoyancy & momentum. ...

The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. Frankenstein lives! & so too does his monstrous creation! but this creature of legend is a monster no more & his scarred face bears witness to his makers wrath. His name is Deucalion. As a devastating hurricane approaches New Orleans Victor Helios once know as Frankenstein has unleased his benighted creatures onto the streets. As New Orleans descends into chaos his engineered killers spin out of control & the only hope rests with Victors first & failed attempt to build the perfect human whose damned path has led him to the ultimate confrontation with his pitiless creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victors malignant mind could have imagined
- an indestructible entity that steps out of humankinds collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. This is a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time.
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The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. Frankenstein lives! & so too does his monstrous creation.. .but this creature of legend is a monster no more & his scarred face bears witness to his maker's wrath. His name is Deucalion. As a devastating hurricane approaches New Orleans Victor Helios once know as Frankenstein has unleased his benighted creatures onto the streets. As New Orleans descends into chaos his engineered killers spin out of control & the only hope rests with Victor's first & failed attempt to build the perfect human whose damned path has led him to the ultimate confrontation with his pitiless creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have imagined
- an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. This is a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time.
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Brutal acts of firestarting have ravaged the Peak District & now a new wave of moorland infernos sweeps across the national park. For DS Ben Cooper the blazes are best left to the firefighters even with the arsonists still at large. But when an intruder breaks into an abandoned pub Cooper is on the case
- & he swiftly unearths a pair of grim surprises. The first is evidence of a years-old double homicide. & the second is a corpse newly dead... What links the three deaths? Where are the missing bodies? Who is responsible
- & how do the raging fires fit in? For Cooper & his rival DI Diane Fry its the most twisted investigation of their lives...and with an ingenious killer pulling the strings it could also be their last. Drenched in atmosphere & danger Stephen Booths relentless new thriller builds to a shock finale that will catch even the most seasoned suspense readers off guard.

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