Mark Smith is the Man in Seat Sixty-One. Although this might make him sound like a fictional spy he is in fact the man behind the massively popular seat 61.com website which offers invaluable advice on worldwide train travel. Following on from the success of The Man in Seat 61" which took travellers around Europe by train this book covers international train travel around Africa Asia the Americas & Australasia. Focusing on affordable international travel by scheduled trains not just deluxe tourist services this book is packed with insider knowledge & top tips on the best routes & cheapest fares; travelling with children & changing trains; timetables & maps; essential items to travel with; & everything in between. More & more people are choosing to avoid air travel & seek alternatives & this is the only book they need for environmentally friendly journeys around the world." ...

A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station & finds herself of a ship bound for South Africa! Pretty young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact adventure comes looking for her -- & finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man reeking of mothballs loses his balance & is electocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? & why did he race off leaving a cryptic message behind: 17-122 Kilmorden Castle? ...

A dazzling speculative novel of counterfactual history from one of Americas most highly-regarded science fiction authors Philip K. Dicks The Man in the High Castle"

Includes:: an introduction by Eric Brown in " Penguin Modern Classics". Philip K. Dicks acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world
- one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York the Japanese control California & the African continent is virtually wiped out. In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the worlds new rival superpowers lives the author of an underground bestseller. His book offers a new vision of reality
- an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated
- giving hope to the disenchanted. Does reality lie with him or is his world just one among many others? Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago in 1928. His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels typically character studies incorporating androids drugs & hallucinations. His best works are generally agreed to be " The Man in the High Castle" & " Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" the inspiration for the movie " Blade Runner". If you enjoyed " The Man in the High Castle" you might like Yevgeny Zamyatins " We" also available in " Penguin Classics". " The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet". (" Rolling Stone"). " Dicks finest book & one of the very best science fiction novels ever published". (Eric Brown)."




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The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas celebrated foursome of DArtagnan Athos Porthos & Aramis who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV & change the face of the French monarchy. In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark Dumas pitches us straight into the action. What is the secret shared by Aramis & Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? & what is the nature of the threat he poses? Dumas the master storyteller keeps us reading & guessing until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers. ...

One of Frances best-selling writers at the time of the novels composition Dumas here combines what he considered to be lifes essentials
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Man in the Music" meticulously tracks Jacksons solo career from 1979s groundbreaking " Off the Wall" to 2001s " Invincible" to a glimpse into some of his yet-to-be-released material. With each album Vogel places the music in its social & historical context discusses its relation to Jacksons personal life reveals the singers fascinating process of artistic creation & analyses each record from its cover to its songs to its aesthetic impact & cultural legacy. Rather than focusing on the surface-level sensationalism " Man in the Music" explores & offers insight into the creative process behind Michael Jacksons work which serious Michael Jackson fans are sure to be looking for." ...

This is the chilling tale of a painting so terrifying its secrets will haunt those who see it... It is a ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black". A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Olivers old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winters night i eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene instead of imitating life has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides & become the victim of its macabre beauty..." ...

Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto... ...

It was 1989 when Robert Llewellyn first had his head encased in the one-piece latex foam rubber balaclava that is the head of Kryten in Red Dwarf series three & it gave him a distinctly funny turn. Gazing at his own reflection & seeing the face of a mechanoid robot staring back was surprisingly scary not to mention uncomfortable & rather sweaty. & he couldn't even eat his lunch. Since then he has sweated frozen been set on fire exploded spent thousands of hours in the make-up chair & being taunted by Craig Charles for being a middle-class b*****d. So it is a testament to the joyful camaraderie & life-enchancing silliness of the world of Red Dwarf that twenty-three years later Robert is still willing to risk life limb & hairline to don the rubber torture helmet for Red Dwarf X the recent triumphant return of the motley band of space bums. Originally published in 1993 after series six The Man in the Rubber Mask has now been completely updated with 43.7% extra smeg. ...

From Operation Desert Storm to the beginning of US incursions into Iraq Efraim Halevy was Deputy Director & then Director of Israels Mossad arguably the most developed & sometimes ruthless intelligence service in the world. MAN IN THE SHADOWS is Halevys memoir of that period from his vantage point inside the Mossad as well as a look at what lies ahead for a world transformed by Islamic terrorism. Having served as the secret envoy to Prime Ministers Rabin Shamir Netanyahu Barak & Sharon Halevy was privy to & collector of some of the most sensitive information coming out of the region. Beginning with a prologue that describes a visit he made to Jordan in 1993 Halevy looks back to Desert Storm an event he calls an epic of unfinished business & brings the reader up to the present day through 9/11 & the WMD crisis in Iraq. Informed by his extraordinary access from the beginning of his Mossad career in 1961 he writes frankly of the Israeli PMs he worked under as well as most of the other major players in the region & around the world: Yasir Arafat Saddam Hussein Hafez Assad Hosni Mubaraq Crown Prince Abdullah Muamar Qadaffi Presidents Clinton & Bush as well as former CIA director George Tenet & counter-intelligence chief James Angleton. Though Halevy looks to the past he also looks to the future & talks bluntly about how the world might achieve peace in the region & elsewhere. Much of what he has to say will surprise & shock even those readers well versed in the complexities of the region. ...