From the undisputed master of the short story George Saunders comes a dazzling & disturbing new collection. His most wryly hilarious work to date Tenth of December illuminates human experience & explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Divisional Director Todd Birnie sends round a memo to employees he thinks need some inspiration; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums & the prospect of Darkenfloxx' in some unusual drug trials; & in an auction of local celebrities Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. Although as a young boy discovers sometimes the voices fade & all you are left with is a frozen hill on a cold day in December... With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past & the ever-settling present Tenth of December sings with astonishing charm & intensity & re-affirms Saunders as one of our greatest living storytellers. ...

A clever tribute to literature Tequila Mockingbird "is "the "cocktail book for the literary obsessed. Combining beloved classic novels with witty humor & delicious drink recipes some of the charming recipes include Vermouth the Bell Tolls Gin Eyre Are You There God? Its Me Margarita Bridget Joness Daiquiri & more. Accompanying the 65 cocktail recipes are a list of tools & techniques a spirits glossary & a handful of drinking games & bar bites making this cocktail book both fun & functional. With a special cover designed to look like a classic novel whimsical illustrations & a two-color design throughout " Tequila Mockingbird "is a one-of-a-kind cocktail book." ...

Taking politics into their own hands a group of highly-trained killers embark on a mission of shattering brutality. It is time the people made the politicians pay for their unfulfilled promises. The next day America awakens to the devastating news that three of their most powerful & unscrupulous politicians have been violently murdered. & the assassins are not finished. In the media frenzy that follows the killers release their demands. The country's leaders must restore power to the people or they will all meet the same fate as their colleagues. Not even the President is safe... ...

In this sixth & concluding book of the Tunnels series the Styx & their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England leaving death & devastation in their wake. It seems nothing can stop them now. Only a miracle can save the day & in the inner world at the centre of the earth Will & Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to al human & Styx life. ...

Spearpoint the last human city is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones a series of semi-autonomous city-states each of which enjoys a different
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- level of technology. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in Neon Heights they have television & electric trains.. . Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong Quillon has been living incognito working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table Quillons world is wrenched apart one more time for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoints Celestial Levels
- & with the dying body comes bad news. If Quillon is to save his life he must leave his home & journey into the cold & hostile lands beyond Spearpoints base starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillons own survival for the limiting technologies of the zones are determined not by governments or police but by the very nature of reality
- & reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability.. .



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This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds
- the first book on the natural history
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This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds
- the first book on the natural history
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No-one trusts humanity. No-one can quite understand why we're intent on destroying the only place we have to live in the Universe. No-one thinks we're worth a second thought. & certainly no-one is about to let us get off Rrth. That would be a complete disaster. But one alien thinks Rrth is worth looking at. Not humanity obviously we're appalling but until we manage to kill every other living thing on the planet there are some truly wonderful places on Rrth & some wonderful creatures living in them. Best take a look while they're still there. But on one trip to Rrth our alien biologist causes a horrendous accident. The occupants of a car travelling down a lonely road spot his ship (the sort of massive lemon coloured lemon shaped starship that really shouldn't be hanging in the sky over a road). Understandably the Bradbury's crash (interrupting the latest in a constant procession of bitter rows). & in the wreckage of their car our alien discovers a baby girl. She needs rescuing. From the car. From Rrth. From her humanity. & now eleven years later a girl called Terra is about to go to school for the first time. It's a very alien experience...T ERRA is a charming & hilarious satirical fable. A story about how odd & alien we are. & a story about how human odd aliens are. It tells the story of a girl who grows up in a very different world who gains a unique perspective on our world & a unique perspective on her new home. A girl who can teach us & them a lot. A girl living in an extraordinary world that is spiralling into a terrible war. ...

Kayonia's forests are deathly silent
- the animals have disappeared & no one dares set foot among the trees. A terrible danger
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After writing two highly praised travel books Sara Wheeler was accepted by the American government to be the first foreigner on their National Science Foundations Antarctic Artists & Writers Program. She spent seven months on the continent travelling from the fabled Ross Ice Shelf to the Pole itself the remoter reaches of the West Antarctic ice sheet & the balmy Antarctic Peninsula. Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape myths & history of one of the remotest parts of the globe as well as an encounter with the international temporary residents of the region
- living in close confinement despite the surrounding acres of white space
- & the mechanics of day-to-day life in extraordinary conditions. Through Sara Wheeler the Antarctic is revealed in all its seductive mystery.

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