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Elizabeths Spymaster

Francis Walsingham was the first `spymaster` in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the...

Farewell to the East End

Getting Our Way: Inside Story of British Diplomacy

GETTING OUR WAY recounts nine stories from Britain`s diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which the diplomats themselves are at the centre of the narrative. It is an inside account of their...

Ghostwalk

Gone Girl

Who are you?What have we done to each other?These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick....

Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988

The second volume of Michael Palin`s diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they...

Hammer & Tickle: History of Communism Through Jokes

Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow. Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting...

Hard Revolution

It`s the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for non-violent protest and the ghettos of Washington DC seethe with anger. In the middle of...

He Lover of Death

Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow`s gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her...

Hedgehog and Fox: Tolstoys View of History

`The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.` This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin`s masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have...

I Do Not Come to You by Chance

In Bunker with Hitler

The last survivor of the end days of Hitler`s bunker tells his story publicly for the first time. Von Loringhoven was aide-de-camp to Hitler`s last two chiefs of staff, Guderian and Krebs, and the link between the...

Kill-Devil And Water (Pyke Mystery)

In London of 1840, the economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital`s poor neighborhoods. Pyke, still grieving over the death of his wife and...

Kingdom of Shadows

Last Days of Newgate (Pyke Mystery)

St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himself accidentally embroiled in the...

Lavinia

`Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn`t be given, wouldn`t be taken, but chose my man and my fate. The man was famous, the fate...

Life: Keith Richards

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his...

London: A Short History

The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer`s London - the city of the Peasants Revolt, Dick Whittington and the great Livery Companies. In...

Making of Pink Floyd The Wall (TPB)

Pink Floyd`s THE WALL is one of the most iconic and imaginative albums in the history of rock music, endlessly discussed and dissected. It is loosely based on the life and experiences of Roger Waters and the stage...

Mary Queen of Scots Ned

Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of...

Maximum Bob

Mission to Paris

Mr Darcys Diary (MM)

The novel traces the events of Jane Austen`s well-loved Pride and Prejudice through the eyes of Mr Darcy. It reveals his reactions to Elizabeth, his gradual falling in love and the process by which he painfully gains...

Mr Majestyk

Object of Beauty (Ome)