“The Oxford Murders”
On a balmy summer’s day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, arrives to find the body. Then follow more murders – an elderly man on a […]
“Dawkins vs. Gould. Survival of the Fittest”
An international bestseller when originally published, this brand-new and completely revised edition updates the story of one of science’s most vigorous arguments. Science has seen its fair share of punch-ups over the years, but one debate, in the field of biology, has become notorious for its intensity. Over the last twenty years, Richard Dawkins and […]
“The Death of Grass”
A post-apocalyptic vision of the world pushed to the brink by famine, John Christopher’s science fiction masterpiece The Death of Grass includes an introduction by Robert MacFarlane in Penguin Modern Classics. At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and […]
“The God Effect. Quantum Entanglement, Science’s Strangest Phenomenon”
What is entanglement? It’s a connection between quantum particles, the building blocks of the universe. Once two particles are entangled, a change to one of them is reflected – instantly – in the other, be they in the same lab or light-years apart. So counterintuitive is this phenomenon and its implications that Einstein himself called […]
“Allah’s Scorpion”
Under the cover of a moonless night, al-Quaida operatives made their way inside the infamous Camp Delta prison on the American base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Their goal was to free five prisoners. But their attempt fails. The rescuers and prisoners, all former Iranian Navy submarine crewmen, were all killed. Their freedom was to be […]
“New Moon”
I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. “Shoot,” I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. “No!” Edward roared… Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood […]
“Wolf of the Plains”
The epic story of the great conqueror. The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants. “I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter.” Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an […]
“Priceless”
Charlie Daniels started her career as a streetwalker when she was a seventeen-year-old single mother. Since she had virtually no qualifications, the streets seemed to offer the best way to get a comfortable and exciting life. Eventually she was forced to hand her over daughter to her own foster mother, just as she herself was […]
“Labyrinth”
In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman […]
“Digital Fortress”
Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin’s Press. The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of citizens, and the possible civil liberties and ethical implications of using such technology.
“City of Stairs: The Divine Cities Book 1”
You´ve got to be careful when you´re chasing a murderer through Bulikov, for the world is not as it should be in that city. When the gods were destroyed and all worship of them banned by the Polis, reality folded; now stairs lead to nowhere, alleyways have become portals to the past and criminals disappear […]
“One Night in Winter”
What would you do if your children were forced to testify against you? Moscow, 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory, a teenage boy and girl lie dead nearby. But these are no ordinary teenagers; they are the children of Russia´s highest leaders. Is it murder, suicide or conspiracy? So begins a terrifying witch-hunt […]
“Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”
Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork – not the old-fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic, so they´re going to try everything else. The […]
“Undead and Unwed”
It´s been a helluva week for Betsy Taylor. First, she loses her job. Then, to top things off. she´s killed in a car accident. But what really bites (besides waking up in the morgue dressed in a pink suit and cheap shoes courtesy of her stepmother) is that she can´t seem to stay dead. Every […]
“The End of Mr. Y”
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists—especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into […]
“The Monk”
“He now saw himself stained with the most loathed and monstrous sins, the object of universal execration… doomed to perish in tortures the most severe” Shocking, erotic and violent, The Monk is the story of Ambrosio, torn between his spiritual vows and the temptations of physical pleasure. His internal battle leads to sexual obsession, rape […]
“Let the Right One In”
It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumoured to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last – revenge for the bullying he endures at school, […]
“A People’s History of the United States”
Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People’s History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinn’s award-winning classic continues to revolutionize the way American history is […]
“Destiny and Desire”
Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel—a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with the wishes of the gods. Josué Nadal has lost more […]
