* THE NEW FIENDISHLY CLEVER MYSTERY FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SMASH-HIT BESTSELLER THE APPEAL *'Brims with Hallett's signature wit. Her best book yet' - PETER SWANSON'Devilishly additive. I loved every line' - LOUISE CANDLISH'The modern Queen of Crime does it again' - IAN MOOREThe answer is murder.The question is whodunnit?A quiet country pub stands empty, its wind...

News is to the mind as sugar is to the body.In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a room full of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practices what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade.Stop Reading the News is Dobelli's manifesto about the dangers of the most toxic form of information- news. He shows the damage it does to our concentration...

Ships have been overwhelmed by huge waves, consumed by fires, broken apart, sunk by storms and driven onto uncharted rocks. They have collided with icebergs or other ships, been sunk by enemy torpedoes or gunfire, or run aground on unlit coastlines at night. Boilers have exploded. Magazines have ignited. Cargoes have shifted with catastrophic consequences and submarines have submerged never to come up again.Shipwrecks selects the sinkings with the greatest loss of life, th...

The indispensable new work from the author of the international and Sunday Times bestseller The Art of Thinking ClearlyHave you ever...· Spent too long on a powerpoint presentation?· Lost sight of what makes you happy?· Failed to reach a long-term goal?· Become infuriated by queuing, tax or parking tickets?· Broken a promise you knew you'd keep?Since the dawn of civilization, we've been asking ourselves ...

For every success story, there's always a back story. Behind The Brilliance will shine a torch behind the superstardom, whether it be in sport, entertainment, business etc. and the journey that person has had along the way to reach that brilliance.Tales of death, destruction, terror and heartache feature in some of the biggest rollercoaster anecdotes which either happened before the fame or ran parallel to it. How each person comes to terms with these episodes varies chapter by cha...

In this festive whodunit, set in a cozy snowed-in country-house, an innocent mystery game goes horribly wrong, leaving the real-life couple who invented the game Clue to solve a real murder."A perfect Christmas crime story." —Elly Griffiths, bestselling author of the Dr. Ruth Galloway seriesIt is Christmas Eve, 1943, when Anthony and Elva Pratt arrive at a snowy English country house to host a murder mystery game, but instead find themselve...

Everyone has an interest in the weather, whether it's to check the prospects for a day out or to know when best to harvest a crop. The Earth's weather systems also provide some of the most dramatic forces of nature, from the vast release of energy in a lightning flash to the devastating impact of tornadoes and hurricanes.For centuries, our only real guide to future weather was folklore, but with the introduction of the first weather forecasts and maps in Victorian times, attempts w...

A wide-ranging and compelling account of the historical and current causes of wealth inequality, offering prescriptions for lasting solutions to an intractable problem, and for a more equitable distribution of wealth and resources.Is equality possible in the 21st century? In The Inequality of Wealth, Liam Byrne, a former Treasury minister in Gordon Brown's government, argues that the economics of the next ten years will be critical in determining the answer to this question - and th...

It might hide in the shadows, but the truth yearns to be seen.Plagued by the unsolvable murder that ruined his glowing career, a burnt-out detective is cruising through his final weeks until retirement.Until he is hand-picked to be part of a taskforce investigating old, unsolved murders. Hand-picked because the very killer he failed to catch is still out there.Can he finally get the closure he deserves?

As a fundamental particle, the electron is central to an understanding of the nature of matter.All of chemistry is dependent on the interaction of electrons on the outside of atoms. But the electron has also become increasingly central to our lives, first through the deployment of electricity and then as the essential driving force of electronics, with all its quantum subtlety. We spend our entire lives now bathed in the electron's output, whether we are simply turning on a light, ...

An off-the-beaten-path tour of the city’s hidden highlights, and the stories behind them.London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies a chamber resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses in West London, or a huge bust of film director Alfred Hitchcock in North London?How many of those who walk past Cleopatra’s Needle pause t...

The exciting new Christmas novella from Nicola Upson.