John MacMillan spent the better part of three decades living and working in the Caribbean. What he has seen and experienced there in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, as incredible as they are, are events that could never be replicated today. This snapshot in time can best be compared to the wild west before it was settled.When you read this story, you'll find yourself wondering if such tales could actually have happened. John will recount all the yarns with all the zany details. You will...

The Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2013 are a significant landmark in the history of the employment tribunals. They are the first to be largely drafted by the tribunal's senior judiciary under the leadership of Sir Nicholas (now Lord Justice) Underhill in his then capacity as President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Blackstone's Guide to the Employment Tribunals Rules 2013 provides a thorough comparative analysis of the new Rules and the 2004 Rules together with a deta...

Brought to you by Penguin.It starts quietly enough. A tick-tick-ticking you can hear in your ear. Tinnitus, you think. It will pass. But it doesn't. It gets worse - and then you pass it on.Before you know it, it spreads. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges: small outbreaks at ?rst, but then suddenly it's a plague - and only days later it is already killing people.In an increasingly affected north London school, teacher Kit Chapli...

A spin-off of the award-winning TV series Silk, following the adventures, mishaps and dilemmas of the clerks at Shoe Lane chambersInspired by Peter Moffat's popular BBC One show, Silk, this compelling courtroom drama returns to Shoe Lane Chambers, but from a different perspective. Rather than focussing on the lawyers, it centres on the people who can make or break their careers - their clerks.As Head Clerk Billy Lamb knows, the clerks' roo...

The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy. The book shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics. Subjects covered include:* the underlying moral and political issues raised by the war* US foreign policy and the Middle East* the fundamental dilemmas and...

From Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman, creators of the international smash-hit play and film Ghost Stories, comes a new novel: The Warlock Effect.'All the hallmarks of a modern classic' ADAM KAY'Two great masters join forces to explosive effect' RICHARD OSMAN'Huge fun - gripping and very clever. I didn't want it to end' PETER JAMES'A beautiful magic trick in itself - wonderfu...

**Brought to you by Penguin.You can run away from your life.**But you can't run away from murder.---------------------------When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers, Nancy decides to disappear. Her grandmother's beautiful Regency house in a quiet seaside village seems like the safest place to hide. But the old house has its own secrets and a chilling wartime legacy . . .Now someone knows the truth about the n...

Brought to you by Penguin.When an MI6 operative is murdered in his London apartment, fellow spy Emma Makepeace knows the killer was professional.The dead spy had been investigating two Russian oligarchs suspected of selling chemical weapons from within the UK, and it seems likely there was a third man in the conspiracy - someone working from deep within the British government.To find the truth, Emma is sent undercover on a superyach...

Brought to you by Penguin.A mesmerising literary debut interwoven with mythology and legendWhen Scottie realises that she may never become a mother, she makes the heart-breaking decision to flee to the remote North Atlantic archipelago of St Hia.Lashed by storms and far from the mainland, the islands are dangerous. Many have been lost to the ferocious tides known as the Hollow Sea - and local folklore warns that St Hia was once the ...

Brought to you by Penguin.'I've written three books and our deal is over.' That's what reluctant author Anthony Horowitz tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne in an awkward meeting. The truth is that Anthony has got other things on his mind.His new play, a thriller called 'Mindgame', is about to open at the famous Vaudeville theatre in Shoreditch. Not surprisingly, Hawthorne declines a ticket to the opening night.The play is not enjoyed by the critics...

Brought to you by Penguin.'The best kind of thriller - step by all-too-plausible step we're sucked into frantic, breathless action ... Perfect." LEE CHILDYou never know where danger may come from...6.45am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people have been murdered.In a series of coordinated attacks, seven men and women across London have been targeted. For journalist Famie Mad...

Brought to you by Penguin.One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder...In the seaside town of Hamlet Wick, nine guests assemble for a New Year's Eve party to remember.The owner of Hamlet Hall has organised a murder mystery evening with a 1920s twist, and everyone has their own part to play.But the game has barely begun when one guest is found dead - killed by a fatal injury to the head.With no phone signal an...