'EXCELLENT' - THE TLS'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of the WeekOn 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames.The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes...

'Incredibly well sourced . . . One of the most plugged-in voices in modern warfare'TELEGRAPH'Blends vivid reporting with shrewd analysis'ECONOMIST'Truly excellent . . . a gripping tour de force. Every politician and military expert needs to read this book'IAIN DALE'Reads like a real-life geopolitical thriller . . . The fact it doesn't feel like scaremongering says a lot about t...

From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, present and futureA Waterstones Book of the Year 2025'Apps set the gold standard with his Grenfell coverage. With Homesick, he dismantles the sham of UK housing policy – razor-sharp, stylish, and morally unflinching.' Darren McGarveyIn London, only those with va...

Most teenagers would be content to own a car when they're seventeen but Steve gets something more. He also finds his calm ordered world of a college student living at home thrown into turmoil.Who is stalking him? Why are his parents so intent on him marrying a girl he detests? Why is Mr. Abercrombey, a billionaire with strange passions, so interested in him?Join Steve as he battles his enemies on Earth and prepares for the adventure of a lifetime.

When you're fourteen, how do you save your world from the Great Decline and prepare for a quest to save a parallel world by stealing a nuclear bomb? It sounds ridiculous but David has some unique advantages.On his world, he is the Duke of Barabourne and highly favoured by the king. Being young lets him be receptive to new ideas and being lost on a parallel world, fostered and going to school there gave him plenty to think about.Of course, there are distractions. Being respo...

What's worse? Relatives gathering for Christmas or a Nazi madman intent on conquering universes?As Dave would say, it wouldn't be Stuart if life did not get even more complicated, so there's an alternative Stuart who is in jail doing hard labour, reaching out across the universes for help. Not only that, he finds barriers that he's reluctant to cross while no-one else even understands what the barrier is.Enjoy this latest adventure with Stuart and his friends as Dave's life e...

Are David and his friends ready for the Quest? Most would say they should wait another six or seven years until they're adults, but there's no more time.Worlds are being destroyed and theirs is already being influenced by the enemy. Luckily they have friends as well as enemies but who is going to take a group of young friends so seriously? However, their age does have some advantages. While adults worry about the dangers of visiting alternate worlds, learning to ride a bike is an a...

21st-century schoolboys don't crew a warship about to go into battle. At least, not unless a temporal explosion tears the fabric of time so that Aodhan finds himself joining companions thrown forwards in time.David and Brian might be 18th-century teenage midshipmen ready for their ship to engage a French frigate, but they're not ready for a helicopter arriving to investigate and none of them is ready for the task before them.Follow their adventures as they struggle to close t...

Stuart lives in a quiet village with his partner, enjoys a pint in the pub with his friends and like many young men he manages to get into trouble. What makes him different is that he commutes to a different galaxy each day and works on a space station. His way of getting into trouble is to have a collision with another time machine while travelling back to find Captain Cook. He finds himself trapped in a parallel universe and it takes all his efforts to put right the damage done by the ac...

Who is David? Is he just a thirteen year old boy with a strange delusional amnesia or is there something more.When he is found unconscious by the roadside with a gash to his head, he does not have anything to identify him. When he comes round, anything electrical fascinates him as if it is a whole new concept and little idea of the world around him. What he does have, are stories of a largely steam driven world, an impressive but curiously old-fashioned education and a claim to be t...

The asteroid heading for Earth is nearly a mile wide. If it struck, it would destroy all life but diverting it is all in a day's work for Stuart and his team. Then he has to do it again on a parallel Earth, then again and again. Hoping each time is the last, Stuart despairs as yet another Earth needs his help and he is drawn inexorably into the heart of the crisis.Are the asteroids an accident or an attack on Earth? Was his Earth the real target or just collateral damage?Th...