In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.A boatload of white privilege, The Emerald Tranquility is the most luxurious cruise liner afloat, its passengers some of the richest people in the world. Meanwhile the ship’s crew, overworked and underpaid, live packed tightly together in airless below-deck cabins. The passengers encounter a great number of cataclysms at sea, but no matter the catast...

'Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain. After this, he'll have his own cult following' Daily Express________________It's a small story. A small town with small lives that you would never have heard about if none of this had happened.Hinton Hollow. Population: 5,120.Little Henry Wallace was eight years old and one hundred miles from home before anyone talked to him. His mother placed him on a train with a label ar...

Charles Lindbergh was the quintessential Lone-Eagle American hero, the handsome, modest Midwesterner who was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. His record-setting flight took thirty-three hours and thirty minutes, making him the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next - and propelling him to international fame. Lindbergh remains a compelling figure today, admired for his epic flight, the grace and power of his prize-winning prose, and his environm...

The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece.By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills bre...

Everything stays the same for the tenants of The Beresford, a grand old apartment building just outside the city … until the doorbell rings… Will Carver returns with an eerie, deliciously and uncomfortably dark standalone thriller.'A gripping novel laced with humour and cutting character insight … a thrill from start to finish. Expect the unexpected!' Sarah Pinborough'The strangest and creepiest novel I read all year … persuasive and compulsi...

When strangers take part in a series of group suicides, everything suggests that a cult is to blame. How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?***Telegraph Book of the Year******Longlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award******Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020***'Heavy gusts of bedsit nihilism usher in this strange mystery … weirdly page-turning' Sunday Times...

Rogue agent Ryan Drake faces deep regrets and only the slimmest shot at redemption in this gripping thriller from the author of Ghost Target.Ryan Drake is incarcerated at a Black Site in an unknown location. Bruised, naked and freezing on the floor, he has nothing left. His plot to assassinate the treacherous Marcus Cain—the Deputy Director of the CIA—failed, and now Drake must face the consequences.But Cain needs information even more than he wants...

Tucked into the rugged Canadian wilderness of Muskoka's majestic lake country, Merilee Sutcliffe's peaceful town seems worlds away from the escalating conflict in Europe. But life is about to change dramatically in the Summer of 1940. As her patriotic friends and relatives leave for battle, her small town is thrust into the war machine. Merilee's formerly tranquil skies soon roar with aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force, stationed nearby to train young men determined to liberate th...

A New York Times–bestselling, comical take on world history from the beloved New Yorker humorist.So, you think you know most of what there is to know about people like Nero and Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godiva and Miles Standish? You say there's nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you'll find Will Cuppy footloose in the footnotes of history. He transforms these lumina...

A human-centric guide to solving complex problems in engineering management, from sizing teams to handling technical debt.There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Getting to the good solutions for complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams—and, ultimately, between the success...

A nerve-shredding action thriller from the author of Redemption , "a gifted story-teller . . . His plots keep your imagination running in overdrive" ( Euro Crime).With no money and no prospects, hacker Alex Yates's life is going nowhere until he is given a lucrative but dangerous offer—£100,000 to breach the Central Intelligence Agency's network and recover a file known as the "Black List."At first relucta...

"Intriguing stories from the history of the human relationship with birds, including their symbolism in art, literature, religion, and folklore" ( Booklist ).Even the most well-informed wildlife enthusiast will be entertained by the stories and fascinating facts in this beautifully illustrated book.Our ancestors hunted, tamed, worshipped, and depicted birds, and even bestowed magical properties upon them. Why did a...