The darkly compelling and unputdownable crime thriller from the UK Top 50 bestseller John Nicholl‘A dark, gritty, and compulsive read’ Daily ExpressNineteen-year-old Sally is battered and bruised, and lying in the hospital once again. It’s nothing new, it’s happened before and it’ll happen again.But when DI Laura Kesey introduces Sally to a new social worker, she finds hope at a local women’s domestic violence refuge, whe...

Since 2005, Murder & Mayhem in Muskego has welcomed and hosted over 150 authors a thousands of fans of crime fiction to the Milwaukee area. Just in time for the 8th annual benefit, a short story anthology featuring bestselling, Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers who have attended the day-long convention has been created. The collection is edited by Jon and Ruth Jordan.Contributors include: Megan Abbott, Dana Cameron, Reed Farrel Coleman, Hilary Davidson, Sean Doolittle, J.M. Ed...

Time to die…The explosive new thriller featuring Kate Maddox from the writers of Catch Your Death and Killing Cupid.Two years on from uncovering a terrifying conspiracy of rogue scientists, all Kate Maddox wants is to lead a normal life with her partner Paul and son Jack. But then a face from the past turns up, bringing chilling news.A devastating new strain of the virus that killed Kate’s parents is loose in L.A. – and when a bomb rips through a hotel killing many to...

In upstate Idaho, Ness Hook is run out of his mom's house by his bullying brother Shawn. In Redding, California, Tristan Carter is graduating college, but with no job and no prospects, she'll have to move back in with her parents. Then the world ends.After Ness discovers his best friend dead of disease, Shawn takes their family to the mountains to wait out the plague.As Tristan's parents fall sick, she's left to care for her younger brother, Alden. Both set...

Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book of narrative nonfiction to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.On May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell, and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. Their goal was the Grand Canyon, an area of the United States not explored before, as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. ...

A 2024 Book of the Year pick in The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement and blogs by Mark Avery and Stephen MossThe Return of the Grey Partridge tells the extraordinary story of how wildlife is restored to the Arundel Estate in West Sussex. Prompted by the collapse in numbers of one species, the grey partridge of the title, the managers of the estate woke up to the devastating effect modern farming methods were having on wildlife.Foll...

This book suggests crime fiction is now the most relevant and valid form of writing which can deal with modern Ireland in terms of the post-'Troubles' landscape and post-Celtic Tiger economic boom. The book takes a chapter by chapter approach with each chapter and author discussing a different facet of Irish crime writing for example, Declan Hughes discusses the influence of American culture on Irish crime writing and Tana French reflects on crime fiction and the post-Celtic Tiger Irish id...

In upstate Idaho, Ness Hook is run out of his mom's house by his bullying brother Shawn. In Redding, California, Tristan Carter is graduating college, but with no job and no prospects, she'll have to move back in with her parents.Then the world ends.After Ness discovers his best friend dead of disease, Shawn takes their family to the mountains to wait out the plague. As Tristan's parents fall sick, she's left to care for her younger brother Alden. Both sets of siblings dig ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Before Fenty. Before Kylie Cosmetics. Before a single beauty influencer went live on Instagram — there was Revlon.For nine decades, Revlon was the most powerful name in beauty. It was the brand that taught America what to put on its lips, its nails, its face. It launched celebrities. It sponsored the most-watched television show in the country. It conquered 150 nations. It hired a corporate raider to run it, sur...

The unfinished autobiography of Captain Sellon, with illustrations by the author.

Edward Sellon is perhaps one of the most fascinating characters in the annuls of Victorian publishing, writing licentious pieces of erotica for the infamous William Dugdale, while debauching himself with maid and mistress when his wife was absent; He wrote exactly as he lived.The graphic account of his time serving as an army officer in India, presented in his autobiographical work The Ups and Downs of Life combines an Orientalist air of forbidden romanticism with the luri...

That’s exactly what Prada heel-wearing, running-through-airports, successful business woman and entrepreneur, Jenni Edwards did. Even with all her achievements, she discovered something was missing in her life. So, she set out—searching for the adventure of a lifetime. Boy, did she find it!Jenni launches a cross-country adventure in her SUV with the barest of essentials and ends up falling in love with the open road. Along the way, she learns from mistakes, sees incredible sights, ...