Lard and the World Peace Machine When Lard can't take all the tragic events that keep coming through the TV every night, he decides to take action. Surely Little Joe can build a machine to create world peace!? But when Alice becomes the first human to try the machine, things get seriously out of hand. This thrilling story sees Lard confronting the very sources of power, before risking everything to create world peace. But will he succeed or will everything go horribly, weirdly, comically w...

With its Faustian, Conradian and Biblical echoes, this is a novel that entwines many strands...I am sure Noah's Pactwill engage readers as much as it did myself.Giles Foden - Author, The Last King of ScotlandConrad Cryer is only eleven when the RMS Titanic makes its maiden voyage in April 1912. But the traumatic effects of the ship's tragic sinking will mark Conrad's life forever and lead him on a path of vengeance that will affect both everyone he...