Dr Siri's bagged himself a holiday with his friends - an all-expenses-paid trip to the mountains of Laos. He is to assist a US-funded search for a lost CIA pilot - Boyd Bowry - missing since 1968, though Siri strongly suspects that when the helicopter exploded, the pilot followed suit.But, just hours into the trip, it becomes apparent that ulterior motives are at work within the group and those associated with the airman start dropping like the insects that frequent the surrounding...

A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege….Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and ...

**One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history.**Colin Dickey is on the trail of America’s ghos...

The instant Sunday Times bestsellerReaders LOVE The Ballad of Ronan McCoy'Absolutely traumatic. Nobody speak to me. Five stars''This is a story that feels deeply human, heartbreaking, and yet full of quiet hope''If I could give this book six stars, I would. I’m finding it difficult to gather my thoughts because I’m actually crying (ugly crying) as I type this''Colin Morgan owes me a box of t...

In this dark, quirky fourteenth Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery set in Communist Laos in the early '80s, a death threat sends Dr. Siri down memory lane, from Paris in the ’30s to war-torn Vietnam in the ’70s, to figure out who's trying to kill him now.Vientiane, 1980: For a man of his age and in his corner of the world, Dr. Siri, the 76-year-old former national coroner of Laos, is doing remarkably well—especially considering the fact that he is possessed by a thousand-yea...

London, 1958. In the smoky jazz clubs of Soho and the coffee bars of Notting Hill the young and the restless - the absolute beginners - are forging a new carefree lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Moving in the midst of this world of mods and rockers, Teddy gangs and trads., and snapping every scene with his trusty Rolleiflex, is MacInnes' young photographer, whose unique wit and honest views remain the definitive account of London life in the 1950s and what it means to be a teenage...

The 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow is already rife with controversy, but when a Lao athlete is accused of murder, it escalates into a full blown international incident. In the twelfth entry to the series, Dr. Siri Paiboun and his quirky team of misfits are on the case in a city and country foreign to them, yet familiar in its corruption of justice.1980: The People’s Democratic Republic of Laos is proud to be competing in its first-ever Olympics. Of course, half the w...

For fans of the Chronicles of Narnia comes the Wildwood Chronicles, the New York Times bestselling fantasy adventure series by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society. This collection brings together all three novels, each replete with illustrations, including a number of gorgeous, full-color plates.Wildwood: Prue and her friend Curtis uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval—a world ful...

Gorgeous Samantha Phillips has it all: a successful career as an attorney, a beautiful house, and a husband who loves her. But Samantha is unhappy in her work and has grown to despise her husband Glenn. She seeks therapy from the eccentric Dr. Francine “Frankie” Franklin…but the good Doctor’s experimental hypnosis techniques have an unexpected side-effect: whenever Samantha gets sexually excited, she regresses mentally into “Sammi,” her nineteen-year-old self. Sammi is a flirtatious brat w...

In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, the equally respectable councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia.But he is scarcely cold in his coffin before Detective Inspector Purbright, affable and annoyingly polite, must turn out again to examine the death of Carobleat's neighbour, Marcus Gwill, former prop. of the local rag, the Citizen. This time it looks like foul play, unless a surfeit of marshmallows ...

The ultimate collection of the most historic trees on the planet.Uncover remarkable trees from around the world, many of which have borne witness to key moments in history or reached a scale and age that have allowed them to become a part of history themselves.“[A] rich history … it contains some of the most extraordinary tales of trees through time” — The Sunday PostFirst meet 'Methuselah’, a bristlecone p...

'The man who might have been America's first Black president' Guardian'An exemplary patriot . . . he helped pave the way for so many who would follow' Barack ObamaTHE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER______________________________________________________________________Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of th...