Throughout the centuries, humanity's great spiritual teachers have spoken of one and the same Truth — and yet their words have been divided by borders, traditions, and conflicting interpretations.What if Jesus and Buddha, despite the centuries and continents that separated them, were ultimately teaching the same thing? What if the Sermon on the Mount and the Four Noble Truths, the Lord's Prayer and the Bhagavad Gita, were not competing claims, but different voices pointing toward t...

To live among wolves, first you must become one An unmissable new spy thriller from best-selling master of the genre, Alex Gerlis.War is coming to Europe.British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents in Germany. With diplomatic relations quickly unravelling, this pack of spies soon comes into their own: the horse-loving German at home in Berlin's underground; the young American sports journalist; the mysterious Luftwaffe officer; t...

Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master.1942: A German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him...In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife.Sent to ...

A unique, practical and inspiring guide to storytelling and the process of writing.An award-winning screenwriter with 25 years of experience gives you a flexible and creative approach for writing features, series, shorts, games, animation, stories and novels."Writing For Screens" is organized into over 100 short, useful essays on specific topics so that a writer who's learning, stuck or lost can go directly to the question or challenge they are facing.It takes on ev...

On an Earth with titanic forests instead of oceans, highly-trained rangers brave the depths to bring back footage of treacherous landscapes and ferocious beasts. It's a dangerous job, but it has its moments: when a trio of ranger recruits stumble across a strange artifact, they begin to unravel a mystery with planet-spanning ramifications. The only problem is, if they're going to uncover the truth, they have to survive the worst the forest can throw at them first.

Journey behind enemy lines in Second World War Europe with the The Spy Masters Thrillers. Includes all four books in the series; The Best of Our Spies, The Swiss Spy, Vienna Spies and The Berlin Spies.The Best of Our Spies: In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations Executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy...

How were the aims of philosophy and the responsibilities of philosophers conceived in ancient Greece and China? How were the learned elite recruited and controlled; how were their speculations and advice influenced by the different types of audiences they faced and the institutions in which they worked? How was a yearning for invulnerability reconciled with a sense of human frailty? In each chapter of this fascinating analysis ancient Greek and Chinese ideas and practices are used as a bas...

A Financial Times Best Book of 2024'One of the superstars of modern spy fiction' Daily Express'One of the best spy novels I've read' I. S. Berry, author of The Peacock and the Sparrow'Gerlis is at the top of his game' Paul Vidich, author of Beirut StationTrust no one. Suspect everyone.It's 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million h...

'Pulse-racingly brilliant' Daily Mirror'Gerlis is the maestro of multiple story strands woven together' Daily ExpressAs the end of the Second World War in Europe looms, a new conflict is in its early stages: who will control Europe when the war ends?Soviet double-agent 'Archie' is now a British diplomat in the United States, feeding information on the Special Relationship back to Moscow Centre. Mea...

Journey through the fascinating story of Lisp: How it came about and why it was designed the way it was. Meet the geniuses involved in its creation, including Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and the father of Lisp and artificial intelligence, John McCarthy. Lisp has informed the design of most programming languages in use today, and to learn how Lisp was constructed is to learn what programming is all about.Explore the mathematical foundations of the language and dive deeply into its e...

'Gerlis writes some of the best historical spy thrillers in the business and The Second Traitor is no exception' Daily Express'Plenty of atmospheric intrigue to relish' The Times'The series showcases the ambiguity of espionage, and its human cost... Gerlis conjures up wartime London with skilfully deployed period detail in this atmospheric tale of deception and betrayal' Financial Times

To what lengths will the British go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? An unmissable Second World War thriller from bestseller Alex Gerlis.'Absorbing ... Gerlis directs his cast with verve' Financial TimesHiding in the horror of Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto with his family, scientist Roman Loszynski has a secret: a means of making aerial bombing raids frighteningly accurate. Codenamed Tatra, it could change the course of the war.With British agent