From an early age – a very early age – Lydia, the youngest of the five Bennet sisters, was suspected by the neighbours of being the naughtiest member of the Bennet family. Her recently discovered memoirs, diaries and other documents show there was some justification for their suspicions.Elizabeth Bennet settled for the tall, handsome and wealthy Darcy. For sister Jane it was Mr Bingley – first, last and always. Lydia was not so easily satisfied. She had a wider world to explore and...

"The thing with avenging someone is that the victims who deserve it the most are always the ones who'd want it the least."Boston private investigator Alex Rourke has had to overcome personal tragedy and the emotional trauma it's caused to him before. But that's nothing to what he faces when the disappearance of a young man from a tough part of town takes him to the back country of northern Vermont. Adam Webb wasn't the first person to vanish in this stretch of the Green Mo...

Never open the package.Chase is a courier and he should be dead, killed by the package he was carrying. Except someone got to it first, and replaced the bomb with a cell phone and a loaded gun. When it starts ringing, and Chase breaks the golden rule of the job, the stranger on the other end of the line tells him that she's saved his life.And that he now has the chance for revenge and the tools to take it, if he wants. For all he has, and all he'd leave behind....

For James Joyce, perhaps the most crucial of all human faculties was memory. It represented both the central thread of identity and a looking glass into the past. It served as an avenue into other minds, an essential part of the process of literary composition and narration, and the connective tissue of cultural tradition. In Joyce’s Book of Memory John S. Rickard demonstrates how Joyce’s body of work—Ulysses in particular—operates as a “mnemotechnic,” a technique for pre...

'The Golgotha Gate' is described by some readers as beginning where Mel Gibson's 'Passion of the Christ' ends. Love, passion,tragedy, humour, cruelty, violence, murder, saintliness, and compassion. Joe Richardson experiences them all as he enters different lives across centuries of time. The key to his journey from the present to the past is hypnosis and pre-birth regression -- but once the key has been turned Richardson and hypnotherapist John Kirkham find they are no longer in control of...

In December 1943, Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton resigned from command of the 1st Canadian Army amidst criticism of his poor generalship and of his abrasive personality. Despite McNaughton's importance to the Canadian Army during the first four years of the Second World War, little has been written about the man himself or the circumstances of his resignation.In The Politics of Command, the first full-length study of the subject since 1969, John Nelson Rickard analys...

In the winter of 1944–1945, Hitler sought to divide Allied forces in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Luxembourg and Belgium. He deployed more than 400,000 troops in one of the last major German offensives of the war, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge, in a desperate attempt to regain the strategic initiative in the West. Hitler's effort failed for a variety of reasons, but many historians assert that Lieutenant General George S. Patton Jr.'s Third Army was ultimately re...

They're here, but not for us. They're here for them.When an alien race known as the Surge arrives on Earth with deadly force, three high school kids in Philadelphia find themselves fighting for survival in a city tearing itself to pieces in panic. Pursued through the heart of the horror shattering their ordinary world by creatures hell-bent on dragging them away to a fate they can only guess at, the teenagers must deal with their shock and grief at losing ...

There's a kidnapped five-year-old somewhere in the toxic ruins of northern Manila, stolen from the US and hidden away in the 'Concrete Sea', a failed district long fenced away by the local military.To 19-year-old Ghost, former gangland abductee turned killer, little Sam is her ticket home. To Cole, professional thief whose last job went spectacularly wrong and cost the life of the woman he loved, he's his path to redemption. To teenage Filipino gang member Eddie, grieving for his o...

Seven years ago they put him away. They thought his victims were all dead. They were wrong.Cody Williams was never charged with a string of child abductions and murders across New England, but everyone knows he was the man behind them. While the remains of some of his victims have been found down the years, several are still out there, buried in the Massachusetts wilds. Now Cody's dying and the families want their children's bodies recovered. And he'll talk, but only to th...

Step through and it can give you back everything you’ve lost, or take away everything you’ve got.Jack Harker’s a washed-up adventure junkie with a knack for languages and getting himself in trouble. But when armed strangers break into his house looking for his parents’ old notes on the legendary lost city of Huayacapo, they inadvertently draw him into a secret war that’s been raging for a century and a half, a shadow conflict to unearth the past, and to control the future.H...

She's gone. He's lying.Phil Durand is a low level crook. A delivery driver, nothing more. When his girlfriend Evie goes missing three days before they were due to leave town together to start a better, cleaner, life down in Florida, he turns to the only man he knows with a reputation for helping guys like him...Alex Rourke was once a respected investigator, first with the FBI and then in the private sector. Now he battles a long-term mental illness that's seen him ...