'Incredibly well sourced . . . One of the most plugged-in voices in modern warfare'TELEGRAPH'Blends vivid reporting with shrewd analysis'ECONOMIST'Truly excellent . . . a gripping tour de force. Every politician and military expert needs to read this book'IAIN DALE'Reads like a real-life geopolitical thriller . . . The fact it doesn't feel like scaremongering says a lot about t...

'EXCELLENT' - THE TLS'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's...

Wild Ways brings together all the latest studies of the behaviour of southern Africa’s rich and accessible mammal fauna, describing not only what mammals do, but also the often surprising reasons why they do it, and covers species as diverse as fruit bats, pangolins, lions, rats and whales. Well-established as an invaluable resource for visitors to parks and reserves, hikers, hunters, farmers and outdoor enthusiasts, this classic guide has now been thoroughly updated and revised, has a fre...

Most teenagers would be content to own a car when they're seventeen but Steve gets something more. He also finds his calm ordered world of a college student living at home thrown into turmoil.Who is stalking him? Why are his parents so intent on him marrying a girl he detests? Why is Mr. Abercrombey, a billionaire with strange passions, so interested in him?Join Steve as he battles his enemies on Earth and prepares for the adventure of a lifetime.

When you're fourteen, how do you save your world from the Great Decline and prepare for a quest to save a parallel world by stealing a nuclear bomb? It sounds ridiculous but David has some unique advantages.On his world, he is the Duke of Barabourne and highly favoured by the king. Being young lets him be receptive to new ideas and being lost on a parallel world, fostered and going to school there gave him plenty to think about.Of course, there are distractions. Being respo...

Are David and his friends ready for the Quest? Most would say they should wait another six or seven years until they're adults, but there's no more time.Worlds are being destroyed and theirs is already being influenced by the enemy. Luckily they have friends as well as enemies but who is going to take a group of young friends so seriously? However, their age does have some advantages. While adults worry about the dangers of visiting alternate worlds, learning to ride a bike is an a...

What's worse? Relatives gathering for Christmas or a Nazi madman intent on conquering universes?As Dave would say, it wouldn't be Stuart if life did not get even more complicated, so there's an alternative Stuart who is in jail doing hard labour, reaching out across the universes for help. Not only that, he finds barriers that he's reluctant to cross while no-one else even understands what the barrier is.Enjoy this latest adventure with Stuart and his friends as Dave's life e...

21st-century schoolboys don't crew a warship about to go into battle. At least, not unless a temporal explosion tears the fabric of time so that Aodhan finds himself joining companions thrown forwards in time.David and Brian might be 18th-century teenage midshipmen ready for their ship to engage a French frigate, but they're not ready for a helicopter arriving to investigate and none of them is ready for the task before them.Follow their adventures as they struggle to close t...

Who is David? Is he just a thirteen year old boy with a strange delusional amnesia or is there something more.When he is found unconscious by the roadside with a gash to his head, he does not have anything to identify him. When he comes round, anything electrical fascinates him as if it is a whole new concept and little idea of the world around him. What he does have, are stories of a largely steam driven world, an impressive but curiously old-fashioned education and a claim to be t...

Young people been kidnapped throughout the whole of history? It has to be stopped but where do the abductors come from?And Stuart has other problems nearer to home. Firstly, there's an ex-slave, from the time of Socrates, building a forge in the garden of the village pub. It's a shock when a village boy asks him if he's on his way to another planet and can he come along. It's even more of a shock to discover that he's been the friend of the Darrington family since 1897. Stuart and h...

'Fracture Point' deals with the consequences of our dependence on electricity in general and automated systems in particular. It's set in a world suddenly finding itself without electricity or electronic communications. The title comes from a simple question. How extensive would the damage, in this case caused by a solar flare, have to be before the decline continued, faster than the infrastructure could be repaired.Ask most people, and they'll say that if such a disaster occurred ...

The asteroid heading for Earth is nearly a mile wide. If it struck, it would destroy all life but diverting it is all in a day's work for Stuart and his team. Then he has to do it again on a parallel Earth, then again and again. Hoping each time is the last, Stuart despairs as yet another Earth needs his help and he is drawn inexorably into the heart of the crisis.Are the asteroids an accident or an attack on Earth? Was his Earth the real target or just collateral damage?Th...