**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, the BC town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown―when hometown is gone.**“It’s dire,” Greta Thunberg retweeted Mayor Jan Polderman. “The whole town is on fire. It took a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere.”Before it made...

Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico.A man watching the Euro Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk amb...

“I’ll regret my actions until my dying day.”Millionaire businessman Jack Gillings is on his deathbed when he hands his father a manuscript chronicling the events that forced their family to move from their home town thirty-two years earlier.When five mates alone in the forest make a decision that will change their lives forever, Jack learns that trust does not always run parallel with preconceived ideology, in events still causing ripples throughout today's society....

1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwardss compelling new history. The year began with Wellington launching a series of raids in Estramadura to distract French attention from preparations for an assault on Ciudad Rodrigo, which was taken in late-Januar...

“We all have two wolves. The wolf that wins is the wolf we feed.”Carlo Caruso:Wanted for a brutal double murder and son of Australia’s most powerful Mafia figure. After seven years in exile, Carlo is summoned home to visit his dying mother, but he is also back for the woman he left behind.Lucas Maddigan:A widower possessed by his own demons. When St Claire’s resident architect falls in love, he learns once more that love has a price to pay.Isabelle Kel...

In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only imagined it.A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power would feel like. He soon found out. At the age of seventeen, he became the youngest-e...

NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES, BAD BLOOD!Bestselling crime writers Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso reveal the final years of Canada's top mafia boss, Vito Rizzuto, and his bloody war to avenge his family and control the North American drug trade.Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A ma...

The spiritual godfather of Canadian bikers tells the story of his fascinating life.You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. His life wasn't all bikes and crime. He was also a medalist in ...

Explore the rugged beauty of Rum and the surrounding Small Isles — a remote archipelago off Scotland’s west coast that includes Eigg, Muck and Canna. These islands offer a unique blend of dramatic mountains, coastal cliffs and rich wildlife habitats, making them a rewarding destination for walkers seeking quieter, less-travelled routes in the Inner Hebrides.This comprehensive hiking guidebook from Cicerone provides everything you need to explore Rum and the Small I...

The fortunes of the education service in Britain have been intimately bound up with the vitality of the local education authorities, particularly in the decades following the 1944 Education Act. The passing of the 1988 Education Reform Act saw the LEAs in serious—perhaps terminal—decline.First published in 1992, Policy and Power in Education sets out to map the contours of this decline in power. It relates these changing fortunes not only to the social and political enviro...

From the first stock markets of Amsterdam,London, and New York to the billions of electronic commerce transactions today, privately produced and enforced economic regulations are more common, more effective, and more promising than commonly considered. In Private Governance, prominent economist Edward Stringham presents case studies of the various forms of private enforcement, self-governance, or self-regulation among private groups or individuals that fill a void that government ...

The Vietnam War was Australia's longest and most controversial military commitment of the twentieth century, ending in humiliation for theUnited States and its allies with the downfall of South Vietnam. The war provoked deep divisions in Australian society and politics, particularlysince for the first time young men were conscripted for overseas service in a highly contentious ballot system. The Vietnam era is still identified with diplomatic, military and political failure.Was Vie...