One game. Six students. Five survivors.It was only ever meant to be a game.A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results.Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet ag...

*A Daily Mirror Best Book of the Year**A People Best Book of July!**A New York Post Best Beach Read!**A Free Press Summer Read!*The author of Black Chalk, "the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for" (NPR), returns with a mesmerizing new novel about a dangerous secret society at Oxford University, and the first-year Literature student whose life begins...

A SLEUTHING EXPERIENCE THAT'S PERFECT FOR ALL PUZZLE AND WHODUNNIT LOVERS...The murderers have committed the crimes, now it's up to you to solve them. Using your powers of deduction, can you play detective and help put the killers behind bars?5 Minute Murder features 100 logic and code-based murder-mystery puzzles, skillfully compiled by acclaimed psychological thriller writer Christopher J. Yates and puzzle expert Bruce Pitchers.From the dreaming s...

Though an enthusiastic sea-fisher as a child, Chris Yates has concentrated on freshwater throughout his fishing life. In Out of the Blue he describes his return to the sea after half a life-time and his increasing passion for its changeable moods and habits. Remaining faithful to his fundamental angling ethic – fishing simply with the minimum of tackle and always using his old split cane carp rod – he nets a mass of singular experiences, from the quiet magic of a Dorset tide-pool ...

The essays in this volume all ask what it means for human beings to be embodied as desiring creatures—and perhaps still more piercingly, what it means for a philosopher to be embodied. In taking up this challenge via phenomenology, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of literature, the volume questions the orthodoxies not only of Western metaphysics but even of the phenomenological tradition itself. We miss much that has philosophical import when we exclude the somatic aspects...

"Twisty and told from multiple perspectives, this meaty thriller" about the impact of a violent act on three friends "races to a satisfying finish" ( People magazine)The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends—Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah—are bound together by a terrible and seemingly se...

*A Daily Mirror Best Book of the Year**A People Best Book of July!**A New York Post Best Beach Read!**A Free Press Summer Read!*The author of Black Chalk, "the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for" (NPR), returns with a mesmerizing new novel about a dangerous secret society at Oxford University, and the first-year Literature student whose life begins...

**"This is the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for."--NPR's All Things ConsideredNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Black Chalk finally makes its American audiobook debut.A breathless psychological thriller set in New York and at Oxford University in which a group of six students play an elaborate game of dares and consequences with tragic results.**It was only ever meant to be a game played by six best friends in their first year at O...

A SLEUTHING EXPERIENCE THAT'S PERFECT FOR ALL PUZZLE AND WHODUNNIT LOVERS...The murderers have committed the crimes, now it's up to you to put in the time to solve each of the heinous homicides. Using your logical powers of deduction, can you play detective and help put the killers behind bars?Experience 10 interactive murder mystery scenarios for puzzlers of all abilities, skillfully compiled by acclaimed US psychological thriller writer Christopher J. Yat...

**"Four distinct voices tell the story of a disturbing incident and its far-reaching aftermath...It's a labyrinth of shifting perspectives, but the narrators keep this grim story focused and mesmerizing." — AudioFile MagazineThe highly anticipated new audiobook from the author whose debut was called “The smart summer thriller you’ve been waiting for...The novel you should be reading tonight” (NPR’s All Things Considered) and was named a Book of the Year by NPR and...

**"This is the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for."--NPR's All Things ConsideredNAMED A MUST READ BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, BBC.COM*,* AND NEW YORK POSTNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPRA compulsively readable psychological thriller set in New York and at Oxford University in which a group of six students play an elaborate game of dares and consequences with tragic result**It was only ever meant to be a game played...

Sitting on a riverbank, with rod and line, must count as one of the most relaxing and enjoyable – yet occasionally frustrating – experiences known to man.Chris Yates discovered the joys of fishing early in life and was quickly hooked by its pleasures. Many years later, he is still content to sit, day after day, observing the quirks of different fish and losing track of time. For him, fishing is much more than just a question of technique; sometimes it’s about listening to nothing b...