Out of His Grip: A True Story of Survival, Abduction, and Escaping a Serial Killer* by **Callum S. Bradley** is a chilling true-crime narrative that explores the terrifying reality of abduction and the extraordinary strength required to survive it.The story follows a victim whose life is violently disrupted when they are abducted by a calculating and dangerous serial killer. What begins as an ordinary day quickly spirals into a nightmare of captivity, fear, and psychological tormen...

The dark, rawly comic follow-up to the winner of the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime book of the year.'A serious talent' Kevin Bridges'Inventive and witty, with a nerve-shredding finale' Chris Brookmyre'An outstanding new writer who is destined to become a very big name' Peter JamesDCI Alison McCoist is back: newly promoted and even less popular.Chuck Gardner is the proud ow...

June 27, 1976. An Air France jetliner carrying 248 passengers vanishes from radar over the Mediterranean, hijacked by armed terrorists and diverted to a remote African airstrip. Among the captives: families, businesspeople, and Holocaust survivors—ordinary people caught in an extraordinary crisis.In Uganda's Entebbe Airport, protected by dictator Idi Amin's military, the hijackers issue their demands: release imprisoned terrorists or execute the hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Yit...

'A full-tilt sprint through the Glaswegian criminal underground' David Goodman, author of A Reluctant Spy 'Destined to become a very big name' Peter James 'The vibe is Taggart rewritten by Mick Herron' The Times DCI Alison McCoist is up to the oxters in Glasgow's shadiest police unit, with a list of guilty secrets growing longer by the day. Fran Forbes has just bolted from the scene of a gangland massacre with only a shite-stained tracksuit and a memory stick full of cryptocurrency to his ...

WINNER OF THE McILVANNEY PRIZE for SCOTTISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARFEATURES AN EXTRACT FROM THE NEXT ALISON MCCOIST THRILLER, PAPERBOY'Amazingly accomplished' The Times, Crime Book of the Month'Loved it'Kevin Bridges'A talent to watch'Chris Brookmyre'Very funny'Scotsman'Pitch dark yet dripping with warmth'Ca...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONA captivating memoir that immerses readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean.The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, absorbing the lessons of c...

Most people interact with their council at some point in their lives, yet few understand how local government actually works.Understanding Councils and Local Government provides a practical guide to the structure, responsibilities, decision making processes, finances, governance arrangements, and accountability mechanisms that shape local authorities across England.Written in clear and accessible language, this book explains what councils do, how they are organised, how dec...

From the prison cell where he awaited execution, the architect of history's deadliest killing center finally spoke. This definitive account traces Rudolf Höss's chilling transformation—from devout Catholic schoolboy to convicted murderer, from decorated soldier to SS officer, from dutiful administrator to perpetrator of industrialized genocide.Drawing on Höss's own memoirs, extensive archival research, and survivor testimonies, historian Callum S. Lamb reconstructs how an ordinary ...

In the shadow of a shattered empire, a fragile experiment in freedom teetered on the brink. From the revolutionary chaos of 1918—where sailors mutinied in Kiel and crowds stormed Berlin's streets—to the fateful morning of January 30, 1933, when an aging war hero's trembling hand sealed Germany's doom, this gripping chronicle unveils the harrowing unraveling of the Weimar Republic.Drawing on over thirty years of groundbreaking archival research from newly reunified German collection...

An in-depth study of the Battle of Bannockburn, exploring the strategic preparations and the battle's pivotal impact on future Scottish-English conflicts. The Battle of Bannockburn has long been recognized as one of the most influential moments in Scottish history. The fighting that took place on 23rd and 24th June 1314 is frequently presented as a stirring tale of how a small but committed and well-organized militia army can overcome a larger, better-resourced foe, as well as a crucial ea...

Can one man with a whiteboard in Beijing see what the world's intelligence agencies miss?In early 2025, an independent analyst spent thousands of hours reviewing 131 lectures by Jiang Xueqin—a Chinese-Canadian geopolitical educator with a degree in English literature from Yale. The result? An 87% accuracy rate across 33 verified, testable predictions.This is not a book about prophecy. It is a book about method.How Jiang Xueqin Reads the Future reveals the analytical...

She wasn't supposed to survive the winter.Elara Cahill was a forensic accountant in Minneapolis — precise, methodical, invisible. When she uncovered a fourteen-million-dollar money laundering scheme buried inside her own firm, she did what the system told her to do. She reported it. One week later, the FBI was at her door — not to protect her, but to arrest her. Someone had rewritten the evidence. Her credentials. Her timestamps. Her name on every forged transfer.Her lawyer...