‘Thrilling … High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched’ SUNDAY TIMES‘This book is a triumph’ DAN SNOW9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile – originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead – and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin and he is ...

Some Things Can't Be Traded.In Cowbridge's neon-lit alleys, survival is its own currency. Merry wants nothing more than to get through another shift as security at the Blue Moon Nightclub—but when Leanna hires her as a bodyguard for a job in Newbridge, she's dragged into a nightmare she can't ignore.The Grinders are more than a street gang. They're predators, carving up the desperate and vulnerable for profit in a ruthless organ trade. What starts as a simp...

Some lies can't be tolerated.All Merry Tamlin wanted was a night off. Just one.But while she's gone, a lethal designer drug is smuggled into the Blue Moon, leaving a body in its wake. When that doesn't close the club, the man behind it escalates matters.Now Damien is behind bars. Merry, injured, exhausted, and very much not a lawyer, is the only thing standing between the nightclub which has become the center of her world and the power of the Orbitals.She ca...

Drawing upon war diaries, court martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shell-shock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad. From the cities and townlands of Ireland to the killing fields of the Western Front and Gallipoli, Forgotten Soldiers traces the lives of men who enlisted to fight an enemy but ended up being killed by...

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Some Chains Must Be Broken.After years of keeping her head down and her conscience quiet, Merry Tamlin takes one last job - a data heist inside a Nexus agri-facility on the fringes of the grid. But what should be a clean extraction unravels into a moral reckoning when she discovers what's really being harvested: people.Cut off from allies, hunted by corporate kill teams, and forced to lead a breakout through fire, forest, and collapsing tunnels, Merry and her crew ...

Some lines can't be crossed. Some battles can't be avoided.Merry Tamlin thought she could leave her past behind. For five years, the former special forces operative has been hiding in the shadows of Cowbridge, working security at the Blue Moon—a seedy nightclub where the rules are simple: stay detached, avoid trouble, and never look back.But when an old comrade begs for her help to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Merry is forced to confront the part of herse...

Some Parts Can't Be ReplacedWhen Gavin's past catches up with him, Merry and her team infiltrate an Enhancement hub to try to get them to back off. The operation unravels fast, leading them deep into the secret heart of the Corporation. What they find is worse than anything they imagined: laboratories where human beings are harvested for profit and discarded the moment their usefulness ends.Nothing is wasted. Not even the dead.With the facility on a...

Merry Whistler has survived the corporations, the gangs, and the endless violence of Cowbridge.She should have known that wasn't enough.Drugged and dumped in the frozen Brecon Beacons alongside her closest allies, Merry finds herself hunted by professionals who know exactly how she thinks, how she moves, and how she survives. Every shelter is a trap. Every escape route is a funnel. Every step forward is one they've already predicted.At the center of it all is Keane—...

Some Prices Must Be PaidMerry and her crew have survived the worst Cowbridge has thrown at them, but nothing has prepared them for the storm gathering in the neon-lit underworld. When a routine recon mission uncovers a hidden cache of weapons and black-market VR chips, Merry realizes the city's gangs aren't just getting rich. They're preparing for war.As enemies resurface and allies go dark, the crew must infiltrate a fortified strip club, dismantle a criminal empire from w...

Some ties can't be undone.Leanna Kirk never wanted her father's legacy. She just wanted to understand why he abandoned her.When a funeral turns violent, Leanna, Merry, and Gavin are pulled into a buried facility beneath Cardiff which hides secrets their world isn't ready to face. As corporate lies unravel and biotech horrors surface, Leanna finds herself at the centre of a conspiracy built in her name.This was never about a seat at the table. It was about who built ...

Politician, peacemaker, persuader: John Hume was a titan of Irish history – a tireless architect of the Good Friday Agreement who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending decades of conflict in Northern Ireland. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the former history teacher to reach beyond political lines? What sustained him during the bloodiest years of violence? How did he impel the IRA to end its long-running campaign? How did he convince presidents and prime min...