Following the execution of Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda vengefully activates a sleeper cell of suicide bombers, two of which detonate a nuclear bomb in the heart of London. In panic, people are forced to take shelter from the insidious radiation dust, while waiting to be rescued. Soon, the numbers of dead and those mortally ill grow and grow.
How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, became the world's first computer programmer in 1842 and would have started the digital age.
Helena Frith Powell noticed her first wrinkle when she accidentally caught sight of herself in her car's rear-view mirror. It set her off on an entertaining quest to find the most potent weapons in the battle against the effects of time on the face and body, without spending a fortune.
What are the reasons for the decline of our culture? Theodore Dalrymple has spent a lifetime observing it close-up and personal as an inner-city GP and prison psychiatrist. In Nothing But Wickedness he looks at the things that make us behave the way we do, and all the subtle ways in which we delude ourselves and destroy our own culture.
The first book on the tabloid news machine and its phone-hacking scandals in the mould of bestselling Flat Earth News.
A humorous look at the banned fifty shades of gray of the past.
The untold story how Dwight Eisenhower secretly saved the world a second time as USA President by preventing a nuclear war from igniting when other countries invented the A-bomb.
Ground-breaking study showing how the internet is changing the nature of marriage, the power of women and the role of affairs.
What is the ethical stance that the world should take on globalisation? How are lives and businesses influenced through international trade when ideas, goods and funding are adopted by other cultures? This title identifies the insights that drive globalisation, and where we should look for answers.
An investigation into the formative power of classical music and the social change it is bringing about all around the world.
The first biting analysis of our obsession with sentimentality and why it will ruin us.
Third revised edition of bestselling bible on life in France (20,000+ copies sold).
After the beheading of Charles I, who kept the monarchy together against the tide of turbulence that came with Cromwell? This riveting biography of Henry Jermyn casts light for the first time on the man behind the scenes who guided the royal family first to safety in France and subsequently restoration in the UK
Through riveting inside accounts how Britain's maverick politicians exploit the behind-the-scenes struggles in the major parties, Newark takes us through the rise of protest voting in Britain. With entertaining portraits of the main players he exposes the astonishing feuds and raging rows that are happening behind the scenes.
From the Iron Age to the High Middle Ages, the ancient Celts were an engine of change for the whole of Europe. This title lets us travels back in time to the moments when this ancient people defined indelibly the ancient, medieval and modern world. It shows that the real Celts turned upside down an area from the New World to Turkey and beyond.
Showing fathers how to be a good parent, the author tells the story of raising his three children, during which he was always one hand short to hold one of the children.
Humorous novel by bestselling author Helena Frith Powell, about the French art of having affairs
A collection of Diana Mitford's articles and diary she wrote for her friends.
Covers the journey around Italy taken by the author, in pursuit of her Italian-Lothario father.
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