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From iron to uranium, titanium to silicon, this is ';a wide-ranging look at scientific progress. It's also a lot of fun' (The Wall Street Journal). Iron. Carbon. Gold. Silver. Uranium. Titanium. Silicon. These elements of the periodic table have shaped our lives and our world, in ways both good and bad. Combining history, science, and politics, this ';lively, educational examination of civilization's building blocks' reveals the fascinating story (Publishers Weekly). With carbon, we can access heat, light, and mobility at the flick of a switch. Silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant. Uranium is both productive (nuclear power) and destructive (nuclear bombs). Iron is the bloody weapon of war, but also the economic tool of peace. And our desire for alluring gold is the foundation of global tradebut it has also led to the death of millions. Explaining how titanium pervades modern consumer culture and how an innovative new form of carbon could be starting a technology revolution,Seven Elements That Changed the Worldis an adventure in human passion, ingenuity, and discoveryand the latest chapter in a journey that is far from over.

When a grave robber takes to murder, the Bow Street Runner is on the trail in a crime novel that explores ';London's underbelly in all its squalor' (Historical Novel Society). Death can be a lucrative business. But it's the corpses thebody-snatchers leave behind, horribly mutilated and nailedto a tree, which sets Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwoodon their trail. A new term at London's anatomy schools stokes demandfor fresh corpses, and the city's ';resurrection men' vie forcontrol of the market. Their rivalry takes an ugly turn when agrave robber is brutally murdered and his body displayed asa warning to other gangs. To hunt down those responsible,Hawkwood must venture into London's murkiest corners,where even more gruesome discoveries await him. Nowhere, however, is as grim as Bedlam, notorious asylumfor the insane and scene of another bizarre killing. Sent toinvestigate, Hawkwood finds himself pitted against his mostformidable adversary yet, an obsessive genius hell-bent onadvancing the cause of science at all costs.

The national bestselling story of England's real-life Robin Hood. ';A masterful tale, graphic and gory, and loaded with medieval history' (Publishers Weekly). A London Times bestseller, this rousing historical debut rescues one of England's forgotten heroes from the mists of medieval history and brings him to brutal and bloody life. 1062, a time many fear is the End of Days. With the EnglishKing Edward heirless and ailing, across the grey seasin Normandy the brutal William the Bastard waits for themoment when he can drown England in a tide of blood. Theravens of war are gathering. But as the king's closest advisorsscheme and squabble amongst themselves, hopes ofresisting the naked ambition of the Norman duke come torest with just one man: Hereward. To some a ruthless warrior and master tactician, to othersa devil in human form, Hereward is as adept in the art ofwarfare as the foes that gather to claim England's throne.But in his country's hour of greatest need, his enemies atcourt have made him an outlaw. To stay aliveand a freemanhe must carve a bloody swath from the frozen landsoutside the court in this evocative tale of a man whosedeeds will become the stuff of legend.

';Tells the poignant story of Constance in the aftermath of Wilde's trials and imprisonment, and of her brave attempts to keep in contact with him despite her suffering.' The Irish Times In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changedirrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar,for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged positionin society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children'sauthor, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner forwomen's rights. A founding member of the magical societyThe Golden Dawn, her pioneering and questioning spiritencouraged her to sample some of the more controversialaspects of her time. Mrs. Oscar Wilde was a phenomenonin her own right. But that spring Constance's entire life was eclipsed byscandal. Forced to flee to the Continent with her two sons,her glittering literary and political career ended abruptly. Shelived in exile until her death. Franny Moyle now tells Constance's story with a fresh eye.Drawing on numerous unpublished letters, she brings to lifethe story of a woman at the heart of fin-de-siecle London andthe Aesthetic movement. In a compelling and moving tale ofan unlikely couple caught up in a world unsure of its moralfooting, Moyle unveils the story of a woman who was thevictim of one of the greatest betrayals of all time.

A stunning new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and London Times bestselling authorWhen a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on HampsteadHeath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and heroverstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knowsshe needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her newcase is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfareand organised crime which infiltrates almost every aspectof London society.Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, Detective InspectorTrevor Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties byanother tragic London fatality. Travelling to the capital anddetermined to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased'sdaughter, Cordon becomes entangled in a complicatedsituation of his own. A situation much closer to Karen'scase than either of them will ever know.Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters,John Harvey's latest novel reveals him once again as a masterfulwriter with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-firstcentury crime.

It's December 24th, 1999. Byron Easy, a poverty-stricken poet, half-drunk and suicidal, sits on a train at King's Cross Station waiting to depart. In his lap is a backpack containing his remaining worldly goodsan empty wine bottle, a few books, a handful of crumpled banknotes. As the journey commences, he conjures memories (both painful and euphoric) of the recent past, of his rollercoaster London life, and, most distressingly, of Mandyhis half-Spanish Amazonian wifein an attempt to make sense of his terribleand ordinarypredicament.What has led him to this point? Where are his friends, his family, his wife? What has happened to his dreams? And what disturbing plan awaits him at the end of his journey?Byron Easy is an epic, baroque, sprawling masterpiece of a novela unique portrait of love and marriage, of the flux of memory, and of England in the dying days of the twentieth century from a young British writer of exceptional promise.

';Moody and affecting prose buoys this strange and troubling account of an Arctic ocean voyage to the end of the earth, and the end of a species' (Publishers Weekly). The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the by now extinct Great Auk. He joins a hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of the sociopathic Captain Sykes; the silent first mate, French; the flamboyant laudanum-addicted Bletchley; and most importantly of all, Bletchley's beautiful but strange ';cousin' Clara. As the ship moves further and further into the wilds of the Arctic Sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in, desperate to save Clara but drawn irrevocably back into the past that haunts him.

The Battle of Hastings is lost, but one man still stands against the invaders in this novel of ';violence, intrigue, betrayal, and superstition' (Historical Novel Society). 1067. Following the devastating loss of the Battle of Hastings, William the Bastard and his men have descended on England. Villages are torched and men, women, and children are put to the sword as the Norman king attempts to impose his cruel will upon this unruly nation. But there is one who stands in the way of the invader's savagery. He is called Hereward. He is a warrior and master tactician and as adept at slaughter as the imposter who sits upon the throne. And he is England's last hope. In a Fenlands fortress of water and wild wood, Hereward's resistance is simmering. His army of outcasts grows by the daya devil's army that emerges out of the mists and the night, leaving death in its wake. But William is not easily cowed. Under the command of his ruthless deputy, Ivo Tailleboisthe man they call ';the Butcher'the Norman forces will do whatever it takes to crush the rebels, even if it means razing England to the ground. Here then is the tale of the bloodiest rebellion England has ever knownthe beginning of an epic struggle that will echo down the years . . .

';Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running,' says philosophy professor Rowlands, who has run for most of his life. And for him, running and philosophizing are inextricably connected.In Running with the Pack, he reveals the most significant runs of his lifefrom the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches and up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf, Brenin, and through Florida swamps with his dog, Nina. Intertwined with this honest, passionate, and witty memoir are the fascinating meditations that those runs triggered, including mortality, midlife, and the meaning of life.A highly original and moving book that will make the philosophically inclined want to run, and make those who love running become intoxicated by the beauty of philosophy.