Wie funktioniert man die Bürotoilette zu einem geeigneten Platz für den Mittagsschlaf um? Und muss man sich schuldig fühlen, wenn man sich mittags ein Bad gönnt statt zu arbeiten? Tom Hodgkinson, der Hohepriester des Nichtstuns, kämpft in seinem unterhaltsamen Plädoyer für die kreative Faulheit und klagt ...
In Red Rabbit Tom Clancy gives Jack Ryan fans an insight into his greatest hero''''s first years fighting terrorism. Jack Ryan. The early CIA days.When young Jack Ryan joins the CIA as an analyst he is thrust into a world of political intrigue and conspiracy. Stationed in England, he quickly finds himself ...
It has been six years since the end of the Covenant War... and yet on the planet Carrow, a world on the edge of the Joint Occupation Zone, a decisive new battle suddenly erupts. Human colonists and the alien Sangheili have already been living a tension-filled coexistence in this place, with Unified Earth ...
Emily never imagined Aunt Elizabeth would allow her to go to high school in Shrewsbury, and she''''s thrilled, especially as her close friends Ilse, Teddy and Perry will be there. But there are certain conditions: for the whole three years Emily must board with hateful Aunt Ruth, and she must promise ...
In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at over five thousand years old, fascinated the world. But ...
It''''s the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn''''t usually reach the finishing line with three.38 rounds in the chest. But this is precisely how he finds ...
A colourful book full of pictures to fingerprint and with its own inkpad of seven bright colours to paint with. The colourful inkpad allows children to make fingerprint pictures quickly and easily wherever they are, with no need for brushes and paint pots. With fingerprinting tips and extra pages for ...
Song of Susannah continues directly from the almost literally cliff-hanging epilogue to Wolves of the Calla. Meanwhile the penultimate instalment in the Dark Tower septet follows three interlocked storylines. Roland and Eddie in New England, where they undergo the firestorm of the book’s only major action ...
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Little Friend, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, ...
Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ''woke'' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, ...
THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF ''A captivating book with a mighty, fearless heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is filled with characters to believe in and care about. achingly moving, delightfully funny, and thoroughly uplifting.'' M L STEDMAN, bestselling author of The Light Between ...
