Roald Dahl\''s Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator in glorious full colour for the very first time! WHOOSH! Inside the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his family are cruising a thousand feet above the chocolate factory. They can see the whole world below them, but they\''re not ...
The action-packed new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Matthew Reilly. This time the world''''s on fire! At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic, a battle to save all life on Earth is about to begin. THE SECRET BASE It is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Island. A long-forgotten relic of ...
How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - the idea that markets are inherently rational. He gives us the big picture behind the financial headlines, tracing the rise and fall of free market ideology ...
Discover the brilliant world of bears in this wonderful new book. Learn all about the eight different bears of the world, their likes, their homes and more. Who is the best climber and who is the fastest at catching fish? Expertly rendered in Katie Viggers\'' trademark charming and humorous style, this ...
In den letzten 50 Jahren haben die fortschrittlichsten Nationen des Westens ihre ökonomische Vormachtstellung in der Welt durch katastrophale wirtschaftliche Fehlentscheidungen verloren. Jedoch ist es unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen möglich, das Rennen gegen die Schwellenländer noch zu gewinnen. Die ...
The international arms negotiations appear to be making progress. But a US spy satellite reveals that the Soviets are building a massive laser-defence system controlled from an other-worldly array of pillars and domes in the Soviet hills at Dushanbe near the border of war-torn Afghanistan. The Americans ...
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She''s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he''s also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who''s been sleeping with Richard. As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes ...
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here, he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod ...
This is the most awaited book in the Dark-Hunter world to date - the history of Acheron. His past as a human, his birth as a god, and his role as the Dark-Hunter leader. These are the two books of his life released as a single volume. Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of ...
Jack Ryan returns to take on Irish terrorists in Clancy''s third No 1 bestselling thriller -- now reissued with a new cover. When Ryan foils an Ulster Liberation Army terrorist attack on the Prince of Wales and his family, his courageous actions not only win him the admiration of an entire nation, they ...
In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished for ever, while the other was a dismembered, bleeding trunk. In their place, a new superpower had arisen: the empire of the Arabs. So profound was this upheaval ...
