"A gripping crime drama … an engrossing story … a marvelously entertaining suspense tale. OUR VERDICT: GET IT."– Kirkus Reviews (Critical Recommendation)"Anyone interested in a compelling character-driven mystery will devour this story. It's unlike any crime novel I've read before but is no less gripping for it."– Independent Book ReviewMontecito: Where havi...

"A gripping crime drama … an engrossing story … a marvelously entertaining suspense tale. OUR VERDICT: GET IT." – Kirkus Reviews (Critical Recommendation) "Anyone interested in a compelling character-driven mystery will devour this story. It's unlike any crime novel I've read before but is no less gripping for it." – Independent Book Review Montecito: Where having it all sometimes means having the most to hide. For a smart guy, Hollis Crawford has certainly fouled things up. He planted his...

An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League tactics, published to coincide with 25 years of the competition.Back in 1992, English football was stuck in the dark ages, emerging from a five-year ban from European competition. The game was physical, bruising and attritional, based on strength over speed, aggression over finesse. It was the era of the midfield general, reducers, big men up front and getting it in the mixer; 4-4-2 ...

Nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to be interviewed for the position of lady's-maid.But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l'Orme, to uncover the dark and dangerous secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanzas own closest interests are bound up.Gradually those secrets are reve...

‘A wonderful overview of tactical development in European football’ Matthew Syed, The Times‘A fascinating assessment of football in 2019’ ObserverAn insightful, comprehensive and always entertaining appreciation of how European football has developed over the last three decades by the author of the much heralded The Mixer.Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. F...

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award'A novel of fate and free will, forensic detection and blind love, crime and its justifications . . . finely tuned yet extravagantly complex' Evening StandardA cold October night, 1854. In a dark passageway, an innocent man is stabbed to death.So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver, book lover, scholar and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always believed he was destined...

The town of Burghville is a peaceful place of backyard cookouts, quiet neighborhoods, Memorial Day parades, and rummage sales. But one Spring something new arrives, an invasive species of a sort no one could have imagined: a marauding band of mischievous and magical Scottish wee folk, foot-high anarchists with a taste for grass-root tea, front yard bonfires... and absolutely no respect for business as usual.To young and sexy clairvoyant Helen Keller, the wee folk are nothing less t...

A PILGRIM HOPES TO HEAR THEIR name during the annual sorting ritual, granting them entrance to the Nine Circles of Delacroy, city of Morlac, god of another world, but will this new life bring joy or starvation?MALDINADO ENTERED THE TERRIFYING Kul as a noble warrior, but when he awakens as a skilled tailor in a city that fears Inindu, he has no memory of any life outside of the one he enjoys as one of the most influential residents in Delacroy.ININDU ARRIVES IN DELACROY INTE...

The past is past and memories are memories. And moments are meant to be here and gone.But what if you were given the chance to change that?In this memory-haunted novel, frustrated young father Mickey Fisher moves to a country subdivision with his loving wife and one-year-old son to begin a new kind of life for them all. One day he meets Vincent, the grizzled and mysterious neighbor who lives in the old farmhouse up the road. When the strangely magical Vincent reveals that he has the power ...

THE ADOW SPOKE A FALSE PROPHECY and now a kingdom of warriors follows her to their doom. She knows it's all a lie, but what can she do when everyone expects her to speak as the voice of god?A FATHER FAILED TO PROTECT THE woman he loved, and now must save his daughter from assassins. He knows she deserves better, but what can he do when tradition dictates he serves as protector?A BOY ENTERTAINS HIS AUDIENCE WITH tales of wonder and glory, and then must scrounge for food lest...

From unbelievable tales of triumph (with all the shocking bits left in) to incredible facts about Olympic athletes, this is an aspirational, informative, interactive and hilarious guide to the Olympics - what they're all about and what made them what they are today. Packed with funny illustrations, inspirational ideas and amazing activities, this is a brilliant guide to the Olympics past and present.

Based on Rudolf Steiner's works, Money for a Threefold Society presents a blueprint for organizing society into three independent members: economy, state, and culture.This book explores the development of an alternative, independent money – called threefold dollars – backed by the productive value of registered assets, of land and means of production. Registered assets are financed within a private-social ownership framework that allows managers to operate freely,...