NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT AND STARRING JACOB ELORDI, MARGARET QUALLEY, AND JOSH BROLIN • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is "an ode to friendship between two men...the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth liv...

Peter Heller’s masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past.Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains. A renowned translator of Tang dynasty poetry, Hayley walked away from her career and her addict husband to raise Frith alone in a land populated not by ambition-fueled academics but by hawk...

Now a major film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin.'A love-letter to things of beauty' GILLIAN FLYNN'Magical and life-affirming' GUARDIAN'A perfectly pitched post-apocalyptic tale' MARIE CLAIREHig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper,...

From the bestselling author of The Dog Stars, the true story of an elite kayaking team's heroic conquest of the world’s last great adventure prize: Tibet's Tsangpo River.The Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet has lured explorers and adventurers since its discovery. Sacred to the Buddhists, the inspiration for Shangri La, the Gorge is as steeped in legend and mystery as any spot on earth. As a river-running challenge, the remote Tsangpo is relentlessly unf...

ONE OF THE OBSERVER THRILLERS OF THE YEAR: 'GLORIOUS PROSE AND RAZOR-SHARP TENSION''LYRICAL AND ACTION-PACKED**'** Guardian'I COULDN'T TURN THE PAGES FAST ENOUGH' Clare Mackintosh'IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN, OR FORGET**'** Sunday Mirror'GLORIOUS DRAMA AND LYR****ICAL FLAIR Denise Mina, New York TimesTwo friendsWynn...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.“Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller." —Michael Koryta, New York Times best-selling author of Those Who Wish Me DeadKingfish...

'Exceptionally good... A frighteningly plausible nightmare'Observer, Thrillers of the month'Extraordinary: a unique blend of thriller, post-Covid dystopia and paean to the healing properties of nature'Guardian'Peter Heller's thrillers unfurl like campfire yarns'New York Times'An ever so subtly dystopian wilderness noir that speculates on the horrors of a post-pandemic ...

A life-affirming dystopian tale of global disaster, survival, and belief.Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his beloved plane for short journeys, and saves his remaining fuel.But, just once, he picks up a message from another pilot, and eventually the temptation to find out who e...

The bestselling author of The Dog Stars returns with a riveting novel of one man’s resilience against the ocean’s ferocious power as a husband finds himself swept out to sea off the coast of Maine and, while fighting for his very survival, encounters the looters and profiteers who seek to enrich themselves amid the chaos of the storm.“Get off the island. This is a bad one.” When Jordi Stohlquist’s phone rings in the pre-dawn hours, the ocean looks...

'Exceptionally good... A frighteningly plausible nightmare'Observer, Thrillers of the month'Extraordinary: a unique blend of thriller, post-Covid dystopia and paean to the healing properties of nature'Guardian'Peter Heller's thrillers unfurl like campfire yarns'New York Times'An ever so subtly dystopian wilderness noir that speculates on the horrors of a post-pandemic ...

YOU CAN TRY TO OUTRUN NATURE... BUT WILL YOU SURVIVE ONE MAN'S FURY?TWO FRIENDSWynn and Jack have been best friends since their first day of college: a gentle giant from Vermont and a rugged kid raised on a ranch in Colorado, brought together by their shared love of literature and the great outdoors.THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIMEWhen they decide to take time off university and canoe down the Mask...

This reader presents case studies from a number of sources that illustrate the mutual, reciprocal impact of technology on one hand and the social sciences, including government policy, on the other. Along the way, the introductory text and cases suggest that advanced technology (high tech) is not always compatible with the different settings in emerging societies with other geographic, economic, social, cultural, and political environments. This may be a delicate message to convey with ref...