During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came terms with what happened. Fifty years after the terrible events, he was able to meet one of his tormentors.The...

An amnesiac on the edge of death presents a challenge much too close to home for Jason Bourne'The real titan of the genre is Robert Ludlum' GQ'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesJason Bourne pulls a drowning man from a lake - a man not only freezing, but bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound. He wakes as an amnesiac, with no memory of who he is or why he was shot...an eerie remi...

“Jody is a masterful storyteller, with beautifully developed characters, incredible landscapes and every now and then she throws in a plot twist that will leave you reeling.” —Goodreads reviewDid you hear the rumor about the girl from the wrong side of the tracks who intentionally got pregnant with her wealthy boyfriend’s baby?It's me. I’m that girl.Now an entire small town is convinced I intended to sink my claws into whichever of the King...

Jason Bourne is back. An exhilarating rush of a novel in Robert Ludlum's legendary series.'Hugely enjoyable' Sunday Times**.**'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesWhen the head of Mossad learns that a major Mexican drug lord may be trafficking something far more deadly than drugs, he turns to his friend Jason Bourne for help. Bourne agrees to investigate, but he has his ow...

Jason Bourne is back!'Olympic style, all-out espionage' Daily Express'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesJason Bourne has gradually come to realise who and what he really is - a strange amalgam of a man named David Webb, and a deadly killer.Now David Webb is living a peaceful life as a university professor in the backwoods of America with his wife and children. Bu...

Eric calls up a demon to grant him three wishes - but what he gets is the Discworld's most incompetent wizard...Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff.But what he gets is Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard, and Rincewind's Luggage (the world's most ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION'The Lean Startup changes everything.' - Harvard Business Review----------Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable.The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Essential reading ...

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE ALLIES HAD LOST THE WAR?_______________________________'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.'America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese.But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutral buffer zon...

The completed series starts here! All nine books of the Steamborn Series are now available.A supernatural swarm. A treacherous scheme. A tinker's apprentice may be the village's only hope…Jacob has yet to meet a gadget he couldn't fix or an adventure he could resist. With trade routes to his remote Lowlands town cut off, Jacob must exchange his boyhood adventures for petty theft. After all, his wages at the tinker shop aren't enough to pay for his father's medicine....

What is the value of one life in an interstellar war that has already claimed millions? And if that single life doesn’t matter, are any others worth saving?A distress signal draws Siobhan Dunmoore’s Q-ship Iolanthe, a battlecruiser disguised as a bulk freighter, away from her devastatingly successful hunt through Shrehari occupied space and plunges Dunmoore into a dark, merciless universe of competing government organizations, undercover warfare, and organ...

When a young tug pilot's career is ruined by a collision in Earth orbit he has no choice but to accept a commission to fly an eccentric ship builder to a planet far from the trade routes. When they discover alien ruins on the planet and the hulk of a missing generation ship they are thrown into the centre of a conspiracy that reaches back centuries.Meanwhile on earth a young Indian police officer is trying to track down a serial killer little suspecting that the killer is linked to...

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore no longer enjoys the freedom to fight the Shrehari Empire on her own terms aboard the Q-ship Iolanthe. Special Operations Command has assigned her to Task Force Luckner, whose mission is replicating Iolanthe’s success on a larger scale. Unfortunately, neither her new superior, Rear Admiral Kell Petras, nor any other captain in the task force understands successful commerce raiding requires a different mindset. Instead of sheepdogs...