Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong.Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous and overweight - and something about his friend's death doesn't seem right. Then days after Macready's flat is apparently burgled, Swift discovers that his friend had been researching a string of Russian government figures who had met similarly 'accidental' fates.When the police refus...

Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its definition. He challenges both the idea that dictionaries are definitive, and the notion that language is falling apart. With a sense of humour, an ability to laugh at bureaucracy and an inc...

From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world'Great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious' TelegraphIn corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and – despite obstacles bureaucratic, pol...

There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. This hugely successful volume of writing is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places. His extraordinary experiences include stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen.'Highly entertaining' The Ti...

Blood. It's everywhere. Rocks, fist-sized and larger, scatter the area: many are bloody. There's a body: a man's. He's on his back. His head is a mess. A woman leans over him. She feels his neck. Her shoulders are heaving; she's sobbing. Several men are standing around, milling aimlessly; they don't know what to do. It is reported in the British press as a tragic accident in Angola. This story suits the majority of those present, until Sophie Addison turns up. What is her interest and why ...

Jon Swift is in trouble.His journalism career is in freefall.He's too old to be part of the new world order and he's never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts.When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a café in Oxford he wonders if the meeting is a coincidence. When Lin asks him to pass on a coded message, he knows it's not.Travelling to Beijing, Jon starts to follow a tangled web i...

This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to the production and delivery of liquified natural gas (LNG) using offshore floating facilities. This segment of the offshore oil and gas industry has been growing over recent years and has now assumed special importance in the wake of interruption to international gas supplies, with a number of countries turning to importing LNG through floating offshore regasification units in order to protect their energy security. The re...

PROFESSING TO BE WISE, THEY BECAME FOOLS, AND EXCHANGED THE GLORY OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE GOD INTO AN IMAGE MADE LIKE CORRUPTIBLE MAN…Under the auspices of a troubled papal hierarchy, Paul Lazarus, a former British Special Forces operative turned priest and Michelina Andrea Franceschi, a beautiful scholar of the Vatican Secret Archives, wage a battle for Rome in a race against time to unravel heresy deep within the heart of the Vatican.They discover that a long-forgotten Broth...

For more than 130 years, photographers have been recording life in Edenfield, Turn, Stubbins, Irwell Vale and Ewood Bridge. Like most places in Lancashire, these villages have long histories stretching back to the sixteenth century and beyond. For many years, people hereabouts made a living from hill farming and handloom weaving, until industrialisation in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries brought water-powered and steam-driven mills to the neighbourhood. The period photographs ...

While paediatric cardiology may be a small specialty, it is important to note that congenital heart disease ranks as the most prevalent congenital condition globally. As a result, cardiac problems form a significant part of the workload of many general paediatricians, neonatologists, and other paediatric specialists. Beyond congenital heart conditions, acquired heart diseases are frequently encountered in general practice. The management of heart-related conditions can often be complex, le...

Find your way to a life full of wonder led by the thoughtful poems, powerful sayings, and heartfelt essays and invitations in this elegantly designed book.In The Way of Wonder, co-founders of the inspiring jewelry brand Waxing Poetic—Patti Pagliei and her partner, John—invite you on a journey full of wonder and vibrant living, a voyage of nows to help you live a more intentional life.Divided into four parts—The Invitation, Magical Gateways, Exalted...

A thrillingly authentic novel about truth, power, politics and friendship, from one of our most revered and experienced foreign correspondentsOLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIESJon Swift is in trouble again. His journalism career is in freefall. He is too old to be part of the new world order and he has never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts.When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng i...