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*PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR MICK
HERRON* 'Stunningly plotted and written, this masterclass in
intrigue is brimming with tension and paranoid energy' Janice
Hallett, author of The Appeal 'All Herron's trademark strengths are
here: tension, intrigue, observation, humour, absurdity . . . and
pitch-perfect prose' Lee Child Two years ago, the Monochrome
inquiry was set up to investigate the British secret service.
Monochrome's mission was to ferret out misconduct, allowing the
civil servants seconded to the inquiry, Griselda Fleet and Malcolm
Kyle, unfettered access to confidential information in the service
archives. But with progress blocked at every turn, Monochrome is
circling the drain ... Until the OTIS file appears out of nowhere.
What classified secrets does OTIS hold that see a long-redundant
spy being chased through Devon's green lanes in the dark? What
happened in a newly reunified Berlin that someone is desperate to
keep under wraps? And who will win the battle for the soul of the
secret service - or was that decided a long time ago? Spies and
pen-pushers, politicians and PAs, high-flyers, time-servers and
burn-outs . . . They all have jobs to do in the daylight. But what
they do in the secret hours reveals who they really are.
'Wonderful. Mick Herron at his best' Michael Connelly, author of
Desert Star 'I doubt I'll read a more enjoyable novel all year'
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
A mind-bending, brain-expanding cornucopia of facts for curious
minds from the bestselling author of Why Don't Penguins' Feet
Freeze? Own the room with this hilarious collection of fact-tastic
myth-busters and jaw-dropping trivia exploring science, history,
sport and lesser-known facts from across the universe. Did you know
that the Moon has a Bishop? That ostriches DON’T bury their heads
in the sand? And that powdered rice was used as cement in the Great
Wall of China? What do souls weigh? What can’t 60% of the human
population smell? And what on earth is rhinotillexomania? And the
big one...are farts actually invisible? The answers to these
questions are all here. Challenge your brain, turn your world
upside down and relish the irresistible mix of wit and wisdom. It's
also a perfect gift for the brainiac in your life.
Wikkels Vark kry 'n verrassingspakkie by 'n partytjie. Hy is so
gretig om dit oop te maak, dat hy sy sagte speelding Snoekels aan
'n ballon vasbind, en nie sien wat gebeur nie! Met die oulike
Wikkels Vark in die hoofrol, is hierdie ’n oulike verhaal oor
skeidingsangs; 'n situasie wat elke ouer en kind sal herken.
Wikkels Vark het 'n nuwe hondjie. Wat sal ons hom noem? Almal het
idees, maar niemand stem saam nie. Dan kom Morsjors Vark verby...
The captivating story of the West’s love affair with Indian
spirituality—from the orientalism of the British Empire to modern
counterculture. In 1897, an Indian yogi exhibited himself at
London’s Westminster Aquarium, demonstrating yoga positions to a
bemused audience. Four years earlier, Hindu philosopher Swami
Vivekananda spoke at the first World Parliament of Religions in
Chicago, where Annie Besant extolled the ‘exquisite beauty’ of
his spiritual message. The Victorians were fascinated by, yet
suspicious of, Indian religious beliefs and practices. But within
two generations, legions of young Westerners were following the
‘hippie trail’ to the subcontinent, the Beatles meditating at
the feet of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Journalist Mick Brown’s vivid
account charts this eccentric history of Western obsessions with
Indian faith, through a curious cast of scholars, seekers,
charlatans and saints. From bestselling epic poems on the Buddha to
murder plots, magic and the occult, The Nirvana Express is an
exhilarating, sometimes troubling journey through the West’s
search for enlightenment.
Famous for being a city of broad shoulders, Chicago has also
developed an international reputation for split sides and slapped
knees. Watch the "Chicago Style of Comedy" evolve from
nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the
50's, and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new
millennium. Drawing on material both hilarious and profound,
Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History touches on what makes
Chicago different from other cities and how that difference
produced some of the greatest minds comedy will ever know: Amos and
Andy, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Del Close, John Belushi, Tina Fey,
Stephen Colbert and so many, many more.
In the 1960s the majority of bus photography was in black and
white, but an increasing number of people were also working with
colour. This new album from Mick Webber gathers 100 high-quality
photos taken around London during that decade. It takes us back to
the days when the RT family of buses was supreme, backed up by
Routemasters, RFs, RLHs and the first of the buses bought as part
of London Transport's plans for reshaping its bus services.
The London Passenger Transport Board had been in existence just
over six years when Britain entered into war with Germany on 3rd
September 1939. A year before, measures had been put in place to
provide trench shelters, first aid points, and the adaptation of
pits in garages to become shelters. Over twenty thousand male staff
were called up during the war, and women joined the ranks to fill
the void. One hundred and eighty one members of staff were killed
whilst on duty, with over eighteen hundred injured. Heroic work,
and the will to "get on with it" was the general way of getting
things done, summed up by just one of many examples at Athol Street
garage, nearer the end of the war. It was the Board's most bombed
garage, due to the nearby docks, and after a rocket fell at 6am
within 100 yards of the premises blowing out the windows of 25
buses, and causing considerable damage, the staff were able to get
all of the buses out on time that day. This book is a largely
chronological story of the period, focusing in particular on the
behind-the-scenes planning by London Transport, both before the war
and during it.
Weaving Well-Being is a positive mental health programme that aims
to enhance wellbeing in primary school children, within the
frameworks of the UK personal and health education curricula.
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 'To have been lucky
enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson
Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is
a terrific thing' Gary Oldman Spooks are supposed to be stealthy
... But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in
Slough House. This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for
spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses,
condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of
drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal.
In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and
squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of
them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the
one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the
action. So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his
beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses
aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. And unless they can
prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public
execution is going to echo round the world. 'The most exciting
development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times 'The most
enjoyable British spy novel in years.' Mail on Sunday 'The new spy
master' Evening Standard
Weaving Well-Being is a positive mental health programme that aims
to enhance wellbeing in primary school children, within the
frameworks of the UK personal and health education curricula.
Mick Webber's latest album fills an important gap in book titles
currently available on London bus history. All garages owned by
London Transport in the fifty years following its formation in 1933
are included, with brief histories and photographs. Also included
are plans of each garage and an appendix gives vehicle requirements
at July 1933 and June 1983. The following year, London Transport
was superseded by London Regional Transport in the move that opened
up London's bus routes to independent operators and was to lead to
the closure of many garages.
Weaving Well-Being is a positive mental health programme that aims
to enhance wellbeing in primary school children, within the
frameworks of the UK personal and health education curricula.
Weaving Well-Being is a positive mental health programme that aims
to enhance wellbeing in primary school children, within the
frameworks of the UK personal and health education curricula.
Weaving Well-Being is a positive mental health programme that aims
to enhance wellbeing in primary school children, within the
frameworks of the UK personal and health education curricula.
From Aud the Deep-Minded, an early voyager to Iceland, and
Sacagawea who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition across the USA,
to Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space and Arunima Sinha,
the first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest, this book shows the
incredible courage, determination and power of women explorers over
the last 1200 years. These women have led the way exploring
lands, oceans, mountains, skies and space, but have also made
pioneering discoveries in the fields of science, nature,
archaeology, ecology and more. The lives of these women, told as
personal stories, are an inspiration to us all.
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 'The new king of the
spy thriller' Mail on Sunday From the Intelligence Service
purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to
see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to
Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie
Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and
bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in
the day. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the
here and now. On Dickie's phone Lamb finds the last message he ever
left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in
the Intelligence Service's back-yard. Once a spook, always a spook,
and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets. Dickie
Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of
no-hopers are about to go live. 'Mick Herron is an incredible
writer' Mark Billingham 'The spycraft of le Carre refracted through
the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial
Times
When one of their own is kidnapped, the washed-up MI5 operatives of Slough House—the Slow Horses, as they're known—outwit rogue agents at the very highest levels of British Intelligence, and even to Downing Street itself.
London: Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they’ve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The “Slow Horses,” as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all want back in on the action.
When one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom, the agents of Slough House must defeat the odds, overturning all expectations of their competence, to breach the top-notch security of MI5’s intelligence headquarters, Regent’s Park, and steal valuable intel in exchange for their comrade’s safety. The kidnapping is only the tip of the iceberg, however—the agents uncover a larger web of intrigue that involves not only a group of private mercenaries but the highest authorities in the Secret Service. After years spent as the lowest on the totem pole, the Slow Horses suddenly find themselves caught in the midst of a conspiracy that threatens not only the future of Slough House, but of MI5 itself.
Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light
travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour
goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we
don't often hear about because they are so specialised, or turn out
to be dead ends. Yet researchers have given hallucinogenic drugs to
blind people (seriously), tried to weigh the soul as it departs the
body and planned to blast a new Panama Canal with atomic weapons.
Real scientific breakthroughs sometimes come out of the most
surprising and unpromising work. How to Make a Tornado is about the
margins of science - not the research down tried-and-tested routes,
but some of its zanier and more brilliant by-ways. Investigating
everything from what it's like to die, to exploding trousers and
recycled urine, this book is a reminder that science is intensely
creative and often very amusing - and when their minds run free,
scientists can fire the imagination like nobody else.
An inspirational and easy-to-use resource book for teachers who
want to add interest and engagement to maths lessons. Part of the
acclaimed Making Maths Meaningful series. The puzzles, games and
activities in this book are designed to challenge students with new
ways of applying core maths skills. Created by experienced maths
teachers, with a focus on problem solving rather than solving
problems, teachers will find activities to supplement all main
maths topics -- from addition and subtraction to algebra and logic
puzzles. Discover the perfect puzzle to inspire your class with
this clear and easy-to-use resource. Fun with Maths Puzzles, Games
and More includes: -- Puzzles -- categorised by age group and with
full solutions -- Games -- engage the whole class or small groups
with maths games that pupils will want to play again and again --
Maths magic tricks -- delight younger pupils and challenge older
ones to figure out how they work -- Class activities -- practical
exercises to bring maths into the real world This is a useful tool
for Steiner-Waldorf teachers of Classes 4-12.
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