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‘World Football Records’ offers lively, fun and fascinating facts and stats from the world of international football. Focusing on all the major world and continental tournaments, national team records, exceptional matches and the stars who made it all possible, this exhaustively researched annual tells the stories of these key moments and the players and coaches behind them.
Retrace the footsteps of famous codebreakers and solve mind-bending hidden codes, cryptic crosswords, secret languages and complex riddles inspired by the missions Bletchley Park assisted in during World War II.Would you have been an indexer targeting Air Enigma in Hut 3? Or a Wren operating Colossus in the Newmanry looking for D-Day intelligence? Or maybe an RAF recruit in JAFO deciphering Japanese codes?Whilst World War II operations began in the famous Victorian mansion, new buildings soon materialised to accommodate the 9,000-strong workforce and machines that would help to penetrate the heart of Axis powers.But that success didn’t begin in the park. Information was first collected in the sheds of amateur radio operators and findings sent to a PO Box in Barnet. Once at Bletchley, it travelled between huts and atop desks, each stop uncovering a clearer picture of the battleground.Could you turn that data into intelligence? And intell
Stephen Sackur is one of the most respected news journalists in the country. For nearly 20 years, as the lead presenter of the BBC’s HARDtalk, he deployed a fearless, forensic style of questioning as the programme’s inquisitor-in-chief. In ‘Hard Truth’, he issues a rallying cry for the vital and continuing role of investigative journalism in holding the powerful to account. From Daniel Ellsberg’s exposé of the Pentagon papers to Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption fight in Russia – via the shocking murder of Daphne Caruana who took on systemic corruption in Malta – ‘Hard Truth’ highlights ten dramatic cases when brave journalists told truth to power, sometimes paying the ultimate price. In a world turned toxic by disinformation, where lies are weaponised and the truth is targeted, independent journalists are increasingly on the frontline of the fight to save democracy. This book demonstrates that it is a fight that can still be won.
Two teenage girls. One murdered classmate. And a modern-day witch trial that will divide the nation. When 18-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in an Edinburgh park, the city reels – and the shock only deepens when police charge her best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with her murder. As social media explodes and headlines scream for justice, rumours of bullying spiral into something darker: whispers of rituals, obsession, and a teenage pact gone wrong. Matthew Phillips, a respected heart surgeon, is reluctantly called for jury duty on the case. But as the trial unfolds – and the girls reveal a chilling defence no one saw coming – he begins to question everything: the motives, the evidence, even his own judgement. Who’s telling the truth? Who can be trusted? And what really happened to Christian Shaw?
A boy lost in the shadow of his father’s legacy. A gifted artist dismissed as just a ‘TV actor.’ A first-time film producer who stunned the world by winning an Oscar at 31. A maverick who changed Hollywood and became a global movie star. Hollywood icon Michael Douglas tells the unfiltered story of his life for the first time.
Over the course of more than 60 years, The Rolling Stones have redefined the rock-and-roll concert time and time again. From the humble clubs and music halls of the 1963 British Tour to the vast stadiums of 2024’s Hackney Diamonds Tour, more people have seen the Stones perform than any band – ever. Fully authorised and produced in official partnership with the band, this is the definitive celebration of their incomparable career on the road. Chapter by chapter, tour by tour, it follows the Stones across the globe, detailing their evolution from aspiring blues musicians to the biggest live act the world has ever seen.
Fast, fresh and flexible – stir frying is a time-honoured technique guaranteed to make delicious meals in a matter of minutes. Written by chef and expert author Makiko Sano, this book shows you how to master the art of high-heat cooking, with one pan on one flame, and make mouth-watering meals for every occasion. Celebrate sizzling ingredients, mingling flavours and fresh vegetables with this compendium of 80 delicious, easy to make recipes inspired by Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Malaysian and Korean cuisines. Whether you’re a wok pro or stir fry novice, now it couldn’t be easier to get fired up with lightening-fast dinners that deliver on taste and flavour every time.
Greece, 1946. In the power vacuum remaining after the Second World War, a brutal civil war erupts between rival left- and right-wing factions. The conflict spirals as the country pays a bitter price in human lives and fighting soon erupts in the mountains, turning villages into battlefields and pulling ordinary women and children into the fray. When the government soldiers come to Kalopetra, Fotini is nursing her newborn second child. She urges her daughter, Iliana, to hide with the older children as she and the other women are herded into trucks. Weeks later, soldiers return for the children – but they are not to be reunited with their mothers, a wholly different fate awaits them. Fotini finds herself transported to a prison on the island of Chios, where she befriends a fellow mother, Markella.
Whether it’s the warmth of the sun on sandy skin, the sharpness of a cold-sea swim or a rare glimpse of a bright blue kingfisher, each month of the year brings new experiences, weather and wildlife to the coastline. This work charts the seasons with insights on flora and fauna, recipes, spotters’ guides, and plenty more. Rooted in the Welsh coast, this book is illustrated with stunning photography and bespoke illustrations. Perfect to be packed in a jacket pocket or bag for a trip to the beach, or simply enjoyed in an armchair at home, ‘The Coastal Almanac’ is essential for every lover of the sea.
Nigel Farage is arguably the most consequential British politician of our age, and on current polling he is set to become the UK prime minister after the next general election. But aspects of his life story remain shrouded in mystery. Who is the real Nigel Farage, and does he possess the qualities to lead the country at a time of domestic turmoil and international peril? Based on interviews and reporting in the UK and across Europe by the fearless John Sweeney, ‘The Real Nigel Farage’ will be published just ahead of the 2026 autumn party conference season as battle lines are drawn for the next election and the contest to lead the Right intensifies.
At an isolated research station in Antarctica, biologist Laurel Salter washes dishes for a living ten hours a day, six days a week. She tells no one why she left her career, or why her marriage ended. But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can’t outrun her past. When a strange light appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband, Eli, won’t be far behind. Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole, and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them – to turn back the clock and live their story a second time? And this time, live it differently.
This volume will trace the darkest hours of the miracle that was Dunkirk, follow arctic convoys in the North Cape, consider the destruction of Hamburg, and unpick the only thing that ever really frightened Churchill. Like their hugely successful podcast – ‘We Have Ways of Making You Talk’ – this book will delve into the forgotten, hidden and little explained aspects of the war. At once entertaining and illuminating, this is the perfect book for fans of World War II history.
For over 10,000 years, we humans have been busy altering our environment and embracing ‘progress’, evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the modern urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today. But what are the ideas and inventions that enabled humanity to become, by the early 21st century, a majority urban species for the first time? How did the essential infrastructure of modern life – the innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart – actually come to be? With his characteristic wit and boundless curiosity, Jonn Elledge invites us to join him on a fascinating and often surprising tour of the ideas and technologies that made modernity possible. From elevators to electric lighting, parks to pedestrian crossings, he guides us through the history of civilisation itself.
A no bullsh*t handbook for midlife reinvention where the worlds of comedy, boardrooms, self-help and womanhood collide.
June Wood has nothing left to lose. With her hit TV show cancelled, and jobs lined up, being lured back to New York by a mysterious email was easy. Thanks to a clause in her former landlord’s will, June and her old roommate, Adam Harper, now own the multimillion-dollar property – or they will in a month, once paperwork is signed. June and Adam are stuck together for four weeks. Which would be fine, if it wasn’t for the fact that they haven’t spoken in five years. But this is the opportunity of a lifetime, and once it’s over, she can return to LA and forget all about Adam, New York and everything that went wrong in their friendship. Through shared meals and late-night conversations, old wounds and long-buried sparks resurface. It soon becomes clear that June and Adam have unfinished business. Second chances are always a risk, but maybe, if they are finally honest with each other and themselves, it could be different this time.
Finally free from his nightmare of a marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of Tinder dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future of few responsibilities, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife Rachel suddenly disappears. While Toby tries to find out what happened – juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity – his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation. But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place.
The Midnight Train
1 × £20.00 The Other Love
1 × £12.99 Le petit Oulipo
1 × £19.50 The Real Nigel Farage
1 × £22.00 Subtotal: £74.49