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Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time – before losing everything for the sake of his principles.
A Sunday Times bestseller ? now with revised and expanded content on the exciting new science about the gut-brain link. Our gut is as important as our brain or heart, yet we know very little about how it works and many of us are too embarrassed to ask questions. In Gut, Giulia Enders breaks this taboo, revealing the latest science on how much our digestive system has to offer. From our miraculous gut bacteria ? which can play a part in obesity, allergies, depression and even Alzheimer’s ? to the best position to poo, this entertaining and informative health handbook shows that we can all benefit from getting to know the wondrous world of our inner workings.
In 1915, lady cops were not expected to chase down fugitives on the streets of New York City. But Constance Kopp never did what anyone expected. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs, Constance Kopp has earned her place as the nation’s first female deputy sheriff. She’s proven that she can’t be deterred, evaded, or outrun. But when a con man escapes from jail on her watch, she must find him before he disappears completely, and she ends up right back where she started – unemployed.
Luke Williams was a freelance journalist researching addiction to crystal methamphetamine when the worst possible thing happened – he became addicted to it himself. Over the next three months, he descended into psychosis. This dark, raw story charts Williams’ recovery from crystal-meth addiction, and his investigation into its usage and prevalence today. It also traces the history of methamphetamine: from its legal usage in the early 20th century, to its contemporary status as one of the most feared drugs in the world.
Early winter. A light snowfall powders the streets of Stockholm, where sociologist Thomas Heber is found murdered in a downtown alley. The only clues the police have to work with are Heber’s cryptic research notes, which indicate that someone else’s life is also threatened. But who? Leo Junker is back on the Homicide Unit after a long leave of absence. He is put on the Herber case together with Gabriel Birck, his former antagonist in the force, but when it is abruptly resassigned to Swedish Security Service, Leo begins to suspect that this is no ordinary street mugging.
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. As an Aboriginal Australian, Stan Grant has had to contend with his country’s racist legacy all his life. Born into adversity, he found an escape route through education and the writing of James Baldwin, going on to become one of Australia’s leading journalists. As…
In the final days of summer in 2013, a young woman is shot dead in her apartment. Three floors above, the blue lights of the police cars awaken Leo Junker, a long-time police officer. Leo works in the internal affairs division as the lowliest form of officer – a spy. Leo is even lower, however, having been suspended after committing a terrible mistake. He can’t stay away for long. A series of frightening connections emerge, linking this new murder to Junker’s own troubled youth and forcing him to confront a long-ago incident that changed his life forever. Now, in backstreets, shadowed alleyways, and decaying suburbs, the search for the young woman’s killer – and the truth about Junker’s past – begins.
Here is an insider’s report on the adolescent world of social media, computer games, fashion, love in the age of the Internet, and those moments when everything just seems to get on top of you. And on parents, who only want the best for their offspring, but always seem to end up achieving just the opposite.
Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mould. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into hiding fifteen years ago. One day, a belligerent and powerful silk factory owner runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their family farm. When the sheriff enlists her help in convicting the men, Constance is forced to confront her past and defend her family – and she does it in a way that few women of 1914 would have dared.
Detective Leone Scamarcio is called to an apparent suicide on the Ponte Sant’Angelo, a stone’s throw from the Vatican. A man is hanging from the bridge, his expensive suit suggesting yet another businessman fallen on hard times. But Scamarcio is immediately troubled by similarities with the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, ‘God’s Banker’. Scamarcio’s instincts are soon proved correct when a cardinal with links to the bank is killed. And when US Intelligence warn Scamarcio to drop his investigation, he knows that the stakes are far higher than he first realised.
‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’ not only documents the too-short life of an extraordinary woman; it is a definitive examination of the suffocating constrictions in place on intelligent, ambitious women in the second half of the 20th century.
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