Penguin The Glory Game Davies Hunter

Football has always been a numbers game: 4-4-2, the big number 9 and 3 points for a win. But what if up until now we've been focusing on the wrong numbers? What if the numbers that really matter, the ones that hold the key to winning matches, are actually 2.66, 53.4, 50/50, and 0 > 1? What if managers only make a 15% difference? What if Chelsea should have bought Darren Bent? • In this incisive, myth-busting book, Chris Anderson, former goalkeeper turned football statistics guru, and David Sally, former baseball pitcher turned behavioural economist, show that every shred of knowledge we can gather can help us to love football and understand it even more. You'll discover why stopping a goal is more valuable than scoring one, why corners should be taken short, and why it is better to improve your worst player than to buy a superstar

One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder • Guests assemble at Hamlet Hall for a New Year's Eve party to remember • They are to take part in a murder mystery game with a 1920s twist, and everyone has their own part to play • But the evening has barely begun when one guest is found dead - killed by an injury to the head • Someone is playing by their own rules • And in a close-knit community, old rivalries run deep

Окончательный сборник от единственного авторизованного биографа The Beatles • Хантер Дэвис, единственный когда-либо авторизованный биограф группы, выпустил the essential Beatles guide. Разделенный на четыре раздела - "Люди", "Песни", "Места", "Вещание" и "Кино" - он охватывает все элементы истории группы и ярко воплощает в жизнь все влияния, которые сформировали их • Иллюстрированная материалами из замечательной частной коллекции артефактов и памятных вещей Хантера, эта книга является настоящим сокровищем The Beatles • Книга на английском языке • The definitive compendium from the only authorised biographer of The Beatles • Hunter Davies, the only ever authorised biographer of the group, has produced the essential Beatles guide. Divided into four sections - People, Songs, Places and Broadcast and Cinema - it covers all elements of the band's history and vividly brings to live every influence that shaped them

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature • Divided into five volumes, of which The Warning Voice is the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two main characters, Bao-yu and Dai-yu, are set against a rich tapestry of humour, realistic detail and delicate poetry, which accurately reflects the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life. But over and above the novel hangs the constant reminder that there is another plane of existence - a theme which affirms the Buddhist belief in a supernatural scheme of things

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature • Divided into five volumes, of which The Debt of Tears is the fourth, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two main characters, Bao-yu and Dai-yu, are set against a rich tapestry of humour, realistic detail and delicate poetry, which accurately reflects the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life. But over and above the novel hangs the constant reminder that there is another plane of existence - a theme which affirms the Buddhist belief in a supernatural scheme of things

Paul Davies' The Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe is an engaging and lucid guide to the 'Fermi Paradox' - why isn't the universe teeming with alien life? • If aliens ever contact us, it will be the single most significant event in human history. And Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back • For fifty years the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the skies. Now Davies, head of SETI's Post-Detection Task Group, with 'a rare talent for making physics mind-bogglingly vivid and exciting' (Times Higher Education), explores what the mysterious silence it has encountered could mean • Here he looks at exciting new ways to make contact with extra-terrestrial life. He considers what form advanced alien intelligence is likely to take if it exists

The thrilling conclusion to the global bestselling, BookTok sensation, Inheritance Games trilogy, where Knives Out meets One of Us is Lying • Avery's fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about • To inherit billions, all Avery has to do is survive a few more weeks in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her • But as the clock ticks down to when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help-and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything

The revelatory autobiography of a rugby colossus: Paul O'Connell. Winner of the Cross Sports Book Awards Rugby Book of the Year • There has never been a rugby player quite like Paul O'Connell. He is synonymous with passion, heart and determination; but he is also the thinking man's rugby player, a legendary student of the game • As the heartbeat of Munster, British and Irish Lions captain in 2009, and captain of the first Ireland team to defend a Six Nations championship, O'Connell has emerged as perhaps the most beloved of the golden generation of Irish rugby players. In an autobiography as intense as its author, he tells the story of his remarkable career

The Thief is Clive Cussler's fifth historical thriller featuring detective Isaac Bell • A bold kidnapping aboard an ocean liner sends detective Isaac Bell across America in a deadly game of cat and mouse • Leaving England aboard the liner Mauretania, Isaac Bell, chief investigator at the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency, stumbles on and thwarts a kidnapping. The two victims, who have fled Europe carrying a secret invention, fear that a foreign power wishes to steal it before they can bring it to America • Bell and the Van Dorn Agency offer to protect them • And it isn't long before Bell is fighting skullduggery in the middle of the Atlantic. In New York City, as well as across the country as he and the inventors head for California, the deadly chase is on

The news from the north is grim • An army is massing under the new king of Feal. They head towards Darien - city of the Twelve families - • demanding allegiance, or war • Tellius, Speaker to the Council, knows this divided city will never stand against such a terrible foe • But Tellius has a plan • He will assemble a band of heroes. Men and women who once before aided Darien in her time of need • They will come if he calls • The army approaches • The trumpets of war sound • A great city holds its breath • And a desperate plan unfolds • Discover the first two instalments in the thrilling Empire of Salt series Darien and Shiang, perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Game of Thrones

The Race is the fourth turn of the century thriller by Clive Cussler • 1910, and America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged • Newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway is offering a big prize for the first aviator to cross America in under fifty days. He wants Josephine Frost - the country's leading as well as most glamorous pilot - to win. Which is why he's hired Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency • Josephine saw her husband Harry Frost kill a man. Now he wants her dead. And with underworld contacts ready to help in every city en route, he'll do anything, go after anyone who gets in his way - including Whiteway and Bell • Packed with brilliant twists and turns, The Race sees the intrepid Private Investigator locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a killer whose resources are matched only by his willingness to cause mayhem during the race of a lifetime

The victim was your friend • It was just a silly game to start with. Paul never really believed in it • He never dreamed Charlie would take it so far • So was the murderer • For twenty years, Paul's tried to put his past behind him, but now his mother is dying, and he can't run any longer • But home isn't just full of bad memories. It's also the last place anyone saw Charlie alive • And Paul starts to wonder if Charlie might come back to finish what he started