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365 is James Robertson's innovative collection of 365 stories, each 365 words long • In 2013, James Robertson wrote a story every day. Each was exactly 365 words long. A year later, on a daily basis, the stories were published on the Five Dials website. Now the 365 stories are gathered together in one volume. Some draw on elements of ancient myth and legend, others are outtakes from Scottish history and folklore; there are squibs and satires, songs and ballads in disguise, fairytales, stories inspired by dreams or in the form of interviews, and personal memories and observations • Underpinning all of them are vital questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? What happens next?

The dead don't always rest in peace . . . Discover the gripping Richard and Judy pick, and first thriller in the bestselling Inspector McLean series • From the Sunday Times bestseller comes an electrifying crime thriller for fans of Ian Rankin, Peter James and Stuart MacBride • Edinburgh is horrified by a series of bloody killings • Deaths for which there appears to be neither rhyme nor reason, and which leave the city's police stumped • DI Tony McLean is focused on the investigation, but his attention is drawn by a chilling cold case • A young girl, ritualistically murdered • Her remains hidden for sixty years • It seems impossible that there could be any connection between the cases, but McLean starts to wonder • Because if it's true, they might be facing an evil beyond anything they ever imagined

Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill - sometimes under dubious circumstances - Cleve’s luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve comes to question himself. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the Yalu River, his luck changes forever. Filled with courage and despair, eerie beauty and corrosive rivalry, James Salter’s luminous first novel is a landmark masterpiece in the literature of war

Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life - flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty, tender and resonant, Light Years is an exquisite novel of lost lives and the elusiveness of happiness

Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing – the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone. This is a novel of obsession and where it leads. Rand, not intending it, becomes suddenly famous for a daring rescue in the Alps. What happens when passion is spent and what becomes of heroes is revealed in this terse and powerfully written novel

Will Parks needs to man up • A man stands. A man fights. A man bleeds • These are the first lessons you learn in a town where girls are objects, words are weak and fists do the talking • Will's more at home in the classroom than the gym, and the most important woman in his life is his gran. So how can a boy who's always backed away from a fight become the hero who saves the day? • Because a disaster is coming. One that Will can prevent. But only if he learns the most important lesson of all: sometimes to step up, you have to man down • A searingly powerful exploration of toxic masculinity, perfect for fans of Juno Dawson or They Both Die at the End

"Вероломство" — исторический и криминальный роман американского писателя Джеймса Эллроя • Лос-Анджелес, 6 декабря 1941 года. Последние надежды на мир рушатся, когда японские эскадрильи бомбят Перл-Харбор. Военная лихорадка и расовая ненависть охватывают город, и начинаются задержания американцев японского происхождения • После чудовищного убийства японской семьи вызваны трое мужчин и одна женщину. Уильям Х. Паркер - капитан полиции Лос-Анджелеса. Он великолепно одарен, невероятно амбициозен и поглощен сомнительной идеологией. У него серьезные разногласия с сержантом Дадли Смитом - ирландским эмигрантом, бывшим убийцей из ИРА и начинающим военным спекулянтом. Кей Лейк - 21-летняя дилетантка, ищущая приключений. Хидео Ашида - блестящий полицейский химик и единственный работающий в полиции японец

'America was never innocent.' • Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper's view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster's take on the great events of an incendiary era. It's a tour de force of the American idiom, and an acknowledged masterpiece • Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. RFK and MLK are dead. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Revolution brews in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Amidst all this, all three anti-heros fall for Red revolutionary Joan Rosen Klein. Each will pay 'a dear and savage price to live History' • The American dream as Nightmare

Прекрасный исторический криминальный роман, который начинается в Лос Анжелесе и Мехико во время душераздирающих последствий атаки на Перл-Харбор • Январь 42-го, Л.А. переживает шок от событий в Перл-Харбор. Местные японцы пойманы и посажены за решетку. В городе громовые штормы. В Гриффин Парке нашли раскопанное тело • Копы посчитали это обычной работой с мертвым телом. Они ошибаются. Это ранний предупреждающий сигнал Хаоса • Убийственный огонь и золотой взрыв ограблений возвращаются из прошлого. Пятая колонная грабежа – на Американской земле прямо сейчас. Доморощенные нацисты, коммунисты и расовые рэкетиры. И два мертвых копа, погруженные в джаз-клубе. И трое мужчин и одна женщина на горячем свидании с Историей • Элмер Джексон – коррумпированный порочный коп

James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a Scottish classic, a quintessentially Gothic tale of psychological horror, and a relentless attack on Calvinist dogma. The Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Karl Miller • Robert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister. He comes to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined to be saved, while others are damned. Sure of his freedom from the dictates of morality, he embarks on a series of crimes in the company of a new friend Gil-Martin, a man of many likenesses who can be mistaken for Robert, and who explains that they are as one in the holy work of purifying the world

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel • 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' • Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind

James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire warning against the unchecked growth of civilization • 'Despite all our efforts to retreat sustainably, we may be unable to prevent a global decline into a chaotic world ruled by brutal warlords on a devastated Earth...' • For thousands of years, humans have exploited the planet without counting the cost. Now Gaia, the living Earth, is fighting back. As the polar icecaps shrink and the global temperature rises, we approach the point of no return. Sustainable development, Lovelock argues, is no longer possible, and the only open to us may be a 'sustainable retreat'. This is the one book you must read to find out what is happening, how bad it will get - and how we can survive