Now don't start getting ideas. I am not a philosopher. I'm a dog.But I look like a philosopher, they say, and I'm not sure the distinction is as great as you might think. I'm what's known as a Rhodesian Ridgeback. My forebears used to hunt lions in Africa, but I'm a modernized urban specimen.I don't hunt much of anything. I was born somewhere on the plains west of Uppsala, Sweden.
After eight years as a soldier, Peter Ash came home from Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls 'white static', a buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming the US Pacific coast's mountains and forests, sleeping under the stars.
Kuni Garu, now Emperor of Dara, confronts the challenges of supreme power: both from within and without.
Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity’s struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum. A boxed set of Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy, containing The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Death's End
An elegant and magisterial new biography of Her Majesty The Queen.'A worthy and balanced overview of the Queen's life. Dennison is especially good on her childhood ... Quietly, tactfully, tastefully reverent' The Times For millions of people, both in Britain and across the world, Elizabeth II is the embodiment of monarchy.
'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' HARLAN COBENEmma's the one that got away. The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as 'the hairdresser' - because of the trophies he takes from his victims. Or she thinks she was. The police aren't convinced. Nor is her husband. She never even saw her tormentor properly, but now she recognises him in every man.
