Books by Kevin McDermott

Valentina, the president's daughter, ventures out of the protected Citadel for the first time with her friends Damian and Pippa. Outside the Green Zone, the island is teeming with refugees who have fled their homes because of flood or fire. What responsibility does Val have to these people? And will she survive the Badlands?

Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects and power lust.

By incorporating the most recent Western and Soviet research the authors explain the legendary complexities of Comintern history and chart its degeneration from a revolutionary internationalist organisation into an obedient instrument of Soviet foreign policy.

An intimate photographic tour of Edward Gorey's strange and wonderful house.