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A chilling literary thriller about a motiveless murder in provincial China

Acclaimed journalist Steve Boggan goes in search of precious metal

A chilling and provocative scientific dissection of the psychopath's brain Fact: A psychopath is 6 times more likely to commit a new crime after release from prison. Fact: Some forms of group therapy make psychopaths more likely to commit a new crime compared to no treatment at all. Fact: A psychopath is born every 47 seconds. Kent Kiehl is the ';Psychopath Whisperer', a neuroscientist who has dedicated his career to understanding what makes a mind turn criminal. Are psychopaths ';evil' and untreatable, or do they suffer from a mental illness comparable to schizophrenia or epilespsy? Do they do we have free will? Based on breathtaking research, including personality surveys and brain imaging scans of thousands of criminals, Kiehl pinpoints the biological machinery of psychopathy and offers a radical new perspective on identifying & treating the psychopaths in our midst.

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For more than a century successive US and UK governments have sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. Through the Cold War, the ';War on Terror' and the present era defined by the Islamic State, the Western powers have repeatedly manipulated the region's most powerful actors to ensure the security of their own interests and, in doing so, have given rise to religious politics, sectarian war, bloody counter-revolutions and now one of the most brutal incarnations of Islamic extremism ever seen. This is the utterly compelling, systematic dissection of Western interference in the Middle East. Christopher Davidson exposes the dark side of our foreign policy dragging many disturbing facts out into the light for the first time. Most shocking for us today is his assertion that US intelligence agencies continue to regard the Islamic State, like al-Qaeda before it, as a strategic but volatile asset to be wielded against their enemies. Provocative, alarming and unrelenting, Shadow Wars demands to be read now.

Praise for Steve Burrows's Birder Murder mystery series:'Most entertaining.' The Times'Delightful.' Daily Mail'Suspenseful.' Publishers Weekly

We have greatly underestimated the impact of dementia - America and Western Europe are the high risk areas

The true story that inspired The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

See the world in a strand of hair...

An illuminating introductory volume on a system of law that has often been characterised as backward and brutal by opponents in the West

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2017* LONDON 1885 A woman's body is discovered on Edgware Road. Ten miles away, her head is pulled from the dark muddy waters of the Thames. For two men, this event will push them to the very brink. DETECTIVE WILLIAM PINKERTON ';Thirty-nine years old, already famous and already lonely'. In an attempt to solve this case, he must descend into the seedy, gas-lit streets, opium dens, sewers and sance halls of Victorian London. ADAM FOOLE A gentleman without a past, haunted by a love affair ten years gone. What he learns from his lover's fate will force him to confront a past, and a grief, he thought long buried.

A shocking compendium of what happens when outsourcing goes wrong - the horrifying stories, damning statistics and what we do now

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year - the rise and fall of the women who ruled sixteenth-century Europe

KOMPROMAT: the Russian term for compromising materials about a politician or other public figure

A finalist for the New York Public Library Fiction Award A Grand Prix Littraire of the Association of Caribbean Writers Selection Named a Best Book of 2016 by: New York Times, NPR, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Root, Book Riot, Kirkus, Amazon, WBUR's 'On Point' and Barnes & Noble In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten the destruction of their community, each woman fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves must confront long-hidden scars. From a much-heralded new writer, Here Comes the Sun offers a dramatic glimpse into a vibrant, passionate world most outsiders see simply as paradise.

The acclaimed New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author delivers her first adult novel in twenty years

Dazzling, passionate nature writing - a celebration of Britain's woods and forests and a rousing call to fight for them

From the emergence of the first Slavic state to the election of new President Dmitry Medvedev, this is a concise and thoughtful guide to the complex and turbulent history of Russia and its people. Paying particular attention to the implications of a future without Putin at its helm, Abraham Ascher provides a skilful blend of detail and analysis for all the key points in Russian history, from the Bolshevik Revolution to the coup that ousted Gorbachev. Newly updated to cover Russias growing economic stature as well as the mounting divergence between Russia and the USs foreign policy stance, this stimulating introduction will prove useful and enlightening for students, scholars, and travelers alike.

A page-turning, shirt-grabbing true story that follows a one-of-a-kind family required to make nearly unimaginable choices

A deeply unsettling and disorientating debut novel about obsession, identity and motherhood

`Balcombe vividly shows that fish have feelings and deserve consideration and protection like other sentient beings' - His Holiness the Dalai Lama