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A diplomatic scandal. An escape over the rooftops. Charges of treason. Just a normal night out for Regency Londons most elegant spies Mélanie and Malcolm Rannoch. For aristocratic former spies Mélanie and Malcolm Rannoch, an attempt to steal incriminating documents is a normal evening out in Mayfair. The Napoleonic Wars taught the Rannochs to be prepared for the unexpected. But it seems theyve acquired a lethal new enemy who not only snagged the papers ahead of them, but has been amassing information to blackmail them and their dearest friends. Suddenly their mission turns far more dangerous. Theyre no longer just working to avert a diplomatic scandal. They are trying to protect those closest to them from arrest and imprisonment. Melanie and Malcolm hatch a dangerous plot to outwit their enemy on a royal night at the opera, with the king in attendance. But in candlelit salons its difficult to tell allies from enemies. And if they fail, it is the Rannochs themselves who could be facing charges of treason...

An intimate account of spiritual death and resurrectionTheCompleteLondon Writings present the spiritual and theological journal of a man revived by Gods word. German philosopher Johann Georg Hamann, destitute and depressed in London in 1758, bought a King James Bible on impulse. Within a month of reading it cover to cover, he was convicted of his sin and converted to Christ. His reading inspired him to write meditations on the entire Bible and reexamine the course of his life. In these Writings, Hamann reflects on his life, the Scriptures, and faith. A combination of autobiography, philosophy, theology, and biblical exegesis, Hamanns work has been compared to Augustines Confessions. Translated into English for the first time by John W. Kleinig, The Complete London Writings bring Hamanns thought to a new audience.

This comprehensive guide to the flags of the world provides concise, accurate coverage of every country in the world, giving the history, meaning, and symbolism of national flags, together with large-scale and smaller locator maps. The Complete Guide to Flags of the World, 4th Edition includes the history of flags, the color flags in over 220 countries and territories, flags of international organizations, large-scale and detailed locator maps for easy reference, up-to-date data and statistics for all countries, information about the history and symbolism of each flag, a section on de facto and emerging states, and a full index. This 4th edition comes with 38 updated flags and new, revised information for all things flags.

In this brilliant sequel to The Clockwork Boys, old foes resurface, and Slate and Caliban are forced to deal with the echoes of their past choices.Slate and her crew have arrived in Anuket City, the city of artificial marvels where Clockwork Boys are created. But the secret of their existence is as mysterious as ever.Slate has a history in Anuket City, history which just wont leave her alone. And her increasing attraction to Caliban is driving her up the wall. Caliban is, of course, too noble to do anything about it.As Slates history in the city grows more entangled with their mission, the groups chances of survival seem to be getting ever slimmer. If theyre to stand a chance of destroying the Clockwork Boys, Slate must confront her past, and find a way to stop it from killing them all.

*** Pre-order ENOUGH SAID, Alan Bennetts fourth collection of diaries and prose, now! Publishing March 2026 ***You dont have to believe it. I always took the Matthew Passion with a pinch of salt.Ramsden, Yorkshire, 1916. The ambitious local Choral Society is depleted as men volunteer for the front and plans for their St Matthew Passion by German composer J. S. Bach are scuppered by patriotic fervour. Dr Guthrie, the mysterious, exacting new Chorus Master, finds a replacement in Elgars Dream of Gerontius and swells the choirs numbers with teenage boys and girls. Together they discover the urgency of desire and the joy of singing as the new boys come to terms with their imminent conscription, and friendships and summer trysts are suffused with a melancholy sense of all that might soon be lost.This beautiful screenplay is published alongside the films UK release (on 7 November 2025), and includes a preface by the author and an introduction from Nicholas Hytner.

The legendary players, managers, matches and moments that have shaped the history of one of the biggest football clubs in the world are listed in a fascinating A to Z format. From Azpilicueta to Zola, from Abramovich to Wilkins, each legend has their own entry and pictures that have been updated for the 2020/21 season.The fully illustrated book also contains facts and figures of all the clubs league positions, greatest goal scorers, players of the year, most appearances, famous supporters and a Greatest Ever XI as chosen by the fans.The facts and figures include Chelseas performances in the FA Cup and Champions League in 2021, as well as the teams qualification for Europe next season after making it to the final against Manchester City this year.

University student Wonjun visits his friend Jingus basement apartment, only to find unsettling changes that are somehow tied to a K-pop stars suicide. Jingu behaves coldly, a strange statue looms in the corner, and reality begins to fracture. Blurring the lines between hallucination and nightmare, this graphic novel by JaeHoon Choi explores guilt and despair through a Lovecraftian lens, creating a haunting tale of emotional and cosmic horror.The Call of the Friend is part of the Lovecraft Reanimated project, where leading Korean speculative fiction writers reimagine the works of horror master H.P. Lovecraft. While honoring his eerie, grotesque imagery and the blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy, they update his ideas for a global audience.

Six months after King Aslak wins the throne of Himlinge, treachery prowls the royal halls. Ruling with an iron fist, Aslak grows convinced assassins shadow his every step. His lover and confidante, Snehildseer, warrior, and chosen of the Nornsstruggles to ease his spiralling paranoia.But when her sworn enemy strikes with forbidden rune magic, Snehilds life begins to slip away. Only a cure hidden deep in the Nine Realms can save her soul.With death closing in, she rides into Niflheims storm-lashed wastes, where the great dragon Nihoggr coils in the shadows, and on to rain-swept Helheimthe land of the deadwhere an ancient goddess waits in judgment. It is there, in the gloom beyond the living world, that a whisper will rise a call that will change her fate forever.The much-awaited sequel to the epic Norse fantasy series, brimming with petty gods, Viking warriors, prophecy, courtly intrigue, and dark magic, The Call of Helheim is perfect for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire and The Witcher.

In 1842, five years before they would become bestselling authors, Charlotte Bronte and her sister Emily arrived in Brussels. They were there to improve their French and German, but the years they spent in a pensionnat being taught by the charismatic Constantin Heger would do much more than polish their languages. It was a crucial turning point for both their writing and their personal lives. Each came away from Brussels a more mature and capable artist; Charlotte, having fallen lastingly in love with Heger, left with a broken heart and the inspiration for two novels, The Professor and Villette.Based on the Brontes essays and Charlottes letters and novels, as well as research into the Brussels of the time, this is a fascinating look at a formative period in the lives of two great writers. Tracing the influence of their Brussels years through their writing, MacEwan gives us insight into their artistic formation, and paints a vivid picture of the bustling 19th-century city that opened the sisters eyes to life beyond Haworth Parsonage.

A thrilling and incredibly sexy new dark romantasy series from Sunday Times-bestselling author Elizabeth May, perfect for fans of Phantasma, Gild, and Quicksilver.A princess and a war-weary god met in the ashes of a broken city, forging a pact in blood and sacrifice.Now, centuries of fragile peace are on the brink of collapseBryony Devaliant was born to dieagain and again. In Vartena, royal blood is the currency of peace, with every monarch sacrificed and resurrected to appease the gods. But when rebellion stirs, the god-king sends his deadliest weapon to restore order: an immortal assassin known only as the Wolf.Evander has perfected the art of killing over centuriesuntil his latest target becomes the one person he cannot destroy. When forbidden desire burns between the assassin and the sacrificial princess, their connection threatens the fragile boundary between gods and mortals. And when that boundary shatters, empires crumble. Because when gods fall in love with mortals, mortals are always the ones to break.Inspired by Beauty and the Beast and Eros and Psyche, this dark, seductive tale is perfect for fans of Raven Kennedys Plated Prisoner series, with the wit and spice of Callie Harts Quicksilver. Packed with dark fairytale vibes, gothic romance, and tropes like enemies to lovers, forced proximity, death pacts, and villain-gets-the-girl, this is a story where love is as deadly as it is irresistible.

In this vivid blend of memoir, nature writing and social criticism, Rebecca Tamás seeks new answers in old folk ways. Suffering from burn-out and grief both environmental and personal, Tamás sets out on a journey across the UK guided by the Pagan wheel of the year, marking each solstice, equinox and the midpoints between them with a ritual drawn from ancient traditions. From a confrontation with the sharp pains of winter at Samhain in Edinburgh to a giddy experience of collective joy at Padstows May Day, she finds in these traditional practices electric potential for transforming our relationship to the natural world and the flow of time. Intellectually probing and richly lyrical, The Book of Mysteries follows the drumbeat of ancient ritual towards an immersion in the wild time of the seasons. Ecstatic and irreverent, it is a rallying cry to wrest time away from the structures of work and capital and encounter the life-giving mystery of the natural world.

A new serving of satire from bestselling author and beloved Guardiancolumnist John Crace.I lap up everything John Crace writes gratefully: I love his cleverness, his wit, and his heart.NIGELLA LAWSONIt ended as it began. With Downing Street under grey leaden skies. Someones idea of a cosmic joke. Only this time the rain had eased to a light drizzle rather than a torrential downpour. If youre a Tory, you take your blessings where you find them on days like these.After fourteen years of Tory rule, John Crace has seen it all: a bucket-load of sleaze and scandals, myriad questionable policy decisions, and an ever-revolving door of impressive* candidates trying to get themselves to the top of a sinking ship.With a bumpy start, Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and the Labour Party have taken the reins while Kemi Badenoch and the Tories slink off to regroup in opposition. Many proclaim that the United Kingdoms political landscape has changed - but are those fabled sunlit uplands finally in view? Selected from Craces much-loved Guardian column, The Bonfire of the Insanities lights up a new chapter of governmental absurdity with mordant wit and caustic humour.(*terms and conditions apply)

When reporter Martha Strangeways is called into investigate the discovery of body parts on a remote railway track, shes drawn into a strange case, as her own past comes back to haunt her The atmospheric, critically acclaimed series continuesMartha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier: her son, Dougie is at university, her friend Orla will give birth at any minute, and shes becoming ever closer to her ex, Jamie.But all this is turned upside down when her friend at Glasgow CID, DI Derek Summers, calls on her to help with a truly disturbing case: a human ear, with an unusual Celtic earring, has been found next to a railway line in the Highlands.An when the body of a young woman wearing matching jewellery turns up at a landmark church shortly after, the mystery only deepens. Why has she been laid out in such a ritualistic fashion? Does her trek along the little-known Cailleach Way have anything to do with her demise? And who is running the Facebook Group where she posted details of her journey to the shrine of the Bone Mother goddess?As Martha tries to unpick the threads, she soon finds herself entwined with a ghost from her own past, and in conflict with the owner of a company committed to a huge hydro-electric scheme that threatens to destroy the goddesss sacred land.With Halloween approaching, and someone determined to protect the goddess at all costs, can Martha and Summers catch the killer before they strike again and this time much closer to home?

January 1941. When Detective Inspector John Jago is called to a house in Londons Bloomsbury, he finds the body of a woman whos been attacked and left to die, her only crime seemingly being her kindness to strangers. Shes taken victims of the Blitz and the war thats torn Europe apart and given them refuge in her home, but now shes a victim too - of murder.As Jago tries to find out who killed her and why, he uncovers a tangle of damaged hearts and minds. There may have been envy, resentment, even outright hostility. But who would want to strike down an angel of mercy in her own home?

She said she wore a blindfold at all times. She said she didnt know who she was really having sex with.Two former best friends face each other in court at a sex offence trial. Miss X, making the accusation, claims she was tricked into queer sex, many times, by a best friend pretending to be her boyfriend. But that friend, Gayle Newland, tells a different story. They were secret lesbians, she says, lovers in the closet. The boyfriend was imaginary, and part of a role play that had been going on for years.This astonishing case reached UK courtrooms twice in 2015 and 2017, capturing national attention. At both trials, Newland was convicted of a rare and controversial crime known as rape by deception. In literature, the plot has been named the bed trick. Shakespeare made it famous in plays with lovers switching places in the dark, but in real life, a consummated bed trick is rare. As The Bed Trick unfolds the riveting story of Newlands trials - a case where reality was stranger than fiction - it also reveals the malleability of courtroom narratives, and the many myths, archetypes and stories embedded in the law.

The Battle of George Square, a riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow, on 31 January 1919, is routinely claimed to be one of the most iconic events in Scottish working-class history. It is also the most mythologised. For a century, the narrative created for the defence of the strike leaders charged with incitement to riot an unprovoked attack on a peaceful crowd as an act of oppression has been repeated uncritically by academic and popular writers. Mythology has almost completely replaced reality, most notably in the Scottish education system, where educational materials have been described by two prominent historians as, arrant propaganda and a perversion of history. Now, Gordon Barclay and Louise Heren have undertaken a meticulous examination of the contemporary evidence to tell a more complex story. In doing so they examine the ways writers have failed to subject the celebratory mythology of this iconic event to adequate scrutiny. They document the creation of the mythology, from the writings of the strike leaders to those who use the mythology of the Battle to promote their own politics. They also examine the legal basis and reality of the military deployment to Glasgow in the aftermath of the riot.

The Batsford Book of Chess is a landmark, full-colour chess instruction book, authoritatively written and beautifully designed. Arranged in the form of a course, it will take you all the way from tentative beginner to formidable chess player. Quick Start reference pages help you retain the information youve learned, and puzzle sections let you test yourself as you go. To illustrate more advanced strategy and tactics, the author uses world-class chess heroes such as Bobby Fischer and Mikhail Tal to bring the concepts to life.Essential topics include: Pieces and Moves: the very basics, covering the chessboard, notation, the names of the pieces and how they move, plus an overview of chess etiquette What Chess is All About: an exploration of chess culture and history Winning, Drawing and Losing: Covers the various ways of winning at chess, and how games are drawn Six Openings for Life: Coverage of six of the best chess openings, each illustrated by a different chess hero Tactical Weapons: An examination of forks, pins, skewers and other tactical devices, followed by illustrative games from Tactical Hero Mikhail Tal Positional Play: Looks at good and bad positions, plus the art of planning, seen through the games of Positional Hero Tigran Petrosian Human Factors: Typical mistakes and blunders youll need to steer clear ofEasy to follow, yet more thorough and more challenging than other chess instruction books on the market, this book is an essential companion for all budding chess champions.

Global Voices on Global Mission Global mission has moved into a new era when it is no longer just "from the West to the rest" but rather "from everywhere to everywhere." But too often mission workers have not partnered well with local communities, hurting Christian witness and ministry efforts. And as the global church sends more and more missionaries, how can we learn from the past, develop new ways of partnering, and avoid repeating these same mistakes? The book of Acts provides a role model.Many people go into global missions to be like Paul, the pioneer taking the gospel to places where people have never heard. But in an era of mission when the church is truly global, Pauls companion Barnabas is an exceptional model of mission service.In this multifaceted volume, mission practitioners from around the world unpack the life and ministry of Barnabas. Contributors from Zambia, Bosnia, Australia, India, Ghana, New Zealand, Latin America, and the United States provide diverse experiences, global viewpoints, and best practices for effective mission partnerships that embrace humility, generosity, and mutuality.In Barnabass example we find answers for some of the most pressing questions in global mission partnership today: How should we share financial resources with generosity and trustworthiness? How do we advocate for, encourage, partner with, and empower mission partners across cultural and experiential differences? How can our mission partnerships develop as genuine communities of mutuality and visibility for all people involved? How do we wisely face sending, suffering, and division as we partner globally? Barnabas entered sensitive crosscultural situations and could help without hurting. He taught, developed, and trained others while also encouraging and releasing leaders. He modeled mission partnership that is generous, trustworthy, mutual, and empowering. In todays new era of global mission, we need more people like Barnabas. Discover how The Barnabas Factor offers a fresh approach to global collaboration that fosters healthier and more effective crosscultural mission partnerships.

A beautifully produced book to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grade II listed brutalist icon, the Barbican Estate.2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first residents moving into the Barbican Estate in London. This new book is a celebration of this unique complex looking at the design of the individual flats as well as its status as a brutalist icon. Author and designer Stefi Orazi interviews residents past and present, giving an insight into how life on the estate has changed over the decades.The complex, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, is now Grade II listed, and is one of the worlds most well-known examples of brutalist architecture. Its three towers Cromwell, Shakespeare and Lauderdale are among Londons tallest residential spaces and the estate is a landmark of the city. This is a beautifully illustrated, comprehensive guide to the estate, with newly commissioned photography by Christoffer Rudquist. It will show in detail each of the 140 different flat types, including newly drawn drawings of the flats as well as original plans and maps.Includes fascinating texts by leading architects and design critics, including John Allan of Avanti Architects on the unique building materials and fittings of the flats, and Charles Holland of Charles Holland Architects (and FAT co-founder) on the home and how these concrete towers have become such an integral part of Britains domestic and architectural history.

The Banquet explores the fragile, intricate links between language and longing how words can reconstruct great cities out of memories and dreams, tear them apart, or carry them from one place to another, as if each city, house and chamber were made of sonic and visual images rather than walls and bricks. Moving between the worlds of philosophy, theatre and poetry from Dantes Florence to Wittgensteins Cambridge; from Tom Stoppards theatre stage to the harsh landscapes of Rimbauds poetryThe Banquet explores the ever-growing tensions between words and action, knowledge and ethics.