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The fascinating history of St Stephen s Chapel in the Palace of Westminster a building at the heart of British life for over 700 years Begun in 1292 the royal chapel of St Stephen was the crowning glory of the old palace of Westminster a place of worship for kings and a showcase of the finest architecture ritual and music the Plantagenets could muster But in 1548 as the Protestant Reformation reached its height St Stephen s was given a new purpose as the House of Commons Burned out in the great palace fire of 1834 the Commons chamber was then recreated on a remarkably similar medieval design perpetuating a way of doing politics that is recognisable to this day St Stephen s has been part of many lives over the centuries from the medieval masons who worked through the Black Death to complete the chapel to the generations of MPs who locked horns in the Commons chamber Threading together religion politics art architecture and narrative history John Cooper tells the story of the lost chapel an iconic building that reflects the national transition from medieval divine right monarchy to modern parliamentary democracy

Budapest autumn 1943 Four years into the war Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal home to spies and agents of every kind But Budapest remains at peace an oasis in the midst of war where Allied POWs and Polish and Jewish refugees find sanctuary The riverside cafes are crowded and the city s famed cultural life still thrives All that comes to an end in March 1944 when the Nazis invade By the summer Allied bombers are pounding its grand boulevards and historic squares Budapest s surviving Jewish population has been forcibly relocated to cramped overcrowded Yellow Star houses By late December the city is surrounded and under siege from the Red Army Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians die in the savage siege as Budapest collapses into anarchy Hungarian death squads roam the streets as the city s Jews are forced into ghettos Russian artillery pounds the city into smoking rubble as starving residents hack chunks of meat from dead frozen horses Using newly uncovered diaries documents archival material and interviews with the last survivors Adam LeBor brilliantly recreates life and death in the wartime city the catastrophic fate of half of its

Our obsession with land is the driving force behind human history It has sparked revolutions and fuelled economic booms as well as financial crises Land is the world s oldest and most important asset and it governs the course of our lives more than any other form of wealth But this immense power is also what makes it so dangerous In The Land Trap The Economist s Wall Street editor Mike Bird reveals a sweeping global history that shows how fortunes have been built or destroyed all on the bedrock of land It has become the linchpin of the world s banking system and it affects everything from soaring housing prices to geopolitical tensions From the speculative land grabs of colonial America to China s modern day real estate crisis this gripping narrative shows how the economics of land can make and break families businesses and even entire nations This is the book for anyone who wants to see beyond markets and money to the hidden game being played out on the ground beneath our feet

En un mundo de fantasía en decadencia, solo quedan humanos y orcos, pero cuando un grupo de temibles humanoides ancestrales llegan desde el otro lado del océano, estas dos civilizaciones se ven obligadas a forjar una fragil alianza para proteger lo que han construido. buena fe, el señor orco mas poderoso envia a su querida prima Tara, una joven sanadora de alto rango, a luchar junto al impetuoso comandante humano Callum Battlechild y su compañia de guerreros.emios Hugo y World Fantasy, G. Willow Wilson, y el prestigioso dibujante Chris Wildgoose se unen en esta obra maestra de alta fantasia.

A deluxe edition of The Hobbit with exclusive new illustrations by Alan Lee, housed in a slipcase with foldout maps and art card.

Bestselling historian Frank McDonough tackles the subject in the same way as his brilliantly reviewed and bestselling titles in this series The penultimate title in the Hitler s Germany series the book marks the end of the Second World War and the end of the Nazi regime offering the reader a sweeping narrative tackling the major characters significant events of this horrific period of Nazi doctrine formed in their early years of the 1920s that would evolve into full blown genocide of a race of people by the end of World War Two The Hitler Years Holocaust 1933 1945 describes in detail the development of early persecution formulated by Adolf Hitler from as far back as the early 1920s placing in context what was to come once the Nazi Party gained power in 1933 the Nuremberg Laws to constrain the German Jewish population It covers the country s slow slide into a pre war policy of intimidation that would culminate in the murderous attacks on Kristallnacht the Night of Broken Glass As Europe marched into another global conflict in 1939 tens of thousands of German Jews had fled the country only to be swept up as Hitler s armies conquered all Western Europe With the invasion of the Soviet Union the secret meeting in early 1942 the Wannsee Conference wou

In a world demanding climate action the oil rich Gulf states face a pivotal moment Can they transform their economies built on fossil fuels into sustainable powerhouses This seminal work offers a comprehensive analysis of how Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are navigating the complex transition towards decarbonization Examining the intertwined forces of economic necessity geopolitical shifts and environmental pressures the book illuminates the difficult choices and trade offs these nations face Through rigorous examination it reveals the innovative policies technological advancements and evolving social contracts shaping the Gulf s energy future while critically assessing the impact of decarbonization on their macroeconomic growth This book is essential reading for scholars policymakers and industry leaders seeking to understand the complexities of the Gulf s energy landscape and its implications for the global fight against climate change

From New York Times bestselling author Ryan Douglass comes a gripping and tender reimagining of The Great Gatsby about the pursuit of happinessand lovein a society built on cruelty and secrets. Seventeen-year-old Nick Carrington wants nothing more than to leave Greenwood, Oklahoma, behind and make a name for himself in the papers. But when tragedy strikes, dreams turn into a twisted reality. Forced to start anew in Harlem, only a letter of acceptance from the prestigious West Egg Academy is able to pull him back into the world.But the supposedly integrated private boys school is more of a catchy headline than a fact, with the same prejudices Nick left behind back home. And his secret but growing feelings for the founders wickedly charismatic son, Jay Gatsby Jr. who dances past societys conventions with practiced easeonly add more complications.When Nicks cutting pen exposes dangerous truths about West Egg and leads to perilous consequences, he and Jay must decide whether to spend a lifetime outrunning trouble or be the ones to light the match. Can they not only fight back but triumph? Or will the powers that be win yet again?

Bringing together over 100 much loved recipes from the Fast 800 archives this is the ultimate book for fans of Dr Michael Mosley s revolutionary diet plan

Sexto volumen de este manga de acción en el que un legendario sicario, Fable, es obligado por su jefe a pasar un año sin matar a nadie. Poco a poco le va cogiendo el gusto a vivir como un simple ciudadano, aunque la violencia y las luchas entre bandas no lo dejaran a un lado. En este volumen, tendra que enfrentarse a Kojima, un despreciable yakuza que ha asesinado a algunos compañeros y esta montando un negocio de prostitucion.

From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying adventure through time, as a reluctant lady knight and a not-so-heroic historian will fight through time and space to rewrite their tragic fates . . . and finally reveal the hidden truths beneath the greatest legend ever told.It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree a girl not yet a knight, and a boy without a story.It is where she pulls a sword from the heartwood and becomes a legend.And it is where, more than a thousand years later, he will find her and lose her and find her and lose her again.It is where a new story will be written but whose will it be?Praise for The EverlastingAn exquisite, epic romance . . . Simply superb Freya MarskeAs dark and oppressive as it is utterly sublime . . . I loved every word of it Olivia AtwaterIncandescent. The Everlasting should enshrine Alix E. Harrow as one of the finest writers of our generation Cassandra Khaw

A legend. A lie. A love story. From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest. A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. He''s sent back through time to make sure she plays her part . . . even if it breaks his heart. Sir Una Everlasting was Dominions greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in childrens books and recruiting posters - but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory - failed soldier, struggling scholar - falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives, and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Unas legend, and finally tell a different story, theyll have to rewrite history itself - and change their lives in the process.

This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth century Pallant House in Chichester It s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields built for a Huguenot silk weaver ultimately a synagogue It s also the story of among others a row of two up two downs in Toxteth a block of flats in London s East End and what Ideal Home s magazine described in 1926 as Britain s first modern house in Northampton Together these buildings reveal the ways in which English homes have developed and changed over the past few centuries At the same time as Dan Cruickshank shows they have much to tell us about the lives of their first occupants their aspirations their struggles their place within society and relationship with their local community The English House brilliantly weaves these two strands together blending architectural and social history to create a series of brilliantly observed portraits of fascinating buildings

If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight''s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can''t rest until he avenges his former tormentor. Following Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie''s new fiction moves between the places he has grown up in, inhabited, explored, and left. In doing so, he asks fundamental questions we all one day face. How does one deal with, accommodate, or rail against entering the eleventh hour, the final stage of your life? How can you bid farewell to the places you have made home? The Eleventh Hour is the magisterial new work from one of our greatest living writers. It speaks deeply to what Salman Rushdie has come from and through, and strikes into the heart of our fractious times.

Dava Sobel acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science and the untold story of the young women who trained in her