One May evening in Chelsea, London, a freakish series of malign accidents and a split-second decision turns Adam Kindred's life upside down for ever. The police are searching for him. There is a reward for his capture. He is alone and anonymous in the huge, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere to [...]

Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with eminent psychiatrist, Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. Lysander is immediately drawn [...]

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediate[...]

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediate[...]

1969. A veteran secret agent. A single mission. A licence to kill. James Bond returns.

Det är 1969 och agent 007 har sänts på ett uppdrag till Västafrika och den lilla staten Zanzarim, för att där på egen hand försöka stoppa ett inbördeskrig. Assisterad av en vacker medhjälpare men hindrad av den lokala milisen tvingas han, efter en skrämmande upplevelse, att ignorera M oc[...]

RASTLÖS / William Boyd
Året är 1939 och Eva Delectorskaja, en ung, vacker och begåvad rysk emigrant i Paris blir värvad till London för att utbildas till den perfekta spionen. Efter kriget byggde hon med samma perfektion upp ett nytt liv som den typiska engelska hustrun och modern. Efter[...]

Cato s second century BCE De Agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and profitability, and advises on management of labor and resources. Varro s Res rustica (37 BCE) is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form, about agricultural [...]

First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and shockingly honest portrait of men engaged in war, 'that peculiarly human activity', the original edition was s[...]