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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Immensely gripping...Stayed up till past 2am to finish this’ Sophie Hannah Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave.
If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise... ‘Exceptional’ A.J. Finn ‘A smart thriller’ Gillian McAllister ‘Creepy, absorbing and unnerving’ T.M. Logan
‘As much a thriller as a chilling exploration of grief, The Woman on the Pier is one of B P Walter’s finest—and most shocking—novels yet’ A. J. Gnuse, author of Girl in the Walls
‘Devilishly well-plotted, crisply written – and a hell of a lot of fun. What a smashing debut!’ A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window We all see what we want to see...
A great editorial commentator of the twentieth century, Walter Lippmann, was a major contributor to the central periodicals and journals of the age, including the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, the New Republic, Saturday Review, and Yale Review. Men of Destiny, a set of biographical essays on leading figures of Lippmann's day, is arguably the best single source for understanding the persons and the policies of the post-World War I period.In a series of vignettes, the reader is introduced into the lively world of Al Smith, Calvin Coolidge, William Jennings Bryan, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Warren Harding, Andrew Mellon, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The collection offers a rare ...
Riveting selections from a 15-century account of Scottish history, one of Scotland’s national treasures. Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon— “a history book for Scots.” It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh’s daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It then describes the turbulent events that followed, among them the wars of the Scots and the Picts (begun by a quarrel over a dog); the poisoning of King Fergus by his wife; Macbeth’s usu...
The biography of an economist whose work as a journalist helped the American public understand the economics of the Great Depression.
A penetrative study of democratic theory and the role of citizens in a democracy, this classic by a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner offers a prescient view of the media's function in shaping public perceptions.
This book tells the story of Walter Chrysler, who established the Chrysler Corporation and founded Dodge Brothers Motor Co. It contains many delightful anecdotes about his childhood, his work on the railroads, and his turn-around of American Locomotive, Buick, and then Maxwell-Chambers.
New guide on how we can best live with and value our trees, from individual specimens to vast forests.