John le Carre's A Delicate Truth is a furiously paced story of moral dilemma, bold action & unexpected love. Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose: to capture & abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, & a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be
- or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, & closely observed by Probyn's beautiful daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience & duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent? When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre.. .they were a journey into the wider world... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind. (Aung San Suu Kyi). One of those writers who will be read a century from now. (Robert Harris). If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre's latest thriller. (Evening Standard). John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy & Smiley's People. His recent novels include The Constant Gardener, A Most Wanted Man & Our Kind of Traitor.
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” With A Delicate Truth, le Carre has, in a sense, come home. & it`s a splendid homecoming... Satisfying, subtle & compelling”. (The Times). A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain`s most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, & a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister`s Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, when the horrifying truth behind Operation Wildlife is uncovered, Toby will be forced to choose between his conscience & his duty to the Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent? ”A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives & shameful compromises”. (Observer). ” This is writing of such quality that
- as Robert Harris put it
- it will be read in one hundred years”. (Daily Mail). ” Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the twentieth century in Britain”. (Ian Mc Ewan).

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One of the greatest travellers in Scotl&, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, & a mine of information on custom, tradition & life. Martin Martin`s wrote before the Jacobite rebellions changed the way of life of the Highlander irrevocably. The volume

Includes:: the earliest account of St Kilda, first published in 1697 & Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, account written in 1549 which presents a record of a pastoral visit to islands still coping with the aftermath of the fall of the Lords of the Isles.

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One of the greatest travellers in Scotl&, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, & a mine of information on custom, tradition & life. Martin Martin`s wrote before the Jacobite rebellions changed the way of life of the Highlander irrevocably. The volume

Includes:: the earliest account of St Kilda, first published in 1697 & Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, account written in 1549 which presents a record of a pastoral visit to islands still coping with the aftermath of the fall of the Lords of the Isles.

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First published in 1824, this comprehensive study charts the history of the steam engine, from its roots in Ancient Greece, to the sophistication it had by the time it reached nineteenth century Engl&. Written during the height of the Industrial Revolution, when the use of steam power was dramatically transforming the nature of industry, this book attempted the first comprehensive study of the inventors responsible for this innovation. Beginning with the first recorded use of steam power by Greek mechanic Hero, the author uses clear diagrams to explain the practical workings of the steam engines that were created, covering inventions by Savery, Papin, & Newcomen, up to the `grand improvements` made by James Watt during the eighteenth century, by which point the engines were powering all manner of factory machinery. This is a fascinating account underpinned with the sound engineering knowledge of the author, as well as the wonder that went h&-in-hand with living at a time when such inventions were revealing the true potential of science & technology. ...

From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Knowledge of Angels.
It is 1945. A group of refugees, from various backgrounds,
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Barely forty years ago, Abu Dhabi was a fishing village on the Arabian Gulf. Now the capital of the United Arab Emirates, its citizens are each worth $17 million, it holds major stakes in Western economies, & has money to burn. In this timely, revealing & evocative portrait of a global player, Jo Tatchell traces the emirate`s dramatic development & the sometimes ruinous effect of extreme wealth on its people & their desert culture. & as its rulers fund another giant leap forward, she probes behind the official facade to examine whether this secretive & controlled society can realise its breathtaking plans to transform relations between East & West. ...

10th anniversary edition. New entries & citizenship test. Tangent`s biggest selling local book. Perfect gift book for young & old. Harry Stoke & Vinny Green launched the Dictionary of Bristle in 2003 to celebrate the remarkable success of their thatbebristle website a hilarious spoof news page with a passing similarity to the Bristol Evening Post`s thisisbristol website. At its peak, the website enjoyed astonishing success & the Dictionary was originally published to help readers understand the nuances of the Bristolian words & phrases. The website is long gone, but the Dictionary goes from strength to strength & sells particularly strongly at Christmas through supermarkets as well as the traditional booktrade & in gift shops. Tangent Books acquired the Dictionary from Broadcast books in 2009 & released a third edition. The updated fourth edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the original Dictionary. The book is now accepted worldwide as the authoritative guide to speaking Bristolian & has been responsible for a whole new generation of Bristolians reclaiming their distinctive dialect. Within two years of the publication of the Dictionary of Bristle the Bristolian word `lush` was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. ...

This is an exhaustive compendium of some 1, 000 words & phrases from twenty different languages that are used in English. This is a language which is rich in foreign infusions, thanks to the many invasions that have enlivened the history of our isl&. As a result, what we know today as English is far from the language of the Angles. From the time of Shakespeare down to the present day, the English language has always profited from foreign contacts resulting in contributions from across the globe. This dictionary presents a selection of those foreign terms now used in English but that are neither on the one hand Anglicized nor on the other merely pedantic. Never again need you rack your brain for the mot juste. Simply consult this dictionary to discover the perfect piece de resistance to dazzle your audience. ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK. ” Memoirs of a Geisha meets The Piano Teacher, in the best way.” (In Style). Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko & grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living in America, she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother & daughter. When a man claiming to be Hideo arrives on her doorstep, she is forced to revisit the past; the hurt & humiliation of her early life, the intoxication of a first romance & the realisation that if she had loved her daughter in a different way, she might still be alive today. ...