Jack ` No Middle Name` Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked & righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child`s shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher`s past, illuminating how he grew up & developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world. The twelve stories include a brand new novella, Too Much Time. The other stories in the collection are: Second Son James Penney`s New Identity Guy Walks Into a Bar Deep Down, High Heat Not a Drill Small Wars All of which have previously been published as ebook shorts. Added to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written: Everyone Talks Maybe They Have a Tradition No Room at the Motel The Picture of the Lonely Diner ...

The untold story of Winston Churchill`s precarious finances
- & the most original & surprising book about Churchill to emerge for
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The untold story of Winston Churchill`s precarious finances
- & the most original & surprising book about Churchill to emerge for
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With the summer beckoning, life in France seems the ultimate dream for all of us rosbifs. But behind the sun, the wine, & the beautifully honey-coloured houses what is the reality of actually living in France? Based on her own experiences, those of her friends & of the many readers who write in to her Sunday Times column French Mistress, Powell tells the story of the daily passions in La Douce France warts & all in a fresh, fast & humorous narrative. ...

7 July 2005. Simon Weekes is travelling on the London underground. Shortly into the journey, his carriage is wrecked by a bomb. Virtually everyone is killed & almost all the survivors are injured. Simon is among the few to have escaped relatively unharmed. He quickly organises the band of survivors into a rescue team & together they help the maimed & the mutilated. In the days following, word of his heroics gets out & he finds himself under the media spotlight. The only thing is, he doesn`t want the attention. He can`t afford it. He has too much to lose. ...

What do you do with the rest of your life, after you`ve achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by celebrated-journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, athletes & politicians of the twentieth century. What happens if you are an athlete or gymnast & your career peaks at 14, like Nadia Comaneci, who scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic competition
- & the second, & the third, fourth, fifth, sixth & seventh. What is the next challenge for the likes of adventurer Reinhold Messner, when you have climbed all the really tall mountains? Where do you take your career, when you`ve achieved the impossible & walked on the moon? In this far-reaching & illuminating book, Chris Wright travels the globe, talking to Apollo astronauts, record breakers, world leaders & prisoners of war, people whose defining moments came early in their life, & asks a rare but captivating question: what happened next?
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Two young men
- Jago & Marcantonio
- both studying business & finance: Jago is a kid from a rough part of London who has worked

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Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today`s physics, chemistry & biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding & of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheaval did research on crystals & the spread of animal disease. After it, Paris`s first mayor was an astronomer, the general who fought off invaders was a mathematician while Marat, a major figure in the Terror, saw himself as a leading physicist. Paris in the century around 1789 saw the first lightning conductor, the first flight, the first estimate of the speed of light & the invention of the tin can & the stethoscope. The metre replaced the yard & the theory of evolution came into being. The city was saturated in science & many of its monuments still are. The Eiffel Tower, built to celebrate the Revolution`s centennial, saw the world`s first wind-tunnel & first radio message, & first observation of cosmic rays. Perhaps the greatest Revolutionary scientist of all, Antoine Lavoisier, founded modern chemistry & physiology, transformed French farming, & much enhanced gunpowder manufacture. His political activities brought him a fortune, but in the end led to his execution. The judge who sentenced him
- & many other researchers
- claimed that `the Revolution has no need for geniuses`. In this enthralling & timely book Steve Jones shows how wrong this was & takes a sideways look at Paris, its history, & its science, to give a dazzling new insight into the City of Light.

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No Need To Ask!
- Early Maps of London's Underground Railways by David Leboff & Tim Demuth, published by Capital Transport in
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The Non-Nonsense Guide to International Development explains what ‘development’ actually is
- & explores its political & economic
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