WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMPSON. The Third Man is Graham Greene`s brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a `smashed dreary city` occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend & hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, & the police are closing in on his associates... The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play. Left in the care of the butler & his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight`s holiday, Philip realises too late the danger of lies & deceit. But the truth is even deadlier. ...

Graham Greene was one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century. This anthology contains the novella The Third Man, on which Carol Reed`s chilling film starring Orson Wells was based, as well as the story The Fallen Idol which Reed also filmed. Greene`s often bleak view of humanity is leavened by the somewhat camp May We Borrow Your Husband? with its hilarious ending, the tragic-comic A Shocking Accident & ten more stories that illustrate the author`s mastery of the short story. They are: Beauty, Chagrin in Three Parts, The Over-night Bag, Mortmain, Cheap in August, The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen, Awful When You Think of It, Doctor Crombie, The Root of All Evil & Two Gentle People. With an Introduction by Professor Richard Greene. ...

The Third Man Factor tells the revealing story behind an extraordinary idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, experience a benevolent presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. If only a handful of people had ever experienced the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an unusual delusion but amazingly, over the years, the experience has occurred again & again: to mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, solo sailors, aviators, astronauts & 9/11 survivors. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having experienced the close presence of a helper or guardian. The mysterious force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention while recent neurological research suggests something else. In The Third Man Factor John Geiger combines history, scientific analysis & great adventure stories to explain this secret to survival, the Third Man who
- in the words of legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner
- `leads you out of the impossible`.

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Following on from the success of the ` One & Only Mandala Colouring Book` & the ` Second One & Only Mandala Colouring Book`, comes the latest addition to this best-selling series. Packed full with brand new unique mandala designs, the Third One & Only Mandala Colouring Book will bring peace & calm to your life. Each design has been carefully selected to create the perfect way to focus the mind. The high quality paper of the Third One & Only Mandala Colouring Book allows pencils, paints, pens or pastels to be used freely. ...

Based on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world, top New York chef Dan Barber`s The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal the land & taste incredible. The `first plate` was a classic meal centred on a large cut of meat with few vegetables. On the `second plate`, championed by the farm-to-table movement, meat is free-range & vegetables are locally sourced. It`s better-tasting, & better for the planet, but the second plate`s architecture is identical to that of the first. It, too, disrupts ecological balances, causing soil depletion & nutrient loss
- it just isn`t a sustainable way to farm or eat. The `third plate` offers a solution: an integrated system of vegetable, cereal & livestock production that is fully supported
- in fact, dictated
- by what we choose to cook for dinner. The Third Plate is where good farming & good food intersect.


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The Third Reich was the name Hitler & the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 & ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany & Hitler`s suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third Reich was one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, Hitler`s movement came to dominate German society in the 1930s, bringing with it the militarization of German society, the apparatus of state terror & a policy of violent discrimination against political opponents, the so-called `asocials`: gypsies, homosexuals, &, above all, the Jews. The history of the Reich is bound up with territorial aggression, total war & genocide. The end result was the complete defeat of Germany & the annihilation of millions of Europeans, a historical drama without precedent that still lies as a shadow over modern-day Germany. Richard Overy charts the rise & fall of Nazi power in a compelling narrative of the period, amplified by extensive"ations from documents, letters, diaries & oral testimony, & accompanied by many original & striking images of the era. There are also fact boxes which explore many of the important aspects of the Third Reich in greater detail. Authoritative, informative & sumptuously illustrated, written by a scholar steeped in knowledge of the period, The Third Reich brings the bloody realities of war, conquest & genocide vividly to life. It is an ideal book for anyone fascinated by the stormy history of the twentieth century, World War II & the age of dictators. ...

War-games champion Udo Berger & his girlfriend Ingeborg are on holiday. There they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly & Hanna, & a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace. Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home. Increasingly frightened, the situation slips beyond his grasp & he suddenly realizes that the consequences of this `game` are much more serious than he ever imagined. ...

In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war & charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites & scenes had once exercised a strange & terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals & inevitable self-revelations. From Venice, he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna, to st&, fulfilling a lifelong dream, before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale. This journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly, & at times painfully, up against an explosive present, producing some memorable observations on the social wonders & existential horrors of Mussolini`s new Roman Imperium. Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Best known in the West as a novelist & short story writer, he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature. Debarred from a university post by reason of his Jewish ancestry, he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp, in 1945. Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light, the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance, wry humour & understated irony. Pushkin Press`s publications of Szerb`s work include his novels Journey by Moonlight, Oliver VII & The Pendragon Legend, as well as the short story collection Love in a Bottle & the history The Queen`s Necklace. ...

THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETSA woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer.AND HE’S OUT FOR BLOODUnder pressure from the media to solve the crime, the force know there’s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case… ...

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! The blistering new SUNDAY TIMES number one bestseller!THERE`S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS...A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. HE`S IN YOUR HOUSE... HE`S IN YOUR ROOMUnder pressure from the media to find the murderer, the force know there`s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case. HE`S OUT FOR BLOODWhen another victim is found, Harry realises he will need to put everything on the line if he`s to finally catch the one who got away.` An expertly plotted, compelling & gripping white-knuckle ride... Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers` Sunday Express on THE SON` Nesbo deploys all the key ingredients of a cracking good thriller with expertise & verve. The ticking clock, the tension expertly ratcheted ever upwards, the changing scenery, the constantly shifting goalposts & the effortless, triumphant outpacing of the reader`s ability to guess what`s going to happen will keep you gripped to the last page` Guardian on THE LEOPARD` The undisputed king of Scandinavian crime fiction` The Times` Scandinavian crime thrillers don`t come much darker or more tense than the best-selling Harry Hole series, & this tenth outing for the Norwegian detective is the best yet` Sunday Mirror on POLICE ...