I stole this text, completely verbatim, from the dance/arts wall at Concordia College. I love the fact that (a) this guy has an English/Dance double major and I absolutely love the fact that (b) this guy let us know about a pun within his text before he even began to lay the groundwork within ...
The story of one man's defiance and a nation's courage. Friday 10th May 1940. Hitler launches a devastating attack that in days will overrun France, Holland and Belgium, and bring Britain to its knees at Dunkirk. It is also the day Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister. He is the one man capa...
The combination of Michael Dobbs' excellent writing skills and historical passion, and the legendary character of Winston Churchill, have provided two triumphantly successful books in WINSTON'S WAR and NEVER SURRENDER. In 1941, the war appears to be going badly on many fronts. Churchill is the co...
This book was enjoyable from start to finish. The sense of injustice done by the conspirators to a well-loved icon of history was intense, but because the participants in the conspiracy have been fully exposed as failures, the reader can revel in the knowledge that history has judged them.The con...
In the new novel of treachery at the highest levels from the bestselling author of House of Cards, backbench MP Tom Goodfellowe is caught up in a national crisis as the capital is held to ransom by one angry man. Colonel Peter Amadeus is an old soldier with a grievance. He wants an apology from...
After scheming his way to power, newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart faces a crisis that could destroy his Government. But as he plots the drastic measures needed to save his political future he finds one determined man standing in the way - the idealistic new King. Urquhart will stop a...
Наближават избори. Всички знаем какво следва. Пълен маскарад, удари под кръста и безброй дузини политици, надпреварващи се да пробият в този бизнес, прикривайки се зад някакви измислени идеологии. Или както авторът казва в "Къща от карти": Политик. На древногръцки "поли" означава "много". А "т...
FRANCIS URQUHART'S EVENTFUL CAREER AS PRIME MINISTER COMES TO A SPECTACULAR END IN THE FINAL VOLUME IN THE NO 1 BESTSELLING TRILOGY In a few months, Francis Urquhart will take his place in the history books as the longest-serving Prime Minister this century. And yet . . . the country appear...
Backbench MP Tom Goodfellowe is caught up in the search for the new Dalai Lama in this highly original and compelling thriller from the author of GOODFELLOWE MP and HOUSE OF CARDS – now reissued in new cover style. Tom Goodfellowe is the unlikeliest of political heroes. An MP whose career has a...
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Not the best WWII novel Ive read (That might be "Eye of the Needle" by Ken Follett), but it was fine enough.Lots of talking between politicians and generals, and youre waiting for the story to get to the point. (The author was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher, so he knows his topic; his topic isn...
It is always the innocent who suffer to make the powerful rich. A gripping thriller from the author of the Goodfellowe Series.
Get all three books in the series that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards "This blood-and-thunder tale, lifelike and thoroughly cynical, certainly carries the ring of authenticity... a great triumph."Independent"The exciting thriller that has Westminster buzzing. Here is a political t...
It was freezing in London, a night when the air grew sullen and felt almost solid. New Year’s Eve, that time for reminiscing. How he’d grown to hate it. A tune kept running through his head, one he’d picked up shortly before his Finals at Cambridge more than twenty years earlier. It was like a se...
For the past eight hours Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Kirillov had been cooped up inside a locked room. He spent most of his time watching television. Outside his window the sea sparkled invitingly beneath the hot Crimean sun.Suddenly the television set flickered and died. An emergency light began...
Castle Lorne. They sat motionless, buried in their own thoughts. D’Arby hung his head in despair. ‘Not so soon, not so soon,’ they heard him whisper. ‘The reporter mentioned other embassies,’ Blythe Edwards said, her voice grim. ‘We need to find these things out,’ Shunin added. ‘There is a teleph...
‘DOES HE MEAN IT? Does he mean it?’ the Home Secretary demanded. Her world was spinning off its orbit. Whichever way she turned, she saw nothing but chaos. Tibbetts was the first to respond. ‘He’s already shot one Cabinet minister, beaten up Harry J...
"They disappear overnight, and no one asks questions she whispered, remembering. "It is not like that," he insisted. "You're putting so many of us in camps that Hitler won't even have to go looking for us when he gets here. Don't you see? You have d...
The words rattled through Chombo’s mind like a curse, as they did every day. He was sitting on a balcony of his favourite hotel, sipping a cooling beer and gazing out across the swimming pool to the landscaped gardens beyond. The breeze was gentle, the rain gone, yet he could find no peace, and k...
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27By the afternoon of what was fast becoming Black Saturday, the U.S. Navy had located all four Soviet submarines. They were deployed in a large rectangle, measuring 200 by 400 miles, that stretched in a north-easterly direction from the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands....
At around two he had tried to call Jemma but experience had cut through the alcohol and at the last second he had hit the cancel button. He waited until he thought he was sober enough, and she was about to leave for school. His throat felt as if it had been scrubbed with raw chillies. ...