Christopher - Libros y biografía

'Escape and Evasion reads like a Network for the Bitcoin era.' Tony ParsonsCity banker Joseph Ashcroft has stolen £1.34 billion from his own bank. He has given it - untraceably - to impoverished strangers...

Step into the past in this spine-tingling historical adventure from award-winning author Christopher Edge.Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of the bestselling magazine,...

The Georgian terraces are rising.In the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade, the port of Bristol is awash with the commercial gains of the Empire. But in the midst of all the grand building...

Russia, 1943. A girl from Leningrad, a soldier from Venice, stand together on the edge of wilderness. He is a shadow of a man, trapped behind wire, an enemy in her land. She takes something from her pocket,...

The Wind in the Willows meets Fargo, in this gripping tale of murder and revenge in a tight-knit community of woodland animals.In a feral twist on crime fiction, Cal, a mutt with a criminal past, must...

Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone. A mock-elegy for the heady joys of old-time...

Glamorous, fun and packed with scandalous anecdotes and exclusive interviews, Never Shaken, Never Stirred tells the story of two extraordinary sisters, Ann and Laura Charteris, who made marrying well...

While her bullying and unfaithful boyfriend, Dave, is reporting in Iraq, Ann seizes the opportunity to change the locks and take up with her infinitely more considerate colleague Patrick. But Patrick...

The majesty of the game of cricket is that it is not just a physical activity. It is not simply a matter of how strong or tough you are, or how fast you can rurn, but a combination of the mental and physical...

The Johnny Depp Photo Album follows the unstoppable rise of its subject: through all the movies and the drunken bad-boy behaviour, the romantic affairs with actress Winona Ryder and supermodel Kate Moss,...

Five habit-forming activities that will turn any dog from a daily challenge to a lifelong joy. Congratulations on the adoption of your dog.  If you are considering this book you are probably having some...

The memoirs of a court Eunuch at the byzantine court in the 7th century. Memoirs of a Byzantine Eunuch is an archetypal Dedalus novel and bears comparison with David Madsen's masterpiece: Memoirs of a...

"Tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell... I loved it." ―Stephen KingPursued by unknown terrors across the frozen Siberian tundra, a documentary-maker experiences a nightmare journey into the...

The CIA has been anxious about people wanting to tell its stories. Indeed, its effectiveness as an intelligence service hinges to a large degree on its ability to protect sensitive information. As an...

Glamour, power, sex, money. The makings of an iconic love story - or a doomed passion? Bestselling biographer Christopher Andersen casts aside the rumours, the speculation and the conspiracy theories,...

The official new novel set in the world of Dishonored, the award-winning video game. Billie Lurk has acheived the impossible: the Outsider has fallen. But now the Void is unbalanced, and the fate of the...

CRICKET IS GOING TO GET REVOLUTIONISED WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT. THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO TO STOP ME. NOT A GODDAMN THING.' KERRY PACKER England, Summer 1975. The Australian cricket team, visiting...

August Kleinzahler says, Christopher Middleton is, and remains, a shocking man. 'One hardly knows where to begin...' There are few risks Middleton will not take in his poems. For six decades and more...

<p>'Annabel was a black and white figure in the distance, going in through the front doors. She worked behind the reception. I was a history teacher.'</p><p> </p><p>As we...

The official new novel set in the world of Dishonored 2, the award-winning video game.As Empress Emily Kaldwin flees Dunwall after the coup by Delilah Copperspoon and Duke Luca Abele of Serkonos, a lone...

Air Histories opens with a poem about a neolithic arrowhead uncovered by manmade environmental damage after lying for millenia in a Welsh mountaintop. It closes with a rollicking poem urging action to...

"Perfect for fans of Daniel Abraham and Brandon Sanderson." Library Journal on DuskfallThe Nine Daemons are on the rise.Once believed dead and gone, Daemons have found a way back into the world. But the...

A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Winner of a Fringe First at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival. Imagine that you must choose...

Adolf Hitler understood the importance of sport, and exercised his malign and dangerous influence to try to co-opt it for the Nazi cause. He intended to own the Olympic movement, housing it permanently...

During World War 2, Hitler's engineers had pioneered an incredible array of futuristic secret weapons, from the Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, to the deadly V2 inter continental ballistic...

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph—the...

The brand new adventure from the author of The Moonstone's Curse, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson travel to Paris to uncover a secret buried for over twenty yearsSECRETS AND LIESSherlock Holmes's...

The fifth and final book in the epic Chaos Queen series. "Perfect for fans of Daniel Abraham and Brandon Sanderson." (Library Journal on Duskfall)Nothing is as it seems.Sfaera-shattering revelations reveal...

Nominated for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal The Times Children's Book of the Week "If you go into the woods, Old Crony will get you." Secrets, spies or maybe even a monster... What lies in the heart of...

A radical reworking of Marlowe's classic Dr Faustus - here the original story of the man who sells his soul to the devil collides with a horrifying act of provocation by 21st-century artists the Chapman...