Frank - Libros y biografía

As one year ends, and our old world fades into memory, a new future is born.On a frozen archipelago, where it is too cold to farm, a few thousand survivors from across the Atlantic have found a refuge....

In 2019, the AIs went to war. Three days later, hundreds of nuclear missiles were launched. The electromagnetic pulse destroyed the machines, but the radiation and ensuing famine nearly destroyed humanity.By...

Not all survivors are to be trusted. Not all the conspirators are dead.February: Within hours of the outbreak, the quarantine was sabotaged. Within days, the world was gripped by civil war.March: When...

For good or ill, the future has begun.After the outbreak came the nuclear war. The blasts killed millions. Chaos followed. Most of those unlucky enough not to succumb to starvation and disease joined...

Though the apocalypse has begun, the reckoning is still to come. When Pete Guinn went to Australia to find his missing sister, he left behind the woman he loved. In the city he once called home, panic...

It is a week since the outbreak in New York. The president was betrayed. The vice-president is dead. The conspirators are close to victory.Having narrowly escaped agents of the cabal, Tom Clemens heads...

The battle might be lost, but the war isn't over.Once it was home to half a billion people. A year after the nuclear war, Europe is a radioactive, storm-ravaged wasteland through which a hundred million...

As nations rebuild, democracy is under threat.In 2019, the AIs went to war. Millions died before a nuclear holocaust brought an end to their brief reign of terror. Billions more succumbed to radiation...

A castle can be made safe from the undead, but not from the people inside the walls.It is seven months since the outbreak. In the anarchy and chaos that came with the undead, civilisation was destroyed....

Surviving is easy. It's the next part, living, that's hard.Zombies. It is seven months since the outbreak. The world is in ruins. Britain is a radioactive wasteland peopled by the undead. The few survivors...

Trapped. Alone. Unconcerned.Eight months after the outbreak, Bill Wright is trapped during a survey mission in Ireland. Surrounded by the undead, low on food and lower on water, he’s been in this situation...

Whoever wins the election, humanity will lose.Nine months after the outbreak, ten thousand survivors from across the globe have found a refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Hordes of the undead ravage...

Not all people died. Not all gave up hope.The outbreak was in February. By the end of November, Earth has become a hellish wasteland ravaged by the undead.Survivors from across the Atlantic seaboard took...

Within a few minutes of the outbreak, Manhattan was overrun by the living dead. Within a few days, the undead had reached every corner of the globe. Ireland was no exception.There was no evacuation of...

There is always hope.Northern France is a frozen morass of mud and snow across which rampages a horde of the undead, a hundred million strong. That won't stop Chester Carson and his comrades. Seeking...

The outbreak began in February. Nations went to war. Governments collapsed. Billions died in the chaos and anarchy that followed. Billions more were infected. They died. They came back.It is now October...

“There are no reported outbreaks in the UK or Ireland.”That is what the government broadcast. Nilda didn’t believe it. Not trusting the authorities, she and her son stayed behind when Penrith was evacuated....

The first outbreak was in Manhattan. The island was quarantined, but it was too late. Nowhere is safe from the undead.Tom Clemens has been living in the shadows, searching for those responsible for the...

Sixty years ago the world was wrecked during a terrible war. The soil was poisoned. The air became toxic. Billions died. Those who survived took refuge in great towered cities, and began constructing...

The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000) Indira Gandhi’s life,...

‘[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and life’ BOB ODENKIRK ‘Fiercely intelligent, humane and necessary’ NATHAN FILER, author of THE SHOCK OF THE FALL...

This international bestseller tells the bittersweet story of one family, one home, and the surprising arc of one woman's life, from the poverty of her youth, to the intense love and painful losses of...

Sharp, funny, romantic tale of love and gambling in slacker-generation New York. Tom Reasons is a young man who takes his pay cheque every week and bets it all on a Friday night ball game. Then...

A virologist’s insight into how viruses evolve and why global epidemics are inevitable In 1993 a previously healthy young man was drowning in the middle of a desert, in fluids produced by his...

The insightful political thriller first published at the dawn of the Cold War, from the author of the postapocalyptic classic, Alas, BabylonIn Pat Frank’s riveting, insightful, and thought-provoking novel,...

Enter a realm where darkness reigns supreme and fear takes on a tangible form. "Nightmare Chronicles" is a bone-chilling anthology that delves into the darkest recesses of the human psyche, where the...

In the shadowy realm of Olympus, Orpheus embarks on a desperate quest to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the clutches of Hades. Amidst gods and monsters, he navigates treacherous landscapes and confronts...

Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942), a Canadian Novelist and railway engineer, wrote the Jimmie Dale mysteries and other works. Doors of the Night is quite possibly his greatest mystery novel, and highly...

My purpose in the following pages has been to analyze, so far as the fragmentary sources permit, the precise influences that urged the Roman republic toward territorial expansion. Imperialism, as we now...

No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings - without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden. A fantastically futuristic science fiction tale written by one of the...