Meet Arshile Grekov. A Russian oligarch, he lives in Holland Park, London, as a recluse in exceptional opulence after successfully extricating his gigantic fortune from Russia. He is deeply worried. His doctors are confounded by his slowly failing health and then there is his beloved son, a loud, druggy, dissolute Etonian secretly involved with a ......
After a messy struggle to maintain grip on government, the Home Secretary finds herself appointed as a surprise Prime Minister. Compounding the chaos, MI6 receives intelligence of a fanatical terrorist cell operating in Paris. A sophisticated insider attack on the Home Secretary is being plotted. Her sudden move into No 10 exponentially raises the ......
Working as a student volunteer in a kennel for cats, philosopher Federica Sgarbi discovered to her surprise that applying the ideas of the great philosophers was a very successful way of finding new homes for abandoned cats. By carefully considering the character of the cats, she was able to match them to the type of person whose life would most ......
A Sane Guide to the Practice that Can Change Your Life
Like many people Carla McKay thought that yoga sounded a bit too good to be true, and a bit to happy, and to bit too much for skinny yummie mummies. Things changed, however, when a friend persuaded her to give it try for a laugh after she separated from her husband.
Martin Peters finds himself in Berlin. Once a British spy involved in a controversial loyalist shooting in Belfast, he spent time in Berlin infiltrating the Punk scene just before the Wall came down. Now in his thirties, he is a detective in the local police force. He is struggling - two naked headless corpses were dredged from the Havel river. ......
Yevgeny Prigozhin's Mercenaries and Their Ties to Vladimir Putin
This is the first book on the Wagner Group, the shadowy Russian paramilitary organisation that fought in Ukraine and staged a surprise uprising against Vladimir Putin on 23-24 June. It has been involved in conflicts in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, Venezuela and Mali, committing war crimes, rape, robbery of civilians, and torture.
Few military organisations speak more to our dark imagination than the Wagner Group, a savage private mercenary group dedicated to committing war crimes as well as the challengers of the Kremlin on 23-24 June, 2023. From its inception in 2014 this nebulous organisation operating from Russia was intentionally cloaked in questions. How was it ......
Debut fiction by former Conservative Minister George Walden about Billy Sweetman, an amiable middle-aged drunk of an MP who one morning wakes up about half his size. In fact, as Billy discovers, the entire country has shrunk overnight.
