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Ben Spies
What would you do if you found a Magic Pencil? Meet Bob. He found a Magic Pencil one day on his way to school and now his life will never…
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Earth’s orbit is moving closer to the Sun and our planet is heating up at an alarming rate. Twelve-year-old Jacob and his mother, Susan, are fighting for survival while witnessing…
Ben Macintyre
From the Number One bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, comes a new true story of Second World War deception
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Weirdo is a story about a boy who recently lost his parents. He now lives by himself. He has no friends at school and everyone thinks he is weird. Well…
Ben Spies-Butcher
The concept of social capital has been widely embraced by academics, activists and governments. It promises a language to unite economics and sociology, and a resource that will help explain…
Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities…
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Mark Lindemann,Ben Spies
Evolve from rookie to seasoned rider with this comprehensive beginners’ guide to motorcycles, riding, and gear. Whether you’re starting as a new daily commuter, track fiend, or budding off-roader, Mark…
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Ben MacIntyre
The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain’s best historians, now in paperback
Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent…
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On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his…
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The master storyteller (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the…
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‘If you’re looking for a good spy thriller, I definitely recommend this’ Daily Express The thrilling real-life story of a double agent in the Second World War
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From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag. The thrilling true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attempted A Richard & Judy Book Club selection
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Ben Kane
NAPOLEON: emperor of France, master of Europe. The epic new standalone from Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Kane.
A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRE
‘Riveting, astounding … An unputdownable postwar thriller’ Observer ‘Irresistibly readable’ Sunday Times ‘Worthy of John le Carre…
Andrew McDonald, Ben Wood
Ever wonder why pigeons always act so weird? It’s because they’re out there chasing the bad guys and saving your butts!
Ever wondered what the Greek myths look like through the eyes of a child? Eleven-year-old author, Ben Spies, writes his version of some of the most thrilling tales from Greek…
Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it…
Sam Kean
New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb.
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The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain’s most acclaimed historians.
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin, and…
'One of the most enjoyable and compelling historical romps I've read in a very long time' James Holland. The epic new standalone from Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Kane.
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Traces the story of Russian intelligence operative Oleg Gordievsky, revealing how his secret work as an undercover MI6 informant helped hasten the end of the Cold War.
The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet–a thrilling The Americans -era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped…
Ben Montgomery
Ben Montgomery brings Josefina Guerrero’s heroic accomplishments to light in The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II.
Shabtai Teveth
Drawing upon uncovered classified documents and interviews with key players, this text recounts the Lavon affair in Israel in 1963. It tells how the affair, which toppled the government of…
Originally published by Bloomsbury Plc, 2014.
The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy…
