Immortalization Commission - The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (Gray John)(Paperback / softback)

Immortalization Commission - The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (Gray John)(Paperback / softback)

At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. This title raises questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and exactly what it means to be

Blood and Guts - A Short History of Medicine (Porter Roy)(Paperback / softback)

Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body. It is suitable for those who are keenly aware of their own mortality and

Strange Death of Europe - Immigration, Identity, Islam (Murray Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting

Black Mass - Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Gray John)(Paperback / softback)

Tears down the religious, political and secular beliefs that we insist are fundamental to human project. This title examines interaction of terrorism, declining world resources, human myths of redemption and a flawed belief in Western democracy, and shows us how a misplaced faith in our ability to

Massacre - The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 (Merriman John M.)(Paperback / softback)

Cosmosapiens - Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe (Hands John)(Paperback / softback)

John Hands's extraordinarily ambitious cosmological quest brings together our scientific knowledge and evaluates the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness, and

Death in White Pyjamas - & Death Knows No Calendar (Bude John)(Paperback / softback)

Two mysteries of the kind John Bude does best, with well-drawn and authentic period settings and a satisfying whodunit structure, following the traditional rules and style of the Golden Age of the

Marabou Stork Nightmares (Welsh Irvine)(Paperback / softback)

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer

Queen of the Night (Chee Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Death in a Strange Country - (Brunetti 2) (Leon Donna)(Paperback / softback)

Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man's flat - something which points to the existence of a high-level cabal - and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime

The Deep - John Crowley

For many generations the Just have been at war with the Protectors. In their strange world, supported by a huge pillar poised in the vast and mysterious Deep, ritual bloodshed and sorcery have obsessed the inhabitants since the beginning of time.Half human, half machine, sexless and hairless, the

In The Pleasure Groove - Love, Death and Duran Duran (Taylor John)(Paperback / softback)

The frank, funny and intimate autobiography of Duran Duran's legendary bassist, John

Seven Types of Atheism (Gray John)(Paperback / softback)

Death on the Riviera (Bude John)(Paperback / softback)

This classic crime novel from 1952 evokes all the sunlit glamour of life on the Riviera, and combines deft plotting with a dash of

Lost City of Z - A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon (Grann David)(Paperback / softback)

A blockbuster adventure about life, death and obsession in the

Castle Skull - A Rhineland Mystery (Carr John Dickson)(Paperback / softback)

Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the Inspector Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schadel, in which a killer lurks amongst a small group of

Death at Breakfast (Rhode John)(Paperback / softback)

A classic winter's crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the

Little White Death (Lawton John (Author))(Paperback / softback)

The third book in John Lawton's Inspector Troy series, selected by Time magazine as one of 'Six Detective Series to Savour' alongside Michael Connelly and Donna

Death of Grass (Christopher John)(Paperback / softback)

At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits Britain, society starts to

Circus Maximus: Race to the Death (Gray Annelise)(Paperback / softback)

Circus Maximus, the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world, where the best horses and charioteers compete in a race to the death, and one girl dreams of

Fall of the Roman Empire - A New History (Heather Peter)(Paperback / softback)

A major new narrative account of one of history's greatest and most epic mysteries: the strange death of the Roman

Death Is Hard Work (Khalifa Khaled)(Paperback / softback)

Death Is Hard Work is a tale of three people embarking on an absurd quest - an unforgettable journey into a contemporary heart of darkness. At a hospital in Damascus, Syria, Abdel Latif's final wish is to be buried in the family plot near Aleppo - just a two-hour drive

Simply the Quest (Evans Maz)(Paperback / softback)

Elliot and Virgo's troubles are far from over: death-daemon Thanatos and his scary mum are at large and determined to destroy the world. As even more immortal allies and enemies emerge, Virgo and Elliot must learn how to be heroes

Life, Death and Cellos (Rogers Isabel)(Paperback / softback)

In a tale marrying the insight of Sue Townsend with the farcical humour of John O'Farrell, a priceless cello is abducted, a conductor is stranded on the wrong side of the Atlantic, and Erin the cellist stumbles (eventually) on her true calling in