Jenni Murray gives the lie to Thomas Carlyle's infamous declaration that 'the history of the world is but the biography of great men.' Women have played just as great a role in the story of humankind, only for their own tales to be marginalised, censored and forgotten. Their names should be shouted from the rooftops. Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress Cixi transformed China. Frida Kahlo turned an unflinching eye on life and death. In A History of the World in 21 Women, Jenni Murray celebrates the lives, struggles and achievements of some of the most extraordinary people to have ever walked the Earth. They ruled empires, they led nations. They were pioneers in the arts and geniuses of science. They led while others followed, spoke truth to power and fought for change. All left behind an indelible mark.

Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Winner of the Goncourt du Premier Roman Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents Winner of the Prix François Mauriac THE NOVEL THAT HAS TAKEN THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY WORLD BY STORM He was the brother of 'the Arab' killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Angry at the world and his own unending solitude, he resolves to bring his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name – Musa – and a voice, and by describing the events that led to his senseless murder on a dazzling Algerian beach. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.

I knew the job would be dangerous, but I was prepared to risk everything… except my heart. Everyone's heard the rumors about Dragon's Cove. The exclusive shifter-only island resort is infamous for decadent parties and scandalous behavior. No human has ever managed to set foot on the island. Until now. I'm going undercover to write a juicy expose on the island's notorious spring event. If I succeed, it will be the big break my reporting career needs, and I'll get the promotion of my dreams. But if my true identity is discovered, I'll face the wrath of the island's owners: three Alpha dragons who are rumored to be wealthy, gorgeous... and dangerous. Author's Note: Although characters from Princess of Wolves make an appearance, Consort of Dragons is a true standalone reverse harem romance and can be enjoyed on its own.

2003. Kabul has become a frontier city, Afghanistan's fledgling democracy struggling with crime and corruption as NATO coalition troops, gangs and warlords jostle for control. When the body of a British serviceman is discovered in the city's infamous tank graveyard, the Kabul Police reach out for support in their investigation. Alasdair 'Mac' MacKenzie, formerly of the Metropolitan Police, is seconded to the team. Baz Khan, an Afghan-American investigative journalist, is in Kabul researching a story. Precious antiquities are disappearing amid the chaos, never to be seen again. Baz is determined to uncover whoever is spiriting them away, and she has a lead. . .The soldier's death was no accident. Why was he so far from the British base in the middle of the night? And alone? As Baz and Mac investigate, they quickly realise they have each stumbled on something far bigger than they reckoned with. . .

The critically acclaimed manga series about a man time-traveling back to his youth to save his girlfriend from a street gang–which inspired the wildly popular anime and live-action film! And don't miss the spin-off series Tokyo Revengers: A Letter from Keisuke Baji, also available from Seven Seas. Watching the news, Hanagaki Takemichi learns his junior-high girlfriend Tachibana Hinata has died. A sudden shove sends him 12 years into the past to face the Tokyo Manji Gang that once made his life hell, which is also responsible for Hinata’s death in the present. To save Hinata and change the future, Takemichi must rise to the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang! But things aren’t so simple when he befriends the gang’s leader, Mikey. What turned Mikey from a petulant child to the leader of the most infamous gang in Tokyo?

WILL THEIR BATTLES NEVER END? Former villain Yin Biyue just wants to live in peace in his new world, but all he finds is turmoil. His teacher is off on a suicide mission, Luo Mingchuan is in danger of succumbing to the spirit of the Demon Lord, and the infamous demonic cultivator Rong Zhuo has risen with a massive army to launch attacks across the realm. No one—not Cangya, not the Northern Emperor, nor Yin Biyue’s allies from other sects—is safe with battles looming on every front. How can he and Luo Mingchuan become official partners under these conditions?! Then, as Yin Biyue and Luo Mingchuan fight side by side against fate, something even worse happens: Yin Biyue starts shedding his mortal emotions. And what good is power if it costs him the love he’s only just found? The final volume!

In the bustling metropolis of New York City, two souls from vastly different worlds collide. Saraphine, a former circus performer, has traded her nomadic existence for a life of quiet anonymity, working as a tech employee by day and indulging in her fighting and stunt work in the underground by night. Meanwhile, Ezra, the reserved and bookish son of the city's most powerful CEO, yearns for a life free from the shadow of his infamous lineage. Fate brings these two unlikely individuals together, entangling them in a complex web of secrets, lies, and corruption. As their paths intertwine, they discover a spark of connection that threatens to shatter their carefully constructed facades and ignite a love that transcends their contrasting backgrounds.This is the first book out of three where fate brings two different souls together in the midst of love and danger in the big apple.

Have you found the Yellow Sign? It is whispered in the decadent cafés of Paris and in the drawing rooms of a strange, uneasy New York. They speak of a play-an infamous text, bound in sickly yellow, that draws in artists, dreamers, and lost souls. Its title is The King in Yellow. Those who read the first act are entranced, mesmerized by its strange beauty. Those who dare to read the second are marked forever. The play does not contain mere words, but a poison for the mind-a cosmic truth so terrible that it shatters sanity and tears the thin veil of reality. In this legendary collection of stories, Robert W. Chambers conjures a world of beauty and madness, where the Pallid Mask glimmers in the dark and the lost city of Carcosa-where the black stars rise-haunts the edges of reason.

Ever since her mother vanished, Selah Whitlock has been drawn to the unexplained. So it feels almost fated to live in Foggy Hollow, a place where mystery abounds. Even more so when her father accepts a job at the Vandenberg estate, the epicenter of the town's most infamous cold case. Moving into the estate's carriage house pulls Selah into the orbit of the Vandenberg cousins: Jude, the brooding heir with a tragic past, and Rafe, effortlessly charming and undeniably dangerous. Then a centuries-old portrait surfaces bearing Selah's exact likeness. Suddenly, she isn't just chasing a mystery. She's caught in the heart of one. As the town prepares to celebrate its bicentennial, Selah and Jude are pulled into a secret that spans generations. Something sinister is stirring beneath the golden leaves and carved pumpkins. And the deeper they fall, the deadlier the consequences.

Eine Leiche. Sechs Experten. Kannst du den Fall vor ihnen lösen? Ein ungeklärter Cold Case. Eine bahnbrechende TV-Show. Es war ein Fall, der die ganze Nation bewegte und doch nie aufgeklärt wurde: Dezember 2003, Luke Ryder wird ermordet im Garten des Familienhauses in London aufgefunden und hinterlässt eine wohlhabende ältere Witwe und drei Stiefkinder. Niemand hat etwas gesehen. Doch jetzt, Jahre später, werden die Geheimnisse live vor der Kamera gelüftet. Eine Gruppe von Experten untersucht in der True-Crime-Show ›Infamous‹ erneut die Beweise – mit schockierenden Ergebnissen. Weiß das Team mehr, als es zugegeben hat? Liegt die Wahrheit vielleicht ganz nahe? Und vor allem: Kannst du den Fall vor den Experten lösen? Perfekt für Fans von True Crime und außergewöhnlichen, spannenden Krimis. Der BookTok-Bestseller! Dieser Krimi ist etwas Besonders: Durch einen Mix aus Skripten, Zeitungsartikeln, Chatverläufen und Beweisstücken aller Art erhält man Informationen genau zur selben Zeit wie die Experten, sodass man hautnah am Geschehen beteiligt ist und gleich selbst mitermitteln kann. »Dieser teuflisch kluge, bahnbrechende Roman lässt einen nicht mehr los.« Ian Rankin »Eine großartige Idee, meisterhaft ausgeführt – eine Wundertüte an Buch.« JP Delaney »Ein exzellenter, absolut neuartiger Whodunnit!« Gilly MacMillan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Bad Monkey, a hilarious madcap tale about a woman who wins the lottery, only to have her ticket stolen. ""Witty ... colorful... entertaining."" —New York Times Book Review JoLayne Lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles, but she's still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big—twenty million dollars, to be exact. And she has great plans for her fortune: to save a rare piece of Florida paradise from the bulldozers. Only one problem: There's another winning Lotto ticket, and the people who've got it just never learned how to share. When the two militia wannabes swipe JoLayne's ticket, she enlists an off-the-rails newspaperman to help her track down the trigger-happy creeps and their bewildered hostage, a Hooters waitress. Getting rich quick is never easy ...

Brash detective Rick Barron enters the infamous Hollywood fast lane in this thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series. Los Angeles, 1939. It's Hollywood's Golden Age, and Rick Barron is a suave and sharp detective on the Beverly Hills force. After a run-in with his captain, he finds himself demoted, but soon lands a job on the security detail for Centurion Pictures, one of the hottest studios. The white knight of such movie stars as Clete Barrow, the British leading man with a penchant for parties, and Glenna Gleason, a peach of a talent on the verge of superstardom, Rick is dubbed "the Prince of Beverly Hills" by society columnists. But when he unearths a murder cover-up and a blackmail scam, he finds himself up against West Coast wise guys whose stakes are do-or-die...

Have you found the Yellow Sign? It is whispered in the decadent cafés of Paris and in the drawing rooms of a strange, uneasy New York. They speak of a play-an infamous text, bound in sickly yellow, that draws in artists, dreamers, and lost souls. Its title is The King in Yellow. Those who read the first act are entranced, mesmerized by its strange beauty. Those who dare to read the second are marked forever. The play does not contain mere words, but a poison for the mind-a cosmic truth so terrible that it shatters sanity and tears the thin veil of reality. In this legendary collection of stories, Robert W. Chambers conjures a world of beauty and madness, where the Pallid Mask glimmers in the dark and the lost city of Carcosa-where the black stars rise-haunts the edges of reason.

The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. Were these the bones of the Romanovs? If so, why were the bones of the two younger Romanovs missing? Was Anna Anderson, celebrated in newspapers, books, and film, really Grand Duchess Anastasia? This book unearths the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colourful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, whose findings - along with those of DNA scientists from Russia, America, and the UK - all contributed to solving one of history's most intriguing mysteries.

The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour 'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, Guardian Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with unsuitable men. Both are isolated. Both are damaged by their pasts. When Justine interviews Dorothy about her involvement with an infamous and charismatic philosophical guru, the two women are drawn together with an intense magnetism that throws their lives off balance. Mary Gaitskill's first novel is an intense, darkly funny and caustic portrayal of loneliness and the search for intimacy. 'What makes her scary, and what makes her exciting, is her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don't even know we are living' Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

WILL THEIR BATTLES NEVER END? Former villain Yin Biyue just wants to live in peace in his new world, but all he finds is turmoil. His teacher is off on a suicide mission, Luo Mingchuan is in danger of succumbing to the spirit of the Demon Lord, and the infamous demonic cultivator Rong Zhuo has risen with a massive army to launch attacks across the realm. No one—not Cangya, not the Northern Emperor, nor Yin Biyue’s allies from other sects—is safe with battles looming on every front. How can he and Luo Mingchuan become official partners under these conditions?! Then, as Yin Biyue and Luo Mingchuan fight side by side against fate, something even worse happens: Yin Biyue starts shedding his mortal emotions. And what good is power if it costs him the love he’s only just found? The final volume!

You thought your neighbors were bad...but at least they're not aliens trying to kill you! Earth is under constant threat from Neighbors, invincible monsters from another dimension that destroy our way of life. At least we have the elite warriors of Border, who co-opt alien technology to fight back! Meet agent Osamu Mikumo, not the best, but along with his Neighbor friend Yuma, he’ll do whatever it takes to defend life on Earth as we know it. Having defeated Arafune and Suwa squads in the Rank Wars, Tamakoma-2 settles nicely into the middle B-Rank group. Their next match is against the infamous Suzunari-1 and the all-female Nasu Squad, both of which have their own ace Attackers! Can Tamakoma-2 overcome this challenge and fight its way into the top group without getting washed away by the tide?

For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen's ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings. This nostalgic journey through the career of a rock-'n'-roll legend chronicles every album and each stage of Springsteen's career. It's all here-Dave Marsh's Rolling Stone review of Springsteen's ten sold-out Bottom Line shows in 1975 in New York City, Jay Cocks's and Maureen Orth's dueling Time and Newsweek cover stories, George Will's gross misinterpretation of Springsteen's message on his Born in the USA tour, and Will Percy's 1999 interview for Double Take, plus much, much more.

This volume collects Cicero's complete political speeches in Latin, including those against the infamous conspirator Catiline. With expert translation and analysis, this book is perfect for classicists and students of political science alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Leading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with them and even entered their prison lairs to discuss their horrific crimes in detail. In this book, he presents six unforgettable prisoners and allows them to tell their stories, as well as giving the details and background of their terrifying cases - making this a must-read for aficionados of the genre and anyone fascinated by the extremes of human behaviour. Beyond the headlines, once the drama of the courtroom has subsided and the prison gates have been locked behind these killers for good, Talking With Serial Killers: Dead Men Talking allows the reader to get up close and personal with torturers, sexual psychopaths and mass murderers, to read the stories that are rarely heard and get the last word from some of the world's most pitiless killers.