The story follows Arjun, an Indian computer programmer who travels to the U.S. with dreams of success, but ends up in a disappointing job. After being laid off, he releases a virus in an act of revenge, which spirals into a global catastrophe. The novel explores the intersection of cyberspace, Indian cinema, and global interconnectedness.Â
In The Three, four unrelated airplane crashes happen around the world, and there is only one child survivor found in the wreckage of each crash. An American reverend insists that the children are the harbingers of the apocalypse, while the media dubs them "The Three".
Lewis explores the internet's early days and how it empowered individuals and amateurs over traditional institutions and experts. Using a series of vignettes, the author reveals how the internet was already beginning to disrupt long-established professions and industries.
A 14-year-old child successfully manipulates the stock market, demonstrating how readily available information challenged the mystique and authority of investment professionals.
A 19-year-old contributes to the disruption of the music business, showing how the internet changed content distribution.
By decentralizing information, the internet eroded the power and mystique of professions like lawyers and investment gurus.
The book also considers the broader consequences of this rapid change, from the decay of old institutions to the unsettling of traditional perceptions of the future
Mad Cows is a comic novel and a sequel to Lette's earlier book, Foetal Attraction. The story follows Madeleine Wolfe, a single mother, who is framed and arrested for shoplifting. She then has to navigate the British justice and welfare system while trying to protect her newborn son
Every year since he can remember, Richard had spent his holidays on the sun-drenched shores of Palm Beach with his wife and two friends. Now a hollowed-out man, he remembers his paradise, their immaculate lives and the tales that can exist only between the most intimate of friends. As Richard reminisces, we begin to wonder whether he is reliving a lost paradise or actually reinventing it.
The autobiography of Craig Revel Horwood, a judge on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing. The book covers his life story, from his childhood in Australia to his celebrity encounters.Â
A History of British Serial Killing chronicles the history of serial murder in Britain, focusing on how famous killers were identified and captured. The book documents the crimes and discusses the forensic and psychological breakthroughs that helped bring these killers to justice. Cases covered include the Whitechapel Murders attributed to Jack the Ripper in 1888 and other prominent British cases up to the time of publication.
The memoir chronicles the life of Dov Fedler, a cartoonist from Johannesburg, South Africa, and includes reflections on his career and the history of his generation.
The memoir chronicles Weiner's personal journey dealing with a body image crisis and eating disorder, which she developed in her youth. It shares her path to recovery and discusses how she uses her story as a motivational speaker.
The Way to Win features: Daly Thompson - Glaxo; Adrian Moorhouse - ICI; Sebastian Coe - Hewlitt-Packard;Gary Lineker - Semco; Tracy Edwards - Rank Xerox; Mike Brearly - Honda; Jonah Barrington - British Airways
The book is an expose of high-frequency trading (HFT) on Wall Street, detailing how a small group of outsiders discovered that the stock market was being rigged and set out to fix it.
The story follows up-and-coming photographer Kristin Ryder. Her life is turned upside down when she begins receiving anonymous and sinister emails that suggest the sender has an intimate knowledge of her past. As her life spirals out of control, she must discover the sender's identity before it's too late
Based on their Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting, Kristof and WuDunn examine the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. The book chronicles stories of extraordinary women who are fighting terrible circumstances, with the authors arguing that gender equality is the central human rights challenge of the 21st century.
Bella is a teenage chocolate addict who lives in an idyllic village in France with her aristocratic grandmother. Her eccentric life is shaken by the sudden appearance of a deposed African leader, an urbane man with a reputation for intense cruelty, who develops a strong interest in her.
This is a novel about 15-year-old Isabel, who is sent to Two Rivers in South Africa to live with her sister and brother-in-law after her mother has a stroke. The story follows her friendships and traces the riots that ultimately lead to her brother-in-law's death
Dead Men's Dust introduces Joe Hunter, an all action hero with a strong moral code. Like the gunslingers of the Wild West, Hunter is not afraid to use his weapons and his fists - but only to save the victims from the bad guys.
It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's "socialism with a human face" is smiling on the world.Meanwhile Sam Wareham, a first secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with a mixture of diplomatic cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student, Lenka Konecková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain.Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?
The novel follows a young, naive aspiring actress named Jonni Kendal who moves to London to escape her parents' plans for her life. There she meets the dangerously attractive Jean-Baptiste St. Michel, a talented and ambitious man haunted by his past. As Jonni is drawn into Michel's world, they must both confront their histories before they can build a future together
At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. It is a painting which leads Flora on, beckoning her away from her childhood, her complaining mother, pert younger sister, and the confines of a small community.
