River Monsters

Over ten feet long, it weighs in at nearly a quarter of a ton. Covering its back are armoured plates made of bone. Five hundred stiletto-sharp teeth line its long crocodilian jaws. It's a prehistoric beast of staggering proportions; a fearsome creature from the time of the dinosaurs. But the Alligator Gar, an air-breathing survivor from the Cretaceous period is still with us today, patrolling inland rivers, hunting in murky waters shared by human communities. And for Jeremy Wade, described as the 'greatest angling explorer of his generation', the Gar and other outlandish freshwater predators have been an obsession for all his adult life. With names like Arapaima, Snakehead, Goonch, Goliath Tigerfish and Electric Eel, many of them have acquired an almost mythical status. In a quest that has taken him from the Amazon to the Congo, and from North America to the mountains of India, Wade has pursued the truth about these little known, often misunderstood animals. Along the way he's survived a plane crash, malaria and a fish-inflicted blow to the chest that, according to a later scan, caused permanent scarring to his heart. In RIVER MONSTERS, Wade delivers a sometimes jaw-dropping blend of adventure, natural history, legend and detective work. It reads like a hunt for the Loch Ness Monster. But it's all true. These are fisherman's tales like you've never heard before. The stories of the ones that didn't get away ...

Jeremy Wade

Sports & Outdoors

Swordfish

<p>After a chance conversation in Egypt in 2008, bestselling historian Gavin Menzies launched himself on a quest that would reveal the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis and her destruction. Through an examination of documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, artefacts and DNA evidence, Menzies slowly and painstakingly reveals a trading empire that spanned from the Great Lakes in North America to Kerala in India. And in doing so finally explains the incredible reality behind the legendary civilisation described by Plato and its disappearance. Reading like a real-life Indiana Jones story as ex-Royal Navy submarine captain, Menzies travels round the world in pursuit of his goal, this is epic, iconoclastic popular history.</p>

The Lost Empire of Atlantis: An Ancient Mystery Revealed

GAVIN MENZIES

Parenting & Relationships

Lost Empire of Atlantis

Spartan

Matthew Dunn

Literature & Fiction

Nobody Lives Forever

En Route to retrieve his faithful housekeeper, May, from a European health clinic where she is recovering from an illness, Bond is warned by the British Secret Service that Tamil Rahani, the current leader of SPECTRE, now dying from wounds suffered during his last encounter with Bond, has put a price on Bond's head...

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

JOHN GARDNER

Thrillers & Suspense

Spetsnaz was once a name to strike fear into the hearts of Mother Russia's enemies. But what was there left to fight now the country had gone to the dogs? Dima Mayakovsky - once a revered figure inside the elite Special Forces unit - wanted no part of it any more. But when a dangerous fugitive surfaces in Tehran, Dima is the man Kremlin wants to bring him in. The target has something Dima's political masters want back. And they have made sure that they do not have to take no for an answer. There is no option: the ex-Spetsnaz legend must lead his hand-picked team of highly-trained, battle-hardened operatives into explosive combat. But that wasn't the sort of thing you could hide from the US recce satellites that circled the skies above. That meant Dima and his men became Marine Sergeant Henry Blackburn's problem. Sent across the border into Iran to search for a missing patrol, Black's men weren't looking for trouble, but they found it. In spades. And as Iran descends into chaos, Dima an

Battlefield 3: The Russian. by Peter Grimsdale, Andy McNab

Andy, McNab

Before Sebastian Faulks and before Jeffrey Deaver, acclaimed thriller writer John Gardner revitalised Bond's literary life in a bestselling series that contained all the hallmarks of Ian Fleming's classic thrillers, while weaving in modern weaponry, technology and tradecraft. This is a highly collectable, covetable first edition collection, designed to emphasise the link to the Fleming Bonds. With original artwork from Richard Chopping, the hardback series boxed set includes John Gardner's first five Bond titles. Licence Renewed, For Special Services, Icebreaker, Role of Honour and Nobody Lives Forever

James Bond Boxed Set 5

A comic novel about Arthur Fabricant, a divorced architect, who falls into a darkly hued garden of luncheon dates with younger women. He extricates himself by taking on a project building an invisible wall (a symbolic Jewish Eruv) around the entire city of Chicago. A zany, comic novel wilder even than Komie’s award-winning, The Last Jewish Shortstop in America. (Cover by Mary Lou Schwall-Komie)

Conversations with a Golden Ballerina

Komie, Lowell B.

Humor & Satire

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