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The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before sliced bread? Who first ate frogs' legs? Which cat never changes its spots? What did Lady Godiva do? What can you legally do if you come across a Welshman in Chester after sunset?

One perfect house. One dead body. One bad day.There are thousands and thousands of decent homes - very nice homes - with nobody living in them.There are thousands and thousands of broke young people - very nice young people - with nowhere decent to live.This is where Al comes in.Al lives in wealthy people's second houses, when the real owners are away. He's charming, convincing, and easily lost in a crowd. Life is perfect.But unfortunately for him, Al and his friends have just broken into the wrong place, on the wrong day - and found a body. And now they're in a whole heap of trouble.Featuring crooked builders, dodgy coppers, and some very dangerous spies, A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering is a gripping thriller about what it's like to be young, skilled, unemployed - and on the run.__________Love for The Sanctuary ...'Imaginative and intriguing ... Andrew Hunter Murray is a young writer to watch.' Anthony Horowitz'Absolutely brilliant. I'm thinking it needs to be made into a movie!' Zoe Ball'Gripping, unsettling and original. Andrew Hunter Murray is a fabulous storyteller.' Tim Harford'Rich in imagination and stylishly written ... Totally absorbing.' Paul Burke, Crime Time FM

"My parents were slaves in New York State. My master's sons-in-law ... came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long -- it was dark there all the time." These words, recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855, provide Sophia Burthen's account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century. In It Was Dark There All the Time, writer and curator Andrew Hunter builds on the testimony of Drew's interview to piece together Burthen's life, while reckoning with the legacy of whiteness and colonialism in the recording of her story. In so doing, Hunter demonstrates the role that the slave trade played in pre-Confederation Canada and its continuing impact on contemporary Canadian society. Evocatively written with sharp, incisive observations and illustrated with archival images and contemporary works of art, It Was Dark There All the Time offers a necessary correction to the prevailing perception of Canada as a place unsullied by slavery and its legacy.

Když se Země přestane otáčet, ještě to neznamená konec lidské touhy po moci. Před čtyřiceti lety se následkem vesmírné katastrofy začala zpomalovat zemská rotace a po deseti letech se Země zastavila úplně. Teď je jedna strana planety natočená ke žhnoucímu Slunci a druhá uvězněná v nekonečné ledové noci. Většina států přestala fungovat, ale pár šťastných zemí na teplé straně planety přežilo. Jednou z nich je i Velká Británie, která se zachránila tím, že se od hroutícího se světa naprosto odřízla. Dnes v ní vládne vojenská autokracie a země je sužovaná hladem a násilím. Ellen Hopperová je oceánografka žijící na ledové plošině v Atlantiku. Do svého dobrovolného vyhnanství se uchýlila poté, co její domovina propadla autoritářství, a už s ní nechce mít nic společného. Když však za ní přijedou dva úředníci s prosbou, aby se vrátila do Londýna a setkala se s jistým umírajícím mužem, Ellen souhlasí — a začne odhalovat tajemství, které ohrožuje nejen křehkou stabilitu jejího národa, ale i celé lidstvo.

In a disintegrating and increasingly lawless land, a young man is travelling north.Ben is a young painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fiancée Cara has been living on the remote island of Sanctuary Rock, the property of millionaire philanthropist Sir John Pemberley. Now she has decided to break off their engagement and stay there for good.Ben resolves to travel to the island to win Cara back. But the journey there is a harsh and challenging one, and when he does arrive, a terrible shock awaits him.As Ben begins to find his way around Pemberley's perfect island, he knows he must also discover - what has made Cara so determined to throw her old life away? And is Sanctuary Rock truly a second Eden, as the mysterious Sir John claims - or a prospect of hell?By the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Last Day, this high-concept thriller will provoke and grip you from the very first page.