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A comprehensive, updated reference book on animals for families. See the animal kingdom up close and personal in this stunning visual encyclopedia. In the same series as the New Children's Encyclopedia and DK children's encyclopedias of Science, Art, and Geography (among others), this updated animal encyclopedia will be a valuable reference source for children, parents, and educators. From the latest...

A brilliant quiz book for clever kids - put your animal knowledge to the test and boggle your family and friends with your brainpower! Can you spot the difference between an ostrich and an emu, and a leopard and an ocelot? You can! Then what are you waiting for? Take on this brain-busting nature challenge! With more than 60 topics...

A beloved 1950s Little Golden Book about animal homes is back in print! A beloved 1950s Little Golden Book about animal homes, sure to delight toddlers and preschoolers. In this sweet story about animal homes, a cat, a dog, a bird, a turtle, a bunny, a chick, and a squirrel all live together in a little house in the woods....

Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside in this gripping wartime tale from Tom Palmer. July 1940 – as Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk, she and her friends...

Join Angelina and her best friend Alice as they dance and play by the sea in this 8x8 storybook featuring foil on the cover and a cardstock photo frame readers can use to display a photo of their friend! Angelina Ballerina by the Sea invites young readers to join Angelina and Alice for a delightful day at the beach. Together,...

The classic bestselling Angelina Ballerina picture book about Angelina and Henry’s camping trip is back in a beautiful, refreshed hardcover edition! Angelina and Henry are so excited to go on a camping trip to the Big Cat Mountains with their Uncle Louie! But when Angelina and Henry can’t find their way back to the campsite, will Angelina be able to...

Learn to read with the classic Amelia Bedelia, on the road or at home! This set contains five favourite giggle-sparking I Can Read stories. With a brightly coloured, easy-carry handle and a Velcro-tabbed cover, this little suitcase includes five Level 2 classic Amelia Bedelia I Can Read books inside, perfect for kids who can read on their own but still...

Filled with over 150 brain-busting puzzles and quizzes – fully illustrated throughout! Are you a whizz at animal trivia? Do travel facts float your boat? Do you know all there is to know about dinosaurs? Put your knowledge to the test in this fun-packed book of puzzles and quizzes! Look out for spot the difference, mazes, odd one out and...

‘Had me laughing aloud within its first five pages. Charming, hilarious and heartfelt’ Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read Life is good for sixty-year-old teashop owner and amateur sleuth, Vera Wong. Her teashop is bustling, and her son, Tilly, finally has a girlfriend! Still, Vera can’t help but wish for some excitement and adventure. Sometimes all...

A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime expose, and memoir. It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful...

Headstrong Prudence North faces a dangerous blackmailer who threatens her family and her dreams of escaping domestic drudgery. An enthralling historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. 1900, Melbourne, Victoria Miss Prudence North is freshly returned from university in Scotland and determined to find her place among the male-dominated world of the new forensic sciences when a high-ranking policeman waylays...

Amid the rising flood waters and shearers' strike violence, can one brave woman reclaim her future? From an Australian bestselling author comes a riveting historical adventure about one woman's journey from a life of isolation to one of love and acceptance. 1894, Echuca, Victoria Tess Hawthorn is a woman on the run from her abusive husband. All she has to...

The Labyrinth Makers by Anthony Price is a classic Cold War thriller where a crashed plane becomes a case for a civil servant turned detective. A missing plane resurfaces—and so do long-submerged secrets. An RAF Dakota, presumed lost at sea during World War Two, has just been discovered at the bottom of a drained lake over twenty years later. The...

‘A sparklingly delicious confection to satisfy the mystery reader’s appetite’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay Mysteries Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home. Having quit the Met Police in search of something less dangerous, the change of pace means...

A bestseller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. The seventh DS Logan McRae thriller is a gripping page-turner in which fame and fortune crash head-on with crime and punishment. No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked. You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will...

From award-winning author Dave Warner comes River of Salt, praised by the Australian Book Reviews as 'Australian crime writing at its apex'. 1963, Philadelphia. After having to give up his brother to save his own life, hitman Blake Saunders flees the Mob and seeks refuge on the other side of the world. Two years later he has been reborn in...

Australia was a grim place during the Great Depression with little or no money for leisure. Small bets on horse racing were a common diversion, but illegal thanks to the pious with political sway. Outlawing the practice simply created opportunities for murderous thugs, criminal activity and corruption. Police were required to enforce the hated gaming laws, pitting themselves against the...

‘Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction’ GILES COREN, THE TIMES ‘Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER ‘Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century’s first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNG Before there was Jaws, there was… QUINT You already know the end of his story: now find out where it...

Written by lawyer-turned-writer Lisa Ellery, Craig Sisterson calls Private Prosecution 'a superb debut written with personality and pace, from an arresting new voice in Australian crime'. Andrew Deacon is young, fit and single, a junior prosecutor at the WA DPP with a bright future and a sense of entitlement to match. That future starts to look darker when he spends...

From cold-blooded calculation to fiery vengeance—discover how history's most notorious killers finally faced their fate! Step into the chilling world of some of history's most infamous killers and discover how their reigns of terror came to a brutal, often fitting end. Payback chronicles the lives, crimes, and ultimate fates of notorious figures like Harold Shipman, the most prolific serial killer...

A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1970s classic. Paul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence of the library. But his peace is shattered by an unexpected visit from a man with a fragment of a German trench map—and a lot of questions. Why does Dr...

Book 1 in the series was Shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Debut Crime Fiction In the heart of Vanuatu's Tanna island, Hu Lee, the leader of an aid agency, meets a tragic end, fatally stabbed amidst a tsunami evacuation drill. With no witnesses, Sergeant George Long, visiting for the wedding of Constable Jayline Oli, is thrust into...

For crime fiction fans of Dervla McTiernan and Jane Harper comes an outback police procedural where gold fever takes a deadly turn. In the middle of the night in a remote part of Western Australia's goldfields, the thud of a mallet on a marker peg sets off a chain reaction that unearths secrets long buried. Detective Jessy Parkin—sent to policing...

From the bestselling author of The Patient comes another powerful novel about betrayal, family, and the secrets of the past. ‘Jane Shemilt is a mistress at skilfully weaving seemingly perfect family lives with deadly secrets from the past in stunning locations.’ — Jane Corry PAXOS, GREECEA young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life...

A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of cult hit Diary of a Void. Rika Horauchi's new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus—in Latin—every Monday, when the museum is closed. Initially reluctant, Rika starts to enjoy her strange new job....

The extraordinary top ten Sunday Times bestseller about a school under siege. In rural Somerset, in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens—a school is under siege. Told from the point of view of the people at the heart of it, from the wounded headmaster in the library, unable to help his trapped pupils and staff, to teenage Hannah...

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, this is a highly topical reprint of Bulgakov's classic novel. Set in his native Kyiv in 1918, it vividly dramatizes a critical and contested period in the history of both countries, in which nationalists and Bolsheviks—amongst others—struggle for ascendancy. Kiev—Kyiv—is in chaos. Russia has withdrawn from World War I, but the Germans have set...

The Waters is a novel composed of 21 stories. One family. Forty years. The Waters children — practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha — have faced more than their fair share of challenges. The year 1979 was pivotal when their father sold the family farm and invested all their money in...

John Clarke's only novel, one of the most brilliant comic minds to ever come out of Australia and New Zealand. The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 of the world's most creative players—everyone...

"Suddenly there came a tapping." The Raven and Other Selected Works by Edgar Allan Poe is a collection comprising his famous poem and 25 of his remarkable short stories. Now available in an exquisite hardcover edition featuring a foiled cover and distinctive interior design elements, it makes an ideal gift for literature lovers, fans of gothic horror and allegorical literature,...

A revelatory and richly varied collection of Korea's greatest short stories. This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanisation of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short...

The half-million copy global literary quest bestseller for fans of The Name of the Rose – 'a masterpiece' The Times; 'Bolano-esque' Observer Paris, 2018. Diegane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to its author, T.C. Elimane, who was accused...

You can't find where you truly belong until you discover who you really are... The Long Road Home by Fiona McCallum follows Alice Hamilton as she savours her new life in Ballarat, enjoying the freedom to explore her future after leaving behind the constraints of her upbringing. Having learnt the hard way that knowledge is power, Alice eagerly anticipates her...

Vintage Classics presents Martin Amis' London Trilogy: Money, London Fields, and The Information. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition. While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry's atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success. Prizes,...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man's abandonment of...

Jana Wendt, the much-loved Gold Logie superstar of TV journalism for nearly three decades, feature writer and role model for young career women, has now turned her hand to fiction. In ‘Bits and Pieces’, an artist talks about his long life: ‘Let me tell you, my friend, journalists ask some very stupid questions.’ In ‘Fame and Nothingness’, a once celebrated...

An award-winning reinterpretation of the life and death of infamous outlaw Billy the Kid, from Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje. Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje invites you on a brutal, beautiful journey into the American West... At twenty-one years old, Billy the Kid has killed a man for each year he's been alive. Roaming the blasted plains of the Wild...

A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving literary works. The Call of the Wild, London's elemental masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang,...

The unforgettable novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there's Son. Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and...

The Sunday Times bestselling epic love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks. The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Faulks's most poignant love story yet' - Antony Beevor 1914 - Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers. 1927 -...

The International Bestseller "Entertaining, unorthodox and highly readable" - Professor Ian Stewart FRS, bestselling co-author of The Science of Discworld "A physics book unlike any other. The scope, depth and artistry are breathtaking" - John Preskill, theoretical physicist and Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech Quantum physics is the cornerstone of our world. Yet, at the same time, it's...

The touching story of The Velveteen Rabbit is a magical tale about the bond between a little boy and his favourite toy animal. It's a story about the transforming power of love that has been enjoyed by generations since it was first published in 1922. The theme of kindness runs through this lovely collection of stories. There's Kenneth Grahame's Reluctant...

Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. It is an appalling and eerily symbolic...

Tess Bright is a C-list actress who has just scored her dream role starring in a film adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. It's not just the role of a lifetime, but it's also her last chance to prove herself as a serious actress (no easy feat after being fired from her last TV gig) and, more importantly, it's her...

Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as "the Saint." If you grew up coming here, you were "a Saint." If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were "an Ain't." Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn't rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer she...

"Our purest living prose stylist." - The Guardian "Tantalizing . . . A memorable tour de force." - The New York Times Book Review Some Hope is the third in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose novels. Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd...

Task List Item No. 1 - Become self-aware . . . A witty tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from the master of science fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky - perfect for fans of Douglas Adams. Meet CharlesT, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault....

Runaway Robot is a funny and heartwarming adventure about two best friends helping put themselves back together. From the award-winning author and UK Children's Laureate 2024-2026, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, illustrated by Steven Lenton. 'A funny, charming, life-affirming book' - Richard Osman What if your best friend was a robot? When Alfie goes to Airport Lost Property, he finds more than he...

Meet the witch, the cat and all their animal friends in this brilliant board book based on the bestselling classic picture book, Room on the Broom - with flaps to lift, an eye-catching neon cover and a surprise pop-up ending! Who will help the witch find her missing hat, bow and wand? Lift the flaps to find out, then turn...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner In 1972, Robert Beech, a First World War veteran and prominent figure in the arms industry, is killed by a car bomb. The event cuts short the career of his son Harry, a news photographer, and comes close to destroying his granddaughter Sophie....

A girl's gotta eat—and so do her three cats. Recently divorced art history grad student Hanna Harvey has just fibbed her way into a job as the assistant to dangerously drool-worthy art gallery owner Mark Abernathy. For Hanna, working in the field she desperately loves provides the perfect opportunity to begin putting her life back together. Soon her cheese budget...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics — irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. In this haunting collection, the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore stalk the page. Of Ghosts and Goblins by Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, draws on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in...

Immerse yourself in this unique reading experience, where you flip the pages up and read downward as you descend into the ocean's depths! Beware the Big Doom, the many voices of the sea warn Dave. Not that he plans to listen. His mum is lost somewhere at the bottom of the ocean, stranded in the wreckage of her sunken spaceship—and...

A very special hardback edition of Mrs Dalloway to celebrate its 100th anniversary, featuring the original artwork created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. Celebrate the 100th birthday of a groundbreaking novel with this limited run special edition. Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa is preoccupied...

The New York Times Bestseller A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life. 'Full of conceptual twists and wonderful character' - Ed Yong, author of An Immense World 'Poetic . . . engaging . ....

Annihilation was a Daily Express Book of the Year. 'The most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades' - The Sunday Times 'An extended meditation on human frailty and the lack of spirituality in the Western world... Houellebecq displays compassion and empathy, and a belief in the redemptive power of love' -...

A beautiful boxed set of six of Dickens's greatest works for the Dickens anniversary year. 2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most important novelists, Charles Dickens. To celebrate, we're publishing six of his works in this exclusive and sumptuous boxed set of lavish, clothbound editions, designed by Penguin's own award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith....

Lily Harford is nearing the end of her once joyful life – and for her, it can't come soon enough. Who will have the courage, kindness and love to grant her last request? A compassionate and heartfelt story for readers of Jodi Picoult, Tricia Stringer and Fiona Lowe. Knowing she is sliding into dementia, Lily Harford is ready to give...

Celebrate your love of Jane Austen’s signature wit and wisdom with this charming tiny book and pin set. Whether delivering powerful dialogue through her characters or powerful sociopolitical commentary in her letters, Jane Austen has been dazzling readers with exceptional intelligence and humour for more than two centuries. Now fans of Jane Austen can revel in her most memorable quotes...

The brand new feel-good novel from the bestselling author of The Authenticity Project and The People on Platform 5 'Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind' - Ruth Jones When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide. Daphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention—something...

Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer, Ali Smith, brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes: time, chance, money, death, but an eye for tiny detail: the...

Featuring a new introduction from Tasmina Perry talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! ‘Underneath all the glitz and bluster, the sex and the scandal, her tales are moral’ TASMINA PERRY 'Jackie Collins’s daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and storytellers' COLLEEN...

A romance author takes a trip to her childhood beach home, but her summer is upended by the startling return of a deceased childhood friend, newfound love, and... sea monsters? "Unique and utterly heartwarming" - Ruby Dixon "Emily Jane is a storyteller unbound by genre" - Rebekah Bergman From the author of On Earth as It Is on Television... At...

As floodwaters rise, can their love bring a fractured community together? Mildura, Northern Victoria - 1956 Isabel Hayward has ambitions of being a great chef. But cooking for the locals at the country pub she and her mother run doesn't really allow for experimenting with haute cuisine. When she meets local Italian farmer Matteo Sorrenti, their connection is instant and...

A collection of hilarious, bright summer stories from the world of P.G. Wodehouse. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW HUNTER MURRAY 'For as long as I'm immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one' MARIAN KEYES 'Sunlit perfection' STEPHEN FRY 'Wodehouse is as loved...

Set against the terrifying fall of Kabul in 2021, Deborah Rodriguez concludes her bestselling Little Coffee Shop trilogy with a heart-stopping story of resilience, courage and, most importantly, hope. The new and final novel in the bestselling Little Coffee Shop series. Farewell to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul KABUL, AUGUST 2021 Sunny Tedder is back in her beloved coffee...

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry is longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024. It is a captivating story of love and astronomy, unfolding over twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends. Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have spent their entire lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Despite being separated in age by three decades, they are kindred...

From the 2022 David Unaipon winner comes an outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted. In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question: what might country, community, and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty? Each of the stories in Always Will Be is...

Charming, nostalgic and brimming with optimism – a sparkling story of friendship, community and staying true to yourself for fans of Lissa Evans and AJ Pearce. Perfect for fans of Dear Mrs Bird – Lorna Cook A fond and funny novel about the power of patience, love and kindness – Fiona Valpy I love how Caroline Scott writes . ....

Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories. In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together to weave the very first fairy tales. One of them, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, actually coined the term...

The games are over. Let chaos reign. Calla Tuoleimi has done the impossible. Against all odds, she won San-Er's bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She now serves as royal advisor to August Shenzhi, who has risen to the throne. Only Calla knows it isn't really August. Anton Makusa is still...

In a world overflowing with abundance and information, the calm and clarity of stoicism has never been more necessary. In this new book, bestselling author Ken Mogi explores the ancient Greek philosophy as well as its resonance with other cultures around the world, not least his own Japanese perspective. The result is a new version of stoicism that is practical,...

With a foreword by Charles MacLean MBE, the celebrated 'world authority' on whisky The Whisky World Tour takes you beyond the glass to discover 52 of the very best whisky distilleries open to the public, around the globe. Discover their unique stories and histories from the comfort of home, along with bottle recommendations, too. Award-winning whisky writer Joel Harrison kicks...

An exquisite gift book that has everything you need to know about champagne. Written by drinks industry expert, Tom Bruce-Gardyne, and packed with stunning coloured images and unique industry memorabilia, this gorgeous book has all you need to know about champagne: how it's made, vintage years, special cuvées, major Houses and the lesser estates, co-operatives, growers and variations of sparkling...

For over two decades, Paul Burrell was a silent witness to the making of history - first as footman to Queen Elizabeth II, then as butler to King Charles III (then Prince of Wales), and, most famously, as a confidante of the late Princess Diana. Now, with a unique perspective shaped by time and change, he's ready to share his...

Master the art of the cocktail. The Mixology Way contains 100 recipes for the most iconic cocktails, as well as 20 tips and tricks to make the perfect drink, from garnishing to filtering. Each cocktail has a sumptuous illustration, precisely demonstrating its composition of spirits, complete with a beautifully styled photo of the finished drink. Recipes include: Old Fashioned, Singapore...

The invitation is anonymous. It doesn't say whose funeral I must attend. I don't want to go. But I have no choice if I want to keep my terrible secret safe... As we gather by the graveside, I don't recognise anyone. I want to run, but the words on the invitation keep me frozen in place. I can't leave without...

An insightful book with sparkling wit and humour that will appeal to new and seasoned readers of palaeontology. Dr Anjana Khatwa, TV presenter and Earth Scientist It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living organisms sparking into life in hydrothermal deep-sea vents to the dizzying diversity of...

Forged in battle. Her legend begins. A young woman who wields the power of the dragon must decide where her loyalties lie - and where her heart belongs - in this enthralling re-imagining of the legend of Mulan. The war may be over, but Hai Meilin is still paying a heavy toll. Upon her return to Anlai, she is cast...

'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times 'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator 'A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. In 1947, the United States created the CIA...