Forword by Jorge Luis Borges

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather.
The classic book about gangs in 19th-century New York, now filmed by Martin Scorsese. The story tells of the city's dire abysmal poverty and violence, researched from stories, memory and police records.

Fourteenth in the Didius Falco series.

Falco and his family are staying in London when Falco he is summoned to the scene of a murder. The victim, Verovolcus, was a renegade with ties to Roman crime magnates operating in London - but he was also close to King Togidubnus. So when he is discovered stuffed head first down a well, a tricky diplomatic situation develops that Falco needs to defuse. This leads Falco into the seedy underbelly of London, a world plundered by Roman gangsters out to profit from the excitement-starved population. Sex, death and gambling are the order of the day and the newly built Amphitheatre, with its flashy female gladiators, is proving particularly popular. Falco soon realises that the initially troublesome gladiators - including one from his own bachelor past - may just give him the edge he needs to solve Verovolcus' murder, as the gangsters are pursued back to the Italian town of Ostia for a final showdown.

Lindsey Davis was born in Birmingham but now lives in Greenwich. After an English degree at Oxford she joined the Civil Service but now writes full time.

This is an ultra-contemporary Antarctic thriller featuring an astonishing scientific breakthrough threatened by a psychotic explorer who holds a whole base to ransom at the onset of the Antarctic winter.

Matt Dickinson's first novel was set on Everest, which he has climbed. His brilliant new thriller is set in Antarctica, which he also knows well, and reveals an overwhelming backdrop to a story of scientific breakthrough, disaster and extraordinary personal tensions.

From the outside Julian Fitzgerald is a traditional British hero, an xpedit on leader to the extremes of the earth and a PR dream. But his latest challenge in Antarctica has gone badly wrong - and a call for help which is not as it seems brings him into contact with a group of scientists who have uncovered a remarkable secret deep in the core of the continent. As Fitzgerald's true nature is revealed, the lives of the whole base are at risk together with a dramatic ecological discovery that could transform human knowledge.

Can the greatest classical philosopher solve the oldest crime known to man?

33OBC: it is the year that Alexander the Great sacked Persepolis and won the greatest fortune the world had ever known. The night of the Silent Dinner when Athens placates the spirits of the dead passes with a creeping mist accompanied by eerie portents and a strange disappearance. Stephanos, son of Nikiarkhos, and his teacher, the philosopher Aristotle, are drawn into solving the perplexing abduction case of Anthia, the heiress of a prominent silver merchant. Someone has snatched her from her home, but what is the motive: rape, a forced marriage or murder? All that is known is that the abductor and the heiress are on the road to Delphi and its ancient oracle.
Stephanos and Aristotle pursue them but along the way there are plenty of distractions: it's springtime and the count ry is full of reborn life; the thought of romance and marriage is never far from young Stephanos' mind; and rumours of mysterious strangers passing in the night abound, of disguises and swapping of identity. Then the actuality of murder shatters the idyll. It seems that there is a psychopath on the road pursuing abductor and heiress. But who the abductor is and who the murderer is are mysteries that only Aristotle, with the aid of the Delphian oracle, will be able to solve.

Can the greatest classical philosopher solve the oldest crime known to man?

33OBC: it is the year that Alexander the Great sacked Persepolis and won the greatest fortune the world had ever known. The night of the Silent Dinner when Athens placates the spirits of the dead passes with a creeping mist accompanied by eerie portents and a strange disappearance. Stephanos, son of Nikiarkhos, and his teacher, the philosopher Aristotle, are drawn into solving the perplexing abduction case of Anthia, the heiress of a prominent silver merchant. Someone has snatched her from her home, but what is the motive: rape, a forced marriage or murder? All that is known is that the abductor and the heiress are on the road to Delphi and its ancient oracle.
Stephanos and Aristotle pursue them but along the way there are plenty of distractions: it's springtime and the count ry is full of reborn life; the thought of romance and marriage is never far from young Stephanos' mind; and rumours of mysterious strangers passing in the night abound, of disguises and swapping of identity. Then the actuality of murder shatters the idyll. It seems that there is a psychopath on the road pursuing abductor and heiress. But who the abductor is and who the murderer is are mysteries that only Aristotle, with the aid of the Delphian oracle, will be able to solve.

'Inevitably compared with Patricia Cornwell, Reichs is actually in a different league' Joan Smith, Sunday Times

From Kathy Reichs, number one Sunday Times bestseller, comes a new Temperance Brennan thriller that will mesmerize her fans. Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist, departs from home turf to journey to Guatemala. Twenty-three women and children are said to lie where Tempe and a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation must search for remains. It's one of five mass graves. No records were kept. Families and neighbours refer to their lost members as "the disappeared". Tempe digs in the cold, damp pit. The soil begins to yield ash and cinders. Its colour changes from mahogany to graveyard black. Her trowel touches something hard. The bone of a child no more than two years old. Something savage happened in this village twenty years ago.
And something savage is happening today. Four girls are missing from Guatemala City, including the daughter of a high-ranking government official. When a young archaeologist from South Carolina is brutally murdered, Tempe begins to see a web of intrigue connecting the historical and contemporary murders.

'Kathy Reichs is some kind of writer! Deep in Patricia Cornwell territory, she outdoes the queen of slice 'em and dice 'em fiction ... Terrific' Mark Timlin, Independent on Sunday

1982. The Falklands War. Young SAS trooper, Mark Black, risks his life to capture an Argentine girl spy. To knock out enemy bombers a daring mission is planned against a fortified airbase on Tierra del Fuego, the remote tip of the South American mainland. Black and his fellow SAS are sent in ahead to reconnoitre. Detected by the enemy, they must fight their way out…Twenty years on and an Argentine military junta is returned to power. They determine to reinvade the Falkland Islands. Now a senior NCO, Black is back in the South Atlantic, haunted by memories he thought he had buried. British air defences have been knocked out in a sneak attack and once again Argentine forces are being secretly readied for an assault on the Islands. A team from the crack SAS Mountain Troop is inserted by submarine. But has the mission been compromised from the start? When fate throws Black together with the girl from his past, he is faced with a conflict of loyalties. Can he trust her now? And can they escape in time to destroy the enemy bombers and prevent all-out war?