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The first narrative history of Test cricket as it nears its 150th birthday, telling the story of how the game has evolved since 1877, told through the moments and personalities that have shaped the format. With a focus on the game and its broader significance alike Tim Wigmore gives Test cricket its historical and social context, whilst reminding us that it's unrivalled as a fascinating sporting spectacle.

A madman starts shooting at innocent children and at Detective Ewert Truut… this time it's personal. Having returned to Stockholm from his exile in Skåne, Ewert Truut gets personally involved in the sickening shootings when the gunman focuses the aim on Ewert's own grandchild. It is a race against the clock as Ewert and his team try to catch the shooter before it's too late…

Can Truut solve his most degenerate case yet? On a summer Friday in Stockholm Ewert Truut is nearly shot by a desperate teenage girl. A few days later, one of Ewert's friends is brutally murdered and his reality is turned upside down. When Detective Truut starts unraveling the threads, he is drawn into a shadowy tangle of prostitution, human trafficking and child abduction.

Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red ribbons show the police the way to their bodies, but there's no trace of the killer. One evening, internationally renowned philosophy professor and anthropologist Walter Lesniak is arrested on the suspicion of the murders in the presence of his daughter, Ann. 'Professor Death' becomes the headline of the tabloid press and Lesniak himself refuses to cooperate with the police. Ann is certain this is all some kind of mistake. And she will prove it.

Tom's fed up when his dad moves them to Trefuggle Bay. But then he meets two unusual new friends. In an old caravan at the end of a cliff live two legends of the Escorvian circus: the amazing Berto Baboomski and his performing goat, Zoltan. Berto may be a crazy-looking nutcake with a bonkers moustache, but he's full of circus wisdom, which he passes on to Tom.

Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from a noble family who survived the siege of Leningrad by eating cats’ tails and being evacuated over the ice. Francis was the grandson of an Iraqi Jew, forever feeling out of place in his adopted country of England. How they could meet and instantly understand each other so profoundly that both were prepared to risk heartbreak, and in her case, retribution, to be together is the story of this book.