Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated.

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another.

Celebrates 95 years of photographic history, with images commissioned and published in the pages of Vanity Fair . This book traces the cultural history of the 20th century and its leading personalities. It brings together more than 300 photographs from the two incarnations of Vanity Fair and offers a roster of fame, talent, and glamour.

Demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. This book argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity, and proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without 'him'.

In a searching examination of the Teresa cult, Christopher Hitchens recasts our relationship with Mother Teresa of Calcutta. He concludes that, far from being heaven's agent on Earth, Mother Teresa is one of hell's angels.

Including Homage to Catalonia , Orwell's profound experience of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, this title also contains Orwell's essays, letters and pamphlets, which show his resolution to tell the truth about the war amid a crop of lies from both the Communist Party and the British Press.

In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of these people.

Brings together Hitchens's reflections on the war on terror, the war in Iraq, and the state of the contemporary Left. This book includes a selection of commentaries on his work from his former leftist comrades and a set of exchanges between Hitchens and various left-leaning interlocutors (such as Noam Chomsky, Studs Terkel, and Katha Pollitt).

Augie March is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A 'born recruit', he latches on to a wild succession of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as too limiting. He goes on to recruit himself to even more outlandish projects, but always ducks out in time to continue improvising his unconventional career.

Contains Rosa Klebb , Dr No and Goldfinger .

A gripping spy thriller that unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople.

Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man , first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. This book demonstrates how Thomas Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the first democratic republic, whose revolution is the only example that still speaks to us: the USA.

Explores the encounter between writers and those in power. Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal's encounters with American revolution are scrutinized; and an appraisal of the fatwah issued against Salman Rushdie becomes a meditation on the West's misunderstood encounter with Islam.

This collection of essays ranges from the political squalor of Washington, to the soap-opera traumas of the Royal family. The author also reassesses Graham Greene, P.G. Wodehouse and C.L.R. James.

Christopher Hitchens takes on God in this, his most fiercely controversial book to date. 'God is Not Great' revels in the wonders of a very real world and rejects our deeply flawed creation. It propounds that given the ludicrous nature of our God we might in fact be a great deal better off without him.

Provides an examination of Britain's relationship to America. Is it a 'special' relationship? And if so, what manifests that unique connection? Through an analysis of its various manifestations - from James Bond to Winston Churchill - this book asks what this relationship consists of.

Christopher Hitchens, hailed as 'one of the most brilliant journalists of our time' (London Observer), takes on his biggest subject yet-the dangerous role of religion in the world.

This book demonstrates how the denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. The book attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational future possible.