In very different ways, Oskar and Eli were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She is a 200 year old vampire.

A day-by-day narrative account of the Battle of Britain, with illustrations, eye-witness accounts, documents, posters and timelines. Every aspect of the battle is covered from multiple points of view.

In Mad Science Reto Schneider tells the extraordinary tales of 100 of the more unusual experiments conducted across seven centuries of science. These are stories that are often bizarre, sometimes mind-boggling - occasionally stomach-churning - but always diverting, informative and enlightening.

A storm, a kidnapping, and a series of murders tear apart a wedding, and Spenser's nemesis Rugar is seemingly at the centre of it all. With six dead bodies and more questions than he can handle, Spenser begins a search for answers - and the Gray Man.

It is 1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township. But do they want to solve the crime or exploit it?

A guide to digital photography, covering topics such as the basics, including choosing a camera and equipment, setting up, taking shots and camera care. It also provides tips for taking photographs, with ideas for various genre: portraits, holidays, weddings, children, flora and fauna, and abstracts.

The story behind Turner's masterpiece: The Fighting Temeraire. A detailed picture of British maritime power at two of its most significant peaks in the age of sail: the climaxes of both the Seven Years' War (1756-63) and the Napoleonic Wars (1798-1815).

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her anywhere.

The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one man feels safer. An aggressively-atheist author has been moved, for his own safety, Rushdie-style, into a secluded house outside the village.

Presents a narrative history that shows the basic facts of human existence on this planet can be viewed from a very different angle: from the account of the evolution of the species to the occult roots of science, from the secrets of the Flood to the esoteric motives behind American foreign policy.

Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? This book introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers since the era of the ancient Greeks.

Dru Anderson: Night Hunter. Knife Wielder. Heart Breaker. Dru can sense evil, which helps when she and her Dad are tracking down ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional reanimated corpse. It's a dangerous life, but it's the only one she knows.

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate.

From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. In his famous straightforward style, Professor Stewart explains each major development - from the first number systems to chaos theory - and considers how each affected society and changed everyday life forever.

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up...

An entertaining guide to how to collect a wide range of items - crammed with anecdotes, stories and advice gleaned from a lifetime of collecting.

She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was an icon. But how closely did her carefully moulded image match the truth?

By exploring the subject through its 50 key insights - from the simple (the number one) and the subtle (the invention of zero) to the sophisticated (proving Fermat's last theorem) - this book shows how mathematics has changed the way we look at the world around us.

The first biography of England's finest and most controversial fast bowler.

Earthling Tommy and his four Milky Way friends are Galactic Knights on a mission to save the Universe from pending destruction. Time is running out and the knights have many challenges in their way, but all the while evil mastermind A-Sad-Bin-Liner is planning to unleash his plot of mass destruction...