Geologist Jamie Waterman is a last-minute replacement on the first international Mars landing team. He endures training rigors, personality conflicts, political intrigues, and over 100 million kilometers travel in space. The crew battle an alien landscape and earthbound bureaucrats. Heading toward a chasm over 10 times the Arizona Grand Canyon, they make a shocking find.
Written by the author of Jonathan Livingstone Seagul, Illusions, The Bridge Across Forever and One, this novel tells of an adventure of the heart and mind.
'wonderful...a beautiful book, very moving' Marian Keyes When time is running out, every moment is precious... When Claire starts to write her Memory Book, she already knows that this scrapbook of mementoes will soon be all her daughters and husband have of her. But how can she hold onto the past when her future is slipping through her fingers...' A Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Autumn Book Club pick, The Memory Book is a critically acclaimed, beautiful novel of mothers and daughters, and what we will do for love.
Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire, adopted son of Julius Caesar, friend and later foe of Mark Antony, patron of Horace and Virgil. Frank and forceful, this putative autobiography tells his story from the assassination of Caesar, through his military, political and personal struggles to his final days as Emperor in everything but name.
La quatrième de couverture indique : "Quelqu'un croit-il réellement à ce qui s'est produit aux Chutes de Reichenbach ? Pas moi. Et je vais vous expliquer pourquoi. Mais avant toute chose, laissez-moi me présenter. Frederick Chase, détective de l'agence Pinkerton. Ma mission ? retrouver et neutraliser Clarence Devereux, cerveau du crime qui s'est empressé de combler le vide laissé par la disparition de Moriarty, l'ennemi juré de Sherlock Holmes. Pour arrêter ce génie du mal, un homme presqu'invisible, j'ai suivi l'inspecteur Athelney Jones de Scotland Yard, fervent disciple de Sherlock Holmes, dans les recoins les plus sombres de la ville. Mais le criminel le plus dangereux de Londres n'est pas celui qu'on croit."