John Priest: 14 books
by John Priest
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Boomerang Mystery is just the right case for the Junior Private Investigators or Jay-Pea-Eyes (J.P.I.’s) to sink their teeth into.
Such a strange and unusual set of circumstances have baffled the local police. Children are reported missing but re-appear after a number of hours. They are unhurt,...
by John Priest
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
It's school holiday time and the JPIs are staying at their favourite place in Portsmouth, UK.The Pelican Hotel is owned by Stan's gran Muriel Larkin and she's always delighted to see them arrive. This holiday is different. A horrible black depression hovers over the hotel.The...
by John Priest
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Peter Challenge is an ordinary, everyday, young boy. He can think of nothing worse than going to a boring shop to buy boring wallpaper for his boring bedroom.
The spooky lady in the shop calls Peter by his name, but how does she know him? She hands Peter a roll of wallpaper and he feels compelled...
Jay-Pea-Eyes aka Junior Private Investigators
Whodunit mystery detective series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
The Boomerang Mystery
A strange 'whodunit' mystery for the Jay-Pea-Eyes to have as their first case! Three children go missing and police have organised a massive search of the town of Dudleigh and surrounding areas. A phone call from a security officer at Russington Hospital immediately has...
Victory without Triumph
The Wilderness May 6th and 7th, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In Victory Without Triumph: The Wilderness May 6th & 7th, 1864, John Priest meticulously details the vicious infantry fighting along the Plank Road, Longstreet's counterstrike against the II Corps, the cavalry operations of both armies near Todd's Tavern, and John B. Gordon's daring assault against...
"Stand to It and Give Them Hell"
Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
“[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier’s experiences on the southern end of the battlefield on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg.” —Civil War News
“Stand to It and Give Them Hell” chronicles the Gettysburg fighting from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top on July 2, 1863,...
Antietam
The Soldiers' Battle
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
On September 13, 1862, in a field near Frederick, Maryland, four Union soldiers hit the jack-pot. There they found, wrapped carelessly around three cigars, a copy of General Robert E. Lee's most recent orders detailing Southern objectives and letting Union officers know that Lee had split his Army...
Into the Fight
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Challenging conventional views, stretching the minds of Civil War enthusiasts and scholars as only John Michael Priest can, Into the Fight is both a scholarly and a revisionist interpretation of the most famous charge in American history. Using a wide array of sources, ranging from the monuments on...
Nowhere to Run
The Wilderness, May 4th & 5th, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
At 12:00 a.m. on May 4, 1864, Ulysses s. Grant and George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac began crossing the Rapidan River in an effort to turn the strategic right flank of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Confederate reaction was swift. Richard E. Ewell’s Second Corps and Ambrose P....
by Nicholas Royle, Elizabeth Baines, David Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
‘There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today’ – Susan Haigh, The Short Review
Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories...
by John Joseph Adams, Cherie Priest, Jeffrey Ford
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
The Antipodean Philosopher
Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions...
by Christopher Priest, John Clute
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city’s engineers. But if the city does not move,...
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management
A Manual for Economic Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual'
This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment...