Independent: 429 books

Young officers have entertained themselves with farcical sporting escapades for longer than anyone can remember. With this useful guide to the games and pranks they cherish, from the mild to the outrageous, you too can partake in the fun. Whether you are looking to keep the children entertained,...

M: it was stamped in scarlet on his cardinal-coloured pullover. It was written in black on his birth certificate – and again, now, you have to think, scribbled on some anonymous slip of a form recording his unlamented death. And it was there, of course, all over the news, in the chat rooms, on the...

Q-23 is a revolutionary new chemical formula, but research chemist Roger Pate, its discoverer, hardly expects to be murdered because of it. His friend, private investigator Kurt Strong, isn’t as naïve as Roger about those who prefer crushing innovation that threatens the status quo. Both men soon...

Next thing she knew, Mol was in a seated position at a slight recline. Monitors were beeping and flashing. She must be hooked up to those. Had she been in an accident? She couldn’t remember. She couldn’t remember anything at all! She bit back the panic welling up inside her. Think, she told herself....

Can Serena Wilcox, former private detective and happily married mother of three, reverse the horrifying downward spiral of humanity? Imagine a world without war, without poverty, and without pain. Imagine a world with no mortality, no morality, and no miracles. This is the future, where everyone is...

Hello, the name's Bone, James Bone, and I'm just the dog to get you out of trouble. Me and my other canine friends are busy working behind the scenes on top-secret missions to keep this great nation of ours safe. We risk our paws all over the globe so that you good people can carry on in a civilised...

Sir Phil Black was the kind of banker that everyone loved to hate; the ruthless kind who hired private detectives to snoop on his fellow directors and used their findings to secure his promotion to CEO. But he made a few bad decisions and the bank collapsed. Although Phil’s tax-payer funded pension...

A balanced and sophisticated analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition is presented in this book. Miron argues that prohibition’s effects on drug use have been modest and that prohibition has numerous side effects, most of them highly undesirable. In particular,...

An unflinching critical analysis of government is contained in this work, which distills complex economic and political issues for the layperson. Combining an economist’s analytical scrutiny with an historian’s respect for empirical evidence, the book attacks the data on which governments base...

Delving into the concept of the United States as an empire, this investigation examines U.S. interventions around the world—from the Spanish-American War to the invasion of Iraq—demonstrating how they not only contradict the principles of both liberals and conservatives but also make a mockery...

In the minds of many, the provision of justice and security has long been linked to the state. To ask whether non-state institutions could deliver those services on their own, without the aid of coercive taxation and a monopoly franchise, runs the risk of being branded as naive anarchism or dangerous...

One ten-year-old girl, armed with only a crystal, against all the followers of The Dark Serpent. The future of the planet is at stake. On a balmy summer’s evening Salmek took her dog, Chewy, out for his usual walk. But there was nothing usual about what she saw – a meeting of the followers...

Historian, journalist and London guide, Terence Jenkins, reveals a London you never knew existed, where bishops own brothels, wives are sold at meat markets and a Zulu prince wanders Beckenham's backstreets - all of it true. The streets of London come alive through this fascinating compendium as Terence...

Following the sell-out success of Another Man’s London, Terence Jenkins, London guide and journalist is back with another entertaining collection.  London Lives takes you on a tour of some of the capital’s secret spots and uncovers its lesser-known stories and those of its remarkable inhabitants....