Iain: 509 books
Foe
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things.
We don’t get visitors. Not out here. We never have.
In Iain Reid’s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable,...
by Iain Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Life jumps the rails, runs away from you and there’s no catching it up. Not ever.
A free short story from Iain Rowan, winner of the Derringer Award for best short crime story.
"I mean it," the gunman shrieked, and he pointed the revolver at Ward, the end of the barrel moving...
Has the World Gone Completely Mad...?
Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence. But what of the 95 per cent of the paper’s huge postbag that never sees the light of day? Some of the best letters...
Ninety Seconds at Zeebrugge
The Herald of Free Enterprise Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Herald of Free Enterprise set sail on a routine voyage to Dover in March, 1987, carrying hundreds of passengers, including British army personnel, day-trippers, and drivers. Minutes after leaving Zeebrugge, the ferry began to capsize. Terrified passengers were separated from loved ones in a seething...
This Is Our Music
Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation...
by Iain R. Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years. Isolation...
The Arch of Constantine
Inspired by the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Right next to the Colosseum in Rome stands the Arch of Constantine. Completed AD 312 - 315, it was built to celebrate ten years of the Emperor Constantine's reign and his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. The arch is undoubtedly the most impressive civic monument surviving from this period....
Gettysburg
The True Account of Two Young Heroes in the Greatest Battle of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia advanced into Pennsylvania in a daring offensive to win the Civil War in a single campaign. They met the Union Army at a quiet crossroads town called Gettysburg, and engaged in the greatest battle ever fought on American...
by Iain Macwhirter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In 2014, Scotland will decide. This is the story of the road to referendum and the journey beyond. In this groundbreaking book to accompany the major new three-part television series by STV, the Herald's Iain Macwhirter tells the story of how Scots have reached the crossroads of independence, taking...
Greatest U.S. Army Stories Ever Told
Unforgettable Stories Of Courage, Honor, And Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Since the United States Army's inception by an act of Congress on June 14, 1775, its remarkable service members have engaged in almost every one of the most important turning points in our nation's history. In The Greatest U.S. Army Stories Ever Told, editor Iain Martin gathers the amazing experiences...
by Iain Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The fascinating story of the submarine’s evolution from its ancient beginnings to its culmination as the deadliest vessel ever invented.
A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat—originally derided and loathed in equal measure—evolved into...
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this...
by Iain McCalman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier,...
The Last Alchemist
Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Freemason ... Shaman ... Prophet ... Seducer ... Swindler ... Thief ... Heretic
Who was the mysterious Count Cagliostro?
Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer or a dangerous charlatan. Internationally acclaimed historian Iain McCalman documents how Cagliostro crossed...