John Gardner: 95 books

The choice is exercised partly by renewal of Bond’s passion for that prince of cars, the Bentley. His departure from the Service requires rather more explanation. Questions in the House all revolved round a possible security leak, with Her Majesty’s Opposition declaring a cover-up. Bond’s grievance...

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its arguments are as powerful as ever. H.L.A. Hart offers an alternative to retributive thinking about criminal...

The shocking truth of democracy. It is an illusion not a reality. Its purpose is to protect the wealthy and at every turn exploit the workingman. The American Constitution was specifically written to protect the rich. Governments throughout Europe have behaved in exactly the same way. How do governments...

Stress presents a real danger to the profitability of almost all companies. However, it is almost never recognised because, according to corporate management thinking, to do so would admit weakness. This book is for both employers and employees. By each having a better understanding of the other profits...

Happiness can be illusive. We imagine winning the lottery will make us happy. But will it? It will make us rich, not happy. Those feelings of being swamped, things being out of control can stay with us. At other times we feel as if we have fallen off the pier and no one cares. We are going to drown...

Geoffrey has struggled to be accepted as a writer but life has been cruel. His wife walked out with their two children and, at fifty-three, he’s no longer sure the game of life is worth the candle. The Amazonian Amy, his second cousin, is desperate to get a man in her bed and snares Geoffrey. She...

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...

Innovative and thorough, Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents nine essays that reexamine the literary iconography of Middle English. Chaucer’s work is the most well-known, and possibly the most significant, remnant of the Middle Ages; investigations into his writing and meanings are...

Before the Berlin Wall came down, CABAL had been the West’s most successful intelligence network in the East. Wolfgang Weisen was once the master spy of East Germany; now he plans to drive Europe to its knees. Known as ‘The Poison Dwarf,' he systematically murders the members of CABAL. Revenge?...

Normalerweise interessiert sich die Spezialabteilung nicht für in der Themse treibende Leichen, doch als die Leiche einer jungen Frau mit einem tadellosen Hintergrund entdeckt wird, weckt das plötzlich ihr Interesse. Sogar so sehr, dass sie sich an den legendären M, den Leiter des Secret Service,...

Nobody could possibly have foreseen that the abduction of an old man in New Jersey would be the prelude to a drama played out on the world’s stage. Or that it was the first step in a plot so ingenious and skilful that the stability of nations would rock wildly to its adroit tune. Or that around...

She is beautiful. She is Russian. And she is very, very dangerous. Once Xenia worked for the KGB. But her new master is Janus, a powerful and ambitious Russian leader who no longer cares about ideology. Janus's ambitions are money and power: his normal business methods include theft and murder. And...

Special Branch is not usually interested in dead bodies found floating in the Thames, except when the corpse is a young girl with an impeccable background; then they become very interested indeed. So interested that they call on the legendary M, head of Secret Service. In turn M sends for Commander...

Bond has lost his licence to kill. After he took revenge on the CIA agent who handed his friend over to the master criminal, Sanchez, M revoked his double 0 status and he's considered a rogue agent. With MI6 trying to bring him in and only the support of Q behind him Bond goes after Sanchez. Boarding...