Bloomsbury

Guillermo Macias disappeared in 1976, in Argentina's 'Dirty War'. Twenty years later, in 1996, his terminally-ill father was determined that someone should find out what had happened to him and why. He had the names of two men he wanted questioned ' one in Mexico City, the other in a prison on the Colombian island of Providencia...

The Rainforest YearsFor years I had wandered Australia with an aching heart. Everywhere I had ever travelled across the vast expanse of the fabulous country where I was born I had seen devastation, denuded hills, eroded slopes, weeds from all over the world, feral animals, open-cut mines as big as cities, salt rivers, salt earth, abandoned...

The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d''tat. Early that morning the phone lines to Allende's office were cut, army officers loyal to the republic were arrested...

A BiographyPeter Brook is one of the most influential directors of our time, whose productions are a byword for imagination, energy and innovation. He was born into a Russian 'migr' family in London and, after a turbulent time at Oxford University, he veered between directing West End comedy, new work from abroad and opera at Covent...

Aliens have invaded Earth and instructed all of the humans to move to Florida. They landed on Christmas Day ' now named Smekday, after the glorious leader of the Boovs, Captain Smek. Gratuity Tucci doesn't want to be shipped off to Florida in a rocketpod. She has a plan . . . Luckily Gratuity can drive ' she nails tin cans to her...

Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle ClassMany theorists believed a hundred years ago, just as they did at the beginning of our twenty-first century, that the world had reached a state of economic perfection, a never before seen condition of beneficial human interdependence that would lead to universal growth and...