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When John Thaw, the star of The Sweeney , Inspector Morse and Goodnight Mister Tom, died in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors. Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography, she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart, growing up and growing older. Written with honesty, wit and...

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who...

Policje całego świata znają maszynę zwaną: "wykrywaczem kłamstw" (to wariograf albo poligraf). Działa ona na zasadzie: zbadać maksymalną liczbę odruchów, aby przekonać się o szczerości przesłuchiwanego. Bada się przeto, jak reaguje jego serce, jak jest z potliwością, jak z napięciem na skórze (odruch skórno-galwaniczny), jak pracuje mózg...

Tadeusz Szyłłejko: To dramatyczny krzyk rozpaczy! Nie jest to lektura dla smakoszy deserów. To rzeczywiście "Restauracja strasznych potraw". Drażni, porusza, irytuje. Anna Bojarska: Boże, jakie to dobre!...

Edgar nominee Scott (No Good Deed) mixes adventure, supernatural phenomena and cryptography to create a fast-paced supernatural thriller. Mayan apocalyptic astronomical documents chillingly predict that the world will end on December 21, 2012, unless 13 crystal skulls are reunited. Cedric Owen, a 16th-century scholar and physician whose family has...

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the...