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""An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history.""—Mick Herron, bestselling author of Slow Horses From the New York Times bestselling author of...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award · New York Times Bestseller ""A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?"" — Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST A THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master' MICK HERRON 'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be written in the...

Old-school reporter William Carver returns in this deeply topical and dramatic international thriller. 'Smart and topical' Financial Times (An FT Best New Thriller 2023) 'A compelling, fast-paced thriller' Sun Australian inventor and geoengineer Clive Winner is the genius who brought the Great...

Jonathan Freedland har tidligere skrevet under forfatter-dæknavnet SAM BOURNE.

New York 2008. Tom Byrne er faldet i unåde siden sine dage som idealistisk ung advokat. Hans lidenskab for spil har kostet ham hjem, hustru og hæderlighed.

Så da han af FN bliver bedt om at påtage sig en moralsk tvivlsom opgave, tøver han ikke. En formodet selvmordsbomber, skudt og dræbt af sikkerhedsvagter, viser sig at være en harmløs gammel mand – og Tom får til opgave at lukke munden på familien.

"Cold Crematorium is an indispensable work of literature, and a historical document of unsurpassed importance. It should be required reading." —Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a...

“A gritty, noirish crossbreed of Blade Runner and L.A. Confidential. . . . An intelligent, finely crafted mystery, a speculative thriller that brilliantly channels the anxieties of our time.” — New York Times Book Review For fans of Terry Hayes and Daniel Silva, this chilling, high-concept...

“[A] fantasy masterwork . . . a dirty, blood-soaked gem of a novel [that reads] like Mad Max set in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Jackal and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized...

In April 1944, a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution.

Jonathan Freedland har tidligere skrevet under forfatter-dæknavnet SAM BOURNE.

En irakisk dreng stjæler en gammel lertavle fra et hemmeligt rum i kældrene under Nationalmuseet i Bagdad …

Ved en demonstration til fordel for en historisk fredsaftale mellem Israel og palæstinenserne maser en snigmorder sig frem mod den israelske premierminister, men bliver skudt og dræbt af dennes livvagter. I hans hånd er der dog ingen pistol, blot en blodplettet besked …

Now, for the first time ever, a new complete edition audiobook original of the timeless classic by Richard Bach. This is the story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules, people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they'll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than they ever dreamed. Read by Marcus Lovett. Music composed by Ken Miller.

Knust af flere års skuffelser arbejder den politiske rådgiver Maggie Costello endelig for en leder, hun sammen med resten af Amerika har sat sin lid til; Præsident Stephen Baker, som mener han kan gøre verden til et bedre sted. Men pludselig dukker en fjende op til overfladen - en mand ved navn Vic Forbes. Han afslører først en skandaløs hemmelighed om den nye præsident, og derefter en mere. Han truer med at offentliggøre en tredje – en der vil ødelægge Baker helt, og tvinge ham væk fra Det Hvide Hus.

Jonathan Freedland har tidligere skrevet under forfatter-dæknavnet SAM BOURNE. En alfons findes død i et barsk New Yorker-kvarter. En højreekstremist bliver skudt uden for Seattle. En 18-årig hacker myrdes på vej hjem fra Indien. Én ting er fælles for disse tre ofre: Alle havde på et eller andet tidspunkt i deres skæve og spildte liv udført noget exeptionelt godt. En eller anden myrder altså gode mennesker.

De Forenede Stater og Kina har indgået en chokerende handel: Til gengæld for eftergivelse af en milliardgæld har Folkerepublikken Kina – nu verdens førende supermagt – etableret en permanent militær tilstedeværelse på amerikansk jord. Mange års økonomisk tilbagegang har gjort Amerika økonomisk sårbar, og beviser på Kinas kulturelle og politiske dominans findes overalt. Journalist Madison Webb er besat af at afsløre de løgne og den korruption, der har ødelagt hendes engang så mægtige land. Da hendes søster bliver brutalt myrdet, hævder politiet, at det er en enkeltstående forbrydelse.

In this remarkable collection exploring the state of the United Kingdom and the future of its union, five presenters examine the identities, history and struggles of the nations, and ask what keeps them together as a united country. 

They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells - in their own words - the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed the borders, and for some, their ongoing struggles to survive in the United States.

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.

THE FIRST TWO MURDERS WENT UNNOTICED. BUT THE NEXT WAS HER SISTER… A terrifying yet unputdownable thriller from No. 1 bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland. SHE CAN’T SAVE HER SISTER Journalist Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she...

József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the 'lucky' ones, he was sent to the 'right', which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labour in a series of camps, ending in the 'Cold Crematorium' - the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work were left to die. Debreczeni beat the odds and survived.

An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery ‘A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.’ Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Sabine’s War is the previously untold story of a remarkable resistance...