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The year is 2020, and the world is on the brink of economic collapse. Can a group of "whiz kids" led by an absent-minded professor and a 24 year old girl save us? The crash of the stock market has created a rippling effect of disastrous proportions. Banks have failed, and people are rioting in the streets of the cities, which are on fire. Rolling blackouts have given way to entire system...

Rachel, a Texan schoolgirl, takes her hamster, Waffles, for a secret ride on the strange carousel rainbow animal in Houston. She ends up in Colourwallytown where people and houses are painted cheerful colours, and gets mistaken for their new military advisor in an impending war with neighbouring black and white Dullabillieville. The reason for the war appears to be a dispute over the true colour of witches.

She sees a boy in grey climb down from the zebra and leave the carousel in the direction of Dullabillieville, and is certain he's her studious classmate Alec, accused by kids...

"Rich in drama and tragedy" (The Guardian), here is a mesmerizing account of the extraordinary formative years of the man married to the most famous woman in the world

Before he met the young girl who became Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip had a tumultuous upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain. His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was born deaf; she was committed to a psychiatric clinic when Philip was eight. His father, Prince Andrew of Greece, already traumatized by his exile from his home country, promptly shut up the family home and went off to...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and the Financial Times

A completely fresh view of one of the most gifted--and fascinating--writers of our time, the enigmatic author of Brideshead Revisited

Graham Greene hailed Evelyn Waugh as "the greatest novelist of my generation," and in recent years Waugh's reputation has only grown. Now, half a century after Waugh's death in 1966, with Evelyn Waugh, Philip Eade has delivered a hugely entertaining biography that is both authoritative and...