![]() ![]() The best-selling author of 2001’s Fast Food Nation – which began as an exposé published in RS – likens his new book to a foot soldier’s history of World War II, relying on the firsthand accounts of U.S. government’s secretive record regarding nuclear accidents. Drawing on six years of research, Schlosser challenges and expands on the U.S. In his new book, Command and Control, award-winning investigative journalist and longtime Rolling Stone contributor Eric Schlosser reveals how this disaster was narrowly avoided at a Damascus, Arkansas missile silo in 1980 – and shows that it was just one incident in an ongoing pattern of near-misses and bureaucratic blunders that have brought America to the nuclear brink again and again. ![]() What followed was a race to prevent an explosion that could have incinerated the state of Arkansas. It was a one-in-a-million bounce: A socket slipped from a wrench and fell about 70 feet before piercing the fuel tank of the most powerful missile in the United States’ nuclear arsenal. ![]()
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![]() With this in mind, I thought I’d update on some of the brilliant non-fiction books that I’ve listened to or read recently. I love fiction, read fiction and spent my academic life on (classic, modern and feminist) fiction.īut I have insomnia and a night-time non-fiction audiobook habit! ![]() I read a lot of non-fiction – probably something that makes me a bit different from a lot of book bloggers who (quite rightly) focus on the wealth of glorious fiction out there. ![]() ![]() ![]() How did you come up with the idea for your book? Most of the time it takes about six months, but I’ve been working hard to train myself to write faster so I can publish more often. ![]() The second took only a few months because it was much shorter and came to me quite easily. It took me seven years (on and off) to write my first book. How long does it usually take you to write a book? I remember when I used to dream about reaching this point. Reaching that double digit is going to be such a thrill. The Experiment is my ninth book and I’m already hard at work on number ten. It was when I finished a 30,000 word fanfic that I decided to try writing an original novel that was all my own. It was so much fun! Those first stories were my training ground and I learned so much from them. ![]() I began writing it on the bus while commuting to and from work. I had been reading fanfics for a while when an idea for a story came to me. My journey into writing began with fan fiction. When did you first realize that you wanted to be a writer? ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quammen doesn't sensationalise his material (you could argue he doesn't need to – it's quite dreadful enough). The story is grim enough without the usually exaggerated descriptions of Ebola: sufferers crying blood and melting from the inside out. An international team of detectives works on the cases, and Quammen follows them as they uncover the traces which will lead them to the killers.Īfter an opening chapter about a horrific virus which lays low horses and humans, the Ebola virus emerges through a dark tale, with piles of dead gorillas in the forest, consumption of rotting bushmeat, sorcery and Rosicrucianism. ![]() Each chapter follows the quest to track down a new villain. ![]() They are viruses, bacteria and single-celled organisms which infect other animals, but every now and then make the jump – spill over – to our own species. David Quammen has woven a story of incredible complexity a detective story with a difference, with a host of murderers – all of them real. ![]() ![]() There’s some squishy stuff, some Merchant Ivory stuff, some extreme, some subtle. If you’re brave enough, this is the ticket to ride the dark skies of Stories Of High Strangeness. ![]() ![]() Suffice it to say my stories are weird, bizarre and occasionally unclassifiable. What is it that I do? I’ll take the fifth on that one. A stud in a post- Apocalyptic world has one small problem. A low level drug dealer comes up with the perfect plan to wipe out the competition. An X rated ghost story plays out on the floor of a porno film dubbing stage. A one hit wonder faces certain death or worse because he refuses to play ‘Free Bird’. Marc Shapiro:Ī zombie goes looking for something more important than his next meal. ![]() In the end, we gain entry into the secret garden of his twisted mind with this short story collection by this experienced story crafter. What kind of personality hosts a radio show about the darkest American secrets ever imagined? Marc Shapiro brings his classic take on the persona of man, who is devilish and dark, himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some they abused and then deserted, but others they married and raised families with in those easy-going early days before the Raj got its name. White Mughals by William Dalrymple (2003)īefore the memsahibs came, lonely British officers consoled themselves with their Indian bibis. It’s a children’s classic for grown-ups who are wide awake enough to get it. ![]() Because it doesn’t exactly lead anywhere, it goes everywhere. But then Kim is a very odd book weaving together Buddhism and espionage, the colourful life of the bazaar and the Grand Trunk Road. Yet it is an odd choice, this rambling story about an Irish vagabond orphan who is taken up by the British secret service and conscripted into the Great Game of repelling Russian influence in the Himalayas. ![]() If you ask any Indian writer which English book about India has meant most to them, the chances are they will say Kim. ![]() ![]() ![]() I may not know much about play strategy, but I’ve been the good guy my whole life. As glorious as these days may be for my all-star roommate, Laney is my end game. As a matter of fact, I’m not going down at all. That is, until Troy takes a good look at her. Theodore Houseman, former band geek, now marching band rock star has finally landed the girl of his dreams. There’s only one problem, my new roommate, Troy, is football royalty and looks like he stepped off the set of an Abercrombie shoot.ĭoesn’t matter, I cook a mean breakfast for his panty parade, and we get along well. The place where all bets are off, and I’ve managed to redeem myself. I‘ve spent most of my life answering to Teddy, because I couldn’t make Theo work.Įxcept for here. Strike One - My mother named me Theodore after her favorite chipmunk. Genres: New Adult, Romance, Romantic Comedy Published by Self-Published on July 29, 2019 ![]() ![]() It lays bare the lethal circumstances surrounding that fateful Sunday morning in 1914, examining not only the Serbian conspiracy that killed Franz and Sophie and sparked the First World War but also insinuations about the hidden powers in Vienna that may well have sent them to their deaths. As moving as the fabled romance of Nicholas and Alexandra, as dramatic as Mayerling, Sarajevo resonates with love and loss, triumph and tragedy in a vibrant and powerful narrative. Combining royal biography, romance, and political assassination, the story unfolds against a backdrop of glittering privilege and an Imperial Court consumed with hatred, taking readers from Bohemian castles to the horrors of Nazi concentration camps in a compelling, fascinating human drama. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo In The Assassination of the Archduke, Greg King and Sue Woolmans offer readers a vivid account of the lives - and cruel deaths - of Franz Ferdinand and his beloved Sophie. ![]() ![]() And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J'Ouvert can't help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. ![]() |