Paul Panting

Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Wembley after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright teenager working at the local library for the summer. She discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird; it is a list of novels that she has never heard of, and she impulsively decides...

'Wry and passionate first-hand observations from the global climate negotiations – essential for capturing the spirit of this endlessly frustrating struggle' – Bill McKibben Most people tend to turn away, perhaps understandably, from the key existential issue of the day: climate change or, some would say more accurately, climate collapse. Nick Breeze tells the engaging, very human story of successive COP conferences over the past decade: it is...

A New Scientist Best Book of 2020
Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—perfect nutritional harmony. From wild baboons to gooey slime molds, most every living organism instinctually knows how to balance their diets, except modern-day humans. When and why did we lose this ability, and how can we get

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Shakespeare\'s work around 1601. A pirated version was released in 1603, but a full version was published the following year. The original painting of Prince Hamlet is The Danish History (1514) by Saxo Grammaticus, a 12th-century Danish historian, and a Hamlet play was performed in London in 1589. He is presumed to be a kid, and his work is usually called \"One Hamlet\", but none of them remain. Shakespeare is believed to have written a new play

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A collection of three thrilling mysteries, set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour.

 

"Murder mysteries always work well as spoken word and Mr Punch's Thriller Playhouse is particularly good... Atmospheric and Great Fun " Daily Express 

 

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