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Happy New Year!
January is often a fairly quiet month, after all the excesses of the festive period, and what better way to recover than with our selection of the best new releases January has to offer!
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By Jonny Mardling
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
 Ian Rankin And Inspector Rebus: The Story Of The Best-Selling Author And His Complex Detective
Author: Craig Cabell
Format: Hardback
Published: 04/01/2010
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
ISBN-13: 9781844548668
Detective John Rebus first appeared in Ian Rankin's 1987 best-seller Knots and Crosses and has since gone on to appear in 17 books and numerous short stories. For over 20 years these critically-acclaimed novels have sold in their millions, thrilled readers the world over and have set a benchmark in contemporary crime fiction. These notoriously gritty stories have been adapted into a popular television series and, it seems, the public cannot get enough of this hard-drinking, no-nonsense and complex detective. Although the fictional Inspector retired to the backwaters of Edinburgh's dark side in the 2007 novel Exit Music, the books continue to endure and attract new audiences. In this fascinating biography, author Craig Cabell presents a thought-provoking insight into the minds of the writer and his creation, and how their relationship has developed over the years. Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus also investigates the dark cellars and sinister back streets of Rebus' Edinburgh, a dark, foreboding city that shatters any stereotypes of shortbread and kilts.
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
 To The End Of The Earth: The Race To Solve Polar Exploration's Greatest Mystery
Author: Tom Avery
Format: Paperback
Published: 01/01/2010
Publisher: Tbs The Book Service Ltd
ISBN-13: 9781848870444
This is the gripping true story of how Briton Tom Avery led three men, one woman and sixteen dogs to the North Pole in just under thirty-seven days, in doing so breaking the world record and solving the greatest mystery of polar exploration. The electrifying true story of a race against time to solve the greatest mystery of polar exploration. Facing some of the most hostile terrain on the planet, how did Arctic pioneer Robert Peary travel 413km in just 37 days to reach the North Pole with only dogs and wooden sleds as his transportation?
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
 The Next 100 Years: A Forecast For The 21st Century
Author: George Friedman
Format: Paperback
Published: 11/01/2010
Publisher: Turnaround Publisher Services Ltd
ISBN-13: 9780749007430
Mexico making a bid for global supremacy? Poland becoming America's closest ally? World War III taking place in space? It might sound fantastic but all these things can happen. In "The Next 100 Years", George Friedman, author of the huge bestseller "America's Secret War" offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the 21st century.
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
 Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey Of Pat Tillman
Author: Jon Krakauer
Format: Hardback
Published: 01/01/2010
Publisher: Tbs The Book Service Ltd
ISBN-13: 9781848873018
The bestselling author of "Into the Wild", "Into Thin Air" and "Under the Banner of Heaven" delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a hero - a millionaire sports star who gave it all up to fight with the US Army in Afghanistan, only to be killed by one of his own platoon. In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from his .6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Special Operations Forces. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he would die on a desolate hillside in south-eastern Afghanistan. News of Tillman's death dealt a devastating blow not only to his family and friends, but also to his fans - he was a much loved public figure, and his memorial service was watched by millions on national television. But while the public perception was that Tillman had died in the line of duty, most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene knew what the US Army had aggressively maneuvered to conceal: that it was a ranger in Tillman's own platoon who had fired the fatal shots.
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
 Captain Of Rome
Author: John Stack
Format: Hardback
Published: 07/01/2010
Publisher: Harpercollins Distribution Services
ISBN-13: 9780007285259
The second installment of the thrilling maritime adventure; two mighty empires battle each other for control of the high seas. Atticus is the young captain of the Aquila, the flagship of the attack fleet of the Roman navy. But his commander is a young upstart whose position has been purchased rather than earned. Bound to obey his inexperienced commander's rash orders, Atticus sails straight into a carefully-laid trap.
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January 2010 
