Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one. He was a man who saw things coming. Not shadowy premonitions before and after sleep, but real and present dangers in the daylit world. Lamp posts and trees reared up at him,...

WHY you SHOULD READ THIS I was sixteen, the first time I read Wuthering Heights. Miss Warren, my English teacher during my jimior year, assigned the book. I remember sitting at my desk as the copies were handed out muttering, "Great. Another dreary story by another dead EngHsh author. Dickens....

Prologue 3 September 2000 Walking in our field. A soft mist of rain. The sun shining behind the drizzle. A rainbow forms across the sky behind me. It reflects in the raindrops on grass and trees. Millions of multicoloured baubles, iridescent, extraordinary. John, quick, come and look. Racing...

Preface The North Pole of planet Earth is an extraordinary place. It's a smudgy circle of frozen ocean, hemmed in by the surrounding land masses of Siberia, North America and Europe. Cracks occasionally appear in its surface, where the ice has been torn apart by winds above and currents below....