Goddard

On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former...

The legendary Great North Road from London to Edinburgh is explored in this text, and every mile of the way is explained. The text is packed with the history, lore and legend to illuminate any journey along or even near the road.

A dead friend, a lost lover and a clutch of mysteries from Jonathan Kellaway's youth come back to haunt him - and to tempt him with the hope that he may at least learn the truth about the tragedies and misfortunes that blighted those years.

When Tim Harding agrees to represent a friend at an auction in Penzance, he is unaware of the secrets that tie the ring he is sent to buy to three separated events: the loss of HMS Association with all hands in 1707; an unsolved murder in Penzance 30 years later; and a fatal accident during a dive to the wreck in 1999.

Spring, 1919. James 'Max' Maxted, former Great War flying ace, returns to the trail of murder, treachery and half-buried secrets he set out on in 'The Ways of the World'. He left Paris after avenging the murder of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, a senior member of the British delegation to the post-war peace conference. But he was convinced there was more - much more - to be discovered about what Sir Henry had been trying to accomplish. And he suspected...

It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music - the rock god who came from the stars - which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens. When Ziggy the glam alien messiah fell to Earth, he transformed Bowie from a prodigy to a superstar who changed the face of music forever. But who was Ziggy Stardust? And where did he really come from? In a work of supreme pop archaeology, Simon Goddard unearths every influence...

This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories. It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense, thinking or acting differently from other organisations in a way that makes unusual sense, is the secret to competitive success.