The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it’s haunted. One thing’s for sure: it’s the perfect destination for the K-University Mystery Club’s annual trip. But when the first club member turns up dead, the remaining amateur sleuths realise they will need all of their murder-mystery expertise to get off the island alive. As the party are picked off one by one, the survivors grow desperate and paranoid, turning on each other. Will anyone be able to untangle the murderer’s fiendish plan before it’s too late?

Zach Croft expects a fresh start on Alpha Cen. After leading a suicide mission to Mars, surviving a barrage of world-ending solar flares, and watching his best friend's dropship explode before his eyes, Zach wants nothing more than to leave the past behind and build a better society from the ground up. But upon landing, he discovers that Alpha Cen already has a society. It has settlements. Food. Technology that Zach didn't know existed. And a merciless tribalism that drives scientists to put heads on spikes and colleagues to starve each other into submission. As the days get colder and the beautiful landscape of Alpha Cen contorts into an unsurvivable black desert where the laws of physics do not apply, Zach quickly discovers that humans have a habit of destroying planets and people alike. If they can't find a way to settle their differences and save Alpha Cen, humanity's new beginning will be over before it starts. Because this time, there's nowhere else to go.

From the former secretary general of NATO, a frank and riveting account of running the world’s most powerful military alliance, taking us inside the significant flashpoints of the last decade. With the reelection of Donald Trump, there is no reason to believe that debate about America’s relationship with NATO will subside. As Jens Stoltenberg demonstrates in On My Watch, his account of leading the military alliance across an explosive decade, NATO remains a powerful and essential agent of stability. From Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Finland and Sweden joining the alliance, and the brutal war launched by Russia against Ukraine in 2022, to close cooperation with Donald Trump and other US presidents, Stoltenberg had a front-row seat to the signal events of our era. And he has shaped the responses to those events, navigating among competing interests to galvanize Western support for Ukraine while avoiding a world war. He showed that the alliance has an enduring role to play not just in Europe, but across the globe. On My Watch is a necessary read for anyone seeking to understand our fractured world.