“ian claridge”

The story of one man told through his own eyes. It tells of his uneasy childhood, raised by a drug addicted mother and an abusive and alcoholic father. It recounts his troubled youth, his own drug addiction and his life on the mean streets, it speaks of murder and prison. It also reveals the woman w... More

Companies used to rely on human experts and their years of experience to guide them. Now, cutting-edge organizations are mining the data and crunching numbers instead, to come up with more accurate, less biased predictions. As Freakonomics detailed, statistical analysis can reveal the secret levers ... More

On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon... More

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized lifeis shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects,could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with JedParry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something thatgives birth in Parry to a... More

Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renasissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypneroto... More

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE'I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling form the very first page' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose ... More