Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.
Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first…
'Utterly engrossing . . . Ambitious, accessible and important' James O'Brien
'Consistently gripping - dazzling in its sweep and thrillingly brain-twisting in its arguments' Tom Holland
A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything.
In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our neat and tidy storybook version of events to reveal a reality far wilder and more fascinating than we have dared to…
David Mitchell is a fine comedian who has a degree in History from Cambridge. This book reveals the awful nature of most of Englands monarchs -- and is very funny. Most entertaining. And Mitchell reads the audiobook himself, which is an added bonus.
INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • A rollicking history of England’s kings and queens from Arthur to Elizabeth I, a tale of power, glory, and excessive beheadings by award-winning British actor and comedian David Mitchell
“Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp. Mitchell [is] a funny man and a skilled historian.”―The Times
Think you know the kings and queens of England? Think again.
In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects’ destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky bastards who were mostly as silly and weird in real life…
The adventures of Daxx and his companions continue. Not just one but two enemies far more powerful than they are threaten their small realm. Their travels take them overseas, to the Valley of the Moon in the far north and the huge southern Empire that is about to invade -- and, as usual, their challenging quests are laced with humor.
