The Thirty-Nine Steps: Popular Penguins

John Buchan

Richard Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns la...

Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World's Most Dangerous Horse Race

Richard Askwith

Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Europe's youngest democracy is on its knees. Millions are mourning the death of the nation's founding father, the saintly Tomas Masaryk. Across the border, the Third Reich is menacing - and plotting to invade.In the Czechoslovak heartlands, vast crowds have gathered to watc...