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Recently ordained vicar Stephen Capel is settling well into his village parish. But his discovery of a dead lab technician, pushed from a high window at the local school, involves him in a musical mystery. As Capel discovers links to a girl who went missing 20 years before, he must uncover a complex past before more lives are lost. A cosy West Country murder mystery.

The volumes of data we now access can give unparalleled abilities to make predictions, respond to customer demand and solve problems. But Big Brother’s shadow hovers over it. Though big data can set us free and enhance our lives, it has the potential to create an underclass and a totalitarian state. With big data ever-present, you can’t afford to ignore it. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg - a habitual early adopter of new technology (and the owner of the second-ever copy of Windows in the UK) - brings big data to life.

At the two four-kilometre long LIGO observatories in the US, scientists developed incredibly sensitive detectors, capable of spotting a movement 100 times smaller than the nucleus of an atom. In 2015, they spotted the ripples produced by two black holes spiralling into each other, setting spacetime quivering. This was the first time black holes had ever been directly detected, and it promises far more for the future of astronomy. Brian Clegg presents a compelling story of human technical endeavour and a powerful new path to understand the workings of the universe.

Newly ordained vicar Stephen Capel takes a holiday in the seaside town of Brighton with his girlfriend, PC Vicky Denning. Taking a stroll on the beach, Capel sees a woman fall from the ruined pier. He rescues her, but discovers that she is dead - stabbed - and soon finds himself suspected of her murder. Each day, as Capel tries to untangle himself from suspicion and Vicky attempts to discover who is behind the crimes, another woman dies. The race is on to prevent yet another death.

As Christmas approaches and Stephen Capel finds his feet in his new parish, an unlikely confession of murder throws him into a complex and dangerous investigation. A software developer has been killed just before the launch of a make or break new product. While trying to help those left behind, Capel is pulled into the mystery of who really killed Mark Nelson. As Capel attempts to cope with an upheaval in his private life and to help those whose lives are torn apart by a second murder, he must search the snow-covered streets of Bath for answers before another victim dies. A cosy West ...

In biological terms human beings haven't evolved in 100,000 years - but thanks to our amazing brains, we are able to upgrade ourselves to add capabilities that have taken other creatures millions of years to evolve. Thanks to this "unnatural" evolution, we are already Human 2.0. In an effort to live longer, become more attractive to the opposite sex, be better able to defend ourselves, make the most of our brains, repair damaged bodies, we have transformed ourselves. To do this, we have done many things: created artificial skin in the form of clothing, for instance. In the future we will ...

An impossible murder on a fairground ride opens up a trail that leads to Anglo-Saxon treasure, a mysterious tunnel and a deadly confrontation. When Stephen Capel and Vicky Denning meet historical fiction author Margaret LeVine at the Mop fair in Marlborough, they expect to discuss Capel's plans to start a literary festival - but on a fairground ride, LeVine is killed without anyone appearing to touch her. Soon, LeVine's is not the only life in danger as Capel uncovers connections in the literary world and the hiding place of a long-lost Anglo-Saxon hoard. A cosy West Country murder mystery.

When Jo Fuller takes a summer job on a campsite in the Swiss alpine valley of Lauterbrunnen, she does not expect her whole understanding of the world to be turned upside down. A camper dies in suspicious circumstances. With three broken individuals - Bob, Paula and Werner - Jo discovers a strange alternative world at the top of the Schilthorn mountain. Each of them faces death at the hands of the inhabitants of the alternate world, intent on preserving their secret. But Bob has something that may keep them alive. Amongst the beautiful Swiss mountains, each of the four must face up to their ...

When a body is found in Bath Abbey, fallen mysteriously through the East window, vicar Stephen Capel and his girlfriend, Detective Constable Denning, are drawn into a strange treasure hunt that has deadly consequences. Starting with a page torn from a seventeenth century book, they must track down the original folio and an ancient key to stop the killers of Charlie Smith before they can uncover the mystery. But the case takes a strange turn when the book proves to be a fake. A cosy West Country murder mystery.

Still new to his parish, vicar Stephen Capel discovers the apparently dead body of his closest friend. In trying to recover it, Capel's girlfriend, Vicky, suffers a head injury. As Capel tries to make sense of what is happening he receives a call, asking if he is dead. A publisher has received a book proposal made up of a collection of death notices. Number one is his friend - number ten is Capel. As the body count rises, he must discover who is targeting people he knows - and avoid suspicion that he himself is the killer. A not-entirely-cosy West Country murder mystery.

You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice. But this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what many of us wrongly believe about the way the world works. Whether it's word of mouth, myths you've read about online or misremembered facts from school, we're bombarded by misconceptions about the science we come into contact with every day—this book will uncover the most popular myths to help you avoid contributing to the perpetuation of these misunderstandings.

Einstein's special theory of relativity made time travel to the future a possibility, and later his general theory of relativity showed us that loops in spacetime could exist, meaning that we might be able to bend time backwards, too. But what are the practicalities of making time travel possible? What do we still need to know? How do we deal with any paradoxical twists in time - and could quantum physics hold the answer?