Bøker av Simon Mayo

Your house is on fire. What do you save?You have seconds to decide.If everything is about to burn, what do you rescue first?When the West End Gallery in London's fashionable Coal Drops Yard is set alight, the fire service must use the list of paintings lodged with it - a grab list - to snatch the key paintings from the flames.But the list has been altered. It's the wrong list.Then the ashes reveal another tragedy: an unidentified dead body. Someone who shouldn't have been in the gallery. Crusading journalist Famie Madden wants to know who it is and why they were there. Soon it becomes apparent that the ashes are hiding much more than they should be - and that this is much more than a casual act of arson...Bestselling author and legendary broadcaster Simon Mayo has created a spellbinding contemporary thriller. He weaves a story ripped from today's newspapers that will take Famie far from the pages of her website into a murderous family saga stretching back over centuries._______________Praise for Simon Mayo'Mayo spools out his many twists and turns skilfully.' Observer'Simon Mayo is clearly a force to be reckoned with in the thriller world.' The Times'The characters are well observed, the dialogue effortless and the twists and turns never-ending.' Daily Mail

Your house is on fire. What do you save?You have seconds to decide.If everything is about to burn, what do you rescue first?When the West End Gallery in London's fashionable Coal Drops Yard is set alight, it has a list of paintings for the fire service - a grab list - for them to snatch from the flames.But the list has been altered. It's the wrong list.Then the ashes reveal another tragedy: an unidentified dead body. Someone who shouldn't have been in the gallery. Crusading journalist Famie Madden wants to know who it is and why they were there. Soon it becomes apparent that the ashes are hiding much more than they should have - and that this is much more than a casual act of arson...Bestselling author and legendary broadcaster, Simon Mayo creates a spellbindingly contemporary thriller ripped from the pages of today's newspapers and woven it into a story which will take Famie far from the pages of her website into a murderous family saga, centuries in the making.

The Sunday Times top ten bestseller'The best kind of thriller - step by all-too-plausible step we're sucked into frantic, breathless action ...

This book discusses innovative methods for mining information from images of plants, especially leaves, and highlights the diagnostic features that can be implemented in fully automatic systems for identifying plant species.

1815: The war is over but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison, peace - like home - is still a long way away.Inspired by a true story, Mad Blood Stirring tells of a few frantic months in the suffocating atmosphere of a prison awaiting liberation.* 'Wonderful - a story I never heard before, told with style, pace, character, texture, and tension ...

What happens when society wants you banged up in prison for a crime your parents committed?That's the situation in which Ant finds herself - together with her little brother Mattie and their foster-parents, she's locked up in a new kind of family prison.

In their first book together, the nation's 'go to' experts on all things film don their surgical scrubs to cure your cinema dilemmas and movie ailments

Exploding euros and exciting elements - join Itch, Jack and Chloe on their latest adventure.Itchingham Lofte, teenage element hunter and unlikely hero, has had anough excitement to last him a lifetime. Stumbling across an unknown radioactive element and trying to keep it out of the hands of those who want to use it for their own ends was hard enough. But when a school trip to Spain ends in exploding currency and rioting locals, he knows that he has to continue to look for answers.Itch knows the lives of those closest to him are at risk. He must track down a deadly enemy who will stop at nothing to take his vengeance . . .

After almost poisoning his whole class with arsenic gas, going on the run from a psychotic science teacher and nearly dying of radiation poisoning, life is getting back to normal for Itchingham Lofte - at least, as normal as it can be when you have a round-the-clock detail of government security guards watching your every move. But sinister forces are still hunting for Element 126 and will stop at nothing to find out where Itch has hidden the precious radioactive rocks. With the help of his sister Chloe and his tomboy cousin Jack, Itch has to put 126 beyond the reach of unscrupulous scientists and international terrorists forever.It's time to save the world. Again.The second book in the explosively exciting ITCH series. 'A great debut. You'll be itching to read more.' Anthony Horowitz

You'll be itching to read more.' Anthony HorowitzMeet Itch - an accidental, accident-prone hero. All-action adventure perfect for fans of Alex Rider and Young Bond. Itchingham Lofte - known as Itch - is fourteen, and loves science, especially chemistry.