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In April 1944, a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution.

József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the 'lucky' ones, he was sent to the 'right', which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labour in a series of camps, ending in the 'Cold Crematorium' - the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work were left to die. Debreczeni beat the odds and survived.

A chilling high-concept thriller from number-one best-selling author and award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland. Perfect for fans of Robert Harris. She can't save her sister. Journalist Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she never thought she would be investigating her own sister's murder. She can't trust the police. Madison refuses to accept the official line that Abigail's death was an isolated crime.

It’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents–Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife–tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.

War has come to the Lot Lands - and Oats stands upon the front line. The formidable armies on the horizon are bolstered by divine champions, dread sorcerers and gunpowder. But Oats has won impossible fights before. He's a thriceblood, after all, more orc than man. And he hasn't forgotten how to kill. He'll stack the bodies high for his chief and his brethren, if that's the price of freeing the Lots from human tyranny.

In this remarkable collection exploring the state of the United Kingdom and the future of its union, five presenters examine the identities, history and struggles of the nations, and ask what keeps them together as a united country.

They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells - in their own words - the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed the borders, and for some, their ongoing struggles to survive in the United States.

Jonathan Freedland har tidligere skrevet under forfatter-dæknavnet SAM BOURNE. En alfons findes død i et barsk New Yorker-kvarter. En højreekstremist bliver skudt uden for Seattle. En 18-årig hacker myrdes på vej hjem fra Indien. Én ting er fælles for disse tre ofre: Alle havde på et eller andet tidspunkt i deres skæve og spildte liv udført noget exeptionelt godt. En eller anden myrder altså gode mennesker.

Knust af flere års skuffelser arbejder den politiske rådgiver Maggie Costello endelig for en leder, hun sammen med resten af Amerika har sat sin lid til; Præsident Stephen Baker, som mener han kan gøre verden til et bedre sted. Men pludselig dukker en fjende op til overfladen - en mand ved navn Vic Forbes. Han afslører først en skandaløs hemmelighed om den nye præsident, og derefter en mere. Han truer med at offentliggøre en tredje – en der vil ødelægge Baker helt, og tvinge ham væk fra Det Hvide Hus.

Jonathan Freedland har tidligere skrevet under forfatter-dæknavnet SAM BOURNE.

En irakisk dreng stjæler en gammel lertavle fra et hemmeligt rum i kældrene under Nationalmuseet i Bagdad …

Ved en demonstration til fordel for en historisk fredsaftale mellem Israel og palæstinenserne maser en snigmorder sig frem mod den israelske premierminister, men bliver skudt og dræbt af dennes livvagter. I hans hånd er der dog ingen pistol, blot en blodplettet besked …

De Forenede Stater og Kina har indgået en chokerende handel: Til gengæld for eftergivelse af en milliardgæld har Folkerepublikken Kina – nu verdens førende supermagt – etableret en permanent militær tilstedeværelse på amerikansk jord. Mange års økonomisk tilbagegang har gjort Amerika økonomisk sårbar, og beviser på Kinas kulturelle og politiske dominans findes overalt. Journalist Madison Webb er besat af at afsløre de løgne og den korruption, der har ødelagt hendes engang så mægtige land. Da hendes søster bliver brutalt myrdet, hævder politiet, at det er en enkeltstående forbrydelse.

Jonathan Freedland har tidligere skrevet under forfatter-dæknavnet SAM BOURNE.

New York 2008. Tom Byrne er faldet i unåde siden sine dage som idealistisk ung advokat. Hans lidenskab for spil har kostet ham hjem, hustru og hæderlighed.

Så da han af FN bliver bedt om at påtage sig en moralsk tvivlsom opgave, tøver han ikke. En formodet selvmordsbomber, skudt og dræbt af sikkerhedsvagter, viser sig at være en harmløs gammel mand – og Tom får til opgave at lukke munden på familien.