The Scramble for AmericaFor seven years after the Declaration of Independence the United States had no internationally recognized boundaries and no defined sovereign territory. It was more an idea than a country. Then in 1783 the United States began to expand at a staggering rate, adding territory equivalent to the landmass of modern Bulgaria each year, every year, for eighty four years. By 1867 less than a century after its founding the United States laid claim to some 3. 6

a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath

but poignant and scholarly too

Their love of video games becomes a shared world - of joy

including in moments of crisis and suffering

Helena Attlee is captivated

duty and broken promises among an island community caught in the wave of history as Europe falls into war

determined to prove their grandsire's innocence once and for all

She'll stop at nothing to discover if Nick is as good as he seems

Yemi Dipeolu brings a brilliant new voice to the thriller genre

Gilroy only grew braver

and how and when they were replaced by fact

When Clare Mackintosh lost her five-week-old son