Most Popular Books by Peter Abrahams

Arranged according to the body''s different structures and systems, How The Body Works is a highly detailed guide that will appeal to general readers and students alike.

Discover how the individual parts of the human body function and work together: in this accessible and fascinating examination, you can navigate through the body from head to toe, looking at each individual area. Clear, jargon-free text describes the function of individual parts of the body.

This essential companion to Bailey & Love''s Short Practice of Surgery covers the clinical conditions most commonly encountered by medical students, junior clinicians,and surgeons in training. This is clinical anatomy at its best ! Structured by body region, each chapter includes plentiful clinical photographs and images supplementing the high-quality anatomical diagrams, using the best modality to demonstrate anatomical relevance. Highlighted descriptions of clinical relevance emphasise the integrated approach so central to current teaching practice, and facilitated by the wealth of both clinical and anatomical experience of the distinguished author team.

The Coyaba Chronicles: Reflections on the Black Experience in the Twentieth Century is both personal memoir and a powerful meditation on what W.E.B. Dubois defined at the beginning of the century as the problem of the colour line; of the relations between the lighter and darker races of man. Using Dubois as a point of departure, Abrahams writes passionately, about the inherent wrongness of racial hatred and contemplates such timeless questions as: Why was colour the most crucial issue of our century? and When will we get over the deep psychic and emotional damage done by the racial experience? This is one of the major themes of the memoir - the quest for an intellectual identity - a challenge that faces people of colour in first and third-world countries.

Ein kleines Detail, das alles in Frage stellt ... Delia war eine Schönheit, klug und lebenslustig – bis sie bei einem schweren Unfall tragisch verstarb. Seit fünfzehn Jahren trauert der renommierte Bildhauer Roy nun schon um seine Frau, deren Tod eine Wunde hinterließ, die trotz neuer Beziehungen in seinem Leben nie wirklich verheilt ist. Als er mit Lungenkrebs diagnostiziert wird, beschafft sich der eitle Roy Einblick in seinen Nachruf – und stößt bei seiner illegalen Recherche auf Ungereimtheiten, die ausgerechnet den Tod seiner geliebten Frau betreffen. Kurz darauf wird der Verfasser des Nachrufs ermordet – und Roy ahnt, dass sich ein tödliches Geheimnis zwischen den Zeilen versteckt, das ihn dazu zwingt, mit seinen Fragen ganz am Anfang einzusetzen: Wer war seine Frau wirklich? Wie ist sie gestorben? Ist sie gestorben? »Mit ›Dear Wife‹ ist dem amerikanischen Autor ein gut konstruierter und spannender Thriller gelungen, dessen einfühlsame Sprache überzeugt.« Frankfurter Neue Presse Atemlose Spannung und schockierende Wendungen – ein Thriller für Fans von Harlan Coben und Dennis Lehane

Nick Petrov was a world-famous private investigator -- until a brain trauma destroyed part of his memory and changed who he is forever. Now a killer is on the loose, looming up from a past that Nick can no longer remember.

A Jamaican family, descended from escaped slaves, is involved in the histories of both Africa and Jamaica

A BELIEVER ARRIVES in a Marble Arch store in central London to buy what can be used to kill Covid. He finds himself in the company of a socialist shop assistant who dislikes the government intensely because of what it allowed Covid to do to his grandmother. All the Believer wants is to kill Covid because he has a guest trapped in one part of London because of Covid. He has three other guests trapped in another part of the city because of Covid. One of his best friends is critically ill and at the point of death in hospital because of Covid. His business and only source of income is not making any money and could collapse because of Covid. Should his business collapse a mission to Glastonbury that could help rescue hundreds of millions of people trapped in a living hell will be put in jeopardy, Will it be a happy ending or yet another total disaster brought about by cruel Covid?