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Originally published: United Kingdom: William Collins, 2019.

For the past six decades, John Loker has produced rigorously conceived and visually mesmerising works of art across media. Known as a photographer, sculptor, assemblage-collagist and above all painter, he is one of modern Britain's most original and category-defying artists. Lewis traces Loker's unusual artistic journey from Bradford College alongside fellow students David Hockney, Peter Kaye, David Oxtoby, Norman Stevens and Michael Vaughn, h...

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries.

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The book that immerses the Cold War in the warm bath of nostalgia.

These are the memoirs of a magician, psychic consultant, hypnotist and trick card salesman who has operated in different countries and experienced all sorts of mischief and adventures. Mark Lewis is an experienced, professional entertainer, having been a performer for over 40 years. He has worked in the U.K., Holland, Germany Ireland, the USA and Canada. While working in Ireland he virtually became a household name as a psychic, with masses of...

A daringly fresh look at the history of communism.

It is human nature to yearn for predictability and control. Yet it is the nature of people to be unpredictable even when they appear to be under control. If human beings are so unruly, can any management structure, strategy or plan truly control, or even fully reveal, what is actually happening with the social world of organisations?

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2008 spielte der smarte IT-Spezialist und ehemalige Mitarbeiter der Schweizer Niederlassung der HSBC-Bank, Hervé Falciani, den französischen Behörden über 100.000 private Bankkonten aus mehr als 200 Ländern im Umfang von mehr als 75 Milliarden Euro zu. Seine Liste gelangte in die Hände einer Vielzahl von Regierungen und Steuerbehörden weltweit, doch der Umgang mit den heiklen Daten gestaltet sich von Land zu Land sehr unterschiedlich - von zög...

Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always two-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow.