Killing Zone by Harry McCallion
          The son of a Glasgow gangster, Harry McCallion left school at 16 with no qualifications. He joined the Paras and served six tours in Ulster. Then came two years with the Recces, the South African Special Forces, during which Harry attempted to assassinate Robert Mugabe and Joshua N’Komo. Returning to England, Harry passed the rigorous selection procedure for the SAS. He served for six years in the elite force and played a secret role in the Falklands war. He also served two tours with the SAS anti-terrorist team. On leaving the SAS, he joined the RUC and spent six years policing the trouble spots of Belfast. His career came to an end after a near-fatal car crash. Since then Harry McCallion has gained a degree in law and is now training to become a barrister.

Learning How the Heart Beats by Claire McCarthy
          Claire McCarthy’s 23 essays in "Learning How the Heart Beats" span her first anatomy class at Harvard Medical School to her third-year pediatric residency and the birth of her first child. By setting medicine’s "scientific component" beside its less easily learned "emotional component," McCarthy examines many subtle and elusive topics.

Through Jaguar Eyes by Benedict Allen
          One of Britain’s leading adventurers, Benedict Allen, is particularly known for his television programmes – occasionally made with the help of a film crew but more typically without. He paved the way for the current generation of TV adventurers. 

Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic
          Zlata Filipovic, now a woman in her mid-twenties with a graduate degree living in Dublin, Ireland, was just eleven years old when war came to Sarajevo in the spring of 1992. Zlata’s diary, which she nicknamed, Mimmy, evolvedfrom a fun and frivolous slice of pre-teen life complete with references to skiing trips, birthday parties, secret talks at sleepovers, pop music and fashion to a living testimony to some of the darkest times in recent history, the Bosnian War.

Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am by Robert Gandt
          In Skygods, Robert Gandt, a Pan Am pilot for twenty-six years, gives the first inside account of Pan Am’s unprecedented demise. To tell the complete story, Gandt interviewed hundreds of former Pan Am airmen and executives. Gandt reveals what really happened in the cockpits, where Pan Am’s captains, dressed in Navy-style uniforms, once ruled their ships like petty tyrants.  
          Though Pan Am captains were considered the best and the brightest in the industry, Skygods tells disturbing stories of captains who let stewardesses land their planes, who flew at the wrong altitude and in the wrong direction, and who tragically disappeared along with their planes into the night. Gandt takes readers behind the scenes at Pan Am’s executive offices in the landmark Pan Am building – a massive edifice to the founder’s personal vision. He shows how a series of impulsive and short-sighted CEOs succeeded in destroying one of America’s greatest companies. Pan Am employees were rocked by the company’s decision to purchase a domestic carrier – at an eventual cost of nearly a billion dollars. Strapped with debt and flying half-empty planes to places like Monrovia, Rabat, and Lagos, Pan Am then stunned its employees by selling its profitable Pacific routes. The airline that could bend the wills of American presidents was reduced to relying on the Shah of Iran for the financial salvation it would never receive.
          Ultimately, it was a senseless terrorist act over Scotland that shattered Pan Am forever – and ended an era in American travel. In 1966, Pan Am had reached the zenith of its wealth and influence. Under aviation pioneer Juan Trippe, the airline had risen from the muddy back-waters of Latin America to a place of preeminence in world commerce. Told from points of view of airmen and executives, Skygods gives the inside story on the demise of the world’s most experienced airlines.