Most Popular Books by Brian Thompson

London, 1875. At Lady Cornford''s famous soiree (sugared almonds and tittle-tattle) everyone is gossiping about Henry Ellis Margam''s latest hit, The Widow''s Secret. Only a few people know that one of Lady C''s guests, the enigmatic Bella Wallis, is in fact the bestselling novelist. Bella punishes evil-doers by exposing them as thinly-disguised characters in the books she writes under her male pseudonym. Armed with her pen, the handsome Miss Wallis surrounds herself with useful men: the dashing Philip Westland, possibly a government spy; Captain Quigley, Bella''s fixer, and his shady assistant, Murch, who can always crack a bone or two when someone needs persuading. Westland comes to Bella with a problem: his best friend Kennett is smitten by the heiress Miss Mary Skillane. But Mary''s father, Sir William is ''an old fraud with a beautiful daughter'' and she has been promised to Robert Judd, a vulgar treasure seeker. Mary is due to inherit the Skillane pearls, currently residing in a red lacquer box in a Cornish bank vault. But the pearls it seems were ill-gotten, and as Bella and her band uncover more of the strange business, a new Henry Ellis Margam novel looks set to be written, if Bella can first side-step her own affairs of the heart, and evade a brutal threat to her life...

"How to Be an Investigative Journalist" is an instructional book about how to be an investigative journalist. Once, investigative journalist Brian Thompson was just a regular person, but now he is an investigative journalist. How did he become so? Several details of his journey are no one''s business. But some are fit for public consumption, and they are included in this book.Additionally, readers will learn which skills they should cultivate if they themselves would like to become investigative journalists. Such skills include nurturing curiosity, cultivating sources, speaking in various accents, and contorting your body to fit into any size safe.After reading "How to Be an Investigative Journalist", there is no guarantee you will become one. Scholars debate the matter, but a widely held view is that investigative journalism skill is granted solely by the god God who lives in the city called Heaven. But whether or not this is true, there is no harm in reading this book.

For "One," an illegal clone who generates distance-bending wormholes, time is good for measuring how much longer she can survive in her home, Sector 215, an impoverished remnant of North America ruined by multiple nuclear blasts. That is until a trip for water rations ends in the fatal shooting of her only friend. Face-to-face with imminent death, One accidentally generates a new timeline. Armed with the truth about who she was biologically engineered to become, One must master her transtemporal abilities and journey from the year 2084 to 2029. There, with the present ticking toward nuclear catastrophe, One has to secure a peaceful future by sacrificing her own wants and bloodying her hands...or so she thinks. The thrilling conclusion to the Reject High Legacy series, The Doomsday Clock: A Reject High Legacy Novel skips across realities where One struggles against the urge to do what is best for her versus what is right for the world.

Crime novelist Bella Wallis''s long and half-acknowledged engagement to Westland is beginning to suffer as his own shadowy job, working for the government, continually takes him abroad.

Some People say, reading this book was like going to Culinary Arts School. Chef Brian Thompson Teaching Culinary Arts is an educational tool to be used by all cooks. 25 years of professional chef experience and education. Learn simple steps, from being a beginner-cook, to gradually stepping up your training and becoming a quality-well-educated Chef.

Patrick Ganley, détective privé de son état, quitte le Yorkshire et la minuscule Tania Evans (sa logeuse, professeur de tango et plus car affinités) pour se rendre chez un riche bourgeois du sud de l''Angleterre dont la fille a disparu. Adolescente studieuse, Melissa n''avait jamais causé le moindre tracas, mais dans cette affaire les apparences sont trompeuses et les protagonistes très imprévisibles. Patrick Ganley est bien décidé à débusquer la vérité derrière le pesant silence familial, derrière l''égoïsme, l''inconscience et la perversité. Car au bout du chemin il y a aussi une grande détresse. Scénariste pour la radio et la télévision, Brian Thompson est l''une des voix les plus originales du roman noir anglais. Sa causticité envers les mœurs décadentes est tempérée par un formidable grain de folie et une rare faculté d''empathie.

Placed in a private school in Cambridge, young Barry feels a sense of dislocation as he watches war rising before his eyes and observes the activities of the American Eighth Air Force.

The engineering of microbial cell factories capable of synthesizing industrially relevant chemical building blocks is an attractive alternative to conventional petrochemical-based production methods. This work focuses on the novel and enhanced biosynthesis of phenol, catechol, and muconic acid (MA). Although the complete biosynthesis from glucose has been previously demonstrated for all three compounds, established production routes suffer from notable inherent limitations. Here, multiple pathways to the same three products were engineered, each incorporating unique enzyme chemistries and/or stemming from different endogenous precursors. In the case of phenol, two novel pathways were constructed and comparatively evaluated, with titers reaching as high as 377 ± 14 mg/L at a glucose yield of 35.7 ± 0.8 mg/g. In the case of catechol, three novel pathways were engineered with titers reaching 100 ± 2 mg/L. Finally, in the case of MA, four novel pathways were engineered with maximal titers reaching 819 ± 44 mg/L at a glucose yield of 40.9 ± 2.2 mg/g. Furthermore, the unique flexibility with respect to engineering multiple pathways to the same product arises in part because these compounds are common intermediates in aromatic degradation pathways. Expanding on the novel pathway engineering efforts, a synthetic ''metabolic funnel'' was subsequently constructed for phenol and MA, wherein multiple pathways were expressed in parallel to maximize carbon flux toward the final product. Using this novel ''funneling'' strategy, maximal phenol and MA titers exceeding 0.5 and 3 g/L, respectively, were achieved, representing the highest achievable production metrics products reported to date.