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Valentino Rossi is an icon: the most successful and most loved motorcycle racer of all time, he has transcended MotoGP to become a symbol of courage, risk and daring. To race for 23 years at the very highest level of the world's most dangerous sport is unprecedented. But then, there has never been a motorcycle racer like Valentino Rossi. He is a modern-day gladiator, a man who still risks his life every time he throws a leg over a motorcycle.

Roger Federer is not only one of the greatest tennis players ever to pick up a racket - if not the greatest - but he is one of the global icons of our time. Characterised by a mixture of passion and calmness, a fierce competitor with a regal bearing, he is both an athlete and an ambassador, a street fighter and a statesman. But who is he really? This acclaimed biography, first published in 2006 and now fully updated in its ninth edition, traces Federer's life and career, from his first tentative swings with a racket to legendary status.

Hiding out in a small village in France, ex-Special-Forces-veteran-turned-vigilante Mallory is trying to keep out of trouble, aware that there is a darkness within him that seeks out trouble—that enjoys it. But one night, in a bar, he meets an old man afraid for his granddaughter, worried about the young man with whom she's become involved. Unable to resist the pull of action, and of helping a family in need, Mallory is quickly draw into a turf war that it will take all his special skills to survive.

Brought to you by Penguin. Dr Leo Black is one of Oxford University's rising stars. His lectures play to a packed audience of adoring students. He seems destined for tenure amongst the gleaming spires. But Worcester College has never employed a man like Leo Black before. For twenty years Leo...