Opium Salar Abdoh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
17 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h177mm x w112mm x s21mm 185g ISBN13: 9780571221172 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22117-2 ISBN10: 0571221173 EAN: 9780571221172 x Description: Opium is the story of a world-weary young American who has spent a substantial part of his thirty-something years in the Middle East. Formerly a low-level drug-runner along the Afghan/Iran border, he is now living in New York and keeping a low profile as a simple hotel clerk. But in the new age of mass terror Chase's past inevitably catches up to him, and he finds himself on a quest that thrusts him through three continents where he is confronted by drug dealers and assassins, Middle Eastern agents and embittered Western converts to Islam, as well as powerful Moslem Shiite clerics who run the clandestine arm of one of the most insidious security services ever assembled. Finding himself in this maze of intrigue, murder and doubledeals, he sees no option but to play a lethal end-game in the heart of the Axis of Evil. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h222mm x w141mm 500g ISBN13: 9780007176113 ISBN13: 978-0-00-717611-3 ISBN10: 0007176112 x Description: A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer. Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. She lives in fear of his violence and the words in her textbooks begin to turn to blood in front of her eyes. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father, involved in mysterious ways with the unfolding political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to their aunt's. The house is noisy and full of laughter. Here she discovers love and a life - dangerous and heathen -- beyond the confines of her father's authority. The visit will lift the silence from her world and, in time, reveal a terrible, bruising secret at the heart of her family life. This first novel is about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new; between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred. An extraordinary debut, Purple Hibiscus is a compelling novel which captures both a country and an adolescence at a time of tremendous change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to Fall in Love Cecelia Ahern (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
10 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 220g ISBN13: 9780007481583 ISBN13: 978-0-00-748158-3 ISBN10: 0007481586 EAN: 9780007481583 x Description: `Tender, funny and romantic' Marie Claire
Christine Rose is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin late one night when she sees a stranger, Adam, poised to jump. Desperate to help, she talks him into a reckless deal: if he gives her two weeks - till his 35th birthday - she'll prove that life is worth living.
But as the clock ticks and the two of them embark on late-night escapades and romantic adventures, what Christine has really promised seems impossible...
A novel to make you laugh, cry and appreciate life, this is Cecelia Ahern at her thoughtful and surprising best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lyrebird Cecelia Ahern (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
04 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 300g ISBN13: 9780007501892 ISBN13: 978-0-00-750189-2 ISBN10: 0007501897 EAN: 9780007501892 x Description: The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
She will change your life forever...
`An emotional love story with great heart' Sunday Express
In the south-west of Ireland, rugged mountains meet bright blue lakes and thick forests. Deep in the woods, a young woman lives alone, forever secluded from the world, her life a well-kept secret. She possesses an extraordinary talent, the likes of which no-one has seen before: a gift that will earn her the nickname Lyrebird.
When Solomon stumbles into Laura's solitary existence, her life is turned on its head. Pulled from her peaceful landscape to the cacophony of Dublin, she is confronted by a world desperate to understand her.
But while Solomon knows the world will embrace Laura, will it free her to spread her wings - or will it trap her in a gilded cage? Like all wild birds, she needs to fly free...
Lyrebird is a thoughtful, deeply moving love story; a story of the wild heart in us all and the quiet that lies underneath the world's noise. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops Hanan Al-Shaykh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm 230g ISBN13: 9780747561316 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-6131-6 ISBN10: 0747561311 x Description: At the intersection of tradition and modernity, East and West, childhood and adulthood, Hanan al-Shaykh's characters find their way through the shifting and ambiguous power relationships that shape the landscape of the modern Arab world. A woman feigns insanity to escape from an empty marriage, only to have her plans backfire; a young Danish missionary finds herself slowly and inexorably drawn into the world of the Yemeni village where she has been stationed; and a woman's lighthearted attempt to contact the world of the dead turns serious when she encounters the spirit of her late husband. At once clever and evocative, I SWEEP THE SUN OFF ROOFTOPS is a collection of great insight, wit and poignancy, placing Hanan al-Shaykh among the foremost cosmopolitan writers of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cure For Death By Lightning Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
15 Jan 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 304pp h196mm x w126mm x s18mm 0g ISBN13: 9781860493874 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-387-4 ISBN10: 1860493874 EAN: 9781860493874 x Description: The remote Turtle Valley in British Columbia is home to fifteen-year-old Beth Weeks and a community of eccentric but familiar characters. There, amidst a stunning landscape of purple swallows and green skies, strange and unsettling events occur: children go missing, a girl is mauled by a crazy bear and Beth too is being pursued... The Cure for Death by Lightning is a rich and thrilling novel, as filled with strange deeds and dark fears as with beauty and magic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heaven Virginia Andrews (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
14 Nov 1985
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s25mm 200g ISBN13: 9780006172055 ISBN13: 978-0-00-617205-5 ISBN10: 0006172059 EAN: 9780006172055 This Product Replaces: 9780006172055 x Description: From the bestselling author of 'Flowers in the Attic' comes the first book in the series centred around the Casteel family and its dark and mysterious past.
Repackaged to attract a new generation of Andrews' fans
HER NAME WAS HEAVEN, HER LIFE WAS ANYTHING BUT
Heaven's mother Angel had died in childbirth, and from that moment her father turned against her. Her only allies, it seemed, were her four halfbrothers and sisters.
When their father, poor and desperate, sold them to strangers, Heaven was left alone and friendless. Her only hope was to reunite her family. But how?
So begins the heartbreaking, magical story of the Casteel family, continued in 'Dark Angel', 'Fallen Hearts', 'Gates of Paradise' and 'Web of Dreams'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
22 Oct 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 366pp h199mm x w130mm 265g Film tie-in (originally 0099743612) ISBN13: 9780099752615 ISBN13: 978-0-09-975261-5 ISBN10: 0099752611 x Description: A novel about American politics, last published in 1996, and now reissued to tie in with the release of the film of the same name, starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fourth Estate Jeffrey Archer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
14 Apr 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 560pp h178mm x w111mm 296g ISBN13: 9780006496458 ISBN13: 978-0-00-649645-8 ISBN10: 0006496458 x Description: At first glance, Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend seem to have little in common, but both of them are gamblers and are prepared to risk everything in their battle to control the biggest media empire in the world. Only one of them will succeed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deja View Lisa Armstrong (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
28 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h178mm x w110mm x s28mm 230g ISBN13: 9780340824610 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82461-0 ISBN10: 0340824611 EAN: 9780340824610
x Description: Sydney and Charlie have the perfect marriage. They must have because everyone keeps telling them so. In fact, Sydney's whole life is sussed. Two adorable(ish) children, one adoring(ish) husband, one nanny, one cleaner, one lovely house. And latterly a glamorous job, albeit part time and quite possibly nepotistically come by. What's not to be ecstatic about? And then a new couple move in across the road: a very perfect, impeccable, tiny stranger with a Gwyneth Paltrow accent, and a man Sydney hasn't seen since she was 20. Sydney has never admitted to herself that Dylan broke her heart. But when she sees him again she begins to wonder... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4 3 2 1 Paul Auster (Author) Series:
Edition:
Open Market - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 1088pp h178mm x w111mm x s45mm 591g ISBN13: 9780571324644 ISBN13: 978-0-571-32464-4 ISBN10: 0571324649 EAN: 9780571324644 x Description: On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gift of Wings Richard Bach (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
09 Apr 1990
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h197mm x w130mm x s20mm 204g ISBN13: 9780330304214 ISBN13: 978-0-330-30421-4 ISBN10: 0330304216 EAN: 9780330304214 x Description: These stories, inspired by Bach's lifelong passion for flight, filled with memories of friends from the past and friends not yet met, are woven together with warmth, honesty and courage. With signs and signals, coincidences and tangents turning up at every juncture, Bach shows how truly complex and beautiful life can be, and also how its troubles can in fact knock us onto better paths or teach us lessons we benefit from in other situations. Drawing on the allegorical power of flight, each a mini-parable, these stories will inspire you with their simple experiences made technicolour by the prism of Bach's extraordinary imagination. Celebrating Richard Bach's unique vision, these transcend their pages to touch the real drama of life with magic that reaches out to us all across its limitless horizons. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eucalyptus Murray Bail (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Harvill Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
20 May 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 192g ISBN13: 9781860464959 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-495-9 ISBN10: 1860464955 EAN: 9781860464959
x Description: On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can name all the species of the eucalypt, down to the last tree. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gabriel's Lament Paul Bailey (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 Nov 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w130mm 285g ISBN13: 9781857025880 ISBN13: 978-1-85702-588-0 ISBN10: 1857025881 x Description: Gabriel Harvey is happy until his father inherits a lot of money and becomes a snob and his beloved mother, 35 years younger than his father, vanishes. Gabriel feels that he'll see her again, but gradually comes to understand that her "holiday" is a complete separation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Peter Smart's Confessions Paul Bailey (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
04 May 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h197mm x w130mm 169g ISBN13: 9781857025675 ISBN13: 978-1-85702-567-5 ISBN10: 1857025679 x Description: Reissue to follow up publication of Paul Bailey's new novel Kitty and Virgil. Both 'Peter Smart's Confessions' and 'Gabriel's Lament' were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The eponymous hero of Peter Smart's Confessions, an unhappy husband and none-too-successful actor, is writing after a suicide attempt. Peter's mother, as an actor friend enthusiastically points out, is a comic monster: 'If you put her in a book -- as they say -- no one would believe her...Only Wagner could do her justice.' She's matched by the larger-than-life eccentric, F. Leonard Cottle, randy retired doctor and author of 'With Stethoscope and Scalpel', who employs Peter's mother as housekeeper after her husband dies. Cottle introduces the boy Peter to the facts of life. There are some bravura-satirical set pieces on playwrights, players and critics: the staging and reception of a 'revolutionary' production of Hamlet based on the premise that he was suffering from congenital syphilis, a pointed parody of Eliot's The Cocktail Party. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Awfully Big Adventure: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1990 Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:
Edition:
Digital original
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
06 Feb 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h133mm x w201mm x s14mm 150g ISBN13: 9780349116150 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11615-0 ISBN10: 0349116156 EAN: 9780349116150 x Description: 'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE IN 1990
It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are bound together in a past that neither dares to interpret. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Mar 1992
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w128mm x s11mm 140g ISBN13: 9780140156966 ISBN13: 978-0-14-015696-6 ISBN10: 0140156968 x Description: Contains five short stories by Beryl Bainbridge, including "The Bottle Factory Outing". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dressmaker Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Jul 1992
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h195mm x w135mm x s11mm 122g ISBN13: 9780140156997 ISBN13: 978-0-14-015699-7 ISBN10: 0140156992 x Description: If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was gay and rich - she'd seen it in the movies. So when a GI came to call, she was sure that love and escape would follow. But Nellie knew different - the boy would have to go. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Winter Garden Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
04 Dec 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h198mm x w126mm x s6mm 206g ISBN13: 9780349116099 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11609-9 ISBN10: 0349116091 EAN: 9780349116099 x Description: Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds adultery a terrible strain. He tells his wife that he needs a rest, so she happily packs him off for a fishing holiday in the Highlands. Only, unknown to her, Douglas is actually flying off to Moscow with Nina, as a guest of the Soviet Artists' Union. It is then that things begin to get very complicated indeed... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Young Adolf Beryl Bainbridge (Author) Series:
Edition:
Digital original
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
03 Jul 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h200mm x w135mm x s14mm 164g ISBN13: 9780349116136 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11613-6 ISBN10: 034911613X EAN: 9780349116136 x Description: Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family beyond measure by his constant sponging and his tendency to get into serious trouble with the English. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Blue Guitar John Banville (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 181g ISBN13: 9780241970010 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97001-0 ISBN10: 0241970016 EAN: 9780241970010 x Description: From John Banville, one of the world's greatest writers, comes The Blue Guitar, a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship. Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy together, simply happy. Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a petty thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly, the wife of his friend Marcus, with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered, Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home. From here he tells the story of a year, from one autumn to the next. Many surprises and shocks await him, and by the end of his story, he will be forced to face himself and seek a road towards redemption. Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2016 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Iliad: A Story of War Alessandro Baricco (Author) Ann Goldstein (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 123g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847671035 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-103-5 ISBN10: 1847671039 EAN: 9781847671035
x Description: Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience his predecessor never explored. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of Hector, we see through human eyes and feel with human hearts the unforgettable events first recounted more than 3,000 years ago events arranged not by the whims of the gods in this instance but by the dictates of human nature. With Andromache, Patroclus, Priam, and the rest, we are privy to the ghastly confusion of battle, the clamour of the princely councils, the intimacies of the bedchamber until finally only a blind poet is left to recount secondhand the awful fall of Ilium. Imbuing the stuff of legend with a startlingly new relevancy and humanity, Baricco gives us The Iliad as we have never known it. His transformative achievement is certain to delight and fascinate all the readers of Homer's indispensable classic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Iliad Alessandro Baricco (Author) Series:
Vintage International
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage
Pub Date:
14 Aug 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 158pp h202mm x w141mm x s13mm 191g ISBN13: 9780307275394 ISBN13: 978-0-307-27539-4 ISBN10: 0307275396 EAN: 9780307275394 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ocean Sea A Baricco (Author) A McEwen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Books
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 256pp ISBN13: 9780375703959 ISBN13: 978-0-375-70395-9 ISBN10: 0375703950 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ocean Sea Alessandro Baricco (Author) Alastair McEwen (Translated by) Series:
Canons
Edition:
Main - Canons
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Jul 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 174g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847670748 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-074-8 ISBN10: 1847670741 EAN: 9781847670748 This Product is Replaced By: 9781786896438 x Description: A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear. Adams may furnish the key to the girl's salvation, but only the fulfilment of his obsessive secret purpose - to answer murder with murder - can conclude
the journey that has brought him from the ends of the earth. Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco's novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
John Brown's Body A. L. Barker (Author) Series:
Virago Modern Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
02 Sep 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h197mm x w129mm x s14mm 180g ISBN13: 9781860497209 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-720-9 ISBN10: 1860497209 EAN: 9781860497209 x Description: Marise Tomelty is a child-wife who dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. Ralph Shilling lives in the flat above the Tomelty's and is a dealer in pesticides. Marise's commercial traveller husband casually mentions that he recognizes Ralph as John Brown, acquitted for lack of evidence of an atrocious double murder. Nevertheless, Marise encourages Ralph's attentions, in need of the exciting combination of passion and fear. A serious exploration of the nature of our experience of ourselves and each other, of the tug between body and soull, life and death, truth and fantasy, this is an extraordinary novel written in the precise ,impeccable prose for which A L Barker is so famed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Abarat 2: Days of Magic, Nights of War Clive Barker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Oct 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 576pp h178mm x w111mm x s34mm 298g ISBN13: 9780007227723 ISBN13: 978-0-00-722772-3 ISBN10: 0007227728 EAN: 9780007227723 x Description: A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the second part of a quartet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Film rights sold to Disney for $8 million on the paintings alone.
The Abarat; a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands - one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time.
Candy Quackenbush, escaping her dull, dull life from the most boring place in our world, Chickentown, USA, finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely, one which links her to marvels and mysteries-and even to murder...
In this, the second volume in Clive Barker's extraordinary fantasy for both adults and children, Candy's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the Hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning?
There is a mystery here. And Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother, Mater Motley, suspects that whatever Candy is, she could spoil his plans to take control of the Abarat.
Now Candy's companions must race against time to save her from the clutches of Carrion, and she must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands.
A final war is about to begin. And Candy is going to need to make some choices that will change her life forever...
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Wide Open Nicola Barker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
05 Apr 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h196mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9780571195664 ISBN13: 978-0-571-19566-4 ISBN10: 0571195660 EAN: 9780571195664 x Description: Fifty miles to the south and east of London, poking out into the estuary of the river Thames, the Isle of Sheppey is a forgotten, misty back water. There's a prison, some wading birds and a small nudist beach. In front of this salty, blasted backdrop, Nicola Barker conjures up an imaginative landscape of breathtaking scope and audacity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
War Talk: Pocket Penguins Pat Barker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 64pp h181mm x w112mm x s4mm 44g ISBN13: 9780141023113 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102311-3 ISBN10: 0141023112 EAN: 9780141023113 x Description: Taken from Pat Barker's celebrated Regeneration, War Talk charts two encounters in a time of war - the developing friendship of Wilfed Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and the unexpected romance of Billy Prior and Sarah Lumb. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Only Story Julian Barnes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 197g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784708313 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-831-3 ISBN10: 1784708313 EAN: 9781784708313 x Description: **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of Britain's greatest mappers of the human heart.
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The Dream Catcher Maria Barrett (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Time Warner Paperbacks Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
14 Feb 2002
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h178mm x w111mm x s29mm 230g ISBN13: 9780751530568 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3056-8 ISBN10: 0751530565 EAN: 9780751530568 x Description: Sarah, Roz and Janie are firm friends from the school run at Wynchcombe Primary. But they also have something else in common: each has a dream. For Sarah, it is finding a way through the constant struggle of bringing up her partially deaf son Rory alone. For Roz, it is overcoming the difficulty of keeping her farm afloat and for Janie, a GP's wife, it is how to escape an ever-growing emptiness in her life that cannot explain or fill. Then Janie's brother Marcus, a top city analyst, has an idea. He suggests that Janie and her friends set up an investment group - pooling their money and playing the stock market together - and introduces them to his stockbroker friend, Alex. Before long, with a mixture of luck, instinct and research, the women begin to make some serious money. The sort of money that makes dreams come true. But good dreams can easily turn bad. When the chance to invest in an almost certain take over target comes up, the investment club, hesitant at first, decide to go for it. Only things are not what they seemed, insider trading is a criminal offence, and someone has a hidden agenda. When the gains are high, so are the risks ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Days Without End Sebastian Barry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 253g ISBN13: 9780571277049 ISBN13: 978-0-571-27704-9 ISBN10: 0571277047 EAN: 9780571277049 x Description: Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 'Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.' Observer After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Then when a young Indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sellout: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Paul Beatty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oneworld Publications
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
24 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm EXPORT ISBN13: 9781786070173 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-017-3 ISBN10: 1786070170 EAN: 9781786070173
x Description: `Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times `The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian `The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.
Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral.
What's more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry, The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education Sybille Bedford (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Counterpoint
Publisher:
Counterpoint
Pub Date:
12 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 368pp 500g ISBN13: 9781582431437 ISBN13: 978-1-58243-143-7 ISBN10: 1582431434 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Windows on the World Frederic Beigbeder (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 220g ISBN13: 9780007184705 ISBN13: 978-0-00-718470-5 ISBN10: 0007184700 EAN: 9780007184705 x Description: A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11.
`The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.'
Weaving together fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, `Windows on the World' dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension.
Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Island Walkers John Bemrose (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 448pp h243mm x w157mm x s40mm 750g n/a ISBN13: 9780719566592 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6659-2 ISBN10: 0719566592 EAN: 9780719566592 x Description: For generations, the Walkers have lived in the Island, a small, working class mill-town beside Ontario's Attawan River. But in the summer of 1965 their peace is shattered. When a union organiser comes to town, Alf Walker is forced to choose between loyalty to his friends and advancement up the company ranks. His decision threatens to overwhelm not only his own life, but also his family. Through the course of the book, we come to know the Walkers intimately - Alf, as he attempts to keep ahead of these turbulent events; his son Joe, whose world is overturned by the passion and uncertainty of young love; and his wife Margaret, who must reconcile her English upbringing with the world in which she finds herself. The Island Walkers is a deeply moving novel of a family struggling to make its way through a changing world. Written with remarkable understanding and perception, it reveals a writer of rare vision and accomplishment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jaws Peter Benchley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
01 Oct 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 336pp h177mm x w111mm x s20mm 188g ISBN13: 9780330243827 ISBN13: 978-0-330-24382-7 ISBN10: 0330243829 EAN: 9780330243827 x Description: It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first sign of trouble - a warning of what was to come - took the form of a young woman's body, or what was left of it, washed up on the long, white stretch of beach . . . A summer of terror has begun. `Pick up Jaws before midnight, read the first five pages, and I guarantee you'll be putting it down breathless and stunned, as dawn is breaking the next day' Daily Express Peter Benchley's JAWS first appeared in 1974, creating a legend that refuses to die. For a new generation, the ultimate holiday nightmare is about to begin all over again . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Carrier Mattias Berg (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
16 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 480pp h233mm x w151mm x s38mm 590g ISBN13: 9780857057891 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-789-1 ISBN10: 0857057898 EAN: 9780857057891 x Description: The man with the nuclear briefcase has gone rogue - Mission Impossible meets the Hunt for Red October "I don't think I have read such a philosophical, knowledge-studded and realistic adventure novel since Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose" Goeteborgs-Posten Erasmus Levine has a job like no other He travels with the President of the United States at all times, and holds in his hands the power to obliterate life as we know it. He is the man with the nuclear briefcase, part of a crack team of top-secret operatives established after 9/11, led by a man codenamed Edelweiss. But not even Edelweiss is party to the identity of their ultimate authority, known only as Alpha. Erasmus Levine has a secret For years he has been receiving cryptic messages from Alpha, an elaborate communication that began with the words we two against the world. Levine begins thinking of escape: his chance comes during an official visit to Sweden, when the alarm sounds in Stockholm's Grand Hotel. But Alpha has other plans From their first meeting in a network of tunnels and bunkers beneath the city, Levine is drawn into a plan to eliminate the world's nuclear arsenals. But is controlled demolition really the endgame? Could he be working towards a controlled apocalypse, a doomsday plot to wipe humanity from the face of the earth? Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Natasha And Other Stories David Bezmozgis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w131mm x s16mm 150g ISBN13: 9780099461166 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946116-6 ISBN10: 0099461161 EAN: 9780099461166 x Description: Meet the Bermans - Bella, Roman and their son Mark - Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Natasha brings the Bermans - and the Russian Jewish enclaves of Toronto - to life in stories full of big, desperate, utterly believable consequence. In 'Tapka', six-year-old Mark's first experiments in English bring ruin and near tragedy to the neighbours upstairs. In 'Roman Berman, Massage Therapist', Roman and Bella stake all their hopes for Roman's business on their first, humiliating dinner with a North American family. In the title story, a stark, funny anatomy of first love, we witness Mark's sexual awakening at the hands of his fourteen-year-old cousin, a new immigrant from the New Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Submission Marthe Blau (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w127mm x s14mm 157g ISBN13: 9780552772372 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77237-2 ISBN10: 0552772372 EAN: 9780552772372 x Description: You'll want to scream, but you'll be gagged. You'll want to cry, but you'll be blindfolded. You'll want to run away, but you'll be tied up. You'll have no way of begging me, I'll do what I want with you. Sexual obsession, domination and extreme lust - Submission is the story of a young married Parisian lawyer who is drawn into a sado-masochistic relationship. A handsome stranger she meets in the courts issues her with a series of instructions which she finds herself compelled to follow. As the violence of their encounters escalates, it becomes a dangerous addiction that she can't break. But how far can she go and how much of her life will she risk in the process? Based on the author's own experiences, this astonishing book sent shockwaves through the French establishment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Her Bush Penelope Bloom (Author) Series:
Objects of Attraction 6
Edition:
Imprint:
Independently Published
Publisher:
Independently Published
Pub Date:
20 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 196pp h216mm x w140mm x s11mm 254g ISBN13: 9781099385520 ISBN13: 978-1-09-938552-0 ISBN10: 1099385520 EAN: 9781099385520 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Her Cherry Penelope Bloom (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Independently Published
Publisher:
Independently Published
Pub Date:
25 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 192pp h216mm x w140mm x s11mm 249g Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9781719886321 ISBN13: 978-1-71988-632-1 ISBN10: 1719886326 EAN: 9781719886321 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Her Secret Penelope Bloom (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Independently Published
Publisher:
Independently Published
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 188pp h216mm x w140mm x s11mm 245g ISBN13: 9781795834681 ISBN13: 978-1-79583-468-1 ISBN10: 1795834684 EAN: 9781795834681 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
His Banana Penelope Bloom (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Independently Published
Publisher:
Independently Published
Pub Date:
16 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 174pp h216mm x w140mm x s10mm 227g ISBN13: 9781717795670 ISBN13: 978-1-71779-567-0 ISBN10: 1717795676 EAN: 9781717795670 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
His Package Penelope Bloom (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Independently Published
Publisher:
Independently Published
Pub Date:
09 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 208pp h216mm x w140mm x s12mm 268g Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9781791317195 ISBN13: 978-1-79131-719-5 ISBN10: 1791317197 EAN: 9781791317195 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
His Treat Penelope Bloom (Author) Series:
Objects of Attraction 3
Edition:
Imprint:
Independently Published
Publisher:
Independently Published
Pub Date:
14 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 192pp h216mm x w140mm x s11mm 249g Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9781728784816 ISBN13: 978-1-72878-481-6 ISBN10: 1728784816 EAN: 9781728784816 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eva Trout Elizabeth Bowen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Jun 1999 (01 Dec 2011)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9780099287742 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928774-2 ISBN10: 0099287749 EAN: 9780099287742 x Description: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY Imposing, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality; Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' that is endless. Eva Trout was Elizabeth Bowen's last completed novel, and in it her elegant style, her gift for social comedy and her intense sensibility combine to create one of her most formidable - and moving - heroines. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Friend of the Earth T C Boyle (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Sep 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h175mm x w106mm 183g ISBN13: 9780142000137 ISBN13: 978-0-14-200013-7 ISBN10: 0142000132 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Boyle T. Coraghessan : Road to Wellville & Untitled Stories: Road to Wellville & Untitled Stories T C Boyle (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
07 Dec 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 496pp h212mm x w140mm 455g illustrations ISBN13: 9780140167184 ISBN13: 978-0-14-016718-4 ISBN10: 0140167188 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dare John Boyne (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Mar 2009 (05 May 2011)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm 84g ISBN13: 9780552775762 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77576-2 ISBN10: 0552775762 EAN: 9780552775762 x Description: At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake up. Consumed by guilt, Danny's mother closes herself off, while Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured family. Told in John Boyne's unique style from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy, The Dare is a brilliantly compelling story about how one moment can change a family forever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Playing the Game Barbara Taylor Bradford (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 320g ISBN13: 9780007375264 ISBN13: 978-0-00-737526-4 ISBN10: 0007375263 EAN: 9780007375264 x Description: From the bestselling author of A Woman of Substance comes an explosive novel about one woman's journey to success. Seduction, passion and international intrigue. Playing the game has never been so thrilling.
Good looking, successful Annette Remmington is a London art consultant and dealer at the top of her game. When a rare and long-lost Rembrandt finds its way into her hands, she becomes the most talked about dealer in the world as she auctions it for millions of pounds.
Married to the dashing Marius Remmington, Annette owes her life to him for it was he who rescued her from a dark and troubled past. And now he wants to hand-pick the best journalist to write a profile on his talented wife.
But Marius has unknowingly made a devastating mistake by bringing Jack Chalmers into their lives and soon Annette's career and marriage are on the line. How could Marcus have known that Jack would uncover a secret that could destroy them all? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Boiling A Frog Christopher Brookmyre (Author) Series:
Jack Parlabane
Edition:
Imprint:
Time Warner Paperbacks Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
03 May 2001
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h177mm x w108mm x s27mm 220g ISBN13: 9780751531824 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3182-4 ISBN10: 0751531820 EAN: 9780751531824 This Product is Replaced By: 9780349114132 x Description: Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist who is not averse to breaking the law for the sake of a good story, has finally been caught on the petard of his own self-confidence and is experiencing accommodation courtesy of Her Majesty. The fledgling Scottish parliament is in catatonic shock after experiencing its first dose of Westminster sleaze. The Catholic Church of Scotland is taking full advantage of the politicians' discomfort and is riding high in the polls as the voice of morality. Behind the scenes the truth is obscured by the machinations of the spin doctors and in prison, aware he's missing out on a great story, Parlabane discovers that contacts and a pretty way with words are no defence against people he has helped to put away. Part political satire, part cliff-hanging thriller this is high calibre entertainment.
And for the author's own view on his books visit his website at www.brookmyre.clara.net
And for the author's own view on his books visit his website at www.brookmyre.clara.net _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Family Romance Anita Brookner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Oct 1994 (27 Jan 2000)
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp 180g ISBN13: 9780140234060 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023406-0 ISBN10: 0140234063 EAN: 9780140234060 x Description: A novel centring on the relationship between the classic Brookner heroine (only child, soon bereft of parents, alone in depressing flat) who becomes a feminist academic, and her pleasure-loving French aunt who's into men and bridge parties. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beside the Ocean of Time George Mackay Brown (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jun 1995
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 160g ISBN13: 9780006548621 ISBN13: 978-0-00-654862-1 ISBN10: 0006548628 EAN: 9780006548621 x Description: Set in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people. He travels back in time to Viking adventures at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Lady, Big Apple Hester Browne (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (US) 472pp ISBN13: 9780340898741 ISBN13: 978-0-340-89874-1 ISBN10: 0340898747 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Milkman Anna Burns (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 291g ISBN13: 9780571338757 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33875-7 ISBN10: 0571338755 EAN: 9780571338757 x Description: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2019 'Blazing.' Daily Telegraph 'Outstanding.' New Statesman 'A triumph.' Guardian 'Utterly compelling.' Irish Times 'The best Booker winner in years.' Metro In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in
control . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Devil's Footprints John Burnside (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Mar 2008 (03 Apr 2014)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 160g ISBN13: 9780099479543 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947954-3 ISBN10: 0099479540 EAN: 9780099479543 x Description: Once, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the sleeping town. Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life, but still feels like an outsider, a blow-in. When Moira Birnie decides that her abusive husband is the devil and then kills herself and her two young sons, a terrible chain of events begins. Michael's infatuation with Moira's teenage daughter takes him on a journey towards a defined fate, where he is forced to face his present and then, finally, his past... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Living Nowhere John Burnside (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2004 (03 Apr 2014)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 266g ISBN13: 9780099448556 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944855-6 ISBN10: 0099448556 EAN: 9780099448556 x Description: Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces - in the hope of steady work, a better house, a fresh start. Amongst them are Francis Cameron, from Scotland, and his friend Jan Ruckert, the son of Latvian refugees. Alienated, intelligent and curious, they form a strong and lasting bond: two teenage boys finding their feet in a foreign place. But violence hangs in the Corby air like the ash and the stench from the steel works, and when it comes down it is sudden and lethal - with repercussions that will last a lifetime. Living Nowhere is a story of friendship and loss - a resonant, thrilling book that carries at its core a beautiful and terrible secret. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heaven Looked Upwards Matthew Byrne (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
07 Nov 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 323pp h178mm x w111mm 170g ISBN13: 9780330347198 ISBN13: 978-0-330-34719-8 ISBN10: 0330347195 x Description: The events of the New Testament are retold in a form that brings to life the everyday existence of the ordinary townspeople who become unsuspecting participants in the story of Christ's nativity.
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The First Man Albert Camus (Author) David Hapgood (Translated by) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Dec 2001 (31 Oct 2013)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 202g ISBN13: 9780141185231 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118523-1 ISBN10: 0141185236 EAN: 9780141185231 x Description: The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose povertystricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother, and by the teacher who transforms his view of the world. The most autobiographical of Camus's novels, it gives profound insights into his life and the powerful themes underlying his work. Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. The works that established his international reputation include THE PLAGUE, THE FALL, THE REBEL and THE OUTSIDER. Camus died in a road accident in 1960 and is remembered as one of the greatest philsophical novelists of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
19 Jun 1989
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 528pp h197mm x w127mm 344g ISBN13: 9780571153046 ISBN13: 978-0-571-15304-6 ISBN10: 0571153046 x Description: Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. Australian writer Peter Carey is the author of a selection of short stories, "The Fat Man in History" and two novels, "Bliss" and "Illywhacker". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Parrot and Olivier in America Peter Carey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Open Market - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 592pp h178mm x w111mm x s36mm 364g ISBN13: 9780571253319 ISBN13: 978-0-571-25331-9 ISBN10: 0571253318 EAN: 9780571253319 x Description: Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for America, ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as
spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing J. L. Carr (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
The Quince Tree Press
Publisher:
The Quince Tree Press
Pub Date:
01 Dec 1993
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h200mm x w134mm x s15mm Illustrations ISBN13: 9780900847967 ISBN13: 978-0-900847-96-7 ISBN10: 0900847964 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bloody Chamber & Other Sto Angela Carter (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Oct 1992
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 128pp ISBN13: 9780140178210 ISBN13: 978-0-14-017821-0 ISBN10: 014017821X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moonlight in Odessa Janet Skeslien Charles (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
15 Feb 2010
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781408802137 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-0213-7 ISBN10: 1408802139 x Description: AS READ ON BBC RADIO FOUR WINNER OF THE MELISSA NATHAN AWARD FOR COMEDY ROMANCE A tragicomic look at the flourishing market for e-mail order brides, Moonlight in Odessa is a novel about the choices and sacrifices that people make in pursuit of love and stability, and the lengths that we will go to to help - and hinder - each other in search of a happy ending. Odessa, Ukraine, is the humour capital of the former Soviet Union, but with prices rising and employment prospects falling, there is little for Odessans to laugh about. After months of searching, Daria, twenty-three and armed with an engineering degree and perfect English, is offered a plum job as a secretary at a foreign company. But there's a stone in every plum, and in this case it's her new boss Mr. Harmon, who makes it clear that sleeping with him should be the first item on her to-do list. Loath to give up her newfound perks (the taste of real coffee, a new apartment and a salary she and her grandmother can actually live on), Daria manages to evade Harmon's advances by recruiting her neighbour, the slippery Olga, to be his mistress - a plan that ends up working only too well...And so Daria finds herself moonlighting as an interpreter at Soviet Unions(t), a dating agency specializing in finding gorgeous Odessan brides for lonely Americans. Daria - so adept at spotting the cracks in the relationships she facilitates - soon discovers that she is not immune to the temptations of the American dream herself. An email correspondence with an apparently shy and sensitive American teacher who offers her a new life in San Francisco, leaves her facing a choice between her beloved city - not to mention the attentions of Vlad, a worryingly attractive mafia gangster - and her long-dreamt-of escape to the land of the free. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hottest Day of the Year Brinda Charry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9780552771214 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77121-4 ISBN10: 055277121X x Description: Tensions in an Indian household enthral and unsettle a young girl staying with her aunt and uncle. When the home help, with whom the girl has made friends, commits suicide, the girl discovers more than she wants to know about her relatives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Breaking Point Steve Perry (Author) Tom Clancy (Author) Steve R. Pieczenik (Author) Series:
Tom Clancy's Net Force
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
30 Nov 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 368pp h172mm x w105mm 175g ISBN13: 9780425176931 ISBN13: 978-0-425-17693-1 ISBN10: 0425176932 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cutting Edge Tom Clancy (Author) Jerome Priesler (Author) Series:
Tom Clancy's Power Plays S. No.6
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Dec 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h182mm x w114mm x s30mm 244g ISBN13: 9780140294941 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029494-1 ISBN10: 0140294945 x Description: Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, the sixth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and political brinkmanship that will see the world brought to its knees by a ruthless enemy prepared to stop at nothing. Intricate plotting, exceptional authenticity and knife-edge suspense will see this book repeat the massive success of its predecessors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politika Tom Clancy (Author) Martin Greenberg (Author) Series:
Tom Clancy's Power Plays S. No.1
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Nov 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h181mm x w113mm x s26mm 214g ISBN13: 9780140273939 ISBN13: 978-0-14-027393-9 ISBN10: 014027393X
x Description: The sudden death of Russia's president has thrown the Russian Federation into chaos. The country is in the grip of famine and an uprising is inevitable. One of the provisional leaders asks the American president for help, but the whole world is watching when a deadly terrorist attack stuns the USA. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dial M for Merde Stephen Clarke (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
11 Sep 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp 346g ISBN13: 9780593056301 ISBN13: 978-0-593-05630-1 ISBN10: 0593056302 x Description: Englishman Paul West has just received an offer he can't refuse: two weeks in the sun, all expenses paid, with a beautiful blonde called Gloria Monday. M, as Gloria likes to be known, is down south to report on caviar trafficking - but it soon becomes obvious that she's interested in something a lot more fishy than caviar. Meanwhile Paul's best friend Elodie is marrying a French aristocrat, and Paul is asked to do the catering. Cooking for the French is a risky assignment at the best of times, but Paul, who is starting to feel a bit like James Bond, assures her that nothing can go wrong. Or can it? As Paul is sexually harassed by an English hen party, picked on by French commandoes and arrested by excitable gendarmes, he realises that events are spiralling out of control. And when he discovers that M's real target is France's biggest fish of all - the new President - and that he's coming to Elodie's wedding, Paul knows that the merde really is about to hit the fan ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Merde Factor: (Paul West 5) Stephen Clarke (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
28 Mar 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h178mm x w110mm x s23mm 196g ISBN13: 9780099580546 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958054-6 ISBN10: 0099580543 EAN: 9780099580546 x Description: Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French. But recently things have been going tres wrong: He's stuck in an apartment so small that he has to cut his baguettes in two to fit them in the kitchen. His research into authentic French cuisine is about to cause a national strike - and it could be all his fault. His Parisian business partner is determined to close their tea-room. And thinks that sexually harrassing his female employees is a basic human right. And Paul's gorgeous ex-girlfriend seems to be stalking him. Threatened with eviction, unemployment and bankrupcy, Paul realises that his personal merde factor is about to hit the fan... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ready Player One Ernest Cline (Author) Series:
Edition:
Film Tie-In
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 266g ISBN13: 9781784754792 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-479-2 ISBN10: 178475479X EAN: 9781784754792 x Description: ***NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG*** A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed. ____________________________________ If you loved READY PLAYER ONE and can't wait for more, check out ARMADA, Ernest Cline's latest geek masterpiece! `Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut' Independent `Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart' CNN `Ernest Cline's novel deserves to be a modern classic' SciFiNow `Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, this really is a spectacularly successful debut' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rotters' Club Jonathan Coe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
19 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h199mm x w128mm x s28mm 296g ISBN13: 9780140294668 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029466-8 ISBN10: 014029466X EAN: 9780140294668 x Description: Jonathan Coe's new novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, THE ROTTERS' CLUB captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of 'Old Labour' - and imagines its impact on the topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager: a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb.
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Adultery Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
14 Aug 2014
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h222mm x w143mm x s28mm 476g ISBN13: 9780091958879 ISBN13: 978-0-09-195887-9 ISBN10: 0091958873 x Description: This is the thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives. Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels like closing them again. Her friends recommend medication. But Linda wants to feel more, not less. And so she embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring, and which reawakens a side of her that she respectable wife, loving mother, ambitious journalist - thought had disappeared. Even she can't predict what will happen next... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fifth Mountain Intl Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
American Collection at Fwc
Edition:
Imprint:
Harper Torch
Publisher:
Harper Torch
Pub Date:
27 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 245pp ISBN13: 9780060736279 ISBN13: 978-0-06-073627-9 ISBN10: 0060736275 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Journeys Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 112pp h249mm x w156mm x s12mm 365g ISBN13: 9780007193394 ISBN13: 978-0-00-719339-4 ISBN10: 0007193394 EAN: 9780007193394 x Description: A bedside companion and journal filled with inspiration and wisdom from one of the world's best-loved spiritual writers.
FROM THE FOREWORD: `Alchemy is the projection of our spiritual longings onto the physical world. This diary is intended to accompany you on your path towards making these longings reality...towards trusting in your own decisions and accepting life's challenges.'
* This attractively packaged book acts as a companion and source of daily enlightenment in one, allowing you to journey through life with guidance from one of the most loved and influential authors of our time, Paulo Coelho.
* Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout, each page offers space for you to detail your thoughts, feelings and activities at any chosen time, accompanied by an inspirational selected quotation.
* Includes extracts from Paulo Coelho's bestselling titles, including The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage and Eleven Minutes, as well as insights from interviews and previously unpublished sayings. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pilgrimage Paulo Coehlo (Author) Series:
Edition:
International ed.
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) h171mm x w109mm x s19mm 127g ISBN13: 9780060736293 ISBN13: 978-0-06-073629-3 ISBN10: 0060736291 EAN: 9780060736293 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Spy Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
21 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 208pp h204mm x w138mm x s23mm 303g ISBN13: 9781786330543 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-054-3 ISBN10: 1786330547 EAN: 9781786330543 x Description: 'Beautifully written and gripping'. Sunday Mirror When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city. A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences, as a confidante and courtesan she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917 she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees and accused of espionage. Told in Mata Hari's voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and paid the price. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Winner Stands Alone Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2009
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h234mm x w153mm x s29mm 535g ISBN13: 9780007306077 ISBN13: 978-0-00-730607-7 ISBN10: 0007306075 EAN: 9780007306077 x Description: The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho.
The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman. His wife Ewa left him two years ago and Igor has never really come to terms with their break up, especially as Ewa is now remarried to a famous fashion designer, Hamid Hussein. Igor is insanely jealous and when Ewa left him he told her that he would destroy 'whole worlds' in order to get her back, and he intends to keep his promise...
Igor has followed Ewa and her new husband to Cannes and his plan is to cause as much violence and destruction as possible until Ewa realises how much he loves her and comes back to him. Ewa loved Igor but she was absolutely terrified of him. She knows that Igor has killed people in the past when he was a soldier, but she also knows a dark secret - that he once cold bloodedly murdered a beggar who was bothering them in a restaurant. Igor is clearly unhinged and he will stop at nothing to regain her love and so he goes on a ruthless killing spree until he tracks down Ewa...
The star-studded film festival acts as a backdrop to Igor's maniacal murdering spree and we are ntroduced to various characters along the way, all of whom are desperately trying to get their big break in the shallow world of show business; Gabriela a young and naive actress who is being exploited by her agent and Jasmine a troubled young Rwandan refugee working as a model.
The Winner Stands Alone is a gripping, fast-paced thriller, and Coelho cleverly weaves in elements of social satire, poking fun at our celebrity and money obsessed culture. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Valkyries Intl Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperOne
Publisher:
HarperOne
Pub Date:
25 May 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) ISBN13: 9780060736286 ISBN13: 978-0-06-073628-6 ISBN10: 0060736283 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dusklands J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Aug 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g ISBN13: 9780099268338 ISBN13: 978-0-09-926833-8 ISBN10: 0099268337 EAN: 9780099268338 x Description: A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. Both the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th-century Eugene Dawn are in the business of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge and are dealers in death who denounce their own humanity and spurn their feelings of guilt. In these two narratives, Coetzee has crystallized in their absurdity and horror the extremes of scientific evangelism and heroic exploration. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Foe J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 160pp h181mm x w114mm x s13mm 96g ISBN13: 9780140299533 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029953-3 ISBN10: 014029953X x Description: Susan Barton finds herself marooned on an island in the Atlantic with an Englishman named Robinson Cruso and his mute slave Friday. Rescued after a year of Cruso's company, back in England with Friday in tow, she approaches the author Daniel Foe, offering him the story of the island if he will make her rich and famous. But Foe is less interested in the history of Robinson Cruso than in the story of Susan Barton. How did she earn a living in Brazil? Who were the mutineers who marooned her? Where is the daughter for whom she claims to have been searching the ends of the earth? And how did Friday lose his tongue? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Waiting For The Barbarians J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 May 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp 136g ISBN13: 9780749394202 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-9420-2 ISBN10: 074939420X EAN: 9780749394202 This Product is Replaced By: 9780099465935 x Description: For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire. When the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which lands him in prison. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society C Coleman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Transita
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
14 Oct 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 308pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781905175185 ISBN13: 978-1-905175-18-5 ISBN10: 1905175183 x Description: 'Agnes Borrowdale, seventy-five years old a week on Tuesday, hoisted herself onto the window sill and perched astride it, gripping the wooden frame.' After her escape from the old people's home where she has been placed by her son, Jack, and his new partner, Monica, Agnes's quest to find her grandchildren develops in ways she could never have predicted. Among the new friends she makes on her journey are: Joe, the helpful lorry driver; Molly, the garrulous proprietor of a small, run-down hotel; Gazza, the student whose sprained ankle may have serious consequences for Agnes; and Felix, the retired barrister's clerk, whom Agnes pulls back from attempted suicide. Hoping to rekindle his desire to live, she invents the Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society, but soon fears that this falsehood, having acquired a momentum of its own, will end in tragedy. Meanwhile, Jack, frantically trying to trace his missing mother, spends a night in a police cell on a drunk-driving charge, while an over-zealous young policeman begins to suspect him of a more serious crime. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Girl Stephan Collishaw (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h196mm x w129mm x s19mm 221g None ISBN13: 9780340826928 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82692-8 ISBN10: 0340826924 EAN: 9780340826928 x Description: In the dying days of the twentieth century an elderly poet wanders the streets of Vilnius, haunted by a terrible secret. His memories of the Second World War have been buried for fifty years, but now, as he picks his way through the rubble of the ghetto, and looks in the faces of young women he passes, he is reminded of the girl he once loved - and betrayed - and finds himself once again compelled to tell her story.
In a decaying tenement a washerwoman struggles between the twilight world of Vilnius's brothels and her flickering hopes of building a better life for her children. Her son needs $1000 if he is to escape to England, and she knows of only one way to earn such an impossible amount of money. Her life, and the poet's, weave between each other as they both step carefully around the cracks of the past, in search of any kind of peace.
And through the tangled debris of Lithuania's past and present, the story of a beautiful Jewish girl and a young poet - whose love was ultimately not strong enough to save her from the persecution of the Russians, or from the final, deadly designs of the Nazis - coils its way to the surface and demands to be told. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (Author) Series:
Dover Thrift Editions
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Dover Publications Inc.
Publisher:
Dover Publications Inc.
Pub Date:
01 Jul 1990
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 80pp h208mm x w4mm ISBN13: 9780486264646 ISBN13: 978-0-486-26464-6 ISBN10: 0486264645 EAN: 9780486264646 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lords Of Discipline Pat Conroy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 1987 (01 Feb 1996)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 425g ISBN13: 9780552996839 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99683-9 ISBN10: 0552996831 EAN: 9780552996839 x Description: This powerful novel is the story of four cadets who have become bloodbrothers. Together they will encounter the hell of vicious bullying and the rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive atmosphere of an arrogant and proud military institute. They will experience the violence. The passion. The rage. The friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal. Together they will brace themselves for the brutal transition to manhood... and one of them will not survive. Based on Conroy's own experiences at The Citadel Military school in Charleston, The Lords of Discipline is a remarkable novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seizure Robin Cook (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 560pp h178mm x w111mm x s34mm 279g ISBN13: 9780330483063 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48306-3 ISBN10: 0330483064 EAN: 9780330483063 x Description: What could the Shroud of Turin, a conservative Southern senator, and an entrepreneurial researcher have in common? Here politics, religion and bioscience collide in the latest novel from the master of the medical thriller. Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called on to chair a sub-committee introducing legislation to ban new cloning technology, the senator views it as a keystone to his political future. As a consequence, Dr Daniel Lowell inventor of a technique that will take stem-cell research up to the next level - sees a barrier being raised before his biotech start-up. These seemingly opposite personalities may clash during the Senate hearings, yet the two men share a common failing. Butler's hunger for political power far outstrips his genuine concern for the unborn; while Lowell's pursuit of massive personal wealth and celebrity overrides any real considerations for his patients' well-being. Further complicating their confrontation is the confidential news that Senator Butler has developed Parkinson's disease - which leads the senator and the researcher into a Faustian pact. But in attempting to utilise Lowell's new technology prematurely, the therapy leaves the senator with the horrifying effects of temporal lobe epilepsy - causing seizures of the bizarrest order. Taken straight out of tomorrow's headlines, Seizure is a cautionary tale for this age when new biotechnological discoveries are pulling us ever further into a promising yet frightening new world.
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Combat Stephen Coonts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 912pp h178mm x w112mm x s46mm 460g ISBN13: 9780752844787 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4478-7 ISBN10: 0752844784 EAN: 9780752844787 x Description: We can now predict the shape of war to come...For the first time, COMBAT brings the best military-fiction writers in the world together to reveal how war will be fought in the twenty-first century. From the down and dirty 'ground-pounders' of the US Armoured Cavalry to the new frontiers of warfare, including outer space and the internet, ten authors whose novels define the military-fiction genre have written all-new short novels about the men and women willing to put their lives on the line for freedom. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Isle of Dogs (Om) Patricia Cornwell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
27 Jun 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 432pp h172mm x w110mm 207g ISBN13: 9780425186763 ISBN13: 978-0-425-18676-3 ISBN10: 0425186768 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Wild Dog and Lone Dan Crawford (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Time Warner International Publisher:
Time Warner International
Pub Date:
01 May 1996
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United States Paperback A-format paperback 200pp h172mm x w106mm 192g ISBN13: 9780441001835 ISBN13: 978-0-441-00183-5 ISBN10: 0441001831 x Description: A stifling heat wave engulfs the kingdom of Rossacotta, and a series of murders threatens to usurp the power of the boy-king Conan. Nimnestl and Polijn are united in their quest to expose the city's conspiracy, but time is running out for them as the kingdom is about to be crushed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wayward Angel Elaine Crowley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 437pp h178mm x w111mm x s29mm 250g ISBN13: 9780752834207 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-3420-7 ISBN10: 0752834207 EAN: 9780752834207 x Description: It is 1914 and the beautiful Angel Lucas is the pride of the village. But when she becomes pregnant everybody thinks the father is the young priest she works for, so Angel flees to Dublin. She soon discovers she has a lot further to fall before she can find lasing happiness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cove Shivering Club Dr. Michael Curtin, PhD (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
17 Apr 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h197mm x w129mm 260g ISBN13: 9781857025705 ISBN13: 978-1-85702-570-5 ISBN10: 1857025709 x Description: If you swam naked across the Cove and back on any of the chill Good Fridays from 1950-57, you were entitled to be a member of the Cove Shivering Club. This farcical novel involves several characters at the club such as Dunstan, who is humiliated by a bank manager and English impresario, Harry Lamb. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Outline: A Novel Rachel Cusk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 208g ISBN13: 9780571346769 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34676-9 ISBN10: 0571346766 EAN: 9780571346769 x Description: Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss. Outline is the first book in a short and yet epic cycle - a masterful trilogy which will be remembered as one of the most significant achievements of our times. 'Outline succeeds powerfully. Among other things, it gets a great variety of human beings down on the page with both immediacy and depth; an elemental pleasure that makes the book as gripping to read as a thriller... A stellar accomplishment.' James Lasdun, Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Transit Rachel Cusk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 219g ISBN13: 9780571346745 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34674-5 ISBN10: 057134674X EAN: 9780571346745 x Description: In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change. '[Transit] confirms that one of the most fascinating projects in contemporary fiction is unfolding in Rachel Cusk's trilogy.' Adam Foulds _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sacred Stone: Oregon Files #2 Clive Cussler (Author) Craig Dirgo (Author) Series:
The Oregon Files
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jul 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp 222g ISBN13: 9780141022482 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102248-2 ISBN10: 0141022485 EAN: 9780141022482 x Description: In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in a cave for A millennium: a 50,000 year-old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone-which he soon discovers possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. But the astounding find places him in the crosshairs of two opposing terrorist groups who seek the stone for themselves. One is a group of Muslim extremists who have stolen a nuclear device. With the power of the meteorite, they could vaporize any city in the west. The other group is led by a megalomaniacal industrialist who seeks to carry out the utter annihilation of Islam itself. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his ship of high-tech mercenaries known as the Corporation must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone-and prevent the outbreak of World War III... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Under Orders Mark Daniel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Leopard Books
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)
Pub Date:
31 May 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 292pp h178mm x w110mm 165g ISBN13: 9780752903521 ISBN13: 978-0-7529-0352-1 ISBN10: 0752903527 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Taxi Driver's Daughter Julia Darling (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780141012612 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101261-2 ISBN10: 0141012617 EAN: 9780141012612 x Description: When her mother is sent to prison for three months for assaulting a policeman with a stiletto shoe, fifteen-year-old Caris goes gently off the rails. Whilst her taxi-driver father Mac attempts to keep the family together, Caris meets George, a boy from the other side of the vale and from a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away from school and what she has known, into a new and unnerving world - and looks set to throw the family into terrifying chaos. Julia Darling's acclaimed novel blends the gritty and the everyday with the evocative and the enchanting, to create an original, inventive and often moving portrayal of family ties, suburban life, love and growing up. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Lover Jill Dawson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h197mm x w133mm x s22mm 235g None ISBN13: 9780340935668 ISBN13: 978-0-340-93566-8 ISBN10: 0340935669 EAN: 9780340935668 x Description: In the summer of 1909, seventeen-year-old Nell Golightly is the new maid at the Orchard Tea Gardens in Cambridgeshire when Rupert Brooke moves in as a lodger. Famed for his looks and flouting of convention, the young poet captures the hearts of men and women alike, yet his own seems to stay intact. Even Nell, despite her good sense, begins to fall for him. What is his secret? This captivating novel gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a tale of mutual fascination and inner turmoil, set at a time of great social unrest. Revealing a man far more complex and radical than legend suggests, it powerfully conveys the allure - and curse - of charisma. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reflected in You: A Crossfire Novel Sylvia Day (Author) Series:
Crossfire
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Oct 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 255g ISBN13: 9781405910255 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-1025-5 ISBN10: 1405910259 EAN: 9781405910255 x Description: DISCOVER THE FIRST BOOK IN THE DARKLY SENSUAL CROSSFIRE SERIES THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS AROUND THE WORLD - PERFECT FOR FANS OF FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Eva and Gideon's new relationship is intense and all-consuming, but they are about to discover that dangerous secrets lie smouldering just beneath the surface. Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed
me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction . . . my every desire . . . mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work. It was too hard, too painful . . . except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate love were the most exquisite insanity. We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession . . . Intensely romantic, darkly sensual and completely addictive, Sylvia Day's Reflected in You will take you to the very limits of obsession . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Here Comes the Sun Nicole Dennis-Benn (Author) Series:
Edition:
(AIR/EXP)
Imprint:
Oneworld Publications
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
07 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm MMP ISBN13: 9781786072399 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-239-9 ISBN10: 1786072394 EAN: 9781786072399 x Description: A finalist for the New York Public Library Fiction Award
A Grand Prix Litteraire of the Association of Caribbean Writers Selection
Named a Best Book of 2016 by: New York Times, NPR, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Root, Book Riot, Kirkus, Amazon, WBUR's 'On Point' and Barnes & Noble
In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village.
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate.
When plans for a new hotel threaten the destruction of their community, each woman - fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves - must confront long-hidden scars. From a much-heralded new writer, Here Comes the Sun offers a dramatic glimpse into a vibrant, passionate world most outsiders see simply as paradise. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Baumgartner's Bombay Anita Desai (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h199mm x w130mm x s16mm 175g ISBN13: 9780099428527 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942852-7 ISBN10: 0099428520 EAN: 9780099428527 x Description: Hugo Baumgartner, the central character of Anita Desai's dazzling novel, is a wandering Jew all his life. From the agonising scenes of his childhood in pre-war Berlin, through his spell in business in Calcutta and then Bombay, he simply does not belong. Too dark for Hitler's society he is too fair for India; he remains a firanghi, a foreigner, wherever he goes' Daily Telegraph 'Anita Desai writes beautifully, employing an opulent vocabulary to great effect in her physical descriptions.The achievement of a superior writer' Literary Review'A book that puts to shame all the little epithets and pert cliches that praise may offer' London Review of Books _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Games At Twilight Anita Desai (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 106g ISBN13: 9780099428534 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942853-4 ISBN10: 0099428539 EAN: 9780099428534 x Description: Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and whitehot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never seen. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Custody Anita Desai (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g ISBN13: 9780099428497 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942849-7 ISBN10: 0099428490 EAN: 9780099428497 x Description: Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a project that can only end in disaster. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Blade of Grass Lewis Desoto (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Maia Press Limited
Publisher:
Arcadia Books
Pub Date:
20 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s129mm 358g ISBN13: 9781904559078 ISBN13: 978-1-904559-07-8 ISBN10: 1904559077 x Description: Marit Laurens, recently orphaned and newly wed, farms with her husband Ben in an Edenic setting near the border of South Africa. But when guerrilla violence and tragedy visit their lives, Marit finds herself in a tug of war between the local Afrikaaners near the farm and the black workers who live on it. Frightened and confused, she turns to the only person who can offer her friendship - her black maid, Tembi. Marit stubbornly determines to run the farm with Tembi's help, until the encroaching civil war brings out their conflicting loyalties and turns their struggle into a desperate fight for their lives. Lyrical and profound, this exciting novel offers a unique perspective on what it means to be black and white in a country where both live and feel entitlement. Moving beyond its own time and place, it becomes a universal story of the price of freedom. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Light and the Dark Mikhail Shishkin (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Jan 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 464pp h198mm x w132mm x s30mm 316g ISBN13: 9781780871080 ISBN13: 978-1-78087-108-0 ISBN10: 1780871082 EAN: 9781780871080 x Description: Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death. Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Maidenhair Mikhail Shishkin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Open Letter
Publisher:
Open Letter
Pub Date:
23 Oct 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 514pp h216mm x w140mm 610g ISBN13: 9781934824368 ISBN13: 978-1-934824-36-8 ISBN10: 1934824364 EAN: 9781934824368 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sister Of My Heart Chitra Divakaruni (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Sep 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w128mm x s22mm 230g ISBN13: 9780552997676 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99767-6 ISBN10: 0552997676 EAN: 9780552997676 x Description: Born in a big old Calcutta house on the same night, the wild, tragic night their fathers were both mysteriously lost, Sudha and Anju are cousins. Closer even than sisters, they share clothes, possessions, worries, dreams - and three mothers, who preside over the matriarchal Chatterjee household. But when Sudha discovers a terrible secret about their past, their mutual loyalty is sorely tested. A family crisis forces the mothers to start the serious business of arranging the girls' marriages, and the inseparable pair are torn apart. Sudha moves to her new family'as home in rural Bengal, while Anju joins her immigrant husband in California. But nothing has prepared them for the pain, aswell as the joy, that each will have to face in her new life. Rooted in Indian folklore and steeped in the mysticism of ancient tales, this bright, jewel-like novel shines its light on the bonds of family, on love and loss, against the realities of traditional arranged marriages, and the adjustments needed for modern life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Big Money Passos John Dos (Author) Series:
Signet classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Signet Book
Publisher:
Signet Book
Pub Date:
01 Mar 1969
Publishing Status:
Temporarily withdrawn from sale
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 560pp h181mm x w106mm 263g ISBN13: 9780451524010 ISBN13: 978-0-451-52401-0 ISBN10: 0451524012 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
As If I Am Not There Slavenka Drakulic (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
04 Nov 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h216mm x w135mm x s15mm 300g ISBN13: 9780349112626 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11262-6 ISBN10: 0349112622 EAN: 9780349112626 x Description: This is a story of hope and survival amidst the Balkan tragedy. S., a teacher in a Bosnian village, is 29 when war breaks out. One day a young Serbian soldier walks into her kitchen and tells her to pack her bag. She is taken to a concentration camp where there is a mysterious room. She soon finds out what it's for - the Serbs systematically rape their prisoners there. After some months S. finds out she is pregnant. She's devastated and resolves to have the baby aborted. However, when she's finally released it's too late and she when she's evacuated to Sweden she gives birth to the child. S. changes her mind about giving it up for adoption: she realises that it's not the child's fault that it was conceived in violence and that out of the act some good - this new life - can still come. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III (Author) Series:
Edition:
Film Tie-In
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 368pp h177mm x w111mm x s24mm 195g A-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099453925 ISBN13: 978-0-09-945392-5 ISBN10: 0099453924 x Description: When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to a open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from her father. The State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. Unable to parley his skills into a job in aerospace in the US, the house represents an entry into real estate and a passport to the future of his family and his own version of the American Dream. For Kathy, its loss is the last of a series of insults life has dealt her. When she becomes involved with a married policeman who takes up her cause, the stage is set for a gut-wrenching tragedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dud Avocado Elaine Dundy (Author) Rachel Cooke (Introduction by) Series:
Virago Modern Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
26 Aug 1993 (18 Jan 2001)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h132mm x w201mm x s22mm 236g ISBN13: 9781853815812 ISBN13: 978-1-85381-581-2 ISBN10: 1853815810 EAN: 9781853815812 x Description: THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the GUARDIAN observes, 'one of the best novels about growing up fast'. Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young, and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador. But an education like this doesn't come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Siege Helen Dunmore (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 May 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 216g ISBN13: 9780141000732 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100073-2 ISBN10: 0141000732 EAN: 9780141000732 x Description: Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, THE SIEGE draws us deep into the Levin's family struggle
to stay alive during this terrible winter. It is a story about war and the wounds it inflicts on people's lives. It is also a lyrical and deeply moving celebration of love, life and survival. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Quite Contrary Suzannah Dunn (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 Jun 1992
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 166g ISBN13: 9780006544791 ISBN13: 978-0-00-654479-1 ISBN10: 0006544797 EAN: 9780006544791 x Description: The award-winning debut novel from the author of Venus Flaring and Tenterhooks.
Elizabeth, a young, overworked hospital doctor, gets a phone call from her father late on a Friday night telling her that her mother is dangerously ill. Over the course of the weekend that follows, Elizabeth, on duty as ever and confronting the barely controlled chaos of a busy casualty ward, finds moments to reminisce about her childhood, its joys and its miseries. Past and present are interwoven in a series of vivid tableaux, drawing the reader into an intimate understanding of Elizabeth's life as a whole. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lover (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Marguerite Duras (Author) Series:
Harper Perennial Modern Edition: Classics
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
16 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 110g ISBN13: 9780007205004 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720500-4 ISBN10: 0007205007 EAN: 9780007205004 x Description: A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, `The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart.
Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society.
A sensational international bestseller, 'The Lover' is disturbing, erotic, masterly and simply unforgettable. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains Susan Elderkin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h216mm x w150mm 471g ISBN13: 9781841151991 ISBN13: 978-1-84115-199-1 ISBN10: 1841151998
x Description: Not since Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum has there been such a sparklingly original and exceptional debut by a new writer. Theobald Moon hopes to satiate the yearnings of his hungry soul (and considerable belly) when he leaves south London to start a new life in the Arizona desert. Planting a cactus garden around his mobile home where he can star-gaze and practise yoga, Theo provides a haven of security for his small daughter Josie, weaving around her a gossamer web of fairy stories and belief in an ordered universe. But as his little Jelly-O grows into disaffected adolescence, there are questions she asks which Theo refuses to answer. When the terrible truth emerges, we discover a man whose actions may be reprehensible but who is portrayed with such intelligent humanity that we may find it impossible to condemn him. Bold, quirky and youthful, there is no mistaking Susan Elderkin's voice. Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains is an astonishing debut. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan Jason Elliot (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
08 Sep 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w130mm x s32mm 409g ISBN13: 9780330371629 ISBN13: 978-0-330-37162-9 ISBN10: 0330371622 EAN: 9780330371629 x Description: An Unexpected Light, Travels in Afghanistan was greeted on publication by universal critical acclaim and is now widely acknowledged as the most influential contemporary work of Afghanistan. Written on the eve of 9/11, at the height of Afghanistan's isolation from the world, Jason Elliot's uncannily prescient account of his winter journey through the country torn by civil war is as pertinent today as it was then. Winner of the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award in the UK and a New York Times Bestseller in the USA, it recounts the author's daring and passionate investigation into an extraordinary culture, first as a clandestine guest of the mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation, and ten years later during the Taleban advance on the besieged capital, Kabul. This new edition of An Unexpected Light is illustrated with the author's photographs and celebrates a classic work of travel literature. `Jason Elliot is that rare traveller who surrenders himself to people and places and this tale is a many-layered reconstruction of his experience . . . I am sure this book will soon be among the classics of travel' DORIS LESSING `An Unexpected Light is often unexpectedly funny and constantly perceptive, but it is also profound' New York Times `What raises the book to the level of a classic is its intensely personal meditation on the magic of unplanned adventure, of the pain and pleasure of pushing into the unknown. The whole book, like Elliot's travels themselves, operated on this heightened level' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fighting Back Cheerleaders Carol Ellis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Scholastic
Publisher:
Scholastic
Pub Date:
01 Jun 1988
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 160pp ISBN13: 9780590416283 ISBN13: 978-0-590-41628-3 ISBN10: 0590416286 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Doctors and Nurses Lucy Ellmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
05 Feb 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780747585800 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8580-0 ISBN10: 0747585806 x Description: The tranquillity of a rural backwater - SHATTERED! The ancient arts of medicine - EXPOSED! Her darling cleft-chinned doctor FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE! It was a time of wiping. A time of bandaging. Of patients and their incessant needs. In a world where nurses never wash their hands, and doctors are the lowest of the low, one enormous nurse stands up for LOVE - a nurse that will make you fart with fear... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Famous Ben Elton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jul 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback h179mm x w108mm x s23mm 190g ISBN13: 9780552149020 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14902-0 ISBN10: 0552149020 x Description: One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest. Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex and with whom? Who will the public love and who will they hate? All the usual questions. And then, suddenly, there are some new ones. Who is the murderer? How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty television cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Figures in a Landscape Barry England (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
House of Stratus
Publisher:
House of Stratus
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h205mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9780755103188 ISBN13: 978-0-7551-0318-8 ISBN10: 0755103181 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swift as Desire Laura Esquivel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Sep 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp ISBN13: 9780552150293 ISBN13: 978-0-552-15029-3 ISBN10: 0552150290
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Hausfrau Jill Alexander Essbaum (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
07 Apr 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w130mm x s22mm 241g ISBN13: 9781447280811 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-8081-1 ISBN10: 1447280814 EAN: 9781447280811 x Description: Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum. 'The Book that will have everyone talking' Cosmopolitan Anna Benz, an American in her late-thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno - a banker - and their three young children, in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zurich. Though she leads a comfortable life, she is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with Bruno, or even her own feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises her. But she soon finds that she can't easily extract herself from these relationships. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Divide Nicholas Evans (Author) Series:
Edition:
Digital original
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
25 Jul 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h132mm x w200mm x s30mm 308g ISBN13: 9780751539349 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3934-9 ISBN10: 0751539341 EAN: 9780751539349 x Description: Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws to prise her out. Identifying her doesn't take so long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and her picture is on law enforcement computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Family Orchard Nomi Eve (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w126mm x s22mm 270g ISBN13: 9781860499234 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-923-4 ISBN10: 1860499236 EAN: 9781860499234 x Description: A beautifully crafted story of a Jewish family, reaching back five generations. Using births, deaths and family legends, here are stories of how people meet and fall in love, of family secrets and tragedies, of sex and marriage. Yochanan and his wife Esther who lived happily despite Esther's long-time affair with the local baker; Avra who has a penchant for stealing (and returning) who marries Shimon, an immigrant from Russia; Miriam, a child of Eastern Europe who sews her family's futures into her cloth. Shyly sexy and funny, always rooted in the domestic and the familiar, this is an enchanting, complex novel which draws on the voices of many generations from far and wide, reaching across the Diaspora - Israel, Europe and America. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Some Rain Must Fall And Other Stories Michel Faber (Author) Series:
Canons
Edition:
Main - Canons Edition
Imprint:
Canongate Canons
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jul 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h170mm x w200mm x s10mm 400g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781782117162 ISBN13: 978-1-78211-716-2 ISBN10: 1782117164 EAN: 9781782117162 This Product Replaces: 9781841950716 x Description: The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things. Michel Faber's short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords. 'Some Rain Must Fall' juxtaposes the tragic circumstances of traumatised schoolchildren with the interior monologue of a teacher/psychologist enlisted to aid their recovery. In the pseudo-sci-fi 'Fish' a mother tries to protect her child in a terrifying world where fish swim through the streets and lurk in alleyways. Faber's collection is rich and assured, with a dazzling reach. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Name Is Salma Fadia Faqir (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Apr 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h200mm x w130mm x s23mm 224g ISBN13: 9780552773621 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77362-1 ISBN10: 055277362X EAN: 9780552773621 x Description: When Salma becomes pregnant before marriage in her small village in the Levant, her innocent days playing the pipe for her goats are gone for ever. She is swept into prison for her own protection. To the sound of her screams, her newborn baby daughter is snatched away. In the middle of the most English of towns, Exeter, she learns good manners from her landlady, and settles down with an Englishman. But deep in her heart the cries of her baby daughter still echo. When she can bear them no longer, she goes back to her village to find her. It is a journey that will change everything - and nothing. Slipping back and forth between the olive groves of the Levant and the rain-slicked pavements of Exeter, "My Name is
Salma" is a searing portrayal of a woman's courage in the face of insurmountable odds. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Young Turk: A Novel in 13 Fragments Moris Farhi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Saqi Books
Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub Date:
16 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 360pp h210mm x w140mm 424g ISBN13: 9780863563515 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-351-5 ISBN10: 0863563511 x Description: Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence. An alluring woman initiates Mustafa and his classmates in the carnal delights of rose petal jam; Musa discovers the hard facts of reaching manhood when he is expelled from the women's baths; Bilal, a 14-year-old Jewish boy, sets off for Greece to rescue his mother's sister; and a circus orphan known only as 'Girl' falls head over heels for the new trapeze artist ...Young Turk is a novel in thirteen positions. Reminiscent of Julio Cortazar and Italo Calvino, this is a wise, craftily spun and spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love, courage and the forging of conscience. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Soldier's Pay William Faulkner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Oct 2000 (06 Aug 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 234g ISBN13: 9780099282822 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928282-2 ISBN10: 0099282828 EAN: 9780099282822 x Description: A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancee who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with lives blighted by war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On Green Dolphin Street Sebastian Faulks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 May 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h178mm x w110mm x s20mm 185g ISBN13: 9780099436935 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943693-5 ISBN10: 0099436930 EAN: 9780099436935 x Description: America, 1959. with two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending, and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. An American newspaper reporter called Frank Renzo dramatically enters the van der Linden's lives, and through him Mary is forced to confront the terror of the Cold War that is the dark background of their carefree existence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next Book 6 Jasper Fforde (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
10 Nov 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h177mm x w116mm x s28mm 218g Yes ISBN13: 9780340963104 ISBN13: 978-0-340-96310-4 ISBN10: 0340963107 EAN: 9780340963104 x Description: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake. The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years Helen Fielding (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 752pp h197mm x w130mm x s46mm 530g ISBN13: 9781447243021 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-4302-1 ISBN10: 1447243021 EAN: 9781447243021 x Description: A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Two diaries, two enduring bestsellers, one unforgettable character. Bridget Jones: The Singleton Years brings together Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason. Helen Fielding portrays Bridget, everyone's favourite spinster, as she struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to weigh up the eternal question: Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy? She is supported through the whole process by four indispensable friends, Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of Chardonnay. Bridget Jones's Diary was first published in 1996 and applauded by critics from Salman Rushdie to Jilly Cooper. A number-one bestseller, Helen Fielding's book has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide and has been turned into an Academy Award-nominated film series starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Film Tie-In Helen Fielding (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s37mm 245g ISBN13: 9780330433587 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43358-7 ISBN10: 033043358X EAN: 9780330433587
x Description: First published in 1999, The Edge of Reason is the sequel to Helen Fielding's number one best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary. It has been turned into a film starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is followed by Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up, not just the whole of this week, but ever. Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, an 8ft hole in the living-room wall, a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers, and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany, which takes her from the cappuccino queues of Notting Hill to the palm - and magic-mushroom - kissed shores of . . . Bridget is back. V.g. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Helen Fielding (Author) Series:
Bridget Jones's Diary
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 318g ISBN13: 9780099584438 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958443-8 ISBN10: 0099584433 EAN: 9780099584438 x Description: THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen's day? Pondering these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and redisovering her sexuality in what SOME people rudely and outdatedly call 'middle age'. The long-awaited return of a much-loved character, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is timely, tender, touching, witty, wise and bloody hilarious. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination Helen Fielding (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 183g ISBN13: 9780330434089 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43408-9 ISBN10: 033043408X EAN: 9780330434089 This Product is Replaced By: 9780330432740 x Description: From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of terror armed only with a hatpin, razor sharp wits and a very special underwired bra. How could a girl not be drawn to the alluring, powerful Pierre Ferramo, with his hooded eyes, impeccable taste, unimaginable wealth, exotic homes across the globe and a rather dubious French accent? But is it possible that Ferramo is actually a major terrorist, bent on the western world's destruction? Or is it all just a product of Olivia Joules's overactive imagination? Join Olivia in her heart-stopping and hilarious quest to save the world in this witty, contemporary and utterly
unputdownable thriller. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
28 Sep 1988
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 138g ISBN13: 9780006542568 ISBN13: 978-0-00-654256-8 ISBN10: 0006542565 EAN: 9780006542568 This Product is Replaced By: 9780007320967 x Description: Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel set among the houseboat community of the Thames.
`Offshore' is a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither...
Maurice, a male prostitute, is the sympathetic friend to whom all the others turn. Nenna loves her husband but can't get him back; her children run wild on the muddy foreshore. She feels drawn to Richard, the ex-RNVR city man whose converted minesweeper dominates the Reach. Is he sexually attractive because he can fold maps the right way? With this and other questions waiting to be answered, `Offshore' offers a delightful glimpse of the workings of an eccentric community. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 240g ISBN13: 9780007320967 ISBN13: 978-0-00-732096-7 ISBN10: 0007320965 EAN: 9780007320967 x Description: Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.
On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames.
There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community together. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Code to Zero Ken Follett (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
08 Jun 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 480pp h178mm x w111mm x s30mm 261g ISBN13: 9780330482868 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48286-8 ISBN10: 0330482866 EAN: 9780330482868 x Description: Three days that could change the world's political landscape . . . A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there. He does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken down and out, it isn't until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he begins to suspect all is not what it seems . . . The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite, in a desperate attempt to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the space race. As Luke Lucas gradually unravels the mystery of his amnesia, he realizes that his fate is bound up with that of the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral. And as he relearns the story of his life, he uncovers long-kept secrets about his wife, his best friend and the woman he once loved more than life itself... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Passage to India E. M. Forster (Author) Oliver Stallybrass (Introduction and notes by) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 May 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w135mm x s17mm 264g ISBN13: 9780141183107 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118310-7 ISBN10: 0141183101 x Description: After a mysterious accident during their visit to the caves, Dr Assiz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed in all its ugliness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Daniel Martin John Fowles (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Nov 2004 (01 Sep 2011)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 704pp h198mm x w129mm x s43mm 479g ISBN13: 9780099478348 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947834-8 ISBN10: 009947834X EAN: 9780099478348 x Description: Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to reconcile with a dying friend, and also to visit his own forgotten past in an attempt to discover himself.
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A Calculating Heart Caro Fraser (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h201mm x w130mm x s23mm 238g ISBN13: 9780141008240 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100824-0 ISBN10: 0141008245 x Description: 'I find it rather exciting joining a new set of chambers, like starting a new school term...'. 5 Caper Court is changing. The chambers are expanding. But, will the arrival of a fresh group of tenants inspire a new start for everyone? Just out of yet another scandal, electrifying and libidinous Leo Davis has finally decided to settle down. He's going to sell up his Belgravia pad and buy a family home for his son, Oliver. And, he's going to marry the lovely Camilla. Or is he? With Camilla working on a case halfway across the world, Leo is not so sure...Adriana, the stunning, glamorous and extremely wealthy owner of a multi-million pound Greek shipping line, has elected Leo as her lawyer. She knows he can win her case. Insatiable Adriana always gets what she wants and she is about to make Leo an offer he'll find hard to refuse. As the City steams in the sweltering August heatwave, temptation begins to ensnare the inhabitants of 5 Caper Court. The question is, who will fall captive to whose charms and who will be able to resist? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
28 Dec 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h196mm x w131mm x s29mm 308g ISBN13: 9780340936320 ISBN13: 978-0-340-93632-0 ISBN10: 0340936320 EAN: 9780340936320 x Description: THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. 'Magnificent' Observer 'A beautiful book, written in exquisite prose' Kate Atkinson A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive. From the bestselling author of Nightwoods, this novel inspired the Oscar-winning film directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Renee Zellweger. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thirteen Moons Charles Frazier (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp h235mm x w155mm x s35mm 570g n/a ISBN13: 9780340826621 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82662-1 ISBN10: 0340826622 EAN: 9780340826621 x Description: At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins - for a brief moment - a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians, including a Cherokee Chief named Bear, he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassle Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee's homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that 'only desire trumps time'.
Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man's passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man's destiny over the many moons of a life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
History of Wolves: Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize Emily Fridlund (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h196mm x w128mm x s26mm 272g ISBN13: 9781474602969 ISBN13: 978-1-4746-0296-9 ISBN10: 1474602967 EAN: 9781474602969 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose isexquisite' LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE YARD How far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Lindalives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austerebackwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak',or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the otherinhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect family - mother, father and their littleboy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way intotheir orbit. She begins to babysit Paul and feels welcome, that she finally hasa place to belong. Yet something isn't right. Drawn into secrets she doesn'tunderstand, Linda must make a choice. But how can a girl with no real knowledgeof the world understand what the consequences will be? 'One of the most intelligent and poetic novels of the year'New Statesman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Hostile Place/Monkey House 2 for the price of 1shrinkwrap Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Shrink-wrapped pack h178mm x w221mm x s22mm 351g Contains 2 Paperback / softbacks ISBN13: 9780330435499 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43549-9 ISBN10: 0330435493 EAN: 9780330435499 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blowback Eric Fullilove (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s25mm 209g ISBN13: 9780330490993 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49099-3 ISBN10: 0330490990 EAN: 9780330490993 x Description: As on India's border a weapon of mass destruction is released, far away in Washington DC a well-dressed man in a Porsche is detained by plain-clothed cops, and a killer waits in a dark hallway for a beautiful woman to return home. Richard Whelan, the President's security adviser, is tough, smart - and black. He knows how to play White House political games, but is about to get a refresher course when framed for a brutal murder. Whelan is suddenly a fugitive on the run, a pawn in a chilling conspiracy, yet the only man able to prevent a nuclear holocaust. If only he can stay alive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Solitaire Mystery Jostein Gaarder (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Jun 1997 (04 Aug 2011)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h196mm x w133mm x s26mm 314g ISBN13: 9781857998658 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-865-8 ISBN10: 1857998650 EAN: 9781857998658 x Description: Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant for philosophy. Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to 'find' herself) and the story begins when father and son set off on a trip to Greece, where she now lives, to try to persuade her to come home. En route, in Switzerland, Hans Thomas is given a magnifying glass by a dwarf at a petrol station, and the next day he finds a tiny book in his bread roll which can only be read with a magnifying glass. How did the book come to be there? Why does the dwarf keep showing up? It is all very perplexing and Hans Thomas has enough to cope with, with the daunting prospect of seeing his mother. Now his journey has turned into an encounter with the unfathomable...or does it all have a logical explanation? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night of the Lions Kuki Gallmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Feb 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h199mm x w137mm x s16mm 178g 8pp b&w illustrations ISBN13: 9780140278965 ISBN13: 978-0-14-027896-5 ISBN10: 0140278966 x Description: Originally published in 1999 by Viking, an illustrated collection of stories about the African land and people, written by the author of AFRICAN NIGHTS and I DREAMED OF AFRICA. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
God On The Rocks Jane Gardam (Author) Series:
Abacus Books
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1988
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w126mm x s15mm 190g ISBN13: 9780349114064 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11406-4 ISBN10: 0349114064 EAN: 9780349114064 This Product is Replaced By: 9780349121499 x Description: During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine of the unsavoury Primal Saints; her mother, bitterly nostalgic for what might have been; Charles and Binkie, anchored in the past and a game of words; dying Mrs Frayling and Lydia the maid, given to the vulgar enjoyment of life; all contribute to Margaret's shattering moment of truth. And when the storm breaks, it is not only God who is on the rocks as the summer hurtles towards drama, tragedy, and a touch of farce. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Headcrusher Aleksei Evdokimo (Author) Alexander Garros (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h197mm x w130mm x s22mm 225g ISBN13: 9780099474722 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947472-2 ISBN10: 0099474727 EAN: 9780099474722 x Description: Vadim's having a tough time adjusting to capitalism. The grey, slushy Latvia he knows has not been the same since Euro-bypass surgery revived its economy. Everywhere he looks, designer-clad clones are hanging out in chic bars and driving expensive cars. His only escape is into the virtual world of the super-sophisticated computer game 'Headcrusher' where he can blast people away to his heart's content. Until, that is, he takes a blunt implement to his boss's real head and embarks on a killing spree that leads him to the limits of reality... Fast, furious and wicked fun, this is Russia's Fight Club and American Psycho rolled into one. Its high-octane combination of spoof and satire, humour and violence make it the most exciting novel to come out of the ex-USSR in a very long time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Flood Maggie Gee (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Saqi Books
Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub Date:
11 Feb 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 328pp h195mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9780863565120 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-512-0 ISBN10: 0863565123 x Description: President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical 'Last Days' sect is recruiting thousands ... When at last the sun breaks through the clouds Lottie heads off to the opera, husband Harold listens to jazz and their ditsy teenage daughter Lola fights capitalism by bunking off school. Shirley takes her twin boys to the zoo. The Government - eager to detract attention from a foreign war it has waged - announces a spectacular City Gala. But not even TV astrologer Davey Lucas can predict the extraordinary climax that ensues. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The White Family Maggie Gee (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Saqi Books
Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub Date:
07 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 345pp h198mm x w129mm 337g ISBN13: 9780863561405 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-140-5 ISBN10: 0863561403 x Description: The Whites are an ordinary British family: love, hatred, sex and death hold them together, and tear them apart. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Alfred White, a London park keeper, still rules his home with fierce conviction and inarticulate tenderness. May, his clever, passive wife, loves Alfred but conspires against him. Their three children are no longer close; the successful elder son, Darren, has escaped to the USA. When Alfred collapses on duty, his beautiful, childless daughter Shirley, who lives with Leroy, a black social worker, is brought face to face with Alfred's younger son Dirk, who hates and fears all black people. The scene is set for violence. In the end Alfred and May are forced to make a climactic decision: does justice matter more than kinship? This ambitious, groundbreaking novel takes on the taboo subject of racial hatred as it looks for the roots of violence within the family and within British society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George (Author) Simon Pare (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Little, Brown
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
22 Dec 2015 (31 Dec 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780349140377 ISBN13: 978-0-349-14037-7 ISBN10: 0349140375 EAN: 9780349140377 x Description: The international bestseller, translated from the German by Simon Pare. On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; or rather a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers.
The only person he is unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a broken heart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, when the love of his life fled Paris, leaving behind a handwritten letter that he has never dared read. His memories and his love have been gathering dust - until now. The arrival of an enigmatic new neighbour in his eccentric apartment building on Rue Montagnard inspires Jean to unlock his heart, unmoor the floating bookshop and set off for Provence, in search of the past and his beloved. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Theseus Andre Gide (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s8mm 160g ISBN13: 9781843910275 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-027-5 ISBN10: 1843910276 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Honour Thy Father Lesley Glaister (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
21 Jan 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm 140g ISBN13: 9780747542056 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-4205-6 ISBN10: 0747542058 x Description: In a remote, crumbling house in the Fens live four sisters - Agatha, Milly, and Ellen and Esther, identical twins so closely linked as to be almost one person. They have lived there all their lives, trapped still by the fear of their dead father, who governs his daughters' lives from beyond the grave. And then there is George, another inhabitant, imprisoned in the cellar. Bit by bit macabre events come to light; events that transformed an idyllic country childhood into a world of eccentric isolation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bee Season Myla Goldberg (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
07 Nov 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h197mm x w130mm 195g ISBN13: 9780007204939 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720493-9 ISBN10: 0007204930 x Description: The tie-in edition to the new film starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche. Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable eleven-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her father, Saul, absorbed in his study of mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer mother, Miriam. But when Eliza discovers an aptitude for competitive spelling, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality, Saul ushers her into his hallowed study and lavishes upon her the attention previously reserved for Aaron, who in his displacement embarks on a lone quest for spiritual fulfilment that leads him to the Hare Krishna. And when the unveiling of Miriam's secret life triggers an almighty explosion, it is Eliza who must order the chaos. Not merely a coming-of-age story, Myla Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unravelling fabric of one family. The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity. The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented American writer.
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Say Her Name Francisco Goldman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 350g ISBN13: 9781611855944 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-594-4 ISBN10: 1611855942 EAN: 9781611855944 x Description: Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. But instead he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain. Suddenly a widower, Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University, through their newlywed years in New York City and travels to Mexico and Europe-and always through the prism of her gifted writings-Goldman seeks her essence and grieves her loss. Humour leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of utter grief and creates a living portrait of a love as joyous and playful as it is deep and profound. Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura-who she was and who she would have been. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Innocent - a Format Export Only Posie Graeme-Evans (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
14 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h25mm x w111mm x s176mm 217g ISBN13: 9780340895146 ISBN13: 978-0-340-89514-6 ISBN10: 0340895144 x Description: The story begins in 1450, when civil unrest sweeps England and the struggle for the crown is at its peak. Deep in a western forest, a baby is born. Powerful forces plot to kill both mother and child, but somehow the newborn girl survives. Her name is Anne. Fifteen years later, England has a charismatic young king, Edward IV, and the country has begun to wake from the nightmare of the War of the Roses. When Anne is brought to London to be a servant in the household of a wealthy merchant, her unusual beauty soon provokes jealousy, lust and intrigue. But Anne has one special quality that saves her: her knowledge of herbs and healing. News of her remarkable gift spreads and she is brought to save the life of Edward's ailing queen. And so Anne comes to live in the royal palace, and it is here she finds her destiny: to be loved by the king himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dog Years Gunter Grass (Author) Ralph Manheim (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
21 Jul 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 426g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780749394509 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-9450-9 ISBN10: 0749394501 EAN: 9780749394509
x Description: In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the horrors of the Third Reich before anaesthetising itself with the chaos of disintegration. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Oct 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9780099478423 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947842-3 ISBN10: 0099478420 EAN: 9780099478423 x Description: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Ghost Girls Alice Greenway (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
13 Jul 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h197mm x w130mm x s14mm 193g ISBN13: 9781843544401 ISBN13: 978-1-84354-440-1 ISBN10: 1843544407 EAN: 9781843544401 x Description: Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 'Beautifully imagined... An extremely elegant, as well as visually arresting, first novel.' -- Daily Mail Two sisters grow together and apart into their emerging selves. Frankie pulses with curiosity and risk; Kate is watchful, all eyes and ears. Immersed in the heat and colours of Hong Kong in the 1960s, theirs is a world of fishermen and insurgents, temple gods and ghosts, of blinding light and dark, dark waters. As Frankie's behaviour becomes more and more outrageous in her defiant attempt to win her parents' attention, Kate retreats into a quiet desperation, unable to act to save the soul for whom she would sacrifice everything - Frankie. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Horse Walks into a Bar David Grossman (Author) Jessica Cohen (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Hebrew Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g ISBN13: 9781784704223 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-422-3 ISBN10: 1784704229 EAN: 9781784704223 x Description: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been summoned to this performance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reef Romesh Gunesekera (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
19 Feb 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h197mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781862070943 ISBN13: 978-1-86207-094-3 ISBN10: 1862070946 EAN: 9781862070943 x Description: Reef is a love story set in a spoiled paradise. It is told by Trtion, who at the age of eleven goes to work as a houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disappearing reef. Triton learns to polish silver; to mix a love cake with ten eggs, creamed butter and fresh cashew nuts; and to steam the exotic parrot fish for his master's lover. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: Vintage Voyages Xiaolu Guo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781784875312 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-531-2 ISBN10: 1784875317 EAN: 9781784875312
x Description: Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Feb 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm x s14mm 185g ISBN13: 9780140233117 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023311-7 ISBN10: 0140233113 x Description: Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker and Whitbread Prizes, this book is set in the decade before World War I, in the garden of a merchant's house on the coast of East Africa. Yusuf is 12 when he is sold into the service of the rich, perfumed merchant whom he has always known as "uncle" Aziz. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Lady of the Forest David Guterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export and UK open market ed
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
27 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747574460 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-7446-0 ISBN10: 0747574464 x Description: Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. Her past has been hardscrabble. Then one November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Is this delusion, a product of her occasional drug use, or a true calling to God? Gradually word spreads, and thousands converge upon the already troubled town. For Tom Cross, an embittered logger who's been out of work since his son was paralyzed in a terrible accident, the possibility that Ann's visions are real offers a last chance for him and his son. As Father Collins searches both his own soul and Ann's; as Carolyn struggles with her less than admirable intentions; as Tom alternates between despair and hope; "Our Lady of the Foreset" combines suspense, grit and humour in a story of faith at a contemporary crossroad. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 213g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099496939 ISBN13: 978-0-09-949693-9 ISBN10: 0099496933 EAN: 9780099496939
x Description: Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bad Dreams and Other Stories Tessa Hadley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 159g ISBN13: 9781784704049 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-404-9 ISBN10: 1784704040 EAN: 9781784704049 x Description: The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day. **WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE**
Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party. In these gripping and unsettling stories, the ordinary is made extraordinary and the real things that happen to people turn out to be every bit as mysterious as their dreams. `These well-turned, exceptionally nuanced pieces are solidly evocative of place, period...and sensory detail' Sunday Times `Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie Smith _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Short History Of A Prince Jane Hamilton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Apr 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp 283g ISBN13: 9780552998017 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99801-7 ISBN10: 055299801X EAN: 9780552998017 x Description: Walter McCloud was constantly eclipsed by those around him - his beautiful, talented friends, his flamboyant relatives, his golden-boy brother, Daniel. He was always the outsider, never the star. But the summer of 1972 was a turning point in the life of fifteen-year-old Walter. It was the time when he realized that his great passion for dance would never be matched by his talent; the time when he discovered the funny agony of first love' and the time when he watched his brother declining into a cruel, untimely death. It is only when, twenty-four years later, Walter returns to fight for the survival of his childhood Eden, his family's lakeside summer home, that he finally discovers a way to reconcile himself to the past in a way that gives hope for the future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cooking With Fernet Branca James Hamilton-Paterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h177mm x w111mm x s19mm 176g ISBN13: 9780571227068 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22706-8 ISBN10: 0571227066 EAN: 9780571227068 This Product Replaces: 9780571220915 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2004 Cooking with Fernet Branca is a gleefully tasteless bad dream of modern Italy, told through the eyes of Gerald Samper - effete Englishman, culinary adventurer, and ghostwriter to the stars. 'Wickedly witty . . . Anyone who does not add this hilarious divertimento to their summer reading list should be put on a forced diet of Gerald's inimitable Alien Pie.' Michael Dibdin,Guardian 'A deliciously nasty farce set in [Hamilton-Paterson's] adopted Tuscany . . . Cooking with Fernet Branca had me laughing out loud and uproariously. All Tuscanites should read it, preferably over a plate of stewed otter chunks in lobster sauce.' Sunday Telegraph 'Larded with bitter satire and piquant wit, at the expense, often, of its readers and their dreams of Italy . . . I laughed out loud several times a chapter.' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eros Island Tony Hanania (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
22 Jan 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h196mm x w129mm 150g ISBN13: 9780747552123 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-5212-3 ISBN10: 0747552126 x Description: As his father remains a recluse on a Spanish island, the narrator struggles to reconcile the slowly revealed secrets of his family's past in the Middle East with the decadence, artifice and egotism of his friends, the gay hedonist Reaper, the actress Rose Lovell and the famous artist Foley. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Homesick Tony Hanania (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
08 Jan 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w130mm 209g ISBN13: 9780747534976 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-3497-6 ISBN10: 0747534977 x Description: Banished from the sheltered idyll of his Beirut childhood, Toby Shadrach struggles to adapt to the treacherous new realities of a British boarding school. He begins to see a similar pattern of ritual and wild crazes between the school and the sectarian violence of the Middle East. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unreal City Tony Hanania (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
17 Apr 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h197mm x w128mm 250g Maps ISBN13: 9780747545781 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-4578-1 ISBN10: 0747545782 x Description: Born into one of the feudal families of the Lebanon mountains and educated in the west, the anonymous narrator returns to ruins, haunted by memories of his country's fractured past, to search for the mistress who betrayed him in his youth. He seeks final redemption in the cult of Shia Islam. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Sort of Books
Publisher:
Sort of Books
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h197mm x w130mm x s21mm 318g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9780954899547 ISBN13: 978-0-9548995-4-7 ISBN10: 0954899547 EAN: 9780954899547 x Description: Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man's house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family's holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerised by two children in a school playground, children she's never met but whose names she knows well? And which secret results in a former literary festival director sorting soiled laundry in a shabby hotel? All will be revealed...but at a cost. As Sophie Hannah uncovers the dark obsessions and strange longings behind the most ordinary relationships, life will never seem quite the same again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Other Half Lives: Culver Valley Crime Book 4 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Culver Valley Crime
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2009 (22 Oct 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h197mm x w130mm x s36mm 404g none ISBN13: 9780340933152 ISBN13: 978-0-340-93315-2 ISBN10: 0340933151 EAN: 9780340933152 x Description: The fourth psychological suspense novel from the phenomenal word-of-mouth bestselling Sophie Hannah. A must-read for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins. 'Utterly gripping' The Times 'Thrilling' Sunday Telegraph Why would anyone confess to a murder that never happened?
Ruth Bussey knows what it means to be in the wrong and to be wronged. She once did something she regrets, and her punishment nearly destroyed her. Now Ruth is rebuilding her life, and has found a love she doesn't believe she deserves: Aidan Seed. Aidan is also troubled by a past he hates to talk about, until one day he decides he must confide in Ruth. He tells her that years ago he killed someone: a woman called Mary Trelease. Ruth is confused. She's certain she's heard the name before, and when she realises why it sounds familiar, her fear and confusion deepen - because the Mary Trelease that Ruth knows is very much alive . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Birdman and the Lapdancer Eric Hansen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Publisher:
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp ISBN13: 9780413774996 ISBN13: 978-0-413-77499-6 ISBN10: 0413774996 x Description: Eric Hansen is an intrepid traveller with a keenly perceptive eye and an appreciation for the odd and unusual. He will go anywhere, try anything and always manages to capture something remarkable in the doing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ghost Robert Harris (Author) Series:
Edition:
Film Tie-In
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
04 Mar 2010
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 299g ISBN13: 9780099525127 ISBN13: 978-0-09-952512-7 ISBN10: 0099525127 EAN: 9780099525127 x Description: 'The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now...' The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister, especially as it means flying to the American resort of Martha's Vineyard in the middle of winter and finishing the book in the seclusion of a luxurious house. But it doesn't take him long to realise he has made a terrible mistake. His predecessor on the project died in circumstances that were distinctly suspicious, and the ex-prime minister turns out to be a man with secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill. The Times has called Robert Harris 'the leading current exponent of the intelligent literary thriller'. The Ghost is his most compelling novel yet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Notes on a Scandal Zoe Heller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 181g ISBN13: 9780141029061 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102906-1 ISBN10: 0141029064 EAN: 9780141029061 x Description: Film tie-in edition of Zoe Heller's darkly compelling Booker shortlisted novel. The film of Notes on a Scandal received four Oscar nominations and stars Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George's history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara's loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered having an illicit affair with one of her pupils, Barbara quickly elects herself as Sheba's chief defender. But all is not as it first seems in this dark story and, as Sheba will soon discover, a friend can be just as treacherous as any lover. 'Brilliant, nasty, gripping' Zadie Smith 'Compelling, dark, sexy' Observer 'Superbly gripping. One of the most compelling books I've read in ages' Daily Telegraph 'Deliciously sinister' Daily Mail
Zoe Heller is the author of three novels, Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and The Believers. The 2006 film adaptation of Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, received four Oscar nominations. She lives in New York. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Other Lulus Philip Hensher (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
16 Jun 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 187g ISBN13: 9780007152414 ISBN13: 978-0-00-715241-4 ISBN10: 0007152418 EAN: 9780007152414 x Description: A beautifully crafted tale of the loves, lust and lies of a young Viennese opera singer.
When young singer Friederike marries English music-seller Archy he claims to have discovered the lost last act of Alban Berg's opera `Lulu'. What emerges is a story of music, lying, marriage and cooking set against the backdrop of contemporary Vienna. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tatty Christine Dwyer Hickey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Jul 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 160g ISBN13: 9780099499350 ISBN13: 978-0-09-949935-0 ISBN10: 0099499355 EAN: 9780099499350 x Description: Hailed by the critics as a masterpiece, Tatty is a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a troubled Dublin family told through the lively, charismatic voice of a little girl. With brutal honesty, Tatty tells the story of her life with her beloved, feckless Dad, her tormented Mam, her five siblings and the booze that brings them down. This not just an entertaining tale, but also a heartbreaking account of a disturbed childhood that makes for compulsive reading. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lives of Women Christine Dwyer Hickey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Jan 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w128mm x s19mm 215g ISBN13: 9781782390077 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-007-7 ISBN10: 1782390073 EAN: 9781782390077 x Description: The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey, bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria. 'One of Ireland's most lauded modern writers, Christine Dwyer Hickey teases out the strands of her story... It leaves the reader with the aftertaste of regret for their own what might have been...' - Daily Mail Following a long absence spent in New York, Elaine Nichols returns to her childhood home to live with her invalid father and his geriatric Alsatian dog. The house backing on to theirs is sold and as she watches the old furniture stack up on the lawn, Elaine is brought back to a summer in the 1970s. She is almost sixteen again and this small out-of-town estate is an enclave for women and children while the men are mysterious shadows who leave every day for the outside world. The women are isolated but keep their loneliness and frustrations hidden behind a veneer of suburban respectability. When an American divorcee and her daughter move into the estate, the veneer begins to crack. The women learn how to socialise, how to drink martinis in the afternoon, how to care less about their wifely and maternal duties. While the women are distracted, Elaine and her friends find their own entry into the adult world and the result is a tragic event that will mark the rest of Elaine's life and be the cause of her long and guilt-ridden exile. Insightful and full of suspense, this is an uncompromising portrayal of the suburbs and the cruelties brought about by the demands of respectability. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Man Alive: A blisteringly funny novel of family and parenting Dave Hill (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2004
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w126mm x s22mm 240g None ISBN13: 9780755301904 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-0190-4 ISBN10: 0755301900 EAN: 9780755301904 x Description: Continuing the themes of family and fatherhood, Man Alive explores what happens when children leave home and their parents want to redefine themselves. Derek Hawker is getting on a bit but he's a good and successful chap. He has provided for his children, been faithful to his wife and as a visionary manager with the vast Bluelake retail mall he's at the peak of his career. But surely there is more to life than his half-baked, bitesized chunk? Meanwhile his wife has gone off travelling around the world for a year off being a mother, and their two late-teen children are rebelling against their parent's values. Man Alive is a novel about teen wars, teenage angst and parents who refuse to grow old gracefully. It is warm, witty, insightful, humane and very funny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines (Author) Series:
Penguin Decades
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 May 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g ISBN13: 9780141184982 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118498-2 ISBN10: 0141184981 EAN: 9780141184982 x Description: With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics. Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billy identifies with her silent strength and she inspires in him the trust and love that nothing else can, discovering through her the passion missing from his life. Barry Hines's acclaimed novel continues to reach new generations of teenagers and adults with its powerful story of survival in a tough, joyless world. Ken Loach's renowned film adaptation, Kes, has achieved cult status and in his new afterword Barry Hines discusses his work to adapt the novel into a screenplay, and reappraises the legacy of a book that has become a popular classic. Barry Hines (b. 1939) was born in the mining village of Hoyland Common, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Leaving Ecclesfield Grammar School without any qualifications, Hines worked as an apprentice mining surveyor for the National Coal Board before entering Loughborough Training College to study Physical Education. Working as a teacher in Hoyland Common, he wrote novels in the school library after work, later turning to writing full-time. If you enjoyed A Kestrel for a Knave, you might like The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London, published in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When I Forgot Elina Hirvonen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h197mm x w130mm x s13mm 138g ISBN13: 9781846270956 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-095-6 ISBN10: 1846270952 EAN: 9781846270956 x Description: Anna is on her way to the hospital where her brother has been sectioned when she falters, and, in that pause, her world splinters for the reader into a blazing display of memory and madness, of childhood security treasured and shattered, and of families blighted by psychological trauma her brother's and that of her boyfriend's father, a Vietnam veteran. But, in Elina Hirvonen's skilful hands, the grimness is illuminated by firecracker insight and flashes of surprising beauty. And, above all, there is hope. This is an astonishingly assured and compelling debut novel about the love siblings have for each other, the past they share and the painful memories that shape their lives for ever. This title will especially delight readers of Andrea Ashworth, Maggie O'Farrell, Ali Smith, Kate Atkinson and Vendela Vida. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Return Victoria Hislop (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 592pp h177mm x w115mm x s38mm 310g Map ISBN13: 9780755348947 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-4894-7 ISBN10: 075534894X EAN: 9780755348947 x Description: An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of passion, pain and pride at the heart of war-torn Spain Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets. Sonia Cameron knows nothing of the city's shocking past; she is here to dance. But in a quiet cafe, a chance conversation and an intriguing collection of old photographs draw her into the extraordinary tale of Spain's devastating civil war. Seventy years earlier, the cafe is home to the close-knit Ramirez family. In 1936, an army coup led by Franco shatters the country's fragile peace, and in the heart of Granada the family witnesses the worst atrocities of conflict. Divided by politics and tragedy, everyone must take a side, fighting a personal battle as Spain rips itself apart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sunrise Victoria Hislop (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h178mm x w116mm x s29mm 226g Map ISBN13: 9780755377817 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-7781-7 ISBN10: 0755377818 EAN: 9780755377817 x Description: The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple open the island's most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. Two neighbouring families, the Georgious and the OEzkans, are among many who moved to Famagusta to escape the years of unrest and ethnic violence elsewhere on the island. But beneath the city's facade of glamour and success, tension is building. When a Greek coup plunges the island into chaos, Cyprus faces a disastrous conflict. Turkey invades to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority, and Famagusta is shelled. Forty thousand people seize their most precious possessions and flee from the advancing soldiers. In the deserted city, just two families remain. This is their story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man Who Watched Women Michael Hjorth (Author) Hans Rosenfeldt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s33mm 362g ISBN13: 9781784752408 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-240-8 ISBN10: 1784752401 EAN: 9781784752408 x Description: As a heatwave blazes in Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere. The murders bear all the hallmarks of Edward Hinde, the serial killer jailed by psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman fifteen years earlier. Sebastian desperately needs some order in his chaotic life. The revelation that he has a daughter, Vanja, could provide this longed-for stability. But should he tell her the truth and risk destroying her life and career? Forcing his way into the investigation, Sebastian soon learns that the murders are connected to him and that no one around him is safe. Including Vanja. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dust To Dust Tami Hoag (Author) Series:
Kovac & Liska
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s30mm 225g ISBN13: 9780752843339 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4333-9 ISBN10: 0752843338 EAN: 9780752843339 This Product is Replaced By: 9781409121466 x Description: The death of internal affairs investigator Andy Paxton is a potential political bomb for the Minneapolis Police Department...Andy Paxton was gay and he was investigating a possible cop connection in the brutal murder of another gay officer. But Andy's death looks like suicide, or an unfortunate and embarrassing accident, and the pressure is on from the top brass to close the case as soon as possible. But the investigation's lead detective Sam Kovac is not convinced the case is as straightforward as it appears. As he digs deeper, it is looking very much like Paxton discovered something that got him killed. And he might not be the final victim... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Firesong: A Novel Of Russia Joseph Hone (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 704pp h197mm x w130mm x s42mm 465g ISBN13: 9780330321501 ISBN13: 978-0-330-32150-1 ISBN10: 0330321501 EAN: 9780330321501 x Description: New Year's Day, 1906. A family celebrates, skating on the ice of a vast lake, far north in Russia. Cousins of the Romanov Tsars, this is the Rumovsky family - Prince Pyotr, his wife Princess Sofia, their son Ivan and twins Yelena and Alexander, and their young Irish governess, Miss Harriet. With them is the patriarch of the family, old Prince Mikhail, a strange, towering figure, a man from another century, with his fabulous Boyars' court at the castle, a Tamburlaine of the snows . . . Behind the Rumovsky family and their mediaeval island castle lie 300 years of autocratic but peaceful rule. Ahead of them, the old Prince expects the same for his descendants. It is not to be. Firesong is the story of the Rumovskies - their lives, deaths and hazardous escapes in the nightmarish new Russia that soon engulfs them: a land stricken by famine, pestilence, war and death. A story both intimate and epic, reminiscent of Dr Zhivago, this is a dramatic saga of men and women who fight for their destiny, in love and peace, against all the odds of war and dissolution. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Whatever Michel Houellebecq (Author) Paul Hammond (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jan 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w128mm x s10mm 115g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852425845 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-584-5 ISBN10: 1852425849 EAN: 9781852425845 This Product is Replaced By: 9781846687846 x
Description: Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system... A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl Siri Hustvedt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
19 Jun 1997 (04 Feb 2010)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h197mm x w130mm x s19mm 208g None ISBN13: 9780340682364 ISBN13: 978-0-340-68236-4 ISBN10: 0340682361 EAN: 9780340682364 x Description: Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. Drawn into a world of erotic adventure, she finds herself the target of mysterious acts of madness as she strains against the confines of small town life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Carry Me Down M. J. Hyland (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2007
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w112mm x s20mm 180g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781841959719 ISBN13: 978-1-84195-971-9 ISBN10: 1841959715 EAN: 9781841959719 x Description: Ireland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, 'a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth'. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records and faith in his ability to detect when adults are lying, John remains hopeful despite the unfortunate cards life deals him. During one year in John's life, from his voice breaking, through the breaking-up of his home life, to the near collapse of his sanity, we witness the gradual unsticking of John's mind, and the trouble that creates for him and his family. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Carry Me Down M. J. Hyland (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h199mm x w130mm x s21mm 249g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781841959061 ISBN13: 978-1-84195-906-1 ISBN10: 1841959065 EAN: 9781841959061
x Description: Ireland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, 'a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth'. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records and faith in his ability to detect when adults are lying, John remains hopeful despite the unfortunate cards life deals him. During one year in John's life, from his voice breaking, through the breaking-up of his home life, to the near collapse of his sanity, we witness the gradual unsticking of John's mind, and the trouble that creates for him and his family. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deafening Frances Itani (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export ed
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 400pp h23mm x w111mm x s177mm 211g n/a ISBN13: 9780340833322 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83332-2 ISBN10: 0340833327 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Act of Love Howard Jacobson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2009 (05 May 2011)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 224g ISBN13: 9780099526735 ISBN13: 978-0-09-952673-5 ISBN10: 0099526735 EAN: 9780099526735 x Description: No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else. Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London's oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores the beautiful Marisa. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realises that he can only be truly happy if his wife is sleeping with another man. Enter Marius into Marisa's affections. And now Felix must ask himself, is he really happy? By the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
03 May 2011
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 193g ISBN13: 9781408818466 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-1846-6 ISBN10: 1408818469 EAN: 9781408818466 x Description: Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they
had loved and lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked - and his whole sense of who and what he is slowly and ineluctably changes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Two Hearts Of Kwasi Boachi Arthur Japin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 245g ISBN13: 9780099287872 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928787-2 ISBN10: 0099287870 EAN: 9780099287872 x Description: In 1837, two young African princes arrive at the court of Willem I in the Netherlands. They have been given to the Dutch by the King of the Ashanti as surety in a deal over illegal slave trading. The two boys think they have been sent to acquire a European education, but time passes. They forget their native language and become exiles. Treated as curiosities by white people, their friendship suffers and their paths diverge. Years later, as the twentieth century dawns, the elderly Kwasi, now owner of a coffee plantation in Java, sits down to write his autobiography. Based on a true story, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi is both a brilliant piece of storytelling and a moving portrayal of the search for identity and belonging. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Women as Lovers Elfriede Jelinek (Author) Martin Chalmers (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 1994
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h199mm x w128mm x s15mm 180g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852422370 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-237-0 ISBN10: 1852422378 EAN: 9781852422370 x Description: The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a woman's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realize that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory. Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for for Heinz, a young, plump, up-and-coming businessman. With Paula, feelings and dreams become confused. She gets pregnant by Erich, the forestry worker. He's handsome, so they marry. Brigitte gets it right. Paula gets it wrong. Using the conventions and language of romantic fiction, Elfriede Jelinek has written a moving tragedy whose power lies in its refusal to take at face value its characters' dreams and aspirations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lust Elfriede Jelinek (Author) Michael Hulse (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Mar 1992
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w128mm x s17mm 178g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852421830 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-183-0 ISBN10: 1852421835 EAN: 9781852421830
x Description: In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann pours his juices, nastily, briefly, brutally. The long-suffering and battered Gerti thinks she has found her saviour and love in Michael, a student who rescues her after a day of vigorous use by her husband. But Michael is on his way up the Austrian political ladder, and he is, after all, a man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wonderful, Wonderful Times Elfriede Jelinek (Author) M. Hulse (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 1990
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h200mm x w125mm x s15mm 192g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852421687 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-168-7 ISBN10: 1852421681 EAN: 9781852421687 x Description: 'That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy heap on the ground. What's unnecessary is best of all, says Rainer, who wants to go on fighting. We ageed on that.' It is the late 1950s. A man is out walking in a park in Vienna. He will be beaten up by four teenagers, not for his money, he has an average amount ? nor for anything he might have done to them, but because the youths are arrogant and very pleased with themselves. Their arrogance is their way of reacting to the maggot?ridden corpse that is Austria where everyone has a closet to hide their Nazi histories, their sexual perversions and their hatred of the foreigner. Elfriede Jelinek, who writes like an angel of all that is tawdry, shows in Wonderful, Wonderful Times how actions of the present are determined by thoughts of the past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moral Hazard Kate Jennings (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 158g ISBN13: 9781841157382 ISBN13: 978-1-84115-738-2 ISBN10: 1841157384 EAN: 9781841157382 x Description: The acclaimed second novel from Kate Jennings, author of `Snake'. On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. She finds herself working there because she needs serious money: after ten good years, her beloved older husband Bailey is gravely ill. So begins her journey into two nightmare worlds. `Powerful, and darkly, disconcertingly comic.' Margaret Walters, Sunday Times `Blackly funny, coruscatingly clear-eyed and intelligent, Kate Jennings' second novel doesn't waste a word.' Maureen Duffy, author of Restitution `A unique book by an extraordinary writer: The great city illuminated from within.' Shirley Hazzard, author of `The Transit of Venus' `A small pearl of a novel...as gripping as any thriller.' Newsday _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If You Are Afraid of Heights Raj Kamal Jha (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 157g ISBN13: 9780330427364 ISBN13: 978-0-330-42736-4 ISBN10: 0330427369 EAN: 9780330427364 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Nine Lives Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Author) C.S. Jhabvala (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w126mm x s18mm 210g 9 drawings by C.S. Jhabvala ISBN13: 9780719561832 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6183-2 ISBN10: 0719561833 EAN: 9780719561832 x Description: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a novelist of unequalled insight, grace and emotional power. My Nine Lives represents a new and fascinating strand in her outstanding canon of work: as she puts it, the 'potentially autobiographical'. Behind her poised, eloquent prose Ruth Prawer Jhabvala deftly tussles with the existential question of how destiny is shaped. In each chapter of My Nine Lives the narrator faces a startlingly different fate. One story takes place in India, the next in New York; in one the narrator is grown married woman, in another a dependent daughter, in one a scholar, in another an uneducated ingenue. But a complex thread interlinks the seemingly disparate stories: the 'I' of each chapter has Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Jewish, Central European background. Here are nine different answers to the central question: what would happen if I were granted an alternative life? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Crazed Ha Jin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 336pp h177mm x w111mm x s21mm 185g ISBN13: 9780099453598 ISBN13: 978-0-09-945359-8 ISBN10: 0099453592 EAN: 9780099453598 x Description: In his powerful new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - has been assigned to care for him. What initially seems a simple if burdensome duty becomes more problematic when the professor begins to rave: pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family, his colleagues, and a system in which a scholar is 'just a piece of meat on a cutting board.'Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. At once nuanced and fierce, earthy and humane, The Crazed is further evidence of Ha Jin's prodigious narrative gifts. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In The Pond Ha Jin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 192pp h180mm x w110mm x s14mm 105g ISBN13: 9780099429340 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942934-0 ISBN10: 0099429349 EAN: 9780099429340 x Description: Shao Bin is a factory fitter in a small Chinese town, a poor and unconnected man with a young wife and a small child, but also an accomplished artist and calligrapher. He's worked at the plant for six years, so feels that this time his family will get an appartment in Worker's Park, where his wife won't have to walk two miles to wash their clothes. But the party controls everything in the town, and again, the apartments go to corrupt officials and their cronies. Outraged, Bin pens a series of political cartoons attacking them, and finds his trouble is only just beginning. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sixty Lights Gail Jones (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Harvill Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Sep 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback Paper over boards 256pp h223mm x w136mm x s24mm 390g ISBN13: 9781843431954 ISBN13: 978-1-84343-195-4 ISBN10: 1843431955 EAN: 9781843431954 x Description: "Photography has without doubt made her a seer; she is a woman of the future, someone leaning into time, beyond others, precarious, unafraid to fall..." This is the story of Lucy Strange, a photographer, while the art is in its infancy, in the 1870s, who exists in an extraordinarily heightened state of seeing and imagining. Her tale is told in sixty illuminated parts - using candlelight, flames, lightning, gas-lamps, mirrors, magic lanterns and, most mysteriously, lit faces and bodies. In a contracted, almost modernist form, Sixty Lights tracks Lucy's life from her childhood in Australia, to her stormy adolescence in England and India and finally to her death in London at the age of twenty-three. It is a life abbreviated, but not a life diminished: she is a remarkable character, forthright, gifted, passionate and canny. Sixty Lights plays powerfully with Victorian tropes and texts orphans, inheritances, Great Expectations - setting them against the technological revolution in seeing that is inspired by photography. Written with astute imagistic precision, the story is deeply layered, fluctuating between past, present and future. This is an impressive UK debut from a prizewinning _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Never Greener Ruth Jones (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
21 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w127mm x s31mm 360g ISBN13: 9781784162221 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-222-1 ISBN10: 1784162221 EAN: 9781784162221 x Description: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, PICKED FOR THE ZOE BALL TV BOOK CLUB 'Ruth Jones is excellent on human nature and why we make the mistakes we do. I felt for every character. Unputdownable.' Jojo Moyes *****
The past has a habit of tracking us down. And tripping us up. When Kate was twenty-two, she had an intense and passionate affair with a married man, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Kate thought she'd never get over it. Seventeen years later, life has moved on - Kate, now a successful actress, is living in London, married to Matt and mother to little Tallulah. Meanwhile Callum and his wife Belinda are happy together, living in Edinburgh and watching their kids grow up. The past, it would seem, is well and truly behind them all. But then Kate meets Callum again. And they are faced with a choice: to walk away from each other . . . or to risk finding out what might have been. Second chances are a rare gift in life. But that doesn't mean they should always be taken . . . ***** In her unmissable debut, actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones shows us the dangers of trying to recapture that which was once lost and failing to realise the beauty of what we already have. ***** 'I love books about gnarly, messy relationships and this one kept me gripped from the beginning. A great read.' Jane Fallon 'Heart-rending, provocative and astutely written, Never Greener is a love story about getting what you want and losing everything you need. Ruth's characters will stay with me for a long time.' Cathy Bramley US THREE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM RUTH JONES, IS COMING IN 2020 AND AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter Pamela Jooste (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 1998 (01 Jan 1999)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w127mm 256g ISBN13: 9780552997577 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99757-7 ISBN10: 0552997579 EAN: 9780552997577 x Description: 'My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden. We are all women in our house. My grandmother, my Aunt Stella with her hopalong leg, and me. The men in our family are not worth much. They are the cross we have to bear. Some of us, like my mother, don't live here any more. People say she went on the Kimberley train to try for white and I mustn't blame her because she could get away with it even if we didn't believe she would.' Through the sharp yet loving eyes of eleven-year-old Lily we see the whole exotic, vivid, vigorous culture of the Cape Coloured community at the time when apartheid threatened its destruction. As Lily's beautiful but angry mother returns to Cape Town, determined to fight for justice for her family, so the story of Lily's past - and future - erupts. Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter is a powerful and moving tribute to a richly individual people. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Frieda And Min Pamela Jooste (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w127mm x s23mm 254g ISBN13: 9780552997584 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99758-4 ISBN10: 0552997587 EAN: 9780552997584
x Description: When Frieda first met Min, with her golden hair and ivory bones, what struck her most was that Min was wearing a pair of African sandals, the sort made out of old car tyres. She was a silent, unhappy girl, dumped on Frieda's exuberant family in Johannesburg for the summer of 1964 so that her mother could go off with her new husband. In a way, Min and Frieda were both outsiders - Min, raised in the bush by her idealistic doctor father, and Frieda, daughter of a poor Jewish saxophone player who lived almost on top of a native neighborhood. The two girls, thrown together - the 'white kaffir' and the poor Jewish girl - formed a strange but loyal friendship, a friendship that was to last even through the terrible years of oppression and betrayal during the time of South Africa under Apartheid. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Like Water In Wild Places Pamela Jooste (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp 228g ISBN13: 9780552998673 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99867-3 ISBN10: 0552998672 EAN: 9780552998673 x Description: "Like Water in Wild Places" is a story about a brother and sister trying to throw off the legacy of hatred and derision that formed so much of their upbringing in South Africa. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Broken April Ismail Kadare (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Nov 2003 (04 Dec 2008)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 159g ISBN13: 9780099449874 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944987-4 ISBN10: 0099449870 EAN: 9780099449874 x Description: From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April. Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugitive. The bride's heart goes out to Gjorg, and even these 'civilised' strangers from the city risk becoming embroiled in the fatal mechanism of vendetta. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Successor Ismail Kadare (Author) David Bellos (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Albanian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 154g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781841958873 ISBN13: 978-1-84195-887-3 ISBN10: 1841958875 EAN: 9781841958873 x Description: The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14. Did he kill himself or was he murdered? This question slices through Ismail Kadare's masterful psychological thriller. As the state insists that the future leader died by his own hand, the rest of the world begins to have doubts. As the tension builds and rumours escalate, Kadare draws us into a nightmarish world controlled by rules no one understands, blending dream and reality to produce a mystery and a thriller that seduces and surprises up to the last page. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Trial Franz Kafka (Author) Idris Parry (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jun 2000 (25 Jan 2007)
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g ISBN13: 9780141182902 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118290-2 ISBN10: 0141182903 EAN: 9780141182902 x Description: A gripping work of psychological horror, in its depiction of bureaucracy run amok Franz Kafka's The Trial skirts the line between fantasy and reality. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the German with an introduction by Idris Parry. 'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial for his right to exist. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral. Maintaining an atmosphere of unease throughout, this chilling, thought-provoking novel, more than any other, is infinitely perceptive about the nature of terror and the absurd meaninglessness and futility of human life. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a Czech-born German-speaking insurance clerk who despised his job, preferring to spend his time writing. Nevertheless, Kafka published little during his lifetime, and ordered his closest friend to burn the mass of unpublished manuscripts - now familiar to us as some of the most influential novels and short stories of the twentieth century - after his death. Kafka's novels, all available in Penguin Modern Classics, include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika. If you enjoyed The Trial, you might like Kafka's The Castle, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'This compelling, prophetic novel anticipates the insanity of modern bureaucracy and the coming of totalitarianism' Daily Telegraph 'It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of [The Trial] that it offers everything and confirms nothing' Albert Camus
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The Commissariat of Enlightenment Ken Kalfus (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ecco Press
Publisher:
Ecco Press
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United States Hardback Sewn 304pp h235mm x w164mm x s28mm 590g ISBN13: 9780060501365 ISBN13: 978-0-06-050136-5 ISBN10: 0060501367 EAN: 9780060501365 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pu 239 and Other Russian Fantasies Ken Kalfus (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Simon & Schuster
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub Date:
01 Dec 2000
Publishing Status:
Unspecified
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 304pp h185mm x w165mm x s19mm 327g ISBN13: 9780743400756 ISBN13: 978-0-7434-0075-6 ISBN10: 0743400755 x Description: With the publication of his first story collection, Thirst -- also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year -- Ken Kalfus made "a dazzling debut," emerging as "a major literary talent" (Salon.com). Now, in this eagerly anticipated follow-up -- drawn from his four years living in Moscow and traveling the breadth of the Russian landscape -- Kalfus creates unforgettable etchings of individual lives throughout a century of turbulent history, in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. Imaginative, densely detailed, and consistently rewarding, PU-239 And Other Russian Fantasies is a brilliant showcase for "one of the most interesting writers working today" (The San Diego Union-Tribune). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Snakes & Earrings Hitomi Kanehara (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h178mm x w130mm x s9mm 115g ISBN13: 9780099483670 ISBN13: 978-0-09-948367-0 ISBN10: 009948367X EAN: 9780099483670 x Description: This tale of sex and darkness is narrated by Lui, an alienated young Japanese woman who becomes disastrously involved with two dangerous men. Lui first meets her boyfriend Ama in a bar after finding herself mesmerised by his forked tongue. She immediately moves in with him and begins following him down the path to body modification by having her tongue pierced and planning a beautiful tattoo for her back. Ama's friend Shiba creates this exquisite tattoo and as he works on it Lui begins an illicit and brutal sexual relationship with him. Then, after a violent encounter on the back streets of Tokyo, Ama goes missing and Lui must face up to her choices. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fratricides Nikos Kazantzakis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
17 Jan 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 256pp h178mm x w112mm x s17mm 165g ISBN13: 9780571105069 ISBN13: 978-0-571-10506-9 ISBN10: 0571105068 EAN: 9780571105069 x Description: The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of the villagers, including Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, have taken to the mountains and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and, with murder, death and destruction everywhere, Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Freedom and Death Nikos Kazantzakis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
01 Nov 1995
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 480pp h180mm x w110mm x s30mm 297g ISBN13: 9780571178575 ISBN13: 978-0-571-17857-5 ISBN10: 057117857X EAN: 9780571178575 x Description: Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island is thrown into confusion yet again. In the village of Megalokastro a Cretan resistance fighter, Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother. The life of the local community continues shakily, but is disrupted by explosions of violence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House USA Paperbacks
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
01 Dec 1996
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h200mm x w132mm x s11mm 170g Illustrations, unspecified ISBN13: 9780679762652 ISBN13: 978-0-679-76265-2 ISBN10: 0679762655 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Fat Brother Jim Keeble (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Aug 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w130mm x s25mm 272g ISBN13: 9780141009261 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100926-1 ISBN10: 0141009268 x Description: Scott has it all. A beautiful girlfriend, a career and a slim physique. In contrast, his brother Jes is overweight, piling on the pounds in front of the TV with his wife. When their mother dies and their worlds start to crumble, both men must face up to their feelings of abandonment and insecurity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Turlough Brian Keenan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp 239g ISBN13: 9780099474319 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947431-9 ISBN10: 009947431X x Description: While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life imprisoned, shaped by the dark. Narrated largely by O'Carolan from his death-bed, and through the recollections of those closest to him, Turlough powerfully brings to life a lost Ireland of famine and disease, eviction and oppression. Stalking through the broken and dispossessed comes Turlough O'Carolan, the musical prodigy, blinded by smallpox and now an itinerant harper, lauded by the aristocracy and a hero to his people. His Rabelaisian desire for drink and women is counterpointed by his artistic struggle towards the great music and some kind of inner peace. Driven by demons and dreams, riven by contradictions, Turlough emerges as a great man, full of frailty: a blind man afraid of the dark. A panoramic picaresque, rich with the textures and smells of rural Ireland and peopled by a host of angels and devils, Turlough is a remarkable historical journey, and a huge imaginative feat. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Disaffection James Kelman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Oct 1999 (05 Jun 2008)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 245g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099283096 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928309-6 ISBN10: 0099283093 EAN: 9780099283096 x Description: Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pigeon English Stephen Kelman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2011
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h234mm x w153mm 444g ISBN13: 9781408810637 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-1063-7 ISBN10: 1408810638 EAN: 9781408810637 x Description: Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. With equal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of urban survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gossip From the Forest Thomas Keneally (Author) Series:
Edition:
2nd edition
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Nov 1988 (01 Nov 2001)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h197mm x w129mm x s16mm 166g none ISBN13: 9780340431047 ISBN13: 978-0-340-43104-7 ISBN10: 0340431040 EAN: 9780340431047 x Description: In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the Germans struggle to mitigate the punishing terms offered by the Allies. But both sides are torn by battle exhaustion and a confusion that far exceed their national differences. In this riveting combination of history, speculation and rumour, Thomas Keneally recreates the personalities, ideals, prejudices, arguments and desperate measures that resulted in the armistice which would shape the future of Europe.
Price: GBP5.99 Edition: Second Format:198 x 129 mm Imprint: Sceptre Markets:BCN ex Can
Four of Thomas Keneally's novels have been shortlisted for the Booker prize and SCHINDLER'S ARK (filmed by Steven Spielberg as Schindler's List) has sold more copies than any other Booker Prize-winner. He is also the author of several works of non-fiction, including THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN, about the American Southwest.
BIRTHPLACE: New South Wales, Australia. WHEREABOUTS: Sydney, Australia
PREVIOUS BOOKS: INCLUDE BLOOD RED, SISTER ROSE; CONFEDERATES; THE PLAYMAKER; THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN; A FAMILY MADNESS; TOWARDS ASMARA; WOMAN OF THE INNER SEA; JACKO; SCHINDLER'S LIST
THE PROMOTION
*Part of the new Sceptre relaunch
SELLING POINTS
(1)Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
(2) Publication will coincide with Keneally's new novel A RIVER TOWN and the paperback of JACKO.
(3) Author PR on publication. Keneally will be here to take part in the Sceptre promotion.
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Roman Song Brian Kennedy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hachette Books Ireland
Publisher:
Hachette Books Ireland
Pub Date:
03 May 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: Ireland Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h197mm x w128mm x s22mm 249g ISBN13: 9780340832325 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83232-5 ISBN10: 0340832320 EAN: 9780340832325 x Description: When Fergal Flynn's remarkable singing talent is discovered by world-famous opera star Alfredo Moretti, the young man leaves his native Belfast and sets out for Rome, to study under the famous singer. It's a far cry from working-class Belfast, but Fergal soon finds out that excaping from a troubled past is not just a matter of geography. The more he tries to hide his rough edges, the harder it becomes for him to unearth his true voice. Then, Sudden news from home means he must returns to face one of the biggest challenges of his life. As Fergal begins to see his life in a new light, Alfredo faces his own drama as his buried past come back to haunt him. The result is an enchanting, funny and moving tale of coming to terms with your true self and of learning to recognise the signs when love comes to town. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Spinsters Pagan Kennedy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 168pp h204mm x w126mm x s11mm 180g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852424053 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-405-3 ISBN10: 1852424052 EAN: 9781852424053 x Description: It?s 1968, and Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, are finally freed from family ties and constraints when their father dies. Taking off in their Plymouth Valiant they hit the road on a journey through the changing cultural landscape of America - civil rights marches, the assasinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. Frannie longs to return to the safety of her former reclusive life, but Doris just wants to raise hell and get laid. A touching, lyrical, and superbly crafted mid-life coming-of-age tale that was short-listed for the 1996 Orange Prize. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fatelessness Imre Kertesz (Author) Tim Wilkinson (Translated by) Series:
Vintage International
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 272pp h202mm x w135mm x s15mm 200g ISBN13: 9781400078639 ISBN13: 978-1-4000-7863-9 ISBN10: 1400078636 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kaddish For An Unborn Child Imre Kertesz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Books
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 144pp 137g ISBN13: 9781400078622 ISBN13: 978-1-4000-7862-2 ISBN10: 1400078628 EAN: 9781400078622 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Break Marian Keyes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 672pp h198mm x w129mm x s37mm 484g ISBN13: 9781405918756 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-1875-6 ISBN10: 1405918756 EAN: 9781405918756 x Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER & SHORTLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'The Break is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest, glorious best' Nina Stibbe _____________ 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her. He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months in South-East Asia. And nothing she says can stop him. But when does a break become a break-up? For a lot can happen in six months. And it's enough to send Amy and her family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers teetering over the edge. When Hugh returns, if he returns, will he be the same man she married? Will Amy be the same woman? Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then isn't she? _____________ 'Just brilliant' Sunday Times 'Mercilessly funny' The Times 'I laughed . . . I cried' Daily Mail 'Full of darkness and light, this is Keyes at her classic and most brilliant best' Red
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Mosaic Soheir Khashoggi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Nov 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp 212g ISBN13: 9780553814101 ISBN13: 978-0-553-81410-1 ISBN10: 0553814109 EAN: 9780553814101 x Description: Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City and the exotic splendour of Jordan, Mosaic is a story of love and betrayal, of a clash of cultures and traditions - and one woman's struggle to recapture her life. Like many working mothers, Dina Ahmed has become adept at juggling her family life with her work commitments. The owner of Mosaic, the thriving floral design business she has worked hard to establish, Dina has been blessed with success, beauty and, most importantly, a happy family. But one fateful day she returns to her lavish Upper East Side home to discover that her six-year-old twins have vanished - and very suddenly, her once comfortable life is turned upside down. It is only after many desperate phone calls - and anxious hours spent piecing the puzzle together - that Dina is forced to accept the terrible truth: her husband, Karim, has snatched the twins and has returned to Jordon with them to begin a new life. Distraught but determined to fight for her children, Dina turns to her friends, Emmeline and Sarah - and to John Constantine, the one man she must learn to trust if she can ever hope to rebuild her shattered life. -Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City and the exotic splendour of Jordan, Mosaic is a story of love and betrayal, of a clash of cultures and traditions - and one woman's struggle to recapture her life. Like many working mothers, Dina Ahmed has become adept at juggling her family life with her work commitments. The owner of Mosaic, the thriving floral design business she has worked hard to establish, Dina has been blessed with success, beauty and, most importantly, a happy family. But one fateful day she returns to her lavish Upper East Side home to discover that her sixyear-old twins have vanished - and very suddenly, her once comfortable life is turned upside down. It is only after many desperate phone calls - and anxious hours spent piecing the puzzle together - that Dina is forced to accept the terrible truth: her husband, Karim, has snatched the twins and has returned to Jordan with them to begin a new life. Distraught but determined to fight for her children, Dina turns to her friends, Emmeline and Sarah and to John Constantine, the one man she must learn to trust if she can ever hope to rebuild her shattered life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Everything I Don't Remember Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export
Imprint:
Scribner UK
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning No warning 320pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781471155086 ISBN13: 978-1-4711-5508-6 ISBN10: 1471155080 EAN: 9781471155086 x Description: Dazzling, inventive, witty: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial A young man called Samuel dies, but was it an accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. Through conversations with friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant bureaucrat, the loyal friend, the contrived poser. The young man who would do anything for his girlfriend Laide and share everything with his friend Vandad. Until Vandad, marginalised and broke, desperate to get closer to Samuel, drives a wedge between the friends, and Samuel loses them both. Everything I Don't Remember is an enthralling tale of love and memory. It is also the story of a writer who, in filling out the contours of Samuel's life, is trying to grasp a universal truth - in the end, how do we account for the substance of a life? 'With its energetic prose and innovative structure, Everything I Don't Remember confirms that Jonas Hassen Khemiri is not only one of Sweden's best authors, but a great talent of our time' Vendela Vida, author of The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty 'Heartbreakingly sad and laugh-out-loud funny . . . Khemiri's wry , sharply observed tales of post-9-11 Swedish life have a huge following. This novel's chorus of drifters, romantics and cynics stick in the memory, each competing to tell their own truth' Hari Kunzru 'A generation-defining writer' Sunday Times
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Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver (Author) Series:
Edition:
Open market ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
19 Mar 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h178mm x w111mm 237g ISBN13: 9780571207831 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20783-1 ISBN10: 0571207839 x Description: This work weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the mountains and small farms of southern Appalachia. It portrays various people who find their connections to one another, and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel Sophie Kinsella (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 464pp h198mm x w127mm x s29mm 315g ISBN13: 9781784160425 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-042-5 ISBN10: 1784160423 EAN: 9781784160425 x Description: Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed. OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares on Instagram isn't really hers. But one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren't they? Until her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful boss Demeter gives her the sack. All Katie's hopes are shattered. She has to move home to Somerset, where she helps her dad with his new glamping business. Then Demeter and her family book in for a holiday, and Katie sees her chance. But should she get revenge on the woman who ruined her dreams - or try to get her job back? Does Demeter - the woman who has everything - actually have such an idyllic life herself? Maybe they have more in common than it seems. And what's wrong with not-so-perfect, anyway? Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella: "I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail "Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan "Properly mood-altering . . . funny, fast and farcical. I loved it" Jojo Moyes "A superb tale. Five stars!" Heat _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Separation Katie Kitamura (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
The Clerkenwell Press
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 204g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781781256619 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-661-9 ISBN10: 1781256616 EAN: 9781781256619 x Description: A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love. A story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man Who Spoke Snakish Andrus Kivirahk (Author) Christopher Moseley (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date:
06 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 329g ISBN13: 9781611855272 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-527-2 ISBN10: 1611855276 EAN: 9781611855272 x Description: Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they're bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe. Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with his hunter-gatherer family. But when incomprehensible outsiders arrive aboard ships and settle nearby, with an intriguing new religion, the forest begins to empty - people are moving to the village and breaking their backs tilling fields to make bread. Meanwhile, Leemut and the last forest-dwelling humans refuse to adapt: with bare-bottomed primates and their love of ancient traditions, promiscuous bears, and a single giant louse, they live in shacks, keep wolves, and speak to snakes. Told with moving and satirical prose, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is a fiercely imaginative allegory about a boy, and a nation, standing on the brink of dramatic change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Professor Martens' Departure Jaan Kross (Author) Anselm Hollo (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
New Press
Publisher:
New Press
Pub Date:
18 May 1995
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 304pp h234mm x w155mm 439g ISBN13: 9781565841116 ISBN13: 978-1-56584-111-6 ISBN10: 1565841115 EAN: 9781565841116 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Transmission Kunzru Hari (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h185mm x w115mm x s19mm 156g ISBN13: 9780141020952 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102095-2 ISBN10: 0141020954 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Transmission Hari Kunzru (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 213g ISBN13: 9780141008295 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100829-5 ISBN10: 0141008296 EAN: 9780141008295 x Description: Hari Kunzru's Transmission is a witty novel about cyberspace, a Bollywood dancer and a world where everyone is connected. It's the twenty-first century, and everything and everyone is connected. Meet Arjun Mehta, an Indian cybergeek catapulted into California's spiralling hi-tech sector; Leela Zahir, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Scottish wilds; and Guy Swift, hyped-up marketing exec lost in a blue-sky tomorrow of his own devising. Three dislocated individuals seeking nodes of connectivity - a place to fit in. Yet this is the twenty-first century, and their lives are about to become unexpectedly entangled as a virus spreads, and all their futures are rewired. But will it take them further from their dreams, or closer to their hearts? 'An aphoristic joke, a neat turn of phrase; a joke that makes you laugh . . . there's nothing Kunzru couldn't manage in prose. Thoroughly engrossing' Literary Review 'Funny, heartfelt and beautifully written, confirms Kunzru as one of the most talented writers of his generation' Image 'Very enjoyable, I couldn't put it down. Funny and wry; it is deftly plotted; its characters intimately drawn. Blissful' Observer 'Utterly affecting, a novel with devastating satirical bite' Financial Times Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. He lives in New York.
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Gabriel's Gift Hanif Kureishi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h197mm x w126mm x s14mm 140g ISBN13: 9780571209293 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20929-3 ISBN10: 0571209297 EAN: 9780571209293 x Description: The protagonist of Hanif Kureishi's delightful novel is Gabriel, a fifteen-year-old North London schoolboy trying to come to terms with a new life, after the equilibrium of his family home has been shattered by the ousting of his father. Fending for himself, as well as providing emotional support to his confused (and confusing) parents, Gabriel is forced to grow up quickly. The only support he can draw upon is from his remembered twin brother, Archie, and from his own 'gift', which is accompanied by sensations that urge him into areas of life requiring the utmost courage and faith. A chance visit to seventies rock star Lester Jones crystallizes the turbulent emotions inside Gabriel, and helps him to recognize and engage with his gift . . . 'A charming, light-textured fable about talent, about how single-minded creativity might embrace and even be buoyed by the heartbreaking muddle of everyday life.' Observer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Intimacy Hanif Kureishi (Author) Hanif Kureishi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
18 Jan 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h196mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780571195701 ISBN13: 978-0-571-19570-1 ISBN10: 0571195709 EAN: 9780571195701 x Description: A novel by the author of The Buddha of Suburbia and My Beautiful Laundrette which analyzes the agonies and joys of being connected to another person. Jay, who is leaving his partner and their two sons, reflects on the vicissitudes of his relationship with Susan. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Midnight All Day Hanif Kureishi (Author) Hanif Kureishi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
04 Sep 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h200mm x w130mm x s15mm 210g ISBN13: 9780571203918 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20391-8 ISBN10: 0571203914 EAN: 9780571203918 x Description: The stories in Midnight All Day show a contemporary master at the top of his form, acclaimed by one reviewer for his depiction of 'a lost generation of men: those shaped by the sixties, disoriented by the eighties and bereft of a personal and political map in the nineties'. We are unerring in our choice of lovers, particularly when we require the wrong person. There is an instinct, magnet or aerial which seeks the unsuitable. The wrong person is, of course, right for something - to punish, bully, or humiliate us, let us down, leave us for dead, or, worst of all, give us the impression that they are not inappropriate, but almost right, thus hanging us in love's limbo. Not just anyone can do this.
In this astonishing collection of stories, Hanif Kureishi confirms his reputation as Britain's foremost chronicler of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters in Midnight All Day are familiar to all of us: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty, and, if necessary, willing to break the constraints of an old life to make way for the new. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Good Angel of Death Andrey Kurkov (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
28 Aug 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp h214mm x w135mm x s28mm 410g ISBN13: 9781846551178 ISBN13: 978-1-84655-117-8 ISBN10: 184655117X EAN: 9781846551178 x Description: When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of "War and Peace". Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolya sets out to discover more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to a graveyard, and more specifically to the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances and was buried with a sealed letter and a manuscript. An exhumation under cover of darkness reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakhstan. As nightwatchman at a baby-milk factory, Kolya exposes himself to the attentions of a criminal gang, and so he decides to leave Kiev for a while. Armed with only three cases of baby milk, which have unexpected hallucinogenic properties, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey: crossing the Caspian Sea and traversing the deserts of Kazakhstan. He meets a host of unlikely characters on the way, including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers and a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon..."The Good Angel of Death" is a classic, first-rate Kurkov yarn which is sure to delight old and new fans alike. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gardener from Ochakov Andrey Kurkov (Author) Amanda Love Darragh (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h214mm x w139mm x s24mm 345g ISBN13: 9781846556159 ISBN13: 978-1-84655-615-9 ISBN10: 1846556155 EAN: 9781846556159 x Description: Igor walks along in the old Soviet policeman's uniform, confident that he'll have the best costume at the party. But Igor hasn't gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark and empty, and the only person to emerge from the shadows runs away from him in terror. After a perplexing conversation with the terrified man, who turns out to be a wine smuggler, and on recovering from the resulting hangover, Igor comes to an unbelievable conclusion: he has found his way back to 1957. And it isn't the innocent era his mother and her friends have so sentimentally described. As he travels between centuries, his life becomes more and more complicated. The unusual gardener who lives in his mother's shed keeps disappearing, his best friend has blackmailed the wrong people, and Igor has fallen in love with a married woman in a time before he was born. With his mother's disapproval at his absences growing, and his adventures in each time frame starting to catch up with him, Igor has to survive the past if he wants any kind of future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Milkman in the Night Andrey Kurkov (Author) Amanda Love Darragh (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 330g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099548867 ISBN13: 978-0-09-954886-7 ISBN10: 0099548860 EAN: 9780099548867 x Description: Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. When this happens several mornings in a row, he realises he needs to investigate. After his friend Volodka follows him one night, they discover he's meeting a tall, blonde woman and accompanying her to her apartment. In the daytime he doesn't know this woman or where her apartment is and, odder yet, someone is watching Volodka watching Semyon. Meanwhile, there are some strange goings-on in Kiev - an unemployed sniffer-dog handler makes a dangerous discovery, a single mother is providing breast milk for an unusual recipient and a vengeful cat is on the loose... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fall of Man in Wilmslow David Lagercrantz (Author) George Goulding (Translated by) George Goulding (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h199mm x w130mm x s25mm 261g ISBN13: 9781848668935 ISBN13: 978-1-84866-893-5 ISBN10: 1848668937 EAN: 9781848668935 x Description: A powerful tale of honour, prejudice and the twentieth century's most maltreated hero, by the acclaimed author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB. June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it's a suicide, he is nonetheless confounded by official secrecy over Turing's war record. What is more, Turing's sexuality appears to be causing alarm among the intelligence services could he have been blackmailed by Soviet spies? Stumbling across evidence of Turing's genius, and sensing an escape from a narrow life, Corell soon becomes captivated by Turing's brilliant and revolutionary work, and begins to dig deeper. But in the febrile atmosphere of the Cold War, loose cannons cannot be tolerated. As his innocent curiosity takes him far out of his depth, Corell realises he has much to learn about the dangers of forbidden knowledge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beautiful Player Christina Lauren (Author) Series:
The Beautiful Series 5
Edition:
Imprint:
Gallery
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) Paper not FSC or PEFC certified, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning No warning 432pp h210mm x w135mm x s28mm 347g ISBN13: 9781476751405 ISBN13: 978-1-4767-5140-5 ISBN10: 1476751404 EAN: 9781476751405 x Description: When Hanna "Ziggy" Bergstrom moves to New York City for graduate school, Will Sumner thinks his responsibilities to his best friend's nerdy little sister will be limited to the occasional dinner and check-in. Little does he know that Ziggy is ready to break out of her bookworm academic shell and move more into bombshell territory. Of course she figures the gorgeous womanizing venture capitalist Will is the best person to help mentor her in this new field of study: dating. Will takes on the challenge with more than a healthy dose of scepticism and humour, but soon finds that Ziggy just needed a tiny push, not a world of change, to reveal a woman every man seems to notice. Soon "Ziggy" is gone and the unfiltered, innocently seductive Hanna Bergstrom is hijacking his dreams, his moods, and even his orderly no-strings-attached dating life-beginning the night his mentoring activities move between the sheets. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Changeling Victor LaValle (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 297g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781786893826 ISBN13: 978-1-78689-382-6 ISBN10: 1786893827 EAN: 9781786893826 x Description: When Apollo Kagwa was just a child, his father disappeared, leaving him with recurring nightmares and a box labelled 'Improbabilia'. Now a successful book dealer, Kagwa has a family of his own after meeting and falling in love with Emma, a librarian. The two marry and have a baby: so far so happy-ever-after. However, as the pair settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Emma's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, until one day she commits an unthinkable act, setting Apollo on a wild and fantastical quest through a suddenly otherworldly New York, in search of a wife and child he no longer recognises. An epic novel for our anxiety-ridden times, The Changeling is a tale of parenthood, love - in its most raw and brutal form - and, ultimately, humanity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
14 Jul 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h243mm x w164mm x s30mm 577g ISBN13: 9781785150289 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-028-9 ISBN10: 1785150286 EAN: 9781785150289
x Description: From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - `Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past - a journey that can be guided only by one's own conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humour and effortless precision - a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to a classic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tishomingo Blues Elmore Leonard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Open market ed
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h180mm x w110mm 181g ISBN13: 9780141012063 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101206-3 ISBN10: 0141012064 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Foetal Attraction (Birthday Edition) Kathy Lette (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 149g ISBN13: 9780330491952 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49195-2 ISBN10: 0330491954 EAN: 9780330491952 This Product is Replaced By: 9780330335270 x Description: Kathy Lette's wicked and hilarious take on motherhood and romance will have you crying with laughter. Lette hits the nail on the head every time, in a novel packed with insight, gossip and outrageous jokes. Aussie Madeline Wolfe has left her home, her surfboard, her hemisphere, for the new man in her life. But Alexander Drake, it turns out, is the kind of bloke who goes through the Tunnel of Love holding his own hand. By the time Maddy discovers that all is not perfect, she's taken a pregnancy test . . . and failed. Will Alex chicken out of his obligation to his egg? 'Buy this book - give it to every woman of child-bearing age you know. She will be maternally grateful. It is funny and profoundly moving' SUE TOWNSEND _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nip 'N' Tuck Kathy Lette (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h197mm x w130mm x s18mm 181g ISBN13: 9780330491976 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49197-6 ISBN10: 0330491970 EAN: 9780330491976 x Description: Lizzie's life seems pretty damn perfect, until she realizes she's about to hit the dreaded 4-0. Losing her job to a younger journalist is not the only ingrown pube in the bikini wax of Lizzie's life. Her surgeon husband, Hugo, unexpectedly falls for sabre-toothed trouser-hound, Britney Amore, an actress who keeps fit by doing step-aerobics off her own ego. Even worse, Britney persuades the hitherto idealistic Hugo to operate in her new cosmetic surgery clinic. Lizzie has always believed brains to be more important than beauty, but up against a Sex Goddess, principles and profundity are about as useful as a eunuch at a whipped-cream orgy. Must she go under the knife herself to win back the man she loves? The answer is as obvious as a pre-1990 nose job. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lover's Dictionary: A Love Story in 185 Definitions David Levithan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 244pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 150g ISBN13: 9780007377992 ISBN13: 978-0-00-737799-2 ISBN10: 0007377991 EAN: 9780007377992 x Description: How does one talk about love?
We are all beginners when it comes to love, from those tentative first dates to learning how to live with, or without, someone. But how does one describe love? How does one chart its delights and pleasures, its depths and desolations? Do we even have the right words to describe something that can be both utterly mundane and completely transcendent, pulling us out of our everyday lives and making us feel a part of something greater than ourselves? David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary starts where we all once started - with the alphabet.
Constructing the story of a relationship as a dictionary, Levithan explores the intimacies and workings of love through his nameless narrator, to paint a moving portrait of love through everyday words. Cleverly using the confines of language to provide an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being part of a couple, Levithan gives us an indelible and deeply moving portrait of love in our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hot Milk Deborah Levy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 159g ISBN13: 9780241968031 ISBN13: 978-0-241-96803-1 ISBN10: 0241968038 EAN: 9780241968031 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home 'Propulsive, uncanny, dreamlike. A feverish coming-of-age novel' Daily Telegraph 'A triumph of storytelling' Literary Review 'Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor of a bar built on the beach. My laptop has all my life in it and knows more about me than anyone else. So what I am saying is that if it is broken, so am I . . .' 'Perfectly crafted. So mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spell' Independent on Sunday 'Hot Milk treads a sweaty, sun-drenched path into the history books. A properly great novel' Romola Garai 'Hot Milk is an extraordinary novel, beautifully rich, vividly atmospheric and psychologically complex... Every man and woman should read it' Bernardine Evaristo 'The contemporary writer I admire most' Linda Grant 'Hypnotic... This novel has a transfixing gaze and a terrible sting that burns long after the final page is turned' Observer 'Gorgeous. What makes the book so good is Levy's great imagination, the poetry of her language, her way of finding the wonder in the everyday. It's a pleasure' New York Times 'Terrific, sizzling with heat and sexuality . . . You devour it in one sitting' Radio Times 'Unmissable' New Statesman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swimming Home Deborah Levy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
10 Sep 2012
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780571299607 ISBN13: 978-0-571-29960-7 ISBN10: 0571299601 EAN: 9780571299607 x Description: As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain? Profound and thrilling, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.
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The Lubetkin Legacy Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h181mm x w111mm x s22mm 201g ISBN13: 9780241980279 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98027-9 ISBN10: 0241980275 EAN: 9780241980279 x Description: 'Lively . . . a joy to read' - The Times Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize From the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you. A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Swahili or buxom housing officers talking managementese. A place where husbands go absent without leave and councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new builds. Marina Lewycka is back in this hilarious, farcical, tender novel of modern issues and manners. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strawberry Fields Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin USA
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
01 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 294pp h215mm x w139mm x s17mm 295g ISBN13: 9780143113553 ISBN13: 978-0-14-311355-3 ISBN10: 0143113550 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Two Caravans Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 219g no pictures ISBN13: 9780141026992 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102699-2 ISBN10: 0141026995 EAN: 9780141026992 x Description: A field of strawberries in Kent ...
And sitting in it two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they eye each other warily. There are the Poles Tomasz and Yola, two Chinese girls and Emanuel from Malawi. They're all here to pick strawberries in England's green and pleasant land. But these days England's not so pleasant for immigrants. Not with Russian gangster-wannabes like Vulk, who's taken a shine to Irina and thinks kidnapping is a wooing strategy. And so Andriy - who really doesn't fancy Irina, honest - must set off in search of that girl he's not in love with. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Two Caravans Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h181mm x w111mm x s25mm 218g ISBN13: 9780141035536 ISBN13: 978-0-14-103553-6 ISBN10: 0141035536 EAN: 9780141035536 x Description: A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round-eyed eighteen-yearold from Malawi. And although he can't pick strawberries, there's also the Dog . . . Hilarious, gritty, moving and slapstick, Two Caravans has all the ingredients that made A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian so successful. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Yiyun Li (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
06 Nov 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 254pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007196630 ISBN13: 978-0-00-719663-0 ISBN10: 0007196636 EAN: 9780007196630 x Description: Brilliant and original, `A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent.
In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In 'Extra', first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives.
In turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Yiyun Li, a new and talented young Chinese writer, confronts the silence that dominated the history of her country, and illuminates how mythology, politics, history and culture intersect with personality. She leaves us with an enduring vision of a country undergoing tremendous change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ghost Story Toby Litt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jul 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780141017907 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101790-7 ISBN10: 0141017902 EAN: 9780141017907 x Description: When Agatha and Paddy decide to leave London and buy a house on the coast, they are full of hope for themselves and their growing family - baby Max and a new child on the way. Three months later, when the builders move out and they move in, things look very different. A personal tragedy threatens to destroy all they have carefully built up and only a small miracle, it seems, will save them. . . Ghost Story is a book both haunted and haunting, which asks how we can ever mourn something that hasn't lived. Emotionally resonant, beautifully crafted and ultimately redemptive, it will take you to the heart of suffering and desire. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
According to Mark Penelope Lively (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Oct 1985
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h201mm x w129mm x s15mm 166g ISBN13: 9780140079319 ISBN13: 978-0-14-007931-9 ISBN10: 0140079319 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gilgamesh Joan London (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
13 May 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w130mm x s20mm 263g ISBN13: 9781843541837 ISBN13: 978-1-84354-183-7 ISBN10: 1843541831 EAN: 9781843541837 x Description: 'A beautifully written meditation on life and loss' Harpers & Queen Winner of the Age Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award Gilgamesh is the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of an imminent, and soon to be very real, World War II. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose to take through life and what happens when ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary, seismic events. A bestseller in its native Australia, Gilgamesh was awarded the Age Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin award alongside Tim Winton and Richard Flanagan. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Salt Earl Lovelace (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
19 Jan 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h196mm x w126mm x s21mm 255g ISBN13: 9780571192946 ISBN13: 978-0-571-19294-6 ISBN10: 0571192947 EAN: 9780571192946 x Description: Set in Trinidad, the story is launched by the mythical tale of Guinea John, an ancestor of Blackpeople, who put two corn cobs under his arm pits and flew from a clifftop, away from the scene of his enslavement, back to Africa. His descendants have eaten salt, grown too heavy to fly, and cannot follow him. They are left to wrestle with their future on the island. Now, more than one hundred years after "Emancipation, " like all the people who share the island - Asians, Africans, and Europeans - they need to be weaned from old captivities and welcomed into the New World. Addressing the challenge of this liberating welcome are Alford George, schoolteacher turned politician; Bango Durity, laborer and activist; and a swirl of unforgettable men and women - minor characters of major proportions - telling their stories in their own voices; all striving with passion and wit to make sense of their lives in the still-young country where the roles of enslaved and landowner still linger, but "the sky, the sea, every green leaf and tangle of vines sing freedom." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Highest Tide Jim Lynch (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export and UK open market ed
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
01 May 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747584483 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8448-3 ISBN10: 0747584486 x Description: One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly, he becomes a local celebrity and is pursued by TV crews urging him to explain the phenomenon. His psychic friend Florence predicts that even more astonishing discoveries will precede the highest tide in fifty years. Yet Miles worries more about matters closer to home: will his passion for his ex-babysitter Angie go unrequited? Will his arguing parents divorce? Is everything, even the bay, shifting from him? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Age of Miracles Catherine McCoun (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Mandarin
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Jul 1990
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780749302863 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-0286-3 ISBN10: 0749302860 x Description: Set in medieval England, this tale of romance and intrigue centres on Sister Ingrid, the infirmarian at Greyleigh Convent, who is famous for her miraculous powers of healing. When disgrace forces her to flee the convent, she finds her remedial power labelled as witchcraft. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fall On Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Jul 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s36mm 394g ISBN13: 9780099740513 ISBN13: 978-0-09-974051-3 ISBN10: 0099740516 EAN: 9780099740513 x Description: Following the curves of the twentieth century, FALL ON YOUR KNEES takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The children of a driven and ambitious father, the sisters -Kathleen, the oldest, a beautiful talent intent on a career as an opera diva; Frances, the drunken rogue and child prostitute; Lily, the pseudo-saint cripple; and Mercedes, the fervent Catholic and protector of the flock - are swept along by the tumult of events and of their own desires. This is a story of family relationships, racial strife, miracles, attempted murder, birth and eath, and an extraordinary love affair. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hummingbird Saint Hector MacDonald (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 544pp h185mm x w114mm x s34mm 286g ISBN13: 9780140294224 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029422-4 ISBN10: 0140294228 x Description: Benjamin Sword Hoppner, philanthropist and visionary, has created his own utopia in the Central American cloud forests, governed by a strict moral code. He's promised financial support to anyone who can satisfy him of their good character. And Mark Weston is determined to do exactly that. Journeying through country still devastated by war, Mark reaches Hoppner's isolated "perfect society", only to discover that his generosity comes with terrible strings attached... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mind Game Hector MacDonald (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
10 Nov 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h180mm x w110mm x s30mm 328g ISBN13: 9780140294217 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029421-7 ISBN10: 014029421X x Description: Mandanzi, Africa. Paradise on earth. Ben knows that nothing this good comes free. But he's prepared to pay the price. What seems on the surface to be a passionate holiday with his lover is, in fact, the first crucial stage of some ground-breaking research. Ben and his renowned Oxford professor are on the brink of developing a cure for that most disturbing illness - sickness of the mind. Lying on the beach with the bewitching Cara, Ben finds it easy to forget the real purpose of his trip to Africa. Until paradise turns to hell, and suddenly he realises that all the rules he thought he was playing by no longer apply. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Orchard on Fire Shena MacKay (Author) Series:
Harvest Book
Edition:
Imprint:
Mariner Books
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Pub Date:
15 Nov 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 224pp h216mm x w140mm x s15mm 295g Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9780156005326 ISBN13: 978-0-15-600532-6 ISBN10: 0156005328 EAN: 9780156005326 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cal Bernard MacLaverty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Feb 1998 (05 Feb 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 127g ISBN13: 9780099767114 ISBN13: 978-0-09-976711-4 ISBN10: 0099767112 EAN: 9780099767114 x Description: Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love story that unfolds in a land where tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One by One in the Darkness Deirdre Madden (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 Jan 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h195mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9780571175512 ISBN13: 978-0-571-17551-2 ISBN10: 0571175511 EAN: 9780571175512 x Description: One by One in the Darkness is an account of a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and 1970s. The history of both a family and a society, One by One in the Darkness confirms Deirdre Madden's reputation as one of Irish fiction's most outstanding talents.'Her authority when writing on her native Northern Ireland is supreme . . . beautifully written . . . an author with a rare talent . . . haunting and beautiful.' Literary Review'No other book has left me with such a lasting impression of the hurt of Northern Ireland.' Sunday Tribune'Ambitious and wide-ranging . . . skilfully constructed . . . particularly good at the way in which the past constructs the present, how intense memories transfigure current experience . . . A quiet and effective psychological realism.' Independent on Sunday _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Undertaking Audrey Magee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Sep 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 256g ISBN13: 9781782391050 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-105-0 ISBN10: 1782391053 EAN: 9781782391050 x Description: A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love. When the newlywed strangers finally meet, however, passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves facing the terrible consequences of being ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Undertaking Audrey Magee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Open Market Edition
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Sep 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 162g ISBN13: 9781782391067 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-106-7 ISBN10: 1782391061 EAN: 9781782391067 x Description: Desperate to escape the Eastern front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises 'honeymoon' leave for him and a pension for her should he die on the front. With ten days' leave secured, Peter visits his new wife in Berlin; both are surprised by the attraction that develops between them. When Peter returns to the horror of the front, it is only the dream of Katharina that sustains him as he approaches Stalingrad. Back in Berlin, Katharina, goaded on by her desperate and delusional parents, ruthlessly works her way into the Nazi party hierarchy, wedding herself, her young husband and their unborn child to the regime. But when the tide of war turns and Berlin falls, Peter and Katharina, ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt, find their simple dream of family increasingly hard to hold on to... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Miramar Naguib Mahfouz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Publisher:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Pub Date:
14 Dec 1992
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 183pp h203mm x w133mm x s13mm 164g ISBN13: 9780385264785 ISBN13: 978-0-385-26478-5 ISBN10: 038526478X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Voices From The Other World Naguib Mahfouz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House USA Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
10 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 112pp 123g ISBN13: 9781400076666 ISBN13: 978-1-4000-7666-6 ISBN10: 1400076668 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An American Dream Norman Mailer (Author) Series:
1960s A S.
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
17 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 288pp h178mm x w111mm 152g 288 illustrations ISBN13: 9780007115280 ISBN13: 978-0-00-711528-0 ISBN10: 0007115288 x Description: War hero, ex-Congressman, a professor of 'popular but somewhat notorious reputation', television personality and husband of the rich and beautiful Deborah ('a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz'), Stephen Rojack lived the American Dream. But his enviable life concealed a strange tension, the constant 'itch to jump', and when one day he finally cracks and strangles his luscious wife, he unleashes a personality of undreamt-of ferocity. A wanted murderer, Rojack is suddenly catapulted into an alien world of gangsters, crumbling tenements and downtown bars. Here, he meets Cherry, a small-time singer who ekes out her living in sleazy nightclubs, waiting for a break. She's the woman Rojack falls for, dangerously, desperately, tragically A powerful exploration of one man's quest for depravity, An American Dream shocked the USA on first publication in 1965 with its graphic depictions of sex and violence. One of the key works of twentieth-century American literature, the novel's white-hot prose makes it, for many, Mailer's finest achievement. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dubin's Lives Bernard Malamud (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Aug 1999 (03 Apr 2014)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 364g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099289869 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928986-9 ISBN10: 0099289865 EAN: 9780099289869 x Description: William Dublin is middle-aged, a distinguished biographer seeking increased accomplishment and the key to his inner feelings. His marriage is stable if unexciting, and he lives comfortably with his wife in Vermont. Then his imagination is caught by Fanny, a young girl of twentythree, and he is thrown into an intense, erotic love affair that threatens to destroy his measured, disciplined world and the lives of those around him. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Natural Bernard Malamud (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2002 (03 Apr 2014)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099437024 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943702-4 ISBN10: 0099437023 EAN: 9780099437024 x Description: This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an immense natural gift for playing baseball. He could become one of the great ones of the game, a player unmatched in his time - a hero. But his first hard-won big chance ends violently, at the hands of a crazy girl, and then it is years before he gets another shot. At last, in a few short seasons, or never, he must achieve the towering reputation that he feels is his right. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Tenants Bernard Malamud (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Aug 1999 (03 Apr 2014)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 117g ISBN13: 9780099289876 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928987-6 ISBN10: 0099289873 EAN: 9780099289876 x Description: The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement, Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier. Then he stumbles on a black man, sitting typing in one of the deserted flats: Willie Spearmint, soul writer. Touchy, hostile and anti-semitic, demanding then denouncing Lesser's critical help with his floridly violent tales of oppression, Spearmint is exactly what Lesser doesn't need - or does he? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Oracle Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 200pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 185g ISBN13: 9780330438223 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43822-3 ISBN10: 0330438220 EAN: 9780330438223 x Description: Phenomenally successful writer Valerio Massimo Manfredi tells a modern tale inspired by an ancient prophecy _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Oracle Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w130mm x s22mm 251g ISBN13: 9780330437929 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43792-9 ISBN10: 0330437925 EAN: 9780330437929 x Description: Greece at the time of the Colonels, 1973 - An archaeologist discovers a gold Mycenaean vase embellished with images of the last voyage of Ulysses. But his mysterious death and the vase's disappearance remain unexplained for ten years until disturbing signals catalyse different characters into a relentless pursuit for the truth. The Oracle is another action-packed adventure from the bestselling author of the 'Alexander' trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2007
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 92g ISBN13: 9780141028736 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102873-6 ISBN10: 0141028734 EAN: 9780141028736 x Description: Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude. 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love. And so the columnist realises he must chronicle the life of his heart, to offer it freely to the world. . . 'Marquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller' Daily Mail 'Marquez is wonderful on the transformative and redemptive powers of love. . . storytelling magic' Tatler 'Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do' Salman Rushie As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage Mr. President, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Collected Stories, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Leaf Storm, Living to Tell the Tale, Love in the Time of Cholera, News of a Kidnapping, No-one Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Strange Pilgrims. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Autumn Bridge Takashi Matsuoka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 576pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780099445388 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944538-8 ISBN10: 0099445387 x Description: The year is 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman watches from the window as the city is set alight and a mob runs riot destroying everything they can lay their hands on. She begins to write down the events unfolding around her and the secret history of the Okumichi Clan. Six centuries later the lost scrolls fall into the hands of American missionary Emily Gibson, a new arrival at Edo Harbour and racing from her tragic past. Emily quickly finds herself translating the text, caught up in the gripping tale of ancestry, heroism and forbidden love. At the same time Emily is desperately traying to unravel the complexities in her own life as two men fight for her love. As Emily sifts through the fragile scrolls, she begins to see threads of her own life woven into the ancient writings. As past and present collide, a hidden history comes to life, and with it a secret prophecy that has been shrouded for centuries and may now finally be revealed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Night Listener Armistead Maupin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2001 (19 Jun 2007)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w127mm x s23mm 251g ISBN13: 9780552142403 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14240-3 ISBN10: 0552142409 EAN: 9780552142403 x Description: Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years when a publisher sends him proofs of a remarkable book: the memoir of a sickly thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his parents. Now living with his adoptive mother, Donna, Pete Lomax is not only a brave and gifted diarist but a devoted listener of Noone's show. When Noone phones the boy to offer encouragement, it soon becomes clear that Pete sees in this heartsick, middle-aged storyteller the loving father he's always wanted. Thus begins an extraordinary friendship that grows deeper only as the boy's health deteriorates, freeing Noone to unlock his innermost feelings. Then, out of the blue, troubling new questions arise, exploding Noone's comfortable assumptions and causing his ordered existence to spin wildly out of control. As he walks a vertiginous line between truth and illusion, he is finally forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic. As complex and hypnotically engrossing as the best of mysteries, The Night Listener is an astonishing tour de force that moves and challenges Maupin's readers as never before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Internationals Sarah May (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Sep 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 160g ISBN13: 9780099422457 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942245-7 ISBN10: 009942245X EAN: 9780099422457 x Description: Set in a Macedonian refugee camp during the 1999 Kosovo crisis, The Internationals spans seventy-eight tense days from the commencement of NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia to the withdrawal of Serb forces from Northern Kosovo. As the spotlight of the world's media is turned on a small, landlocked country, an extraordinary cast of aid workers and diplomats finds itself becoming inextricably involved with refugees, advertising executives and an Albanian mayor in ways none of them expected. The weeks pass, temperatures soar and, gradually, the Internationals jettison more and more of the certainties they came with, until the only certainty they're left with is that no form of contraception exists against corruption - least of all purity of motive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The English Harem Anthony McCarten (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Dec 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 389pp h195mm x w125mm 260g ISBN13: 9781846880001 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-000-1 ISBN10: 1846880009 This Product is Replaced By: 9781846880636 x Description: This is a publication to coincide with a major new ITV drama starring Martine McCutcheon and Art Malik. In this hilarious, provocative and highly topical story of food, love and Islam, Anthony McCarten exposes the flaws inherent to our multicultural society, and explores the nature of racism from a startlingly original angle. Supermarket checkout girl Tracy Pringle has a very lively imagination indeed. In front of her, as she blip-blips herself into a daydream, walk past not boring housewives with screaming children or tired office clerks, but the likes of Lord Byron, Lawrence of Arabia and Princess Leia. It comes as no surprise, then, that she turns a blind eye when Her Majesty herself pops a packet of Mr Kipling's Bakewell tarts into her handbag without paying. Obviously, the management sees it differently, and Tracy is given the sack on the spot and forced to find herself another job. But nothing can prepare her for the new life that awaits her at the Taste of Persia restaurant, where she is flung headlong into a clash of cultures, languages, dinner plates, religions and a rather tricky domestic arrangement... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Solar Bones Mike McCormack (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 184g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781786891297 ISBN13: 978-1-78689-129-7 ISBN10: 1786891298 EAN: 9781786891297 x Description: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart. Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Graywolf Silver Anthology Fiona McCrae (Edited by) Scott Walker (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Graywolf Press,U.S.
Publisher:
Graywolf Press,U.S.
Pub Date:
01 Jun 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 256pp h228mm x w152mm Illustrations ISBN13: 9781555972899 ISBN13: 978-1-55597-289-9 ISBN10: 1555972896 x Description: In 1999, Graywolf will celebrate 25 years of publishing thoughtful and imaginative contemporary literature. This remarkable anthology showcases many of the extraordinary writers who have helped shape Graywolf's first quarter century, including Jane Kenyon, Sven Birkerts, Tess Gallagher, Charles Baxter, and William Stafford. Groundbreaking titles such as Dana Gioia's Can Poetry Matter? and Guillermo Gomez-Pena's Warrior for Gringostoika are represented, along with Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write, the book that has become one of the great success stories of small press publishing. The anthology also includes an essay by founder Scott Walker on Graywolf's early days as a small letterpress publisher. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Between the Sheets Ian McEwan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jun 1997 (02 Jun 2016)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099754718 ISBN13: 978-0-09-975471-8 ISBN10: 0099754711 EAN: 9780099754718 x Description: The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan. A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress passive, yet beautiful - but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an ape reflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision. `Resonant and frightening...totally original' Observer `Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Saturday Ian McEwan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h177mm x w111mm x s20mm 190g ISBN13: 9780099497165 ISBN13: 978-0-09-949716-5 ISBN10: 0099497166 EAN: 9780099497165 x Description: Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man- a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat. Later, Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him. Towards the end of a day rich in incident and filled with Perowne's celebrations of life's pleasures, his family gathers for a reunion. But with the sudden appearance of Baxter, Perowne's earlier fears seem about to be realised _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Amongst Women John McGahern (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
07 May 1991
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9780571161607 ISBN13: 978-0-571-16160-7 ISBN10: 057116160X EAN: 9780571161607 x Description: Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stag Hunt Anthony McGowan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h19mm x w111mm x s176mm 186g ISBN13: 9780340830468 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83046-8 ISBN10: 0340830468 EAN: 9780340830468 x Description: The smiling one; the one who hurt; the shy one; the one who cried; the one who kissed - that is how he remembers the gang of boys who tormented him when he was a child. Now twenty years have passed and it is time to make them pay. But into the finely wrought net stumbles one man who had nothing to do with the nastiness in that minor public school. Matthew Moriarty carries demons of his own, but when Dominic Chance invites him along to a stag weekend in a remote country house, lost on a fold of the country beyond the reach of mobile telephones, he could never imagine
the horror that awaits. Or the beauty. "Stag Hunt" tells the story of ghosts, of demons, of revenge, of desire; and finally of the possibility of redemption through love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
360 Flip Molly McGrann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h197mm x w130mm x s19mm 195g ISBN13: 9780330412407 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41240-7 ISBN10: 033041240X EAN: 9780330412407 x Description: Atomic View was a 1960s fantasy - a vision of the suburban American Dream. Now it is the 1990s. Optimism and aspiration no longer hold sway in a world where days are spent surfing the Internet, spying on neighbours and working out on the Stairmaster . . . Babo White is a teenager obsessed with his skateboard, lovingly neglected by his distracted, overworked lawyer parents and ignored by his older brother, Mitch. Home from his smart, wealthy Connecticut college, Mitch is trying to figure out how to make it to Manhatten without, crucially, having to do something so mundane as finding himself a job. 360 Flip is centred around Babo and Mitch's family. Molly Mcgrann beautifully captures the surface quietness of the inhabitants of Atomic View, the dreams of those who built it and the tensions which bubble and spit within. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From Notting Hill With Love . . . Actually Ali McNamara (Author) Series:
The Notting Hill Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h195mm x w128mm x s29mm 308g ISBN13: 9780751544954 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-4495-4 ISBN10: 0751544957 EAN: 9780751544954 x Description: 'Sparky, fun and endearing' - Katie Fforde 'Joyous and carefree, a souffle of a book that will lift the spirits of anybody who ever daydreamed about a different, more glam life' - Bernadette Strachan -----------------------------She was just a girl, standing in front of a boy . . . wishing he looked more like Hugh Grant. Scarlett loves the movies. But does she love sensible fiance David just as much? With a big white wedding on the horizon, Scarlett really should have decided by now . . . When she has the chance to house-sit in Notting Hill - the setting of one of her favourite movies - Scarlett jumps at the chance. But living life like a movie is trickier than it seems, especially when her new neighbour Sean is so irritating. And so irritatingly handsome, too. Scarlett soon finds herself starring in a romantic comedy of her very own: but who will end up as the leading man? A fabulously fun romantic comedy debut, referencing all those much-loved chick flick classics: Four Weddings; Sleepless in Seattle; When Harry Met Sally, to name just a few! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fresh Mark McNay (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Apr 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 282pp h197mm x w129mm x s19mm 205g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847670823 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-082-3 ISBN10: 1847670822 EAN: 9781847670823 x Description: Today, Sean's brother Archie gets out of jail on early release. Which would be great if Archie weren't a little loose in the head. And if Sean didn't still owe him a grand. Testing the boundaries of brotherly love, Fresh is white-knuckle ride that brings to life one unforgettable day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Almost English Charlotte Mendelson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h197mm x w128mm x s26mm 297g ISBN13: 9781447220008 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-2000-8 ISBN10: 1447220005 EAN: 9781447220008 x Description: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there . . . In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider. At Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake. She is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even be. And as a semi-Hungarian Londoner, who is she? In the meantime, her mother Laura, an alien in this strange universe, has her own painful secrets to deal with, especially the return of the last man she'd expect back in her life. She isn't noticing that, at Combe Abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrong. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Loving Che Ana Menendez (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2004
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w126mm x s16mm 180g b/w photos ISBN13: 9780747265085 ISBN13: 978-0-7472-6508-5 ISBN10: 0747265089 EAN: 9780747265085 x Description: In the aftermath of Castro's revolution, a man flees Cuba with his daughter's baby, and finds, pinned on its clothes, three lines of a Pablo Neruda love poem. Decades later, that baby returns to Havana as a young woman; armed with only this snatch of verse, she searches, apparently in
vain, for the mysterious mother who abandoned her. On her return to America she receives a package - a collection of tattered photographs of Che Guevara, and a letter, apparently from her mother, which documents a passionate affair with the hero of the revolution. Now, the daughter must set out for Cuba once more, to find out whether this story is true or a ravishing fantasy, bred out of the savage and surreal drama of Cuba's history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Talk: A Novel in Dialogue Corey Mesler (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Livingston Press (AL)
Publisher:
Livingston Press (AL)
Pub Date:
25 Jul 2002
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Paperback Trade paperback (US) h230mm x w156mm x s15mm 308g ISBN13: 9780942979862 ISBN13: 978-0-942979-86-2 ISBN10: 0942979869 EAN: 9780942979862 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
26 Sep 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm 250g ISBN13: 9780747534969 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-3496-9 ISBN10: 0747534969 This Product is Replaced By: 9780747599258 x Description: It is just months before the Nazi occupation of Poland, and, from the mud of a buried city, Jakob Beer, an orphaned Jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviour. He is saved by the geologist and humanist Athos Roussos, who takes him to his Greek island home where he becomes his student. But the trauma of Jakob's early life refuses to leave him. Living forever in the shadow of the Holocaust, although Jakob has escaped the most terrible fate of all, he must yet steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Holiday Stanley Middleton (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Five Leaves Publications
Publisher:
Five Leaves Publications
Pub Date:
01 Aug 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h200mm ISBN13: 9780907123439 ISBN13: 978-0-907123-43-9 ISBN10: 0907123430 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A View from the Bridge and All My Sons: All My Sons Arthur Miller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 May 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 136g ISBN13: 9780141183503 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118350-3 ISBN10: 0141183500 x Description: Powerful, passionate and frighteningly relevant, the drama of Arthur Miller deals in the hard currency of 'social' realism and tragedy. "All My Sons" (1947), which brought Miller his first major success, is a merciless exposure of wartime profiteering and the capitalist ethic. The ideological conflict of father and son is a compelling one, and points to the way Miller develops his later drama, where social issues are tempered and tautened by the theme of personal disintegration. Eddie, the hero of "A View from the Bridge" (1955), is an illiterate longshoreman. His inexorable progress towards self-discovery and fall stirs the emotions with the same painful intensity as the play jolts the intellect. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller (Author) Series:
Harper Perennial Modern Edition: Classics
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w130mm 240g ISBN13: 9780007204465 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720446-5 ISBN10: 0007204469 This Product Replaces: 9780007115204 x Description: Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tropic Of Capricorn Henry Miller (Author) Series:
Harper Perennial Modern Edition: Classics
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w138mm x s21mm 232g ISBN13: 9780007204458 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720445-8 ISBN10: 0007204450 EAN: 9780007204458 This Product Replaces: 9780006545842 x Description: The controversial, erotic and hilarious companion to the legendary Tropic of Cancer, in a smart new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A riotous and explosive mixture of joys and frustrations, Tropic of Capricorn chronicles Miller's early life in New York, from his repressive Brooklyn childhood spent amongst 'a galaxy of screwballs' to frantic, hilarious years of dead-end jobs and innumerable erotic adventures. Irreverent and ironic, Tropic of Capricorn is both a comic portrait of the irrepressible Miller himself and a scathing attack on respectable America, the very foundations of which he hoped to shatter. The publication of Tropic of Capricorn and its sister-volume Tropic of Cancer in Paris in the 1930s was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The books were subsequently banned in the UK and the USA for nearly thirty years.
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Lost in the Forest Sue Miller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export and UK open market ed
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
03 Apr 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747582915 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8291-5 ISBN10: 0747582912 x Description: One minute John is the cornerstone of Eva's world, rock to his two teenage stepdaughters and his own son Theo; the next he is tossed through the air in a traffic accident, and killed. His sudden death changes everything. Eva struggles with the desolation of loneliness, finding herself drawn back to her untrustworthy ex-husband; Emily, the eldest daughter, grapples with her new-found independence and responsibility. Little Theo can only begin to fathom the permanence of his father's death. But for the middle child Daisy, John's absence opens up a whole world of confusion. Just at the onset of adolescence and blossoming sexuality, Daisy is exposed to the terrifying duplicity of life, the instability that hovers just beyond the safety of parental love, and the powerlessness of that love to protect or even console her. In steps a man only too willing to take advantage of her emotions. "Lost in the Forest" is a powerful and gorgeously layered testament to the fluidity of life and the web of connections that bind us, divide us, and drive us on. A finely observed portrait of marriage and family; an intensely sensual journey through the consuming realms of grief and sex; and an unforgettable evocation of adolescent yearning and vulnerability, this is Sue Miller at her inimitable best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
While I Was Gone Sue Miller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export and UK open market ed
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
03 Apr 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747584612 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8461-2 ISBN10: 0747584613 x Description: Thirty years ago, Jo Becker's bohemian life ended when she found her best friend brutally murdered in the house they shared in Cambridge. Now, Jo has everything: work she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, and a beautiful home. But, when an old friend settles in her small town, the fabric of her life begins to unravel, and Jo hesitantly enters a relationship that returns her to the darkest moments of her past, imperilling all that she loves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The World Below Sue Miller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export and UK open market ed
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
03 Apr 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747584582 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8458-2 ISBN10: 0747584583 x
Description: Catherine Hubbard is at a crossroads in her life. Twice divorced, she has three children who are now grown up and scattered. Then news comes that she has inherited her grandmother Georgia's home in Vermont. There, Catherine finds not only the ghosts of her own past but those of Georgia as well, whose diaries reveal a deep secret and a tragic misunderstanding. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Books
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
01 May 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback B-format paperback 15pp h210mm x w133mm x s17mm 267g ISBN13: 9780679781271 ISBN13: 978-0-679-78127-1 ISBN10: 0679781277 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
07 Apr 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 512pp h199mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780571215539 ISBN13: 978-0-571-21553-9 ISBN10: 057121553X EAN: 9780571215539 x Description: Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young sons. The effect of the new responsibility on Yezad, who is already besieged by financial worries, pushes him into a scheme of deception. This sets in motion a series of events - a great unravelling and a revelation of the family's lovetorn past - that leads to the narrative's final outcome. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Such a Long Journey Rohinton Mistry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
09 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h178mm x w111mm 230g ISBN13: 9780571209538 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20953-8 ISBN10: 057120953X This Product is Replaced By: 9780571230570 x Description: The gathering clouds of the Indo-Pakistan War impinge on the lives of Gustad Noble, a Bombay doctor, and his family. His dreams, although modest, are denied him as he realizes he is not in control of events. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales from Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jul 1992
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9780571167036 ISBN13: 978-0-571-16703-6 ISBN10: 0571167039 EAN: 9780571167036 This Product is Replaced By: 9780571230563 x Description: Here is a wonderful introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time we reach the final story we are as familiar with the people of Firozsha Baag as we are with our own neighbours. The crowded, throbbing life of India is brilliantly captured in this series of stories. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deep Valley Malice Kirk Mitchell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Avon Books
Publisher:
Avon Books
Pub Date:
01 Mar 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h175mm x w108mm x s20mm 141g ISBN13: 9780380776627 ISBN13: 978-0-3807-7662-7 ISBN10: 0380776626 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Insular Possession Timothy Mo (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Paddleless Press
Publisher:
Paddleless Press
Pub Date:
01 Jul 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Hong Kong Paperback / softback 728pp h198mm x w127mm 587g ISBN13: 9780952419389 ISBN13: 978-0-9524193-8-9 ISBN10: 0952419386 EAN: 9780952419389 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Redundancy Of Courage Timothy Mo (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Paddleless Press
Publisher:
Paddleless Press
Pub Date:
01 Jul 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Hong Kong Paperback / softback 446pp h198mm x w129mm 362g ISBN13: 9780952419341 ISBN13: 978-0-9524193-4-1 ISBN10: 0952419343 EAN: 9780952419341 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dublin Sean Moncrieff (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h234mm x w156mm ISBN13: 9780385602259 ISBN13: 978-0-385-60225-9 ISBN10: 0385602251 x Description: Seething with sex, drugs and violence, this is a caustically humorous thriller by debut author Sean Moncrieff. It exposes the side of Dublin that tourists never see. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jerusalem Commands Michael Moorcock (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Jan 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h197mm x w130mm x s37mm 480g ISBN13: 9781857991871 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-187-1 ISBN10: 1857991877 EAN: 9781857991871 x Description: The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh. He finds cult success as a star of the silver screen winning and breaking many hearts along the way, mixing with characters good and bad, real and unreal. But everything he does with panache as he makes his way to an appointment with the twentieth century's blackest moment. Book four of the Pyat quartet is in preparation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Laughter of Carthage Michael Moorcock (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
07 Apr 1994
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 608pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 490g ISBN13: 9781857990485 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-048-5 ISBN10: 185799048X EAN: 9781857990485 x Description: This is the 2nd in the Pyat series.Maxim leaves Russia and travels Europe and eventually to America...his adventures are comic as well as terrifying! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mother London Michael Moorcock (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Scribner
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 512pp h198mm x w129mm 700g ISBN13: 9780684861418 ISBN13: 978-0-684-86141-8 ISBN10: 0684861410 x Description: Three hospital outpatients all find that they hear voices - the voices of London's past. As they explore the city of their present day, they also explore its recent past and its forgotten people. Through the lives of those on the fringe of society, we learn what it is like - and what it has always been like - to live in the great, sprawling, polyphonic, multicoloured capital. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Doctor's Wife Brian Moore (Author) Series:
Paladin Books
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
28 Mar 1994
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h197mm x w130mm x s14mm 192g ISBN13: 9780586087398 ISBN13: 978-0-586-08739-8 ISBN10: 0586087397 x Description: Shortlisted for the 1976 Booker Prize, this is a novel about an ordinary woman, in the middle of her life, seized by love for a younger man. The author also wrote "The Colour of Blood", "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" and "The Doctor's Wife". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lies Of Silence Brian Moore (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
19 Nov 1992 (07 Jan 2010)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g ISBN13: 9780099998105 ISBN13: 978-0-09-999810-5 ISBN10: 0099998106 EAN: 9780099998105 x Description: When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him with absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Big Little Lies: The No.1 bestseller behind the award-winning TV series Liane Moriarty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 341g ISBN13: 9781405931564 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3156-4 ISBN10: 1405931566 EAN: 9781405931564 x Description: READ THE NO.1 BESTSELLER BEHIND THE AWARD WINNING TV SENSATION Get ready for the highly anticipated second series of Emmy & Golden Globe Winning Big Little Lies, starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman & Meryl Streep, by reading the first book . . . ____________ Perfect families, perfect houses, perfect lives. Three mothers, Jane, Madeline and Celeste appear to have it all . . . but do they? They are about to find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control. Single mum Jane has just moved to town. She's got her little boy in tow - plus a secret she's been carrying for five years. On the first day of the school run she meets Madeline - a force to be reckoned with, who remembers everything and forgives no one - and Celeste, the kind beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but is inexplicably ill at ease. They both take Jane under their wing - while careful to keep their own secrets under wraps. But a minor incident involving the children of all three women rapidly escalates: playground whispers become spiteful rumours until no one can tell the truth from the lies. It was always going to end in tears, but how did it end in murder? _____________ 'Blame and guilt, forgiveness and retribution, love and betrayal. A tense, page-turning story . . . a great read' Mail on Sunday 'Blending romance, comedy and mystery, this is a wonderful book - full of brains, guts and heart' Sunday Mirror 'A hell of a good book. Funny and scary' Stephen King 'Brilliant, standout, superbly clever. Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly' Sunday Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nine Perfect Strangers: The Number One Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 312g ISBN13: 9781405919463 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-1946-3 ISBN10: 1405919469 EAN: 9781405919463 x Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY SPRING BOOK CLUB PICK, FROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND AWARD WINNING TV SERIES BIG LITTLE LIES.
'The suspense keeps building in an enjoyably zany thriller' GUARDIAN, BEST SUMMER READS Nine perfect strangers, each hiding an imperfect life. A luxury retreat cut off from the outside world. Ten days that promise to change your life. But some promises - like some lives - are perfect lies . . . __________ 'Fantastic' Times 'Original, suspenseful, downright brilliant' Clare Mackintosh 'The twist blew my mind' Marian Keyes 'A super-suspenseful page-turner' Mail on Sunday 'Will grip you from the first page' Sunday Express 'Captivating' Good Housekeeping 'Had me utterly hooked' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Mar 1999 (07 Jan 2016)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 172g ISBN13: 9780099759911 ISBN13: 978-0-09-975991-1 ISBN10: 0099759918 EAN: 9780099759911 x Description: Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterised her writing. `She revealed the sins of her nation, while profoundly elevating its canon. She suffused the telling of blackness with beauty, whilst steering us away from the perils of the white gaze. That's why she told her stories. And why we will never, ever stop reading them' Afua Hirsch `Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures' Washington Post `When she arrived, with her first novel, The Bluest Eye, she immediately re-ordered the American literary landscape' Ben Okri Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paradise Toni Morrison (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Mar 1999 (03 Mar 2016)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 236g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099768210 ISBN13: 978-0-09-976821-0 ISBN10: 0099768216 EAN: 9780099768210 x Description: Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity. Starkly evoking the clashes that have bedevilled the American century: between race and racelessness; religion and magic; promiscuity and fidelity; individuality and belonging. `When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose' Hilary Mantel, Spectator `Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the 20th century, to a place where it could finally embrace the subtleties and contradictions of the great stain of race which has blighted the republic since its inception' Caryl Phillips, Guardian BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sula Toni Morrison (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 May 1998 (07 Jan 2016)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 150g ISBN13: 9780099760016 ISBN13: 978-0-09-976001-6 ISBN10: 0099760010 EAN: 9780099760016 x Description: 'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York Times As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Sula is a story of fear - the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Cast as a witch by the people who resent her strength, Sula is a woman of uncompromising power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down. `What a force her thoughts have been and how grateful we must be that they were offered to us in this extremely challenging age' Alice Walker, Guardian BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
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A Girl For All Seasons Camilla Morton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 528pp h206mm x w162mm x s46mm 772g Line illustrations throughout ISBN13: 9780340922590 ISBN13: 978-0-340-92259-0 ISBN10: 0340922591 EAN: 9780340922590 x Description: If your resolutions tend to look much the same from one year to another and you are suffering from the suspicion that someone, somewhere is having more fun that you, then you need something to revitalise your lust for life. A YEAR IN HIGH HEELS is here to help. This book will guide you through the months with a perfectly co-ordinated combination of culture and challenges. With a monthly muse to inspire, and a suggested title for that soon-to-be-formed book club, dumbing down is so last season. Erin O'Connor, Diane von Furstenberg, Matthew Williamson and others share their secrets about their favourite places - so the next time you check in you'll know what to check out - while Dita von Teese, Anya Hindmarch and Christian Lacroix show you how to undress, how to go green and how to appreciate opera. Eclectic, practical and fantastical, A YEAR IN HIGH HEELS is crammed with fascinating stories, inspiring ideas and surprisingly sensible advice. Forget who, when, why and what to wear. Get ready to wow! Foreword by Manolo Blahnik. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eileen: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Ottessa Moshfegh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
15 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 192g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784701468 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-146-8 ISBN10: 1784701467 EAN: 9781784701468 x Description: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016* Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. But soon, Eileen's affection for Rebecca pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination. `Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling' The Times
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Elmet: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Fiona Mozley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
08 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h203mm x w183mm x s20mm 262g ISBN13: 9781473676497 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-7649-7 ISBN10: 1473676495 EAN: 9781473676497 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 AND THE PFD/SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD AND THE POLARI PRIZE 'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist 'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS 'Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional children's story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The Godfather' Sunday Times Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned menacing and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them in the woods with his bare hands. They foraged and hunted. Cathy was more like their father: fierce and full of simmering anger. Daniel was more like their mother: gentle and kind. Sometimes, their father disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes. But when he was at home, he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew. Brutal and beautiful in equal measure, Elmet is a compelling portrayal of a family living on the fringes of contemporary society, as well as a gripping exploration of the disturbing actions people are capable of when pushed to their limits. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Elmet: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Fiona Mozley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
JM Originals
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
10 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h216mm x w136mm x s28mm 360g ISBN13: 9781473660540 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-6054-0 ISBN10: 1473660548 EAN: 9781473660540 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 AND THE PFD/SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD AND THE POLARI PRIZE 'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist 'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS
'Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional children's story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The Godfather' Sunday Times Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned menacing and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them in the woods with his bare hands. They foraged and hunted. Cathy was more like their father: fierce and full of simmering anger. Daniel was more like their mother: gentle and kind. Sometimes, their father disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes. But when he was at home, he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew. Brutal and beautiful in equal measure, Elmet is a compelling portrayal of a family living on the fringes of contemporary society, as well as a gripping exploration of the disturbing actions people are capable of when pushed to their limits. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Peacock Emporium Jojo Moyes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
28 Feb 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 464pp h179mm x w110mm x s28mm 250g n/a ISBN13: 9780340830086 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83008-6 ISBN10: 0340830085 EAN: 9780340830086 x Description: In the Sixties, Athene Forster is the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she is also beautiful, spoilt and out of control. When she agrees to marry dashing young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme her parents breathe a sigh of relief. But within two years rumours have begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman.
Thirty five years on, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her glamorous mother's legacy. At odds with her father and his second wife, struggling in a stalled marriage, she returns to the place of her birth to find that the ghost of her mother, in differing ways, still haunts them all.
The only place she finds comfort is in her shop, The Peacock Emporium, a coffee shop-cum-curio store, decorated in her own image, which provides a haven for other misfits in the town. There she makes perhaps the first real friends of her life, including Alejandro, a male midwife, escaping his own ghosts in Argentina.
But the spectre of Athene and the shop itself combine to set in place a chain of tragic events, forcing Suzanna to confront the feelings she has disguised for so long - and her family, in their varying ways, finally to deal with the events of the past. And Suzanna discovers the key to her history, and her happiness, may have been in front of her all along. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sixty-nine Ryu Murakami (Author) Ralph F. McCarthy (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Kodansha International Ltd
Publisher:
Kodansha America, Inc
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Japan Paperback / softback 192pp h210mm x w10mm ISBN13: 9784770030139 ISBN13: 978-4-7700-3013-9 ISBN10: 4770030134 EAN: 9784770030139
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Christodora Tim Murphy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
27 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 448pp h197mm x w130mm x s28mm 318g ISBN13: 9781509818594 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-1859-4 ISBN10: 1509818596 EAN: 9781509818594 x Description: 'An engrossing and inspiring story of loss, love and hope, set against a backdrop of art, activism and addiction.' Observer The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbour, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly's and Jared's lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, the couple's adopted son, Mateo, grows to appreciate the opportunities for both self-realization and oblivion that New York offers. As the junkies and protestors of the 1980s give way to the hipsters of the 2000s and they, in turn, to the wealthy residents of the crowded, glasstowered city of the 2020s, enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly and Jared and the constellation of people around them. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize a response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, Christodora recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, illustrates the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life the everchanging city itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies John Murray (Author) Series:
Edition:
Open market ed
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h181mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780141017600 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101760-0 ISBN10: 0141017600 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mark and the Void Paul Murray (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h213mm x w133mm x s30mm 334g ISBN13: 9780241953860 ISBN13: 978-0-241-95386-0 ISBN10: 0241953863 EAN: 9780241953860 x Description: WINNER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2016 A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy Dies What links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an ex-KGB man? You guessed it . . .
The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies. While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-hisluck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems-and neither is Claude's employer, the Bank of Torabundo, which inflates through dodgy takeovers and derivatives-trading until-well, you can probably guess how that shakes out. The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Annotated Lolita Vladimir Nabokov (Author) Alfred Appel (Introduction by) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Jul 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 544pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 372g ISBN13: 9780141185040 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118504-0 ISBN10: 014118504X EAN: 9780141185040 x Description: When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. Alfred Appel, Jr. also provides fresh observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings and a delightful biographical vignette of Nabokov. The annotations themselves were prepared in consultation with Nabokov while newly identified allusions were confirmed by him during the final years of his life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov (Author) Mary McCarthy (Introduction by) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Aug 2000 (04 Aug 2016)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w140mm x s20mm 242g ISBN13: 9780141185262 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118526-2 ISBN10: 0141185260 EAN: 9780141185262 x Description: The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ladies Coupe Anita Nair (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jun 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 224g ISBN13: 9780099428978 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942897-8 ISBN10: 0099428970 EAN: 9780099428978 x Description: Meet Akhilandeswari, Akhila for short: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider. Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coupe' - Akhila asks the five women she is travelling with the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete? This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women's lives in contemporary India, revealing how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with husbands, mothers, friends, employers and children are the same the world over. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On Shaky Ground J.J. Nance (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Avon Books
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Pub Date:
31 Dec 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9780380707430 ISBN13: 978-0-380-70743-0 ISBN10: 0380707438 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shattered Icon Bill Napier (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2004
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h177mm x w110mm x s25mm 200g None ISBN13: 9780747267263 ISBN13: 978-0-7472-6726-3 ISBN10: 074726726X EAN: 9780747267263 x Description: As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400 year old journal and twelve hours later he is brutally murdered, Harry's peace of mind is shattered. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life or death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune to steal it? He turns to marine historian Zola Khan to uncover the mysteries. The trail of the journal leads him into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, and the thread of history takes him through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades. And he finally learns that at stake are millions of dollars and a plan to trigger nothing less than war... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko Patrick Neate (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Mar 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h180mm x w110mm x s25mm 211g ISBN13: 9780140292169 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029216-9 ISBN10: 0140292160 EAN: 9780140292169 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Starter For Ten David Nicholls (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
21 Sep 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w130mm x s32mm 340g ISBN13: 9780340924648 ISBN13: 978-0-340-92464-8 ISBN10: 0340924640 EAN: 9780340924648 x Description: It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic wouldbe actress, Alice Harbinson. When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. He's going to win the game, at any cost, because - after all - everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge ...STARTER FOR TEN is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. Are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Male Heart Ruaridh Nicoll (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 267g ISBN13: 9780552999014 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99901-4 ISBN10: 0552999016 EAN: 9780552999014 x Description: In the magnificent wilderness that is the Scottish Highlands, Aaron and Hugh have been friends for as long as they can remember, bound by a shared affinity for their surroundings and an increasing sense of alienation from the remote, close-knit community that is their home. But when a young woman - fleeing life in the city and a broken love affair - moves to the area, the ties that bind the boys are slowly, irrevocably stretched to near-breaking point. And as the strain on Aaron and Hugh's friendship builds, so the violence that is endemic in the land begins to infect them both. Driven to the very edge of reason, they turn on their world to vent their frustration and anger and hurt in the only way they know, embarking on a spree of quite horrific destruction... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The End of the Day: shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year 2017 Claire North (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orbit
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
24 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h197mm x w129mm x s27mm 300g ISBN13: 9780356507330 ISBN13: 978-0-356-50733-0 ISBN10: 0356507335 EAN: 9780356507330 x Description: ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017*** 'Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache' Sunday Times 'Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive" Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4 'Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful' Kirkus Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie. Charlie meets everyone - but only once. Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. Either way, this is going to be the most important meeting of your life. The End of the Day is the stunning new story from Claire North, the voice behind the word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. 'Reaffirms the passion and ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer' Locus 'Every one of the chapters is shaped with philosophical panache' Guardian 'Compelling . . . keeps the surprises coming until the very end' San Francisco Chronicle _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Unnumbered Sam North (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Scribner
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780743248525 ISBN13: 978-0-7432-4852-5 ISBN10: 074324852X x Description: Contemporary London. You know what that's like. But there's another London too, another race: the streets are swirling with them. They have no jobs, no driving licence, no social security, no identity of any sort. They pass us by every day; the unnumbered. Nio and Mila are two of the unnumbered. Nio the dreamer has built a home for himself in Coldfall Woods. Mila the realist has just bought herself an identity, and works as a checkout girl. It's a start: their start. Mila's going to reach the stars some day. They can feel it in the air. Lucas Tooth can sense it too. He works his charm on all these women; the hopeful, the sad, the desperate. But only when they feel the fear does it bring him the pleasure. And now it's Mila's turn. Together, Nio and Mila will take on this London and all it can throw at them. But it is not an easy city. It exacts a hard tribute. The city has brought them together. The city could tear them apart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tapping the Source Kem Nunn (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
No Exit Press
Publisher:
Oldcastle Books Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Jul 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 308pp h198mm x w129mm 270g ISBN13: 9781901982329 ISBN13: 978-1-901982-32-9 ISBN10: 1901982327 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Flann O'Brien (Author) Series:
Harper Perennial Modern Edition: Classics
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007247172 ISBN13: 978-0-00-724717-2 ISBN10: 0007247176 EAN: 9780007247172 x Description: A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of `At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien.
A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, `The Third Policeman' is comparable only to `Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd.
Distinguished by endless comic invention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, `The Third Policeman' is unique in the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels Kenzaburo Oe (Author) John Nathan (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Marion Boyars Publishers Publisher: Ltd
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Mar 2000
Active
Publishing Status:
Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 276pp h210mm ISBN13: 9780714530482 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-3048-2 ISBN10: 0714530484 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All For You: An irresistible summer read by the #1 bestselling author! Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publisher:
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2012 (09 Jul 2015) Publishing Status:
Headline Publishing Group Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 528pp h196mm x w164mm x s34mm 360g ISBN13: 9780755343874 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-4387-4 ISBN10: 0755343875 EAN: 9780755343874 x Description: Sheila O'Flanagan's No. 1 bestseller ALL FOR YOU is a wonderfully engaging read not to be missed by fans of Lisa Jewell and Jane Green. 'A good summer read' Heat As TV's favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn't foresee is that her own life is about to hit a stormy patch. With a string of failed relationships behind her, surely history isn't about to repeat itself with her beloved Ken? To add fuel to the fire, her career-woman mother is returning to Dublin. Deanna has never approved of Lainey's decisions about men, and her mother's views are the last thing Lainey wants to hear now! Yet is there more to her mother than she knows? Uncovering some long-concealed family secrets, Lainey begins to reassess her life. Is the happyever-after she's always dreamed of really what she wants after all? What readers are saying about All For You: 'As usual, Sheila O'Flanagan never fails to entertain. I would recommend this highly' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars 'A brilliant read. Well written and researched and no idea how it would end - her best book by far' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Unputdownable - I loved this book!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Perfect Man: Let the #1 bestselling author take you on a life-changing journey ... Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
27 May 2010 (11 Jun 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h197mm x w137mm x s32mm 332g ISBN13: 9780755343812 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-4381-2 ISBN10: 0755343816 EAN: 9780755343812 x Description: A captivating novel about family ties, romance and leaving the past behind - THE PERFECT MAN by No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flangan. A perfect read for fans of Fern Britton and Veronica Henry. Brit doesn't believe in love. One painful mistake was all it took. So she's as surprised as anyone when her novel THE PERFECT MAN becomes a huge bestseller - how did she manage to write so convincingly about love if she really thinks it's a myth? Heartbreak has never stopped her sister Mia from being a hopeless romantic. She can't be with the love of her life, but she's never stopped hoping.
They both need to let go of the past to stand a chance of being happy in the future. Could a Caribbean cruise be just what they need to open their hearts? What readers are saying about The Perfect Man: 'A soul-bearing story. Beautifully written as always. Two very different sisters at similar points in their lives' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'A great read. The characters really came to life and I enjoyed it from start to finish. Excellent!' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars 'I absolutely loved it - the cover, the writing, the characters - it was all fabulous. It reads like a dream and you could imagine all of the beautiful locations described. I wholly recommend it!' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What Happened That Night: A page-turning read by the No. 1 Bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 512pp h178mm x w112mm x s40mm 280g ISBN13: 9781472253606 ISBN13: 978-1-4722-5360-6 ISBN10: 1472253604 EAN: 9781472253606 x Description: 'A fabulous tale with refreshingly inspiring heroines' ***** Heat
Sheila O'Flanagan is the bestselling author of THE MISSING WIFE, and her new bestseller WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT will enchant readers who love the novels of Marian Keyes and Lisa Jewell. Then When Lola Fitzpatrick catches the eye of Philip Warren, she's new to Dublin and loving it. He's used to getting what he wants...and she can't resist him. Until one night he forces her to make an impossible choice. If she'd known then what she knows now, everything might have been different. Now Lola's daughter Bey has inherited her mother's impulsive streak and it takes her down dangerous paths. Then one night she too finds herself in front of a man she loves, with impossible choices of her own to make. For both women, what happened that night changes everything. For better. For worse. For ever.
What readers are saying about What Happened That Night: 'Brilliant book from start to finish. Another smash from Sheila O'Flanagan' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars 'A great, warm, life-affirming read that is not your traditional 'romcom', but offers so much more' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars 'This is an exquisite book - everyone who loves a family story will love this book. Ready to change your life?' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Excellent book. I looked forward to reading it every day on my commute... On one occasion I was so engrossed I missed my stop' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars
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Purge Sofi Oksanen (Author) Lola Rogers (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
01 May 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h200mm x w125mm x s30mm 378g ISBN13: 9781848872134 ISBN13: 978-1-84887-213-4 ISBN10: 1848872135 EAN: 9781848872134 x Description: Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding. Zara is a prostitute and a murderer, on the run from brutal captors - men who know how to punish a woman. Aliide offers refuge but not safety: she has her own criminal secrets - traitorous crimes of passion and revenge committed long ago, during the country's brutal Soviet years. Both women have survived lives of abuse. But this time their survival depends on revealing the one thing history has taught them to keep safely hidden: the truth. A haunting, intimate and gripping story of suspicion, betrayal and retribution against a backdrop of Soviet oppression and European war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When the Doves Disappeared Sofi Oksanen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
27 Apr 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h210mm x w148mm x s24mm 366g ISBN13: 9781782391258 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-125-8 ISBN10: 1782391258 EAN: 9781782391258 x Description: 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When the Doves Disappeared Sofi Oksanen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 236g ISBN13: 9781782391289 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-128-9 ISBN10: 1782391282 EAN: 9781782391289
x Description: 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Netherland Joseph O'Neill (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 300pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 250g ISBN13: 9780007275700 ISBN13: 978-0-00-727570-0 ISBN10: 0007275706 EAN: 9780007275700 x Description: In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.
In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war. Those years were difficult for Hans - his English wife Rachel left with their son after the attack, as if that event revealed the cracks and silences in their marriage, and he spent two strange years in New York's Chelsea Hotel, passing stranger evenings with the eccentric residents.
Lost in a country he'd regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in a most alien place - the thriving but almost invisible world of New York cricket, in which immigrants from Asia and the West Indies play a beautiful, mystifying game on the city's most marginal parks. It was during these games that Hans befriends Chuck Ramkissoon, who dreamed of establishing the city's first proper cricket field. Over the course of a summer, Hans grew to share Chuck's dream and Chuck's sense of American possibility - until he began to glimpse the darker meaning of his new friend's activities and ambitions.
`Netherland' is a novel of belonging and not belonging, and the uneasy state in between. It is a novel of a marriage foundering and recuperating, and of the shallows and depths of male friendship. With it, Joseph O'Neill has taken the anxieties and uncertainties of our new century and fashioned a work of extraordinary beauty and brilliance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Best Possible Taste Sam O'Reilly (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Nov 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w135mm x s27mm 292g ISBN13: 9780141016542 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101654-2 ISBN10: 014101654X x Description: When you're a teenager in seventies Stoke living on Smash and Cup-a-Soup, there's only one thing you long to acquire: Taste. At least you do if you're Stephen Beckett, and you're convinced you were born into the wrong class. So when middle age nears and you're running your own trendy Brighton eatery, you're entitled to think you've made it. But you're about to find out just how expensive taste can be. It can cost you: Your wife and children; Your friends and family; Your sex drive, your business and probably your sanity Caught in the headlights of a terrifying new life and an
unhealthy fixation with a lapdancer who hates him, Stephen must face the question: is class really about what's on your plate? And if not, what are its true ingredients? To discover where he belongs and who with Stephen Beckett is going to have to swallow a lot of things far less palatable than a plate of borsch. And that's just for starters _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Natural Causes Michael Palmer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
02 Dec 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h178mm x w110mm x s31mm 260g ISBN13: 9780099727118 ISBN13: 978-0-09-972711-8 ISBN10: 0099727110 EAN: 9780099727118 x Description: Dr Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labour has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarahs own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed are the only things these three women have in common. Soon Sarah is fighting to save her career, her reputation - her life. For she's certain there must be some unknown factor linking these women, and as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that someone will do anything - even murder - to keep a devastating secret. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Men In Her Life Imogen Parker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp 319g ISBN13: 9780552999915 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99991-5 ISBN10: 0552999911 x Description: Holly is sexy, successful, single and wondering what's next... Clare is married, a mother, miserable, and longing for change... Two sisters, unaware of each other's existence until they meet at their father's funeral - and after that, their lives will never be the same. The Men in Her Life is about madonnas and whores and the bargains and compromises people make in the name of love. It's about having your wishes come true, then finding you don't want what you wished for. It's about having crushes on movie stars and drinking far too much, and it's about passion - for work, for life, for men. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
These Foolish Things Imogen Parker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w128mm x s28mm 312g ISBN13: 9780552999939 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99993-9 ISBN10: 0552999938 x Description: Alison has everything she ever dreamed of. Smart, sophisticated, married to a successful cardiologist, she's at the top of her career in journalism. Why, then, does she wonder if this is all there is? Ginger is just the opposite. She flunked out of university, is a failed actress who has never had a relationship lasting more than a month, and only has somewhere to live because she was her eccentric grandmother's favourite. Lia alone is perfectly content with her life. Three women, with nothing in common, nothing at all - except that they are all about to have their first child. Meeting each other will change all their lives as doubt becomes certainty, old sins are forgiven, and as what begins as friendship ends in betrayal.
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Hush Money Robert B. Parker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
27 Apr 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 336pp h172mm x w105mm 163g ISBN13: 9780425174012 ISBN13: 978-0-425-17401-2 ISBN10: 0425174018 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dogs of Babel Carolyn Parkhurst (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
12 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 288pp h18mm x w110mm x s176mm 152g n/a ISBN13: 9780340833070 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83307-0 ISBN10: 0340833076 x Description: Paul's life is stable, orderly and dull - until he meets Lexy and her dog Lorelei. From their first date Lexy sweeps Paul off his feet and brings him passion, adventure and love. But one afternoon Lexy climbs an apple tree and falls to her death. Heartbroken, Paul cannot believe that it was an accident and sets out to find the truth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Europa Tim Parks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 192g ISBN13: 9780099268093 ISBN13: 978-0-09-926809-3 ISBN10: 0099268094 EAN: 9780099268093 x Description: Discover Tim Parks' darkly funny and deeply prescient Booker prize-shortlisted novel about the European experience. A brilliantly comic and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Europa follows Jerry Marlow, a middle-aged Brit teaching at an Italian university, as he and his colleagues embark on a coach trip to Strasbourg in order to petition the European Parliament for improved working conditions. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he's trapped in the awful claustrophobia of the trip with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart. `The best thing about Europa is the voice Tim Parks conjures up: Marlow's wry, defeated reason keeps you turning the pages...reminding us that it is far easier to unite a sprawling continent than the few cubic metres that contain a human soul' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eager to Please Julie Parsons (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
24 Nov 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h178mm x w111mm x s26mm 227g ISBN13: 9780330368810 ISBN13: 978-0-330-36881-0 ISBN10: 0330368818 EAN: 9780330368810 x Description: 'Are you listening, outside world? I'm coming back. Are you listening?' For twelve long years Rachel Beckett has been in prison for the murder of her husband, Martin. A murder she swears she did not commit. For twelve long years she has been denied the touch and the love of her only daughter Amy. Has been forced to watch another woman raise and enjoy her child. Until, at the age of seventeen, Amy has insisted she never wants to see her real mother again. But now Rachel is free. And she is ready to take revenge . . . 'A classy, riveting suspense by a writer who deserves to be up with the big names of crime fiction - Walters, Vine et al.' Bookseller 'Brilliant. A star in the making.' Minette Walters 'One of those rare authors who can successfully combine psychological insight, literary style and heart-stopping suspense.' Jeffrey Deaver _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One For My Baby Tony Parsons (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
04 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s25mm 207g ISBN13: 9780007135691 ISBN13: 978-0-00-713569-1 ISBN10: 0007135696 EAN: 9780007135691 This Product is Replaced By: 9780006514817 x Description: New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy.
Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love.
Returning to the England he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him.
He takes comfort in a string of pointless, transient affairs with his students at Churchill's Language School, and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man, George Chang.
Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs'? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler known as The Slab?
Like his runaway bestseller, Man and Boy, Tony Parsons's new novel is full of laughter and tears, biting social comment and overwhelming emotion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Da Vinci Legacy Lewis Perdue (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Tor Books
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 400pp h171mm x w106mm 190g ISBN13: 9780765349675 ISBN13: 978-0-7653-4967-5 ISBN10: 0765349671 x Description: "The Da Vinci Codex" is a priceless collection of Leonardo's original work - or is it? When Da Vinci scholar Curtis Davis discovers that several of the "Codex's" pages are forgeries, the search is on the for genuine documents, which may hold startling secrets and revelations. But Davis is not the only one seeking the missing pages. He soon finds himself the target of a murderous conspiracy that dates back to the dawn of Christianity itself. For the "Da Vinci Codex" is more than just a precious document. It is also the key to a long lost discovery of frightening importance. Now, not only Davis's life but also he future itself is at stake. Ultimate power is the prize for whoever seizes...The Da Vinci Legacy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Queen of the South Arturo Perez-Reverte (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h178mm x w111mm x s40mm 339g ISBN13: 9780330433655 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43365-5 ISBN10: 0330433652 EAN: 9780330433655 This Product is Replaced By: 9780330413145 x Description: Guero Davila is a pilot engaged in drug-smuggling for the local cartels. Teresa Mendoza is his girlfriend, a typical narco's morra, quiet, doting, submissive. But then Guero's caught playing both sides and in Sinaloa that means death. Teresa is alone, terrified, friendless and running to save her life, carrying nothing but a gym bag containing a pistol and a notebook that she has been forbidden to read. Forced to leave Mexico, she flees to the Spanish city of Melilla where she meets Santiago Fisterra, a Galician involved in trafficking hashhish across the Strait of Gibraltar. When Santiago's partner is captured, it is Teresa who steps in to take his place. Now Teresa has plunged into the dark and ugly world that once claimed Guero's life - and she's about to get in deeper . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Crossing the River Caryl Phillips (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
22 May 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9780571204021 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20402-1 ISBN10: 0571204023 EAN: 9780571204021 x Description: Spans 250 years of the diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in World War II. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Small Great Things: The bestselling novel you won't want to miss Jodi Picoult (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
11 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 560pp h178mm x w129mm x s36mm 302g ISBN13: 9781444788044 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-8804-4 ISBN10: 1444788043 EAN: 9781444788044 x Description: 'It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes' Financial Times When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not. Small Great Things is about prejudice and power; it is about that which divides and unites us. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Her Father's House Belva Plain (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Coronet Books
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
05 Dec 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 368pp h178mm x w112mm x s24mm 200g None ISBN13: 9780340766439 ISBN13: 978-0-340-76643-9 ISBN10: 0340766433 EAN: 9780340766439 x Description: For her he would give up everything: his home, his work and even his freedom. When his marriage fails, he does just that. A chance meeting with a stranger on a train changes his life - and his daughter's - in ways he could never have imagined. From her earliest years Tina is exceptional, a brilliant student and a joyous person with a loving spirit. At university she falls in love with Gilbert who, three years older than she, graduates from law school just as she is about to enter medical school. Together they go to New York, where they learn a truth about Donald that shatters Tina's regard for the father who has for so long protected and cherished her. When a terrible lie has been told for love, can it be forgiven? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Farewell Companions James Plunkett (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Leopard Books
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)
Pub Date:
01 Aug 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 480pp h178mm x w110mm 244g Restricted distribution ISBN13: 9780752904047 ISBN13: 978-0-7529-0404-7 ISBN10: 0752904043 x
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Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona Jeremy Poolman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Jan 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h199mm x w128mm x s20mm 210g ISBN13: 9780571179282 ISBN13: 978-0-571-17928-2 ISBN10: 0571179282 EAN: 9780571179282 x Description: A story of death and life, of love lost and found, of chances squandered and second chances, of dust and heat in the American SouthWest, Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona is the exceptional debut novel by Jeremy Poolman. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Do You Come Here Often? Alexandra Potter (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp 313g ISBN13: 9780552770040 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77004-0 ISBN10: 0552770043 EAN: 9780552770040 x Description: Life's full of surprises. Grace never expected to wake up on her thirty-first birthday and realise that Mr Right had turned into Mr Wrong. She never expected to break off her engagement. But then she never expected to go on honeymoon with her ex-boyfriend either. Set against a backdrop of a late-night radio show hosted by Dr Cupid who promises to sort out the love lives of his listeners, this is a romantic comedy that looks at what it's like to be single again, about finding true love and how it can all get very, very complicated... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
May It Please Your Lordship Toby Potts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Monday Books
Publisher:
Monday Books
Pub Date:
14 Nov 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w125mm 256g ISBN13: 9781906308605 ISBN13: 978-1-906308-60-5 ISBN10: 1906308608 EAN: 9781906308605 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Venusberg Anthony Powell (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Mandarin
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 Dec 1992
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h196mm x w129mm 394g ISBN13: 9780749311971 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-1197-1 ISBN10: 0749311975 x Description: One of Anthony Powell's early novels, this book features a whole gallery of comic subordinate characters: the egregious valet, Pope, called by his comrades in the army "The Duke"; the two Russian counts, Scherbatcheff and Bobel; the ingenious American, Cortney; and the conscientious Waldemar. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
O How the Wheel Becomes It! Anthony Powell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Mandarin
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 Dec 1992
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 144pp 259g ISBN13: 9780749311940 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-1194-0 ISBN10: 0749311940 EAN: 9780749311940 x Description: Sometime novelist and critic, now literary hack and occasional lecturer at provincial universities, Geoffrey Shadbold has long rested on the laurels of what was once a promising career. But when he is invited on to a TV chat show, and asked to give his views on love and sex, the wheel is come full circle when the past rolls awkwardly into the present. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nectar Lily Prior (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp 183g ISBN13: 9780552770880 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77088-0 ISBN10: 0552770884 EAN: 9780552770880 x Description: Ramona Drottoveo, an albino with unusual looks, is a chambermaid at an Italian country estate. Distinguished by an intoxicating scent, she is despised by all women and worshipped by all men, whose inexhaustible lust she eagerly satisfies. But Ramona's life changes for ever when she marries a beekeeper who dies after discovering his bride with a lover on their wedding day. The superstitious villagers go on to blame Ramona and her lover when his body mysteriously disappears and the crops fail, and they exile the couple from the estate to the neighboring city of Naples. There we follow Ramona through her tragi-comic misadventures where her life is transformed once again by the birth of an unwanted daughter, Blandina. Blandina 'steals' Ramona's scent, depriving her mother of her only asset. No longer able to seduce men into blind submission, Ramona returns humbly to the estate to an unexpected welcome - and revenge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Postcards Annie Proulx (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
23 May 1994
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w130mm 255g ISBN13: 9780006546689 ISBN13: 978-0-00-654668-9 ISBN10: 0006546684 This Product is Replaced By: 9781841155012 x Description: The story of Loyal Blood, a man on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. The odyssey begins on a freezing Vermont hillside in 1944 and propels Blood across the American West for 40 years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The In Search of Lost Time: v. 5: Captive Marcel Proust (Author) Terence Kilmartin (Volume editor) T. Kilmartin (Translated by) Scott Moncrieff (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 832pp h198mm x w126mm 560g Film tie-in (originally 0099362619) ISBN13: 9780099425137 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942513-7 ISBN10: 0099425130 x Description: Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. Divorced, his career's in chaos, and the last thing he needs is a collapsed woman in the street on Christmas Eve. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find her mother and escape her husband. Milton Amery is her husband, an unfaithful New York plastic surgeon. All three of their roads leads to Inishowen. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Superstar Lovers Morag Prunty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w130mm x s25mm 250g ISBN13: 9780330419109 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41910-9 ISBN10: 0330419102 EAN: 9780330419109 x Description: Employing her customary razor-like humour, Morag Prunty introduces a host of characters whose lives have been chewed up and spat out by this harsh, celebrity-obsessed world. There's Molly, a lonely 20-something, who trudges to the newsagents every day for her fix of VIP, OK!, Hello!: - anything to give her life a much-needed injection of glamour. . . And there's Alfie, burned-out boyband member who's kissed the good times goodbye and is now all washed up . . . In her inimitable way, Morag Prunty introduces a collection of fascinating characters and gives them a sprinkle of magic dust in this witty dissection of the vagaries of fame and celebrity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Diary of a Married Call Girl Tracy Quan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
31 May 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 226g ISBN13: 9780007228621 ISBN13: 978-0-00-722862-1 ISBN10: 0007228627 EAN: 9780007228621 x Description: The witty, sexy sequel to Tracy Quan's bestselling `Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl'.
Like everyone, Nancy finds that as life goes on, she has to adapt. She's learning to hone her respectable image as the wife of investment banker Matt, cooking fashionable meals and taking his shirts to the cleaners, while turning a few tricks on the side. Volume is down, but the sex is kinkier. And she finds herself pulled into the discreet subculture of the married call girl. Some women's husband's know what they do, some don't, and some `know, but don't know.' Nancy's is in the dark, although her best friend Allison's increasing presence in the media spotlight threatens to expose Nancy's secret. Meanwhile, Matt wants a baby, but Nancy isn't so sure. Motherhood could end her career for good - and what will it do to her body?
Will Nancy have to give up her career to save her marriage? What if she becomes the frumpy wife her clients often come to her to escape? Fans of Quan's first Nancy Chan novel, readers of Candace Bushnell's `4 Blondes', and anyone who enjoys a walk on the wild side will love this revealing romp. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ten Thousand Lovers Edeet Ravel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
06 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w129mm x s26mm 260g None ISBN13: 9780755303717 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-0371-7 ISBN10: 0755303717 EAN: 9780755303717 x Description: Lily is a young emigrant student exploring the wonders and terrors of her new land when she meets the man of her dreams. Ami, a former actor, is handsome, intelligent and exciting - but, like his beautiful, disintegrating country, he has a terrible flaw - he is an army interrogator. As Lily and Ami's unexpected passion grows, so too does the shadow that hangs over them - the unspeakable horrors which Ami's work forces him to face. In today's world, where danger, terrorism and the possibility of war are a part of all our lives, no novel could be more brilliantly, terrifyingly contemporary. Yet TEN THOUSAND LOVERS is set in Israel in the Seventies: a dazzling backdrop to a universal story of passion, suffering and the transcending power of love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Earth And Ashes Atiq Rahimi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 64pp h198mm x w129mm x s4mm 53g ISBN13: 9780099442127 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944212-7 ISBN10: 0099442124 EAN: 9780099442127
x Description: Earth and Ashes is a story of such spareness and power it leaves the reader reeling. Set during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, it is a fable about war, family, home and tradition. An old man and his grandson sit in a deserted landscape of dusty roads and looming mountains. What are they waiting for? As we watch them we learn their story... Atiq Rahimi has managed to condense centuries of Afghan history into his short tale of three very different generations. At the same time, he has created a story that is universal in its power. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Knack of Life Trisha Rainsford (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Ireland
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: Ireland Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h182mm x w113mm x s26mm 208g ISBN13: 9781844880096 ISBN13: 978-1-84488-009-6 ISBN10: 1844880095 x Description: Thirty year-old Seamus can't believe his eyes when he sees his friend Mattie being killed. It just doesn't make any sense, but then not much has to Seamus ever since his lovely wife ran off with another man. Then two feisty women drag Seamus out of his torpor, and into some impromptu detective work. His investigations will lead him not only to the truth about Mattie, but also into the mysteries of his own head and his heart. And lead him to wonder if he'll ever figure out the knack of life ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rasero Rebolledo Francisco (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Nov 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 763g ISBN13: 9780297817543 ISBN13: 978-0-297-81754-3 ISBN10: 029781754X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Flight to Canada Ishmael Reed (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Simon & Schuster
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub Date:
22 Jun 1998
Publishing Status:
Unspecified
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 192pp h178mm x w111mm 200g ISBN13: 9780684847504 ISBN13: 978-0-684-84750-4 ISBN10: 0684847507 x Description: Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye view of the Civil War. Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes Negroes run away) escape from Virginia. Not satisfied with leaving slavery halfway, one of the trio has vowed to go the whole distance to Canada; his master, Arthur Swille, determined to recover his property, pursues, hot on Raven Quickskill's trail. With myth-bending ingenuity, Reed merges history, fantasy, political reality, and high comedy as he parodies the fugitive slave narrative: the slave-poet Quickskill flees to Canada on a nonstop jumbo jet; Abe Lincoln waltzes through slave quarters to the tune of "Hello Dolly"; the plantation mistress lies in bed watching the Beecher Hour on TV. Flight to Canada's preposterous episodes leap out from the pages of history to reveal a keen sense of America past and present.
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St Urbain's Horseman Mordecai Richler (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
15 Oct 1992
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp 345g ISBN13: 9780099858508 ISBN13: 978-0-09-985850-8 ISBN10: 0099858509 x Description: An early novel by the Canadian author of "Solomon Gursky Was Here", winner of the Commonwealth Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A Jewish Canadian living in London falls prey to a seedy little accountant and finds himself at the Old Bailey, on trial for a generation consumed with guilt. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
First Love Gwendoline Riley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 130g ISBN13: 9781783783243 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-324-3 ISBN10: 1783783249 EAN: 9781783783243 x Description: 'A singular, devastating journey into the ungovernable reaches of the heart' Observer SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place. Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blade Double Edition: Terror Strike/Devil Strike David Robbins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Leisure Books
Publisher:
Leisure Books
Pub Date:
01 Mar 1993
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h172mm x w106mm x s25mm 172g ISBN13: 9780843934076 ISBN13: 978-0-8439-3407-6 ISBN10: 0843934077 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Endworld Double: Cincinnati Run/Dallas Run David Robbins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Leisure Books
Publisher:
Leisure Books
Pub Date:
01 Nov 1992
Publishing Status:
No longer our product
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h170mm x w107mm x s25mm 186g ISBN13: 9780843933598 ISBN13: 978-0-8439-3359-8 ISBN10: 0843933593 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Endworld Double: Yellowstone Run/New Orleans Run David Robbins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Leisure Books
Publisher:
Leisure Books
Pub Date:
01 May 1993
Publishing Status:
No longer our product
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h168mm x w104mm x s23mm 168g ISBN13: 9780843934182 ISBN13: 978-0-8439-3418-2 ISBN10: 0843934182 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Looking Glass Michele Roberts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h200mm x w126mm x s15mm 346g ISBN13: 9781860499012 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-901-2 ISBN10: 1860499015 EAN: 9781860499012 x Description: In her place as maid to Madame Patin in the cafe next to the sea, orphan Genevieve becomes the breathless audience for her mistress's alarming folk stories, beginning with the one about the mermaid - the beauty who is also a monster - who must be killed. Genevieve happily falls into the patterns and ways of Madame Patin and contentedly cooks, cleans, gardens and serves the customers alongside her. Until, that is, Genevieve ripens to siren beauty. To avoid the mermaid's fate she must take flight. And she does, to a poet who has the hearts of all his women: his mother, his mistress, his niece, his niece's governess - and before long, his new maid's. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
365: Stories James Robertson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Nov 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h216mm x w135mm x s29mm 438g ISBN13: 9780241146866 ISBN13: 978-0-241-14686-6 ISBN10: 0241146860 EAN: 9780241146866
x Description: 365 is James Robertson's innovative collection of 365 stories, each 365 words long. In 2013, James Robertson wrote a story every day. Each was exactly 365 words long. A year later, on a daily basis, the stories were published on the Five Dials website. Now the 365 stories are gathered together in one volume. Some draw on elements of ancient myth and legend, others are outtakes from Scottish history and folklore; there are squibs and satires, songs and ballads in disguise, fairytales, stories inspired by dreams or in the form of interviews, and personal memories and observations. Underpinning all of them are vital questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? What happens next? 'Wow. James Robertson wrote a 365-word short story each day in 2013. They'll be posted throughout 2014' Ian Rankin, via Twitter 'A great storyteller' The Times 'One of Britain's best contemporary novelists' Irvine Welsh, Guardian James Robertson is the author of five novels, The Professor of Truth, And the Land Lay Still, The Testament of Gideon Mack, Joseph Knight and The Fanatic. The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and selected for Richard and Judy's Book Club the following year. Joseph Knight was the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year in 2003 and And the Land Lay Still was recipient of the same prize in 2010. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
And the Land Lay Still James Robertson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 688pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 468g ISBN13: 9780141028545 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102854-5 ISBN10: 0141028548 EAN: 9780141028545 x Description: And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James Robertson And the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to make their way through a country in the throes of great and rapid change. It is a moving, sweeping story of family, friendship, struggle and hope - epic in every sense. The winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010, And the Land Lay Still is a masterful insight into Scotland's history in the twentieth century and a moving, beautifully written novel of intertwined stories. 'Toweringly ambitious, virtually flawlessly realized, a masterpiece and, without a doubt, my book of the year' Daily Mail 'A jam-packed, dizzying piece of fiction' Scotland on Sunday 'Gripping, vivid, beautifully realized' The Times 'Engrossing' Daily Telegraph 'Powerful and moving. A brilliant and multifaceted saga of Scottish life in the second half of the twentieth century' Sunday Times 'Brilliant and thoughtful. Eminently readable, subtle and profound' Independent on Sunday 'Bold, discursive and deep, Robertson's sweeping history of life and politics in 20th-century Scotland should not be ignored' Ian Rankin, Observer Books of the Year James Robertson is the author of three previous novels: The Fanatic, Joseph Knight and The Testament of Gideon Mack, which is available in Penguin. Joseph Knight was awarded the two major Scottish literary awards in 2003/4 - the Saltire Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year - and The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, picked by Richard and Judy's Book Club, and shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Professor of Truth James Robertson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jun 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 253g ISBN13: 9780241145340 ISBN13: 978-0-241-14534-0 ISBN10: 0241145341 EAN: 9780241145340 x Description: The Professor of Truth is James Robertson's acclaimed novel about grief, truth and justice. Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a university lecturer, still doubts the official version of events surrounding that terrible night. Obsessed by the details of what he has come to call The Case, he is sure that the man convicted of the atrocity was not responsible, and that he himself has thus been deprived not only of justice but also of any chance of escape from his enduring grief. When a terminally ill American intelligence officer arrives on his doorstep with information about a key witness in the trial, Alan decides to act. Will this lead to the truth for which he has waited so long? 'Superb. A mystery thriller, a haunting evocation of grief' Daily Mail 'A great storyteller. It is a tense and gripping read, beautifully imagined' The Times 'Powered by action and mystery, and profoundly invested in the lives of its characters' Scotsman James Robertson is the author of four previous novels, The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack and And the Land Lay Still. The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, picked by Richard and Judy's Book Club, and shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award. And the Land Lay Still was the winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Conversations with Friends Sally Rooney (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 267g ISBN13: 9780571333134 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33313-4 ISBN10: 0571333133 EAN: 9780571333134 x Description: 'This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone.' - Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram) WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2018 A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex menage-a-quatre. But
when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Normal People Sally Rooney (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 242g ISBN13: 9780571334650 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33465-0 ISBN10: 0571334652 EAN: 9780571334650 x Description: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES AND TOP FIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC ONE DRAMA ADAPTATION CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF NOVEL OF THE YEAR AND BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't. 'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' - Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chimera Mary Rosenblum (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Jan 1994
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9780099379713 ISBN13: 978-0-09-937971-3 ISBN10: 0099379716 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dying Animal Philip Roth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 176pp h177mm x w110mm x s12mm 100g ISBN13: 9780099436898 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943689-8 ISBN10: 0099436892 EAN: 9780099436898 x Description: David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an 'emancipated manhood', beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years, he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and licence into an orderly way of life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of Eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela undo him completely. His worldliness, his confidence, his reason desert him, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Improbability of Love: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Hannah Rothschild (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
31 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 496pp h198mm x w129mm 341g ISBN13: 9781408862476 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-6247-6 ISBN10: 1408862476 EAN: 9781408862476 x Description: WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn unwillingly into the tumultuous London art world, populated by exiled Russian oligarchs, avaricious Sheikas, desperate auctioneers and unscrupulous dealers, all scheming to get their hands on her painting - a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called `The Improbability of Love'. Delving into the painting's past, Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of former owners, but some of the darkest secrets of European history - and in doing so she might just learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Elected Member Bernice Rubens (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1988
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h196mm x w131mm x s15mm 156g ISBN13: 9780349130224 ISBN13: 978-0-349-13022-4 ISBN10: 0349130221 EAN: 9780349130224 x Description: Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes... until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia. For Norman, his committal to a mental hospital represents the ultimate act of betrayal. For Rbbi Zweck, Norman's father, his son's deterioration is a bitter reminder of his own guilt and failure. Only Bella, the unmarried sister, still in her childhood white ankle socks, can reach across the abyss of pain to bring father and son the elusive peace which they both desperately crave. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Times of Fading Light Eugen Ruge (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
19 Jun 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w126mm x s20mm 256g ISBN13: 9780571288588 ISBN13: 978-0-571-28858-8 ISBN10: 0571288588 EAN: 9780571288588 x Description: 'Already hailed as a Cold War classic.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year 'Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland International bestseller and Winner of the German Book Prize A sweeping story of one family over four generations in East Germany: the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 416pp h240mm x w153mm x s37mm 755g ISBN13: 9780224061612 ISBN13: 978-0-224-06161-2 ISBN10: 0224061615 x Description: Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them, whose story explains them all. The story of a deep love gone
fatally wrong, destroyed by a shallow affair, it is an epic narrative that moves from California to France, England, and above all, Kashmir. At its heart is the tale of that earthly paradise of peach orchards and honey bees, of mountains and lakes, of green-eyed women and murderous men: a ruined paradise, not so much lost as smashed. Lives are uprooted, names keep changing - nothing is permanent, yet everything is connected. Spanning the globe and darting through history, Salman Rushdie's majestic narrative captures the heart of the reader and the spirit of a troubled age. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Salman Rushdie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 217g ISBN13: 9781784701857 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-185-7 ISBN10: 1784701858 EAN: 9781784701857 x Description: Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece from one of the greatest living writers. In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own comic book creation. Abandoned at the mayor's office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining.
Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world. `A riotous, exuberant and sometimes maddening celebration of the power of storytelling' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night Crossing Robert Ryan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
08 Nov 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h197mm x w128mm x s21mm 250g ISBN13: 9780755301812 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-0181-2 ISBN10: 0755301811 EAN: 9780755301812 x Description: In 1938, Ulrike Walter, a beautiful young German musician, is engaged to be married to Erich Hinkel, a member of the Hitler Youth. But when she meets Inspector Cameron Ross, a Scotland Yard policeman, whose father is a colonel in British Intelligence, her life will be changed for ever. When war is declared, Ulrike flees Germany for the safety of England but is instead cruelly imprisoned as an enemy alien. Her only hope of rescue is Cameron, who, despite his better judgement, is falling in love with her. Then Erich is captured by the British and incarcerated in a prisoner of war camp in England. He faces interrogation by Cameron Ross, the one man who stands between him and Ulrike, the woman who means more to Erich than life itself... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl Who Played Go Shan Sa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h178mm x w113mm x s19mm 160g ISBN13: 9780099490791 ISBN13: 978-0-09-949079-1 ISBN10: 009949079X EAN: 9780099490791 x Description: Set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, "The Girl who Played Go" is a haunting tragedy, a shocking tale of love and war reflected in the age-old game of go. In the Square of a Thousand Winds, snow falls as a sixteen-year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game of go. One of her opponents is, unknown to her, a young Japanese officer of the occupying power, rigidly militaristic, imbued with the imperial ethic, but far from home and intrigued by this young opponent. Their encounters are like the game itself, restrained, subtle and surprisingly fierce. But as their two stories unfold, the Japanese army moves inexorably through their huge land, in the vanguard of a greater war, leaving blood and destruction in its wake. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Saddam City Mahmoud Saeed (Author) Ahmad Sadri (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Saqi Books
Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub Date:
17 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 130pp h210mm x w135mm 154g ISBN13: 9780863563508 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-350-8 ISBN10: 0863563503 x Description: One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reaches the school gates. For the next 15 months he is brutally interrogated, shuttles from prison to prison and barred from contacting his family. The question of guilt or innocence clearly irrelevant, Mustafa must fight to retain a grip on reality. 'How do I know that I am not dreaming this?' he asks. Mahmoud Saeed's devastating novel evokes the works of Kafka, Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel in its account of the wanton and brutal treatment of the Iraqi people by Saddam Hussein's feared secret police. Narrated in a straightforward manner that makes it all the more vivid,the story testifies to the brutal arbitrariness of life under tyranny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author) Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Illustrated by) T.V.F. Cuffe (Introduction by) T.V.F. Cuffe (Translated by) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Jan 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h199mm x w133mm x s10mm 246g ISBN13: 9780141185620 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118562-0 ISBN10: 0141185627 EAN: 9780141185620 x Description: Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The
narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Aug 1994
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h195mm x w130mm x s10mm 106g ISBN13: 9780140237528 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023752-8 ISBN10: 0140237526 EAN: 9780140237528 x Description: Two wonderful stories about members of the Glass family by the author of `The Catcher in the Rye'. The first story takes place in downtown New Haven during the weekend of `the Yale game' and follows Franny Glass on a date with her collegiate boyfriend. The second focuses on Zooey Glass, a somewhat emotionally toughened genius. As his younger sister Franny hits an emotional crisis in her parents' Manhattan living room, Zooey comes to her aid, offering love, understanding, and words of sage advice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seeing Jose Saramago (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h200mm x w132mm x s20mm 222g ISBN13: 9780099483625 ISBN13: 978-0-09-948362-5 ISBN10: 0099483629 EAN: 9780099483625 x Description: Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. Seeing explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ Jose Saramago (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Harvill Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Sep 1999 (02 Nov 2017)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 250g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781860466847 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-684-7 ISBN10: 1860466842 EAN: 9781860466847 x Description: Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil - a kindly and necessary evil - but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth. `An original, wild and beautiful book' Times Literary Supplement _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Stone Raft Jose Saramago (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Harvill Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
21 May 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 197g ISBN13: 9781860467219 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-721-9 ISBN10: 1860467210 EAN: 9781860467219 x Description: What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating the Iberian peninsula? In Saramago's lovely fable, the new island is sent spinning, like a great stone raft, towards the Azores. While the authorities panic and tourists and investors flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by portents that burden them with a bemusing sense of responsibility. Travelling at first packed into a car, then into a wagon, they take to the road to explore the limits of their now finite land, adrift in a world made new by this radical shift in perspective. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Despite the Falling Snow Shamim Sarif (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w126mm x s22mm 250g None ISBN13: 9780755308682 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-0868-2 ISBN10: 0755308689 EAN: 9780755308682 x Description: The enthralling narrative of Shamim Sarif's powerful second novel moves between present day Boston and 1950s Moscow. After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has built a successful business in the States. For forty years, he has buried the tragic memories surrounding his charismatic late wife, Katya - or so he believes. For into his life come two women - one who will open up the heart he has protected for so long; another who is determined to uncover what really happened to Katya so long ago. The novel's journey back to the snowbound streets of post-Stalinist Moscow reveals a world of secrets and treachery. Shamim Sarif's elegant writing delicately evokes the intensity of passionate love and tragic violence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Trail of Bohu the Imaro Novels Charles R Saunders (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
New American Library
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 1985
Publishing Status:
Unspecified
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 222pp ISBN13: 9780886770877 ISBN13: 978-0-88677-087-7 ISBN10: 0886770874 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Random Acts Of Heroic Love: The Heartbreaking Richard and Judy Bestseller Danny Scheinmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w126mm x s26mm 341g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552774222 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77422-2 ISBN10: 0552774227 EAN: 9780552774222 x Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BESTSELLING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 'A lush, romantic novel' Daily Mail 1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how Eleni died. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But Leo is about to discover something which will change his life forever.
1917: Moritz Daniecki is a fugitive from a Siberian POW camp. Seven thousand kilometres over the Russian Steppes separate him from his village and his sweetheart, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivity. The Great War may be over, but Moritz now faces a perilous journey across a continent riven by civil war. When Moritz finally limps back into his village to claim the hand of the woman he left behind, will she still be waiting? 'Special' Sunday Express 'Tender' Observer 'Mesmerising' Publishing News _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Young Austerlitz W. G. Sebald (Author) Series:
Pocket Penguins
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 64pp h181mm x w112mm x s4mm 48g Illustrations ISBN13: 9780141022802 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102280-2 ISBN10: 0141022809 x Description: In Young Austerlitz taken from the last book W. G. Sebald saw published we are told the story of a man who learns that his past is a lie. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export and UK open market ed
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
21 Feb 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747582922 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8292-2 ISBN10: 0747582920 x Description: Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then, the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily, now, has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But, a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beastly Tales Vikram Seth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Apr 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 144pp h198mm x w131mm x s11mm 132g 35 ISBN13: 9780753807743 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-0774-3 ISBN10: 0753807742 EAN: 9780753807743 x Description: Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike
'Because it was very hot in my house one day and I could not concentrate on my work, I decided to write a summer story involving mangoes and a river. By the time I had finished writing 'The Crocodile and the Monkey' (in a cool room lent to me by a friend), another story and other animals had begun stirring in my mind. And so it went on until all ten of these beastly tales were born - or re-born. Of the ten tales told here, the first two come from India, the next two from China, the next two from Greece, and the next two from the Ukraine. The final two came directly from the Land of Gup. I hope you enjoy them and have a beastly time.' Vikram Seth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Riot at Misri Mandi Vikram Seth (Author) Series:
Phoenix 60p paperbacks
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
22 Dec 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 64pp h137mm x w106mm x s5mm 29g ISBN13: 9781857995992 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-599-2 ISBN10: 1857995996 x Description: An extraordinary account of the political upheavals afflicting the newly independent India,taken from the bestselling A SUITABLE BOY. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Suitable Boy: The classic bestseller Vikram Seth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Oct 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 704pp 350g ISBN13: 9781857993578 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-357-8 ISBN10: 1857993578 EAN: 9781857993578 x Description: THIS IS THE STORY OF A GIRL'S SEARCH FOR THE MAN SHE WILL MARRY.SHE MUST CHOOSE FROM 3 SUITORS EITHER BY LOVE OR MATERNAL PERSUASION.THIS CORE IS WOVEN INTO A RICH TAPESTRY OF FAMILY INFLUENCES _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Suitable Boy: The classic bestseller Vikram Seth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Oct 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 688pp 320g ISBN13: 9781857993585 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-358-5 ISBN10: 1857993586 EAN: 9781857993585 x Description: THE SECOND PART OF THE LATA SAGA- WILL SHE CHOOSE AMIDST THE TURMOIL OF HER COUNTRY ENTERING A NEW ERA AFTER PARTITION.HER SISTER SAVITA DIVERTS MRS MEHRA'S ATTENTION BY GIVING BIRTH.
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HOLDING THE ZERO Gerald Seymour (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Nov 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 528pp h180mm x w110mm x s36mm 260g ISBN13: 9780552146661 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14666-1 ISBN10: 0552146668 EAN: 9780552146661 x Description: Gus Peake should have kept his job and stayed at home, but an old family debt of friendship draws him to the remote wastes of Northern Iraq and to a savage forgotten war between Kurdish guerillas and Saddam Hussein's military strength. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home Fire: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Kamila Shamsie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm 212g ISBN13: 9781408886793 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-8679-3 ISBN10: 1408886790 EAN: 9781408886793 x Description: NOW A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 `A BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017' - GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, NEW YORK TIMES `The book for our times' Judges of the Women's Prize 'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' Guardian Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love? A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beggarman, Thief Irwin Shaw (Author) Series:
Edition:
2nd Revised edition
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w129mm x s22mm 320g ISBN13: 9780752848518 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4851-8 ISBN10: 0752848518 EAN: 9780752848518 x Description: Wesley, haunted by his father's murder, begins a strange and deeply personal quest; Billy becomes involved with a girl who leads him into unexpected dangers; Gretchen finds new challenges and experiences a remarkable twist to her life. Moving between Europe and America, "Beggarman, Thief" is a brilliant novel chronicling the fortunes of one family - the joys, sorrows, successes and failures. This is not only the gripping sequel to Irwin Shaw's bestselling "Rich Man, Poor Man", but also an outstanding novel in its own right. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evening In Byzantium Irwin Shaw (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
05 Aug 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 260g ISBN13: 9781857994476 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-447-6 ISBN10: 1857994477 EAN: 9781857994476 x Description: 'They were honest mean and thieves, pimps and panderers and men of virtue. Therewere beautiful women and delicious girls, handsome men with the faces of swines...' 'They were all gamblers in a game with no rules, placing their bets debonairly or in the sweat of fear...' These are some of the characters in Irwin Shaw's bestselling EVENING IN BYZANTIUM. The place is Cannes, the setting, a film festival. The hero is Jesse Craig, fortyeight years old, whose survival is at stake in the midst of this gaudy carnival. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories Mikhail Shishkin (Author) Marian Schwartz (Translated by) Leo Shtutin (Translated by) Mariya Bashkatova (Translated by) Sylvia Maizell (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher:
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub Date:
19 May 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 180pp h210mm x w134mm 241g ISBN13: 9781941920039 ISBN13: 978-1-941920-03-9 ISBN10: 1941920039 x Description: "A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia's greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia's most prestigious literary awards. Often included in discussions of Nobel Prize contenders, Shishkin is a master prose writer in the breathtakingly beautiful style of the greatest Russian authors, known for complex, allusive novels about universal and emotional themes. Shishkin's stories read like modern versions of the eternal literature written by his greatest inspirations: Boris Pasternak, Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Shishkin's short fiction is the perfect introduction to his breathtaking oeuvre, his stories touch on the same big themes as his novels, spanning discussions of love and loss, death and eternal life, emigration and exile.
Calligraphy Lesson spans Shishkin's entire writing career, including his first published story, the 1993 Debut Prize--winning "Calligraphy Lesson," and his most recent story "Nabokov's Inkblot," which was written for a dramatic adaptation performed in Zurich in 2013. Mikhail Shishkin (b. 1961 in Moscow) is one of the most prominent names in contemporary Russian literature. A former interpreter for refugees in Switzerland, Shishkin divides his time between Moscow, Switzerland, and Germany. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 265g ISBN13: 9781847080066 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-006-6 ISBN10: 1847080065 EAN: 9781847080066 x Description: Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia and proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA. Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body and the only place he feels at home is New York; he just wants to live in the South Bronx with his Latina girlfriend, but after his gangster father murders an Oklahoma businessman in Russia, all hopes of a US visa are lost. Salvation lies in the tiny oil-rich nation of Absurdistan (a fictional former Soviet republic), where a crooked consular officer will sell Misha a Belgian passport. But after a civil war breaks out between two competing ethnic groups and a local warlord installs hapless Misha as minister of multicultural affairs, our hero soon finds himself covered in oil, fighting for his life, falling in love, and trying to figure out if a normal life is still possible in the twenty-first century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Animal's People Indra Sinha (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Simon & Schuster
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback EU Toy Safety Directive - 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 324g ISBN13: 9781416526278 ISBN13: 978-1-4165-2627-8 ISBN10: 1416526277 EAN: 9781416526278 x Description: Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid. When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk - only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the 'Kampani' - Animal plunges into a web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage. Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity, Animal's account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy - from the very first page all the way to the story's explosive ending. ANIMAL'S PEOPLE is a stunningly humane work of storytelling that takes us right to the heart of contemporary India. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paradise Palace Peter Slater (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd
Publisher:
Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 139pp h230mm ISBN13: 9781902644189 ISBN13: 978-1-902644-18-9 ISBN10: 1902644182 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Autumn: SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 Ali Smith (Author) Series:
Seasonal
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 193g ISBN13: 9780241973318 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97331-8 ISBN10: 0241973317 EAN: 9780241973318 x Description: A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians' Financial Times 'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting' The Times 'A beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities... The first post-Brexit novel' Guardian A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . . 'Terrific, extraordinary, playful... There is an awful lot to lift the soul' Daily Mail 'Bold and brilliant' Observer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith (Author) Valerie Grove (Introduction by) Series:
VMC 217
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
18 Jan 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w126mm 300g Illustrations ISBN13: 9781860491023 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-102-3 ISBN10: 1860491022
x Description: I write this sitting at the kitchen sink' is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Cassandra Mortmin's journal records her fadingly glamorous stepmother, her beautiful, wistful older sister and the man to whom they owe both their isolation and poverty - Father. The author of one experimental novel, and a minor cause celebre, he has since suffered from writer's block and is determined to drag his family down with him. But if the iron has entered Father's soul it hasn't penetrated Cassandra's... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 Zadie Smith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h196mm x w132mm x s30mm 334g ISBN13: 9780141036601 ISBN13: 978-0-14-103660-1 ISBN10: 0141036605 EAN: 9780141036601 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer 'Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph 'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the critically acclaimed author of White Teeth, On Beauty and Grand Union Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either. Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Their Wisdom C. P. Snow (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
House of Stratus
Publisher:
House of Stratus
Pub Date:
02 Oct 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 356pp h205mm x w135mm x s23mm 445g ISBN13: 9781842324349 ISBN13: 978-1-84232-434-9 ISBN10: 1842324349 EAN: 9781842324349 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ice Trilogy Vladimir Sorokin (Author) Jamey Gambrell (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
NYRB Classics
Publisher:
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Pub Date:
14 Apr 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 704pp h202mm x w128mm x s37mm 580g ISBN13: 9781590173862 ISBN13: 978-1-59017-386-2 ISBN10: 1590173864 EAN: 9781590173862 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Queue Vladimir Sorokin (Author) Sally Laird (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
NYRB Classics
Publisher:
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Pub Date:
23 Oct 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 280pp h200mm x w130mm x s15mm 290g ISBN13: 9781590172742 ISBN13: 978-1-59017-274-2 ISBN10: 1590172744 EAN: 9781590172742 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In the Eye of the Sun Ahdaf Soueif (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
20 May 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 800pp h198mm x w129mm 640g ISBN13: 9780747545897 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-4589-7 ISBN10: 0747545898 x Description: This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about what its like to be a women (East and West), a story about the history of the post-imperial Middle East during the last 30 years or so, perplexed and bloody years, and a story about home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jun 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w128mm x s8mm 119g ISBN13: 9780140179620 ISBN13: 978-0-14-017962-0 ISBN10: 0140179623 x
Description: Sir Quentin Oliver steals the manuscript of Fleur Talbot's novel, "Warrender Chase". What sinister use will he make of it? Or, more tantalizing still, what if fiction were to overpower trust and Fleur's novel appropriate him? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Public Image Muriel Spark (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
New Directions Publishing Publisher: Corporation
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub Date:
01 Apr 1993
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 144pp h203mm x w140mm x s19mm 181g ISBN13: 9780811212465 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-1246-5 ISBN10: 0811212467 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Empty Room Talitha Stevenson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9781860499845 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-984-5 ISBN10: 1860499848 EAN: 9781860499845 x Description: 'So lucent, so resonant, so exquisitely written and above all, so engaging' Tim Lott After months away, Emily returns to London and to a family on the verge of disintegration. She spends nights in cramped bars, drinking and smoking with her beautiful but damaged boyfriend Tom and his friends. It is a lifestyle that leaves her feeling directionless and jaded. In her search to believe in something or someone, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Simon, Tom's complex and charming cousin. But Simon is married, and as he and Emily become closer and the summer draws to an end they are forced to make decisions that will have a devastating effect on both families. 'Its denouement ought to surprise none but Emily herself, cast adrift in her own love stories, yet An Empty Room echoes with the dreamy unreality of a hot summer night' Observer 'Written with honesty and an element of wistfulness which combine in a voice that is clear and true' Raffaella Barker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Quarterdeck: Thomas Kydd 5 Julian Stockwin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
28 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h21mm x w111mm x s176mm 188g n/a ISBN13: 9780340838709 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83870-9 ISBN10: 0340838701 x Description: Thomas Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now, he must sit an examination to confirm his rank -- or face an inglorious return before the mast. But this is only the first of many obstacles for a man who was pressed into the King's Service and discovered a calling for the sea. Kydd is from humble origins, yet he attains the lofty heights of the quarterdeck as an officer in His Majesty's Navy. If he is to avoid spending the rest of his career as a tarpaulin officer, he must also become a gentleman. Kydd and his enigmatic friend Nicholas Renzi set sail in HMS Tenacious for the North American station. Aboard the old 64-gun ship, Kydd comes to doubt he will ever match up to the high-born gentlemen officers. The frontier town of Halifax, which is also home to a British prince of the blood, provides a welcome diversion. Meanwhile, the young United States is in dispute with revolutionary France, the Quasi War, and Kydd finds himself in the USS Constellation in the heady days of the birth of the American Navy. On his return to Halifax, Kydd surmounts more hurdles, both personal and professional -- will he ever see himself as truly one of a band of brothers?
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Anything is Possible Elizabeth Strout (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 196g ISBN13: 9780241248799 ISBN13: 978-0-241-24879-9 ISBN10: 0241248795 EAN: 9780241248799 x Description: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Man Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
11 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9780241248782 ISBN13: 978-0-241-24878-2 ISBN10: 0241248787 EAN: 9780241248782 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes to find her estranged mother sitting by her bed. They have not seen one another in years. As they talk Lucy finds herself recalling her troubled rural childhood and how it was she eventually arrived in the big city, got married and had children. But this unexpected visit leaves her doubting the life she's made: wondering what is lost and what has yet to be found. Look for Elizabeth Strout's highly anticipated new work of fiction, Anything Is Possible, which is available for pre-order now. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lie Down In Darkness William Styron (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
10 Jul 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 278g ISBN13: 9780099284994 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928499-4 ISBN10: 0099284995 EAN: 9780099284994 x Description: In this novel, the South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric, its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism, racial contrasts and the industrialisation of a rural society. But more than a novel of time and place, it is the story of a tormented family submerged in infidelity and driven by a vengeful love that is blocked, hurt and perverted. Peyton Loftis, who frantically needs a husband precisely because she loves her father; the decadent Milton, whose infidelity has made his marriage no more than a stage drama; and Helen, his wife, who loves only what she can control - her crippled daughter Maudie, or the childish part of her husband. This extraordinarily powerful novel is the portrait of a family who, in the words of Sir Thomas Browne in his URN BURIAL, 'all lie down in darkness'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Set This House On Fire William Styron (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 425g ISBN13: 9780099285557 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928555-7 ISBN10: 009928555X EAN: 9780099285557 x Description: The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg. Three events - murder, rape and suicide - explode in the is relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of good and evil. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export and UK open market ed
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 329pp h178mm x w111mm 199g ISBN13: 9780747558323 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-5832-3 ISBN10: 0747558329 x Description: Captures the loves and losses of a dying man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Otherhood William Sutcliffe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
08 Aug 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm 214g ISBN13: 9781526608352 ISBN13: 978-1-5266-0835-2 ISBN10: 1526608359 EAN: 9781526608352 x Description: First published as Whatever Makes You Happy, the hilarious and moving novel about mothers and their adult sons, now a Netflix original movie starring Felicity Huffman, Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette which has now been viewed on over 27 million accounts worldwide Three sons. Three mums. One week. Matt, Daniel and Paul were childhood friends. Now in their thirties, they've lost touch and have only one thing in common: their mothers. Little do they know that, having spent a cardless Mother's Day discussing how their emotionally dysfunctional offspring should be settling down, Carol, Gillian and Helen have decided to pay their wayward sons a visit. On the same day, they turn up on their sons' doorsteps, uninvited and unannounced. Their plan is to reestablish the mother-son bond by moving in for one week. Just a week. Surely that's not a lot to ask... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last Orders (Film Tie-In) Graham Swift (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
07 Dec 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w130mm x s19mm 200g ISBN13: 9780330489676 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48967-6 ISBN10: 0330489674 EAN: 9780330489676 x Description: Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out this perculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. 'His finest book to date; emotionally charged and technically surperb...Last Orders is about how we live and how we die and our struggle to make abiding connections between the two' Times Literary Supplement 'Inspired...His finest novel yet' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gem Squash Tokoloshe Rachel Zadok (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
16 Sep 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w130mm x s21mm 224g ISBN13: 9780330441193 ISBN13: 978-0-330-44119-3 ISBN10: 0330441191 EAN: 9780330441193 x
Description: She just sat there hardly moving, staring at the drive. Black marks formed under her eyes where her lashes bled their waxy coating onto her skin. Her rouged cheeks were smudged. Mother looked like she was melting in the heat. Faith leads an isolated existence on her family's drought stricken farm in the Northern Transvaal of South Africa. When the rain stopped, her father took to the road as a travelling salesman, returning only at weekends. Now Faith lives with her mother Bella and dog Boesman anticipating his visits until one day he stops coming and Bella's health begins to go into rapid decline. Fifteen years later Bella has died incarcerated in the Sterkfontein asylum for the criminally insane. Faith has not spoken to her mother for ten years and is on the brink of a breakdown of her own. Now, with her mother's death, she inherits the farm and must return to confront the dark mysteries of the past . . . In prose as lithe and imaginative as that of Alexandra Fuller, Rachel Zadok te Riele recreates the voice of a young girl growing up during the height of apartheid unrest in South Africa. As Faith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and come to terms with the beliefs her society and upbringing have inculcated in her, what emerges is a richly compelling, emotionally resonant tale of courage set against the backdrop of a chaotically divided and deeply beautiful country. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Layover Lisa Zeidner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Publisher:
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Pub Date:
08 Jun 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 267pp h198mm x w129mm 201g ISBN13: 9780413747006 ISBN13: 978-0-413-74700-6 ISBN10: 041374700X x Description: Throw away your ideas of a heroine, and meet Claire Newbold. Her son has died. Her husband's been playing around. And Claire has had enough. Checking out of work and home to confront love and loss on the road, she develops a scam for staying in hotel rooms for free. She ignores all calls and messages. She plays the seductress after seventeen years as a faithful wife. Her behaviour ranges from the illicit to - she fears the deranged as she looks for a way to get through grief and mend her marriage and her life. As taut as a thriller, provocative, poignant and beautifully written, Layover is the unforgettable story of a woman on the edge, and her search for a very personal redemption. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chess: A Novel Stefan Zweig (Author) Anthea Bell (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 80pp h181mm x w113mm x s6mm 61g ISBN13: 9780141023373 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102337-3 ISBN10: 0141023376 x Description: On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then, a soft-spoken voice from the crowd begins to whisper nervous suggestions. There are perfect moves and brilliant predictions. The speaker has not played a game for more than twenty years, he says. He is wholly unknown. But somehow, he is also entirely formidable! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Key Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 160pp 89g ISBN13: 9780099466871 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946687-1 ISBN10: 0099466872 EAN: 9780099466871 x Description: 'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to mention even here. I have always avoided commenting on my sexual relations with Ikuko, for fear that she might surreptitiously read my diary and be offended...' So begins The Key - a forthright and moving tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's thoughts and desires...until the day Ikuko discovers the key to her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. The key, she realises, to his very soul... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic Elizabeth Taylor (Author) Series:
Virago Modern Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
24 Jun 1982 (01 Mar 2001)
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780860682639 ISBN13: 978-0-86068-263-9 ISBN10: 0860682633 EAN: 9780860682639 x Description: On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel, where she will spend the rest of her days. Her fellow residents, magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, live off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in the relentless round of hotel meals. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper. And then one day Mrs Palfrey encounters the handsome young writer, Ludo, and learns that even the old can fall in love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Naked Man Festival: (And Other Excuses to Fly Around the World) Brian Thacker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 276pp h195mm x w130mm 270g ISBN13: 9781741143997 ISBN13: 978-1-74114-399-7 ISBN10: 1741143993 EAN: 9781741143997 x Description: It was only a degree above zero and the rain was coming down in sheets, yet here I was about to run around in nothing more than a nappy. I was pretty sure it was going to be the silliest thing I'd ever done 'Join Brian Thacker as he embarks on a round-the-world odyssey in search of as many silly, outlandish and even staggeringly banal festivals as time, distance and severe bouts of exposure will allow. Along the way he is pelted with beans, overawed by giant snow cows and stampeded in a temple full of men wearing nappies in hot pursuit of a stick. And that's just in Japan.Brian also manages to narrowly escape being sacrificed by a Vodou priest in Haiti and to retain his eyebrows after celebrating Hogmanay in
Scotland. He discovers 101 new and interesting things to do with a tomato; meets a woman at the UFO Festival in Roswell who is regularly used by aliens for perverted medical experiments and hangs out at the Sydney Gay + Lesbian Mardi Gras with a bloke called Miss Stephanie. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Narcopolis Jeet Thayil (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h197mm x w125mm x s18mm 250g ISBN13: 9780571275786 ISBN13: 978-0-571-27578-6 ISBN10: 0571275788 EAN: 9780571275786 x Description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Narcopolis is a rich and hallucinatory novel set around a Bombay opium den, as the city transforms itself over three decades. In Old Bombay, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. But in Rashid's opium room on Shuklaji Street, the air is thick with voices and ghosts. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. And now there is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In broken Bombay, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, Narcopolis portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hotel Honolulu (Om) Paul Theroux (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 May 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h180mm x w110mm 250g ISBN13: 9780141008738 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100873-8 ISBN10: 0141008733 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro (Om) Paul Theroux (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 May 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h181mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780141017570 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101757-0 ISBN10: 0141017570 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
16 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 333g ISBN13: 9781783782673 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-267-3 ISBN10: 1783782676 EAN: 9781783782673 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. It is a history of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves, their fates reverberate through the years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming - and for Marie. Written with exquisite intimacy, wit and moral complexity, Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy, which still resonates for a new generation. It is a gripping evocation of the persuasive power of revolution and its effects on personal and national identity, and an unforgettable meditation on China today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dogs at the Perimeter Madeleine Thien (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2012
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h215mm x w136mm ISBN13: 9781847086075 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-607-5 ISBN10: 1847086071 EAN: 9781847086075 x Description: Janie, a researcher in Montreal, suddenly leaves her husband and young son. She retreats to the home of her friend and mentor, the neurologist Hiroji Matsui, who has mysteriously disappeared. Their friendship, and the world Janie begins to reclaim in the wake of Hiroji's disappearance, are at the heart of Madeleine Thien's eagerly anticipated second novel. Thirty years earlier, in 1975, Janie is a child in Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge take control of the country, the fallen city of Phnom Penh is emptied. Together with her parents and her younger brother, Sopham, she is forced into the countryside. In the terror that follows, when to remember one's own past becomes a crime against the revolution, her father, a translator, is taken away, and gradually her mother weakens. Survival depends on escape, and ultimately Janie and Sopham must undertake a treacherous journey through the flooded caves at the border, across the sea, and toward a new existence.Now, as she moves among Hiroji's belongings, Janie salvages fragments of his past and, slowly, her own. Needing to find a truth she can be reconciled with, to make amends, she follows Hiroji's story to Southeast Asia where she believes he has gone in search of his brother James, a Red Cross doctor who went missing in Cambodia many years earlier, and whose own story comes vividly, powerfully to life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The White Hotel: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981 D. M. Thomas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Digital original
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Dec 1999 (04 Oct 2012)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h198mm x w134mm x s19mm 231g ISBN13: 9780753809259 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-0925-9 ISBN10: 0753809257 EAN: 9780753809259 x Description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic of searing eroticism and sensuality set against the broad sweep of twentieth-century history. Now a BBC radio play starring Anne-Marie Duff and Bill Paterson, dramatised by Dennis Potter. 'A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force' Salman Rushdie It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of our century and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate. 'A remarkable and original novel . . . there is no novel to my knowledge which resembles this in technique or ideas. It stands alone' Graham Greene 'Astonishing . . . A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness' John Updike 'I quickly came to feel that I had found that book, that mythical book, that would explain us to ourselves' Leslie Epstein, New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Potters House Rosie Thomas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h199mm x w130mm x s25mm 278g ISBN13: 9780099464822 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946482-2 ISBN10: 0099464829 EAN: 9780099464822 x Description: Olivia Giorgiadis has left her English roots behind. She lives on a tiny Greek island, married to a local man, mother to two small sons. Year on year, island life has followed a peaceful unchanging rhythm. Until now. An earthquake ravages the coast, its force devastating the island. In the aftermath comes a stranger: an Englishwoman, destitute but for the clothes she wears. Olivia welcomes the stranger into her home, the potter's house. But as Kitty melts into the family and the village community, so Olivia begins to sense that her mysterious visitor threatens all she holds dear... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Divided Kingdom Rupert Thomson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export and UK open market ed
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
03 Apr 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780747582908 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-8290-8 ISBN10: 0747582904 x Description: It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary experiment. In an attempt to reform society, the government has divided the population into four groups, each representing a different personality type. The land, too, has been divided into quarters. Borders have been established, reinforced by concrete walls, armed guards and rolls of razor wire. Plunged headlong into this brave new world, the boy tries to make the best of things, unaware that ahead of him lies a truly explosive moment, a revelation that will challenge everything he believes in and will, in the end, put his very life in jeopardy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living Carrie Tiffany (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
21 Apr 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h200mm x w130mm x s16mm 226g ISBN13: 9780330437776 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43777-6 ISBN10: 0330437771 EAN: 9780330437776 x Description: It is 1934, the Great War is long over and the next is yet to come. Amid billowing clouds of dust and information, the government `Better Farming Train' slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land. The train is on a crusade to persuade the country that science is the key to successful farming, and that productivity is patriotic. In the swaying cars an unlikely love affair occurs between Robert Pettergree, a man with an unusual taste for soil, and Jean Finnegan, a talented young seamstress with a hunger for knowledge. In an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism, they marry and settle in the impoverished Mallee with the ambition of proving that a scientific approach to cultivation can transform the land. But after seasons of failing crops, and with a new World War looming, Robert and Jean are forced to confront each other, the community they have inadvertently destroyed, and the impact of their actions on an ancient and fragile landscape. Shot through with humour and a quiet wisdom, this haunting first novel vividly captures the hope and the disappointment of the era when it was possible to believe in the perfectibility of both nature and humankind. 'Beautifully written . . . kindly, sometimes hilarious and ultimately very sad' Times Literary Supplement 'A peach of a first novel by a writer with a deep understanding of relationships and the outside pressures that wear away the good soil' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction Colm Toibin (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Nov 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1120pp h237mm x w158mm x s48mm 1074g ISBN13: 9780140236507 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023650-7 ISBN10: 0140236503 x Description: This unique anthology illustrates the full range of Irish fiction from Gulliver's Travels to young contemporary writers like Roddy Doyle and Emma Donoghue. Including self-contained sections from novels as well as short stories, all the most important writers are represented, from Swift and Sterne through Joyce, Beckett and Wilde to modern masters like Banville and William Trevor. Colm Toibin's long introduction describes the contexts and particular strengths of Irish fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Flying Under Bridges Sandi Toksvig (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h131mm x w200mm x s22mm 218g ISBN13: 9780751531336 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3133-6 ISBN10: 0751531332 EAN: 9780751531336 x Description: Inge Holbrook has lived the highlife ever since she left her sleepy Home Counties hometown of Edenford. Still fantastically fit at fortyplus, she has gone from Olympic gold medallist to becoming one of the 'faces' of the BBC. Blonde (since '87), tanned (since Christmas in the Caribbean) long legs (since for ever), she has an aura of success that never fails to be attractive. Eve Marshall hasn't. Catching her reflection in a tinfoil turkey display at her local supermarket, she sees someone old and fat, someone who looks like somebody's mother. Unlike her school friend Inge, Eve never left suburbia. Her contribution to the world wasn't to write or invent or win anything, but her two children, Tom and Shirley. Inge and Eve are part of the same generation, grew up in the same town, went to the same school together. But adult life has left them with nothing in common apart from their past - until the summer when their lives become entwined again, when one becomes a killer, and the other approves ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Live Bait (EE) P. J. Tracy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Apr 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h186mm x w115mm x s30mm 248g ISBN13: 9780141021539 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102153-9 ISBN10: 0141021535 EAN: 9780141021539 x Description: When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution ... Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless. Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of
an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past. Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace and rich, vivid characters as the author's debut Want to Play?, PJ Tracy's Live Bait is an electrifying thriller that explores the chilling extremes of evil and retribution. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sacred Country Rose Tremain (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Sep 1993
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h196mm x w129mm x s24mm 260g ISBN13: 9780340561553 ISBN13: 978-0-340-56155-3 ISBN10: 0340561556 EAN: 9780340561553 x Description: At the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation: she isn't Mary, she's a boy. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender, while around her others also strive to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world. 'Hypnotic...curiously beautiful and strikingly original' Spectator _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Scroll of Benevolence John Trenhaile (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Aug 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback ISBN13: 9780261665675 ISBN13: 978-0-261-66567-5 ISBN10: 0261665677 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Children Of Dynmouth William Trevor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h200mm x w137mm x s13mm 164g ISBN13: 9780141186641 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118664-1 ISBN10: 014118664X EAN: 9780141186641 x Description: A small, pretty seaside town is harshly exposed by a young boy's curiosity. His prurient interest, oddly motivated, leaves few people unaffected - and the consequences cannot be ignored. This is a remarkable account of the evil that can lurk in the most harmless setting and for readers now it has the startling ability to bring back to life the now very strange seeming English world of thirty years ago. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Searching For Caleb Anne Tyler (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Feb 1996 (04 Aug 2016)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 298g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099591917 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959191-7 ISBN10: 009959191X EAN: 9780099591917 x Description: Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, Searching for Caleb is a moving quest for a family's deepest roots and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and rebellion. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD `She's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor `One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty `She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan `Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve `My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby `A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks `Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good' John Updike `I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner `Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stella Descending Linn Ullmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 256pp h178mm x w111mm x s17mm 134g ISBN13: 9780330433396 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43339-6 ISBN10: 0330433393 EAN: 9780330433396 x Description: On a warm summer night in Oslo, Martin draws Stella into one of the risky games that have defined their ten years together: a balancing act on the edge of their rooftop, seven stories up. Amid the shouts of horrified onlookers, Stella stumbles, falling for a moment into Martin's arms before plummeting to her death. (Did he try to save her?)So begins Linn Ullmann's transfixing tale of a jealous wife, compliant mistress, treasured friend, angelic nurse, unloved daughter, devoted mother - and finally, a woman possessed of a secret now forever lost to the living. As Stella's life unfolds in the recollections of those she has left beind, we observe the fabric of many unravelling lives. And as Stella herself bears witness from a place beyond death, we come to understand how precarious her life was behind its facade of loveliness and order. With a quiet power, STELLA DESCENDING gives us the backlit dailiness - and the dark metaphysical underworld - of life in a fabled metropolis. And in brilliantly evoking the loneliness that haunts all our intimacies, it becomes a fable of life everywhere.
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Pascali's Island Barry Unsworth (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Oct 1980
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h197mm x w129mm x s14mm 142g ISBN13: 9780140058611 ISBN13: 978-0-14-005861-1 ISBN10: 0140058613 x Description: On the Agean island where Pascali the spy is filing his last report to his Turkish paymasters, the old Europe can already be heard dropping apart. Why Pascali, exposed and in deadly danger, should choose this moment to become involved with a mysterious Englishman is part of this, his testament. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bilbao - New York - Bilbao Kirmin Uribe (Author) Elizabeth Macklin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
Seren
Publisher:
Poetry Wales Press
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning h208mm x w135mm 0 ISBN13: 9781781722053 ISBN13: 978-1-78172-205-3 ISBN10: 1781722056 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Snap Happy Fiona Walker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Coronet Books
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
06 May 1999 (14 Apr 2003)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h178mm x w113mm x s37mm 316g none ISBN13: 9780340682272 ISBN13: 978-0-340-68227-2 ISBN10: 0340682272 EAN: 9780340682272 x Description: A budding stand-up comic, Juno is voluptuous, hedonistic, funny and terminally untidy. On her thirtieth birthday, she decides to have a wild one-night-stand to mark the occasion. But seducing her new flatmate before he's had a chance to unpack his belongings is not a wise move. Just over from New York, Jay Mulligan is intense, mysterious and, as Juno joyously discovers, far better than breakfast in bed. It's only when they both get out of that bed on the wrong side three days later that the problems start ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gulf Breeze Sightings Edward M. Walters (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Avon Books
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Pub Date:
01 Apr 1991
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 10pp h178mm x w108mm 204g illustrations (some colour), maps ISBN13: 9780380708703 ISBN13: 978-0-380-70870-3 ISBN10: 0380708701 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Leto Bundle Marina Warner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w130mm x s27mm 340g ISBN13: 9780099284659 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928465-9 ISBN10: 0099284650 EAN: 9780099284659 x Description: When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto. On the run, in a far-off era of civil strife, Leto gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves, survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander, stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works as a maid in a war-torn city. She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege. As the novel sweeps from mythological times and the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe and into the present day, Leto reappears in different guises. Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singer, and begins to search for her son. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lost Father Marina Warner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Apr 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9780099767411 ISBN13: 978-0-09-976741-1 ISBN10: 0099767414 EAN: 9780099767411 x Description: Like Visconti's film The Leopard, this magnificent novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula, weakened by emigration, silenced by fascism. According to family legend, David Pittagora died as a result of a duel. His death is the mysterious pivot around which his grand-daughter, an independent modern woman, constructs an imaginary memoir of her mother's background and life. She follows the family as they emigrate to New York - where they find only humiliation and poverty - and after their return to Italy in the early 1920's. As she is drawn by the passions and prejudices of her own imagination, we see how family memory, like folk memory, weaves its own dreams. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
River (Om) Wastvedt Tricia (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9780141021003 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102100-3 ISBN10: 0141021004 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Graduate Charles Webb (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Feb 1973
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 138g ISBN13: 9780140026931 ISBN13: 978-0-14-002693-1 ISBN10: 0140026932 EAN: 9780140026931 x Description: 'For twenty- one years I have been shuffling back and forth between classrooms and libraries. Now you tell me what the hell it's got me.' That's how Benjamin Braddock talked when he came down from university. Somehow it didn't seem to be what his father expected from a college education, and everyone was really appalled when Ben raped Mrs Robinson (that was her story anyway) and ran off with her daughter in the middle of her wedding to someone else... a brilliantly sordid tale of a young man's search for identity and a portrayal of the worst-behaved yet most sympathetic anti-hero of the day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chasing Harry Winston Lauren Weisberger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
27 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 180g ISBN13: 9780007268603 ISBN13: 978-0-00-726860-3 ISBN10: 0007268602 EAN: 9780007268603 x Description: THE HOTLY AWAITED NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, SET TO BE THE MUST-HAVE SPRING ACCESSORY FOR 2008.
Leigh, Adriana and Emmy are best friends, all leading very different lives and about to make some extreme choices...
Emmy has just split with her boyfriend of five years. A serial monogamist, she suddenly realises how much she's missed the thrill of single life. A new job travelling across the globe could offer her the one thing she is craving.
Emmy finds herself single for the first time in years. She vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-strings-attached fun.
Adriana is stunning and can have any man she desires.Yet she wants an eligible bachelor who'll slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger.
Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her, she just can't refuse.
Knocking back raspberry mojitos one night, the three friends make a pact - to change one thing in their lives by the end of the year.
Let the fun begin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chasing Harry Winston Lauren Weisberger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
27 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 220g ISBN13: 9780007262717 ISBN13: 978-0-00-726271-7 ISBN10: 000726271X EAN: 9780007262717 x Description: From the author of the million copy bestselling The Devil Wears Prada.
Three best friends. Two resolutions. One year to pull it off.
Emmy has just split with her boyfriend of five years. A serial monogamist, she suddenly realises how much she's missed the thrill of single life. A new job travelling across the globe could offer her the one thing she is craving, so she vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-stringsattached fun.
Adriana is stunning and can have any man she desires. Yet all she wants is an eligible bachelor who'll slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger.
Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her and more, she just can't refuse.
The three friends make a pact - come hell or high water, they must change one thing in their lives by the end of the year... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Everyone Worth Knowing Lauren Weisberger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
10 Oct 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 280g ISBN13: 9780007182657 ISBN13: 978-0-00-718265-7 ISBN10: 0007182651 EAN: 9780007182657 x Description: Dripping with New York glamour, this bestseller will capture the hearts of all those who loved The Devil Wears Prada
Bette gets paid to party ...
And she can hardly believe her luck. Gaining VIP access to Manhattan's hottest spots and meeting 'everyone worth knowing' is a million miles away from her old job. Overnight, New York has become her sexy late-night playground.
But quicker than you can say Chanel, Bette turns up in the gossip columns as girlfriend to a notorious British playboy. It's news that delights her new boss - but her friends want to know what's happened to the girl they love, who always had time for nights filled with 80s music, junk food, trashy rom-coms and her mates.
Can Bette say goodbye to the parties and the Prada and step back into the real world - and find a prince who's got a heart to match his charm? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last Night at Chateau Marmont Lauren Weisberger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
17 Aug 2010
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s27mm 230g ISBN13: 9780007354832 ISBN13: 978-0-00-735483-2 ISBN10: 0007354835 EAN: 9780007354832 x Description: THE HOTLY AWAITED NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA.
Heartbreak, headlines and Hermes - welcome to Brooke's new world...
Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York - she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success - and their life changes for ever.
Soon they are moving in exclusive circles, dining at the glitziest restaurants, attending the most outrageous parties in town and jetting off to the trendiest hotspots in LA.
But Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages, Brooke's world is turned upside down. Can her marriage survive the events of that fateful night at Chateau Marmont? It's time for Brooke to decide if she's going to sink or swim... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Praxis Fay Weldon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Aug 1987
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h198mm x w130mm x s19mm 232g ISBN13: 9780340595800 ISBN13: 978-0-340-59580-0 ISBN10: 0340595809 EAN: 9780340595800
x Description: PRAXIS is a modern classic: the portrait of a woman set in time, yet timeless. We see her first as the innocent Praxis Duveen, aged five; watch her, as the men in her life come and go, through many drastic changes in fortune and circumstance. Until, from a prison both psychological and real, she emerges as Patty Fletcher, considered as bad as a woman can be and yet her own mistress. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The History of Mr.Polly H. G. Wells (Author) Clive Swift (Read by) Ann Rees Jones (Abridged by) Series:
Penguin audiobooks
Edition:
Abridged edition
Imprint:
Penguin Audiobooks
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Jun 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom 2 Audio cassettes (Audiobook) 2pp h140mm x w107mm x s17mm 125g 180mins ISBN13: 9780140861747 ISBN13: 978-0-14-086174-7 ISBN10: 0140861742 x Description: Mr Polly has spent years as a respectable shopkeeper. His life has little to offer but more tedium and poverty. So he settles on the idea of suicide and plans a fire that will destroy him. But in the mayhem that ensues, he forgets to kill himself and finds a whole new world waiting for him. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 544pp h178mm x w111mm x s32mm 273g ISBN13: 9780330411509 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41150-9 ISBN10: 0330411500 EAN: 9780330411509 This Product is Replaced By: 9780330412940 x Description: Film tie-in edition of the international bestseller. When Siddalee Walker, eldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker (Ya-Ya extraordinaire - part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah) is interviewed about a hit play she has directed, her mother is described as a 'tap-dancing child abuser'. Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda - devastating her daughter who postpones her wedding and puts her life on hold until she is granted forgiveness. Trying to repair the relationship, the Ya-Yas, Vivi's intrepid tribe of Louisiana girlfriends, sashay in and insist Sidda is sent 'The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood', a scrapbook of their lives together from the day in 1932 when they were disqualified from a Shirley Temple lookalike contest for unladylike behaviour. Expected to raise babies, not Cain, the Ya-Yas are bonded for life in an unforgettable exploration of the complexities of mother-daughter relationships and the power of female friendship.'A rattling good read, incorporating high drama, sultry sensuality and Southern charm' OBSERVER'One of those rare books you'll be pressing on all your friends' SHE _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs Irvine Welsh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2007
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h178mm x w110mm x s28mm 235g ISBN13: 9780099513445 ISBN13: 978-0-09-951344-5 ISBN10: 0099513447 EAN: 9780099513445 x Description: At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him understand his self-destructive impulses. But the arrival of the virginal, model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby at the department provokes an uncharacteristic response in Skinner, and threatens to throw his mission off
course. Consumed by loathing for his nemesis, Skinner enacts a curse, and when Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that their destinies are supernaturally bound, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Marabou Stork Nightmares Irvine Welsh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
29 Feb 1996 (01 Jan 2009)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9780099435112 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943511-2 ISBN10: 009943511X EAN: 9780099435112 x Description: Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lazarus Morris West (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Mandarin
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
07 Mar 1991
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h178mm x w112mm 210g ISBN13: 9780749304959 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-0495-9 ISBN10: 0749304952 x Description: This is the third and final volume in the trilogy that includes "The Shoes of the Fisherman" and "The Clowns of God". Set in the Vatican in Rome, Leo XIV, an iron-fisted Pope, lies on his sick-bed, his life threatened both by illness and terrorism. Conspiracy stalks the corridors of the Vatican. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Return Of The Soldier Rebecca West (Author) Series:
Virago Modern Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
30 Jun 1980
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h197mm x w126mm x s11mm 154g ISBN13: 9780860681441 ISBN13: 978-0-86068-144-1 ISBN10: 0860681440 EAN: 9780860681441 This Product is Replaced By: 9781844086986 x Description: The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wednesday Club Kjell Westo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
05 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h214mm x w145mm x s26mm 375g ISBN13: 9780857053510 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-351-0 ISBN10: 0857053515 EAN: 9780857053510 x Description: 1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are arousing both anger and admiration, not least in Helsinki's Wednesday Club. The members of this relaxed gentleman's club are old friends of lawyer Claes Thune. But this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is having an effect on the cohesion of the group. Thune has recently divorced and is at something of a loss, running his law practice with no great enthusiasm. Luckily he has the assistance of an efficient new secretary, Matilda Wiik. But behind her polished exterior Mrs Wiik is tormented by memories of the Finnish Civil War, when she experienced horrors she has been trying to forget ever since. And one evening, with the Wednesday Club gathered in Thune's office, she hears a voice she hoped she would never hear again. She is suddenly plunged back into the past. But this time she is no longer a helpless victim . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 Colson Whitehead (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fleet
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2017 (26 Apr 2017)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780708898406 ISBN13: 978-0-7088-9840-6 ISBN10: 0708898408 EAN: 9780708898406 x Description: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and a NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 2016 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian 'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of Books Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Where Three Roads Meet Salley Vickers (Author) Series:
Myths
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jun 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h200mm x w130mm x s10mm 164g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847670724 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-072-4 ISBN10: 1847670725 EAN: 9781847670724 x Description: It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger, who comes and goes according to Freud's state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and why has he come to tell the famed proponent of the Oedipus complex his strange story? Set partly in pre-war London and partly in ancient Greece, WHERE THREE ROADS MEETS is as brilliantly compelling as it is moving. Former psychoanalyst and acclaimed novelist Salley Vickers revisits a crime committed long ago which still has disturbing reverberations for us all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Emperor's Bones Adam Williams (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 736pp h172mm x w112mm x s50mm 380g ISBN13: 9780340828144 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82814-4 ISBN10: 0340828145 EAN: 9780340828144 x Description: Beautiful, headstrong and unconventional, Catherine Cabot is twenty years old when she arrives in China. Against an uneasy political background a bittersweet, triangular love affair develops between Catherine and Edmund and George Airton. And all the while, she is trying to uncover the truth of her past, unaware of the danger this might pose to her. Who is Henry Manners, the mysterious man who once wrote to her mother, and who she knows now lives in China? Running in parallel is the extraordinary story of Yu-Fu-kuei, a Chinese revolutionary working as a Communist spy. She and Catherine met when they were at Oxford immediately after the Great War, and the friendship is deep and permanent. As the Japanese mass themselves on the borders, waiting for an excuse to invade, Catherine, ignorant of a history steeped in hatred, unwittingly becomes the perfect tool to settle the scores of two men who will stop at nothing to wreak their revenge. And Yu-Fu-kuei discovers that love might be the strongest weapon that any warrior has. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure Adam Williams (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
12 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 720pp h180mm x w110mm x s44mm 380g n/a ISBN13: 9780340827888 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82788-8 ISBN10: 0340827882 EAN: 9780340827888 x Description: A group of foreigners in the northeastern town of Shishan finds the status quo upset when Helen Frances, a young woman with a middle class upbringing but a fatal flaw, arrives and falls in love with the Hon Henry Manners. Will she betray her solid but possibly rather dull fiance While Helen Frances and Manners meet in the Palace of Heavenly Pleasure - Shishan's brothel, and the centre for all social activity in the town - the Chinese, who were quarrelling among themselves, are directing their anger towards all foreigners, and the position of Helen Frances, her father, her
fiance and their friends, is becoming very unsure.
The most astonishing range of characters awaits you in this novel; the wicked brothel-keeper Madam Liu and her sadistic son Ren Ren, the pragmatic, rational missionary Dr Airton, the American zealot Septimus Harding, the equivocal Mandarin. Not to mention the wonderfully complicated anti-hero Henry Manners, the prostitutes Fan Yimei and Shen Ping, the bandit Iron Man Wang, the Mongolian shaman. And the ingenue, Helen Frances herself, whose innocence covers an unorthodox curiosity . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aftershocks A. N. Wilson (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export/Airside
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h234mm x w156mm ISBN13: 9781786496041 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-604-1 ISBN10: 1786496046 EAN: 9781786496041 x Description: On The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unhappy, people fall in love and the seasons pass. The town of Aberdeen is no different, until the earthquakes. These seismic ripples tear down houses, forge bonds, and shake the foundations of humanity and religion. And in the midst of it all, Nellie and Ingrid fall in love. In Aftershocks A. N. Wilson offers a portrait of nature, death and morality. Moved by the real losses of the Christchurch earthquake, this is an extraordinary novel about a community profoundly linked to the land it lives on. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ripley Bogle Robert McLiam Wilson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
16 Jun 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 235g ISBN13: 9780749394653 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-9465-3 ISBN10: 074939465X EAN: 9780749394653 x Description: 'I'm Ripley Bogle. I'm the prince of the pavements, I'm the Parkbench King and the cold winds of the outside permanently fleck my flesh. To come with me, you must brave the air and the wide, bare boredom. The vast outdoors is my house and hall. It's with purpose, fear and gratitude that I stalk the streets of the city.' As the scene shifts from the streets of London, to Oxford and Belfast, the tramp, Ripley Bogle, narrates his gripping and alarming story in which it becomes increasingly difficult to tell what is true and what is fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Griever: An American Monkey King in China Gerald Vizenor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
University of Minnesota Press
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Pub Date:
14 Jun 1990
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 240pp h216mm x w140mm ISBN13: 9780816618491 ISBN13: 978-0-8166-1849-1 ISBN10: 0816618496 EAN: 9780816618491 x Description: Weaving political commentaries, cultural adventures and Chinese and Native American Indian myths into stories rich in adventure and mystery, this tale is about Griever de Hocus, a reservation-born tribal "trickster" and his accomplice who decide to go to the People's Republic of China and create havoc there by flouting the rigid conventions of socialism is a series of outrageous acts. From his hijacking of a truckload of condemned Chinese prisoners to his daring escape in an ultralight plane, Griever personifies the character of the Monkey King, the cosmic tribal "trickster" common to Chinese and Native American mythology. This book was winner of the Fiction Collective Prize and the 1988 American Book Award. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Heirs of Columbus Gerald Vizenor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Wesleyan University Press
Publisher:
University Press of New England
Pub Date:
23 Aug 1991
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 198pp h216mm x w140mm ISBN13: 9780819562494 ISBN13: 978-0-8195-6249-4 ISBN10: 0819562491 EAN: 9780819562494 x Description: "If you must read a book on Columbus," declared the Los Angeles Times in its review of The Heirs of Columbus, "this is the one." Gerald Vizenor's novel reclaims the story of Chrisopher Columbus on behalf of Native Americans by declaring the explorer himself to be a descendent of early Mayans and follows the adventures of his modern-day, mixedblood heirs as they create a fantastic tribal nation. The genetic heirs of Christopher Columbus meet annually at the Stone Tavern at the headwaters of the Mississippi to remember their"stories in the blood" and plan their tribal nation. They are inspired by the late-night talk radio discourses of Stone Columbus, a trickster healer who became rich as the captain of the sovereign bingo barge Santa Maria Casino, anchored in the international waters of the Lake of the Woods. The heirs' plan to reclaim their heritage enrages the government and inspires the tribal nations in a comic tale of mythic proportions. Vizenor is a mixedblood Chippewa who writes fiction in the trickster mode of Native American tradition, using humor to challenge received ideas and subvert the status quo. In The Heirs of Columbus he "reveals not only how Indians have staved off the tidal wave of assimilation," noted the San Francisco Chronicle, "but also how, through humor and persistence, they sometimes reverse the direction of cultural appropriation and, in the process, transform the alien values imposed on them." "Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have,"noted Kirkpatrick Sale in the Nation; "Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents." And the Voice Literary Supplement said "Even more rousing than Vizenor's deconstruction of Columbus, though, is his alternative vision of an American identity." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim (Author) Sarah Dunant (Introduction by) Series:
Virago Modern Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
27 Nov 1991
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h132mm x w200mm x s19mm 198g ISBN13: 9780860685173 ISBN13: 978-0-86068-517-3 ISBN10: 0860685179 EAN: 9780860685173 x Description: A discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine...' is the impetus for a revelatory month for four very different women. High above the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs Arbuthnot, Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline Dester, each quietly craving a respite. Lulled by the Mediterranean spirit, they gradually shed their skins and discover a harmony each of them has longed for but never known. First published in 1922 and reminscient of 'Elizabeth and her German Garden', this delightful novel is imbued with the descriptive power and lighthearted irreverence for which Elizabeth von Arnin is renowned. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From Enemy Territory: Pale Diary Mladen Vuksanovic (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Saqi Books
Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub Date:
21 Oct 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 172pp h210mm x w135mm 190g 1 map ISBN13: 9780863567261 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-726-1 ISBN10: 0863567266 x Description: Set at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia, this diary, penned by the award-winning journalist Vuksanovic, records the extraordinary unfolding of events. The author lived in the ski resort of Pale, 15km above Sarajevo. In April 1992, when Radovan Karadzic launches his savage assault on the city. Vuksanoviae - refusing to collaborate - becomes a prisoner in his own home, cut off from his children and friends below. He expressed his terror and disgust within these pages. During that time, he describes in chilling detail not only the horrifying war - with the looting, ethnic cleansing and betrayal that became commonplace - but also the mental strain of war on the individual. He and his wife finally managed to escape in a UN refugee bus via Hungary to Croatia, smuggling with them these notes from enemy territory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When Red is Black Qiu Xiaolong (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export ed
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
19 Oct 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h19mm x w111mm x s176mm 170g n/a ISBN13: 9780340897577 ISBN13: 978-0-340-89757-7 ISBN10: 0340897570 x Description: When Inspector Chen Cao agrees to do a translation job for a Triad-connected businessman he is given a laptop, a 'little secretary' to provide for his every need, medical care for his mother. There are, it seems, no strings attached ...Then a murder is reported: Chen is loath to shorten his working holiday, so Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, a middle-aged teacher, has been found dead in her tiny room in a converted multi-family house. Only a neighbour could have committed the crime, but there is no motive. It is only when Chen returns and starts to investigate the past that he finds answers. But by then he has troubles of his own. This is the third critically acclaimed Inspector Chen mystery
set in post-Cultural Revolution China. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strangers Taichi Yamada (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h216mm x w132mm ISBN13: 9780571224364 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22436-4 ISBN10: 0571224369 EAN: 9780571224364 x Description: Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada is forced to set up home in his office, situated in a high-rise apartment block overlooking Tokyo's busy Route 8. One night, nostalgic for his lost childhood, he decides to visit the entertainment district of Asakusa, the city's dilapidated old downtown area, and there, at the theatre, he meets a man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. So begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they died so many years before. Although they may be apparitions, he takes solace in seeing them, in spite of the damage it seems to do to his health. Can Kei, the mysteriously fragile neighbour with whom Harada begins a tentative relationship, save him from the ghosts of his past? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lost Daughter of Happiness Geling Yan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 288pp h176mm x w110mm x s20mm 160g ISBN13: 9780571214624 ISBN13: 978-0-571-21462-4 ISBN10: 0571214622 This Product is Replaced By: 9780571253562 x Description: From one of China's most acclaimed writers, this is an erotic and exciting tale of forbidden love. Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a young boy, Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers - by Chris' wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Liberated Bride A. B. Yehoshua (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Nov 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h139mm x w215mm x s43mm 618g ISBN13: 9781870015868 ISBN13: 978-1-870015-86-8 ISBN10: 187001586X EAN: 9781870015868 x Description: Professor Yohanan Rivlin has two obsessions, the first and most ambitious, is to understand the Arab mind - no mean feat in itself though perhaps made easier by the fact that he lives and works with Israeli Arabs. The second - and more personal, though equally hard to grasp - is to understand the failure of his elder son's marriage.
Rivlin's two quests lead him to extraordinary - and at times highly entertaining - encounters with very disparate people, where the personal becomes intertwined with the political, as he searches out the truth both in politics and life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
K: The Art of Love Hong Ying (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp 205g ISBN13: 9780552772013 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77201-3 ISBN10: 0552772011 x Description: Based on a true story, K tells the story of the passionate and illicit affair between Julian Bell (son of Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf) the darling of the Bloomsbury set and the beautiful Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Cheng, set against the vivid backdrop of decadent 1930s Peking. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lizard Banana Yoshimoto (Author) Ann Sherif (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp ISBN13: 9780571212156 ISBN13: 978-0-571-21215-6 ISBN10: 0571212158 EAN: 9780571212156 x Description: In these six stories Yoshimoto masterfully explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. Her characters find themselves caught in emotional webs that they often fail to understand, but they discover themselves and reinvent themselves through the power of the stories they tell. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Baby Love (The Angeline Gower Trilogy, Book 1) Louisa Young (Author) Series:
The Angeline Gower Trilogy 1
Edition:
Imprint:
The Borough Press
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 200g ISBN13: 9780007577989 ISBN13: 978-0-00-757798-9 ISBN10: 0007577982 EAN: 9780007577989 x Description: `Spectacularly worth reading' The Times Longlisted for the Orange Prize
A fast-paced literary thriller in which ex-belly dancer Evangeline's fight to protect three-year-old Lily draws her into the seedy underworld of her past - the first book in Louisa Young's celebrated Angeline Gower trilogy.
Angeline Gower had no choice, and now she's very glad she didn't.
Angeline is reformed. She's thrown off the bike, the travel, the dancing, and taken on the care of her late sister's baby, Lily. Domestic bliss has trumped wild adventure. At least - until a misdemeanour leaves her owing a crooked cop a favour (and what a favour) re-treading her old life, befriending her old boyfriend and oh, getting in with a drug cartel.
Never confounded by the intricate web of lies and deceit that lead her away from Lily, Angeline is a heroine of the new guard in this deliciously funny and razor-sharp tale. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Heroes' Welcome Louisa Young (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Borough Press
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
23 Mar 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 310g ISBN13: 9780007361472 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736147-2 ISBN10: 0007361475 EAN: 9780007361472 x Description: The Heroes' Welcome is the incandescent sequel to the bestselling R&J pick My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You. Its evocation of a time deeply wounded by the pain of WW1 will capture and beguile readers fresh to Louisa Young's wonderful writing, and those previously enthralled by the stories of Nadine and Riley, Rose, Peter and Julia. LONDON, 1919 Two couples, both in love, both in tatters, come home to a changed world. When childhood sweethearts Riley and Nadine marry, it is a blessing on the peace that now reigns. But the newlyweds and their old friends Peter and Julia Locke wear the ravages of the Great War in very different ways. Where Nadine and Riley do their best to forge ahead and muster hope, Peter retreats into drink and nightmares, unable to bear the domestic life for which Julia pines. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You Louisa Young (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Borough Press
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 290g ISBN13: 9780007361441 ISBN13: 978-0-00-736144-1 ISBN10: 0007361440 EAN: 9780007361441 x Description: A letter, two lovers, a terrible lie. In war, truth is only the first casualty. `Inspires the kind of devotion among its readers not seen since David Nicholls' One Day' The Times
While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises - but how can they when the future is not in their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men were dead?
Moving between Ypres, London and Paris, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You is a deeply affecting, moving and brilliant novel of love and war, and
how they affect those left behind as well as those who fight. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book of Joan Lidia Yuknavitch (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 195g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781786892423 ISBN13: 978-1-78689-242-3 ISBN10: 1786892421 EAN: 9781786892423 x Description: THE RESISTANCE STARTS NOW A group of rebels have united to save a world ravaged by war, violence and greed. Joan is their leader. Jean de Men is their foe. The future of humanity is being rewritten . . . Lidia Yuknavitch's mesmerising novel sees Joan of Arc's story reborn for the near future. It is a genre-defying masterpiece that may well rewire your brain. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Noel Daniel (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Taschen GmbH
Publisher:
Taschen GmbH
Pub Date:
10 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Germany Hardback 192pp h195mm x w137mm 384g ISBN13: 9783836548397 ISBN13: 978-3-8365-4839-7 ISBN10: 3836548399 EAN: 9783836548397 x Description: As treasured today as they will undoubtedly be for generations to come, Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are cornerstones of our collective consciousness as much as of the Western literary canon. From The Ugly Duckling to The Little Mermaid and The Emperor's New Clothes, this beautifully presented collection shares the eternal magic of these stories with a selection of eight tales, each illustrated with sparkling vintage artwork from the 1890s to the 1980s. True to the international appeal of the stories, the featured artists hail from Scandinavia to Japan and include such greats as Kay Nielsen, Josef Palecek, Tom Seidmann-Freud (niece of Sigmund Freud), and the groundbreaking film animator Lotte Reiniger. The collection also features historic and contemporary silhouettes, a presentation of Andersen's immense legacy, brief historical introductions to each fairy tale, as well as a set of stickers of favorite motifs. A treasure for the whole family, this precious edition inspires and enchants as much as the mystical, magical worlds of Andersen's imagination.The following fairy tales are featured in the book:The Princess and the Pea, The Nightingale, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Tinderbox. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Colonel Chabert Honore de Balzac (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Gina Wilson (Foreword by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w9mm x s125mm 140g ISBN13: 9781843910374 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-037-4 ISBN10: 1843910373 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Will Self (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jan 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 319g ISBN13: 9780099540946 ISBN13: 978-0-09-954094-6 ISBN10: 0099540940 EAN: 9780099540946 x Description: Bulgakov paints an excellent picture of Stalin's regime in this allegorical masterpiece. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order are in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes (Author) Tobias Smollet (Translated by) David Whitlock (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Sep 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 992pp h198mm x w129mm x s50mm 605g ISBN13: 9781853267956 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-795-6 ISBN10: 1853267953 EAN: 9781853267956 x Description: Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even computer games.
Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the day, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. Cervantes' greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to encompass the reader. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nostromo Joseph Conrad (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Oct 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h180mm x w110mm x s30mm 264g 18 cm ISBN13: 9780140287417 ISBN13: 978-0-14-028741-7 ISBN10: 0140287418 x Description: In the backwater of Costaguana in South America, Charles Gould is determined to make a success of the silver mine left to him by his father. But his dreams of wealth are thwarted as the country is plunged into revolution, torn apart by rival warlords who want the mine and its riches for themselves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nineteen Nineteen John Dos Passos (Author) Series:
Signet classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Signet
Publisher:
Penguin Books Australia
Pub Date:
30 Oct 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 472pp h181mm x w106mm 233g ISBN13: 9780451524683 ISBN13: 978-0-451-52468-3 ISBN10: 0451524683 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Poor People F. M. Dostoevsky (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Charlotte Hobson (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s15mm 187g ISBN13: 9781843910237 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-023-7 ISBN10: 1843910233 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One Thousand and One Ghosts Alexandre Dumas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 200pp h195mm x w125mm x s13mm 210g ISBN13: 9781843910824 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-082-4 ISBN10: 1843910829 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Adam Bede George Eliot (Author) Doreen Robertson (Introduction and notes by) Dr. Keith Carabine (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Mar 1996
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 327g ISBN13: 9781853261923 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-192-3 ISBN10: 1853261920 EAN: 9781853261923 x Description: With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury
'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost. The movement of the narration between social realism and reflection on its own processes, the exploration of motives, and the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding (Author) Peter Ackroyd (Foreword by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
20 May 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h195mm x w125mm x s15mm 238g ISBN13: 9781843910893 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-089-3 ISBN10: 1843910896 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author) Patrick O'Donnell (Introduction by) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 224g ISBN13: 9780141185576 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118557-6 ISBN10: 0141185570 EAN: 9780141185576 x Description: Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Howards End E M Forster (Author) Benjamin DeMott (Introduction by) Series:
Signet Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Signet Book
Publisher:
Signet Book
Pub Date:
06 Nov 2007
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 281pp h175mm x w108mm x s22mm 145g ISBN13: 9780451530462 ISBN13: 978-0-451-53046-2 ISBN10: 0451530462 EAN: 9780451530462 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arctic Summer E. M. Forster (Author) Anita Desai (Author) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Aug 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s10mm 135g ISBN13: 9781843910619 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-061-9 ISBN10: 1843910616 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
New Grub Street George Gissing (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Apr 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9781853262920 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-292-0 ISBN10: 1853262927 x Description: The commercial hacks of "Grub Street" are now in the ascendent. Sensitive novelist, Edwin Reardon, thought his reputation was safe, but poverty undermines his temperament and he finds it hard to produce marketable work. The future belongs to self-seeking writers such as Jasper Milvain.
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Mod Lib Taras Bulba Nikolai Gogol (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Modern Library Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 176pp h203mm x w132mm x s10mm 140g ISBN13: 9780812971194 ISBN13: 978-0-8129-7119-4 ISBN10: 0812971191 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Squabble Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Patrick McCabe (Foreword by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h194mm x w125mm x s11mm 174g ISBN13: 9781843910138 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-013-8 ISBN10: 1843910136 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Souls Gogol (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Books
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
25 Mar 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 402pp h210mm x w140mm 363g ISBN13: 9780679776444 ISBN13: 978-0-679-77644-4 ISBN10: 0679776443 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy (Author) Series:
Penguin Summer Classics S.
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w131mm x s18mm 280g ISBN13: 9780140439540 ISBN13: 978-0-14-043954-0 ISBN10: 0140439544 x Description: The story of a simple, beautiful girl's seduction and its tragic consequences. Thomas Hardy sympathetically portrays Tess's struggles to overcome the pitfalls that poverty and ignorance place in her way.
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The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Mar 1996
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 144g ISBN13: 9781853261886 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-188-6 ISBN10: 1853261882 EAN: 9781853261886 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury
James Hogg's most ambitious prose work, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, is now widely acclaimed as his masterpiece. In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre and hideous crimes. A century later his memoirs reveal the extraordinary, macabre truth. The tale is chilling for its astute psychological accuracy as it illustrates, with power and economy, the dire effect of self-righteous bigotry on a fanatical character.
In the first half of his new introduction David Blair provides a detailed explanation of the historical and religious contexts of Hogg's novel. In the second half he probes the book's brilliant, complex engagement with issues of identity, history and narrative itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen (Author) F. McGuinness (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
31 May 1990
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 128pp h197mm x w127mm 96g ISBN13: 9780571143115 ISBN13: 978-0-571-14311-5 ISBN10: 0571143113 x Description: Ibsen's play is a picaresque tale about the amiable rogue Peer Gynt. This version has been translated by Frank McGuinness, the Irish playwright, whose aim was to re-make it into a work as valid for contemporary audiences as when it was written in 1867. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories Henry James (Author) T. Lustig (Edited by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Oxford Paperbacks
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
02 Apr 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 322pp h196mm x w129mm 220g bibliography ISBN13: 9780192834041 ISBN13: 978-0-19-283404-1 ISBN10: 0192834045 This Product is Replaced By: 9780199536177
x Description: A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncles at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - "Sir Edmund Orme", "Owen Wingrave", and "The Friends of the Friends" - "The Turn of the Screw" is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's 'infernal imagination', which torments but also enthrals her? "The Turn of the Screw" is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, 'the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia: History of Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia Samuel Johnson (Author) Mike Irwin (Author) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781840224207 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-420-7 ISBN10: 1840224207 x Description: This book comes with an introduction and notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. "Rasselas" is a provocative fable about 'the choice of life'. Bored by the endless contentment of 'the happy valley' in which he has been brought up, Prince Rasselas escapes with his sister. They rove the world searching for the secret of happiness and striving to find the ideal way to live. Repeatedly the pleasures they glimpse dissolve on closer acquaintance, and the great men they admire prove flawed. Where, then, are happiness and purpose to be found? These questions, of course, remain open for each generation; but none has discussed them with more wisdom and humanity than Dr. Johnson. "Rasselas" is a searching and often darkly humorous commentary on the human condition as well as a classic of English prose. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Marquise of O Heinrich Von Kleist (Author) Andrew Miller (Foreword by) Richard Stokes (Translated by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s10mm 144g ISBN13: 9781843910541 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-054-1 ISBN10: 1843910543 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk N.S. Leskov (Author) Robert Chandler (Translated by) Gilbert Adair (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h196mm x w7mm x s125mm 118g ISBN13: 9781843910688 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-068-8 ISBN10: 1843910683 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing Ferdia Mac Anna (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Jun 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w128mm x s27mm 308g ISBN13: 9780140239393 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023939-3 ISBN10: 0140239391 x Description: This anthology contains works by Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. It also includes contemporary writings by Hugh Leonard, Roddy Doyle and Joseph O'Connor. There are brief introductions to the 70 contributors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bliss Katherine Mansfield (Author) Christine Baker (Introduction by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w126mm 113g ISBN13: 9781853267314 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-731-4 ISBN10: 1853267317 x Description: A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged moments when an individual is most revealing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moby Dick Herman Melville (Author) Tony Tanner (Volume editor) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
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Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
17 Apr 2008
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 592pp h197mm x w128mm x s27mm 402g ISBN13: 9780199535729 ISBN13: 978-0-19-953572-9 ISBN10: 0199535728 EAN: 9780199535729 x Description: This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discussed the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (Author) G. R. Thompson (Volume editor) Series:
Norton Critical Editions 0
Edition:
Critical edition
Imprint:
WW Norton & Co
Publisher:
WW Norton & Co
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2004
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 1024pp h236mm x w142mm x s28mm 760g ISBN13: 9780393972856 ISBN13: 978-0-393-97285-6 ISBN10: 0393972852 EAN: 9780393972856 x Description: In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery. Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poe's poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin. A Selected Bibliography is also included. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Manon Lescaut Francois Prevost (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Dr. Germaine Greer (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 220pp h195mm x w125mm x s15mm 213g ISBN13: 9781843910756 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-075-6 ISBN10: 1843910756 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eugene Onegin and Other Stories Alexander Pushkin (Author) Roger Clarke (Translated by) Roger Clarke (Introduction and notes by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 233g ISBN13: 9781840221367 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-136-7 ISBN10: 1840221364 EAN: 9781840221367 x Description: Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is, for Russians, their greatest writer; Eugene Onegin is his greatest work. Yet it remains little known outside Russia. Attempts to render Pushkin's Russian stanzas into verse have tried in vain to imitate the most inimitable features of the original, while masking many of its other glories. This prose version, for the first time, gives us a Eugene Onegin that is easy and enjoyable to read. Where previous versions lost the novel in the verse, Roger Clarke has discarded the verse to bring us the novel. And more than the novel: what shines through here are not only Puskin's touching story and subtle characterisation, but his incisive pictures of contemporary Russian life and landscapes, his social and literary comment, his humour, and indeed the essential poetry of the work. The addition of four captivating verse-tales from Pushkin's early maturity makes this book a must for anybody interested in Russian or European literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eugene Onegin And Other Poems Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (Author) Charles Johnston (Translated by) Series:
Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
Edition:
Imprint:
Everyman's Library
Publisher:
Everyman
Pub Date:
30 Apr 1999
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h165mm x w115mm x s18mm 222g ISBN13: 9781857157390 ISBN13: 978-1-85715-739-0 ISBN10: 1857157397 EAN: 9781857157390
x Description: Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most influential poet: it is a global culture, social and political icon of the highest order. The historical power of this work - a novel in verse - is made all the more extraordinary by the simplicity of its subject. Eugene Onegin is a story of disappointed love. Tatyana falls for the handsome Eugene to whom she daringly makes advances. He cooly rejects her, then flirts with her sister, Olga. When challenged by Olga's fiance, Lensky kills him in a duel, seemingly indifferrent to the grief he causes. (Ironically, Puskhin himself was to be killed in similar circumstances in 1937, some seven years after he completed the work). Onegin leaves the district. When he returns four years later, Tatyana has married another man and it is her turn to reject his advances. But it turns out that Onegin's hauteur is affected: he has always loved her passionately. She loves him too and both reflect painfully on what might have been. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gargantua Francois Rabelais (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Paul Bailey (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w14mm x s125mm 210g ISBN13: 9781843910572 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-057-2 ISBN10: 1843910578 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ghost-seer Friedrich Schiller (Author) Martin Jarvis (Foreword by) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h196mm x w125mm x s10mm 180g ISBN13: 9781843910343 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-034-3 ISBN10: 1843910349 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck (Author) Susan Shillinglaw (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2006
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h181mm x w111mm x s9mm 96g ISBN13: 9780141023571 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102357-1 ISBN10: 0141023570 EAN: 9780141023571
x Description: Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work, achieving success as a novel, Broadway play and three acclaimed films. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck (Author) Series:
Edition:
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Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h181mm x w111mm x s6mm 64g ISBN13: 9780140292916 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029291-6 ISBN10: 0140292918 EAN: 9780140292916 x Description: A parable of commitment, loneliness, hope and loss, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a powerful and moving portrayal of two men striving to understand their own unique place in the world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes, friendship and a shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work. 'A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick' The New York Times Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His works include The Grapes of Wrath, The Forgotten Village, Cannery Row and The Pearl. His complete works are published by Penguin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Red and the Black Stendhal (Author) Series:
Dover Thrift Editions
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Dover Publications Inc.
Publisher:
Dover Publications Inc.
Pub Date:
04 Nov 2004
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 416pp h210mm x w133mm x s26mm 318g ISBN13: 9780486437903 ISBN13: 978-0-486-43790-3 ISBN10: 0486437906 EAN: 9780486437903 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Perfect Hoax Italo Svevo (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) T. Parks (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Aug 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h8mm x w125mm x s196mm 140g ISBN13: 9781843910589 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-058-9 ISBN10: 1843910586 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) Emile Zola (Author) Robin Buss (Edited by) Robin Buss (Translated by) Robin Buss (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2001 (26 Oct 2006)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 319g ISBN13: 9780140447835 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044783-5 ISBN10: 0140447830 EAN: 9780140447835 x Description: Now the basis for the major BBC tv adaptation The Paradise, this is a lavish drama and a timeless commentary on consumer capitalism. The Penguin Classics edition of Emile Zola's The Ladies' Delight is based on an acclaimed, vivid and modern translation by Robin Buss, who has also introduced the novel. The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this mighty emporium, unscrupulously exploiting his young female staff and seducing his lady customers with luxurious displays of shimmering silks, satins, velvets and lace. Then Denise Baudu, a naive provincial girl, becomes an assistant at the store - and Mouret discovers that he in turn can also be enchanted. With its greedy customers, gossiping staff and vibrant sense of theatre, The Ladies' Delight (Au Bonheur des Dames in the original French) is one of the most richly exciting novels in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart cycle. This edition also contains a bibliography, introduction, chronology and explanatory notes. Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877). 'A complete page-turner about the consumer society, greed, fashion and instant gratification' India Knight 'A fine translation' The Times Literary Supplement _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beast in Man Emile Zola (Author) Leonard Tancock (Translated by) Series:
Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Apr 1977
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h199mm x w130mm x s16mm 54g ISBN13: 9780140443271 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044327-1 ISBN10: 0140443274 x Description: La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his 'most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Debacle Emile Zola (Author) Leonard Tancock (Introduction by) Leonard Tancock (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
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Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Nov 1972
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 351g ISBN13: 9780140442809 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044280-9 ISBN10: 0140442804 EAN: 9780140442809 x Description: Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the pair are compelled to understand one other. Forging a profound friendship, they must struggle together to endure a disorganised and brutal war, the savage destruction of France's Second Empire and the fall of Napoleon III. One of the greatest of all war novels, The Debacle is the nineteenth novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A forceful and deeply moving tale of close friendship, it is also a fascinating chronicle of the events that were to lead, in the words of Zola himself, to 'the murder of a nation'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Drinking Den Emile Zola (Author) Robin Buss (Edited by) Robin Buss (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
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Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 330g ISBN13: 9780140449549 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044954-9 ISBN10: 014044954X EAN: 9780140449549 x Description: Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young woman struggling against the ravages of vice. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the French with an introduction by Robin Buss. Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on the path to a decent, respectable life at last. But with her husband's drinking and the unexpected appearance of a figure from her past, Gervaise's plans begin to unravel tragically. The Drinking Den caused a sensation when it was first published, with its gritty depiction of the poverty and squalor, slums and drinking houses of the Parisian underclass. The seventh novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle, it was the work that made his reputation. And, in his moving portrayal of Gervaise's struggle for happiness, Zola created one of the most sympathetic heroines in nineteenth-century literature. Robin Buss's translation renders Zola's street argot into clear, contemporary English. This edition also includes an introduction discussing Zola's Naturalistic method, with maps of Paris, Zola's preface responding to his critics, notes, a chronology and further reading. Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877). If you enjoyed The Drinking Den, you might like Zola's The Beast Within, also available in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Earth Emile Zola (Author) Douglas Parmee (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jun 1980 (29 Jun 2006)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 371g ISBN13: 9780140443875 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044387-5 ISBN10: 0140443878 EAN: 9780140443875 x Description: Part of the vast Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Earth was regarded by Emile Zola's as his greatest novel. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee. When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he quickly finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of the local Fouan family. Aging and Lear-like, Old Man Fouan has decided to divide his land between his three children: his penny-pinching daughter Fanny, his eldest son - a far from holy figure known as 'Jesus Christ' - and the lecherous Buteau, Macquart's friend. But in a community where land is everything, sibling rivalry quickly turns to brutal hatred, as Buteau declares himself unsatisfied with his lot. A fascinating portrayal of a struggling but decadent community, The Earth offers a compelling exploration of the destructive nature of human ignorance and greed.
Douglas Parmee's translation vividly conveys the naturalistic tone of the original in clear, contemporary English. This edition also includes an introduction, exploring Zola's motivation in writing The Earth and considering its influence on his contemporaries. Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877). If you enjoyed The Earth, you might like Zola's Germinal, also available in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nana Emile Zola (Author) George Holden (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jun 1972 (25 Mar 2004)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 330g ISBN13: 9780140442632 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044263-2 ISBN10: 0140442634 EAN: 9780140442632 x Description: Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emulate her appearance, lovers even kill themselves for her. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds until, eventually, it consumes her. Nana provoked outrage on its publication in 1880, with its heroine damned as 'the most crude and bestial sort of whore', yes the language of the novel makes Nana almost a mythical figure: a destructive force preying on a corrupt society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Therese Raquin Emile Zola (Author) Robin Buss (Edited by) Robin Buss (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g ISBN13: 9780140449440 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044944-0 ISBN10: 0140449442 EAN: 9780140449440 x Description: Perhaps his most famous work, Emile Zola's Therese Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the gloomy back streets of Paris. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Robin Buss. In the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever. Therese Raquin caused a scandal when it appeared in 1867 and borught its twenty-seven-year-old author a notoriety that followed him throughout his life. Zola's novel is not only an uninhibited portrayal of adultery, madness and ghostly revenge, but also a devastating exploration of the darkest aspects of human existence.
Robin Buss's translation superbly conveys Zola's fearlessly honest and matter-of-fact style. In his introduction, he discusses Zola's life and literary career, and the influence of art, literature and science on his writing. This edition also includes the preface to the second edition of 1868, a chronology, further reading and notes. Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877). If you enjoyed Therese Raquin, you might like Zola's Germinal, also available in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Germinal Emile Zola (Author) Roger Pearson (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jan 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 592pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 404g ISBN13: 9780140447422 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044742-2 ISBN10: 0140447423 EAN: 9780140447422 x Description: Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Emile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France, translated with an introduction by Roger Pearson in Penguin Classics. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breakin job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all. The thirteenth novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope. Roger Pearson's lively and modern new translation is accompanied by an introduction that examines the social and political background to Zola's masterpiece, in particular the changing relationship between labour and capital. This edition also contains a further reading list and filmography, chronology, notes and glossary. Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877). If you enjoyed Germinal, you might like Zola's Therese Raquin, also available in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
War And Peace Orlando Figes (Afterword by) Leo Tolstoy (Author) Anthony Briggs (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1440pp h198mm x w129mm x s61mm 969g ISBN13: 9780140447934 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044793-4 ISBN10: 0140447938 EAN: 9780140447934 x Description: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is a sprawling epic covering the impact of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia on five different families. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, with an afterword by Orlando Figes, author of A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution 1891-1924. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and faith - with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur. Anthony Briggs's superb translation combines stirring, accessible prose with fidelity to Tolstoy's original, while Orlando Figes's afterword discusses the novel's vast scope and depiction of Russian identity. This edition also contains appendices, notes, a list of prominent characters and maps. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, in central Russia. After marrying Sofya Behrs in 1862, Tolstoy settled down, managing his estates and writing two of his best-known novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878). In 1884 Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis, becoming an extreme moralist, rejecting the state, the church and private property. His last novel, Resurrection (1900), was written to raise money for the Doukhobor sect of Christian spiritualists. 'A masterpiece ... This new translation is excellent' Anthony Beevor 'A book that you don't just read, you live' Simon Schama _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
War And Peace Leo Tolstoy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Signet Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 1456pp h172mm x w105mm ISBN13: 9780451530547 ISBN13: 978-0-451-53054-7 ISBN10: 0451530543 EAN: 9780451530547 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Modern Library Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2005
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 192pp h204mm x w134mm x s12mm 148g ISBN13: 9780812975048 ISBN13: 978-0-8129-7504-8 ISBN10: 0812975049 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy (Author) R. Edmonds (Introduction by) R. Edmonds (Translated by) Series:
Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 May 1982
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 1472pp h201mm x w129mm x s61mm 930g ISBN13: 9780140444179 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044417-9 ISBN10: 0140444173 x Description: Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war. Tolstoy's faith in life and his piercing insight lend universality to a work which holds the mirror up to nature as truly as those of Shakespeare or Homer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Faust Ivan Turgenev (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Simon Callow (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s10mm 143g ISBN13: 9781843910435 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-043-5 ISBN10: 1843910438 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays John Webster (Author) Rene Weis (Edited by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Oxford Paperbacks
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
07 May 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h196mm x w129mm x s32mm 380g bibliography ISBN13: 9780192834539 ISBN13: 978-0-19-283453-9 ISBN10: 0192834533 x Description: This volume offers John Webster's two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case, and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold. Webster is a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. His tragedies deploy shifting dramatic perspectives which counteract and challenge conventional moral judgements, while the predominantly gentler tone of his comedies and tragicomedies responds inventively to contemporary changes in dramatic taste and fashion. All four plays display the provocative intelligence of a profoundly original playwright. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is detailed annotation, a glossary, and a critical introduction which traces Webster's artistic development, defends him against charges of over-indulgence in violence, and explores his sophisticated staging and scenic forms. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oscar Wilde Library Collection Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Grandreams Books Ltd
Publisher:
Grandreams Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1109pp ISBN13: 9780755474578 ISBN13: 978-0-7554-7457-8 ISBN10: 0755474570 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Portrait of Mr.W.H. Oscar Wilde (Author) Peter Ackroyd (Foreword by) Series:
Edition:
Unique complete ed
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h195mm x w10mm x s125mm 135g ISBN13: 9781843910312 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-031-2 ISBN10: 1843910314 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sweeney Todd: or the String of Pearls Dick Anonymous (Author) Collins (Introduction by) Series:
Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural
Edition:
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 272pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9781840224832 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-483-2 ISBN10: 1840224835 x Description: A distraught Johanna Oakley wanders the streets of London seeking news of the missing fiance, Mark Ingestrie. She is befriended by Colonel Jeffrey, who is searching for his lost friend, Thornhill, last seen in Sweeney Todd's Fleet Street barber-shop. Todd's apprentice, Tobias Ragg, is struggling to break free from his terrifying and sadistic master, while the barber himself is frantically trying to sell a string of pearls. Meanwhile, just around the corner in Bell Yard, the enigmatic Jarvis Williams has landed himself a fine job - making the most delicious pies in London, to Mrs Lovett's secret recipe...Originally published as a weekly serial in 1846-7, this chilling tale is available for the first time in book form. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
End Game David Baldacci (Author) Series:
Will Robie series
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
10 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 624pp h197mm x w130mm x s40mm 438g ISBN13: 9781447277415 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7741-5 ISBN10: 1447277414 EAN: 9781447277415 x Description: Now a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, End Game is the fifth book in the thrilling Will Robie series by international number one bestselling author David Baldacci. Will Robie, highly trained assassin and the US government's most indispensable asset, is called to London. An imminent terrorist attack threatens the Underground and with the US next in line, Robie is the perfect choice to stop it before it begins. He knows he has one chance to succeed. One chance to save London. One chance to make it safely home to find out what has happened to fellow agent Jessica Reel following their last deadly mission together. But Robie is about to learn that even if he succeeds, the worst is yet to come. The game has started. Now only he can end it . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shut Eye Adam Baron (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
05 Feb 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 166g ISBN13: 9780330370639 ISBN13: 978-0-330-37063-9 ISBN10: 0330370634 x
Description: A married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat. Video cameras have filmed him and another leaving the Heathrow concourse. Excopper turned private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case which leads to a lonely trail through the city - until a phone call changes the game to fear. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Camel T.R. Bowen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Nov 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 400pp h180mm x w110mm x s25mm 224g ISBN13: 9780140285123 ISBN13: 978-0-14-028512-3 ISBN10: 0140285121 x Description: On a still, foggy evening in Cambridge the sharp crack of a pistol shot disrupts the sleepy calm of the university, leaving a porter lying dead. Ex-cop John Bewick is swiftly called in by the college authorities to get this dirty business cleared up with a minimum of fuss. His friend - and rival - Chief Inspector Gio Jones has no such concerns: he's got a murder to solve and ruffing a few feathers is a favoured pastime. But, Bewick and Jones find that the campus is a hotbed of sexual jealousies and petty rivalries. And with the discovery of a second corpse, the investigation turns critical... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hack John Burns (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
10 Jul 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 170g ISBN13: 9780330354882 ISBN13: 978-0-330-35488-2 ISBN10: 0330354884 x Description: There were two splashes in London that night: the first was a body dropping into the Thames with a bullet hole in its head; and the second was tabloid crime hack Max Chard's exclusive story on the killing. But murder is only half the yarn. Meet the lovable, alcohol soaked, womanising rogue, Max Chard, in this terrific expose of the world of tabloid journalism. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Excursion to Tindari Andrea Camilleri (Author) Series:
Inspector Montalbano mysteries
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h177mm x w111mm x s18mm 155g ISBN13: 9780330493055 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49305-5 ISBN10: 0330493051 EAN: 9780330493055 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Shape of Water Andrea Camilleri (Author) Series:
Inspector Montalbano mysteries
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h197mm x w131mm x s15mm 187g ISBN13: 9780330492867 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49286-7 ISBN10: 0330492861 EAN: 9780330492867 x Description: The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case - even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief, judge, and bishop. Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter. The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this phenomenal series, The Terracotta Dog. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Voice of the Violin Andrea Camilleri (Author) Series:
Inspector Montalbano mysteries
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h197mm x w129mm x s18mm 184g ISBN13: 9780330492997 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49299-7 ISBN10: 0330492993 EAN: 9780330492997 x Description: The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri is fourth in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano series. The commissioner kept looking at him with an expression that combined contempt and commiseration, apparently discerning unmistakable signs of senile dementia in the inspector. "I'm going to speak very frankly, Montalbano. I don't have a very high opinion of you." "Nor I of you," the inspector replied bluntly. Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder . . .
The Voice of the Violin is followed by the fifth novel in this compelling mystery series, Excursion to Tindari. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Caleb Carr (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h202mm x w126mm x s15mm 326g ISBN13: 9780751537475 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3747-5 ISBN10: 0751537470 EAN: 9780751537475 x Description: Mycroft Holmes, charged with ensuring the personal safety of Queen Victoria, calls on his brother for help when a number of attempts have been made on her life and when two unexplained deaths occur amongst the staff at her Scottish residencies. Accompanied by Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes goes north by train, examining the few facts Mycroft has been able to cryptically supply. To Watson's bafflement he is sure there is a link between these deaths and the murder in the old royal apartments at Holyrood of the secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots: a killing which left a bloodstain that daily refreshes itself and in a room where voices can be heard in the darkest hours of the night. Can Holmes's extraordinary deductive powers solve the historical crime as well as the contemporary one? An original, beautifully crafted mystery story which is also a respectful homage to the master of the whodunnit. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Final Duty Paul Carson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h178mm x w110mm x s26mm 229g ISBN13: 9780099415190 ISBN13: 978-0-09-941519-0 ISBN10: 0099415194 EAN: 9780099415190 x Description: They murdered his boss, stalked his family and invaded his home. Now they want his life. When jack Hunt is lured from his native Dublin to Chicago's top hospital, the talented young heart specialist sees a new life ahead for his family. The day he's appointed head of the unit, his own dreams are fulfilled. But he's promoted into a nightmare. Random street attacks, mindless vandalism, round-the-clock surveillance. Within months Jack Hunt's world collapses. His fight back sets him on a dangerous mission, uncovering explosive secrets. But he won't be able to tell the world if his enemies can find him first... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Scalpel Paul Carson (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
02 May 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h178mm x w111mm 230g ISBN13: 9780749324476 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-2447-6 ISBN10: 0749324473 This Product is Replaced By: 9780099441373 x Description: A killer is stalking the corridors of Dublin's Central Maternity Hospital. A young laboratory assistant is found brutally murdered at her bench. The only clue is a blood-stained scalpel. The police investigation, led by DS Kate Hamilton, is blocked by a wall of silence from hospital staff. DS Hamilton suspects the murderer is among them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night School: (Jack Reacher 21) Lee Child (Author) Series:
Jack Reacher
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 496pp h178mm x w110mm x s31mm 261g ISBN13: 9780857502711 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-271-1 ISBN10: 0857502719 EAN: 9780857502711 x Description: It's just a voice plucked from the air: `The American wants a hundred million dollars'. For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something big. In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to school. Jack Reacher is fresh off a secret mission. The Army pats him on the back and sends him to a school with only three students: Reacher, an FBI agent, and a CIA analyst. Their assignment? To find that American. And what he's selling. And to whom. There is serious shit going on, signs of a world gone mad. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Water Ann Cleeves (Author) Series:
Shetland
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
12 Sep 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w129mm x s26mm 295g ISBN13: 9781447202080 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-0208-0 ISBN10: 1447202082 EAN: 9781447202080 x Description: Dead Water is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series - a major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall. When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the local public prosecutor, down at the Marina,
young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Since the death of his fiancee, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred and he decides to help the inquiry. Markham - originally a Shetlander but who had made a name for himself in London - had left the islands years before. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl, Evie Watt, who is now engaged to a seaman. He had few friends in Shetland, so why was he back? Willow and Jimmy are led to Sullum Voe, the heart of Shetland's North Sea oil and gas industry. It soon emerges from their investigation that Markham was chasing a story in his final days. One that must have been significant enough to warrant his death . . . Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, Blue Lightning and Thin Air. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Red Bones Ann Cleeves (Author) Series:
Shetland
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Jul 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h196mm x w129mm x s28mm 294g ISBN13: 9781447274469 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7446-9 ISBN10: 1447274466 EAN: 9781447274469 x Description: Red Bones is the third book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series - a major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall. When an elderly woman is shot in what appears to be a tragic accident, Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called to investigate the mystery. The sparse landscape and the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce and secretive people. As Jimmy looks to the islanders for answers, he finds instead two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness have lasted generations. Then there's another murder and, as the spring weather shrouds the island in claustrophobic mists, Jimmy must dig up old secrets to stop a new killer from striking again . . . Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black, Red Bones, Blue Lightning, Dead Water and Thin Air. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Nights Ann Cleeves (Author) Series:
Shetland
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Jul 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w130mm x s26mm 293g ISBN13: 9781447274452 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7445-2 ISBN10: 1447274458 EAN: 9781447274452 x Description: White Nights is the second book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series - a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall. When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim - a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death. Yet this is no desperate act of anguish, but the work of a cold and calculating killer. As Perez investigates, he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community. Then another body is found. Perez knows he must break the cycle before another death occurs. But this is a crazy time of year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems . . .
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The Road to Perdition Max Allan Collins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 224pp h180mm x w110mm x s14mm 137g 8pp inset colour film stills ISBN13: 9780141009742 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100974-2 ISBN10: 0141009748 x Description: The story of Michael Sullivan (aka "the Angel of Death"), a hit man for an Irish American gang in Depression-era Chicago. His work crosses into his private life, leading to the death of his beloved wife and son, leading Sullivan and his surviving son to set out on a journey of revenge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The 37th Hour Jodi Compton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
17 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h180mm x w110mm x s23mm 180g n/a ISBN13: 9780340828687 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82868-7 ISBN10: 0340828684 EAN: 9780340828687 x Description: Sarah Pribek is a police officer in the Missing Persons department. She, of all people, knows that the first 36 hours in a missing persons case are the most crucial. When she learns that her husband Shiloh has failed to show up for FBI training in Quantico, Sarah commences a Missing Persons search for her own husband. But already it's the 37th hour. The search takes her to his family where she hears of a sister she never knew he had, to New Mexico, where (coincidentally?) she grew up, and finally back to her ex police partner, Genevieve, where all the threads of this brilliantly told novel come together. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sympathy Between Humans Jodi Compton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h176mm x w102mm x s28mm 230g n/a ISBN13: 9780340828717 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82871-7 ISBN10: 0340828714 EAN: 9780340828717 x Description: On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-time criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now, a zealous D.A.'s investigator has come to town, determined to make an arrest. Surrounded by colleagues who know her to be a murder suspect, Sarah keeps her demons at bay by involving herself in the troubles of strangers. However, as she crosses one ethical line after another, Sarah increasingly fears that a mis-step on her part will end not only in her disgrace, but in the death of one of those she has promised herself she will protect. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chasing The Dime Michael Connelly (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
26 Jun 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h180mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780752849805 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4980-5 ISBN10: 0752849808 EAN: 9780752849805 This Product is Replaced By: 9781409116813 x Description: Henry Pierce has a whole new life - new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a night-time world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Pierce traces Lilly's last days, but every step into her past takes him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy - and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evidence of Blood Thomas H. Cook (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 464pp h177mm x w110mm x s25mm 240g ISBN13: 9780752843872 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4387-2 ISBN10: 0752843877 EAN: 9780752843872 x Description: It was a town legend: a teenage girl who disappeared; the bloody dress found in the woods; the local man who, beaten down, confessed to the crime; and the mother who forever searched for her daughter's body. Jackson Kinley grew up on that legend before he moved to New York to become a true-crime writer - and he finds it waiting for him when he returns to bury his old friend, law officer Ray Tindall. That murder had occupied Ray's last weeks, and what Kinley discovers, poking through the same ashes, will change his life... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Instruments of Night Thomas H. Cook (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Oct 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 311pp h179mm x w110mm x s22mm 190g ISBN13: 9780575402539 ISBN13: 978-0-575-40253-9 ISBN10: 0575402539 EAN: 9780575402539 x Description: Paul Graves knows evil to the bone. He confronted it first as a boy, when he witnessed the torture and murder of his sister. Now he writes mystery stories set in gaslight New York, a world coloured by Graves' own past. Graves is invited to spend the summer at Riverwood, at artists' community in upstate New York. But for all its splendour and isolation Riverwood was once touched by crime - a teenage girl from the estate was murdered fifty years before. When Graves is asked to investigate the murder it is more than just the exploration of a long-past crime: he must apply the art of mystery fiction to the murder, then write a story that will enable the victim's mother finally to find peace.
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L. A. Requiem Robert Crais (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h180mm x w110mm x s30mm 240g ISBN13: 9780752833958 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-3395-8 ISBN10: 0752833952 EAN: 9780752833958 x Description: A reckoning has come to the City of Angels ...Karen Garcia is missing and her father doesn't trust the cops - he wants someone he knows on the case - so he enlists the help of Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. It seems that Karen is the latest victim of a distinctive serial killer and the police are determined to pin her death, and four others, on the witness who found her body. Cole doesn't believe the man has the guts to murder, and with his partner and the police at each other's throats, it's down to him to find the connection that will reveal the killer. But nailing the murderer means choosing between the two people he cares most about ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fresh Flesh Stella Duffy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Oct 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h135mm x w216mm ISBN13: 9781852426163 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-616-3 ISBN10: 1852426160 EAN: 9781852426163 This Product is Replaced By: 9781852427375 x Description: Everything was going just fine for Saz Martin and her partner Molly. It is summer in London, they're having a baby and all looks right with the world. Saz has even stopped taking on any weird and wild cases. No more danger, just easy, steady work and tucked up in bed before midnight... Yeah, right. Fresh Flesh, Stella Duffy's latest Saz Martin thriller, is a fast-paced ride across a contemporary London of glitzy offices, fancy restaurants, designer bars and damaged lives. It is also a frightening journey through the emotional ruins of the past, a tale of the sins of the fathers, and the mothers, and of the greatest theft of all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immaculate Conceit Stella Duffy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
07 Dec 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h235mm x w162mm x s25mm 480g none ISBN13: 9780340770016 ISBN13: 978-0-340-77001-6 ISBN10: 0340770015 EAN: 9780340770016 x Description: Sofia is lap dancer with a comensbly hectic life: she's single, occasionally shagging her ex, and pretty damn happy. Then the angel Gabriel appears, informing her that she is pregnant with new Messiah. The book tranposes the Virgin Birth, shining a light on contemporary relationships. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
State Of Happiness Stella Duffy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Digital original
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
01 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h198mm x w126mm x s18mm 278g ISBN13: 9781844080236 ISBN13: 978-1-84408-023-6 ISBN10: 1844080234 EAN: 9781844080236 x Description: Duffy is best known for her sharp insights and sharper wit, and both are on display here... Brave, understated and unforgettable' DAILY MAIL When Jack and Cindy meet at a friend's party they are immediately attracted to one another. Cindy, a celebrated mapmaker, traces the contours of their relationship, from New York to LA, from first passion to real love. After five years together, Cindy and Jack think they have tested their love to its limits. But then Cindy falls dangerously ill, and the couple must face the hardest test of all. Told with wit, tenderness and unflinching honesty, STATE OF HAPPINESS is a captivating story of love and loss from a writer at the height of her powers. 'STATE OF HAPPINESS is a sharp, sobering cocktail spiked with metaphysic, immense good humour and understanding. Stella Duffy gets better and better' Ali Smith, author of HOTEL WORLD _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wavewalker Stella Duffy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Dec 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h197mm x w130mm x s20mm 204g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852427139 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-713-9 ISBN10: 1852427132 EAN: 9781852427139 x Description: Saz has been hired by a mystery employer, the Wavewalker, to investigate the activities of Dr Maxwell North, an internationally acclaimed therapist, healer and guru. She starts by experiencing ?The Process? at a meeting in London, then insinuates herself into North?s life and home, not realising the extent to which North will go to protect the dark secrets of his past. Starting in ?70s San Francisco, then crashing into her own ?90?s London life, the investigation propels Saz into dangerous territory and a highly combustible conclusion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Anglo-Irish Murders Ruth Dudley Edwards (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 224pp h178mm x w111mm 129g ISBN13: 9780006512158 ISBN13: 978-0-00-651215-8 ISBN10: 0006512151
x Description: Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on AngloIrish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs Robert Amiss, her young friend and reluctant accomplice, into becoming conference organizer. Not only are a truculent Orangeman, intransigent republicans, imitative loyalists, appeasing English and hypocritical Irish among the nightmarish participants whose arrival Amiss views with dread, but driving rain and security problems make things even worse. It is a conference to remember in more ways than one, for when a delegate plummets off the battlements, no one, not even the authorities, can decide whether it was by accident or design, and the warring factions accuse each other of murder. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All the Lonely People Martin Edwards (Author) Series:
Harry Devlin 1
Edition:
Imprint:
AUK Authors
Publisher:
Andrews UK Limited
Pub Date:
10 Sep 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) Colour of page edge - White 292pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 288g black & white illustrations ISBN13: 9781782342434 ISBN13: 978-1-78234-243-4 ISBN10: 1782342435 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Devil in Disguise Martin Edwards (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
AUK Authors
Publisher:
Andrews UK Limited
Pub Date:
10 Sep 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) Colour of page edge - White 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 285g black & white illustrations ISBN13: 9781782342472 ISBN13: 978-1-78234-247-2 ISBN10: 1782342478 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
First Cut is the Deepest Martin Edwards (Author) Series:
Harry Devlin 7
Edition:
Imprint:
AUK Authors
Publisher:
Andrews UK Limited
Pub Date:
10 Sep 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) Colour of page edge - White 386pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 378g black & white illustrations ISBN13: 9781782342441 ISBN13: 978-1-78234-244-1 ISBN10: 1782342443 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Frozen Shroud Martin Edwards (Author) Series:
Lake District Cold-Case Mysteries
Edition:
Imprint:
Allison & Busby
Publisher:
Allison & Busby
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: English Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780749014650 ISBN13: 978-0-7490-1465-0 ISBN10: 0749014652 EAN: 9780749014650 x Description: Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England's Lake District, each time on Hallowe'en. In 1914, a young woman's corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost - the Faceless Woman - is said to walk through Ravenbank on Hallowe'en. Five years ago, another woman was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries. Daniel Kind becomes fascinated by the old cases, and wonders whether the obvious suspects really did commit the crimes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hanging Wood Martin Edwards (Author) Series:
Lake District Cold-Case Mysteries
Edition:
Imprint:
Allison & Busby
Publisher:
Allison & Busby
Pub Date:
24 May 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: English Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780749011529 ISBN13: 978-0-7490-1152-9 ISBN10: 0749011521 EAN: 9780749011529 x Description: 'I must talk to Hannah Scarlett, it's a matter of life and death' Twenty years after her brother Callum mysteriously vanished, Orla Payne is still haunted by his disappearance. The case was closed after her uncle's suicide - the police believed he killed himself in the Hanging Wood out of guilt over murdering the boy, even though no body was ever found. Daniel Kind recommends Orla contact DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the Lake District's Cold Case Review Team, to see if she can discover the truth about what really happened all those years ago. In spite of Hannah's doubt there is anything to be done on such a long-dead case, when Orla is found dead, she reconsiders, partly out of sense of duty and partly out of guilt, and discovers that investigating the past can throw up some very dangerous truths indeed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Serpent Pool: The evocative and compelling cold case mystery Martin Edwards (Author) Series:
Lake District Cold-Case Mysteries
Edition:
Imprint:
Allison & Busby
Publisher:
Allison & Busby
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: English Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780749008796 ISBN13: 978-0-7490-0879-6 ISBN10: 0749008792 EAN: 9780749008796 x Description: The Lake District's cold case specialist, DCI Hannah Scarlett, is determined to uncover the truth behind Bethany Friend's apparent suicide in the Serpent Pool. Why would Bethany, so afraid of water, drown herself? Hannah fears that her partner, bookseller Marc Amos, is keeping dark secrets. Does he hold the key to Bethany's past - and why was his best customer burnt to death in an Ullswater boathouse? Hannah still carries a torch for Daniel Kind, who is researching Thomas De Quincey and the history of murder. Once Daniel and Hannah suspect connections between Bethany's drowning and a current sequence of killings, death comes dangerously close to home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Suspicious Minds Martin Edwards (Author) Series:
Edition:
Standard ed.
Imprint:
AUK Authors
Publisher:
Andrews UK Limited
Pub Date:
10 Sep 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) Colour of page edge - White 248pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 247g black & white illustrations ISBN13: 9781782342465 ISBN13: 978-1-78234-246-5 ISBN10: 178234246X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ten Year Stretch: Celebrating a Decade of Crime Fiction at Crimefest Martin Edwards (Edited by) Adrian Muller (Edited by) Peter James (Foreword by) Bill Beverly (Contributions by) Simon Brett (Contributions by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Poisoned Pen Press
Publisher:
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 349pp h222mm x w146mm x s25mm 435g ISBN13: 9781464210549 ISBN13: 978-1-4642-1054-9 ISBN10: 1464210543 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Speciality of the House Stanley Ellin (Author) Series:
Crime Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
27 Jun 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 592pp h199mm x w129mm x s43mm 460g ISBN13: 9780752851419 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-5141-9 ISBN10: 0752851411 EAN: 9780752851419 x Description: Stanley Ellin's first short story, 'The Specialty of the House', about a New York restaurant with a special gourmet menu, was published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1948 and caused an immediate sensation, winning him a special Ellery Queen Award. 'The House Party' and 'The Blessington Method' subsequently both won Edgar Awards. Stanley Ellin, who was made a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1980, is acknowledged as one of the great masters of the 20th-century short story, and this volume brings together the best of his work in the genre. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Small Boat of Great Sorrows Dan Fesperman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export ed
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 464pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780552151757 ISBN13: 978-0-552-15175-7 ISBN10: 0552151750 This Product is Replaced By: 9780552150231 x Description: Vlado Petric, former detective in war, has left his beloved homeland to join his wife and daughter in Germany, where he scratches a meagre living in the building sites. So when one night an American investigator approaches him to return to Croatia, it doesn't take long for him to accept. Little does he know, he is the bait. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Woman in the Window A. J. Finn (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 448pp h234mm x w153mm x s33mm 580g ISBN13: 9780008234164 ISBN13: 978-0-00-823416-4 ISBN10: 0008234167 EAN: 9780008234164 x Description: THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. GET READY FOR THE BIGGEST THRILLER OF 2018!
What did she see?
It's been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside.
Anna's lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of three, they are an echo of the life that was once hers.
But one evening, a frenzied scream rips across the silence, and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. Now she must do everything she can to uncover the truth about what really happened. But even if she does, will anyone believe her? And can she even trust herself?
`Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing' Gillian Flynn
`One of those rare books that really is unputdownable' Stephen King
`Twisted to the power of max' Val McDermid
`A dark, twisty confection' Ruth Ware
`An incredible debut. I loved it... a brilliant page turner' Jane Harper, author of The Dry _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Raptor Dorsey Fiske (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
St Martin's Press
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
18 Sep 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 212pp h170mm x w101mm 112g ISBN13: 9780812575576 ISBN13: 978-0-8125-7557-6 ISBN10: 0812575571 x Description: Police detective and sketch artist Kate Marbury is part of the task squad determined to find a rapist-murderer before more women are killed. Janet, the last living victim, gives Kate the best description of the attacker, but the police still can't identify him. The bond that soon grows between Kate and Janet strengthens when Kate is attacked by the rapist, and Janet saves her life. Recovering, Kate suddenly realises she knows who attacked her. But as a victim, she is off the case. Terrified that the murderer will strike again, Kate takes the law into her own hands. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Phantom of Manhattan Frederick Forsyth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
St. Martin's Press
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Pub Date:
15 Dec 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback Mass market (rack) paperback 306pp h171mm x w106mm x s22mm 154g ISBN13: 9780312975852 ISBN13: 978-0-312-97585-2 ISBN10: 0312975856 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Secret Smile: With a new introduction by Erin Kelly Nicci French (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Sep 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h181mm x w110mm x s27mm 230g ISBN13: 9780141006512 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100651-2 ISBN10: 014100651X EAN: 9780141006512 x Description: You meet a man -You have an affair - You finish it and you think it's over - You're dead wrong - It's only just beginning . . . Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, he's intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarrassment becomes threatening - then even more terrifying than a girl's worst nightmare. Because this time Brendan will stop at nothing to be part of Miranda's life - even if it means taking it from her . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jericho Point Meg Gardiner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
31 Jan 2005 (13 Feb 2006)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h179mm x w111mm x s26mm 236g ISBN13: 9780340829370 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82937-0 ISBN10: 0340829370 EAN: 9780340829370 x Description: When a young woman tumbles dead onto the beach, the police identify the body. It's Evan Delaney.
Except that Evan is very much alive. It's her identity that has been stolen. And the thief has compromised more than just Evan's bank account. She has been scamming money from rich Hollywood wannabes - including a vicious drug boss. He wants his money back. From Evan. Soon she finds herself harassed by drug runners and suspected of murder. She must save herself - but to do that must escape a web of deceit that threatens to destroy not just her, but her boyfriend Jesse. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
With No One as Witness: An Inspector Lynley Novel: 11 Elizabeth George (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
14 Apr 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 592pp h242mm x w158mm x s50mm 870g ISBN13: 9780340827468 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82746-8 ISBN10: 0340827467 EAN: 9780340827468 x Description: When the Metropolitan Police fail to realise a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer's victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institutionalised racism is claimed by the community's activists and tabloids alike. Acting Superintendent Thomas Lynley is
given the case, and his Scotland Yard task force is soon handling more killings and a looming tragedy.Elizabeth George brings to the familiar subject of the serial killer a freshness and clarity of vision that provide illuminating insight into the psychological complexity of the tortured criminal mind. She does so within a richly textured, thrillingly suspenseful narrative that defies any reader to predict its outcome. Nor does she neglect our favourite characters, whose private lives provide an engrossing counterpoint to their professional duties. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Know a Secret: (Rizzoli & Isles 12) Tess Gerritsen (Author) Series:
Rizzoli & Isles
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w127mm x s25mm 283g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780857502155 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-215-5 ISBN10: 0857502158 EAN: 9780857502155 x Description: 'Expect a white-knuckle ride to very dark places.' Paula Hawkins When a young woman is found dead, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are called to the scene of the murder. Though the body bears startling wounds, the actual cause of death is not immediately clear. A few days later, another body is discovered - a seemingly unrelated crime, but the lack of an obvious cause of death shows they have more in common than it would first appear. As Rizzoli and Isles race to discover the link between the victims before the killer can strike again, a mysterious person watches from the sidelines. She has the answers they're looking for. But she knows she has to stay quiet, if she wants to stay alive . . . 'A fast-paced, dark, edgy mystery/thriller filled with unremitting suspense.' Huffington Post _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dying To Tell Robert Goddard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Nov 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp 453g ISBN13: 9780593047620 ISBN13: 978-0-593-04762-0 ISBN10: 0593047621 EAN: 9780593047620 x Description: t is autumn in the little Somerset town of Glastonbury. Lance Bradley is just beginning to feel that he is idling away his life there as usual when he receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Inexplicably, Rupe has stopped sending the money that his dysfunctional siblings depend on. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London to learn what he can, only to find that his friend has vanished. Rupe's employers, the Eurybia Shipping Company, want him tried for fraud. A Japanese businessman called Hashimoto claims he has stolen a document of huge importance. And a private detective is demanding money for trying to trace on Rupe's behalf an American called Townley, who was involved in a mysterious death at Wilderness Farm, near Glastonbury, back in 1963, that year of so many momentous events which just happens also to be the year of Lance's birth. No sooner has Lance decided that whatever Rupe was up to is too risky for him to get involved in than he finds that he already is involved, and the only way out is to get in deeper still. Where is Rupe? What is the document he has stolen? Who is Townley? And what happened at Wilderness Farm in the summer o
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The Baklava Club Jason Goodwin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
05 Jun 2014
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h204mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780571239986 ISBN13: 978-0-571-23998-6 ISBN10: 0571239986 EAN: 9780571239986 x Description: In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and his captors have taken him to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies, who use the code name La Piuma (the Feather). Yashim is convinced that the prince is alive. But he has no idea where, or who La Piuma is - and has become dangerously distracted by falling in love. As he draws closer to the prince's whereabouts and to the true identity of La Piuma, Yashim finds himself in the most treacherous situation of his career: can he rescue the prince along with his romantic dreams[unk] Jason Goodwin's bestselling 'Yashim' series has been published across the globe and received huge critical acclaim. In The Baklava Club, Goodwin takes Yashim on an adventure like no other, through the stylish, sensual world of Ottoman Istanbul. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bellini Card Jason Goodwin (Author) Series:
Yashim the Ottoman Detective
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
07 May 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h200mm x w125mm x s17mm 250g ISBN13: 9780571239948 ISBN13: 978-0-571-23994-8 ISBN10: 0571239943 EAN: 9780571239948 This Product Replaces: 9780571239931 x Description: Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers but when two bodies turn up in the canal, he realises that art in Venice is a deadly business, and it is up to Yashim to attempt to rescue his intrepid friend from forces bigger than they had ever imagined . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Evil Eye Jason Goodwin (Author) Series:
Yashim the Ottoman Detective
Edition:
Open Market - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 167g ISBN13: 9780571239894 ISBN13: 978-0-571-23989-4 ISBN10: 0571239897 EAN: 9780571239894 x Description: When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet. Years ago, when Yashim first entered the sultan's service, Fevzi Ahmet was his mentor. Ruthless, cruel, and - in Yashim's eyes - ultimately ineffective, he is the only man who makes him afraid. And now Yashim must confront the secret that Fevzi Pasha has been keeping all these years, a
secret whose roots lie deep in the tortured atmosphere of the sultan's harem, where normal rules are suspended, and women can simply disappear. Once again, Yashim and his friends encounter treachery and politics, played out against the backdrop of 1840s Istanbul. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Evil Eye Jason Goodwin (Author) Series:
Yashim the Ottoman Detective
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 May 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w125mm x s17mm 235g ISBN13: 9780571239900 ISBN13: 978-0-571-23990-0 ISBN10: 0571239900 EAN: 9780571239900 x Description: When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet. Years ago, when Yashim first entered the sultan's service, Fevzi Ahmet was his mentor. Ruthless, cruel, and - in Yashim's eyes - ultimately ineffective, he is the only man who makes him afraid. And now Yashim must confront the secret that Fevzi Pasha has been keeping all these years, a secret whose roots lie deep in the tortured atmosphere of the sultan's harem, where normal rules are suspended, and women can simply disappear. Once again, Yashim and his friends encounter treachery and politics, played out against the backdrop of 1840s Istanbul. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
B is for Burglar: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
10 Aug 1990
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h178mm x w112mm x s24mm 212g ISBN13: 9780330315838 ISBN13: 978-0-330-31583-8 ISBN10: 0330315838 EAN: 9780330315838 x Description: `Female, age thirty-two, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhone, private investigator, only one thing stays the same. When a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what's going to happen next . . .' There was nothing about Beverly Danziger to cause Kinsey concern. She was looking for her sister. There was a will to be settled. She paid up front. And if it seemed a lot of money for a routine job, Kinsey wasn't going to argue. She kicked herself later for the things she didn't see - Beverly Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars and she didn't seem like someone longing for a family reunion. But just as Kinsey begins to suspect foul play and start asking questions, Beverly Danziger pulls her off the case and fires her . . . `One of the best written crime novels by anybody in recent memory' New York Times `Kinsey Millhone [is] just about the gutsiest as well as the shrewdest of her kind' Observer `An unusually compelling series of novels with a notably convincing central character' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
C is for Corpse Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 1987
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp 115g ISBN13: 9780553280364 ISBN13: 978-0-553-28036-4 ISBN10: 0553280368 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
D is for Deadbeat Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam USA
Publisher:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Pub Date:
01 May 1988
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 240pp 130g ISBN13: 9780553271638 ISBN13: 978-0-553-27163-8 ISBN10: 0553271636 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
E is for Evidence Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
24 May 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w130mm x s18mm 221g ISBN13: 9781447212256 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-1225-6 ISBN10: 1447212258 EAN: 9781447212256 x Description: E is for Evidence is the fifth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I cherish my unmarried state. I'm female, twice divorced, no kids and no close family ties. I'm perfectly content to do what I do . . . It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn't made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
F is for Fugitive Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
24 May 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w129mm x s22mm 242g ISBN13: 9781447212263 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-1226-3 ISBN10: 1447212266 EAN: 9781447212263 x Description: F is for Fugitive is the sixth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm thirty-two years old, twice married, no kids, currently unattached and likely to remain so given my disposition, which is cautious at best . . . Seventeen years had passed since Jean Timberlake's body had been found at the foot of the sea wall. At the time, Bailey Fowler, an ex-boyfriend of hers, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Now he'd changed his tune. Kinsey Millhone is called in to solve the case - then she stumbles on the dark secrets of a family's buried past . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
G is for Gumshoe Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Mysteries Edition: (Paperback)
Imprint:
Fawcett Books
Publisher:
Fawcett Books
Pub Date:
29 Apr 1991
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United States Paperback Mass market (rack) paperback Colour of cover - Black 352pp h175mm x w105mm x s25mm 172g ISBN13: 9780449219362 ISBN13: 978-0-449-21936-2 ISBN10: 0449219364 EAN: 9780449219362 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
H Is for Homicide Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Mysteries Edition: (Paperback)
Imprint:
Fawcett Books
Publisher:
Fawcett Books
Pub Date:
22 Mar 1992
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback Mass market (rack) paperback Colour of cover - Black 304pp h174mm x w106mm x s20mm 150g ISBN13: 9780449219461 ISBN13: 978-0-449-21946-1 ISBN10: 0449219461 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I is for Innocent Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Edition: series
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w130mm x s25mm 295g ISBN13: 9781447212300 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-1230-0 ISBN10: 1447212304 EAN: 9781447212300 x Description: I is for Innocent is the ninth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. I feel compelled to report that at the moment of death, my entire life did not pass before my eyes in a flash . . . What I experienced was a little voice piping up in an outraged tone: "Oh come on. You're not serious. This is really it?" It was a Monday early in December when Kinsey Millhone first got involved in the Isabelle Barney murder case. She was out of work. Attorney Lonnie Klingman's usual private investigator had just dropped dead of a heart attack. Kinsey was more than happy to oblige. The trouble started on the very first day of the investigation. Either Kinsey's predecessor was incompetent - or someone had been getting away with murder. And next time it might turn out to be hers . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
J Is for Judgment Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Mysteries Edition: (Paperback)
Imprint:
Random House Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
02 Apr 1994
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback Colour of cover - Black 384pp h174mm x w105mm x s27mm 177g ISBN13: 9780449221488 ISBN13: 978-0-449-22148-8 ISBN10: 0449221482 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
K is for Killer Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fawcett
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
01 Apr 1995
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 307pp h178mm x w108mm 159g ISBN13: 9780449221501 ISBN13: 978-0-449-22150-1 ISBN10: 0449221504 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
L is for Lawless Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Edition: series
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h196mm x w131mm x s24mm 248g ISBN13: 9781447212331 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-1233-1 ISBN10: 1447212339 EAN: 9781447212331 x Description: L is for Lawless is the twelfth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee, the World War II fighter pilot of whom, rather mysteriously, the military authorities have no record. His family are concerned - perhaps Kinsey could make a few calls, straighten things out? Then Johnny's apartment is ransacked. In the debris a hidden safe is uncovered - and in that safe is a mysterious key marked LAWLESS. That night Kinsey's on a plane to Dallas, at the start of a thrilling rollercoaster ride through Texas and Kentucky on the trail of long-buried treasure. Unfortunately there's a fire-raising psychopath on her tail . . . And she's going to be late for a very important wedding . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
M is for Malice Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Edition: series
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
11 Oct 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w131mm x s24mm 275g ISBN13: 9781447212348 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-1234-8 ISBN10: 1447212347 EAN: 9781447212348 x Description: M is for Malice is the thirteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. 'M' is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California. 'M' is for Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune - four men with very different temperaments and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them - angry, troubled and in trouble - went missing. 'M' is for Millhone, now hired to trace that missing black sheep brother. And, in brutal consequence, 'M' is for murder . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
N is for Noose Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
13 Aug 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 368pp h177mm x w111mm x s23mm 201g ISBN13: 9780330348775 ISBN13: 978-0-330-34877-5 ISBN10: 0330348779 EAN: 9780330348775 x Description: Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future, a quick view of events lying in store for us. Some moments we saw would make no sense at all and some, I suspect, would frighten us beyond our endurance . . . Early spring in the Sierra Nevada, bringing the usual driving sleet and snow. PI Kinsey Millhone is on her way west when she detours into Nota Lake (pop. 2356) to check out a new client. And encounters a chill she can scarcely believe. Only six weeks have passed since sheriff's detective Tom Newquist died of a heart attack. His widow is sure he was keeping secrets from her just before he died - and she hires Kinsey to find out exactly what. But all Kinsey can uncover is that Newquist led an exemplary life, so what could he possibly have to conceal? And why has the town, to the last threatening redneck, closed ranks on her? Kinsey's on the point of giving up. Until she discovers a chilling new clue: a childish drawing of a thick length of rope - fashioned into a hangman's noose . . . 'I love Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone novels . . . you are never disappointed' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
P Is for Peril Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Mysteries Edition: (Paperback)
Imprint:
Random House Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
28 May 2002
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 384pp h174mm x w107mm x s28mm 181g ISBN13: 9780449003794 ISBN13: 978-0-449-00379-4 ISBN10: 0449003795 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Q is for Quarry Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Edition: series
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Dec 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h197mm x w130mm x s35mm 411g ISBN13: 9781447212386 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-1238-6 ISBN10: 144721238X EAN: 9781447212386 x Description: Q is for Quarry is the seventeenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton and is based on a true crime. She was a 'Jane Doe', an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on, and after months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case . . . and they turn to Kinsey Millhone to help them find closure. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer. Based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, Q is for Quarry and Grafton's interest in the case have renewed police efforts. The body has
been exhumed, and a facial reconstruction made that appears in the last pages of the novel. It is hoped that the photograph will trigger memories that may lead to a positive identification. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
R is for Ricochet Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Edition: series
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Dec 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w130mm x s27mm 311g ISBN13: 9781447212393 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-1239-3 ISBN10: 1447212398 EAN: 9781447212393 x Description: R is for Ricochet is the eighteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Kinsey Millhone, employed by Nord Lafferty to drive his daughter home from her incarceration at the Californian Institute for Women, marvels at the simplicity of the task. But Reba Lafferty emerges feisty and rebellious, and Kinsey is soon fighting to prevent her charge from breaking the conditions of her parole. As she finds herself befriending the ex-gambler, ex-alcoholic and ex-con, Kinsey discovers that Reba had taken the fall for her boss, also her lover, when he conducted a highly-crafted money laundering scam. Alan Beckwith has so far escaped the clutches of the FBI. Now they believe he is laundering money for a Columbian drug cartel - they just need the proof. When Kinsey is asked by the police to persuade Reba to unveil crucial evidence guaranteed to put Beckwith behind bars, she doesn't expect cooperation. But when she hears of shocking new information about her lover, Reba is suddenly all too eager to do everything she can to ruin him. Embroiled in a cunning challenge of wits, and meanwhile bemused by her own blossoming romance, Kinsey must try to control the bitter, angry Reba as she launches her dangerous revenge . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
T is for Trespass Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
07 Nov 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 496pp h178mm x w112mm x s30mm 243g ISBN13: 9780330438896 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43889-6 ISBN10: 0330438891 EAN: 9780330438896 x Description: It was like being in the presence of a snake, first hissing its presence and then coiled in readiness. I didn't dare turn my back or take my eyes off of her. I stood very still. I let go of my fight-or-flight defense and decided to play dead. If you run from a bear, it gives chase. That's the nature of the beast. Likewise a snake. If I moved, she might strike. When her elderly neighbour Gus has an accident, Kinsey Millhone is relieved when his niece organises a nurse for him. Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn't turn up anything suspicious. But Kinsey's not convinced - especially when Gus seems to be getting worse under his nurse's tender care. Realising that her neighbourly concern isn't going to get her past the front door Kinsey turns to more unorthodox methods to step up her investigation. And gets far more than she bargained for . . . Not only is Solana not who she seems to be but she's more than able to play Kinsey at her own game. Suddenly the tables have turned and it's Kinsey who's on the wrong side of the law . . .
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W is for Wasted Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Mantle
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
14 Aug 2014
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 365pp h178mm x w111mm x s37mm 334g ISBN13: 9781447269380 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-6938-0 ISBN10: 1447269381 EAN: 9781447269380 x Description: Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him. Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes. But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange links begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey finds the key to his identity . . . In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
V is for Vengeance Sue Grafton (Author) Series:
Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Edition: series
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w130mm x s34mm 360g ISBN13: 9780330512770 ISBN13: 978-0-330-51277-0 ISBN10: 0330512773 EAN: 9780330512770 x Description: V is for Vengeance is the twenty-second in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Las Vegas, 1986. A young college graduate is murdered when he is unable to pay back a loan funded by notorious criminal Lorenzo Dante. Two years later private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself assisting to apprehend a shoplifter - Audrey Vance - in a shopping centre. Events take a much darker turn when Audrey's body is discovered beneath the Cold Spring Bridge, a local suicide spot. Unable to believe she took her own life, Audrey's fiance Marvin Striker hires Kinsey to investigate. It soon emerges that the shoplifter had become caught up in a much larger operation. Meanwhile Lorenzo Dante has begun to grow weary of his life in organized crime and frustrated with his violent and impulsive younger brother Cappi. While the police net begins to close in on him, Dante meets the beautiful Nora, who exerts a powerful pull over the gangster. As Kinsey's enquiries reach a dramatic head, it becomes clear that she and Dante have one thing in common - they must be careful who they trust . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Ghost of a Chance Peter Guttridge (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
12 Nov 1998
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 279pp h20mm x w111mm x s178mm 164g ISBN13: 9780747256465 ISBN13: 978-0-7472-5646-5 ISBN10: 0747256462 x Description: Freelance writer Nick Madrid isn't thrilled when he is commissioned to spend a night on an allegedly haunted prehistoric barrow, and live to tell the tale. Especially when living to tell the tale isn't made an urgent priority. Then he discovers a dead man hanging upside down from a tree. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Laughing Matter Peter Guttridge (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
04 Dec 1997
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 309pp h20mm x w112mm x s178mm 173g ISBN13: 9780747256458 ISBN13: 978-0-7472-5645-8 ISBN10: 0747256454 x Description: When a naked woman flashes past journalist Nick Madrid's 14th floor hotel window, it's quite a surprise as the hotel doesn't have an outside elevator. Did she fall or was she pushed? To find out, Nick must follow a trail which leads from the Edinburgh Festival to Hollywood. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Carrier: Culver Valley Crime Book 8 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Culver Valley Crime
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2013 (22 Oct 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h196mm x w129mm x s29mm 303g none ISBN13: 9780340980743 ISBN13: 978-0-340-98074-3 ISBN10: 0340980745 EAN: 9780340980743 x Description: ***WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR CRIME THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2013 *** He swore he was a killer. The truth was worse. An overnight plane delay is bad. Having to share your hotel room with a stranger is worse. But that is only the beginning of Gaby Struthers' problems. Gaby has never met Lauren Cookson before. So how does Lauren know so much about her? How does she know that the love of Gaby's life has been accused of murder? Why is she telling her that he is innocent? And why is she so terrified of Gaby?
If you loved Gone Girl, you'll find this chilling domestic thriller impossible to put down. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deadlier: 100 of the Best Crime Stories Written by Women Sophie Hannah (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
05 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 800pp h240mm x w170mm ISBN13: 9781784975463 ISBN13: 978-1-78497-546-3 ISBN10: 178497546X EAN: 9781784975463 x Description: 100 of the best crime stories written by women, selected and introduced by Sophie Hannah. From Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier, to Val McDermid and Margaret Atwood, women writers have long been drawn to criminal acts. Here, award-winning author Sophie Hannah brings together 100 of her favourite examples. Deadlier includes prize-winners, bestsellers and rising stars, so whether you take your crime cosy or hard-boiled, this big, beautiful anthology will keep you reading long into the night. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Did You See Melody? Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
24 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h235mm x w155mm x s25mm 440g ISBN13: 9781444776140 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-7614-0 ISBN10: 1444776142 EAN: 9781444776140 x Description: Pushed to breaking point, Cara Burrows abandons her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can't afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find it already occupied - by a man and a teenage girl. A simple mistake on the part of the hotel receptionist - but Cara's fear intensifies when she works out that the girl she saw alive and well in the hotel room is someone she can't possibly have seen: the most famous murder victim in the country, Melody Chapa, whose parents are serving life sentences for her murder. Cara doesn't know what to trust: everything she's read and heard about the case, or the evidence of her own eyes. Did she really see Melody? And is she prepared to ask herself that question and answer it honestly if it means risking her own life? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Did You See Melody? Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
24 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h237mm x w161mm x s31mm 578g ISBN13: 9781444776133 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-7613-3 ISBN10: 1444776134 EAN: 9781444776133 x Description: 'Outstandingly brilliant' Clare Mackintosh Did she really see Melody? The stunning new pageturner from the Queen of Psychological Suspense. Pushed to breaking point, Cara Burrows abandons her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can't afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find it already occupied - by a man and a teenage girl. A simple mistake on the part of the hotel receptionist - but Cara's fear intensifies when she works out that the girl she saw alive and well in the hotel room is someone she can't possibly have seen: the most famous murder victim in the country, Melody Chapa, whose parents are serving life sentences for her murder. Cara doesn't know what to trust: everything she's read and heard about the case, or the evidence of her own eyes. Did she really see Melody? And is she prepared to ask herself that question and answer it honestly if it means risking her own life? What people are saying about DID YOU SEE MELODY? 'I was hooked!...there was a cracking ending!' GoodReads reviewer 'Really good reading that moved at a fast pace and kept me engaged throughout. Highly recommended.' GoodReads reviewer 'Oh superb. Excellent. All the other expletives. Ms Hannah still showing us how twisting a plot is done properly.' GoodReads reviewer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Witness Impulse
Publisher:
Witness Impulse
Pub Date:
29 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 336pp h173mm x w112mm x s20mm 136g ISBN13: 9780062562111 ISBN13: 978-0-06-256211-1 ISBN10: 0062562118 EAN: 9780062562111 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Game for All the Family Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h178mm x w115mm x s27mm 230g ISBN13: 9781444795554 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-9555-4 ISBN10: 1444795554 EAN: 9781444795554 x Description: 'One of the great unmissables of this genre - intelligent, classy and with a wonderfully Gothic imagination' - The Times Justine thought she knew who she was, until an anonymous caller seemed to know better... After escaping London and a career that nearly destroyed her, Justine plans to spend her days doing as little as possible in her beautiful home in Devon. But soon after the move, her daughter Ellen starts to withdraw when her new best friend, George, is unfairly expelled from school. Justine begs the head teacher to reconsider, only to be told that nobody's been expelled - there is, and was, no George. Then the anonymous calls start: a stranger, making threats that suggest she and Justine share a traumatic past and a guilty secret - yet Justine doesn't recognise her voice. When the caller starts to talk about three graves - two big and one small, to fit a child - Justine fears for her family's safety. If the police can't help, she'll have to eliminate the danger herself, but first she must work out who she's supposed to be... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Game for All the Family Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h198mm x w139mm x s28mm 300g ISBN13: 9781444776058 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-7605-8 ISBN10: 1444776053 EAN: 9781444776058 x Description: 'One of the great unmissables of this genre - intelligent, classy and with a wonderfully Gothic imagination' - The Times He's not your son. It's not up to you to save him. But you have to try. After escaping London and a career that nearly destroyed her, Justine plans to spend her days doing as little as possible in her beautiful home in Devon. But soon after the move, her daughter Ellen starts to withdraw when her new best friend, George, is unfairly expelled from school. Justine begs the head teacher to reconsider, only to be told that nobody's been expelled - there is, and was, no George. Then the anonymous calls start: a stranger, making threats that suggest she and Justine share a traumatic past and a guilty secret - yet Justine doesn't recognise her voice. When the caller starts to talk about three graves - two big and one small, to fit a child - Justine fears for her family's safety. If the police can't help, she'll have to eliminate the danger herself, but first she must work out who she's supposed to be... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hurting Distance: Culver Valley Crime Book 2 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Culver Valley Crime
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2007 (22 Oct 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h198mm x w137mm x s28mm 294g n/a ISBN13: 9780340840344 ISBN13: 978-0-340-84034-4 ISBN10: 034084034X EAN: 9780340840344 x Description: The second stunning thriller from queen of psychological crime, Sophie Hannah, perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins. 'Superbly creepy' Guardian 'Rivetingly original' Sunday Times Sometimes love must kill before it can die. Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins - so terrible that she never told anybody. Now Naomi has another secret - the man she has fallen passionately in love with, unhappily married Robert Haworth. When Robert vanishes without trace, Naomi knows he must have come to harm. But the police are less convinced, particularly when Robert's wife insists he is not missing. In desperation, Naomi has a crazy idea. If she can't persuade the police that Robert is in danger, perhaps she can convince them that he is a danger to others. Then they will have to look for him - urgently. Naomi knows how to describe in detail the actions of a psychopath. All she needs to do is dig up her own troubled past . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kind of Cruel: Culver Valley Crime Book 7 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2012 (22 Oct 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 528pp h197mm x w136mm x s33mm 361g none ISBN13: 9780340980712 ISBN13: 978-0-340-98071-2 ISBN10: 0340980710 EAN: 9780340980712 x Description: The brilliantly chilling seventh crime thriller from the queen of psychological suspense - a must-read for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins. 'Utterly chilling' Observer 'Truly hair-raising' Independent on Sunday Some secrets are so dark you keep them even from yourself . . . When Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist as a desperate last resort, she doesn't expect that anything much will change. She doesn't expect it to help with her chronic insomnia . . . She doesn't expect to hear herself, under hypnosis, saying words that mean nothing to her: 'Kind, cruel, kind of cruel' - words she has seen somewhere before, if only she could remember where . . .
She doesn't expect to be arrested two hours later, as a result of having spoken those words out loud, in connection with the brutal murder of Katharine Allen, a woman she's never heard of . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lasting Damage: Culver Valley Crime Book 6 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
18 Aug 2011 (22 Oct 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 464pp h197mm x w131mm x s30mm 314g none ISBN13: 9780340980682 ISBN13: 978-0-340-98068-2 ISBN10: 0340980680 EAN: 9780340980682 x Description: The unnervingly good sixth psychological thriller from bestselling crime writer Sophie Hannah, not to be missed for readers of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins. 'Jaw-droppingly assured' Daily Express 'A first-class whodunnit' Scotsman Don't go into the other woman's house . . . It's 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she's logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it's for sale; she saw the estate agent's board in the front garden less than six hours ago. Soon Connie is clicking on the 'Virtual Tour' button, keen to see the inside of 11 Bentley Grove and put her mind at rest once and for all. She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, in the middle of the carpet, there's a woman lying face down in a huge pool of blood. In shock, Connie wakes her husband Kit. But when Kit sits down at the computer to take a look, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in a perfectly ordinary room . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Face: Culver Valley Crime Book 1 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Culver Valley Crime
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
24 Aug 2006 (22 Oct 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h198mm x w155mm x s25mm 254g n/a ISBN13: 9780340840320 ISBN13: 978-0-340-84032-0 ISBN10: 0340840323 EAN: 9780340840320 x Description: One of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945 The first extraordinary psychological suspense thriller from internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah. Not to be missed for readers of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins 'Terrifying' Scotsman 'Ingenious' Sunday Times It's every mother's nightmare . . . She's only been gone two hours.
Her husband David was meant to be looking after their two-week-old daughter. But when Alice Fancourt walks into the nursery, her terrifying ordeal begins, for Alice insists the baby in the cot is a stranger she's never seen before. With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before it's too late? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pictures Or It Didn't Happen Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
05 Feb 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 144pp h197mm x w133mm x s10mm 106g ISBN13: 9781473603530 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-0353-0 ISBN10: 1473603536 EAN: 9781473603530 x Description: Would you trust a complete stranger? After Chloe and her daughter Freya are rescued from disaster by a man who seems too good to be true, Chloe decides she must find him again to thank him. But instead of meeting her knight in shining armour, she comes across a woman called Nadine Caspian who warns her to stay well away from him. The man is dangerous, Nadine claims, and a compulsive liar. Alarmed, Chloe asks her what she means, but Nadine will say no more. Chloe knows that the sensible choice would be to walk away - after all, she doesn't know anything about this man. But she is too curious. What could Nadine have meant? And can Chloe find out the truth without putting herself and her daughter in danger? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Point of Rescue: Culver Valley Crime Book 3 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
28 Apr 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h199mm x w130mm x s31mm 346g n/a ISBN13: 9781444725049 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-2504-9 ISBN10: 1444725041 EAN: 9781444725049 x Description: Sally is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she ought not to recognise: Mark Bretherick. Last year, a business trip Sally had planned was cancelled at the last minute. Desperate for a break from her busy life juggling her career and a young family, Sally didn't tell her husband that the trip had fallen through. Instead, she booked a week off and treated herself to a secret holiday. All she wanted was a bit of peace - some time to herself - but it didn't work out that way. Because Sally met a man - Mark Bretherick. All the details are the same: where he lives, his job, his wife Geraldine and daughter Lucy. Except that the man on the news is a man Sally has never seen before. And Geraldine and Lucy Bretherick are both dead . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Point of Rescue: Culver Valley Crime Book 3 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Culver Valley Crime
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
07 Aug 2008 (22 Oct 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 464pp h198mm x w163mm x s31mm 316g n/a ISBN13: 9780340933121 ISBN13: 978-0-340-93312-1 ISBN10: 0340933127 EAN: 9780340933121 x Description: Agatha Christie fans will love Queen of Crime Sophie Hannah's third stunning psychological suspense novel. Also perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins. 'Addictive' Marie Claire 'Irresistible' Guardian It began with an affair. And ended in murder. Sally is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she ought not to recognise: Mark Bretherick. Last year, a work trip Sally had planned was cancelled at the last minute. Desperate for a break from her busy life juggling work and a young family, Sally didn't tell her husband that the trip had fallen through. Instead, she booked a week off work and treated herself to a secret holiday. All she wanted was a bit of peace - some time to herself - but it didn't work out that way. Because Sally met a man. Mark Bretherick. All the details are the same: where he lives, his job, his wife Geraldine and daughter Lucy. Except that the man on the news is a man Sally has never seen before. And Geraldine and Lucy Bretherick are both dead . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Room Swept White: Culver Valley Crime Book 5 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Culver Valley Crime
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
19 Aug 2010 (22 Oct 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 480pp h197mm x w131mm x s31mm 327g ISBN13: 9780340980644 ISBN13: 978-0-340-98064-4 ISBN10: 0340980648 EAN: 9780340980644 x Description: Critically acclaimed queen of psychological crime Sophie Hannah's fifth suspense novel - a must-read for those who love Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins. 'Beautifully written' Daily Express 'Terrifying' Heat Murder begins at home . . . TV producer Fliss Benson receives an anonymous card at work. The card has sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four - numbers that mean nothing to her. On the same day, Fliss finds out she's going to be working on a documentary about miscarriages of justice involving cot-death mothers wrongly accused of murder. The documentary will focus on three women: Helen Yardley, Sarah Jaggard and Rachel Hines. All three women are now free, and the doctor who did her best to send them to prison for life, child protection zealot Dr Judith Duffy, is under investigation for misconduct.
For reasons she has shared with nobody, this is the last project Fliss wants to be working on. And then Helen Yardley is found dead at her home, and in her pocket is a card with sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Telling Error: Culver Valley Crime Book 9 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Culver Valley Crime
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
28 Aug 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h177mm x w116mm x s25mm 200g None ISBN13: 9781444736762 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-3676-2 ISBN10: 1444736760 EAN: 9781444736762 x Description: All she wanted to do was take her son's forgotten sports kit to school. So why does Nicki Clements drive past the home of controversial newspaper columnist Damon Blundy eight times in one day? Blundy has been murdered, and the words 'HE IS NO LESS DEAD' daubed on his wall - in red paint, not blood. And, though Blundy was killed with a knife, he was not stabbed. Why? Nicki, called in for questioning, doesn't have any of the answers police are looking for. Nor can she tell them the truth, because although she is not guilty of murder, she is far from innocent. And the words on the wall are disturbingly familiar to her, if only she could remember where she has heard them before . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Telling Error: Culver Valley Crime Book 9 Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Culver Valley Crime
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
28 Aug 2014 (22 Oct 2015)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h197mm x w139mm x s24mm 262g None ISBN13: 9780340980774 ISBN13: 978-0-340-98077-4 ISBN10: 034098077X EAN: 9780340980774 x Description: Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's mysteries, as well as Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins, the ninth psychological thriller from Sophie Hannah is a literary mystery and a puzzle that's impossible to solve . . . 'Fiendishly clever' Sunday Express 'Exceptional' Elle Knowing the secret will kill you. All she wanted to do was take her son's forgotten sports kit to school. So why does Nicki Clements drive past the home of controversial newspaper columnist Damon Blundy eight times in one day? Blundy has been murdered, and the words 'HE IS NO LESS DEAD' daubed on his wall - in red paint, not blood. And, though Blundy was killed with a knife, he was not stabbed. Why? Nicki, called in for questioning, doesn't have any of the answers police are looking for. Nor can she tell them the truth, because although she is not guilty of murder, she is far from innocent. And the words on the wall are disturbingly familiar to her, if only she could remember where she has heard them before . . .
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Into the Water: The Sunday Times Bestseller Paula Hawkins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 477g ISBN13: 9780857524430 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-443-0 ISBN10: 0857524437 EAN: 9780857524430 x Description: The addictive new psychological thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train, the runaway Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller and global phenomenon. In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn't pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind. But Jules is afraid. So afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of knowing that Nel would never have jumped. And most of all she's afraid of the water, and the place they call the Drowning Pool . . . With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, satisfying read that hinges on the stories we tell about our pasts and their power to destroy the lives we live now. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Birdman Mo Hayder (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Dec 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp 214g ISBN13: 9780553812657 ISBN13: 978-0-553-81265-7 ISBN10: 0553812653 EAN: 9780553812657 This Product is Replaced By: 9780553816983 x Description: Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad is called out by CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, all young women, are ritualistically murdered and dumped. Post mortems reveal a most dangerous sexual serial killer on the loose. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Spook Street: Jackson Lamb Thriller 4 Mick Herron (Author) Series:
Jackson Lamb Thriller
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
07 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h200mm x w143mm x s23mm 284g ISBN13: 9781473621299 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-2129-9 ISBN10: 1473621291 EAN: 9781473621299 x Description: WINNER OF THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 'Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to' Mark Billingham Never outlive your ability to survive a fight. Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day. He knows better than most that this is no vulnerable old man. 'Nasty old spook with blood on his hands' would be a more accurate description. 'The old bastard' has raised his grandson with a head full of guts and glory. But far from joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is consigned to Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House. So it's Lamb they call to identify the body when Cartwright's panic button raises the alarm at Service HQ. And Lamb who will do whatever he thinks necessary, to protect an agent in peril . . . Preorder London Rules, the next Jackson Lamb novel, now. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Real Tigers: Jackson Lamb Thriller 3 Mick Herron (Author) Series:
Jackson Lamb Thriller
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 294g ISBN13: 9781473674202 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-7420-2 ISBN10: 1473674204 EAN: 9781473674202 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER AND THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers' The Spectator 'The finest new crime series this millennium' Mail on Sunday Catherine Standish knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks. She's worked in the Intelligence Service long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back.
What she doesn't know is why anyone would target her: a recovering drunk pushing paper with the other lost causes in Jackson Lamb's kingdom of exiles at Slough House. Whoever it is holding her hostage, it can't be personal. It must be about Slough House. Most likely, it is about Jackson Lamb. And say what you like about Lamb, he'll never leave a joe in the lurch. He might even be someone you could trust with your life . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb Thriller 1 Mick Herron (Author) Series:
Jackson Lamb Thriller
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
27 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h198mm x w135mm x s23mm 282g ISBN13: 9781473674189 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-7418-9 ISBN10: 1473674182 EAN: 9781473674189 x Description: Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 'The UK's new spy master' Sunday Times You don't stop being a spook just because you're no longer in the game. Banished to Slough House from the ranks of achievers at Regent's Park for various crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal, Jackson Lamb's misfit crew of highly trained joes don't run ops, they push paper. But not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a 'slow horse'. A boy is kidnapped and held hostage. His beheading is scheduled for live broadcast on the net. And whatever the instructions of the Service, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quiet and watch . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Razor Girl Carl Hiaasen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
04 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 416pp h196mm x w128mm x s28mm 285g ISBN13: 9780751552942 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-5294-2 ISBN10: 0751552941 EAN: 9780751552942 x Description: *SHORLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2017* Key West is a small place, but there are criminal secrets buried everywhere . . . When jumped-up reality TV star Buck Nance aggravates the crowd in a Key West bar, he incites a riot and vanishes in the melee. His hapless agent Lane Coolman should have been by Buck's side, but has been accidentally taken hostage by two petty criminals who now think they can turn a quick
profit by ransoming an LA talent agent. As the search for Buck continues, the mystery draws in a broad cast of characters from across the island including Andrew Yancy, the disgraced cop who now works restaurants on roach patrol; a delusional fan of Buck's show; the local sheriff who's desperate for re-election; a shady lawyer and his gold-digging fiancee; the gay mayor and his restauranteur partner; a Mafioso hotelier; and a redheaded con artist named Merry who, using a razor blade and a high-speed car, has developed a signature way of luring in her victims. Outrageously funny, fast-paced and uniquely addictive, Razor Girl will keep you utterly gripped until the final page. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man Who Wasn't There Michael Hjorth (Author) Hans Rosenfeldt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
16 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 309g ISBN13: 9781784752415 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-241-5 ISBN10: 178475241X EAN: 9781784752415 x Description: Six bodies are found on a Swedish mountain - and a cold case rapidly heats up... FROM THE ACCLAIMED CREATORS OF WALLANDER and THE BRIDGE Six skeletons on a mountainside. The relics of a terrible crime committed long ago. For Sebastian Bergman, that just makes the investigation into who they are, who killed them, and why, even more complex. At first the investigation was a chance to escape his ex-girlfriend and spend some time with his daughter, Vanja. An opportunity to try and build a relationship with her before it's too late. But soon he finds that he's more involved than he would ever want to be. And his personal life is horribly, disastrously tangled up in it all . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Silent Girl Michael Hjorth (Author) Hans Rosenfeldt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
16 Nov 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 319g ISBN13: 9781784752422 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-242-2 ISBN10: 1784752428 EAN: 9781784752422 x Description: The latest novel from internationally bestselling authors, Hjorth & Rosenfeldt, creators of hit television shows, Wallander, The Bridge and ITV's Marcella. An idyllic white, two-storey, beautiful house in Sweden. Inside, a family has been brutally murdered - mother, father and two young children all shot in broad daylight. And the killer has got away. Sebastian Bergman has been brought in to solve the crime, but with no credible suspects, he is at a dead end. Until he discovers that there was a witness to the crime. A young girl who saw it all happen, and she has fled, in fear for her life. Bergman has to track the young girl down before it's too late. But the killer is chasing her too - and he is determined to finish what he started.
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Retribution Jilliane Hoffman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Feb 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 356pp h180mm ISBN13: 9780141019857 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101985-7 ISBN10: 0141019859 x Description: One rainy night in New York City, outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it's not a nightmare - it's real. Not only is she savagely violated in her own bedroom, Chloe then has to deal with the horror of nobody being brought to justice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Word Is Murder: The bestselling mystery from the author of Magpie Murders - you've never read a crime novel quite like this Anthony Horowitz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 277g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784757236 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-723-6 ISBN10: 1784757233 EAN: 9781784757236 x Description: _________________ SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER? A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral. Did she know she was going to die? Did she recognise her killer? Daniel Hawthorne, a recalcitrant detective with secrets of his own, is on the case, and he's found himself a sidekick - popular crime novelist Anthony Horowitz, who's struck a deal with Hawthorne to turn his latest case into a true crime bestseller. But the case is twistier and bloodier than Hawthorne had bargained for, and the unlikely duo of detective and writer find themselves neck deep in danger. When the written word is your only defence, you know you're in trouble when the word is murder... _________________ Buried secrets, murder and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's page-turning new detective series. If you enjoyed BBC's Sherlock, you'll LOVE The Word is Murder. Chosen as one of Crime Time's books of the year 'Raises the game-playing to Olympic level' - Guardian Books of the Year 'A real page-turner. I loved it!' - ALED JONES (ITV, Weekend) 'The beguiling whodunit plot is dispatched with characteristic elan as Horowitz blurs the line between fact and fiction' - Financial Times 'Splendidly entertaining, absorbing and difficult to put down. Hawthorne is an intriguing character' - Daily Express 'Sharp-witted readers who think they've solved the puzzle early on can rest assured that they've opened only one of many dazzling Christmas packages Horowitz has left beautifully wrapped under the tree' - Kirkus Reviews
'Deduction and wit are well-balanced, and fans of Peter Lovesey and other modern channelers of the spirit of the golden age of detection will clamor for more' - Publishers Weekly Please be aware that there are two covers available. The cover you receive may not be the cover image shown _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Like You Peter James (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
14 Oct 2010
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 656pp h197mm x w130mm x s40mm 467g ISBN13: 9780330456791 ISBN13: 978-0-330-45679-1 ISBN10: 0330456792 EAN: 9780330456791 x Description: Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you. . . The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender . . . Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed `Shoe Man' and was believed to have raped five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. And that by delving back into the past - a time in which we see Grace and his missing wife Sandy still apparently happy together - he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and save the life of the new sixth victim . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Man's Grip Peter James (Author) Series:
Roy Grace
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
29 Sep 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 512pp h198mm x w130mm x s32mm 358g ISBN13: 9780330515566 ISBN13: 978-0-330-51556-6 ISBN10: 033051556X EAN: 9780330515566 x Description: I WANT THEM TO SUFFER, AND I WANT THEM DEAD ... Carly Chase is still traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Detective Superintendant Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: She could be next. The police advise Carly her only option is to go into hiding and change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees - she knows these people have ways of hunting you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them, she has to find a way to do it herself. But already the killer is one step ahead of her, watching, waiting, and ready ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Man's Time Peter James (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
24 Oct 2013
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 512pp h198mm x w130mm x s32mm 364g ISBN13: 9781447203179 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-0317-9 ISBN10: 1447203178 EAN: 9781447203179 x Description: SOME WILL WAIT A LIFETIME TO TAKE THEIR REVENGE . . . A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. And millions of pounds' worth of valuables have been taken. But, as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, heading the enquiry, rapidly learns, there is one priceless item of sentimental value that the old woman's powerful family cherish above all else. And they are fully prepared to take the law into their own hands, and will do anything, absolutely anything, to get it back. Within days, Grace is racing against the clock, following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady antiques world of Brighton, across Europe, and all the way back to the New York waterfront gang struggles of 1922, chasing a killer driven by the force of one man's greed and another man's fury. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dollmaker J. Robert Janes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
04 May 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 258pp h180mm x w110mm x s20mm 180g ISBN13: 9780752827100 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-2710-0 ISBN10: 0752827103 EAN: 9780752827100 x Description: January 1943. A body is found, covered by a shabby square of faded sail cloth. The victim is a shopkeeper and the suspect, a U-Boat Kapitan, a hero and protege of Admiral Doenitz and a dollmaker. The motive seems to be a matter of 300,000 marks, but all is not as it at first seems. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Half Broken Things Morag Joss (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h177mm x w108mm x s20mm 160g None ISBN13: 9780340820490 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82049-0 ISBN10: 0340820497 EAN: 9780340820490 x Description: Jean, Michael and Steph are three reluctant loners who are getting by. Damaged and fearful of life, they cannot survive alone for much longer. A mixture of deceit, good luck and misfortune draw them together to Walden Manor, a secluded and gracious country house that promises sanctuary, freedom from failure and impending destitution. Out of an invented past they shape a beautiful present, full of hope and happiness. And beguiled by the gentle passing of time itself, all three of them, for the first time in their lives, lose their dread of the future. If their sense of safety is built on a delusion, does it matter? When the idyll is threatened, Jean, Michael and Steph discover that because their lives are now worth living they are also now worth preserving, although at appalling cost. In this stunning novel, which explores what happens when the 'have-nots' strive to become the 'haves', Morag Joss combines thought-provoking, sometimes chilling moral complexity with humane and compelling story-telling. Half Broken Things is
a dark story, richly told, about love and our need for it: the damage done when we go too long without it, and what people might be driven to do in its name. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Madman's Tale John Katzenbach (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Feb 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 720pp h178mm x w108mm x s37mm 340g ISBN13: 9780552151061 ISBN13: 978-0-552-15106-1 ISBN10: 0552151068 EAN: 9780552151061 x Description: When the body of a young female trainee is found brutally murdered in the Nurses' Station of the Western State Mental Hospital, Massachusetts, there is apparently no shortage of suspects - a whole hospital of them. One inmate claims to have seen the killer, whom he will only describe as The Angel. Twenty years later, Francis Petrel, once a patient at the hospital, writes his account of the events of the murder and its investigation on the walls of his tiny apartment. As he writes he is visited by hallucinations, and by the increasing anxiety at his loosening grip on reality. As he goes deeper and deeper into his story about those events, his own madness returns. He remembers being co-opted into the investigation by Lucy Jones, a driven young profiler who has her own reasons for pursuing this particular killer. But she and Francis face the same conundrum: how does one find a cold-blooded killer masquerading as mad in a world populated by the deranged? In the end it will come down to Francis, for he is the only member of the investigating team capable of recognizing the essential lie that The Angel embodies: for though his acts are those of a mad man, he most emphatically is not... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
State of Mind John Katzenbach (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Time Warner Paperbacks Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
10 Dec 1998
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 585pp h178mm x w109mm 300g ISBN13: 9780751523195 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-2319-5 ISBN10: 0751523194 EAN: 9780751523195 x Description: In the near future, a new state is forming in America - a secure sanctuary for the law-abiding. Unbeknown to the populace, a serial killer has by-passed the strict controls. His son agrees to become a bait, confronting the knowledge that he was fathered by a monster whom he may have to kill. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Going to the Dogs Dan Kavanagh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h198mm x w131mm x s19mm 218g ISBN13: 9781409150275 ISBN13: 978-1-4091-5027-5 ISBN10: 1409150275 EAN: 9781409150275
x Description: Strange things happen in the countryside. And for bisexual private detective Duffy, this is his strangest case yet. Summoned to a country mansion following an unusual murder, Duffy finds the house awash with potential suspects. Does Vic Crowther, the man who called on Duffy in the first place, have a far more sinister motive up his sleeve? Or perhaps his wife, the ex-page three model, knows more than she's letting on . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fiddle City Dan Kavanagh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Feb 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h198mm x w130mm x s16mm 184g ISBN13: 9781409150213 ISBN13: 978-1-4091-5021-3 ISBN10: 1409150216 EAN: 9781409150213 x Description: There's suspicion, smuggling and shady goings-on galore in the second novel in Dan Kavanagh's darkly humorous series, featuring bisexual private detective Duffy. Everyone knows a bit of petty theft goes on in the freight business at Heathrow - it is fiddle city, after all. But things have gone beyond a joke for Roy Hendrick and he suspects someone who works for him is helping themselves to more than they should. That's when he sets Duffy on the case. A bisexual ex-policeman, Duffy runs a struggling security firm, has an obsessive attitude to cleanliness and can often be found propping up the bar at the Alligator. Duffy agrees to work for Hendrick and goes undercover to try and root out the culprit. But things aren't all they're cracked up to be. What's the story behind the imperious HR manager Mrs Boseley with her permanently frosty demeanour? And is Hendrick really as honest as he claims to be? Duffy's up to his neck in it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Putting the Boot In Dan Kavanagh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
16 Jul 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h196mm x w129mm x s18mm 220g ISBN13: 9781409150244 ISBN13: 978-1-4091-5024-4 ISBN10: 1409150240 EAN: 9781409150244 x Description: Wickedly funny, this is the third novel in the elusive Dan Kavanagh's London-based crime series featuring bisexual private detective Duffy. Things are hotting up in the Third Division and it seems someone's nobbling players. Following the loss of one of his best strikers, Jimmy Lister, former England player and now ineffectual club manager, calls on the expertise of the inimitable Duffy. Duffy must investigate the troubled world of lower-league football while also facing questions of his possible encounter with AIDS, whether he's cooked his frozen pizza for too long and whether he's too short to be a decent goalkeeper.
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Double Homicide Faye Kellerman (Author) Jonathan Kellerman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
28 Feb 2005
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h176mm x w111mm x s24mm 211g ISBN13: 9780755324569 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-2456-9 ISBN10: 0755324560 EAN: 9780755324569 x Description: DOUBLE HOMICIDE is a superb collaboration between two bestselling thriller writers, Faye and Jonathan Kellerman. 'Writing as a team for the first time, the Kellermans get it just right: pacing, plotting, even the prose . . . oh-so-refreshingly readable' (Kirkus Reviews). This stunning collaboration is bound to appeal to all fans of Patricia Cornwell and Harlan Coben. In Santa Fe, Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz are called to the scene of a blunt-force homicide. Did the deceased, a wealthy art dealer, stumble on a burglar stealing a priceless painting, or did one of his many enemies finally seek revenge? Dorothy Breton is called to downtown Boston to find that her elder son is a witness to the killing of a promising athlete in a shoot-out. The evidence is stacked against the obvious culprit - until the autopsy shows the young man didn't die of gunshot wounds . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Cold Heart Jonathan Kellerman (Author) Series:
Alex Delaware Novels
Edition:
Imprint:
Ballantine Books
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Pub Date:
30 Dec 2003
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 432pp h177mm x w107mm x s30mm 204g ISBN13: 9780345452566 ISBN13: 978-0-345-45256-6 ISBN10: 0345452569 EAN: 9780345452566 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Conspiracy Club Jonathan Kellerman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ballantine Books Inc.
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
23 Nov 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 416pp ISBN13: 9780345452580 ISBN13: 978-0-345-45258-0 ISBN10: 0345452585 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Murder Book Jonathan Kellerman (Author) Series:
Alex Delaware Novels
Edition:
Imprint:
Ballantine Books
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 544pp h175mm x w107mm x s31mm 263g Illustrations, unspecified ISBN13: 9780345413901 ISBN13: 978-0-345-41390-1 ISBN10: 0345413903 EAN: 9780345413901 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rage Jonathan Kellerman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Australia
Publisher:
Penguin Books Australia
Pub Date:
01 May 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 400pp ISBN13: 9780141025131 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102513-1 ISBN10: 0141025131 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
With Child Laurie R. King (Author) Series:
Edition:
Bantam pbk. ed
Imprint:
Bantam USA
Publisher:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback 308pp h171mm x w108mm 159g ISBN13: 9780553574586 ISBN13: 978-0-553-57458-6 ISBN10: 0553574582 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
End of Watch Stephen King (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
28 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h197mm x w144mm x s25mm 268g ISBN13: 9781473642379 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-4237-9 ISBN10: 147364237X EAN: 9781473642379 x Description: The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear . . . 'I'm at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide . . . Come and take a look. Bring your sidekick with you.'
Bill Hodges, who now runs a two-person agency called Finders Keepers with partner Holly Gibney, is intrigued by the letter Z written with a marker at the scene of the crime. As similar cases mount up, Hodges is stunned to discover the evidence points to Brady Hartsfield, the notorious 'Mercedes Killer' who they helped to convict. It should be impossible: Brady is confined to a hospital room in a seemingly unresponsive state. But Brady Hartsfield has lethal new powers. And he's planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. The clock is ticking in unexpected ways... BRADY IS BACK. AND SO IS HODGES. The extract above is abridged from End of Watch. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Finders Keepers Stephen King (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h179mm x w113mm x s26mm 208g ISBN13: 9781473698949 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-9894-9 ISBN10: 1473698944 EAN: 9781473698949 x Description: A riveting crime thriller about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes too far, featuring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in MR MERCEDES. 1978: Morris Bellamy is a reader so obsessed by America's iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel. 2009: Pete Saubers, a boy whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes, discovers a buried trunk containing cash and Rothstein's notebooks. 2014: After thirty-five years in prison, Morris is up for parole. And he's hell-bent on recovering his treasure. Now it's up to retired detective Bill Hodges - running an investigative company called 'Finders Keepers' - to rescue Pete from an ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris... Not since Misery has King written with such visceral power about a reader with such a dangerous obsession.Finders Keepers is spectacular suspense, and it is King writing about how literature shapes a life for good, for bad, for ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Outsider: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller Stephen King (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h196mm x w130mm x s30mm 347g ISBN13: 9781473676398 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-7639-8 ISBN10: 1473676398 EAN: 9781473676398 x Description: Soon to be an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn. 'If you read only one thriller this summer, make it this one' Daily Mail A horrifying crime. Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect. Except he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi. Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect have been both at the scene of the crime and in another town? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 3) Dean Koontz (Author) Leigh Nichols (Author) Ed Gorman (Author) Series:
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein 3
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
06 Aug 2009
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s22mm 197g ISBN13: 9780007203116 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720311-6 ISBN10: 000720311X EAN: 9780007203116 x Description: The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god.
Frankenstein lives! And so too does his monstrous creation ... but this creature of legend is a monster no more and his scarred face bears witness to his maker's wrath. His name is Deucalion.
As a devastating hurricane approaches New Orleans, Victor Helios, once know as Frankenstein, has unleased his benighted creatures onto the streets. As New Orleans descends into chaos, his engineered killers spin out of control, and the only hope rests with Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human, whose damned path has led him to the ultimate confrontation with his pitiless creator.
But first, Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have imagined - an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us.
This is a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Penguin Lost Andrey Kurkov (Author) George Bird (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2005 (05 Aug 2010)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 181g ISBN13: 9780099461692 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946169-2 ISBN10: 0099461692 EAN: 9780099461692 x Description: Viktor - last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then convalescent from a hearttransplant, Viktor determines to make amends. Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who engages him to help in his election campaign, then introduces him to men who might further his search for Misha, said to be in a private zoo in Chechnya. What ensues is for Viktor both a quest and an odyssey of atonement, and, for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and illuminating as Death and the Penguin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The President's Last Love Andrey Kurkov (Author) George Bird (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2007
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 448pp h215mm x w137mm x s34mm 472g ISBN13: 9781843432579 ISBN13: 978-1-84343-257-9 ISBN10: 1843432579 x Description: Moscow, January 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool, to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Treading water, and drinking vodka with Putin, he's on top of his game and in fine health. Yet two years later Bunin undergoes a heart transplant, with very serious repercussions...Rewind to the early '90s; the Soviet Union has crumbled and in the midst of a new independent Ukraine struggling to find its feet, a young Sergey Pavlovich Bunin is on the make. Casting aside a career as a catering manager he enters the political fray and begins the long and precarious journey to the top, at the same time looking after his impoverished mother and enfeebled brother. Spanning forty years, "The President's Last Love" is Kurkov's most ambitious work to date, and delivers an intricately woven and often hilarious political satire on life before and after the Iron Curtain. A colossus of a novel concerning love, power, corruption, lies and potatoes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo series David Lagercrantz (Author) George Goulding (Translated by) Series:
a Dragon Tattoo story
Edition:
Imprint:
Quercus Publishing
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h178mm x w111mm x s27mm 234g ISBN13: 9781786489616 ISBN13: 978-1-78648-961-6 ISBN10: 1786489619 EAN: 9781786489616 x Description: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON.
Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force: Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind. Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week - and receives a lead to follow for his pains. For him, it looks to be an important expose for Millennium. For her, it could unlock the facts of her childhood. Even from a corrupt prison system run largely by the inmates, Salander will stand up for what she believes in, whatever the cost. And she will seek the truth that is somehow connected with her childhood memory, of a woman with a blazing birthmark on her neck - that looked as if it had been burned by a dragon's fire . . . The tension, power and unstoppable force of The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye are inspired by Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, as Salander and Blomkvist continue the fight for justice that has thrilled millions of readers across the world. Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo series David Lagercrantz (Author) George Goulding (Translated by) Series:
a Dragon Tattoo story
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 314g ISBN13: 9780857056436 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-643-6 ISBN10: 0857056433 EAN: 9780857056436 x Description: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON. Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force: Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind. Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week - and receives a lead to follow for his pains. For him, it looks to be an important expose for Millennium. For her, it could unlock the facts of her childhood. Even from a corrupt prison system run largely by the inmates, Salander will stand up for what she believes in, whatever the cost. And she will seek the truth that is somehow connected with her childhood memory, of a woman with a blazing birthmark on her neck - that looked as if it had been burned by a dragon's fire . . . The tension, power and unstoppable force of The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye are inspired by Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, as Salander and Blomkvist continue the fight for justice that has thrilled millions of readers across the world. Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl in the Spider's Web: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo Series David Lagercrantz (Author) George Goulding (Translated by) Series:
a Dragon Tattoo story
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Apr 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h197mm x w131mm x s32mm 354g ISBN13: 9781848667785 ISBN13: 978-1-84866-778-5 ISBN10: 1848667787 EAN: 9781848667785 x Description: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's wellbeing, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story - and it is a terrifying one. More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder's world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker. It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters - and a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves. The Girl in the Spider's Web is book four in the Millennium series. Book five, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, was published in September 2017. The Girl Who Lived Twice - the final novel in the series by David Lagercrantz - is available to preorder now. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Stieg Larsson (Author) Series:
a Dragon Tattoo story
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015 (13 Jul 2017) Publishing Status:
Quercus Publishing Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 720pp h197mm x w130mm x s47mm 490g ISBN13: 9780857054050 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-405-0 ISBN10: 0857054058 EAN: 9780857054050 x Description: *********************** The third book in the Millennium series featuring Lisbeth Salander - the global publishing phenomenon Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back. Stieg Larsson's phenomenal trilogy is continued in The Girl in the Spider's Web and The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson (Author) Series:
a Dragon Tattoo story
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015 (13 Jul 2017) Publishing Status:
Quercus Publishing Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h198mm x w130mm x s38mm 392g ISBN13: 9780857054043 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-404-3 ISBN10: 085705404X EAN: 9780857054043 x Description: *********************** The second book in the Millennium series featuring Lisbeth Salander - the global publishing phenomenon Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist, Millennium magazine's legendary star reporter, does not believe the police. Using all his magazine staff and resources to prove Salander's innocence, Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past, spent in criminally corrupt institutions. Yet Salander is more avenging angel than helpless victim. She may be an expert at staying out of sight - but she has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies. Stieg Larsson's phenomenal trilogy is continued in The Girl in the Spider's Web and The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson (Author) Series:
a Dragon Tattoo story
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015 (13 Jul 2017) Publishing Status:
Quercus Publishing Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 544pp h198mm x w130mm x s35mm 371g ISBN13: 9780857054036 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-403-6 ISBN10: 0857054031 EAN: 9780857054036 x Description: *********************** The first book in the Millennium series featuring Lisbeth Salander - the global publishing phenomenon With an Introduction by Val McDermid Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. Stieg Larsson's phenomenal trilogy is continued in The Girl in the Spider's Web and The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dead Sit Round in a Ring David Lawrence (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Feb 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h181mm x w111mm x s28mm 249g ISBN13: 9780141004877 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100487-7 ISBN10: 0141004878 x Description: Jimmy Stone died of a broken heart. Literally - someone put a sharp object between his ribs and pushed, hard. He was found sitting in a circle with three other corpses in the living room of a Notting Hill flat. Notting Hill - with its million-pound houses a hundred yards away from sink estates - is DS Stella Mooney's patch, so it's up to her to discover who broke this heart of Stone's. But when Mooney's private life gets caught up in the quest to find Stone's murderer, what will it cost her - and those that she loves? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Noble Radiance: (Brunetti 7) Donna Leon (Author) Series:
Brunetti
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Aug 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9780099536666 ISBN13: 978-0-09-953666-6 ISBN10: 0099536668 EAN: 9780099536666 x Description: Commissario Brunetti is faced with another dark mystery. In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades. But the new owner, keen for renovations to begin, is summoned urgently to the house when his workmen disturb a macabre grave. Wild animals have done their grisly work and the human corpse is badly decomposed. Then a valuable signet ring is found close by, providing the first vital clue. It leads Commissario Guido Brunetti right to the heart of aristocratic Venice, to a family still grieving for its abducted son ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Question of Belief: (Brunetti 19) Donna Leon (Author) Series:
Brunetti
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 224g ISBN13: 9780099547624 ISBN13: 978-0-09-954762-4 ISBN10: 0099547627 EAN: 9780099547624 x Description: As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti escapes the city to spend time with his family. For Ispettore Vianello, however, the weather is the last thing on his mind. It appears his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has been withdrawing large amounts of money from the family business. Not knowing what to do, he consults Brunetti and asks permission to trail her. Meanwhile, Brunetti receives a visit from a friend who works at the Commune. It seems that discrepancies have been occurring at the Courthouse involving a judge and an usher with a flawless track record. Intrigued, Brunetti asks Signorina Elettra to find out what she can while he's away. When news reaches Brunetti that the usher from the Courthouse has been viciously murdered, he returns to investigate. But why would someone want a good man dead, and what might his death have to do with the Courthouse discrepancies?
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Day After Day Carlo Lucarelli (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 240pp h178mm x w110mm x s15mm 131g A-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099464389 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946438-9 ISBN10: 0099464381 EAN: 9780099464389 x Description: A professional killer is at large in the cities of Italy. Code-named 'Pit Bull', he is a master of disguise and an expert with weapons. He modifies his guns and his bullets are untraceable. His skill with prosthetics, wigs and makeup means that no two victims witness the same terrifying final vision. This is a hunt for a man with no face. Only the picture of a pit bull terrier left behind at each murder can link the crimes. Day after day, Ispettore Negro works on her seemingly impossible case. But when a young man unwittingly encounters Pit Bull in an internet chat room, he provides Negro with the clue that could lead her to her target. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Making The Cut Jim Lusby (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
03 May 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h177mm x w111mm x s18mm 160g ISBN13: 9780752843759 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4375-9 ISBN10: 0752843753 EAN: 9780752843759 x Description: Exactly what was Billy Power - machinist at the plastics factory, keeper of greyhounds and Jack the Lad about Waterford - involved in? And why did he have to die? Unshaven, unorthodox and unpopular with his superiors, DI Carl McCadden finds straight answers about Power - or anything else - hard to come by. McCadden searches for the truth through the bleak and dilapidated housing estates, the bars and the dog track of Waterford, Byzantine business machinations and self-righteous politicking muddy the waters ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Ninja Eric van Lustbader (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Collins Educational
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
31 Dec 1994
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 640pp ISBN13: 9780007651955 ISBN13: 978-0-00-765195-5 ISBN10: 0007651953 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Disappearance Of Adele Bedeau Graeme Macrae Burnet (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Contraband
Publisher:
Saraband
Pub Date:
17 Jul 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 252pp h198mm x w18mm ISBN13: 9781908643605 ISBN13: 978-1-908643-60-5 ISBN10: 1908643609 x Description: "A captivating psychological thriller" - The Herald. Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adele Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. But one day, she simply vanishes into thin air. When Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance, Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core and he is forced to confront the dark secrets of his past. 'The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau' is a literary mystery novel that is, at heart, an engrossing psychological portrayal of an outsider pushed to the limit by his own feverish imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chinese Whispers: Yan & Campbell 6 Peter May (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h178mm x w113mm x s26mm 230g None ISBN13: 9780340823767 ISBN13: 978-0-340-82376-7 ISBN10: 0340823763 EAN: 9780340823767 x Description: He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. His victims are young, beautiful and viciously mutilated. Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad has been put in the spotlight. His bosses, the media, and the terror-stricken public are demanding a fast result. When American pathologist Margaret Campbell is invited to perform the autopsy on one of the victims her results send shockwaves through the investigation. Then Li begins receiving personal letters from the killer, and his life and career start falling apart. The need to uncover the Ripper's identity becomes paramount if he is to save himself and his family from ruin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I'll Keep You Safe Peter May (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 320g ISBN13: 9781784294977 ISBN13: 978-1-78429-497-7 ISBN10: 1784294977 EAN: 9781784294977 x Description: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER OVER 150,000 COPIES SOLD 'NO ONE CAN CREATE A MORE ELOQUENTLY WRITTEN SUSPENSE NOVEL' NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS A stunning standalone thriller from Peter May, alternating between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris. WHATEVER HAPPENS
Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own the Hebridean company Ranish Tweed. On a business trip to Paris to promote their luxury brand, Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair, and then looks on as he and his lover are killed by a car bomb. She returns home to Lewis, bereft. I'LL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU Niamh begins to look back on her life with Ruairidh, desperate to identify anyone who may have held a grudge against him. The French police, meanwhile, have ruled out terrorism, and ruled in murder - and sent Detective Sylvie Braque to shadow their prime suspect: Niamh. I'LL KEEP YOU SAFE, NO MATTER WHAT As one woman works back through her memories, and the other moves forward with her investigation, the two draw ever closer to a deadly enemy with their own, murderous, designs. LOVED I'LL KEEP YOU SAFE? Read EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE, book 1 in the Enzo series LOVE PETER MAY? Order his new thriller, A SILENT DEATH _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Insidious Intent Val McDermid (Author) Series:
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 528pp h178mm x w115mm x s33mm 278g ISBN13: 9780751571677 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-7167-7 ISBN10: 0751571679 EAN: 9780751571677 x Description: 'Murdered people don't kill themselves . . .' A quiet night on a country road. The stillness shattered by a car engulfed in flames, and a burned body discovered in the driver's seat. As the investigation unfolds, DCI Carol Jordan and psychological profiler Tony Hill quickly realise that this is more than just a tragic accident. And so begins the hunt for a truly terrifying killer, someone who believes he is invisible, untraceable and untouchable. As other victims are found to have met the same terrible fate, and with more women at risk, Tony and Carol are drawn into a dark and twisted web of fear and revenge that will force them to question their own ideas of justice . . . Discover the pulse-pounding new novel from the inimitable queen of crime and number one bestseller, Val McDermid, featuring two of the most iconic and unforgettable characters in crime fiction: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
11 Oct 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 228pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 170g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852427498 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-749-8 ISBN10: 1852427493 EAN: 9781852427498 This Product is Replaced By: 9781846686832 x Description: The time is 1948. The town is Los Angeles. The hero is Easy Rawlins, an out of work black war veteran. The mortgage payment?s coming due, so Easy accepts the assignment of finding Daphne Monet, blonde torch singer. In his search through a sleazy fearful city, he is lucky to
be under the protection of the murderous Mouse... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Macbeth Jo Nesbo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 426g ISBN13: 9780099598060 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959806-0 ISBN10: 009959806X EAN: 9780099598060 x Description: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 40 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They're all within reach. But a man like him won't get to the top. Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He's convinced he won't get what is rightfully his. Unless he kills for it. `The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dragon's Eye Andy Oakes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 464pp h178mm x w111mm x s25mm 233g ISBN13: 9780330431965 ISBN13: 978-0-330-43196-5 ISBN10: 033043196X EAN: 9780330431965 x Description: Shanghai, The People's Republic of China. Eight bodies chained together and horribly mutilated are found in the mud of the Huangpu River. Sun Piao, a Senior Investigator with the Homicide Squad of the PSB, has drawn the short straw . . . the case stinks of Party and Security Service involvement. Wu, the Chief Medical Examiner, refuses to carry out the autopsies. No hospital will take the bodies in. And Comrade Officer Liping, Piao's head of department, knows things about the murders that he should not know. Piao should dump the case, he knows it; but to walk away from another politically difficult case goes against the grain. He has had to walk away from too many things, too many times. Privileged Shanghai society, the labyrinthine political system, the lowest depths of China's criminal world and its repressive penal institutions . . . Piao's quest brings him into intimate contact with all layers of Chinese society as he unravels its secrets. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fatal Michael Palmer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 528pp h178mm x w110mm x s32mm 278g ISBN13: 9780099462378 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946237-8 ISBN10: 0099462370 EAN: 9780099462378 x Description: In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more malevolent than flu like symptoms begins haemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into lethal paranoia. In West Virginia, a miner suddenly goes berserk, causing a cave-in that kills two of his co-workers. Finding the link between these events could prove Fatal-Five years ago, internist and emergency specialist Matt Rutledge returned to his West Virginia home to marry his high-school sweetheart and open a practice. He also had a score to settle. His father died whilst working for the local mining company, and Matt swore to expose their health and safety violations. When his beloved wife succumbed to an unusual cancer, his campaign became even more bitterly personal. Now he has identified bizarre new incidents of illness - caused, he is certain, by the mine's careless disposal of toxic chemicals. All he needs is proof. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Miracle Cure Michael Palmer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 Dec 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 464pp h178mm x w110mm x s29mm 256g ISBN13: 9780099278665 ISBN13: 978-0-09-927866-5 ISBN10: 0099278669 EAN: 9780099278665 x Description: An agonizing sports injury did more than end Brian Holbrook's professional football dreams. It left the skilled cardiologist with an addiction to prescription painkillers that eventually cost him his marriage and his license to practice medicine. But now, at thirty-eight, Brian's cleaned up his act, swallowed his pride, and is ready to start over. The prestigious Boston Heart Institute has offered Brian an opportunity to participate in trials of a new drug that could revolutionize medicine. Vasclear may have the power to reverse arteriosclerosis, the number one killer in the civilized world. The initial results are so dazzling Brian pushes to get his own father, who has a dangerous heart condition, into the scheme. But soon Brian is uneasy. Under close scrutiny because of his past, Brian cannot afford to make waves, but the mysterious disappearance of a colleague and deaths of patients on the scheme compels him to ask questions. However, with billions of dollars at stake, questions could cost him his career - and his father's life. For as Brian is beginning to suspect, knowing too much at the Boston Heart Institute is the quickest way to the morgue. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Killing Orders Sara Paretsky (Author) Series:
A V. I. Warshawski novel
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
10 Dec 1987
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 240pp h180mm x w110mm x s14mm 139g ISBN13: 9780140099263 ISBN13: 978-0-14-009926-3 ISBN10: 0140099263 x Description: Three million dollars in share certificates have been stolen from a Dominican priory, and Vic Warshawski doesn't want to find out why. Aunt Rosa, the priory's treasurer, wants her on the case, but Vic has never forgiven Rosa for something she did a long time ago. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bitter Medicine Sara Paretsky (Author) Series:
A V. I. Warshawski novel
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Nov 1988
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h181mm x w114mm x s22mm 182g ISBN13: 9780140113051 ISBN13: 978-0-14-011305-1 ISBN10: 0140113053 x Description: In this novel, Vic Warshawski, heroine of "Indemnity Only", "Deadlock" and "Killing Orders", investigates Chicago's private hospital system. Through her friend Lotty Herschel, a top obstetrician who runs a clinic in a poor neighbourhood, Vic takes an interest in Consuela, 16 years old and pregnant. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fire Sale: V.I. Warshawski 12 Sara Paretsky (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 528pp h179mm x w112mm x s34mm 278g n/a ISBN13: 9780340839102 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83910-2 ISBN10: 0340839104 EAN: 9780340839102 x Description: Death, conspiracy and burning buildings - coming home wasn't meant to be like this. A dangerous, depressed place reeking of bad memories, South Chicago is a neighbourhood private investigator V.I. Warshawski left a long time ago. But now she's back, drawn to the streets of her childhood once again to do a favour for a friend. It was never going to be easy - and when the mother of a local girl asks her to look into claims of sabotage at the factory where she works, V.I. quickly finds herself caught up in something far more sinister. They say home is where the heart is, but now, as she lies by the roadside with a piece of hot, twisted metal embedded in her shoulder, looking up at the factory's smouldering remains, Warshawski is beginning to wonder whether a trip down memory lane was such a good idea after all . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Total Recall Sara Paretsky (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 May 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 560pp h176mm x w110mm x s40mm 300g ISBN13: 9780141007137 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100713-7 ISBN10: 0141007133 x Description: "Total Recall" follows V.I. Warshawski on a road that winds back more than 50 years into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets and harrowing retribution. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Toxic Shock Sara Paretsky (Author) Series:
A V. I. Warshawski novel
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 May 1990
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h180mm x w114mm x s22mm 188g ISBN13: 9780140124095 ISBN13: 978-0-14-012409-5 ISBN10: 0140124098 x Description: Vic Warshawski agrees to investigate the paternity of Caroline Djiak, whose mother, Louisa, is dying. Following some leads, Vic visits Louisa's old workplace, the Xerxes Chemical Plant. What she finds is corruption and cruelty on a horrifying scale, where profit has more value than human life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tunnel Vision Sara Paretsky (Author) Series:
V. I. Warshawski novel
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Jan 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 496pp h182mm x w115mm x s33mm 280g ISBN13: 9780140170818 ISBN13: 978-0-14-017081-8 ISBN10: 0140170812 x Description: Private Eye Vic Warshawski is in a professional and personal mess. What she needs is a lucrative case. What she doesn't need are the woes of a homeless family, a love-sick teenage computer hack - and a dead body slumped across her desk. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
V.I. for Short Sara Paretsky (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Aug 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 256pp h180mm x w110mm x s17mm 149g ISBN13: 9780140251234 ISBN13: 978-0-14-025123-4 ISBN10: 0140251235 x Description: This volume contains nine stories about V.I. Warshawski in which the private eye uses her judgement, skills and intuition to get the better of her adversaries. Playing on the themes of family, honour, trust and friendship, she proves that the truth can usually be bought to light. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Suspicion of Betrayal Barbara Parker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
30 Mar 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 432pp h172mm x w106mm 209g ISBN13: 9780451198389 ISBN13: 978-0-451-19838-9 ISBN10: 0451198387
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Cross the Line: (Alex Cross 24) James Patterson (Author) Series:
Alex Cross
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
02 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 277g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099594345 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959434-5 ISBN10: 009959434X EAN: 9780099594345 x Description: What's more dangerous than a killer? For Detective Alex Cross, it's a killer who thinks he's the good guy... Shots ring out in suburban Washington D.C. in the early hours. When the smoke clears, a senior police official lies dead, leaving his force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross steps up and takes command of the investigation - just as a brutal crime wave sweeps the region. There's just one thing in common in these deadly scenes: the victims are criminals. As Cross pursues a murderer who's appointed himself judge, jury and executioner, he must take the law back into his own hands - because although this killer has a conscience, the city Cross has sworn to protect is rapidly descending into chaos... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Haunted: (Michael Bennett 10). A nerve-jangling New York crime thriller James Patterson (Author) Series:
Michael Bennett
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 266g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784753733 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-373-3 ISBN10: 1784753734 EAN: 9781784753733 x Description: You can take Michael Bennett out of New York City, but you can't take the cop out of Michael Bennett. Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic small town in the beautiful Maine woods. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing with no explanation - until several bodies turn up in the woods. Far from the city streets he knows so well, Bennett is fighting to protect a town, the law, and the family that he loves above all else. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The People vs. Alex Cross: (Alex Cross 25) James Patterson (Author) Andre Blake (Read by) Series:
Alex Cross
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 298g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784753634 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-363-4 ISBN10: 1784753637 EAN: 9781784753634 x Description: Detective Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law. Until now. Charged with murdering followers of his old nemesis Gary Soneji, Alex Cross becomes the poster child for trigger-happy cops. He knows it was self-defence. Will the jury agree? Suspended from the police and fighting for his freedom, even Cross's own family begin to doubt his innocence as shocking evidence mounts. With everything on the line, Cross must go it alone. He's the only one who knows that there's a real murderer watching from the shadows, one Cross must stop - even if it means he can't save himself... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Other Paths to Glory Anthony Price (Author) Series:
Crime Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
21 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h196mm x w128mm x s21mm 260g ISBN13: 9780752847665 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4766-5 ISBN10: 075284766X EAN: 9780752847665 x Description: Anthony Price's series of espionage thrillers featuring Dr Audley and Colonel Butler who were rivals to Le Carre in the 1970s and 1980s. In OTHER PATHS TO GLORY a contemporary mystery has its roots in the horrors of the trenches in 1915. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Freedomland Richard Price (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
15 May 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 560pp h198mm x w129mm film tie-in (originally 0747542082) ISBN13: 9780747574194 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-7419-4 ISBN10: 0747574197 x Description: An injured woman stumbles into an inner-city hospital with a horrifying story: she has just been carjacked by a man who was apparently unaware that her son was asleep on the back seat. As a search ensues, a shrewd detective and an ambitious young reporter smell a hoax and begin to suspect that the woman is holding back a terrible truth: could she have murdered her own child?
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Stay of Execution (Bob Skinner series, Book 14): Evil stalks the pages of this gripping Edinburgh crime thriller Quintin Jardine (Author) Series:
Bob Skinner
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2005
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 480pp h178mm x w114mm x s30mm 296g ISBN13: 9780747263906 ISBN13: 978-0-7472-6390-6 ISBN10: 0747263906 EAN: 9780747263906 x Description: Can you fight evil with evil...? DCC Bob Skinner faces his toughest investigation... Evil stalks the city of Edinburgh. This time the threat is bigger than the crooks, scam-artists or drug dealers who find their prey in the shadows of the streets. Some people are looking for a big-time hit. The body of a respectable businessman is found hanging from a tree; a veteran from a Belgian marching band is killed in a hit-and-run incident and another dies of an apparent heart attack. Excitement on the streets of Edinburgh is feverish as the city prepares for a huge rally to celebrate the return of Pope John the 25th to his hometown. The security has to be bulletproof. But there is a chink in the armour. Does Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner have the inner strength to find the answer to the biggest question of all? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Touch of Ghosts John Rickards (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h185mm x w115mm x s20mm 164g ISBN13: 9780141014098 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101409-8 ISBN10: 0141014091 EAN: 9780141014098 x Description: Boston private investigator Alex Rourke is looking forward to the weekend. He's heading to Vermont to visit his girlfriend, and also plans to do some checking on his latest missing person: a young man named Adam Webb who made the same journey, and never came back. But the truth about Adam Webb isn't the only secret buried in the Green Mountain woods. Hikers have gone missing, a prostitute has been murdered and something sinister is happening in the ghost-town of North Bleakwater. It soon becomes clear that in the mountains, who you trust can means the difference between life and death. And Alex will have to make decisions with his heart as well as his head.
Because a single bullet is about to blow his world to pieces. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Predator Michael Ridpath (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Jul 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h184mm x w114mm x s24mm 198g ISBN13: 9780140295900 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029590-0 ISBN10: 0140295909
x Description: Ruthless, selfish, dangerous. In fact, just right for the job. At top investment bank Bloomfield Weiss, they taught them to be predators, killer deal-makers. While on the bank's training programme in New York, Chris and Lenka had become part of a close-knit gang of trainees. But when a drunken boat trip ends in tragedy, the gang decide to cover up the truth. Ten years later Lenka is murdered in Prague. Chris, now her business partner, must fight to keep their company afloat - and discover who was behind Lenka's death. For it seems the clues to the murder are rooted in that fatal boattrip so many years ago. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Piece of My Heart: DCI Banks 16 Peter Robinson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
08 Jun 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h232mm x w151mm x s34mm 651g n/a ISBN13: 9780340836873 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83687-3 ISBN10: 0340836873 EAN: 9780340836873 x Description: As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World War. He could not have less in common with - or less regard for - young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smoking marijuana and listening to the pulsing sounds of rock and roll. But he has a murder to solve, and it looks as if the victim was somehow associated with the up-andcoming psychedelic pastoral band the Mad Hatters. In the present, Inspector Alan Banks is investigating the murder of a freelance music journalist who was working on a feature about the Mad Hatters for MOJO magazine. This is not the first time that the Mad Hatters, now aging rock superstars, have been brushed by tragedy. Banks finds he has to delve into the past to find out exactly what hornets' nest the journalist inadvertently stirred up. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bulldog Drummond: The Carl Peterson Quartet Sapper (Author) David Stuart Davies (Introduction by) David Stuart Davies (Series edited by) Series:
Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
Edition:
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 May 2007
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 784pp h198mm x w129mm x s39mm 481g ISBN13: 9781840226201 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-620-1 ISBN10: 184022620X EAN: 9781840226201 x Description: Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious would welcome diversion. Legitimate if possible; but crime, of a comparatively humorous description, no objection. Excitement essential'. Bulldog Drummond was the original daredevil adventurer who, with his various friends, made it their mission to fight all enemies of Britain in the uncertain years following the First World War. Fearless, resourceful and debonair, Drummond could easily have been the father of James Bond. In the first four novels of the series, Bulldog Drummond, The Black Gang, The Third Round and The Final Count, all of which are contained within this volume, Hugh Drummond finds himself pitting his wits again Carl Peterson, a criminal genius with an insatiable passion for power and world domination. He has the great facility of disguise and his chameleon appearances are one of the joys of these thrilling tales. Peterson's constant companion is the sinister but beautiful Irma. The Drummond books are exciting page-turning adventures for grown up boys and girls. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Marked For Revenge Emelie Schepp (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HQ
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
14 Dec 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 300g ISBN13: 9781848456808 ISBN13: 978-1-84845-680-8 ISBN10: 1848456808 EAN: 9781848456808 x Description: Swedish public prosecutor Jana Berzelius is back in the twisted second instalment of Emelie Schepp's award-winning series, perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson.
When a girl overdoses smuggling drugs across the Swedish border, the trail points to the one man Jana Berzelius most wants to destroy.
Notorious criminal Danillo Pena knows the truth about Jana's old identity - and, as one of Sweden's best-respected public prosecutors, Jana can't risk that information becoming public knowledge. With Danillo closing in, Jana knows she must hunt her nemesis down...and kill him, before he can reveal her secrets.
But, as she prepares for the fight of her life, Jana discovers an even more explosive betrayal-one that will take her deep into a deadly network of crime. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Killer Smile Lisa Scottoline (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 448pp h179mm x w110mm x s27mm 226g ISBN13: 9780330418706 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41870-6 ISBN10: 033041870X EAN: 9780330418706 x Description: With her trademark wit, suspense and style, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers yet another blockbuster thriller. A World War II suicide in an internment camp has ominous links to an on-going murder case...Attorney Mary DiNunzio gets a terrifying telephone call while she's working late, then she finds a shadow lurking at her front door. When a lawyer very close to her turns up dead, Mary begins to suspect that there is a sinister connection with the case she's been working on...Add to that the fact that everybody around Mary has decided she's not allowed to be a Young Widow anymore, and they're fixing her up with blind dates from hell. When a killer comes after her, it's more than any girl can handle - but Mary isn't just any girl... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Death in Vienna Daniel Silva (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h181mm x w111mm x s26mm 234g ISBN13: 9780141019086 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101908-6 ISBN10: 0141019085 EAN: 9780141019086 x Description: Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend - a Nazi hunter. While there he encounters something that turns his whole life upside down. Each fact he uncovers only leads to more questions until finally a picture emerges which is more terrible than he could have ever imagined - a portrait of evil stretching across 60 years and thousands of lives into his own personal nightmares. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sleeping Beauties: (An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery Book 3) Jo Spain (Author) Series:
An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery
Edition:
Imprint:
Quercus Publishing
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h202mm x w154mm x s28mm 272g ISBN13: 9781786483942 ISBN13: 978-1-78648-394-2 ISBN10: 1786483947 EAN: 9781786483942 x Description: 'Five stars' Amazon reviewer 'What a read!' Amazon reviewer 'I was engrossed right from the start and read it in one long, very satisfied sitting' Amazon reviewer THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WITH OUR BLESSING AND BENEATH THE SURFACE RETURNS WITH A BRAND NEW SERIAL-KILLER THRILLER. The inspector frowned and examined the earth under the trees. As he scanned the glade, his stomach lurched. One, two, three, four. Five, counting the mound of earth disturbed under the tent. Somebody had cleared the earth of its natural layer and sown their own flowers In five places Five graves A young woman, Fiona Holland, has gone missing from a small Irish village. A search is mounted, but there are whispers. Fiona had a wild reputation. Was she abducted, or has she run away? A week later, a gruesome discovery is made in the woods at Ireland's most scenic beauty spot - the valley of Glendalough. The bodies are all young women who disappeared in recent years. D.I. Tom Reynolds and his team are faced with the toughest case of their careers - a serial killer, who hunts vulnerable women, and holds his victims captive before he ends their lives. Soon the race is on to find Fiona Holland before it's too late. . . 'Deft plotting and expert handling of tension make for an intelligent mystery' Guardian
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Standing In The Shadows Michelle Spring (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
07 Dec 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h173mm x w111mm x s23mm 210g ISBN13: 9780752816791 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-1679-1 ISBN10: 0752816799 EAN: 9780752816791 x Description: Nothing is more disturbing than a child who commits murder. PI Laura Principal knows Daryll did it, but she wants to know why...11 year old Daryll Flatt killed his elderly foster mother by dropping a large concrete block from his tree house on to her head. Apparently he was angry about a lost toy, about having to get dressed up for a meeting in town. It doesn't seem like a reason to kill and Daryll's older brother Howard - consumed by Guilt that he wasn't there when Daryll needed him - has to know why the boy acted as he did. Laura principal is on the case and faced by some disturbing questions. And someone with a particular interest in the case is standing in the shadows watching her every move. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hardrock Stiff Thomas Zigal (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Publisher:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Pub Date:
31 Dec 1998
Publishing Status:
Unspecified
Published in: United States Paperback 384pp h184mm x w108mm x s32mm 181g ISBN13: 9780440224525 ISBN13: 978-0-440-22452-5 ISBN10: 0440224527 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Freelance Death Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jun 1989
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h181mm x w111mm 113g ISBN13: 9780140113112 ISBN13: 978-0-14-011311-2 ISBN10: 0140113118 EAN: 9780140113112 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Getaway Jim Thompson (Author) Series:
Crime Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
21 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h197mm x w128mm x s14mm 182g ISBN13: 9780752847689 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4768-9 ISBN10: 0752847686 This Product is Replaced By: 9780752879604 x Description: The story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross, told with the unflinching eye of America's greatest crimewriter, THE GETAWAY is a Dante-esque tour of the underworld, a place where no motive is pure and no tie is too sacred to be betrayed in a nightmarish split second. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Burden of Proof Scott Turow (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
19 Aug 1991
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 592pp h183mm x w112mm x s40mm 332g ISBN13: 9780140138634 ISBN13: 978-0-14-013863-4 ISBN10: 0140138633 x Description: The sequel to "Presumed Innocent", in which the same main character appears. Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the most celebrated defence lawyer in the Mid-western city where he lives, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of 30 years, has committed suicide. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Reunion Sue Walker (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h179mm x w113mm x s26mm 210g ISBN13: 9780141017501 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101750-1 ISBN10: 0141017503 x Description: Innes? Innes, it's Isabella. Isabella Velasco...' A simple message on an answer machine. But one that made Innes Haldane's blood run cold. Isabella Velasco was a name from a past that Innes had tried hard to forget. For in 1977 both had spent a fateful year at the Unit, an experimental home for dysfunctional teenagers in Edinburgh. Now, after almost three decades, Isabella is trying to make contact. But before she can reach her, Innes learns that Isabella has committed suicide. And shock quickly turns to fear when she hears that another former patient has also recently killed himself. Has some dark event from 1977 finally come back to haunt them all? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Disordered Minds Minette Walters (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
17 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 608pp h178mm x w112mm x s35mm 394g ISBN13: 9780330420020 ISBN13: 978-0-330-42002-0 ISBN10: 033042002X EAN: 9780330420020 x Description: In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the one person who understood and protected him. Less than three years later he is dead, driven to suicide by isolation and despair. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he were innocent? Thirty years on, Jonathan Hughes, an anthropologist specialising in social stereotyping, comes across the case by accident. He finds alarming disparities in the evidence and has little doubt that Stamp's conviction was a terrible miscarriage of justice. But how far is Hughes prepared to go in the search for justice? Is the forgotten story of one friendless young man compelling enough to make him leave his books and face his own demons? And with what result? If Stamp didn't murder Grace Jeffries then somebody else did . . . and sleeping dogs are best left alone . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Shape of Snakes Minette Walters (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 464pp h176mm x w108mm x s26mm 247g ISBN13: 9780330373258 ISBN13: 978-0-330-37325-8 ISBN10: 0330373250 EAN: 9780330373258 x Description: November 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets - and somewhere is West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes - apparently against reason - that Annie was murdered. But whatever the truth about Annie - whether she was as mad as her neighbours claimed, whether she lived in squalor as the police said - something passed between her and Mrs Ranelagh in the moment of death which binds this one woman to her cause for the next twenty years. But why is Mrs Ranelagh so convinced it was murder when by her own account Annie died without speaking? And why would any woman spend twenty painstaking years uncovering the truth - unless her reasons are personal . . . ? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Refuge Gillian White (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp 216g ISBN13: 9780552148863 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14886-3 ISBN10: 0552148865 EAN: 9780552148863 x Description: Shelley loves her kids passionately, but Joey, her eldest, has always been a problem. She has defended him through all his misdemeanours, but when he is involved in the death of a young baby, she is distraught. When the authorities send her and her familyto the Boltons' remote farm, they find a refuge. But many families have come to the Boltons' farm, and not all of them have left it." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unhallowed Ground Gillian White (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h180mm ISBN13: 9780552150392 ISBN13: 978-0-552-15039-2 ISBN10: 0552150398 x Description: When Georgina saw Furze Pen - a picturesque thatched cottage in a peaceful valley on Dartmoor - it seemed just the place to recover from the recent nightmare of her job in London. True, it was cold and isolated, but it was as good a place as any to work out her life - until the terrors started. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night Visitor Gillian White (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp 215g ISBN13: 9780552147668 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14766-8 ISBN10: 0552147664 EAN: 9780552147668 x Description: Rose's early life was full of tragedy. Her father disappeared one night, presumed drowned and her twin brother died when he was only ten, on a bike that had been his cherished birthday present. No wonder that she depends on her husband, Michael. He is the only certainty in her life, and provides the love and stability that her own family background lacked. All Rose asks of Michael is complete fidelity, and when she has cause to doubt him she devises a terrible revenge. Michael has planned an anniversary trip to Venice for the two of them. But as they ride in gondolas, dine on delicious seafood and wander the sights of this most romantic of cities, Rose, racked with secret jealousy, is making plans. By the time they return, Michael will have become seriously ill - although not so ill that he cannot recognize the fact that something truly dreadful has happened to him. In this chilling novel Gillian White explores the most destructive of human weaknesses - jealousy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Manner of Death Stephen White (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Nov 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h180mm x w110mm x s23mm 214g ISBN13: 9780140281507 ISBN13: 978-0-14-028150-7 ISBN10: 0140281509 x Description: Psychologist Alan Gregory attends the funeral of an old colleague whose death soon begins to look sinister. Persuaded to examine his own past, Gregory is forced to revisit painful memories and realises that the apparently innocent deaths of a number of old friends are connected. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Their Kind of Town Richard Whittingham (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Avon Books
Publisher:
Avon Books
Pub Date:
01 Feb 1996
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h175mm x w108mm x s25mm 186g ISBN13: 9780380725021 ISBN13: 978-0-3807-2502-1 ISBN10: 0380725029 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When First We Deceive Charles Wilson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Leisure Books
Publisher:
Dorchester Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Dec 1998
Publishing Status:
Unspecified
Published in: United States Paperback 264pp h178mm x w108mm x s21mm 136g ISBN13: 9780843944013 ISBN13: 978-0-8439-4401-3 ISBN10: 0843944013 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blood Is Dirt Robert Wilson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s22mm 200g ISBN13: 9780007130412 ISBN13: 978-0-00-713041-2 ISBN10: 0007130414 EAN: 9780007130412 x Description: The third powerful and evocative novel in Robert Wilson's acclaimed West African-set Bruce Medway series.
Bruce Medway, fixer and debt collector for anyone in a deeper hole than himself, has heard a few stories in his time. The one that Napier Briggs tells him is patchy, but it doesn't exclude the vital fact that two million of his dollars have gone missing. Bruce is used to imperfect information - people get embarrassed at their own stupidity and criminality. But for the first time it leads to the gruesome and brutal death of a client.
It would all have ended there but for Napier's daughter, the sexy, sassy and sussed Selina Aguia, a canny commodities broker. She brings money to the game and launches Bruce into a savage world where a power-hungry Nigerian presidential candidate, a rich blow-loving American and a mafia capo are fighting a silent war in which pawns are badly needed. Worse for Bruce, Selina wants revenge, and with the scam she invents she looks as if she'll get it. This is a world where blood is dirt - nobody really cares. Not even if they love you. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Darkening Stain Robert Wilson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s22mm 200g ISBN13: 9780007130429 ISBN13: 978-0-00-713042-9 ISBN10: 0007130422 EAN: 9780007130429 x Description: A stylish, tough and exciting thriller set in West Africa, the fourth in Robert Wilson's critically acclaimed Bruce Medway series. Bruce Medway, fixer for the great unfixed, does not see the disappearance of schoolgirls off the streets of Cotonou as any of his business. That is the domain of his ex-partner, police detective Bagado. Bruce has the more pressing matter of a visit from two mafiosi, employees of the Lagos-based capo, Roberto Franconelli. They want him to find Jean-Luc Marnier, a French businessman, who is definitely in for more than a wrist-slapping. In a night of brutal terror with Marnier, Bruce finds himself with a choice to make, followed by a life-saving lie that has to be told. Both choice and lie will rumble over the rest of his days like the interminable rainy season. Then an eighth and very important schoolgirl goes missing and Bruce must descend into a morass of police corruption, mafia revenge, sexual depravity, and illegally mined gold... To save himself, Bruce has to conceive a plan. A scam that will excite the natural greed that prevails along this coast and when executed will inevitably result in death and destruction. But then innocence has always been the burden of dark experience. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Allingham Case Book Margery Allingham (Author) Series:
Penguin Classic Crime S. Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Sep 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h180mm x w110mm x s12mm 129g ISBN13: 9780140231526 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023152-6 ISBN10: 0140231528 x Description: A collection of crime stories first published in 1969, this book contains 18 crimes and features the exploits of the famous detective Albert Campion along with his colleagues Stanislaus Oates and the policeman Charlie Luke. The villains include the Lieabout and the man who burnt money. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Golden Age of Murder Martin Edwards (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Collins Crime Club
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
09 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s32mm 300g ISBN13: 9780008105983 ISBN13: 978-0-00-810598-3 ISBN10: 0008105987 EAN: 9780008105983 x Description: Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction.
Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first time the extraordinary story of British detective fiction between the two World Wars. A gripping reallife detective story, it investigates how Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie and their colleagues in the mysterious Detection Club transformed crime fiction. Their work cast new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets, and their complex and sometimes bizarre private lives.
Crime novelist and current Detection Club President Martin Edwards rewrites the history of crime fiction with unique authority, transforming our understanding of detective stories, and the brilliant but tormented men and women who wrote them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Snake Stone Jason Goodwin (Author) Series:
Yashim the Ottoman Detective
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
01 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h200mm x w125mm x s20mm 253g ISBN13: 9780571236473 ISBN13: 978-0-571-23647-3 ISBN10: 0571236472 EAN: 9780571236473 This Product Replaces: 9780571236404 x Description: It is Istanbul, 1838, and Lefevre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is hired to investigate him, but when the man turns up dead, there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, the investigator finds himself in a race against time to uncover the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Psychopath Keith Ablow (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
07 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 368pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 185g ISBN13: 9780330427623 ISBN13: 978-0-330-42762-3 ISBN10: 0330427628 EAN: 9780330427623 x Description: Having achieved celebrity status with his previous case, forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is approached by the FBI to catch an elusive murderer known as the Highway Killer who has already left twelve bodies strewn across twelve states. But the Highway Killer isn't just a serial killer - he's also a psychiatrist whose brilliance as a doctor is matched only by his precision as a murderer. When he writes to a national newspaper challenging Clevenger to cure him through an exchange of open letters, a gripping public therapy unfolds. With the Highway Killer's brutality reaching new heights as he confronts his mind's darkest demons, can Clevenger exorcise those demons before they spin completely out of control? 'Keith Ablow's setting is the darkest of all - the twists and turns of the human mind' Harlan Coben 'Keith Ablow has become the king of the psychological thriller' Dennis Lehane 'Only Thomas Harris does it more stylishly' Kirkus Reviews _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hard Drive Brian Arnott (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Blackie & Co Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
Blackie & Co Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Nov 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h215mm x w155mm ISBN13: 9781903138076 ISBN13: 978-1-903138-07-6 ISBN10: 1903138078 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Driven Andrea Badenoch (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
11 Aug 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 368pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 190g ISBN13: 9780330369268 ISBN13: 978-0-330-36926-8 ISBN10: 0330369261 EAN: 9780330369268 x Description: On a hot city night, Jaz is celebrating her twenty-first birthday with her friends Trace and Harm. Across town her boyfriend, Fat Andy, is lying dead on their bed, his throat savagely cut. Jaz is convinced that the murder was down to Vinny, a crooked car dealer for whom Fat Andy worked. And she's not prepared to let him get away with it . . . But nothing is altogether as it seems. For Fat Andy had secrets to hide, and a background more complicated than anything Jaz imagined. Beyond the familiar world of car crime, petty rivalries and dirty dealing, there are even more sinister forces at work . . . and bigger stakes than she's ever played with before. 'The crime thriller is thriving . . . and invigorated with new blood in Andrea Badenoch's novel' Marie Claire 'There is a talented writer on show here.' Daily Telegraph 'Terrific thriller . . . suspenseful.' She 'An excellent, gripping read.' Big Issue _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sidney Sheldon's The Silent Widow Tilly Bagshawe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 448pp h178mm x w111mm x s28mm 230g ISBN13: 9780008229641 ISBN13: 978-0-00-822964-1 ISBN10: 0008229643 EAN: 9780008229641 x Description: New York Times Bestselling Author
Sweeping from Mexico City to the dark underbelly of LA, The Silent Widow has all the trademark glamour, suspense and unexpected twists of a classic Sidney Sheldon novel.
A young American au pair, Charlotte Clancy, vanishes without a trace in Mexico City. The case is left cold, but its legacy will be devastating.
A decade later, LA is shaken by a spate of violent murders. Psychologist Nikki Roberts is the common link between the victims, her patients at the heart of this treacherous web. When someone makes an attempt on Nikki's life, it's clear she is a marked woman.
Nikki makes a living out of reading people, drawing out their secrets, but the key to this shocking pattern eludes her. With the police at a dead end Nikki drafts in Derek Williams, a PI who isn't afraid to put his hand into the hornet's nest. Williams was thwarted in the notorious Charlotte Clancy case all those years ago, but what he unearths in LA - and the mention of one name in particular - leaves him cold, and takes him on a dangerous path into the past.
A shadowy manipulator has brought his deadly game to the streets of LA. In a crime spanning generations, it seems Nikki Roberts knows all too much - and a ruthless killer knows the price of her silence.
In this crooked city, where enemies and friends are one and the same, Nikki must be the master of her own escape . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hour Game David Baldacci (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 736pp h177mm x w111mm x s45mm 393g ISBN13: 9780330411738 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41173-8 ISBN10: 033041173X EAN: 9780330411738 x Description: Following their collaboration in "Split Second", ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the incredibly wealthy Battle family. It seems like a straightforward case of domestic burglary, but soon they begin to suspect links to larger, more terrifying events now shaking the prosperous town of Writghtsburg ...The unidentified corpse of an attractive young woman turns up in the woods; two high school kids, one shot in the back, the other in the face, are found dead in their car; a successful lawyer is discovered stabbed to death in her own home. A serial killer is on the loose. The murderer kills in the manner of famous killers of the past but takes care to leave a stopped watch at the scene of each crime - corresponding to the victim's position on his hit list. As the killing spree escalates it seems that the fractured Battle family are somehow involved and Maxwell and King suddenly find themselves racing to solve an intricate puzzle, one that is full of tantalizing clues but barren of solid evidence, and one that is leaving even the FBI confounded. And all the while, the body count is rising ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Man's Land David Baldacci (Author) Series:
John Puller series
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
30 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 624pp h197mm x w130mm x s38mm 437g ISBN13: 9781447277491 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7749-1 ISBN10: 144727749X EAN: 9781447277491 x Description: No Man's Land by David Baldacci is an exciting thriller featuring special investigator John Puller, who is pursuing a case that will send him deep into his own troubled past. One man demands justice . . . John Puller is the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father - a highly decorated army veteran - may have murdered his wife. When Puller's friend, intelligence operative Veronica Knox, arrives on the scene, he realizes that there is far more to this case than he first thought. He knows that nothing will prevent him from discovering what really happened to his mother - even if it means proving that his father is a killer.
. . . the other seeks revenge Paul Rogers has just been paroled after spending ten years in a high-security prison for murder. And with his freedom comes a desire to pay back old debts. Harbouring a dark past that changed him in unimaginable ways, Rogers embarks on a journey across the country, set on a path of revenge against the people who took away his humanity. As both men uncover a trail of deception that stretches back decades, they soon realize that the truth will bind them together in ways they could never have imagined. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shadow Sun George Lucas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp ISBN13: 9780593044193 ISBN13: 978-0-593-04419-3 ISBN10: 0593044193 x Description: The brilliant new thriller from the acclaimed author of "Shadow Dancer," The village of East Welham has never recovered from the day that two of its inhabitants were brutally murdered on the common nearly fifteen years before: a young woman, Sarah Ford, and her six-year-old daughter, Alice. Julia Havilland is one for whom the case has a compelling resonance. Returning to the village, her military career under investigation, Julia begins to probe the murders and discovers that even from beyond the grave, the past can exert a stranglehold on the present. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The White Russian Tom Bradby (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 560pp h178mm x w106mm x s33mm 283g ISBN13: 9780552149006 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14900-6 ISBN10: 0552149004 EAN: 9780552149006 x Description: St Petersburg 1917. The capital of the glittering Empire of the Tsars and a city on the brink of revolution where the jackals of the Secret Police intrigue for their own survival as their aristocratic masters indulge in one last, desperate round of hedonism. For Sandro Ruzsky, Chief Investigator of the city police, even this decaying world provides the opportunity for a new beginning. Banished to Siberia for four years for pursuing a case his superiors would rather he'd quietly buried, Ruzsky finds himself investigating the murders of a young couple out on the ice of the frozen river Neva. The dead girl was a nanny at the Imperial Palace, the man an American from Chicago and, if the brutality of their deaths seems an allegory for the times, Ruzsky finds that, at every turn, the investigation leads dangerously close to home. At the heart of the case, lies Maria, the beautiful ballerina Ruzsky once loved and lost. But is she a willing participant in what appears to be a dangerous conspiracy or likely to be it's next, perhaps last, victim? In a city at war with itself, and pitted against a ruthless murderer who relishes taunting him, Ruzsky finds himself at last face to face with his own past as he fights to save everything he cares for, before the world into which he was born goes up in flames. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nerve Centre (Dale Brown's Dreamland, Book 2) Dale Brown (Author) Jim DeFelice (Author) Series:
Dale Brown's Dreamland 2
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
31 Jul 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 496pp h178mm x w111mm x s28mm 256g ISBN13: 9780007109678 ISBN13: 978-0-00-710967-8 ISBN10: 0007109679 EAN: 9780007109678 x Description: The second in a new series of high-tech, military-adventure thrillers centred on Dreamland, a top-secret weapons research centre, from the acclaimed author of FLIGHT OF THE OLD DOG and WARRIOR CLASS.
Hidden in the Nevada desert is Dreamland - an advanced aerospace-weapons testing facility where the best of the best develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge.
Dreamland's latest project is Flighthawk - an unmanned aerial-attack aircraft. To help pilots master the complex remote-flying skills required to control it, a high-risk system is being trialled, in which a microchip is implanted in the pilot's skull. Initially, all goes well for the first volunteer, Army Captain Kevin Madrone. But the psychological stress proves too much - and suddenly Madrone disappears, armed with one of the most powerful weapons in the world... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Razor's Edge (Dale Brown's Dreamland, Book 3) Dale Brown (Author) Jim DeFelice (Author) Series:
Dale Brown's Dreamland 3
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
26 Feb 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 512pp h178mm x w111mm x s32mm 263g ISBN13: 9780007109685 ISBN13: 978-0-00-710968-5 ISBN10: 0007109687 EAN: 9780007109685 x Description: The hunt is on for a mystery weapon that has been shooting down American planes over Iraq - in this spectacular thriller, the third in a new series of high-tech, high-action adventures from the author of Flight of the Old Dog and Wings of Fire.
Hidden in the Nevada desert is Dreamland - an advanced research centre dedicated to developing artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. It is also home to Whiplash - a covert team of special forces trained to deploy the high-tech weapons in extreme situations.
Whiplash's latest mission begins when a series of American planes are shot down over Iraq in mysterious circumstances. There is no way that conventional weapons could have hit the planes so easily. Can the Iraqis have developed a laser capable of causing such mayhem? Fearing a major international crisis, the President sends a call out to Dreamland. Within hours, some of the most sophisticated aircraft in the world are heading for the Gulf, with orders to track down the mystery weapon - and destroy it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strike Zone (Dale Brown's Dreamland, Book 5) Dale Brown (Author) Jim DeFelice (Author) Series:
Dale Brown's Dreamland 5
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
28 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 464pp h178mm x w111mm x s28mm 242g ISBN13: 9780007182565 ISBN13: 978-0-00-718256-5 ISBN10: 0007182562 EAN: 9780007182565 x Description: The Dreamland special ops team uncover a plan to stir up unrest between Taiwan and mainland China - in the latest high-octane adventure from the acclaimed author of Flight of the Old Dog and Air Battle Force. Dreamland is a cutting-edge weapons research facility in the Nevada desert - home to some of the world's finest pilots and an elite combat unit that operates directly at the command of the US President. Dreamland is rocked by the news that someone in the South China Sea has developed an unmanned spy plane as advanced - and dangerous - as their own top-secret Flighthawk. Has there been a breach of security? With a high-level summit between Taiwan and mainland China looming and such a potentially devastating weapon on the loose, the threat to the region's fragile stability is immense. While the hunt for a mole threatens all their achievements, the Dreamland team must embark on the race of their lives: to seek out their mysterious rival - and destroy it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Angels And Demons: The Illustrated Edition Dan Brown (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
10 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback Paper over boards 528pp h261mm x w212mm x s35mm 1828g ISBN13: 9780593054864 ISBN13: 978-0-593-05486-4 ISBN10: 0593054865 EAN: 9780593054864 x Description: When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. His baffling conclusion: that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years - reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their most hated enemy, the Catholic church. In Rome, the college of cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Yet somewhere within the walls of the Vatican, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. While the minutes tick away, Langdon joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to decipher the labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome to the long-forgotten Illuminati lair - a secret refuge wherein lies the only hope for the Vatican. But, with each revelation comes another twist, another turn in the plot, which leaves Langdom and Vetra reeling and at the mercy of a seemingly invisible enemy...A NGELS & DEMONS is a breathtakingly brilliant thriller which catapults the reader through the antiquity of Rome, through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals and even the most secret vault on earth. As the prequel to Dan Brown's worldwide bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, it has the distinction of introducing his readers to Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon. This exclusive edition allows the reader behind the scenes of the novel which now incorporates over 150 photographs and illustrations throughout the text showing the rich historical tapestry from which Dan Brown drew his inspiration. The visual sources which provide both the backdrop and the stimulus for the novel's action are revealed for the first time and uniquely complement the reading experience. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Da Vinci Code: the Illustrated Edition Dan Brown (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 480pp h262mm x w210mm x s33mm 1575g 150 photographs and illustrations ISBN13: 9780593054253 ISBN13: 978-0-593-05425-3 ISBN10: 0593054253 x Description: Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Sauniere, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history. Langdon suspects the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - a centuries old secret society - and has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. But it now appears that Opus Dei, a clandestine sect that has long plotted to seize the Prirory's secret, has now made its move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever...Breaking the mould of traditional suspense novels, The Da Vinci Code is simultaneously lightningpaced, intelligent and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail. And in this exclusive edition Dan Brown allows the reader behind the scenes of the novel which now incorporates over 150 photographs and illustrations throughout the text showing the rich historical tapestry from which he drew his inspiration. The visual sources which provide both the backdrop and the stimulus for the novel's action are revealed for the first time and uniquely complement the reading experience. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bangkok 8 John Burdett (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h179mm x w111mm x s29mm 230g ISBN13: 9780552771405 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77140-5 ISBN10: 0552771406 EAN: 9780552771405 x Description: SURREAL BANGKOK ...City of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, where bodies and souls are for sale or rent, and where the way you die may be more important than the way you live. Inside a locked Mercedes, an African-American Marine sergeant is killed by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two cops - the only two in the city not on the take - arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive. Sworn to avenge the death of his partner and soul brother, Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a fair-skinned Thai and a devout Buddhist, works his way through District 8. His tools are the forensic techniques of the modern police department; no less vital is his profound understanding of the mystical workings of the spirit world. Soon he is in a realm he has never before encountered: the moneyed underbelly of Bangkok, where desire rules and the human body is as custom-designable as a raw hunk of jade - and where Sonchai eventually tracks the killer, a predator of an even more sinister variety. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
State Of The Union David Callahan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Coronet Books
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
04 Jun 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 345pp 250g ISBN13: 9780340695562 ISBN13: 978-0-340-69556-2 ISBN10: 0340695560 EAN: 9780340695562
x Description: When Zach Turzin becomes Admiral Forsten's right-hand man, he is drawn into a world of intrigue and death. Nothing is what it seems in a building ruled by the Admiral's iron fist - and once he discovers the full dimensions of Forsten's ambitions, Zach must undertake his most risky mission yet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Final Days Alex Chance (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
17 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 544pp h177mm x w110mm x s33mm 280g ISBN13: 9780099515463 ISBN13: 978-0-09-951546-3 ISBN10: 0099515466 EAN: 9780099515463 x Description: Karen Wiley, recently qualified San Francisco psychologist, thought she understood moral dilemma. Then an anonymous child cries to her for help. No one Karen knows is in trouble. But the letters keep coming. Then something far, far worse. Until the horror in the Trueblood trailer, Ella McCullers, police chief of Canaan, Utah, believed she knew crises of faith. Abruptly promoted to senior investigator in the state's most high-profile kidnapping case, her only leads are a decaying tombstone, a missing cat, and a little mute girl with ghastly, formless nightmares. In truth, it began with The Cult of the Final Days, and a long-buried history of murder. Now Karen Wiley must cross the desert wilderness to play a deadly game disguised as a righteous quest for the truth. Powerful, hypnotic and terrifying, The Final Days is the stunning debut by a chillingly brilliant new voice in thriller writing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Midnight Line: (Jack Reacher 22) Lee Child (Author) Series:
Jack Reacher
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 496pp h178mm x w110mm x s30mm 261g ISBN13: 9780857503954 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-395-4 ISBN10: 0857503952 EAN: 9780857503954 x Description: THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER/A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB 2018 PICK Jack Reacher is having a bad day. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. All he wants is to find the woman. He'll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks, and low-life muscle. If she's ok, he'll walk away. If she's not ... he'll stop at nothing. Best advice: stay out of his way.
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Midnight Line follows on directly from the end of Make Me. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories Lee Child (Author) Series:
Jack Reacher Short Stories
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w127mm x s31mm 335g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780857503770 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-377-0 ISBN10: 0857503774 EAN: 9780857503770 x Description: "Including a new novella, the clever, twisty tales reveal that even 13-year-old Reacher was a force to be reckoned with." (Sunday Mirror) This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher's past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world. The twelve stories include a brand new novella, Too Much Time. The other stories in the collection are: Second Son James Penney's New Identity Guy Walks Into a Bar Deep Down, High Heat Not a Drill Small Wars All of which have previously been published as ebook shorts. Added to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written: Everyone Talks Maybe They Have a Tradition No Room at the Motel The Picture of the Lonely Diner _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Past Tense: (Jack Reacher 23) Lee Child (Author) Series:
Jack Reacher
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 496pp h178mm x w110mm x s30mm 261g ISBN13: 9780857504296 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-429-6 ISBN10: 0857504290 EAN: 9780857504296 x Description: The most hotly anticipated paperback thriller of 2019 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most stomach-clenching, hair-raising, blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet. The present can be tense . . . Two young Canadians trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they're trapped in an ominous game of life and death. But the past can be worse . . . Jack Reacher is on an epic road trip across America. He doesn't get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders: who's lying? As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher. That's for damn sure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Changing of the Guard Tom Clancy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Dec 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h182mm x w113mm x s23mm 184g ISBN13: 9780141011417 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101141-7 ISBN10: 0141011416 EAN: 9780141011417 x Description: In the near future, the internet is the world's central nervous system. But when terrorists want to subvert world order, this is where they will strike. Elite Net Force strike teams are needed to stop them, but this time, there are signs they may have met their match. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mission of Honour Tom Clancy (Author) Jeff Rovin (Author) Series:
Tom Clancy's Op-Centre
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Jun 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h174mm x w124mm x s29mm 246g ISBN13: 9780141011349 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101134-9 ISBN10: 0141011343 x Description: Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, MISSION OF HONOUR serves up another dose of international intrigue and nail-biting action when the Op-Centre are called on to combat a new threat to the safety and security of the free world. Intricate plotting, exceptional authenticity and knife-edge suspense will see this book continue the massive success of this bestselling series. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sea of Fire Tom Clancy (Author) Steve Pieczenik (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 400pp h185mm x w115mm x s26mm 222g ISBN13: 9780141011356 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101135-6 ISBN10: 0141011351 x Description: A half-dead Singapore pirate is plucked from the Celebes Sea in the Western Pacific, setting off alarms halfway around the world in Washington DC. Traces of radiation are found on the man, causing Australian officials to call in Op-Centre for a top-secret investigation of nuclear disposal sights. When an empty drum from a recent drop-off is discovered near where the pirate's ship was destroyed, the Op-Centre team comes to a terrifying conclusion: a multi-national corporation that has been hired to dispose of nuclear waste is selling it instead - to a most unlikely terrorist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Springboard: Book 3 Tom Clancy (Author) Series:
Tom Clancy's Net Force Bk. 3
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Feb 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h185mm x w116mm x s26mm 216g ISBN13: 9780141011424 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101142-4 ISBN10: 0141011424 x Description: A top secret Pentagon wargame is hacked. Only Net Force has the expertise to track down the culprit, but they are tied up with other priorities. Due to shifting budget priorities, Net Force is moved onto the DoD budget. That means that as a military operation, they can now give top priority to the Pentagon's problem. They soon make a connection between the attack and a Chinese general in Macau. But this investigation is too big for Net Force and they are forced to work with members of Cybernation, the virtual reality nation which has opposed Net Force in the past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Teeth of the Tiger: INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN Tom Clancy (Author) Series:
Jack Ryan Jr
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Aug 2004 (26 Aug 2004)
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 640pp h181mm x w111mm x s38mm 330g ISBN13: 9780141004921 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100492-1 ISBN10: 0141004924 EAN: 9780141004921 x Description: The Teeth of the Tiger is the first Jack Ryan Jr novel by Tom Clancy. Just before Jack Ryan stepped down as US President, he created a secret organisation designed to operate in areas where the CIA and FBI couldn't go - able to use any and all means to neutralise terrorists who threatened America. Now his son, Jack Ryan, Jr, is part of that organisation and he's on the front line when a group of Islamic terrorists backed up by Colombian drug smuggles strike at the heart of American society. With no conventional way to hit back at the shadowy ringleaders, it's left to Jack Ryan Jr to take on the terrorists the only way he knows how . . . Internationally bestselling author Tom Clancy first introduced Jack Ryan Jr in The Teeth of the Tiger, returning to his story in Dead or Alive and Locked On. Threat Vector, the fourth thriller in the gripping series, will be available from Penguin in December 2012. Praise for Tom Clancy: 'Incredibly addictive . . . 400 tightly woven, adrenalin-fuelled pages' Daily Mail 'Truly riveting, a dazzling read' Sunday Express 'Heart-stopping action . . . entertaining and eminently topical' Washington Post 'Classic Clancy . . . well-constructed tension and realistic action' Short List 'Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict' Sunday Times Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore's Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted on to the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it 'the perfect yarn'. From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Zero Hour Tom Clancy (Author) Martin Greenberg (Author) Jerome Preisler (Author) Series:
Tom Clancy's Power Plays S. No.7
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Nov 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h182mm x w113mm x s24mm 198g ISBN13: 9780140294958 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029495-8 ISBN10: 0140294953 x Description: Skywave Research is an international conglomerate and Uplink International's most successful competitor. On the surface, they specialise in creating artificial sapphires which are used in laser development. In actuality, a Pakistani terrorist is using the company as a front for his deadly plans. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Faithless: A dark thriller of intrigue and murder Martina Cole (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
08 May 2012 (10 Aug 2017)
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 528pp h196mm x w129mm x s34mm 354g ISBN13: 9780755375554 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-7555-4 ISBN10: 0755375556 EAN: 9780755375554 x Description: With family, there's a dangerous line between love and hate... Reaching the darkest corners of family life, THE FAITHLESS by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole is an unputdownable novel about a deadly ambition that trumps family loyalty... Cynthia Tailor is a tough woman to please. Her husband Jimmy can do no right. Her sister Celeste has something Cynthia wants. And her two children, James and Gabby, can never reach the perfection their mother demands. What Cynthia wants, Cynthia gets, even if it hurts those closest to her. But there's a price to pay for taking what isn't yours, and it's Cynthia's own flesh and blood who are ready and waiting to collect... For more stories centred on family life, check out FACES, THE FAMILY and BETRAYAL. Martina Cole explores loyalty, protection, and how the ties that bind us can also sometimes choke the very thing we want to protect... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Void Moon Michael Connelly (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Oct 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 407pp h175mm x w110mm ISBN13: 9780752837161 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-3716-1 ISBN10: 0752837168 EAN: 9780752837161 This Product is Replaced By: 9781409116950 x Description: A young woman finds herself caught up in a scam which may cost her the one thing she values more than her life...Cassie Black has been lured back to the criminal profession she gave up - robbing gamblers of their winnings - by a proposition that is just too good to miss. The job goes as planned, except that the target has too much money. It can only mean someone very powerful is going to be very angry indeed. Cassie finds herself on the run from a killer who seems to know her every move in advance. Worse still, he is closing in on the one thing Cassie will do anything to protect. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shock Robin Cook (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
13 Jul 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s26mm 211g ISBN13: 9780330483056 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48305-6 ISBN10: 0330483056 EAN: 9780330483056 x Description: Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for donors. Deborah and Joanna figure they can perform a good deed in helping infertle couples, while earning some money for themselves. Although rumours surface of a fellow donor's unexplained disappearance, they remain undeterred.The procedures seem to go smoothly, but second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women discover more. Stymied by the clinic's veil of secrecy, Deborah and Joanna obtain employment there to continue their probe. Working under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying true aims of Dr Windgate's research, immediately putting their lives - and their sanity - irrevocably at risk. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shock Robin Cook (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
26 Sep 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 352pp h180mm x w110mm 174g ISBN13: 9780425182864 ISBN13: 978-0-425-18286-4 ISBN10: 042518286X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mortal Memory Thomas H. Cook (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Oct 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 285pp h179mm x w112mm x s21mm 179g ISBN13: 9780575402928 ISBN13: 978-0-575-40292-8 ISBN10: 057540292X x Description: Steve Farris is an unexceptional middle-aged architect with an extraordinary past: when he was nine, his father came home one evening and coolly murdered his mother, brother and sister, before vanishing off the face of the earth. Steve has coped mainly by blotting out the terrible memories, but when writer Rebecca Soltero arrive to interview him about his father, he is forced to reawaken the horrors of his childhood. As Rebecca takes him back, probing his memory, unexpected new facts are revealed with disturbingly shocking parallels to his current situation. Steve knows that if he is to find out whether he too is heading down the road to tragedy, he must discover the truth about his past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Liberty Stephen Coonts (Author) Stephen Coonts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 496pp h178mm x w113mm x s32mm 270g ISBN13: 9780752842639 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4263-9 ISBN10: 0752842633 EAN: 9780752842639 x Description: An enigmatic Russian spymaster makes contact with Jake Grafton in the aftermath of the savage attacks on the World Trade Center in New York to give him a warning. A disaffected Russian general has sold four tactical nuclear weapons to the Sword of Islam, a terrorist organisation determined to mount a deadly strike designed to destroy the US as a world power. The goal is nothing less than the final destruction of western civilisation. This time, Jake learns, the foreign terrorists have domestic friends. Someone within America wants the attack to succeed. Fighting bureaucrats and traitors, Jake Grafton is up to his eyes in agents and double agents with time running out as he hunts for the weapons. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Minotaur Stephen Coonts (Author) Stephen Coonts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 576pp h177mm x w110mm x s38mm 320g ISBN13: 9780752848600 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4860-0 ISBN10: 0752848607 EAN: 9780752848600 x Description: Jake Grafton, former Vietnam pilot and air-wing commander, has been assigned to the Pentagon. His orders are to lead the development of the navy's new top-secret attack plane, the A-12. But, faced with political and technical problems at every turn, he soon finds himself drawn into a hunt for the Minotaur - a mole hidden in the Pentagon who is selling America's most precious defence secrets. The FBI's chief spy-catcher is hot on the Minotaur's trail - or is he? Just who are the traitors? Four people are dead and a test pilot is near death before Grafton homes in on the shocking identity of the Minotaur - and his even more chilling motive ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Red Horseman Stephen Coonts (Author) Stephen Coonts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h178mm x w110mm x s30mm 250g ISBN13: 9780752849072 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4907-2 ISBN10: 0752849077 EAN: 9780752849072 x Description: As the infrastructure of the Soviet Union crumbles before the world's eyes, twenty thousand tactical nuclear weapons, once under the command of the Soviet military, are up for grabs - and US intelligence believes they may soon appear on the open market. Jake Grafton is despatched to Moscow to ensure that the weapons are destroyed before they disappear into a terrorist pipeline. But Grafton discovers that unidentified American
officials want his mission to fail - and will go to any lengths to stop him. Meanwhile, off the coast of the Canary Islands, the body of a British billionaire has been found floating in the sea. Grafton's contacts tell him the man was a victim of a hit squad from within the CIA. And before long, Grafton realises he too has been targeted for assassination - and the conspiracy is clearly stamped 'made in America'... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Saucer Stephen Coonts (Author) Stephen Coonts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
24 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 336pp h177mm x w111mm x s28mm 190g ISBN13: 9780752848952 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-4895-2 ISBN10: 075284895X EAN: 9780752848952 x Description: A team of surveyors working in the Sahara happen upon an object buried deep in the rock. The object turns out to be a flying saucer and it is older than the rock it is buried in - 140,000 years old at least. Rip, a student working with the team, is keen to find out as much about the flying saucer as possible. But so are many other people, including the US Military, a team working for a billionaire Australian businessman and a group of Arabs. Rip foils their attempts to commandeer the craft with the help of a disillusioned female pilot called Charley. Together they steal the saucer and Charley takes them both into orbit. Rip's plan is to take the saucer to his uncle's Missouri farm - but first he has to avoid being tracked down by everyone else. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sirius Crossing John Creed (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
17 Feb 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 256pp h177mm x w111mm x s17mm 143g ISBN13: 9780571210862 ISBN13: 978-0-571-21086-2 ISBN10: 0571210864 EAN: 9780571210862 x Description: Jack Valentine has been in the intelligence game too long and it is starting to show, but he accepts one more mission. He always does. It seems like a simple task but it starts to throw up questions and he doesn't know the answers. What were American Special Forces doing in Ireland twenty-five years ago and why does it matter now? What is the thread that leads from a deserted mountainside to the offices of the White House? Suddenly Valentine has information that everybody wants and he finds himself the quarry in a pitiless chase. To complicate matters he is joined by an old friend who is staying just ahead of his own deadly pursuit. And he draws an old flame into danger, because it seems that wherever Jack Valentine goes, innocence seems to suffer. Valentine no longer know which threatens him most - the dark alliance of men who want to kill him, the terrible storm crossing he is forced to undertake in a battered, converted trawler, or his own dangerous cynicism. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Congo Michael Crichton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Jun 1995
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 384pp h178mm x w110mm x s24mm 204g ISBN13: 9780099544319 ISBN13: 978-0-09-954431-9 ISBN10: 0099544318 EAN: 9780099544319
x Description: The search for diamonds, a crucial scientific breakthrough and a mythical ruined city set off this adventure into the heart of the Congolese jungle. The American expedition is led by Karen Ross, desperate to find her husband and recover the data he found before he disappeared. But there are other teams trying to get there first, and the way is strewn with life-threatening dangers -- plane crashes, civil wars and a dormant volcano awoken by dormant explosives. In the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle and H. Rider Haggard, Congo is a novel of high adventure from the master of the modern thriller. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Next Michael Crichton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
06 Aug 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 528pp h178mm x w111mm x s31mm 280g ISBN13: 9780007241002 ISBN13: 978-0-00-724100-2 ISBN10: 0007241003 EAN: 9780007241002 x Description: The Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Congo and Sphere blends fact and fiction to create a near-future where genetic engineering opens up a whole new world of terrifying, page-turning possibilities...
Is a loved one missing body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Has a human already cross-bred with a monkey?
We live in a GENETIC WORLD. Fast, frightening - and potentially VERY lucrative. There are designer pets; a genetic cure for drug addiction; a booming market in eggs and sperm. But is there also a talking ape in Borneo? Has a 'master' gene for controlling others been found? Could an innocent man and his family be hunted cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes ...
Are you ready for what comes NEXT in Michael Crichton's stunning new thriller? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
State of Fear Michael Crichton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
15 Aug 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 736pp h178mm x w111mm x s42mm 380g ISBN13: 9780007181605 ISBN13: 978-0-00-718160-5 ISBN10: 0007181604 EAN: 9780007181605 x Description: The Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Congo and Sphere takes on global warming in this gripping and critically acclaimed thriller.
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.
In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.
In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters of New Guinea.
And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Terminal Man Michael Crichton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Pub Date:
05 Nov 2002
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 304pp h172mm x w106mm x s21mm 150g Illustrations, unspecified ISBN13: 9780060092573 ISBN13: 978-0-06-009257-3 ISBN10: 0060092572 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Jungle: Oregon Files #8 Clive Cussler (Author) Jack B. Du Brul (Author) Series:
The Oregon Files
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 330g ISBN13: 9780718192297 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-9229-7 ISBN10: 071819229X EAN: 9780718192297 x Description: Juan Cabrillo faces a global deadly threat in Clive Cussler's The Jungle. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are up against their smartest foe yet - but in their midst there is a traitor . . . After losing their contract with the US government because of a daring raid too far, Cabrillo and his crew of mercenaries with a conscience are earning money the hard way: doing dirty, dangerous little jobs in the world's trouble spots. Now they've accepted a mission deep to find a missing adventurer deep in the jungles of Myanmar. But it is not long before Cabrillo and his team realise that they have been set up. Cabrillo - betrayed, tortured and played for a fool - is angry that he's been used as a pawn in someone's deadly scheme. But with the US nuclear launch codes up for grabs and a madman bent on using them to hold millions of lives to ransom, he hasn't time to worry about revenge. He's got to save the world first . . . The number-one bestseller Clive Cussler, author of the thrilling Dirk Pitt novels Treasure of Khan and Trojan Odyssey, and co-author Jack Du Brul tell a gripping story of adventure, treachery and betrayal in the eighth Oregon Files novel. The Jungle is preceded by Corsair and The Silent Sea. Praise for Clive Cussler: 'Frightening and full of suspense . . . unquestionably entertaining' Daily Express 'All-action, narrow escapes and the kind of unrelenting plot tension that has won Cussler hundreds of millions of fans worldwide' Observer
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White Death: NUMA Files #4 Clive Cussler (Author) Paul Kemprecos (Author) Series:
The NUMA Files
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Mar 2004 (30 Sep 2010)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 528pp h181mm x w111mm x s31mm 274g ISBN13: 9780140297379 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029737-9 ISBN10: 0140297375 EAN: 9780140297379 x Description: White Death is Clive Cussler's fourth heart-pounding NUMA Files novel. When a confrontation between a radical environmental group and a Danish cruiser off the Faroe Islands sinks a ship, trapping her crew beneath the waves, Kurt Austin of NUMA is immediately called to the rescue. Investigating the collision, Austin uncovers a trail of sabotage that leads to a sinister multinational corporation seeking control of the waves. When he is almost killed for his trouble, Austin knows that this is one organization that will let nothing stand in its way. But with an environmental disaster underway, the clock is ticking for Austin and the NUMA team... Filled with heart-stopping adventure and endless imagination, White Death is an exceptional thriller from a writer at the height of his powers.
Clive Cussler, author of the best-selling Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift and The Treasure of Khan, and co-author Paul Kemprecos navigate a treacherous sea of sabotage and conspiracy in White Death, the fourth novel of the action-packed NUMA Files series. Lost City and Polar Shift are the fifth and sixth.
Praise for Clive Cussler: 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the NUMA Files series there are also the Oregon Files, the Dirk Pitt stories (which started it all), the Isaac Bell adventures and the Fargo series. The other titles in the NUMA files series are: Serpent, Blue Gold, Fire Ice, Lost City, Polar Shift, The Navigator, Medusa, Devil's Gate, and The Storm. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Boy at the Door Alex Dahl (Author) Series:
Edition:
UK Airports ed
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
27 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp h228mm x w145mm ISBN13: 9781786699244 ISBN13: 978-1-78669-924-4 ISBN10: 1786699249 EAN: 9781786699244 x Description: A brilliant, twisty psychological thriller. Perfect for fans of Friend Request, He Said/She Said and A Simple Favour. 'Unsettling, layered, bold, unpredictable, dark. EXCELLENT' Will Dean, author of Dark Pines. 'Grips like a vice ... REMARKABLE' Crime Time. Everyone has secrets. Even those who seem to be perfect...
On a rainy October evening, Cecilia Wilborg - loving wife, devoted mother, tennis club regular - is waiting for her kids to finish their swimming lesson. It's been a long day. She can almost taste the crisp, cold glass of Chablis she'll pour for herself once the girls are tucked up in bed. But what Cecilia doesn't know, is that this is the last time life will feel normal. Tonight she'll be asked to drop a little boy home, a simple favour that will threaten to expose her deepest, darkest secret... 'STUNNING ... Intricate and twisted with dark secrets emerging at every turn' ALEXANDRA BURT, author of Sunday Times bestseller Little Girl Gone. 'Heartbreaking and HEAD-SPINNING' MARY TORJUSSEN, author of Gone Without a Trace. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Garden of Beasts Jeffery Deaver (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
15 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 528pp h180mm x w109mm x s34mm 280g n/a ISBN13: 9780340734551 ISBN13: 978-0-340-73455-1 ISBN10: 0340734558 EAN: 9780340734551 x Description: Paul Schumann is a contract hitman for the mob in 1936. But with Prohibition over and the gang wars associated with it coming to an end, Schumann is finding less and less work. He is contracted for a hit. But this time, he's caught - and finds that he's been set up. He's taken to meet an official in Army Intelligence and given a choice: he can spend the rest of his life in jail, or he can help his country. He is to pose as a member of the 1936 Olympic team, travel to Berlin, and kill a high-ranking Nazi close to Hitler. Schumann has been picked because he's a second generation German-American and can speak the language fluently. Or at least that's what they lead him to believe... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lion's Game: Number 2 in series Nelson DeMille (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Warner Books
Publisher:
Little, Brown & Company
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2000
Publishing Status:
Unspecified
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 926pp ISBN13: 9780446608268 ISBN13: 978-0-446-60826-8 ISBN10: 0446608262 x Description: Detective John Corey, last seen in Plum Island, now faces his toughest assignment yet: the pursuit and capture of the world's most dangerous terrorist -- a young Arab known as "The Lion" who has baffled a federal task force and shows no sign of stopping in his quest for revenge against the American pilots who bombed Libya and killed his family. Filled with unrelenting suspense and surprising plot twists at every terrifying turn, THE LION'S GAME is a heartstopping race against time and one of Nelson DeMille's most riveting thrillers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Talbot Odyssey Nelson DeMille (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Warner Books Inc
Publisher:
Time Warner Trade Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Jul 1991
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback Colour of cover - Multicolor 544pp h174mm x w109mm x s31mm 254g ISBN13: 9780446358583 ISBN13: 978-0-446-35858-3 ISBN10: 0446358584
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Flint Paul Eddy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 432pp h172mm x w105mm 211g ISBN13: 9780451409959 ISBN13: 978-0-451-40995-9 ISBN10: 0451409957 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Invisible Armies Jon Evans (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
08 May 2006 (23 Aug 2007)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 560pp h176mm x w111mm x s22mm 197g n/a ISBN13: 9780340921364 ISBN13: 978-0-340-92136-4 ISBN10: 0340921366 EAN: 9780340921364 x Description: If you can manipulate the web you can change the world. You can also get away with murder over and over again . . . Danielle Leaf thought she was just delivering a passport to help a friend. Then she was abducted and imprisoned in remote rural India. Her desperate escape is only the beginning. Now she has been drawn into a war between a transnational mining company that is poisoning Third World farmers and the invisible armies of anticorporate protesters who oppose it. It is a dizzying world of whirlwind romance on the Goa coast; bloody street battles in Paris; shadowy computer hackers and mysterious benefactors. Danielle grows more deeply involved in this battle than she ever expected. Then she unearths a deadly secret. Soon she will be running for her life - from an enemy who will find her no matter where she hides . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jackdaws Ken Follett (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
29 Jun 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 608pp h177mm x w112mm x s36mm 308g ISBN13: 9780330487382 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48738-2 ISBN10: 0330487388 EAN: 9780330487382 x Description: A brand new thriller from the master storyteller set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action.It is May, 1944 - a time of international tension where nothing is certain . . .Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously.Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail . . .
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Jackdaws (Om) Ken Follett (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 496pp h180mm x w110mm 240g ISBN13: 9780451205599 ISBN13: 978-0-451-20559-9 ISBN10: 0451205596 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Secret Smile (TPB) Nicci French (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h182mm x w114mm x s22mm 166g ISBN13: 9780141017624 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101762-4 ISBN10: 0141017627 EAN: 9780141017624 x Description: You meet a man -You have an affair - You finish it and you think it's over - You're dead wrong - It's only just beginning . . . Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, he's intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarrassment becomes threatening - then even more terrifying than a girl's worst nightmare. Because this time Brendan will stop at nothing to be part of Miranda's life - even if it means taking it from her . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Betrayal in Naples Neil Griffiths (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export ed
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9780141019024 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101902-4 ISBN10: 0141019026 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emergence Ray Hammond (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
11 Jan 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 608pp h178mm x w111mm x s37mm 302g ISBN13: 9780330485951 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48595-1 ISBN10: 0330485954 EAN: 9780330485951
x Description: Imagine a near-future world where one giant corporation has become so influential that no single government dare oppose it -- not even the mighty USA. A company so powerful that it can establish an independent country to serve as its unassailable headquarters. That company is Tycom, and its founder - Thomas Tye - has made it his evangelical mission to save the Earth from ecological ruin. Already the orbital installations that can manipulate this battered planet's climate are near completion -- while the military backing of an erstwhile superpower is guaranteed. But Tom Tye's seeming altruism carries a price that the rest of the developed world is no longer prepared to pay. Emergence is the dramatic and multi-layered story of a hydra-headed fight against Tycom and its despotic master. But will our planet be a better place without him? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Keep Her Safe Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
International ed.
Imprint:
William Morrow & Company
Publisher:
William Morrow & Company
Pub Date:
19 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 352pp h226mm x w147mm x s25mm 363g ISBN13: 9780062688965 ISBN13: 978-0-06-268896-5 ISBN10: 0062688960 EAN: 9780062688965 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Orphan Choir Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hammer
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
10 Oct 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 238g ISBN13: 9780099580027 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958002-7 ISBN10: 0099580020 EAN: 9780099580027 x Description: Louise's seven year old son has been sent away to boarding school against her wishes, and she misses him desperately. And her neighbour from hell is keeping her awake at night by playing loud, intrusive music. So when the chance comes to move to the country, she jumps at it as a way of saving her sanity. Only it doesn't. Because the music has followed her. Except this time, it's choral music sung by a choir of children only she can see and hear ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Warning: A Short Story Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Witness Impulse
Publisher:
Witness Impulse
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 160pp h170mm x w107mm x s13mm 91g ISBN13: 9780062428851 ISBN13: 978-0-06-242885-1 ISBN10: 0062428853 EAN: 9780062428851 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Visitors Book Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Witness Impulse
Publisher:
Witness Impulse
Pub Date:
29 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 128pp h170mm x w109mm x s8mm 45g ISBN13: 9780062669292 ISBN13: 978-0-06-266929-2 ISBN10: 006266929X EAN: 9780062669292 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Woman with a Secret Sophie Hannah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Morrow & Company
Publisher:
William Morrow & Company
Pub Date:
12 Apr 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 416pp h198mm x w132mm x s28mm 295g ISBN13: 9780062388278 ISBN13: 978-0-06-238827-8 ISBN10: 0062388274 EAN: 9780062388278 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Phoenix Richard H. Herman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Coronet Books
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
05 Dec 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 496pp h178mm x w113mm x s31mm 260g None ISBN13: 9780340819180 ISBN13: 978-0-340-81918-0 ISBN10: 0340819189 EAN: 9780340819180 x Description: It is the start of the new century and the world is still a very dangerous place. Fully aware that the US cannot fight two Major Theater Wars at the same time, China and the radical Islamic states attack simultaneously. Maddy Turner, the embattled president, is forced to focus on the Middle East while fighting a holding action in Asia. She sends a ragtag collection of A-10 Warthogs to Malaysia, led by dare-devil pilot Matt Pontowski. It will only be a matter of days before their base is overrun. But there is a wildcard. Victor Kamigami is a legend in the world of special operations. He is past his prime, but when Chinese guerillas destroy his village and murder his family he is set on a quest of retribution... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This is What Happened Mick Herron (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h199mm x w130mm x s17mm 208g ISBN13: 9781473657359 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-5735-9 ISBN10: 1473657350 EAN: 9781473657359 x Description: Something's happened. A lot of things have happened. If she could turn back time, she wondered how far she would go. Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice. Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to thwart an international plot that puts all of Britain at risk. Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero - if she can think quickly enough to stay alive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Drink with the Devil (Sean Dillon Series, Book 5) Jack Higgins (Author) Series:
Sean Dillon Series 5
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
06 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 368pp h178mm x w111mm x s22mm 197g ISBN13: 9780007304547 ISBN13: 978-0-00-730454-7 ISBN10: 0007304544 EAN: 9780007304547 x Description: Ten years ago, a fortune in gold bullion was stolen, only to disappear beneath the Irish Sea. Now it's been found, and Sean Dillon must face ghosts from his past in the race to get to it first.
A fortune in stolen British gold, brutally hijacked by Irish Protestant paramilitaries in the 1980s, lies shipwrecked at the bottom of the Irish Sea. Now the Irish Rose, and her precious cargo, have been found. The race is on to recover the bullion.
Irish militant Michael Ryan wants to finance war in his homeland - and a sinister pact with the New York Mafia will make his dreams a savage reality. To stop him, the British and American authorities must call in the best: Sean Dillon, once the most feared IRA enforcer, now working for British Intelligence.
His mission: to retrieve the gold and stop Ryan by any means necessary. With millions of pounds, and countless innocent lives hanging in the balance, the two men become locked in a furious race. Pursued by ghosts from his past, Dillon must fight for his own survival in this brutally thrilling game of cat and mouse. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Midnight Runner (Sean Dillon Series, Book 10) Jack Higgins (Author) Series:
Sean Dillon Series 10
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
25 Sep 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s29mm 240g ISBN13: 9780007127283 ISBN13: 978-0-00-712728-3 ISBN10: 0007127286 EAN: 9780007127283 x Description: Undercover enforcer Sean Dillon is the target for a vengeance killer in this action-packed new thriller from the master of the genre - the author of the international bestsellers DAY OF RECKONING and EDGE OF DANGER.
A ruthless killer is seeking revenge - and she has Sean Dillon in her sights - in this adrenalin-fuelled adventure from the master of the modern thriller.
The murderous Rashid family were forced to pay the ultimate price for their crimes by the British Government's secret enforcer Sean Dillon and his undercover team. Yet one member of that oil-rich dynasty was allowed to live, and that could have been Dillon's fatal mistake. Kate Rashid witnessed her brothers being killed one by one, and now she has sworn vengeance. Sean Dillon, White House operative Blake Johnson, even the US President himself... their time is coming, and only she knows how - or when. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On Dangerous Ground (Sean Dillon Series, Book 3) Jack Higgins (Author) Series:
Sean Dillon Series 3
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
06 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 210g ISBN13: 9780007304523 ISBN13: 978-0-00-730452-3 ISBN10: 0007304528 EAN: 9780007304523 x Description: A clandestine treaty. A death-bed confession. And the hunt is on for Sean Dillon, who must go head to head with the Mafia. The year is 1944. Just outside Delhi a British Dakota crashes, taking lives and destroying a clandestine treaty signed by Lord Mountbatten and the Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung. An historic agreement, one set to change the course of history. Over thirty years later, a death-bed confession from a Mafia kingpin reveals the answers to untouched secrets about the treaty, and just how much the British and Chinese governments would pay for its destruction. It's not long before Sean Dillon enters the fray; his feared expertise tested as he goes up against the uncompromising violence of the Mafia and the enticing dangers of a beautiful woman, more deadly than any professional killer he has ever known. Battling ruthless killers and the higher unseen powers of the government, Dillon must expose treacheries, colossal truths, and risk everything he loves in an explosive and thrilling quest for justice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The President's Daughter (Sean Dillon Series, Book 6) Jack Higgins (Author) Series:
Sean Dillon Series 6
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
06 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 210g ISBN13: 9780007304554 ISBN13: 978-0-00-730455-4 ISBN10: 0007304552 EAN: 9780007304554 x Description: The President's daughter has been kidnapped by Jewish terrorists. With the world watching, Sean Dillon is called in to find her, before the Commander-in-Chief is forced to make a decision which could rip the world apart.
Twenty years ago a young war hero saved a life, and began a passionate affair. Now, that young war hero is President of the United States, and a souvenir from his past, a beautiful daughter that he never knew existed, surfaces as the first of many secrets to be kept from public knowledge.
But someone, somewhere, has uncovered the truth. The girl is seized by religious zealots, and unless the President complies with their demands, her execution is certain. Yet if he gives in, the Middle East will ignite in war.
He calls in the only men who can help: Sean Dillon and Blake Johnson, two notorious specialists, who will do whatever it takes to find the President's daughter. But with time running out, can they get to her before a desperate father makes a truly momentous decision, one the whole world will regret? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Toll for the Brave Jack Higgins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
27 Oct 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 180g ISBN13: 9780007127252 ISBN13: 978-0-00-712725-2 ISBN10: 0007127251 EAN: 9780007127252 x Description: From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction.
Ellis Jackson woke up hugging a twelve-bore shotgun. In the next room, his mistress and his best friend lay naked on the bed, their heads blown to pulp. Back in England at last, Ellis Jackson had finally cracked.
Active combat, a Viet Cong prison camp and the callous treachery of his lover and interrogator, Madam Ny, had taken their toll. Ellis Jackson was out of his mind. Or was he?
Maybe it would all have been easier to take if he really had been mad _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wolf at the Door (Sean Dillon Series, Book 17) Jack Higgins (Author) Series:
Sean Dillon Series 17
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
13 May 2010
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 189g ISBN13: 9780007320448 ISBN13: 978-0-00-732044-8 ISBN10: 0007320442 EAN: 9780007320448 x Description: Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins...
THE LEGEND IS BACK
Someone is targeting the members of the elite intelligence unit known as 'the Prime Minister's private army' and all those who work with them.
On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash, and the car explodes. In New York, a former British soldier takes a short walk when a man comes up fast behind him, a pistol in his hand.
For Sean Dillon the hunt is on, a very well-connected old nemesis has clearly become tired of their interference in his schemes. But proving it is going to be a difficult task, and surviving it the hardest task of all... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blood Money Johnny Howard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
04 Nov 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 310pp h170mm x w110mm x s20mm 190g ISBN13: 9780752826875 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-2687-5 ISBN10: 0752826875 EAN: 9780752826875 x Description: Most of this story is true; the rest of it could so easily have been. Boat Troop are sent up river into war-torn Sierra Leone on a mission to secure a vital ore mine. While the men battle their way up river past vicious hippos and poisonous snakes, political events are rapidly overtaking the city-based HQ. As the balance of power swings between government and rebels, HMG wavers in its intentions. Soon after Boat Troop arrive at the mine they discover they are out on their own...and with the extra burden of civilians to hamper their task. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Havana Stephen Hunter (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
20 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h178mm x w110mm x s26mm 230g ISBN13: 9780099471448 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947144-8 ISBN10: 0099471442 EAN: 9780099471448 x Description: High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex, and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia and United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, and anyone looking to grab a piece of the action - including the Cuban government, which naturally honours the interests of its old ally, the United States of America. Of course, where there's paradise, trouble can't be far behind. Trouble, in this case, makes its entrance in the terrifically charismatic and silver-tongued form of a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. The Caribbean is fast becoming a strategic Cold War hub, and Soviet intelligence has taken Castro under its wing. The CIA's response is to send the one man capable of eliminating Castro: the legendary gunfighter and ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger, who proved his lethal talent in Stephen Hunter's previous bestsellers Hot Springs and Pale Horse Coming. In Cuba, Earl finds himself up to his neck in treacherous ambiguity, where the old rules about honour and duty don't apply, and where Earl's target seems to have more guts and good luck than anyone else in Cuba. Blending real-world figures into a lightning-paced narrative, Stephen Hunter once again proves himself the master of literary adventure and suspense. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blood Memory Greg Iles (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
22 May 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 512pp h157mm x w134mm x s32mm 270g ISBN13: 9780340833698 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83369-8 ISBN10: 0340833696 EAN: 9780340833698 x Description: Cat Ferry is a tough woman, but she's way out on the edge. She's been fighting a drink problem for some time and she's not necessarily winning. She's still haunted by the mysterious murder of her father. Her relationship with Detective Sam Regan is not going anywhere while he refuses to leave his wife. And now Cat's pregnant.Cat is a forensic odontologist. Her specialist knowledge of dentistry means that she is used by the New Orleans Police Department to analyze the bite marks that are often left on victims of brutal attacks. Now she is helping Sean to investigate a particularly savage series of murders, but something in the case is calling to Cat, something that seems to connect with her own, troubled life.The only chance Cat Ferry has to survive is to face down her demons, and confront a mystery of murder, corruption and evil that has entwined itself around her life like a snake from the swamps beyond the great house. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Quiet Game Greg Iles (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
07 Dec 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 576pp h180mm x w110mm 280g ISBN13: 9780451180421 ISBN13: 978-0-451-18042-1 ISBN10: 0451180429 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prophecy Peter James (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
04 Nov 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h183mm x w188mm x s26mm 216g ISBN13: 9780752817378 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-1737-8 ISBN10: 075281737X EAN: 9780752817378 x Description: A game that turns to a nightmare ... Non Omnis Moriar I shall not altogether die A young boy watches his mother die. A sadistic man dies in agony. Drunk students play with a Ouija board in a damp cellar. Can bricks and mortar retain imprints of the emotions experienced within them? Frannie is delighted when a chance meeting with a handsome man and his son leads to a romance. The fact that the relationship is marred by gruesome tragedies, she dismisses as an unsettling coincidence. But eventually she can no longer ignore the fact that she is the only thing linking these horrible events. Is it a murderous practical joke? Or worse...? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Faith Peter James (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
07 Dec 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 480pp h181mm x w118mm x s31mm 206g ISBN13: 9780752837116 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-3711-6 ISBN10: 0752837117 EAN: 9780752837116 x Description: Where science and belief meet . . . A terrifying thriller from 'Britain's answer to Stephen King and Michael Crichton' [Sunday Telegraph] Ross Ransome is at the top of his profession; one of the most successful, and certainly one of the richest, plastic surgeons in the business. Such a man would expect his wife to be perfect - and why not? After all, he has spent enough hours in surgery to get her that way. But when his wife falls ill she turns her back on conventional medicine, and her arid marriage, and seeks help from the world of alternative medicine and a charismatic therapist who promises not just medical salvation. For Ransome, this is the ultimate betrayal. It defies logic, and Ross Ransome is a profoundly logical man. Logically, he can see no reason why any man should have his wife when he can't. It's all completely rational... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twilight Peter James (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
17 Nov 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h178mm x w113mm x s20mm 176g ISBN13: 9780752876795 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-7679-5 ISBN10: 0752876791 EAN: 9780752876795 x Description: A terrifying novel of suspense and the supernatural from 'Britain's closest equivalent to Stephen King' Sunday Times Three muffled thuds ring from the partially filled grave of the newly wed girl. Only the verger hears them and he dismisses the noise as his imagination. But over the next few days others also hear faint sounds. An exhumation order is granted. Reporter Kate Hemingway sneaks into the small suburban churchyard when the coffin is opened, and the scene she witnesses is so horrific she can never forget it. As she starts work on the story, Kate finds herself caught up in a sinister and macabre cover-up. At the centre is a respected anaesthetist who has a secret obsession. He believes people can exist outside their bodies and that if he can prove it he will provide the answer to the question that has haunted mankind through the ages: is there life after death? Nothing - and no one - is going to stand in the way of his driving ambition . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fatal Tide Iris Johansen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 336pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 172g ISBN13: 9780330419420 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41942-0 ISBN10: 0330419420 EAN: 9780330419420 x Description: No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen last electrified readers with Dead Aim. Now she offers a pulse-pounding thriller that takes suspense writing to an all-new level: deep below the surface, where a ruthless killer strikes without warning, without mercy . . . and with the deadliest intent. When marine researcher Melis Nemid moved to her own Caribbean island and devoted herself to the study of dolphin behavior she hoped to put behind her a nightmarish past torn by violence. But it soon becomes clear that Melis is treading dangerous waters - and is about to be dragged under. Someone is cutting a path of destruction and death that leads directly to her door - and whoever it is knows exactly how to scare her . . . Only one person can help - a fellow oceanographer. But what does this enigmatic man really want? And can he be trusted? Melis may not be sure until it's too late, but her options are limited. Already she's being forced to relive her nightmares all over again . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Final Target Iris Johansen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
09 Nov 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 179g ISBN13: 9780330488709 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48870-9 ISBN10: 0330488708 EAN: 9780330488709 x Description: Dr. Jessica Riley nursed her sister back from a six-year withdrawal after the traumatic deaths of their parents and Melissa has spent every day since living life to the full. But when Jessica takes on the treatment of Cassie, beloved daughter of US President Andreas, the lives of both sisters become more and more complicated. Cassie is suffering a nightmare-filled trauma after her family's holiday retreat was violently attacked by masked criminals wishing to bargain with the President and use his daughter as currency. Cassie's life was saved at the last minute, but the bloody affair has gone unpunished and Cassie's saviour, Michael Travis - the only man who seems to hold any clues to the attackers' identities - has secrets of his own and has disappeared himself. As the manhunt for enigmatic diamond smuggler Travis closes in, all the characters are forced to bend the rules and trust those they would normally condemn. Extraordinary bonds develop and at every turn the mysterious pull of an emerald-eyed statue is strangely significant. Lives depend on knowing who can really be trusted and some will doubtless be lost . . . This intense and lively thriller will keep you turning the pages to discover who is going to be the FINAL TARGET. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In the Heat of the Summer John Katzenbach (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Time Warner Paperbacks Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
06 Jun 1996
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 436pp h177mm x w106mm 260g ISBN13: 9780751516241 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-1624-1 ISBN10: 0751516244 EAN: 9780751516241 x Description: By the author of "Just Cause". Reporter Malcolm Anderson receives phonecalls from a killer, making him a celebrity and putting him in grave danger. His editors are excited by this hot story while the cops want him to help catch the killer, a man looking to get even for the sins of Vietnam. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cold Case (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series, Book 17) Faye Kellerman (Author) Series:
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series 17
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 512pp h178mm x w111mm x s30mm 270g ISBN13: 9780007243259 ISBN13: 978-0-00-724325-9 ISBN10: 0007243251 EAN: 9780007243259 x Description: The seventeenth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman
The savage murder of beloved teacher Bennett Little shocked a community and baffled police. That his killer was never caught has haunted one of his pupils in particular, the gifted but shy Genoa Greeves.
Eighteen years later, software billionaire Genoa reads of a similar carjacking and murder in Hollywood. Now able to wield enormous influence, she pressures the LAPD to direct Lieutenant Peter Decker to re-open the case and solve the homicides.
With Decker facing nothing but cold trails and dead leads, he enlists the help of his daughter, Hollywood detective Cindy, as well as Rina, his wife. It's a decision he may come to regret as the line between cops and robbers gets dangerously blurred. Now Decker's cold case is re-awakening treacherous secrets in a city where the price of fame has no limits... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Therapy (Alex Delaware series, Book 18): A compulsive psychological thriller Jonathan Kellerman (Author) Series:
Alex Delaware
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2004 (01 Oct 2009)
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 512pp h174mm x w115mm x s30mm 314g ISBN13: 9780755307364 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-0736-4 ISBN10: 0755307364 EAN: 9780755307364 x Description: THERAPY is a harrowing exploration of the human psyche from the New York Times No. 1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman, author of KILLER and BREAKDOWN, filled with 'labyrinthine twists, excellent pacing, and hard-boiled, swaggering dialogue' (The Washington Post) Investigating the case of a lovers' lane murder of a pair of college students, Homicide Lieutenant Milo Sturgis enlists the help of Alex Delaware. As the two peel back layer upon layer of deception, they encounter shocking truths that extend way beyond the slaughter of two young lovers. Something other than therapy has been taking place within the plush, soundproof chambers of the young man's therapist . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fire Witness (Joona Linna, Book 3) Lars Kepler (Author) Series:
Joona Linna 3
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
22 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 608pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 410g ISBN13: 9780007467778 ISBN13: 978-0-00-746777-8 ISBN10: 000746777X EAN: 9780007467778 x Description: WAKE UP TO TRUE EVIL
The third gripping thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.
ONE GIRL IS DEAD
At a home for troubled girls, a young girl has been brutally murdered during the night. Her body is found arranged in bed with her hands covering her eyes.
ONE GIRL IS MISSING Vicky Bennet is the only girl unaccounted for. When a bloody hammer is discovered under her pillow, it appears that she was more than just a witness to the killing.
ONE GIRL CLAIMS TO HAVE SEEN IT ALL Detective Inspector Joona Linna is called in to piece the evidence together. But the case quickly descends into darker, more violent territory, leading him finally to a shocking confrontation with the past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Nightmare (Joona Linna, Book 2) Lars Kepler (Author) Series:
Joona Linna 2
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2013
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s39mm 400g ISBN13: 9780007414505 ISBN13: 978-0-00-741450-5 ISBN10: 0007414501 EAN: 9780007414505 x Description: From the bestselling author of The Hypnotist and Stalker comes the second high-octane thriller featuring Detective Inspector Joona Linna
He is an artist in terror The lifeless body of a young woman is discovered on an abandoned boat. A man is found hanging alone in his apartment.
This is his masterpiece Should the deaths be treated as suicide or murder? Four people know the answer. But a killer wants them dead.
And only one man can destroy it Can Detective Inspector Joona Linna keep them alive long enough to find out the truth? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mr Mercedes Stephen King (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
23 Apr 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h177mm x w122mm x s28mm 226g n/a ISBN13: 9781444788655 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-8865-5 ISBN10: 1444788655 EAN: 9781444788655 x Description: A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring Bill Hodges, a retired cop who is tormented by 'the Mercedes massacre', a case he never solved. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of that notorious crime, has sent Hodges a taunting letter. Now he's preparing to kill again. Each starts to close in on the other in a mega-stakes race against time.
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Breathless Dean Koontz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2010
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 189g ISBN13: 9780007267644 ISBN13: 978-0-00-726764-4 ISBN10: 0007267649 EAN: 9780007267644 x Description: The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless.
In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature's great mysteries has been revealed to him.
He takes his friend Cammy Rivers to bear witness to the phenomenal presence. As a scientist, she is stunned and awed. She emails photos to colleagues in far places to try and find a name for the wonderful beings. Before they know what is happening, Homeland Security has quarantined the wilderness around them and sent in assorted scientists to track down and 'neutralize' the threat to the known world.
Grady and Cammy aren't sticking around to be mere witnesses to this atrocity - determined to prevent it, they go on the run, and a pursuit of hairraising suspense is under way, with no happy ending in prospect...
Breathless is a unique and riveting thriller from the master of suspense. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Relentless Dean Koontz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
07 Jan 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 280g ISBN13: 9780007342624 ISBN13: 978-0-00-734262-4 ISBN10: 0007342624 EAN: 9780007342624 x Description: A must-read thriller from Dean Koontz - the worldwide bestseller of over 400 million copies. RELENTLESS is a pulse-pounding, pageturning race to the finish. It looked like just a bad review. But perhaps it was a death threat...
Being a writer is a dangerous business. When Cubby Greenwich receives a scathing review for his latest bestseller by the feared and therefore revered critic Shearman Waxx, he is determined to take no notice of it.
But Fate carries him right into Waxx's path. What began as an innocent and unexpected encounter is about to trigger an inferno of violence. For Shearman Waxx is not merely a ferocious literary enemy, but a ruthless sociopath, and now he is intent on destroying Cubby and everything he holds dear: his home, his wife, his young son, and every hope he had in the world.
The terror has only just begun, and it will be relentless...
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Silent Truths Susan Lewis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
23 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 736pp h177mm x w112mm x s39mm 362g ISBN13: 9780099414582 ISBN13: 978-0-09-941458-2 ISBN10: 0099414589 EAN: 9780099414582 x Description: Secrets can be deadly...When journalist Laurie Forbes turns up on Beth Ashby's doorstep, minutes after Beth's husband, political highflier Colin Ashby, has been arrested for murder, neither can even begin to guess the shocking repercussions that have just been triggered in both their lives. Beth attempts to escape from her shattered life by throwing herself into the kind of reckless high-living that seems destined for disaster, while Laurie finds herself being threatened, terrorised and even taken prisoner for what she knows. As the dangerous truth draws closer, Laurie realises that if she is to save Beth from those already preparing to destroy her, she must put her trust in hated rival journalist Elliot Russell and face up to a ghost from the past. "Silent Truths" takes us on a compelling journey along the dark, decadent halls of power, to the glittering shores of seduction and intrigue, and finally to the terrifying truths behind the silence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Ninja Eric van Lustbader (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
23 May 1990
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 640pp h178mm x w111mm 355g ISBN13: 9780586209530 ISBN13: 978-0-586-20953-0 ISBN10: 0586209530 x Description: Continuing the story that began in "Ninja" and "Miko", this book again deals with the character Nicholas Linnear, a man in whose soul are married the arts of the East and West. Eric van Lustbader's previous books include "The French Kiss" and "Black Heart". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Republic of Night Dominic Martell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion mass market paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
06 Jul 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 310pp h179mm x w112mm x s20mm 180g ISBN13: 9780752837031 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-3703-1 ISBN10: 0752837036 EAN: 9780752837031 x Description: Former terrorist Pascual lives quietly in Barcelona, until someone who knows too much pays him a visit. Asked to make a routine identification in Paris, Pascual soon finds himself entangled with Europe's nastiest crime ring - and it's all he can do to stay alive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pure Deception David Michie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
25 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h180mm x w110mm x s27mm 230g ISBN13: 9780751530926 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-3092-6 ISBN10: 0751530921 EAN: 9780751530926 This Product is Replaced By: 9780751537857 x Description: Mark Watson doesn't take much notice of the news when the head of Berkeley Square Cosmetics is gruesomely attacked in London. Mark has just been wooed to LA to be groomed as the new singing partner to the rock star, Isis. Still not totally believing his good luck he allows himself to be 'made over' - new wardrobe, new hair style, new name - until he's not too sure who he really is. Even when he learns that he and Isis have a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Berkeley Square, Mark doesn't make the connection between the violence in London and his new role. Then someone targets them in a bomb attack and Mark wakes up with a jolt. Unable to fathom Isis's over-hysterical reaction, Mark determines not only to survive with his life and his career intact, but also to discover who the real Isis is and why she should be so vulnerable to threats. It's a path which leads him into chilling danger and which makes him wish he'd never entertained an ambition to be famous. Visit the author's website at www.davidmichie.com _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seesaw Deborah Moggach (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
19 Mar 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h178mm x w110mm 180g ISBN13: 9780099278405 ISBN13: 978-0-09-927840-5 ISBN10: 0099278405 x Description: Things start to go wrong for the Price family when their "perfect family" picture appears in the local paper. Their apparent wealth tempts a couple to kidnap their eldest daughter and the comfortable, middle-class suburban life of the Prices proceeds to fall apart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Violet Hour Richard Montanari (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jul 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h180mm x w110mm x s23mm 208g ISBN13: 9780140269222 ISBN13: 978-0-14-026922-2 ISBN10: 0140269223 x Description: Twenty years ago a group of students celebrated their daring and freedom at an exclusive college party, where something terrible happened. For most the memories are buried until a respected priest is brutally killed. For journalist Nick Stella this could be a chance to hit the big time again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ravelling Peter Moore Smith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 448pp 244g ISBN13: 9780099410232 ISBN13: 978-0-09-941023-2 ISBN10: 0099410230 EAN: 9780099410232 x Description: Pilot, James Airie was named, curiously, after his father's passion - he flew for an airline. It wasn't a profession pilot ever considered for himself but Pilot had not exactly been himself since his little sister, Fiona, disappeared...Father, mother and Pilot's elder brother all believed that Fiona had been murdered. It tore the family apart. And even though Pilot's mother had transformed the pool into a garden, she could not bury the past. According to his neurosurgeon brother, Eric, Pilot had always been psychologically fragile, and now aged twenty-nine, he is still in therapy. And, he still continues to see Fiona in a series of still images, like a series of old photographs. The real ones his mother had hidden away. But Pilot can see, as if they are real, the tiny bumps of gooseflesh rising on the skin of her arms. There is a blur of red inside her mouth. There is a gurgling sound coming from somewhere inside her. Through a trauma of confusion, betrayal, madness and memories, Pilot feels his way toward the truth of what happened. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Statement Brian Moore (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
20 Jan 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h129mm x w198mm x s12mm 224g ISBN13: 9780006550235 ISBN13: 978-0-00-655023-5 ISBN10: 0006550231 x Description: Pierre Brossard is a Nazi collaborator accused of murdering 14 Jews during World War II, who is still living on the run in contemporary France. He's been sheltered by the Roman Catholic church, but now he has been accused of crimes against humanity and his places to hide are becoming fewer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beautiful Animals Lawrence Osborne (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 213g ISBN13: 9781784700379 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-037-9 ISBN10: 1784700371 EAN: 9781784700379 x Description: The best intentions can be deadly During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another's lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high society of island life, their imaginations are sparked when one day they find a young Arab man, Faoud, washed up on shore, a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean. But when their seemingly simple plan to help the stranger goes wrong, all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion.
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Critical Judgement Michael Palmer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
04 Dec 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 400pp h178mm x w110mm x s23mm 213g ISBN13: 9780099705215 ISBN13: 978-0-09-970521-5 ISBN10: 0099705214 EAN: 9780099705215 x Description: Dr Abby Dolan was on the fast track at a major San Francisco hospital when she made a critical choice: to follow her fiance, Josh Wyler, to the picturesque California town of Patience, where he has a new job with the manufacturing giant Colstar. Working in a small-town emergency room, knowing her every move sparks gossip, Abby nonetheless begins to feel at home-until the first undiagnosable patients start to showing up. Abby calls them NIWWs: No Idea What, s Wrong. And despite her cosiderable skills, she can, tcrack these baffling, seemingly random cases. When Josh too begins to suffer disturbing symptoms, followed by manic, even violent behaviour, she wonders: could Colstar somehow be poisoning the town? Warned by a colleague that her predecessor in the ER died in a dubious accident after makink similar allegations, Abby refuses to back off. She begins to question everyone and everything around her in the now hosti le town of patience-while her most dangerous enemy is far closer than she thinks. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Extreme Measures Michael Palmer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 Feb 1997 (18 Aug 2005)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h178mm x w110mm x s26mm 230g ISBN13: 9780099727217 ISBN13: 978-0-09-972721-7 ISBN10: 0099727218 EAN: 9780099727217 x Description: Young, talented, and ambitious, Dr Eric Najarian has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. What Eric doesn't know is that he's being watched. And judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules. But Eric has already seen too much. A missing body. An unspeakable mutilation. A brutal abduction. It's only the beginning of a terrifyingly evil plot, a sinister plan the group will stop at nothing to hide. And if Eric refuses to become their colleague - he will be their next victim... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Patient Michael Palmer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
27 Oct 2000 (18 Aug 2005)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 368pp h176mm x w111mm x s23mm 195g ISBN13: 9780099278672 ISBN13: 978-0-09-927867-2 ISBN10: 0099278677 EAN: 9780099278672 x
Description: Gifted and highly respected, Dr Jessie Copeland is about to revolutionise the field of neurosurgery with her ground-breaking bioengineering invention. Claude Malloche is suffering from a brain tumour, beyond the treatment of existing medical practice, and only Dr Copeland and her new technique can save him... But Malloche is the mysterious and ruthless killer holding the Boston hospital where Jessie works, and the city, to ransom. If Jessie fails to cure him, hundreds of innocent people will die... But if she succeeds, will Malloche only disappear once more to continue his deadly work? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Side Effects Michael Palmer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Dec 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h179mm x w112mm x s23mm 196g ISBN13: 9780099410768 ISBN13: 978-0-09-941076-8 ISBN10: 0099410761 EAN: 9780099410768 x Description: 'Has everything - a terrifying plot.breakneck pace.vividly drawn characters' John SaulDr. Kate Bennett is a brilliant young pathologist with a loving husband and a bright future. But her world is about to be turned upside down. At the Omnicenter, a high-tech health facility for women, a strange and puzzling illness has killed two patients - an illness which has no definite cause, let alone a cure. When Kate is called in to investigate the mysterious deaths she uncovers a horrifying secret which certain influential people will stop at nothing to protect. It is a terrible medical discovery which has its roots in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind. Now her best friend has fallen ill and is exhibiting the same symptoms as the previous victims - Kate must expose the sinister plot before it is too late. However, with powerful enemies and few friends Dr. Bennett's disturbing discovery comes to threaten not only her career, but also her marriage, her sanity and her life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Balance of Power Richard North Patterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
24 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 816pp h178mm x w111mm x s50mm 405g ISBN13: 9780330490832 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49083-2 ISBN10: 0330490834 EAN: 9780330490832 x Description: 'A must read for anyone interested in the gun debate' Bill Clinton Five months into his term, President Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have decided to marry. But the occasion is followed by a terrible tragedy: a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire. It is a shattering event that consumes Kilcannon and his wife, challenging both their marriage, and his Presidency in such a personal way that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence throughout the US. In a high-stakes game of politics and legal manoeuvring where ideals collide in the Senate, the courtroom and across the country, President Kilcannon is determined to win at any cost. But in the clash over gun rights and violence, the cost to both Kilcannons may be even higher than the President imagined. 'Patterson has the rare gift of enthralling as he informs' Mark Lawson, The Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dumas Club Arturo Perez-Reverte (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jun 1997 (02 Jun 2011)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 234g 31 ISBN13: 9780099448594 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944859-4 ISBN10: 0099448599 EAN: 9780099448594 x Description: A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso, solitary and obsessive, is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trail of devil worship, the more it leads him back to Dumas. He's the unwitting protagonist in someone's evil plot, but is he sleuth or hero, Sherlock Holmes or d'Artagnan? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Nazi Stanley Pottinger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Coronet Books
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
06 Dec 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h178mm x w110mm x s30mm 230g ISBN13: 9780340771013 ISBN13: 978-0-340-77101-3 ISBN10: 0340771011 EAN: 9780340771013 x Description: Lawyer Melissa Gale has dedicated her life to tracking down Nazis, in memory of her Holocaust survivor grandmother. Happily married to a Washington Post journalist, she is on the trail of a particularly elusive Nazi, Adalwolf, who always seems to be one step ahead of her, and who has apparently manufactured a lethal virus with which he is infecting random civilians. On a personal level, she is having fertility treatment for a much wanted baby. A debacle in which an American war veteran is killed in place of Adalwolf coincides with Melissa's pregnancy and she decides to work unofficially on the case for its duration. But Adalwolf has other ideas: Melissa's baby is a vital part of his genocidal plan, and the race is on. Can Melissa get to him before he gets to her? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tom Clancy's Power Plays: Cold War Jerome Preisler (Author) Tom Clancy (Author) Martin Greenberg (Author) Series:
Tom Clancy's Power Plays S. No.5
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Dec 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h182mm x w114mm x s24mm 198g ISBN13: 9780140294934 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029493-4 ISBN10: 0140294937 x Description: Global stability and the New World order are in peril, and American businessman Roger Gordian, star of POLITIKA and SHADOW WATCH, must again mobilize the full resources of his multinatinoal corporation to counter the threat. Bearing all the hallmarks of classic Tom Clancy, the fifth Powerplays novel serves up another dose of international intrigue and political brinkmanship. Intricate plotting, exceptional authenticity and knife-edge suspense will see this book repeat the massive success of its four predecessors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bess Peter Preston (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jun 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 432pp h180mm x w110mm x s27mm 242g ISBN13: 9780140286267 ISBN13: 978-0-14-028626-7 ISBN10: 0140286268 x Description: How could the monarchy end? A young girl is thrust on the throne after the death of her uncle, the King. As the court becomes delirious with intrigue and the hacks of Fleet Street wait at the gate, a nearly new Labour PM determines to control her. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wild Card Jerome Priesler (Author) Tom Clancy (Author) Series:
Tom Clancy's Power Plays S. v.8
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Dec 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 352pp h185mm x w118mm x s23mm 200g ISBN13: 9780140294965 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029496-5 ISBN10: 0140294961 x Description: TOM CLANCY'S POWERPLAYS When an anonymous e-mail alerts UpLink Technology's operatives to suspicious activity on an exclusive island resort, Pete Nimec goes undercover to investigate. Located off the coast of Trinidad, Rayos del Sol is not just a playground for the world's richest and most powerful people - it's also the headquarters for a joint fiber optic and oil refinery project run by UpLink and Sedco Oil. What Nimec discovers is a plot to drain oil from the United State's strategic petroleum reserve and sell it to outlaw nations. And when the island's highly trained security force is sent to take Nimec out - heaven on earth erupts into hell _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Scarecrow Matthew Reilly (Author) Series:
The Scarecrow series
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 544pp h178mm x w111mm x s35mm 292g ISBN13: 9780330487597 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48759-7 ISBN10: 0330487590 EAN: 9780330487597 x Description: As 'Scarecrow' Schofield watches his mission to eliminate a Siberian turn into a bloodbath, he realises he has been tricked -- and now become the prey rather than the predator. For a shadowy consortium of staggering power and wealth has included his name on a list of fifteen targets to be eliminated without fail by twelve noon that same day. Now every high-powered bounty hunter on the planet is on his trail, while he must simultaneously track down the perpetrators of a conspiracy about to reduce many of the major cities of the world to ashes. From Arctic Russia to the Afghan border, to France's Atlantic Coast, to a speed-of-light conflict over the Suez Canal, every form of ultra-tech weaponry comes into play in a spellbinding action drama unfolding within a mere twenty-four hours. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Density of Souls Christopher Rice (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h178mm x w111mm x s18mm 191g ISBN13: 9780330489331 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48933-1 ISBN10: 033048933X EAN: 9780330489331 x Description: In the brooding milieu of New Orleans, four friends are about to recognise the fragile boundaries between loyalty and betrayal. Once inseparable, Meredith, Brandon, Stephen and Greg enter high school only to learn that their friendship cannot withstand the envy and rage of adolescence. Their individual struggles are fuelled by the generations of family feuds and furtive passions hoarded within their opulent Garden District homes and soon, two violent deaths disrupt the core of this closeted society. Five years later, the former friends are drawn back together as new facts about their mutual history are revealed and what was once held to be a tragic accident is discovered to be murder. As the true story emerges, long-kept secrets begin to unravel and the casual cruelties of high school develop into acts of violence that threaten to destroy an entire community. A Density of Souls marks a stunning debut and its series of shocking twists will leave you reeling. Bold, compelling and haunting, this is American gothic in a new and intriguing guise. 'Less Than Zero meets Donna Tartt spiced with Stephen King' New York Magazine _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Shark Mutiny Patrick Robinson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2002 (07 Apr 2005)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 512pp h178mm x w110mm x s31mm 270g ISBN13: 9780099405276 ISBN13: 978-0-09-940527-6 ISBN10: 009940527X EAN: 9780099405276 x Description: It is 2007, and three supertankers are ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. World oil prices skyrocket. US Military Intelligence concludes that behind this catastrophe at the gateway to the Persian Gulf stands Iran, assisted by an expansionist China. Joined by new, young naval intelligence officer Lt. Jimmy Ramshawe, Admiral Arnold Morgan threatens the Iranian Navy with annihilation, deploying the US Navy to Hormuz along with the nuclear submarine, USS Shark, carrying two teams of Navy SEALS. With the US Navy distracted, China is able to unleash an attack on Taiwan, America's weak ally. The situation is critical as mutiny occurs onboard the USS Shark, jeopardising the entire operation by preventing the SEALS from assisting the increasingly desperate Taiwanese Air force ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Call to Treason: Tom Clancy's Op-Centre Jeff Rovin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Aug 2004 (26 Aug 2004)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h185mm x w115mm x s29mm 240g ISBN13: 9780141011363 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101136-3 ISBN10: 014101136X EAN: 9780141011363 x Description: After years of fending off challenges from the world's most dangerous terrorists, Op-Centre has been brought to heel by the US Congress. A short-sighted committee has cut Paul Hood's budget, and the first victim is his friend Mike Rodgers. But General Rodgers may not be looking for work for very long. Dynamic Senator Donald Orr is making a run for President at the head of his own third party.
Running on a platform of extreme isolationism, Orr presents a real challenge to the two-party system, and he needs a strong military advisor to make his team complete. The problem is that Orr may be involved in more than just ordinary political intrigue. The bodies of two murdered millionaires may be tied into the new party, and Op-Centre is seeking the killer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Marked For Life Emelie Schepp (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HQ
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h198mm x w126mm x s27mm 290g ISBN13: 9781848455375 ISBN13: 978-1-84845-537-5 ISBN10: 1848455372 EAN: 9781848455375 x Description: WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS READERS CHOICE AWARD 2016 In Lindoe, on the Swedish coast, a man has been found brutally murdered in his own home.
Public prosecutor Jana Berzelius steps in to lead the investigation. Young and brilliant but emotionally cold, Berzelius, like her famous prosecutor father, won't be swayed by the hysterical widow or intimidated by the threatening letters the victim had tried to hide. Jana is steely, aloof, impenetrable. That is, until the next body is found...
A few days later on a nearby deserted shoreline, the body of a preteen boy is discovered, and with him, the murder weapon that killed him and the original victim. Berzelius is drawn more deeply into the case for as she attends his autopsy, she recognizes something strangely familiar in his small, scarred, heroin-riddled body. Cut deep into his flesh are initials that scream child trafficking and trigger in her a flash of memory of her own dark, fear-ridden past. Her connection to this boy has been carved with deliberation and malice that penetrate to her very core.
Now, to protect her own hidden past, she must find the suspect behind these murders, before the police do.
International bestselling author Emelie Schepp introduces us to the enigmatic, unforgettable Jana Berzelius in this first novel of a chilling trilogy _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
TRAITORS KISS Gerald Seymour (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 544pp h178mm x w110mm x s34mm 272g ISBN13: 9780552150439 ISBN13: 978-0-552-15043-9 ISBN10: 0552150436 EAN: 9780552150439 x Description: Officially the Cold War is over. Between former enemies, the hand of friendship is exchanged in public. In private, though, the intelligence war goes on. An English trawler strays into Russian waters. When it returns, the captain has a package to deliver to British intelligence. For the next four years a high-ranking Russian naval officer, Viktor Archenko, passes valuable information to MI6. Suddenly he stops using the dead drop. His contacts in London know nothing about him but they know he s under suspicion. The time has come to get him out. But a new breed plays the spy game now, men like Gabriel Locke. They have no interest in irrelevant Cold War sparring, or the risk of a spy scandal. There are deals to be done, alliances to be made. They would rather leave Archenko to fend for himself. He is, after all, a throwback and an embarrassing one at that. Only one veteran agent realizes that there is much more at stake than a man s life. Only he dares ask the question- if the war is over, who will fight the peace?
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The Unknown Soldier Gerald Seymour (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp 530g ISBN13: 9780593052594 ISBN13: 978-0-593-05259-4 ISBN10: 0593052595 EAN: 9780593052594 x Description: Hidden in the empty vastness of the world's greatest desert - the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia - a tiny caravan of fugitives and camels moves painfully slowly towards its goal. n extreme heat and exposed to cruelly vicious storms, it is a place where only the strongest and most determined men will survive. Deep in the sands, lost from sight, are the leadership of Al Qaeda, hunted, pursued and regrouping to strike again. mong the bedouin and Arabs of the caravan one man stands out. His strength, self-imposed discipline and leadership mark him. He is an Outsider. To look into his face and memorise it is to court death. His identify is masked, his past is blanked from his memory. To him, the leadership is his only family, and his loyalty to the family is total. earching for him in the limitless sands and dunes are American and British experts in counter-terrorism with a full range of sophisticated electronics at hand. Above him, quartering the desert, is the unmanned Predator aircraft that is invisible in the cloudless skies and that carries the Hellfire missiles. ut he is no easy prey. If they fail to find and kill him, if he reaches his family and receives his orders, the Outs _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Untouchable Gerald Seymour (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 624pp h179mm x w109mm x s35mm 302g ISBN13: 9780552148160 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14816-0 ISBN10: 0552148164 EAN: 9780552148160 x Description: In London Albert William Packer, known as Mister, is master of all he surveys. He rules the manor with an iron fist - transgression is punished savagely, and moonlighting is rooted out and dealt with without hesitation. For twenty years, Packer has had it all his own way - the police and intelligence services have targeted him but have yet to get close to any sort of effective prosecution. After the collapse of the most recent National Crime Squad case against him through the intervention of his lawyer, Henry Arbuthnot, known as the Eagle, Packer sets out to broaden his horizons. His core business is heroin, bought from the Turks in Green Lanes and distributed around the capital. But he wants to cut out the middle man and in order to do so must travel to Sarajevo to parlay with the middle man where he hopes to negotiate safe transit through the black market crossroads that is the former Yugosalvia. But there is one survivor of the latest Home Office debacle, an archivist called Joey Cann who is determined to bring Packer to justice and follows him and his entourage to Sarajevo to glean what he can from the visit and to undermine whatever operation Packer is in the process of setting up. In the wartorn and dismal surroundings of that city, law and order is administered by the gangster warlords whose brutal regime will not tolerate anyone who won't be bought or toe the line. It is the modern day Wild West - guns and drugs are the primary currencies. As Packer attempts to establish his bridgehead against unimpressed opposition, Joey chips away at what is known about the man, uncovering him day by day until he has sufficient momentum to confront him directly... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Confessor Daniel Silva (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h181mm x w111mm x s25mm 226g ISBN13: 9780141015873 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101587-3 ISBN10: 014101587X EAN: 9780141015873 x Description: A complex thriller of ancient and modern betrayal from the author of The English Assassin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Good Daughter Karin Slaughter (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
20 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 512pp h178mm x w111mm x s32mm 270g ISBN13: 9780008150815 ISBN13: 978-0-00-815081-5 ISBN10: 0008150818 EAN: 9780008150815 x Description: The stunning standalone, with a chilling edge of psychological suspense, from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Will Trent and Grant County series.
One ran. One stayed. But who is...the good daughter? Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's childhoods were destroyed by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father - a notorious defence attorney - devastated. And it left the family consumed by secrets from that shocking night.
Twenty-eight years later, Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer. But when violence comes to their home town again, the case triggers memories she's desperately tried to suppress. Because the shocking truth about the crime which destroyed her family won't stay buried for ever... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Good Daughter Karin Slaughter (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s34mm 390g ISBN13: 9780008150792 ISBN13: 978-0-00-815079-2 ISBN10: 0008150796 EAN: 9780008150792 x Description: The stunning standalone, with a chilling edge of psychological suspense, from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Will Trent and Grant County series.
The Good Daughter will have you hooked from the first page to the last, and will stay with you long after you have finished reading!
One ran. One stayed. But who is...the good daughter? Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's childhoods were destroyed by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father - a notorious defence attorney - devastated. And it left the family consumed by secrets from that shocking night.
Twenty-eight years later, Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer. But when violence comes to their home town again, the case triggers memories she's desperately tried to suppress. Because the shocking truth about the crime which destroyed her family won't stay buried for ever... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pieces of Her Karin Slaughter (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 480pp h178mm x w111mm x s32mm 270g ISBN13: 9780008150877 ISBN13: 978-0-00-815087-7 ISBN10: 0008150877 EAN: 9780008150877 x Description: The gripping standalone thriler from No. 1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter, soon to be a Netflix series A terrifying act of violence... It takes a split second for your life to change forever. And for Andrea Oliver that split second is a mass shooting in her local mall. A woman whose life is built on a lie... But this shocking act is only the start. Because then, as the bodies fall around them, Andy's mother Laura takes a step forward into the line of fire. A fight for survival... Hours later, Laura is in hospital, her face splashed over the newspapers. But the danger has only just begun. Now Andy must embark on a desperate race against time to uncover the secrets of her mother's past before any more blood is shed... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gorky Park / Nightwing Martin Cruz Smith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Book h1mm x w1mm 500g ISBN13: 9780330420990 ISBN13: 978-0-330-42099-0 ISBN10: 0330420992 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tokyo Station Martin Cruz Smith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 464pp h178mm x w111mm x s28mm 232g ISBN13: 9780330488815 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48881-5 ISBN10: 0330488813 EAN: 9780330488815 x Description: 1922, Tokyo. Harry Niles is a 'wild child', an American boy in a strange country, ignored by his missionary parents. So Harry begins to lead his own life in the Tokyo underworld. One night, he is charged with delivering a painting to an enigmatic figure, the samurai Ishigami. It is an encounter that will haunt Harry Niles forever . . . 1937, Nanking. China is under attack. The Japanese army is brutally and systematically murdering and raping the local population. In the midst of this horror, Harry finds himself face to face once again with Lieutenant Ishigami. But for the samurai warrior, their meeting leads to the greatest possible dishonour - public humiliation. 1941, Tokyo. With the attack on Pearl Harbour only days away, Japan is on the brink of war with the United States. Harry Niles has become a man of many faces. Allying himself with both sides, he treads a dangerous - but profitable - path between the fading glory of the Chrysantheum Club, where the city's banking and industrial elite meet, and the shadowy Tokyo underworld. 'An impressively clever evocation of a time in which a cast of fallible, complext characters perform an elaborate dance of death and deception' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Something Like A House Sid Smith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
11 Jan 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h197mm x w130mm x s14mm 168g ISBN13: 9780330480871 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48087-1 ISBN10: 0330480871 EAN: 9780330480871 x Description: This is Jim Fraser's story: an incredible, often chilling account of his life as an army deserter living through the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, when China descended into a moral and physical chaos so extreme that cannibalism became, for some, the only way of survival. Unable to speak the language and totally ignorant of local customs, Jim Fraser makes his home in a community so isolated that even the Cultural Revolution impinges little on the ways of the villagers. Except that the village's very isolation has made it the perfect location for experiments of sheer, indescribable terror . . . 'I suspect this book will be compared with Robinson Crusoe (the outsider building his own abode) and Lord of the Flies (the long-term effects of context on individual mortality). It is a profound and sophisticated work of fiction' Observer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lies We Told Camilla Way (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 270g ISBN13: 9780008159092 ISBN13: 978-0-00-815909-2 ISBN10: 0008159092 EAN: 9780008159092 x
Description: DO YOU PROMISE NOT TO TELL?
A DAUGHTER Beth has always known there was something strange about her daughter, Hannah. The lack of emotion, the disturbing behaviour, the apparent delight in hurting others... sometimes Beth is scared of her, and what she could be capable of.
A SON Luke comes from the perfect family, with the perfect parents. But one day, he disappears without trace, and his girlfriend Clara is left desperate to discover what has happened to him.
A LIFE BUILT ON LIES As Clara digs into the past, she realizes that no family is truly perfect, and uncovers a link between Luke's long-lost sister and a strange girl named Hannah. Now Luke's life is in danger because of the lies once told and the secrets once kept. Can she find him before it's too late? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Men in Green Faces Gene Wentz (Author) B.Abell Jurus (Author) B. Abell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
St Martin's Press
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 304pp h172mm x w105mm 166g ISBN13: 9780312950521 ISBN13: 978-0-312-95052-1 ISBN10: 0312950527 x Description: Gene Michaels carries an M-60, eight hundred rounds, and a bible. The ultimate SEAL, he also carries a murderous grudge against a bloodthirsty colonel who was once one of their own. To bring him in, Michaels and his men will go behind the lines, where they will take on 5,000 NVA in the fight of their lives. From the camaraderie to the harrowing recons, from brutal interrogations to incredible, toe-to-toe firefights, here are America's most feared warriors as you have never seen them before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dale Brown's Dreamland (Dale Brown's Dreamland, Book 1) Dale Brown (Author) Jim DeFelice (Author) Series:
Dale Brown's Dreamland 1
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
30 May 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 203g ISBN13: 9780007109661 ISBN13: 978-0-00-710966-1 ISBN10: 0007109660 EAN: 9780007109661 x Description: The first in a new series of high-tech thrillers centred on Dreamland - a top-secret USAF weapons research centre - from the acclaimed author of Flight of the Old Dog and Warrior Class.
WHERE THE BEST OF THE BEST TAKE TO THE SKIES...
Hidden in the Nevada desert is America's most advanced aerospace-weapons testing facility. Dreamland is the place where the nation's top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Force's top guns come to test them - on the front
lines of a new era in warfare.
But the fiasco of a spy's infiltration has the Pentagon looking for an excuse to close down the expensive research centre. To clean up the mess, Lt Colonel `Dog' Bastian is sent in. He's just the guy to shake things up... and does when a crisis erupts in Somalia. Into a hotter-than-hot war zone he sends his own daughter - the pilot of a Megafortress bomber - and a high-tech, unmanned flight system that could make or break the future of Dreamland. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
London Rules: Jackson Lamb Thriller 5 Mick Herron (Author) Series:
Jackson Lamb Thriller
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 281g ISBN13: 9781473657403 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-5740-3 ISBN10: 1473657407 EAN: 9781473657403 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 'The UK's new spy master' Sunday Times London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent's Park's First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble. Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks, and someone's trying to kill Roddy Ho. Over at Slough House, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - that of making a bad situation much, much worse. It's a good job Jackson Lamb knows the rules. Because those things aren't going to break themselves. ****** Praise for Mick Herron 'The new spy master' Evening Standard 'Herron is spy fiction's great humorist, mixing absurd situations with sparklingly funny dialogue and elegant, witty prose' The Times 'Herron draws his readers so fully into the world of Slough House that the incautious might find themselves slipping between the pages and transformed from reader to spook' Irish Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Angel of Death (Sean Dillon Series, Book 4) Jack Higgins (Author) Series:
Sean Dillon Series 4
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
06 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 210g ISBN13: 9780007304530 ISBN13: 978-0-00-730453-0 ISBN10: 0007304536 EAN: 9780007304530 x Description: A mysterious terrorist group is killing other terrorists, IRA thugs and CIA and KGB agents, all in a bid to break the fragile peace process. Sean Dillon is the only man who can find them, if he can live long enough. No one is more feared than January 30: the mysterious terrorist group currently holding destructive and bloody reign over the world. Their targets are random, from all races and religions, their methods deadly. They are the enemies of peace and they are unstoppable. With the carnage mounting, and a US senator due to fly in to broker urgent peace talks, the Prime Minister authorizes a special investigation to hunt down the terrorists with extreme prejudice. Former enemies now uneasy allies, Brigadier Charles Ferguson and Sean Dillon, once the most feared enforcer in the IRA, are enlisted to lead the desperate hunt. Then the senator is targeted for death. Ferguson and Dillon need to move fast, putting their trust in each other, and their lives on the line, in order to seek out and destroy January 30 - before they can kill again, before they start a war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Infinite Riches Ben Okri (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Jul 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 287g ISBN13: 9780099540335 ISBN13: 978-0-09-954033-5 ISBN10: 0099540339 EAN: 9780099540335 x Description: In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultuous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and of his mother who battles for justice. This final chapter in Azaro's adventures is a explosive and haunting climax to this masterful trilogy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Barracuda 945 Patrick Robinson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 May 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 608pp h178mm x w112mm x s37mm 323g ISBN13: 9780099439851 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943985-1 ISBN10: 0099439859 EAN: 9780099439851 x Description: Major Ray Kerman, a high-ranking SAS officer and renowned submariner, mysteriously disappears amidst a blood bath on the streets of Hebron. In the following months, a series of utterly devastating Hamas terrorist hits, stuns the British and American governments. Plainly, a military genius is at work. Kerman, intelligence chiefs believe, has crossed over to the enemy's side. When, in quick succession, the main US oil supply lines
from Alaska are attacked and destroyed, without trace or clue, one of the Pentagon's worst nightmares may have come true. Has Kerman acquired a nuclear submarine, and navigated the killing machine through the treacherous straights of the northern Pacific, and on down the American West Coast? The Pentagon now stands helpless in the face of an enemy they cannot see, and cannot stop -- the mysterious Barracuda 945. But Admiral Arnold Morgan, National Security Advisor to the President, and his intelligence specialist Jimmy Ramshawe, plan a massive US revenge ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The President is Missing: The biggest thriller of the year President Bill Clinton (Author) James Patterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 528pp h234mm x w153mm x s39mm 633g ISBN13: 9781780898407 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-840-7 ISBN10: 1780898401 EAN: 9781780898407 x Description: `The dream team delivers big time ... Clinton's insider secrets and Patterson's storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade.' - Lee Child ________________________________ The President is Missing. The world is in shock. But the reason he's missing is much worse than anyone can imagine. With details only a President could know, and the kind of suspense only James Patterson can deliver. ________________________________ `A bullet train of a thriller. The Day of the Jackal for the twenty-first century.' - A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window 'This book moves like Air Force One. Big and fast.' - Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch series 'The President Is Missing is a big, splashy juggernaut of a novel, combining thrills with a truly authentic look at the inner happenings in Washington. I read it in one gulp. You will too.' - Harlan Coben, #1 bestselling author of Don't Let Go `Yes, The President is Missing is fiction - it's a thriller - but James Patterson and I have come up with three of the most frightening days in the history of the presidency. And it could really happen... These days, the seemingly impossible can happen. And it happens so fast. I believe that readers will not soon forget President Jonathan Duncan and his story.' - Bill Clinton `Needless to say, we had some great conversations about the presidency, what life in Washington is really like, and about the state of America and the rest of the world.' - James Patterson `I felt like I was right along with the characters for the shocking twists and turns you'll never guess are coming. Patterson and Clinton have created a truly unique character in their `missing' President. The President is Missing puts the listener inside the White House and inside the mind of a President grappling with extraordinary circumstances.' - Dennis Quaid on the audiobook of The President is Missing 'Relentless in its plotting and honest in its examination of issues that strike close to our hearts.' - Jeffery Deaver 'A first-rate collaboration from a couple of real pros! Engrossing from page one.' - David Baldacci 'vivid, engrossing - and authentically frightening.' - Carl Hiaasen, author of Razor Girl 'The President is Missing is more than a thriller - it's a skeleton key that lets you inside the head of a U.S. president.' - Brad Meltzer, author of The Escape Artist 'From the pens of two American icons comes a political thriller that rocks... a helluva story.' - Nelson DeMille, author of The Cuban Affair 'The President Is Missing is heart-pounding, gripping, terrifying... a genuinely masterful thriller. My knuckles are still white!' - Louise Penny, #1 bestselling author of Glass Houses
'Marry the political savvy of Bill Clinton with the craftsmanship of James Patterson and you get a fabulously entertaining thriller that is meticulous in its portrayal of Washington politics, gripping in its pacing, and harrowing in its depiction of the perils of cyberwarfare.' - Ron Chernow, #1 bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton and Grant 'Compelling from page one. A fantastic read!' - Mary Higgins Clark, #1 bestselling author of I've Got My Eyes on You _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Camino Island John Grisham (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
11 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h198mm x w128mm x s30mm 300g ISBN13: 9781473663749 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-6374-9 ISBN10: 1473663741 EAN: 9781473663749 x Description: ***The Sunday Times 'Thriller of the Month', Mail on Sunday 'Thriller of the Week' and Sun 'Best for Mystery-Lovers'*** Someone is about to make a killing The most daring and devastating heist in literary history targets a high security vault located deep beneath Princeton University. Valued at $25 million (though some would say priceless) the five manuscripts of F Scott Fitzgerald's only novels are amongst the most valuable in the world. After an initial flurry of arrests, both they and the ruthless gang of thieves who took them have vanished without trace. Now it falls to struggling writer Mercer Mann to crack a case that has thwarted the FBI's finest minds. ************ THE INNOCENT MAN by John Grisham is now a major six-part documentary series on Netflix ************ Praise for Camino Island 'A bewitching blend of high-stakes spying mission and summer romance, with a fascinatingly ambiguous central character' - The Sunday Times 'The gripping plot will have you devouring the chapters in such a frantic fashion you'll begin to wonder if you are somehow complicit in this perfect crime' - Heat 'Grisham shows charm, wit and a light touch' - The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Whistler: The Number One Bestseller John Grisham (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
27 Jun 2017 (16 May 2019)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 416pp h200mm x w169mm x s26mm 294g ISBN13: 9781444791099 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-9109-9 ISBN10: 1444791095 EAN: 9781444791099
x Description: 'The best thriller writer alive' Ken Follett The most corrupt judge in US history. A young investigator with a secret informant. Lacy Stoltz never expected to be in the firing line. Investigating judicial misconduct by Florida's one thousand judges, her cases so far have been relatively unexciting. That's until she meets Greg Myers, an indicted lawyer with an assumed name, who has an extraordinary tale to tell. Myers is representing a whistle blower who knows of a judge involved in organised crime. Along with her gangster associates this judge has facilitated the building of a casino on an Indian reservation. At least two people who opposed the scheme are dead. Since the casino was built, the judge has made several fortunes off undeclared winnings. She owns property around the world, hires private jets to take her where she wishes, and her secret vaults are overflowing with rare books, art and jewels. No one has a clue what she's been doing - until now. Under Florida law, those who help the state recover illegally acquired assets stand to gain a large percentage of them. Myers and his whistle blower friend could make millions. But first they need Lacy to start an investigation. Is she ready to pit herself against the most corrupt judge in American history, a judge whose associates think nothing of murder? ****************** Praise for THE WHISTLER 'Grisham really is the master of the legal thriller!' - 5-star reader review 'A great read' - 5-star reader review 'A thriller with plenty of action' - 5-star reader review 'Another gripping tale' - 5-star reader review 'Absolutely loved this book' - 5-star reader review _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hellfire Club Jake Tapper (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Little, Brown & Company
Publisher:
Little, Brown & Company
Pub Date:
24 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h243mm x w154mm x s29mm 562g ISBN13: 9780316472319 ISBN13: 978-0-316-47231-9 ISBN10: 031647231X EAN: 9780316472319 x Description: Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, DC, alongside his young wife Margaret, a zoologist with ambitions of her own. Amid the swirl of glamorous and powerful political leaders and deal makers, a mysterious fatal car accident thrusts Charlie and Margaret into an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a plot that could change the course of history. When Charlie discovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of governance, he has to fight not only for his principles and his newfound political career...but for his life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Origin: (Robert Langdon Book 5) Dan Brown (Author) Series:
Robert Langdon
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 560pp h198mm x w127mm x s33mm 378g ISBN13: 9780552174169 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17416-9 ISBN10: 0552174165 EAN: 9780552174169 x Description: Sunday Times #1 Bestseller New York Times #1 Bestseller The global bestseller - Origin is the latest Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code.
'Fans will not be disappointed' The Times
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of an astonishing scientific breakthrough. The evening's host is billionaire Edmond Kirsch, a futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. But Langdon and several hundred guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is suddenly blown apart. There is a real danger that Kirsch's precious discovery may be lost in the ensuing chaos. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao, taking with him the museum's director, Ambra Vidal. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch's secret. To evade a devious enemy who is one step ahead of them at every turn, Langdon and Vidal must navigate the labyrinthine passageways of extreme religion and hidden history. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal will come face-to-face with a breathtaking truth that has remained buried - until now.
`Dan Brown is the master of the intellectual cliffhanger' Wall Street Journal `As engaging a hero as you could wish for' Mail on Sunday `For anyone who wants more brain-food than thrillers normally provide' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prey Michael Crichton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
04 Dec 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 544pp h178mm x w111mm x s33mm 290g ISBN13: 9780007229734 ISBN13: 978-0-00-722973-4 ISBN10: 0007229739 EAN: 9780007229734 This Product Replaces: 9780007154531 x Description: From the Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes this classic Crichton page-turner, weaving together heartpounding thrills with cutting-edge technology.
In California, odd things are happening to unemployed scientist Jack Forman. His children tell Jack that strange men have visited the house. And Julia, his wife, isn't helping - she acts, even looks, somehow different.
Deep in the Nevada desert, in the laboratory where Julia works, things are out of control. A swarm of rogue microbots, designed to reproduce and learn, is developing with a frightening speed that has the scientists battling to contain it.
Only when Jack is called in to help does he discover the shocking truth - the microbots have been programmed to behave as predators.
And Man is the prey... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Inheritors Michael A. Smith (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
St Martin's Press
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
16 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 352pp h171mm x w106mm 184g ISBN13: 9780812561913 ISBN13: 978-0-8125-6191-3 ISBN10: 0812561910 x Description: Twice before, the ruthless religious fanatic known as Jeremiah has sought to impose his own twisted brand of theocracy to the world. Now, with the preparations for a new global apocalypse in place, Jeremiah must decide which of his sons will be his chosen successor. He pits his heirs against each other, testing their worthiness, while gradually revealing his diabolical scheme to unleash a deadly plague on the world. THE INHERITORS is a psychological thriller, a chilling portrait of insanity, and a terrifying peak into a future that is all too plausible. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Days Without End Sebastian Barry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Open Market - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h178mm x w111mm x s19mm 173g ISBN13: 9780571277025 ISBN13: 978-0-571-27702-5 ISBN10: 0571277020 EAN: 9780571277025 x Description: WINNER OF 2016 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Pitch-perfect, the outstanding novel of the year so far.' Robert McCrum, Observer 'More wrenching and beautiful than anything I've read in a long time.' Aravind Adiga, Guardian Books of the Year After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. But when a young Indian girl crosses their path, Thomas and John must decide on the best way of life for them all in the face of dangerous odds. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Single & Single John Le Carre (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
21 Sep 2006 (14 Apr 2011)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w130mm x s30mm 371g ISBN13: 9780340937716 ISBN13: 978-0-340-93771-6 ISBN10: 0340937718 EAN: 9780340937716 x Description: A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder. SINGLE & SINGLE is a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart - intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carre at the height of his dramatic and creative powers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shadow Watch Tom Clancy (Author) Martin Greenberg (Author) Series:
Tom Clancy's Power Plays S. No.3
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Dec 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 368pp h181mm x w114mm x s25mm 210g ISBN13: 9780140279252 ISBN13: 978-0-14-027925-2 ISBN10: 0140279253 x Description: In this novel, a near disaster prior to a space shuttle launch provides the first evidence of a global terrorist plan to bring the USA to its knees. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Scoundrel Bernard Cornwell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Aug 1993
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h181mm x w111mm x s19mm 168g forms transparencies ISBN13: 9780140177268 ISBN13: 978-0-14-017726-8 ISBN10: 0140177264 x Description: Paul Shanahan, the owner of a yacht delivery business in Belgium, now lives a peaceful existence after a terrorist-active life. An old colleague's request for the secret transport of a large amount of gold is a welcome return to the fold, and a chance to get home to Boston. But it turns out to be the trickiest and deadliest business of all - haunted always by the betrayal of his lover. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pirate Latitudes Michael Crichton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 400pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 214g ISBN13: 9780007349999 ISBN13: 978-0-00-734999-9 ISBN10: 0007349998 EAN: 9780007349999 x Description: An irresistible tale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World from master storyteller Michael Crichton
Jamaica, in 1665 a lone outpost of British power amid Spanish waters in the sunbaked Caribbean. Its capital, Port Royal, a cuthroat town of taverns, grog shops and bawdy houses - the last place imaginable from which to launch an unthinkable attack on a nearby Spanish stronghold. Yet that is exactly what renowned privateer Captain Charles Hunter plans to do, with the connivance of Charles II's ruling governor, Sir James Almont.
The target is Matanceros, guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, and considered impregnable with its gun emplacements and sheer cliffs. Hunter's crew of buccaneers must battle not only the Spanish fleet but other deadly perils - raging hurricanes, cannibal tribes, even sea monsters. But if his ragtag crew succeeds, they will make not only history ... but a fortune in gold. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hidden Man Charles Cumming (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h182mm x w112mm x s27mm 222g ISBN13: 9780140294774 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029477-4 ISBN10: 0140294775 x Description: Mark and Benjamin Keen haven't seen their father, Christopher, for more than twenty years. He has only just begun to shed light on his life as a master spy when he is murdered in cold blood by an unidentified assassin. Was his death connected to his MI6 past? Had Christopher uncovered a dangerous conspiracy involving his eldest son? And what were his links to Moscow, Afghanistan and the Russian mafia in London? To discover the truth and avenge their father's death the brothers are drawn into the legacy of his life as a spy. And inheritance can be deadly. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hunger Elise Blackwell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w130mm x s12mm 140g ISBN13: 9780099463436 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946343-6 ISBN10: 0099463431 EAN: 9780099463436 x Description: When German troops surround Leningrad and cut off food supplies in the autumn of 1941, no one imagines that the siege will last almost three years and take hundreds of thousands of lives. As the first 'hungry winter' sets in, the city's residents strip the bark off trees, boil and eat mosscovered stones, and trade priceless antiques for half a loaf of bread - and sex for a chunk of sugar. But the scientists at the Institute of Plant Industry pledge to protect their collection of rare seeds, painstakingly gathered from all over the world, no matter what the human cost. But as the siege continues, the group divides into those who would preserve their principles at the price of starvation, and others who turn to deception - and more
sinister measures - to survive. This is a powerful, stunningly precise and beautifully written novel about human nature under life's harshest pressures. Reminiscent of Rachel Seiffert's "The Dark Room" and Bernhard Schlink's "The Reader" in its brevity, spareness and power, it is a quite remarkable debut. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fortunes of War Stephen Coonts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
03 Jun 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 512pp h178mm x w112mm x s35mm 280g ISBN13: 9780752826417 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-2641-7 ISBN10: 0752826417 EAN: 9780752826417 x Description: After the collapse of their economy, fanatic Japanese nationalists take matters into their own hands and, with the approval of the Prime Minister, launch an attack on Russia. Bound by secret protocol to come to Russia's aid in the event of war, the US government sends Air Force Colonel Bob Cassidy and a squadron of F-22s to thwart the Japanese in the skies over Siberia. The operation brings Cassidy one on one with Captain Jiro Kimura, flying Japan's most secret weapon. Japan's goal is world domination, the price a third world war. All that stands between Kimura and the completion of his mission is Cassidy, a man he once counted his best friend. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Special Ops: A Brotherhood of War Novel W. E. B. Griffin (Author) Series:
Brotherhood of War S. 9
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
28 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 784pp h180mm x w110mm 367g ISBN13: 9780515132489 ISBN13: 978-0-515-13248-9 ISBN10: 0515132489 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Breed of Heroes Alan Judd (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
13 Apr 1993
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h197mm x w130mm 216g ISBN13: 9780006545354 ISBN13: 978-0-00-654535-4 ISBN10: 0006545351 x Description: This outstanding first novel established Alan Judd's literary reputation and was one of the most talked about and best-selling books for years. After university and Sandhurst, Charles Thoroughgood has now joined the Assault Commandos and is on a four-month tour of duty in Armagh and Belfast. The thankless task facing him and his men - to patrol the tension filled streets through weeks of boredom punctured only by bursts of horror takes them through times of tragedy, madness, laughter and terror. Alan Judd tells Thoroughgood's tale with verve, compassion and humour. The result is an exceprionally fine novel which blends bitter human incident with bizarre army farce that will make you laugh out loud. 'Entertaining and compulsively readable achieves a memorable authenticity.' Melvyn Bragg _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Elegies For Kosovo Ismail Kadare (Author) Peter Constantine (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Harvill Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
17 Feb 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: Albanian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp 80g ISBN13: 9781860467073 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-707-3 ISBN10: 1860467075 EAN: 9781860467073 This Product Replaces: 9780099560951 x Description: 28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since. 28 June 1989, the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launches his campaign for a fresh massacre of the Albanians, the majority population of Kosovo. In three short narratives Kadare shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Goshawk Squadron Derek Robinson (Author) Series:
Cassell Military Paperba
Edition:
Imprint:
Cassell Military
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h199mm x w129mm x s18mm 210g ISBN13: 9780304356430 ISBN13: 978-0-304-35643-0 ISBN10: 0304356433 EAN: 9780304356430 x Description: For Stanley Woolley, commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron, the romance of chivalry in the clouds is just a myth. The code he drums into his men is simple and savage: shoot the enemy in the back before he knows you're there. Even so, he believes the whole squadron will be dead within three months. This book was short listed for the Booker Prize; this is Derek Robinson's masterly novel of the war in the air over the Western Front in 1918. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Purple Plain H. E. Bates (Author) Series:
Cassell Military Paperba
Edition:
Imprint:
Cassell Military
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h199mm x w130mm x s18mm 230g ISBN13: 9780304356270 ISBN13: 978-0-304-35627-0 ISBN10: 0304356271 EAN: 9780304356270 x Description: 'One of the most exciting and perfectly executed pieces of fiction that I have ever read' - Spectator 'It haunts you, alike for the queer and mounting suspense and for the masterly portraits of the three men' - Sunday Times Part of the Cassell Military Paperbacks spring fiction promotion _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Charlotte Gray Sebastian Faulks (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
24 Jan 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 512pp ISBN13: 9780099428343 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942834-3 ISBN10: 0099428342 EAN: 9780099428343 x Description: In 1942, Charlotte Gray goes to Occupied France on a duel mission, to run a simple errand for a British special operations group and to find her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. It is in the town of Lavaurette that she finds friendship and experiences life under Nazi rule. From the author of BIRDSONG. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If There Be Thorns Virginia Andrews (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
18 Jun 1981
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 352pp h178mm x w111mm x s21mm 190g ISBN13: 9780006163701 ISBN13: 978-0-00-616370-1 ISBN10: 000616370X EAN: 9780006163701 This Product Replaces: 9780006163701 x Description: From the author of Flowers in the Attic comes Book Three of the internationally bestselling Dollanganger family saga.
The family was now living as far as possible from the haunting scenes of their past, and, in the sunshine and joy of their new life, with the children and their shared love, they tried to forget the anguish of their loveless inheritance.
But the hidden secrets of the past rose up to trouble them. Their parents' dark heritage began to haunt them once more. The rage and hatred they felt returned to torment and twist the new generation. Only if they could forgive their mother and forgo their final revenge could they at last find the peace they so desperately sought. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Sweet Audrina Virginia Andrews (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
28 Apr 1983
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s22mm 200g ISBN13: 9780006167570 ISBN13: 978-0-00-616757-0 ISBN10: 0006167578 EAN: 9780006167570 x Description: A stand-alone mystery thriller from the bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic.
MY SWEET AUDRINA
The house in the wood was picturesque and charming. The family who lived there were happy and affluent. So what was the secret of the room empty of everything but the rocking chair?
Audrina wanted to be as good as her sister. Audrina knew her parents could not love her as they loved her sister. Her sister was perfect, much loved - and dead.
But how did she die? Who was Audrina and who did she have to become? What was the secret that everyone knew? Everyone except sweet Audrina...
The haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and terrible family secrets. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Petals on the Wind Virginia Andrews (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
10 Nov 1980
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h178mm x w111mm 222g ISBN13: 9780006161820 ISBN13: 978-0-00-616182-0 ISBN10: 0006161820 x Description: The bestselling phenomenon of the Dollanganger family saga continues, as the children who escaped the attic build new lives, haunted by their tragic past. The children now growing to adulthood had survived their imprisonment in the dark attic and had broken free to the sunlit world outside. But they found that the horror and pain of their captivity would not leave them. The memory of it would not allow them to lead ordinary lives. Was it their fault? Was there something strange about them? Only their mother could help them. Only revenge could satisfy them... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seeds of Yesterday Virginia Andrews (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
10 May 1984
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s23mm 210g ISBN13: 9780006167006 ISBN13: 978-0-00-616700-6 ISBN10: 0006167004 EAN: 9780006167006 x Description: The final, heartbreaking story in the compelling saga that began with `Flowers in the Attic', repackaged for a new generation of fans.
Cathy and Chris, haunted by the tragedies and sins of the past, return at last to Foxworth Hall where they were hidden so long ago. Despite every endeavour, they find that they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape, and with a terrifying certainty, the past comes back to prey upon them once more... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Web of Dreams Virginia Andrews (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
07 Dec 1989
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 416pp h178mm x w111mm x s26mm 230g ISBN13: 9780006178224 ISBN13: 978-0-00-617822-4 ISBN10: 0006178227 EAN: 9780006178224 This Product Replaces: 9780006178224 x Description: The Casteel family saga concludes with this fifth and final book as Annie and Luke return to Farthinggale Manor to finally put her past behind her. But the Manor still holds one final key to the mysteries surrounding her family.
GHOSTS FROM THE SHADOWS OF THE PAST
On their return to Farthinggale Manor, the mystery-shrouded luxury home of the Tatterton family, Annie and Luke believe that they will be putting the past finally to rest, and bringing peace to the spirit of Annie's mother, Heaven.
But Annie discovers a diary at Farthinggale. There she finds the story of her grandmother, Leigh, and of her great-grandparents. Born into the privileged life of Boston's wealthy classes, Leigh hopes for happiness. Her dreams are shattered, however, when her parents divorce, and her mother Jillian marries Tony Tatterton. The awful shadow cast by the Tatterton family over the lives of the next three generations begins to spread... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nobody True James Herbert (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 512pp h178mm x w111mm x s32mm 257g ISBN13: 9780330411677 ISBN13: 978-0-330-41167-7 ISBN10: 0330411675 EAN: 9780330411677 x Description: 'I wasn't there when I died...' Jim True knows. He has returned from an out-of-body experience to find he has been brutally murdered and his body mutilated. No one can see him, no one can hear him, no one, except his killer, knows he still exists. Freed from his body, True embarks on a quest to find his killer and discover why and how he has managed to survive. As he closes in on his murderer, True discovers that even the very people he loved and trusted have betrayed him. He meets his killer, a strange and sinister figure who can also leave his body at will. An epic and deadly battle ensues between True and a seemingly unstoppable and hideous serial killer - a man now intent on even more murders, including True's wife and child ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unmarked Graves Shaun Hutson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Digital original
Imprint:
Orbit
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2007
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h218mm x w147mm x s27mm 410g ISBN13: 9781841494333 ISBN13: 978-1-84149-433-3 ISBN10: 184149433X EAN: 9781841494333 This Product is Replaced By: 9781841494364 x Description: When investigative telejournalist Nick Pearson is sent to Darworth in Hertfordshire, he finds a community divided. A steady influx of foreign immigrants has led to racial tension and open hostility and violence. The African newcomers are particularly targeted, regular victims of vandalism and even fire-bombing. The Africans seem unwilling to fight back, until the arrival of a mysterious, powerful man who many of them know and fear. Nick begins to wonder if there might be some kind of connection between this newcomer and the desecration of a local cemetery - an event followed by the disappearance of a number of corpses and a series of bizarre, ritualistic murders. In each case, the victims bear the same marks on their bodies. Scars that Nick has seen before, five years earlier in Africa. Ancient religion and modern prejudice are about to collide, and when they do, there may be no survivors. At least not human ones ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Odd Thomas Dean Koontz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
16 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 432pp h178mm x w111mm x s26mm 224g ISBN13: 9780007130740 ISBN13: 978-0-00-713074-0 ISBN10: 0007130740 EAN: 9780007130740 x Description: The 400 million copy worldwide bestseller Dean Koontz is at his very best in this critically-acclaimed page-turner - soon to be a major motion picture. Find out why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller's most-loved creation.
Odd by name, a hero by nature.
He's Odd. Odd Thomas, to be precise. Genius fry-cook at the Pico Mundo grill; boyfriend to the gorgeous Stormy Llewellyn - and possibly the only person with a chance of stopping one of the worst crimes in the bloody history of murder...
Something evil has come to the desert town that Odd and Stormy call home. It comes in the form of a mysterious man with a macabre appetite, a filing cabinet full of information on the world's worst killers, and strange, hyena-like shadows following him wherever he goes. Odd is worried. He knows things, sees things - about the living, the dead and the soon to be dead. Things that he has to act on. Now he's terrified for Stormy, himself and Pico Mundo. Because he knows that on Wednesday August 15, a savage, blood-soaked whirlwind of violence and murder will devastate the town.
Today is August 14. And Odd is far from sure he can stop the coming storm... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 1) Dean Koontz (Author) Ed Gorman (Author) Kevin J. Anderson (Author) Series:
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein 1
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
22 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 496pp h178mm x w111mm x s30mm 263g ISBN13: 9780007203130 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720313-0 ISBN10: 0007203136 EAN: 9780007203130 x Description: SOMEONE NEW IS PLAYING GOD The Frankenstein story updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz.
Created centuries ago by a madman, possessed of seemingly supernatural powers and a dogged drive for justice, the mysterious Deucalion arrives in New Orleans as the next generation of Dr Frankenstein's monsters are about to be unleashed by their deranged maker, now known as Victor Helios.
Deucalion's path will cross with that of tough police detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, who are on the trail of a vicious serial killer stalking the city, a killer who selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself.
Reluctantly, Carson will join forces with Deucalion against a far greater, terrifying threat: an entire race of killers who are much more - and less than human ...
Deucalion seeks one final confrontation with the evil genius who created him, Dr Frankenstein.
Dean Koontz, the master storyteller, creates a bold new legend. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thirst Pyotyr Kurtinski (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Leisure Books
Publisher:
Leisure Books
Pub Date:
01 Aug 1995
Publishing Status:
No longer our product
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h169mm x w106mm x s24mm 154g ISBN13: 9780843938265 ISBN13: 978-0-8439-3826-5 ISBN10: 0843938269 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vivia Tanith Lee (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Time Warner Paperbacks Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
04 Dec 1997
Out of print
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 400pp h178mm x w108mm 205g ISBN13: 9780751521351 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-2135-1 ISBN10: 0751521353 x Description: Most people think that free-market ideas and theories were first substantially developed in the 18th century by figures such as Adam Smith. In this revised edition of Faith and Liberty, Alejandro A. Chafuen illustrates this misconception by examining the 16th- and 17th-century writings of a group of Catholic theologians and philosophers, known as the Late-Scholastics. They engaged in a systematic moral analysis of the ethical issues associated with trade and commerce. In doing so, they arrived at solutions that are in many senses indistinguishable from the ideas of many modern free market commentators. In this revised edition, Chafuen bolsters his case by including recent and pertinent material which gives rise to new questions and concerns. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tarot Tales Rachel Pollack (Author) Caitlin Mathews (Author) Various (Author) Caitlin Matthews (Edited by) Michael Moorcock (With) Gwyneth A Jones (With) M John Harrison (With) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ace Books
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
01 Jul 1996
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback h171mm x w108mm 136g ISBN13: 9780441003525 ISBN13: 978-0-441-00352-5 ISBN10: 0441003524 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slayer: The Next Generation: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Season Six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Keith Topping (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
09 Jan 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 240pp h178mm x w109mm x s18mm 135g ISBN13: 9780753507384 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-0738-4 ISBN10: 0753507382 x Description: Vampires, passion, teenage angst, cigarettes and alcohol, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Whether you're a seasoned Slayerette, a Scooby groupie or a novice, this book offers you a guide to the surreal world of Sunnydale. Despite its change of network and the lead character having died, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"'s literal representation of teenage horrors still touches on a universal truth. In this unofficial guide, the author analyses season six, discussing it episode by episode and presenting the highlights in categories such as: a little learning is a dangerous thing; I just love your accent; and it's a designer label. He unearths pop culture references, draws attention to the occasions when logic flies out of the window, discusses the themes covered from season one to five and includes sections on the series creator Joss Whedon, the novels and the websites. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Tears Hari Kunzru (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 245g ISBN13: 9780241977873 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97787-3 ISBN10: 0241977878 EAN: 9780241977873 x Description: 'A stunning, audacious new thriller... It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point. As brave as it is brutal, it lets nothing and nobody off the hook' NPR 'A book that everyone should be reading right now' TIME New Yorkers Carter and Seth chop up old music to make it new again, ripping off black culture to line white pockets. They are young, hungry and talented. But one day they stumble on an old blues song - an undiscovered gem just waiting to be found - and land themselves in a heap of trouble. Seeking answers, Seth travels deep into the heart of the old South, accompanied by Carter's bewitching sister Leonie. But this is America, where ghosts lie uneasy in shallow graves and tugging one loose thread can unravel a bloody history of injustice. And the closer Seth gets to the haunting truth, the more he feels pursued . . . White Tears is a nail-biting ride through the terrifying spectre of America's past. It's about black lives and white privilege and the music that runs through the country's veins like blood. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Climbing Olympus Kevin J. Anderson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Voyager
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
12 Jun 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 300pp h178mm x w111mm 157g ISBN13: 9780006483052 ISBN13: 978-0-00-648305-2 ISBN10: 0006483054 x Description: They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they have been surgically transformed into beings who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars. But they are still exiles, unable to ever again breath Earth's air. Creating a new Earth, they will destroy their own world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________