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"I wait for him, the cold seeping through my clothes, until it finally dawns on me that he's not coming back. And I wonder why he chose her instead of...

London, 1826: Gabriel Swift has left behind his father's failures to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making...

Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further North,...

The best travel writing debut in years-an instant classic.Struck by the iniquity of a big country invading a small one, Jason Elliot went to Afghanistan to see what the Russians...

Jeremy Seal travels to the USA, Africa, Australia and India to meet people living amongst the world's deadliest snakes - and attempts to overcome his personal fear in the process....

A guide to love and compatability based on sun signs, Linda Goodman's Love Signs explores in depth all the possible combinations of the 12 sun signs. It covers how compatible...

A dark mystery lurks in the heart of Calcutta in this young adult novel from bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated from the original Spanish by acclaimed translator Lucia Graves....

By A.D. 1150 the Anasazi had created an empire in the Southwest that would never again be equaled in North America. Master astronomers, traders, and architects, they built extraordinary roads...

Self-deprecating and bitingly smart, Delia, a recovering addict, forges her own brand of hard-won wisdom on her journey in sobriety. When Delia entered treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at...

On the eve of the Second World War, a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. He will rest, swim in...

Where does a firstborn girl fit in a world dominated by men When Tiadone was born, her parents had two choices: leave their daughter outside the community to die in...

While still in darkness, the Brannings help to start a government system in their neighbourhood, & establish a church & a school, but a new outbreak of murders threatens their...

In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice. Will they hoard their possessions to survive-or...

"A heroine every bit as provocative as Stieg Larssons Lisbeth Salander." - The Dallas Morning News b>They took her. Then they took her family. Now shes coming for retribution. amp;#160;...

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir--as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels--about his obsessive search for "atonement in women." The year...

"I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided...

On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third...

Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thong's new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages...

In the 1970s, the Swedish musical phenomenon known as ABBA - Agnetha Faltskog, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad - succeeded in reinventing the world s perception of pop....

This is a photography manual. It is organized as a graduated "course" which aims to appeal to the beginner, competent amateur and the professional alike. From film, cameras and lenses...

The latest serial-killer-thriller masterpiece from America's dark mistress of crime First you beg. Then you die . . . No Pity Each skeleton is flawless - gleaming white and perfectly...

Three gripping interactive murder mystery stories - with riddles, puzzles and a 'choose your own adventure' hook Solve the puzzle. Save the world. Simple, right? Step into the shoes of...

The third book in this hilarious and relatable bestselling series from the creator of Hurrah for Gin. Lottie Brooks is BACK for more extremely embarrassing adventures as she goes on...

From bestselling author Michael Pollan comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is...

From the author of Love, Simon (Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda) bestselling YA rom-com queen Becky Albertalli, comes a new novel about daring to step out of the shadows...

The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. "This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed with musty spices. Sit comfortably by this good light, that you...

Part biography, part detective story- the extraordinary life of the eccentric writer Frederick Baron Corvo One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar novel called Hadrian the Seventh and,...

Pat Barker returns to the First World War and to the characters of Life Class with her new novel Toby's Room, a dark, compelling story of human desire, wartime horror...

Richard I was crowned King in 1189 and set off almost immediately for the Third Crusade. This was a bloody campaign to regain the Holy Land, marked by internecine warfare...

Secrets of Infinity examines infinity as it has been studied since antiquity, beginning with the classical figures from Greece and Rome. In an entertaining and practical way, readers will discover...

"To discover who rules, follow the gold." This is the argument of Golden Rule , a provocative, pungent history of modern American politics. Although the role big money plays in...

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is...

The captivating story of the country's greatest ever endurance runners, tragically unapplauded by 1920s Britain In 1928 two extraordinary Englishmen competed in an unprecedented event - a transcontinental road race...

A new work of 'comics journalism' by the acclaimed author of Palestine. In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In...

This book examines the theories and arguments put forward by Plato in his `Phaedo', in which he attempts to show that the soul is immortal. Chiefly intended for readers who...

In the Theaetetus, Plato looks afresh at a problem to which, he now realizes, he had earlier given an inadequate answer: the problem of the nature of knowledge. What Plato...

This one-volume selection of Yeats's work includes plays, criticism, and other prose writings as well as poems. As a result it offers a perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary...

Bonnie Prince Charlie is one of historys most romantic figures, but to what extent has myth obscured reality? Possessed of the cunning and seductive charm of Charles II and the...

"You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!" First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby OFerrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has...

Bishop George Appleton has selected more than 1,100 prayers covering many centuries, including some from the Bible, from the saints and mystics of the past, as well as from religions...

Sports Marketing provides an innovative approach to the study of marketing issues in a sport context. The book addresses sports marketing from a strategic perspective and explores both the marketing...

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist...

Ditie, a waiter, loves money, because he is short and money makes him feel six feet tall. So he follows his star from adventure to adventure, until he becomes a...