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'Compelling from first to last page.' - Denise Mina Meet Juniper Song, an under employed, twenty-something, Raymond-Chandler-loving, Korean American woman from downtown LA. When a friend asks Song to carry...

Duncan Edwards played his first game for Manchester United at the age of fifteen and Walter Winterbottom, then England manager, called him 'the spirit of British football'. On GBP15-a-week, Edwards...

In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the...

Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully-written immersion in Venetian life and character, set...

On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic...

In the Summer of 1978, a young boy disappears without trace from a cabin in the Dalecarlian woods of Sweden. His mother claims he was abducted by a giant. The...

Everybody expects the report to say they are a delight. They are very bright. They are pure as light. But they are small dogs Headmistress. I must report what I...

Such an animal is difficult to tame and always likely, when suddenly alarmed, to give our finger a nasty nip with its teeth. While dipping into The Children's Encyclopaedia of...

It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of...

Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway - this man Shower...

In About Churchill , Philip Roberts presents not only an analysis of Caryl Churchill's published work, but also an account of eleven of her unpublished pieces, lent by the playwright....

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

Maria Tambini is a thirteen-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up in the 1970s above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, she is making...

With Death in Holy Orders, P. D. James makes a triumphant return to the genre for which she is best known - the classic English detective story. The story is...

Here is the complete history of the word still considered one of the most vulgar and offensive in the English language, from its debut in 15th-century England to the present...

The book titled Cabal by the author Michael Dibdin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Threatening Eye by the author Lesley Grant-Adamson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A rich and powerful mystery introducing Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the 8th Earl of Asherton. Lynley and Sgt. Barbara Havers are asked to solve the particularly brutal murder of...

A tragic accident and its lasting impact upon two generations of a big American family, by the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The Short History of a Prince Women on...

New in paperback. hree tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai...For two of Nick Stone s closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect,...

The incendiary new thriller from the bestselling author of Remote Control and Crisis Four. elsinki, December 1999. Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a 'K' working for British Intelligence on deniable operations,...

This volume provides a comprehensive and even-handed overview of the debate concerning biological origins. This has been a controversial debate ever since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859....

From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of antiquities unrivaled by any city...

An homage to the beauty of two wheels, Cyclepedia is a celebration of the best bicycles designed over the past 90 years. Among this unique selection of exemplary bicycles are...

This entertaining book takes a quirky look at the world of flexible objects, those items that fold out for use and then fold back in again to save space. Per...

No other sport has football's popularity: none has such vibrant, visual, diverse culture attached to it. It is a way of life with its own symbols and iconography, and a...

Justinian's Great Church in Constantinople was the culminating architectural achievement of late antiquity and the first great masterpiece of the Byzantine world. For over 900 years it was Christendom's grandest...

People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated without words - yet they were also alarmed...

The arrival of Christopher Columbus on American shores, albeit controversial, remains one of the most consequential events in world history. In "Columbus in the Americas", acclaimed and bestselling author William...

"Probiotic Rescue is your road map to the safe and effective use of probiotic supplements for health and disease prevention." - Donald J. Brown, N.D. Probiotics will improve your health!...

In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome Project to the development...

The book titled Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart by the author Charles Higham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Brotherhood of the Rose by the author David Morrell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story -- of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center...

A daring journey of adventure, courage & romance, traversing the world from Casablanca to Lisbon to New York to London to Prague & then Paris, expanding & intensifying the classic...

This handbook for packaging designers and students contains 550 patterns for packages, containers and point-of-sale displays made of paper, paperboard and corrugated cardboard. It provides patterns, drawings of assembled packages...

Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on...

When a teacher is found dead, having apparently committed suicide, his friend and collegue takes over class 4F and finds himself responsible for a group of subdued, well-behaved but strangely...

Lissy Jablonski is trying to work out how she got to be twenty-nine, P regnant, and boyfriend-less. In the midst of dealing with her old friend Church and his impending...

These twelve short stories vividly bring to life the daily dramas of Chinese men and women who are starting to feel the influence of the West while still immersed in...

A leading trial consultant gives an inside look at the courtroom and justice system that explains how some of the most controversial verdicts in recent times came to be. There...

Union secret agent Harrison Raines is sent into the heart of the Confederacy to obtain information about "The Monster"-the hulking remains of the ironclad ship Merrimack, which is being restored....

A reference on the technology of flat breads. This volume focuses on a range of topics, from the historic background of cereal cultivation to the advanced research finding of flat...

After seasons of experience with Ryan's Hope, All My Children, and The Edge of Night, an Emmy-winning soap opera actress makes her debut as a novelist in what promises to...