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Anthony Minghella's writing "sets a standard of emotional truth and clarity so sublimely high that everything around it looks stale, flat, tawdry and obvious" (The Times) Whale Music is: "genuinely...

Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph) Clever Soldiers: "is a thoughtful play about violence" (Times) which attacks...

Written with exclusive full access to Virgil Thomson's papers, here is the first full-scale account of Thomson's experiences as a composer, influential critic, and gay man. This biography shows how...

The political memoir as rousing adventure story--a sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of every important struggle of the era. April 1973: snow falls thick and fast...

As an American appraiser of fine Chinese porcelain, Lia Frank holds fragile beauty in her hands, examines priceless treasure with a magnifying lens. But when Lia looks in the mirror,...

ELEGANT BEAUTY AND SIMPLE WISDOM FOR TODAY'S WORLD Mindfulness, compassion, humor, and enlightenment are the cornerstones of Zen philosophy--a way of thinking and being that is practical and liberating today...

Jimmy Gage is a reporter for Slap magazine in Los Angeles--"a troublemaker by trade and inclination, with fast hands and too much curiosity for his own good. Fight or flight,...

"Cool, fully engaged, brilliant and tough." --Rick Whitaker, "The Washington Post Book World" Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything--once. If it moves, I'm interested; if it moves to...

1974: A tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then abruptly announces that she has adopted the guerrilla name "Tania"...

'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard 'A call for cool heads at a time of...

There's power in owning the obstacles you might face. This book shows you how to unlock it. In an ideal world, we'd succeed based on our actual skills and performance....

Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard...

They were colour-supplement darlings of the 1980s: Patrick, the sexy, ferocious young playwright, scourge of an enthralled establishment, and Sara, who abandoned her two children to fulfil her destiny as...

Decimus Rex has been wounded - badly! Gladius goes in search of help, but when he returns, Decimus has disappeared. There's no other thing for it, the friends have to...

Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission...

What becomes of the broken-hearted? Grace was just a teenager when Jimi broke her heart. But now she's moved on and is happy with her perfect fiance Spencer. Even if...

WHAT GOD WANTS addresses humanity's most important question. For centuries we have been trying to determine what exactly it is that puts us in good standing with God, earning us...

Northern girl Harriet lives and works on a London estate which is a battleground between the white working class plus the immigrants versus the newly arrived middle class focaccia-eaters. Unhappy...

Their holiday brochure said 18-30 . . . But they've just turned 35. After ten years together Charlie Mansell has been dumped by his live-in girlfriend, Sarah. All he wants...

This text focuses on the cross-cultural experience, arguing that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions, and reinscribes stage aliens such as Jews, Moors, Amazons, and gypsies and thus interrogates a Eurocentric perspective and...

Mandy is turning 30 and has a lot of love to give, but that special person has so far eluded her. Then, at her birthday party with close friends at...

After five years, lawyer Hugh Gwynne's most difficult case has finally come to court. His client Tom Deacon is claiming damages for post-traumatic stress after a car accident in which...

"The Ken Bruce Show" on Radio 2 is a national institution, much loved by millions of loyal listeners. Ken has been broadcasting for many years, although the suggestion that he...

When Christopher Columbus-wannabe Rupert Lilywhite decides to set sail and discover a new land - it's all the rage in the fifteenth century - Walter Bailey and his twelve-year-old nephew...

Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it? With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who...

A third delightful and exciting novel in Gwyneth Rees's best-selling Fairy series. Evie gets a wonderful surprise when she goes to stay at her grandma's house. Fairies appear in the...

Detective Kate Farrer returns to duty after three months of leave following her traumatic abduction. Partnering homicide newcomer Oliver Parke, they are thrown into the investigation of a woman burnt...

CLASSIFIED INFORMATION Agent's profile:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years old Assignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor Juanita PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device...

The first two titles in a gripping, dramatic and completely engrossing new series - designed to engage reluctant readers (high interest, low-level reading), and anyone interested in battles, history, time...

In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded, reclusive twenty-year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the one person who understood and protected...

A lost notebook is discovered, its pages filled with an array of entries about snow. Leafing through each item in turn, it becomes apparent that the selection is not as...

Rita Rogers finds her clients come to her for two reasons: to find out about those close to them who have passed over, or who, where and when they will...

She thought she'd got away with it . . . In the opulent rooms of a Sydney specialist, Nina and James Wilde are waiting. Waiting to learn whether the rare,...