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Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre and ritualistic crimes evoking the legacy of the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving...

Starting at the moment "The Swimming-Pool Library" ended, "The Line of Beauty" traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick...

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...

This anthology features three Inspector Morse novels. In The Way Through the Woods, a young tourist disappears in North Oxford. In The Daughters of Cain, Morse takes over an unsolved...

Set in North Africa, summer 1942, during Rommel's campaign against the British. This is the story of Alex Wolff, master spy, who treks across the Sahara and covertly enters the...

Paula Grey has her first inkling of danger when a boat vanishes in fog off Lymington, its sole occupant drifts ashore, dead. Then a British naval commander warns Tweed that...

A revealing biography of one of the twentieth century's most controversial figures; and the first significant biography to have been published since the subject's death Leni Riefenstahl is one of...

"Forever Spice"goes behind the scenes to explore life as a Spice Girltheir passage from a band produced by Simon Fuller, through their feelings and responses to the departure of Geri...

There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and...

Elizabeth Glendinning QC has lost faith in the legal system to which she has given her life. In an attempt to restore it, she has secretly devised a scheme to...

In the hilarious follow-up to Buck Fever, Texas game warden John Marlin is trying to sort out crazy rumours of a six-foot tall, drop-dead gorgeous blonde roaming the woods, when...

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides --the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three...

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In...

In May 2005, Natalee Holloway disappeared from a high school trip to Aruba. Five years to the day later, 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez was reported missing in Lima, Peru. Implicated...

In this updated edition, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott dig below the surface to the depths of human interactions, offering expert advice and practical tools for improving the most important...

Give a Gift that Lasts with the NIV Premium Gift Bible. The NIV Premium Gift Bible is the perfect gift for graduations, confirmations, and other special events. With a durable...

In Berlin, two former French intelligence agents hire Klaus Reiner, a ruthlessly effective hit man, to eliminate an American industrialist vacationing in southwestern France. Reiner easily locates his target in...

The final volume in the Everyman's Library Charles Dickens collection- the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens's Christmas tales and with Arthur...

"For readers in search of a thoughtful, thorough, and approachable survey of the history of religion, this book is an excellent place to start."- Booklist Written for those with faith...

Traces the development of Homer as a watercolorist, shows a selection of his landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, and discusses his distinctive style and techniques.

Philip Norman is one of our greatest biographers and Paul McCartney is one of the greatest of modern subjects: co-founder of the world's most celebrated band and composer of unforgettable...

Frances is a thirty-something sub-editor, an invisible production, drone on the books pages of the Questioner. Her routine and colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon...

The almost universal conception is that the life of Princess Margaret (1930-2002) was a tragic failure, a history of unfulfilment. Tim Heald's vivid and elegant biography portrays a woman who...

The SAS mission to kil Hitler's greatest general

The story of the military genius Field Marshal Erich von Manstein chronicles the misguided generation of German generals in the Second World War who claimed they fought for Germany, not...

Already acclaimed on publication in the United States, the U-Boat war is here chronicled with authority, fidelity, objectivity, and extraordinary detail. He also writes vivid and dramatic scenes of naval...

Desiderata , that world-famous poem that begins, 'Go placidly amid the noise and haste', must be one of the best-loved poems in the English language, revered by many as the...

The biography of Mariah Carey covers her life, from her broken bi-racial home, through to her discovery by Tommy Mottola (whom she later married), and her successful album "Music Box",...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day, America's premier author of provocative fiction, delivers two novels from Cosmo Red-Hot Reads from Mills & Boon. AFTERBURN The realization that Jax...

A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow-up, Long Island. It is...

No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving...

The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis. The wish of Pope Francis was for HOPE, on which he has been working for six years, to be published posthumously....

A study of what leads humans to war, from one of our great military historians There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand...

Karen M. McManus, the internationally bestselling YA thriller author of One of Us Is Lying, is back with a brand-new murder-mystery - you won't be able to resist Such Charming...

An official tie-in edition to accompany Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated new film based on this atmospheric novel of sexual tension and Southern gothic When an injured Union soldier is found...

Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband's shocking , years-long betrayal of her. What should she do...

The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time....

'Elizabeth is missing', reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting. Lately, Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets...

The Waterfords and the Oxfords are two fairly ordinary families, with one significant exception: they are the inventions of a depressed writer who now seems unable to control them: 'I'm...

"Brian McGilloway joins the roll-call of excellence in Irish crime fiction" Marcel Berlins, The Times Taking its title from the name of the road down which condemned Donegal criminals were...

Told from the perspective of its former Foreign minister, this is a uniquely candid account of Chechnya's struggle for independence and its two wars against Russia which will revise our...

The new Baldacci reintroduces the main characters from Split Second and Hour Game - the novel that took Baldacci to another level in paperback in the UK. Sean King and...

Philip Roth one of the most renowned writers of his generation hardly needs introduction. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus , which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to...

In 1975, on the eve of May Day, secret police dressed in chemical warfare suits sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and ordered the destruction of the...

In 1963 John Fowles won international recognition with his first published nivel The Collector. But his roots as a serious writer can be traced back long before to the journal...