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Guillermo Cabrera Infante has written novels, stories, critical essays, articles and screenplays, and has lectured at universities from Cambridge to Chicago. He grew up in Cuba under the dictator Batista,...

In this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations against the IRA from the mid-1970s to the Loughgall shooting in 1987. Drawing on interviews with people...

The second novel in the fresh, sassy Georgina Kincaid/Succubus series from the bestselling author of the Vampire Academy books. Georgina Kincaid's job sucks. Literally. Love hurts, and no one knows...

Dr Abby DiMatteo - a second-year surgical student in Boston Bayside's elite cardiac team - is about to make a decision that will jeopardize her career. A car-crash victim's healthy...

The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter. WINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005 Revered and feared...

#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado...

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that thunderous opening salvo, the naval battles to control the...

She is a young drakon of untried powers. He is the powerful second son of the Alpha male from their clan of shapeshifting, supersensual beings. And what she is about...

For fans of Marie Lu comes the first book in an epic series that bends the sci-fi genre into a new dimension. "A truly beautiful novel that redefines the form."...

Just as the Hobbit foreshadowed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Michael Stackpole follows his THE DARK GLORY WAR with an epic series, launching with Fortress Draconis. Nearly twenty five...

Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his...

His name was Taggart and he rode with a price on his head through the bloodred canyons of Apache country. Behind him was a ruthless bounty hunter- the deadliest lawman...

An illustrated, first-hand account of a history-making dig in lush and beautiful jungles and caves of North Vietnam, the subject of a November 19899, National Geographic feature and a television...

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private...

He was out of her league. e was out of her depth. On the bookshelf of Miranda Brown's life, romance is always out of reach. In the fast-track of Burnt...

George and his friend Annie now face a whole new space challenge! From Lucy Hawking and her father, Professor Stephen Hawking. George and his best friend Annie haven't had any...

Three girls. One city. Who will be the last flapper standing? i> t's Chicago 1924. Born into American high society, Gloria is the girl who has it all. Living the...

From a silent perch in the upper branches of a great tree, a huge and mysterious bird known as the Skymaster watches over Godhanger Wood... watches the innocent blood shed...

A gripping historical saga, depicting the good and evil of the Victorian era, by the 100-million copy bestselling Catherine Cookson - reissued in a fresh, gorgeous new package for today's...

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she...

When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory ...a victory that has...

Once upon a time, on a cold and frosty Christmas Eve night, a bedraggled white cat called Polar Bear wandered into Cleveland Amory's life and won his heart. This remarkable,...

The electrifying new thriller from Number One bestseller Andy McNab The Channel Tunnel. 2012. Your worst fears are about to come true... Deep beneath the English Channel, a small army...

From the world's favourite storyteller, an uplifting story of love, loss and the gifts people pass on that change lives beyond imagination . . . A father's love will change...

Racing between South America and Paris, a gripping, powerful thriller of kidnap, survival and rebuilding shattered lives from international bestseller Danielle Steel. Marshall is an ex-undercover agent who has just...

A page-turning story of two different families and the life-changing decisions they both have to make. Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech company - a...

The new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero. Somalia - a lawless, violent land, ignored by the West, ripped apart by civil war and famine,...

The bestselling novel. When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory...

Strangers become friends, and friends become a family... THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks...

One woman's quest to find her family...and herself. Someday is Brigitte Nicholson's watchword. Someday she and the man she loves, Ted, will clarify their relationship. Someday she'll have children. Someday...

For Alice Pettiford, living near Gloucester in the late 1940s, leaving school as soon as she could and taking a job as a railway secretary in the city made perfect...

Recovering from the recent death of his wife in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with her sister and her husband at their house in Rutland. The house,...

A moving and funny testament to a friendship born out of adversity. In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next...

In Granny Dan, Danielle Steel's extraordinary forty-sixth bestselling novel, a simple box, filled with mementos from a grandmother, offers the greatest legacy of all- an unexpected gift of a life...

The compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruellest kind of malice. At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace...

"It is impossible not to be impressed by [Grass's] inexhaustible desire to experiment with the novel and by the many good stories and passages of exquisite writing in The Box...

From bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.Here is a thing everyone fears: What it takes to...

History has a way of repeating itself. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the new revolution are being put to the blade. Except for those...

An ancient treaure is in danger!The Thea Sisters have been invited to Egypt to participate in a fabumouse archaeological excavation. While there the mouselings are excited to find a huge...

The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation. "[Larson] succeeds...