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Sidi is dying. In the last days of this all-powerful tyrant, his faithful court fool takes stock of the decades he has spent in the king's service. For the many...

In this personal history, one of the pioneers in population genetics recounts the evolution of his ideas about the effects of genetic variability on a population. Tracing the results of...

An ordinary day in Gloucestershire holds a half century of secrets and lies in this crafty and well-crafted mystery, when a skeleton turns up in a field outside the old...

The novel traces a massive gold theft from Java during the Indonesian revolution against the Dutch. The story resurfaces in 1995 when the aircraft used in the robbery is accidentally...

When teenager Christine Booth meets Phillip Murphy, she knows he s her one chance to escape her controlling mother. Christine is soon enjoying the perks of being Philip Murphy s...

At 30, Duncan Bannatyne had no money and was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story of someone who had made himself a millionaire, and decided...

SERIAL opens with a haunting first person narrative. A middle-aged male describes picking up a lone girl hitchiker. Within pages however, her voice disappears from the scene and the man...

The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below cliffs on the Isle of Wight is only the beginning of a journey for DI Joe Faraday to the centre...

Portsmouth's major drug dealer's time is up. For years Bazza McKenzie has made millions selling cocaine and heroin into the streets of Portsmouth. He's laundered the money and on the...

Cricket Banter is all the rage among the cricketing cognoscenti and the chat, the sledging and the humour behind the game is all covered here, by those boys at The...

When Paul Monroe, poster boy for Freddy Parc briefs, discovers the body of a young woman in his cottage, he swears he has never seen her before. Michael Reo wants...

Charlie Fox makes a living of sorts teaching self-defence to women. It's a skill Charlie picked up of necessity having been kicked out of the army for reasons she prefers...

Sister Fidelma and her faithful companion Brother Eadulf are on their way to visit the new Archbishop of Canterbury, when their ship is blown off course and they land on...

A comprehensive introduction to Christian belief. Today, in our increasingly secularized generation, there is a greater need than ever for clear explanation of the unique features of Christian belief. The...

Presents a collection of dog stories that survey the human-dog relationship throughout history.

Mischief dons blue jeans and totes a fishing pole in Jim Daly's Americana artwork featured throughout this unforgettable exploration of boyhood. Sweet writings express virtues gathered like treasures along a...

In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. This is their story. When Cyrus, brother to the Great King of Persia, attempts to overthrow his reckless sibling,...

The apple is often seen as in some sense quintessentially English and attracts a level of passion not readily associated with other fruit. The merits of Cox's Orange Pippins, or...

The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of...

When the body of a teenage girl is found in a bleak Yorkshire quarry, forensic evidence points overwhelmingly to the senile old farmer who discovered her. But DCI Ed Swift...

The Baddies are the meanest, nastiest ghost, witch and troll in the land. They just adore being bad and fight over who is the worst. When a little girl moves...

BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA BOOK AT BEACHTIME i> i>Joan s voice is almost a whisper. Nobody talked about what they did during the war. We all knew we weren t...

Describes the Clintons' troubled marriage and why they have remained married in spite of the President's infidelities.

Leadership has not kept up with the changes going on in the world. From boardrooms to classrooms, leadership is being challenged. This book provides a new leadership model to follow...

The renowned recording artist shares a half-century of personal memories, from his childhood in Depression-era Queens, to the New York jazz scene of the 1940s, to his successes with a...

Cryptography -- the use of secret codes -- has traditionally been the province of puzzle geeks and government spies. But just in time for the Internet -- which radically alters...

Eva squeezed Suri's hand. 'What's there? What can you see?' 'What can I see?' Suri looked out over the wall. 'Oh, it's beautiful, let me tell you all about it.'...

Vic Meyer, man of iron; iron by trade and iron by temperament, was the owner, builder and skipper of Solo. She arrived on the Sydney ocean yacht racing scene in...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unleashed by Trump to the January 6 insurrection,...

Actor Toby Flood is reaching the end of a tour acting in the play, Lodger in the Throat, when he is visited by his estranged wife, Jenny. Jenny tells him...

On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as The Cottage. Modeled after the "cottages" of Newport, Rhode Island,...

St-Cyr and Kohler are shipped hastily from Paris to Avignon to investigate the violent death of a young woman in the Palais des Papes. The victim is the scion of...

Struggling to make sense of this are Monty, a cynical Whitehall spook, Danny the son of Stevens and Ruth herself.