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Picking up where his acclaimed Ghost Dance left off. Douglas Wright chronicles, after a series of bereavements, his decent into depression, despair and suicide. We meet the inhabitants of Hallburn...

A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe. Charged with the task of restoring a magnificent...

Travel back to a vanished world with the celebrated children's history series 'Thunder crashed across the sky. Fire-dragons soared through the heavens. And then, one fine June day, came the...

The tale of a prince, a princess, perfect politeness, pages of love and a peculiarly hard pea. Lauren Child's beautiful and artistic retelling of The Princess and the Pea. The...

Daniel Silva is a repeat New York Times bestseller Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed...

Step into a very public marriage, in the compulsive novel from the bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman Fanny Savage was once dutiful, clever, vulnerable and dreamy. Now...

Beautifully repackaged reissue of Penelope Lively's classic memoir The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years later, as...

Who sank the boat? Was it the cow or the donkey or the sheep with her knitting? Surely it wasn't the tiny little mouse? Winner of the 1983 Australian Picture...

Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx. By drawing on both the poetry and the prose of all six Celtic languages, this "Celtic miscellany" succeeds in reflecting the...

Sophisticated new reissue of the bestseller's emotional, intriguing novel about a quest to uncover a sister's past Bee Bearhorn had a number-one hit single in 1985 - and was never...

As she works her way from defiant teenager to reluctant career girl, growing older and getting smarter, Jane manoeuvres her way through love, sex, relationships, and the occasional perils of...

Teresa's passionate love for Maurice fills her mother with dread. During the long hot summer, Pauline finds herself remembering the way that her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her...

People are compelled to keep diaries for a great many different reasons. Although they are the most private form of writing, there have been few diarists who have not in...

This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes...

This comprehensive single-author text provides balanced and thorough treatment of the major problem areas of business ethics along with abundant cases to facilitate class discussion.

Measuring the User Experience provides the first single source of practical information to enable usability professionals and product developers to effectively measure the usability of any product by choosing the...

These easy-to-read books are a perfect introduction to the history of Scotland. Full of little-know facts and color illustrations, these books help bring history to life. The Stationery Office.

First published in 1980, Isherwood's overlooked last book is central to an understanding of his life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW In 1939, as Europe approaches...

In the beginning, there was maximum ride...A girl. A Fighter. A Leader. A superhuman with a mission to save the world. She's gone to the ends of the earthseeking her...

Nancy Mitford's account of this famous love affair of the Enlightenment is, in the author's own words, 'a shriek from beginning to end' The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous...

Artie Cohen's long-time girlfriend Lily Hanes, has been found beaten up, raped and left for dead in an empty Parisian apartment. In the wintry French capital, where drugs are sold...

The New York Times bestseller and one of The Economist's Best Books of the Year 2003. Perfect for fans of current affairs books with an emphasis on globalisation, by writers...

In Blue Diary Alice Hoffman is at her irresistible best - gripping, compassionate, lyrical, and full of disturbing surprises. Ethan and Jorie, a perfect, beautiful couple, have been married for...

The first River Cafe Cook Book was a publishing phenomenon, winning both the Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year and the BCA Illustrated Book of the Year Awards. As wellas...

"Dr. Sonna is giving parents and babies a wonderful opportunity to introduce the potty at an age when learning new skills is part of every day life." --Barbara Gablehouse, MD....

This guidebook in the "Access" series takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the excitement and adventure of New York. Whether shopping on Fifth Avenue for haute couture, catching...

Food Network star Guy Fieri takes you on a tour of America's most colorful diners, drive-ins, and dives in this tie-in to his enormously popular television show, complete with recipes,...

"From its gripping opening pages... Life Sentences may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year." -- Boston Globe USA Today calls Laura Lippman, "A writing powerhouse,"...

"Lippman is a writing powerhouse." -- USA Today New York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction--including the Edgar(R), Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero...

A brand-new look for the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit TV show The Vampire Diaries ! A deadly love triangle. Elena Gilbert is a high...

Do Dogs Laugh draws on the last several decades of canine research, examining everything from a dog's eyesight to its culinary preferences and sense of humor. Jake Page looks at...

In this groundbreaking collection Cecilia Tan blurs the very definition of sexuality and redefines the future of erotic fiction.She delves deep into the world of dark fantasy in a powerful...

Here's a first-year book that encourages critical thinking and sparks discussion. Freakonomics addresses current social questions that students will enjoy arguing about both in the classroom and over coffee in...

In a tale told from rotating viewpoints, five personal assistants to abusive Hollywood celebrities meet weekly at an unfashionable bar to commiserate, until a series of personal injustices prompts them...

From the author of the cult classic The Fuck-Up comes a vicious new tale of art, drugs, love, and death on the Lower East Side. Orloff Trenchant is a painter...

"Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human." -- San Francisco Chronicle...