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"Combine equal parts of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Chine Mieville's Perdido Street Station, throw in a dash of Aubrey BeardsleyandJ.K. Huysmans, and you'll get some idea of this...

Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on a distant battlefield. he isolated and eerie stillness in which she...

This charity anthology of powerful, entertaining and original short stories includes some of the finest female contemporary writers such as Kate Atkinson, Eleanor Bailey, Claire Calman, Mavis Cheek, Candida Clark,...

A deliciously terrifying and wickedly funny Gothic tale, Count Karlstein is the first-ever children's book by Philip Pullman, winner of the Whitbread Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Fiction Award...

Love, tragedy and hope conspire in Paris, when a kiss between two strangers changes everything. Love, tragedy and hope conspire in Paris, when a kiss between two strangers changes everything....

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, bestselling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America...

In 1971, a hopeful, young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later,...

Neurologist and best-selling author Richard Restak puts readers in touch with the latest scientific findings about the most complex and inscrutable object in creation--the human brain. "By all means let...

A pioneer in the field of self-help, Dale Carnegie distilled his experiences as a salesman and lecturer in his first guide to successful speech-making, The Art of Public Speaking. This...

What is a tangram? It is more easily seen and understood than defined in words. But to put it briefly, it is a geometric dissection puzzle in which seven standard...

This book brings together a selection of Mal Corboy's highly praised and award-winning kitchens, each eye-catching and innovative, yet all supremely useable and perfectly suited to their owners. Paired with...

Edward Thomas wrote most of his poems during active service in World War 1 - poems which search for the true self, and affirm the oneness of all experience.

This book was written at the request of nurse educators and with considerable help from them. It deals with elements of the arithmetic of nursing, especially the arithmetic of basic...

Collaboration between organizations on different continents can raise issues of economic development, health, the environment, risk sharing, supply chain efficiency and human resource management. It is an activity that can...

Raising confident, motivated, and caring children is a parent\'s greatest challenge. Drawing on her own extensive research on children and parents, Terri Apter has created a guide based on \'emotional...

Zola Denise Norwood always knew she'd one day edit her own magazine, but she had no idea it would be so soon. When she spots married media mogul Davis Vincent...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning...

Sebastian Darke is the author s debut work for children and is pitched squarely at the 9+ market. Featuring the eponymous hero (a would-be jester desperate to make money, let...

Dark magic has opened a gateway to the Forbidding and trapped within it Grianne Ohmsford, rightful High Druid of Shannara. Rescuing Grianne will be merely the beginning of the effort...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Expect no end of wonders and suspense, no shortage of adventure and enchantment, as Terry Brooks begins the next extraordinary quest in the magical world...

The third volume of The Heritage of Shannara, which continues one of the most popular fantasy series of all time "Find the Elves and return them to the world of...

When he takes a contract, death follows. Notorious hitman Columbus is known in the trade as a silver bear: an expert assassin who earns top fees because he never defaults...

It s January 1st, 2015, and the UK is the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing, in a drastic bid to combat climate change. As her family spirals out...

The compelling and captivating third title in the Deptford Mice trilogy. The ghostly spirit of Jupiter has returned, more terrifying than before. Bent on revenge, he smothers the world in...

Book Two in the breathtakingly original Deptford Mice trilogy. Audrey and Arthur have escaped the horrors of Jupiter's lair and sought refuge in the countryside with their apparently mad friend...

The first story in the breathtakingly original and utterly captivating Deptford Mice trilogy. In the sewers of Deptford there lurks a dark presence which fills the tunnels with fear: Jupiter,...

We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his...

Words are the most dangerous weapons on earth - and Tate Collier, who has a consummate skill with them, can talk his way into anyone's heart, and get them to...

From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of...

Alice thinks she's got it pretty good. Other than her first year at uni being a bit stressful, her boyfriend Dunc being a bit difficult, and her best friend Milly...

Martin Flint has been hit hard. Two years ago, his young daughter died in an accident, and while he and his wife are learning to cope with the tragedy, it...

Sis - as David Reynolds' grandmother was always called - was a passionate and headstrong young woman. Having betrayed herself by falling in love too trustingly, she added to her...

So what do you do if you're bored with life? Uproot yourself and move to Japan, land of the rising sun and of opportunity - a country of suspicious-looking food,...