Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. While his former secretary, and the former to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to vace an uncertain future, the ch
'I'm taking your eyes', he'd say, 'and keeping them safe.''I'm taking your ears and keeping them safe.'Ciara's father Mick kept her as his hidden treasure, making sure his only daughter was shielded f
When Kevin, Andrew's high school nemesis, appears in his office the opportunity for a quick win arises. But just how fast does a lie have to spin before it gets out of control?Nick Payne's The Same De
The first in James Carol's thrilling Jefferson Winter series, Broken Dolls offers rapid-fire suspense and a chilling look into the mind of a criminal - and into the mind of the one man who might be ab
Few British schoolchildren of the seventies can have been as obsessed with the Tour de France as William Fotheringham, who smuggled copies of Miroir du Cyclisme into lessons to read inside his book
For Theresa and her student friends, Belfast can seem an urban nightmare - a city where secrecy and bitterness are nursed behind closed doors, and where Theresa's twin brother, Francis, has been murde
Friend to film stars, spies, models, government ministers and aristocrats, Profumo Scandal rise and ultimate disgrace coincided with the increasingly permissive lifestyle of London's elite in the earl
Everyone but the shattered war veterans dance and forget. Peppered with acrid wit and dark vaudeville humour, The Silver Tassie, Sean O'Casey's powerful anti-war play of 1928, receives a major reviv
Moving from the war in Afghanistan, through the dream world of morphine-induced hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley Court, this book explores the consequences of injury, both physical and ps
When her brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion. Frank McGuinness's charged adaptation of Sophocles' powerful tragedy was first performed at the Chichest
Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming in the waters below. One day she talks dow
A high-ranking government minister with a colorful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his trip ends up in a bar-room brawl, he becomes Europe's most wanted man overnight. Chased by
At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. It took testimony from 97 witnesses. Full of intrigue, bravery and human frailty,
"Hitchcock would approve." - The Times (UK)"A dark story of dissolving identity… Mesmeric." - ObserverConnecticut, 1969. On their way back from a party, two couples struggle home through thesnow. Not
"Fascinating account of Shakespeare in lust." - Telegraph, 4* (UK)Patron? Collaborator? Employer? Voyeur? Lover?Questioned about the nature of his relationship with the 3rd Earl of Southampton, Willi
Andrew Beatty gives us what no Western writer has been able to do: an intimate picture of how Islamic fundamentalism can displace older and more easygoing forms of belief.
He looks at belief's psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect. And he asks whether it is possible to live without belief at all, or whether it is a necess
Christmas is coming and DI Staffe is trying to make a go of it with his on-off girlfriend, Sylvie, when a murdered woman is discovered in a swanky City hotel room. Staffe becomes obsessed with Elena D
Furious that Prince Hippolytus will not worship her, Aphrodite, goddess of love, seeks revenge. Infecting Hippolytus' stepmother, Phaedra, with an overpowering desire for him, Aphrodite's retribution
