Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Algren has held this position for some time bu
The violent death of Daisy's husband leaves her a widow at thirty-two, obliterating everything she has lived for. As she struggles to build a new life, a chance encounter with her husband's killer bec
Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written blend of literature and science, it is here brought back into print in a revised and updated edition whi
Scores of film-business wannabes are connected to a major miniseries, among them: Vanessa Meandro, hot-tempered head of an indie film company; a CEO of network programming whose daughter is Vanessa's
Prepare yourself for the horrors that lie within - some may be based on legend, but many are documented fact. It is 1886, and Eddie, George, Liz and Sir William must separate the terrifying truth from
Prepare yourself for the horrors that lie within - some may be based on legend, but many are documented fact. It is 1886, and Eddie, George, Liz and Sir William must separate the terrifying truth from
FOR THE FIRST TIME, A BRITISH SOLDIER RIPS THE LID OFF OUR CURRENT INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. Does for the British military what Jarhead did for the US.
Jim's faltering career in the railway police hangs on whether he can solve the murder - but before long the pursuer becomes the pursued, and Jim finds himself fighting not just for his job, but for hi
Kasama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a 'normal' life after an event that happened eight years previously, on the other side of the world, in Portland, Oregon. When he i
One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind... It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about hi
Imbued with a beautiful, melancholy sense of longing, the story becomes a quest narrative in which Tsuneo desperately chases this woman, and the mystery behind what happened eight years earlier.
Praise for THE GUN AND THE OLIVE BRANCH:Hirst's peerless reporting has earned him curses, expulsion and respect in virtually every country in the region.-GUARDIANIf you want to read a serious account
Praise for THE GUN AND THE OLIVE BRANCH:Hirst's peerless reporting has earned him curses, expulsion and respect in virtually every country in the region.-GUARDIANIf you want to read a serious account
Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his e
Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his e
John Skelton (1460-1529) lived through one of England's most dangerous periods. A tutor to Prince Henry, Skelton enjoyed the monarch's favour at court. Throughout the sixteenth century many of Skelton
Following the 1985 final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis, Britain found itself in the grip of a new sporting obsession. In one corner was Barry Hearn and his Romford Mafia - Davis, Taylor and Gr
Her father's stories were of her mother's beauty, their early love - tales stopping short of tragedy. Tom was raised by his mother, travelling from one place to another, never settling, his only stabi
This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections.
Imprisoned in the Tower of London and abandoned by the embattled King, Samuel Pepys - Secretary of the Admiralty - sets to work investigating his mysterious accuser, Colonel John Scott, and uncovers a
