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From the international bestselling author of Night Road, the 2011 UK TV Book Club selection.From a distance, Michael and Jolen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid dependable marriage, exciting caree
First published in 2002, The Lovely Bones became an instant worldwide bestseller. There are now over ten million copies in print. A film adaptation of the novel, directed by Peter Jackson, was release
The new Sunday Times top-ten bestseller from the author of The Men Who Stare at Goats.What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an u
Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as the S
The bestselling author of Awakenings and Musicophilia‘Oliver Sacks has become the world’s best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of conscio
When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family’s land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that leads to the mountains of Kashmir
#1 National BestsellerWinner of the John Gardner Fiction AwardA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistIn his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Fra
Five British men in an open, rigid inflatable boat fighting for their lives in perhaps the most dangerous seas in the world.Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2004, this is
The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the c
A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' - "Sunday Times". Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particular
Lenin's politics continue to reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence, yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This biography shows us
Angela Carter meets Edgar Allen Poe in this mesmerizing spine-tingler from the talented author of The Icarus GirlHigh on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, moth
For years gurus, coaches and motivational speakers have urged people to improve their lives by changing the way they think and behave. Research has revealed that many of their techniques are ineffecti
From the acclaimed - and controversial - Chinese novelist, Brothers is a big-spirited comedy of society running amok in modern China.When Baldy Li's mother marries Song Gang's father their lives becom
The multi-million copy international bestseller that has brought Confucius to a new, contemporary readershipIn the autumn of 2006, Yu Dan, a professor of media studies at Beijing Normal University, ga
‘Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time’ Rose Tremain, Guardian Endlessly varied and wonderfully inventive, this volume is the perfect introduction for new readers, the ess
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Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. And as this electrifying novel opens, she steps over a boundary she never dreamt she would even approach.
We may think we know its history, its culture and its people from long-ago lessons at school.However, the notion of "the French" as one nation is relatively recent and actually rather misleading; in o
Following his wife Carmen's funeral, chronicled so movingly in Love Life, Dan tries to pick up the pieces. He is now the sole parent of little Luna. But inevitably in his grief he goes right off the r
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known... Of Tom, the mason who becom
The first comprehensive life of English novelist, critic, and composer Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange. Admired worldwide for his literary novels, including the masterpiece Earthly Powe
Speed of Dark is structured around his astonishing reworking of the text of Le Roman de Fauvel, a medieval text that railed against the corruption of the 12th-century French court and church. In Ian D
Love is not easy, especially if you find the woman of your dreams and then lose her – as Philip Griffin and his son Stephen each discover in turn. Stephen is just a boy when his mother and sister are
The internationally best-selling story of survival against the odds.There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal, and the plane blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down to slam
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP
Mia’s love life is a disaster - and being heir to the throne of Genovia sure doesn'thelp. Because while Mia’s finally got herself a boyfriend, he’s SO not the right guy. The one she really wants
Its nearly Mia’s fifteenth birthday. A time when a princess should be getting ready for the biggest night of her life - the Senior Prom, escorted by her ultra-hottie boyfriend, Michael. But, nothing's
布莉琪瓊斯這個三十好幾,老是自我懷疑、出糗、力求工作表現並且積極減重的倫敦單身女子,終於能夠沉浸在愛情的喜悅中。她成為完美先生馬克達西的女友之後,人生會更美好嗎? 或許...會嗎? 她忍不住還是對愛情、生活充滿疑問.... The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Br
The journey continues . . .The second book in the Tales of the Otori trilogy continues the epic story of Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, the young lovers whose fate is played out in an ancient Orient
Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank – the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended. Here six women whose lives touch
A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations?An ironic,tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family?Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?"A brilliant evocation of life a
In this rich debut from New Zealander King, amateur naturalist Thomas Edgar leaves his young wife, Sophie, behind, and sets off from turn-of-the-20th-century England for the Brazilian Amazon. His quar
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scienti
With an introduction by Philipp Meyer The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world open