The gripping first novel in an explosive new crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. If you like crime-novels by Ian Rankin and Peter James, you will love this. There's a
Dixie O'Day and his friend Percy enter the All-Day Car Race little knowing what is ahead of them! Dixie and Percy run into all sorts of peril, as does their arch enemy, Lou Ella. But who will win, and
No matter where you go, the Bel Dames will find you Nyx used to be an assassin, part of the sisterhood of the Bel Dames. Now she's babysitting diplomats to make ends meet and longs for the days when k
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time, personal training regimes and real estate -- – how we look and where we live -- and tells a story so subversive and dark it b
Middle schooler Jamie Grimm has big dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world - and he won't let the fact that he's in a wheelchair get in his way. After winning the New York state finals i
The global economic landscape is 'tilting': countries such as China, India and Brazil are racing forward while established American and European companies struggle to keep up. This book shows how to s
Something very bad happened to Dani Lancing. Twenty years later, her father is still trying to get her to talk. Her best-friend has become a detective, the last hope of all the lost girls. And her mot
Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet. Morris Island has barely had a chance to return to normality after the high profile
Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway, and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. A drug pusher, a rapist, a loan shark, all targeted in what look like vigilante attacks. And the kill
The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. This book selects eighty poems that reflecting desire and longing of various
The real story of the Hillsborough disaster, told by the people who were there. 'A teenage girl had her head twisted round facing me, and the side of her face was being forced up against my left arm
Walking the streets of our cities are the Others. These men and women have access to the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world of magical power that exists alongside our own. Each has sworn allegiance to
A brilliant debut psychological thriller by a former police psychologist. Perfect for fans of Nicci French, Tana French and S. J. Watson. A plane falls out of the sky. A woman is murdered. Four p
"War is the normal occupation of man—war and gardening." —Winston ChurchillA Green and Pleasant Land tells the intriguing and inspiring story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajole
Almost a century ago, a desperate young woman crawled ashore a desolate Arctic island carrying a mysterious emerald-encrusted cross and a terrible secret. In the present day, Army epidemiologist Frank
Audrey's father taught her that to stay human in the modern world, she had to build a moat around herself; a moat of books and music, philosophy and dreams. A moat that makes Audrey different from the
These are the songs that have been listened to, laughed to, loved to, and labored to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that hav
An autobiographical story of childhood and family from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard. A family of four –-- mother, father and two boys –-- move to Sorland, to a n
Seagulls in the Attic left Tessa thrilled as Annie, her best friend from London, fell in love and married a local Cornishman. Alas the newlyweds decide to settle out of the county but Tessa and her hu
Jim and his best friend Charlie weren't looking for adventure, when they decided to bug the staffroom... But then they overhear their teachers speaking in a secret language and it's too late to turn b
Charlie Small's original battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore in the north of England. Now, a third instalment has been tracked down and salvaged from beneath the seat of
On a cold December morning in 1841, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. But when the people of Dublin learn why John Delahunt committed this vile crime, the outcry
From the Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Flynn. Three girls, evacuated from Liverpool during World War Two support each other through hardship and heartbreak. It’s 1939, and three ten year o
Taking place thousands of years before the time of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. On the remote world Tython ancient philosophers and scientists share their mystical knowledge and study the ways of t
When Edward Kelley and his master, Dr John Dee, discover a dark secret at the heart of the Countess Elizabeth Bathory's illness, they fear the cure will prove more terrifying than death...
It's Messi vs Ronaldo, it's Catalonia vs Castilla. It's the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs Franco's fascists. It's majestic goals and mesmerising skills, red cards and bench brawls. It'
At Whitehall Palace in 1632, the ladies at the court of Charles I are beginning to look suspiciously alike. Plump cheeks, dilated pupils, and a heightened sense of pleasure are the first signs that th
Shows you how to reduce pain, feel calm and enjoy the most extraordinary experience of your life. This book provides practical and reassuring mindfulness techniques to practise throughout pregnancy an
Have you ever wondered why some people earn attention and respect when they speak and others don't? The secret in one word: gravitas. This book reveals how to speak so others will listen. Each chapter
Based on the obituaries that appear in every issue of The Week, this is a book that brings together the famous and infamous figures of our generation ranging from the world's influential leaders and t
Useful for readers and aspiring writers, this book contains what they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing and publishing fiction. It features essays on character, voice, writer
On 28 July 1997, in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield engaged in what would become the infamous fight in boxing history. This book not only details what triggered Tyson that
What made Pontypool such a great seam of talent for the Welsh national team? Why were they hated and feared in equal measure by other clubs in Wales and across the Severn? What made Ray Prosser a coac
Born into a family that had risen from the soil to prosper as lighthouse engineers, Robert Louis Stephenson was much influenced by the environment in which he was raised and the principles held by his
In September 1878, the author travelled by donkey through the Cevennes region of France. For personal memory - and, as it happens, for literary posterity - he recorded copious notes on his journey as
Offers an account of the disaster in which 96 Liverpool FC fans - men, women and children - died, hundreds were injured and thousands traumatised. This book details the appalling treatment endured by
Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In this title, each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets. It includes: Kotomi waits by the phone for a
South-West Germany, 1926. The disappearance of a baby girl calls for Constable Theodore Hildebrandt and his son Klaus to visit the remote village of Hindelheim, a place where nothing ever happens. But
Tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the 8th century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. This book de
Includes recipes such as glorious tomato and aubergine dishes of Sicily; the classically Roman dishes like salty meat and fried vegetables, and rich Tuscan stews and soups, and so on. This title inclu
