In his highly anticipated new novel, Albom tenderly explores the themes of family, divorce and regrets, and the wish that we could have just one more day with a lost loved one.
The grim days of Cromwell are past. Freed from the structures of the Protectorate, London seethes with new energy, but many of its citizens have lost their livelihoods. One is Thomas Chaloner, a relu
Football isn't a matter of life and death,' Bill Shankly once famously said, 'it's much more important than that.' In The Heart of the Game, Jimmy Greaves looks back over his long association with the
From one of Britain's best-loved actors and comedians comes this collection of hilarious anecdotes about football, with stories about the stars themselves, the fans, the girlfriends, the managers, an
In Cambridge in 1355, the colleges of the fledgling university are as much at odds with each other as they are with the ordinary townsfolk. This tension has recently been heightened by the return of
Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and 20 men are preparing for their most daring mission yet: the hijack of a five-story supertanker laden with oil. Meanwhile, SBS operative Stratton has been
Tuesday Donnelly's return to Glasgow isn't quite the homecoming she'd imagined. Ten years after she married an American oilman and moved to the States?falling out with her father, Tommy, in the proces
Edwina Currie's third political novel, This Honourable House, opens with an election resulting in a victory for a party not dissimilar to New Labour. It follows with all the sex, spin, and scandal in
In 1350, Cambridge lies ravaged by the Black Death. Crime flourishes too—three harlots are found with slit throats and branded feet, a friar dies rifling a strongbox full of college chronicles,
The craft of cheesemaking is undergoing an exciting revival. A new generation of artisan cheesemakers is now producing not only the hard cows’ milk and blue cheeses usually associated with Brit
Spring, 1353. Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is traveling with a party from the college to accept the gift of a parish church in Suffolk. But when the
Magda Goebbels was arguably the most contradictory and intriguing of the women who lived alongside the top-ranking Nazis. Beautiful and intelligent, she went from being deeply in love with Zionist le
In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1885, and with the death of her rector h
Armed with only her bike and a great sense of humor, Josie Dew returns to Japan for a second dose of its eccentric and mysterious culture. Japan is a land of contradictions, where snow-capped mountain
Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. To tell her story, Gerald Clark
Daniel, the son of Josh and Miriam Retallick, has grown to manhood. He settles with his wife and children on a homestead in the valley of Matabeleland. But it's South Africa in the 1880s, and the Mat
This delightful collection contains three of the most popular books in Derek Tangye's classic series about his idyllic life at Minack, the remote Cornish flower farm he shared with his wife Jeannie an
In the idyllic summer of 1912, all seems rosy for Murdo Drummond and his four children. Charlotte is ecstatically in love with Geoffrey; Peter prepares for the day when he will inherit the family dis
Susan's parents had wanted a son, and they did little to hide their disappointment with her. As soon as it was decently possible, they packed her off to boarding school. If only they could have known
What is it about Ireland’s past that so haunts the imagination? More than one answer can be found in Michael Scotts’s powerful new collection of 29 tales. To start with, in a newly Christ
When Emily Thornton discovers a will linked with the murder of a sea captain in Hull in the 1860's, she is determined to discover what happened?but a vital witness is missing. So, Emily enlists the he
It is 1856. When three men are murdered in Cornwall, Amos Hawke, a Cornish detective working from London's Scotland Yard, is sent to investigate. He finds lodgings with one of the murdered men's wives
Destitute. Quinta Haig is struggling to make ends meet at Top Field with her ailing mother, Laura. Their small Yorkshire farm is run-down and isolated and when the only way to take their goods to mark
As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana?the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire.?A Passage to Africa?is Alagiah's shattering catalogue of
With the forces of Austria and Russia destroyed a year earlier, Napoleon Bonaparte begins a campaign against Prussia and her armies. But, for Bonaparte, this is not merely a war of conquest, it is one
Teenage Helen and her friend Colette entertain hopes of escaping their lives in Liverpool through going to college. But Helen's family and their desire to keep her with them inhibit her, and when she
From the moment he pulled on the Liverpool shirt in 1971 to his unexpected return to the game with Fulham, Kevin Keegan has been a pivotal influence on the way football is played, managed, and perceiv
The World of Minack records the years Derek Tangye spent at Minack with his wife Jeannie before her death in 1986. It contains a selection of favorite passages, many of them chosen by readers, from 16
