Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories (TPB)
A richly entertaining and exciting collection of mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth who only had his...
Decade by decade, the lavishly illustrated Vintage Jewellery recounts over 100 years of history, from Lalique`s Art Nouveau enamelling at the turn of the twentieth century to Cartier`s gemstones and Christian Dior`s...
This title contains geography with the gritty bits left in. Where in the world can you: Find red-hot volcanic rocks the size of cars? Visit geysers that could boil you alive? Sniff some stinky sulphur?
In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice`s new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the...
Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of the other boleyn girl and the queen`s fool Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is...
Terrific, free-standing suel to the historical bestseller Earthly Joys, as John Tradescant, the Younger witnesses the English Civil War and its aftermath from his position as royal gardener. John Tradescant, the...
The National Bestseller In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir...
This book is from the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, a reissue of her first novel, which was first published in 1996. This is the compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the...
Virginia Monologues: Why Growing Old is Great
Getting old? Get over it! For too long those in short skirts have been telling us oldies we don`t matter: `you`re out of touch! Get out of the way, grandma! The next generation is coming through`. Well, enough is...
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide — it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese — the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing where the knife drawer was, and the gas...
