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Necropolis Railway: Novel of Murder, Mystery and Steam

When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. Perplexingly, the men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for...

Never Let Me Go

Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were...

Observations (Exp)

This work is set in Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine of "The Observations" - takes a job as a maid in a big house outside...

Omon Ra

Victor Pelevin's unforgettable first novel, Omon Ra, is the story of a young man who always dreamt of becoming the ultimate Russian hero, a cosmonaut in the mould of Yuri Gagarin. Enrolling as a cadet at the...

Other Colours (PB)

Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his...

Our Fathers

Over Nine Waves

Pulp Fiction

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Palme d`Or at Cannes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction exploded onto the screen in 1994 and transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. This triplet of...

Qi: Advanced Banter

Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you`ve never heard of? It`s a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and...

Red Dancer: Life and Times of Mata Hari

Mixing fiction and nonfiction, Skinner breathes new imaginative life into the story of a twentieth century icon. Bewitched by the beauty of a troupe of native dancers and the strange music of the gamelan, Margaretha...

Red Plenty

The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called `the planned economy`, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could...

Remains of the Day *Exp*

A contemporary classic, "The Remains of the Day" is Kazuo Ishiguro`s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House.

Resistance (Exp)

Opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley.

Shallow Grave: Screenplay

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber`s extensive list of film scripts.

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

he boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps even recently; but now his face was swollen and disfigured by disease, and by the treatments his doctors had prescribed in the attempt to...

Shroud for a Nightingale

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another...

Snow

As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. The city lie finds is a troubled place - there`s a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win...

Strange Police

R Gadney

That They May Face the Rising Sun

The Bellini Card

The third book in Jason Goodwin`s celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venice. Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, he enlists the...

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique...

The Bird Artist

H. Norman

The Barracks

The Bad Girl

When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both...

The Forger

P. Watkins