Exploring the events of her life and the country in which she lived until Pinochet`s military coup, Isabel Allende takes us on a highly personal tour through Chile, bringing it to life: a place of love charms and...
Mystery Of The Blue Train, The
A message from a dead acquaintance prompts a bus tour to an unknown crime! In utter disbelief Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly on...
This lavishly illustrated volume displays dozens of the most spectacular residential interiors created in recent years. Located all over the world, they are set apart by their imaginative and innovative design, as...
Northern Clemency (Booker08 shortlist)
An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher.
Now and Forever: Somewhere Band Is Playing & Leviathan 99
A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets… The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to...
Odalisque (Baroque Cycle vol.1 book 3)
The trials of Dr. Daniel Waterhouse and the Natural Philosophers increase one hundredfold in an England plagued by the impending war and royal insecurities - as the beautiful and ambitious Eliza plays a most dangerous...
On Beyond Zebra: Yellow Back Book ***
In this rip-roaring story a young boy delights in explaining how his alphabet starts where our alphabet ends. Carrying on beyond Z for zebra, we find letter Yuzz for Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz, and Glikk as in Glikker, who lives...
This is the story of a man who believes in all the British values of a stiff upper lip and keeping emotion in check. He also believes you can only truly love one person in your life, and he loses that love when his...
A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice...The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found...
Dazzled by the golden prince, Mary`s joy is cut short when she discovers that she is a pawn in the dynastic plots of her family. When the capricious king`s interest wanes, Mary is ordered to pass on her knowledge of...
"My legs are a bit short for the pole vault!" repeated Paddington hotly. "But they`ve always been that way."Somehow Paddington always manages to find himself in unusual situations. So it is no surprise when he gets...
Pale Horse, The, Christie, Agatha
A priest`s death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub...To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the...
Parker Pyne Investigates (Ned)
The forlorn, the anxious and the puzzled have all beaten a path to Parker Pyne"s office where, armed with just an intuitive knowledge of human natur...
