The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. Frankenstein lives! And so too does his monstrous creation but this creature of...
A moving story of a brother, a sister and a swallow, and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines. Olly`s brother Matt wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans, through war, in...
Deaths Jest-Book (Dalziel & Pascoe)
Reginald Hill`s best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: `Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world` -...
Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring scholar and sleuth Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece `An Instance of the Fingerpost`. The monastery of San Giovanni on Rome`s Aventine hill...
Delegates Choice (Mobile Library Mystery)
Israel Armstrong, one of literature`s most unlikely detectives, returns for more crime solving adventure in this hilarious third novel from the Mobile Library series. Israel has been invited to attend the Mobile Meet...
Dialogues of the Dead (Dalziel & Pascoe)
New Dalziel and Pascoe novel from Britain`s finest male crime writer: `Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction` Tom Hiney, Observer In the Beginning was the Word! A man...
Diary of a Wombat (PB) illustr
A wombat`s work is never done! Take a trip with a wombat, and discover the ins and outs of her day in this modern classic Australian picture book. There are holes to be dug and territory to be defended - and don`t...
Discomfort Zone: Personal History
A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of `The Corrections`. Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. `The Discomfort Zone` is his intimate memoir...
Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: Autobiography
The long-awaited, never-before-told, no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Aerosmith frontman. Finally, all the lurid tales of debauchery, sex, drugs and rock n` roll are told straight from the horse`s lips as The...
Sirius, immortal Lord of the Dog Star and infamous for his quick temper, cannot believe it when he is falsely accused of murder and banished to Earth. There he is reborn into the body of a puppy and learns that he has...
Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth...
This is a new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite, set to rival Ian Rankin. It`s summertime in the Granite city: the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and people are dying! It starts with...
This is a tremendous historical novel of the early 1600s, as seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. A traveller in a time of discovery, the greatest gardening pioneer of his...
Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater`s multi-award-winning food memoir `Toast`, this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are the British at Table.The British...
Eating Up Italy. Voyages on a Vespa
Italy’s tumultuous history can be traced through its food. In an epic scooter trip from the Ionian Sea to the far north, distiguished food writer Matthew Fort explores the local gastronomy and culinary culture of a...
The international bestseller, reissued and with a new introduction. A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. When social histories come to be...
I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like; he replied that it was like nothing on earth. In the middle of the 18th century, a ship docks at Bristol with an extraordinary cargo: two young elephants. Bought by a...
Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in match-making those around her, with no apparent care for her own romantic life. Taking young Harriet Smith under her wing, Emma sets her sights on...
