Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal...
Read and Write Russian Script: Teach Yourself
Read and write Russian script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how it works in context and lots of exercises to reinforce your learning.
Master Greek script with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Learn to write Greek script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of...
Read and Write Arabic Script 2011
Master Arabic script - in which the Koran is written - with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself, the No. 1 brand in language learning. Read and write Arabic script is a clear step-by-step guide to the...
Read and write Japanese scripts
Master Japanese scripts with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Learn to write Japanese scripts is a clear step-by-step guide to the written languages, with plenty...
Master Chinese script with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Read and write Chinese script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of...
Every bride is entitled to some pre-wedding jitters. But what if it`s not the ceremony, but the happy ever after? Heidi Savage is wondering whether she can really forsake all others for macho, beer-swilling Ed. Will...
Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress,...
The thrilling climax to one of the most eagerly awaited series since The Hunger Games and Twilight. I`ve started dreaming of Portland again. Like a monster from one of the ghost stories we used to tell as kids, the...
A novel spanning the history of Russia through the tumultuous 20th century, from the only writer ever to have won both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis.
The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler`s armies were halted on the Eastern Front At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the...
This is dark humour at its best – a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons which will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side.
1592. England and Spain are at war, yet there is peril at home, too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen Elizabeth vulnerable. Conspiracies multiply. The quiet life of John...
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle,...
Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a...
In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn`t afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: the location of every old church in Manhattan how to...
Running your own business is a daunting, challenging and stressful task, but it can also be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. Having run many types of business, worked with 300 clients, and won 35...
Russell Brand grew up in Essex. His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily and taking drugs. He...
Russias Empires: from Prehistory to Putin
Through the centuries, Russia has swung between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these cycles from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible...
Russian Lieutenants Woman: Passion, Love & Betrayal
When Barbara Davies went to Russia on a newspaper assignment, she met Lieutenant Valinsky and her world was turned upside down. Fascinated by the simplicity of his existence in a freezing winter, she embarked on an...
Turn off the television - in fact, why don`t you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we`ll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them. Stephen...
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she locks him in a cupboard...
