At two international auction houses, fine art experts vie to get the worlds most fabulous and expensive paintings into their salerooms. At Ludbrooks of London, Lizzy Duffy does her best get ahead as an auctioneer,...
Prince William: Born to be King: Intimate Portrait (TPB)
In a life spent under the spotlight Prince William has emerged as the people`s survivor of a tumultuous childhood marred by tragedy he has shown himself as a sensitive and charming young man, determined to find a...
From Rory Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, comes PRINCE, the third in his acclaimed bestselling John Shakespeare Elizabethan mystery series. `Does for Elizabeth`s reign what CJ Sansom...
The ability to manage a project successfully is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Martin Manser, a leading expert on project management as both a coach and a practitioner, this book...
Pure (Costa Book of the Year11)
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart...
Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the sceptre, and an arsenal of blood-stained weaponry. Because if Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age, there`s the small matter of the demons to...
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling`s Great Game
This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy`s recruitment into the Indian...
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
