Hodder & Stoughton

Rules of Civility

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...

Run Your Own Business: TY

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: My Booky Wook

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...

Salem`s Lot

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...

Sandworms of Dune

Sarah`s Key

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...

Sea of Poppies (Man Booker Prize08 Shortlist)

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies...

Seaflower

Searching for Schindler

The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis, is now legendary - but it could have been otherwise. As Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the...

Second Glance (B) ***

When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things begin to happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal investigator, is asked to get involved. He`s a...

Secret Seven Mystery

A girl has mysteriously run away from home and her parents are frantic with worry. Can the Secret Seven follow the clues and catch up with the girl, or will Susie, Jack`s troublesome little sister, get in the way?

Secret Seven 11: Secret Seven Fireworks

Jack`s little sister, Susie, is so annoying! The Secret Seven are furious when they discover she`s formed her own detective gang! Then some money is stolen, and Susie is a chief suspect. The Seven can`t quite believe...

Secrets of Married Women

What happens when you`ve met Mr. Right? Chick-lit moves on, moves in, gets married and finds nothing is as perfect as it seems.

Secret Seven 12: Good Old Secret Seven

There are strange happenings indeed at Torling Castle! Someone is hiding out in the ruined tower, making the resident jackdaws very unsettled. Who is it, and what do they want? The Secret Seven are on it!

Secret Circle vol.2: Captive & Power

Now that Cassie is part of the most alluring and deadly clique imaginable, she is starting to realise that power comes with a price – more dangerous than she knows. Torn between the dueling desires of the two leaders...

Secret Pilgrim (A)

The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence – the Circus – all his adult life. Now, approaching...

Secret Britain: The Hidden Bits of Our History

Some of our most intriguing history is missing. Perhaps there has been a conspiracy, a cover-up? Or maybe some stories have been lost, forgotten or were just too embarrassing to talk about at the time? But now they...

Secret Seven 5: Go Ahead, Secret Seven

When a sinister-looking man gets George in trouble with the police, the Secret Seven are outraged! Spying on him, the gang are certain he`s bad news, but what exactly is he up to? They need to investigate, and solve...

Secret Seven 6: Good Work Secret Seven

Peter and Janet are the only witnesses when a car is stolen! They saw the thieves, and now the whole of the Secret Seven are involved. But when they realise they`re on the trail of a dangerous gang, the Seven don`t...

Secret Seven Short Story Collection

This work features a secret store of stolen silver, a surprising view through a telescope, a shrill scream on a night out, a disappearing cash box and a dangerous accident and a trap for the Secret Seven! This...

Secret Seven 13: Shock for Secret Seven

Dogs are disappearing from the village, but the Seven are so busy arguing and falling out with each other that they don`t even notice. Then poor Scamper becomes the latest victim and it`s all systems go for the Secret...

Secret Seven 1: Secret Seven

Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels - several...