Snobs (Sunday Times bestseller)
`Fellowes doesn`t try to hide his love of the funny, sealed, above-stairs world of dukes, duchesses, marquesses, nursery maids, herbaceous borders and breakfast kedgeree, all of which makes SNOBS such a good, fresh...
Boris Akunin`s well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully maintained calm of...
A former war correspondent, Spanish novelist Perez-Reverte continues his internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series with a third translated volume (following Purity of Blood), every bit as terse and engaging...
The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
A stunning and epic finale to the series, pitting Fandorin against both Ninjas and terrorists on the Trans-Siberian Express! The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in...
A battle-weary Captain Alatriste sails home from the ongoing war in Flanders. But the Spain he returns to is rotten to the core. Gold from the Americas floods into the port of Seville, brought by the country`s...
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin`s Secret Service
For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin`s orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI - a footnote buried in the rubble...
Daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has made a career out of playing outrageously on the prejudices of his public. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has begun to detest laughter in...
The Revenge Of Captain Paine (Pyke Mystery)
It is 1835, and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic marriage has brought him, and when he is unofficially asked to investigate...
General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as...
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
Pel Dalton leads an uneventful life. His days are spent bluffing his way through an IT job in the university library, pillow-fighting with his two sons, surviving family outings to the supermarket, and finding new...
'Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started falling over the city...
Tin Roof Blowdown (NY Times bestseller)
Dave Robicheaux`s beloved New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its f awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, the survivors wait in trees or on...
Touche: French Womans Take on English
brilliant and vigorous observer of both French and British societies, which she knows intimately, 32-year-old Agnes Catherine Poirier has spent the last ten years explaining the peculiarities of France to the British...
On a hot summer afternoon in Washington DC 1972, three white teenagers, stoned and fearless, drive a stolen car into a rough, black neighbourhood. Taunting local black kids through the car window, they speed off to...
`It was not the question of an isolated assassination, but rather of beginning a complete overthrow of the regime` July 20 1944. A fearless group of German officers attempted to act against the horrors of Nazism and...
Hidden beneath the floorboards in a house he`s remodeling, Christopher Flynn discovers something very tempting-and troubling. Summoning every bit of maturity and every lesson he`s learned the hard way, Chris leaves...
White Death: Russia`s War on Finland 1939-40
When Russia invaded Finland in November 1939, the international community reacted with shock and outrage. Several nations, including France and England, pledged their support to the Finns, but a ring of neutral...
