By the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "Walking on Glass", this book is set in Japan and on the Panama Canal. It concerns a world famous Japanese cellist, who refuses to fly, and as a result finds herself involved in...
Careful Use of Compliments (B)
The fourth novel in the hugely popular Sunday Philosophy Club series.
Experiment Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut`s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it, Solution Dr Felix Hoenikker,...
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end...
Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the...
City and the Stars (S.F. Masterworks)
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then, as...
Sookie Stackhouse always found it difficult to date - she`s cute, but not many guys are comfortable with her mind-reading abilities. But vampires have no problems with Sookie`s talent - she can`t pick up much of...
All Genny wants is to live the quiet life and to do her job at but there`s her tangled personal life to sort out first. She`s being haunted by ghosts who want her help. Her witch neighbours want her evicted. Genny`s...
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of traditional build, is now married to Mr Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is...
Conan Chronicles vol.2: Hour of the Dragon
Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become kingof Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched...
Conan Chronicles vol.1: People of the Black Circle
Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become kingof Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched...
Jack Isidore is a `crap artist`, a collector of crackpot ideas and worthless objects. His beliefs make him a man apparently unsuited for real life and so his sister, an edgy and aggressive woman, and his...
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very starsThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very...
In December 1999, a multi-national team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who - or what - is out there?
From its bravura opening onwards, "The Crow Road" is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring...
Cujo is so well paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story...
