Connor Fitzgerald is the professional`s professional. Holder of the Medal of Honour. Devoted family man. The CIA`s most deadly weapon. But for twenty-eight years, he has been leading a double life. And only days from...
Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen. She has won two Academy Awards and starred in over sixty films. She is just as well known for...
When cartoonist Jane Harris`s best friend Holly announces that she`s eloping to the Italian Riviera with longtime boyfriend Mark, and asks Jane to be her maid-of-honour, Jane jumps at the chance, delighted by the...
Facing Up: Journey to Mount Everest
`No one could fail to be gripped by his heartfelt excitement and emotion over what was the adventure of a lifetime.` Independent At the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became the youngest Briton to reach the summit...
An old lady is brutally murdered the night before 9/11. A New York banker receives a woman`s left ear in the morning post. A top-notch lawyer works for only one client… bill never charges a fee. A professional young...
Playing for the highest stakes of the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions of the race for power with their wives and families, men and...
The world`s most powerful newspaper barons - which of them will triumph? At first glance, Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend seemed to have little in common. One was the son of an illiterate peasant, who emerged...
A collection of 20 amusing stories from around the world. This book features stories from the past and from the present, and includes both classic tales and those less familiar.
This is a collection of 20 amusing stories from around the world, with stories from the past and from the present, and both classic tales and those less familiar.
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell`s magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and a people forever changed. Above...
A devastatingly moving and often very funny novel from a masterful voice. In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a...
Hour Game (No.1 NY Times bestseller)
Following their collaboration in "Split Second", ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are investigating the theft of some secret documents at the residence of the...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Dissects what Proust had to say about friendship. This title looks at paying attention, taking your time, being alive and includes the author`s commentary.
It is Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas and snowing steadily. But family get-togethers are the last thing on Charlie Arglist`s mind, and home is the last place he needs to be. For Charlie has to get out of town. This...
At a remote US ice station in Antarctica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something unbelievable buried deep below the surface, trapped inside a layer of ice 400 million years old....
This is the story of two people, unlikely protagonists - middle-aged, plain and emotionally awkward - both strangers in town. Douglas, with his thin sandy hair, bad teeth and jug ears, is an engineer (hampered by...
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Acorss the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and...
Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music
'Hello, I'm Stephen the Fry and this is my Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music. I feel it does exactly what it says on the tin: it's most certainly incomplete and, well, it's a history of...
