This title is the winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a...
A five-act drama set in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1970s, among four generations of a black family. The stonemason`s trade is dying out, and the family`s unwillingness to preserve its truths has tragic consequences.
The Valley of Adventure: and " The Sea of Adventure"
Nothing could be more exciting than a night flight on Bill`s plane. But in The Valley of Adventure, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot fly straight into terrible danger. In The Sea of Adventure, the...
Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context showing how the Third Reich`s abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread. The underlying premise of his book is that there are good and bad...
When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands. They faced incalculable odds on a mission only true heroes would have
The sequel to "Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland", this book follows the layout and type style of the very first edition of "Through the Looking-Glass".
1922, Tokyo Harry Niles is a `wild child`, an American boy in a strange country, ignored by his missionary parents. So Harry begins to lead his own life in the Tokyo underworld. One night, he is charged with...
"Triple" is the riveting story of the most successful espionage coup - and best-kept secret - of this century. It is 1968. Israeli intelligence has learned that Egypt, with Soviet help, will develop atomic bombs...
In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, The Madhi or "Expected One"....
Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his...
An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much A female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another A young artist gets the biggest break of her A restless beauty manages...
Archer`s (Kane and Abel) talent as a raconteur is evident in these 12 distinctive short stories, all of which have surprise endings. Many center on human failings such as jealousy, obstinacy, pettiness or prejudice;...
After the death of his beloved Queen Lostris, Taita performs the rites of embalmment and burial for her. Then, stricken with grief, he retreats into the forbidding deserts of North Africa where he becomes a hermit....
Works 3: Poet a Week: Poet for Every Week of the Year
The Works 3 contains poems by 52 poets - one for every single week of the year. There are 7 poems by each poet which gives a fantastic variety to the book. All the major themes and forms of poetry are to be found...
A fantastic book of really great poems for Reception and Year 1 and 2. It contains poems which cover every form and theme of the Literacy Strategy, an index of poem types, advice for writing poems, advice for reading...
