Dracula is a unique horror masterpiece and the most famous of all vampire tales. Few readers will ever forget the nightmare atmosphere of Count Dracula\'s sinister castle in Transylvania, the prowlings of the...
Few readers will ever forget the nightmare atmosphere of Count Dracula`s sinister castle in Transylvania, the prowlings of the Un-dead, the blood-curdling tension as Bram Stoker`s tale races towards a thrilling...
Dreams in Witch House & Other Stories (B)
Full title: `The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories`. A further collection of weirdly wonderful stories by Lovecraft to join the two successful volumes already in Modern Classics, `The Call of Cthulhu`...
Brace yourself, Clarkson`s back. And he`d like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly gorgeous cars in the world (alongside a few irredeemable ). Or...
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants` office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on...
Thus Joyce wrote to his brother, and at the early age of twenty-five he completed "Dubliners" - a sequence of highly detailed episodes depicting middle-class Catholic life in Dublin. The frustrations of childhood,...
"When you remember that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years ... it seems strange that no artist has given it to the world." Thus Joyce wrote to his brother, and at the early age of twenty-five he...
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic...
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact...
Conquer your fear of flying - for good. In this life-changing new book Allen Carr turns his unique methods to fear of flying, a problem which affects thousands of people, causing trauma, guilt and embarrassment, and...
Newly married to novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely happy. However, he does have an irksome tendency to lose his shirt on various horses. And who else to help him out but one...
Elephants are magnificent creatures that have long intrigued people with their strength and intelligence. This book brings to life the story of their earliest origins on the plains of northern Africa more than 50...
Emma Woodhouse is introduced to us as `handsome, clever and rich` and, according to Jane Austen, a heroine "which no one but myself would like". Yet such is Emma`s spirited wit that, despite her superior airs and...
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Niall Ferguson recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire, showing on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th century spearheaded real globalization with steampower, telegraphs,...
