The "New York Times" - bestselling authors return with a heart-stopping new novel. On the first day of Royal Ascot, a man steps forward claiming to be Ned Talbot`s long-lost father. Barely an hour later, the man is...
`An astonishing feat` - "The Times". A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis....
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (movie tie-in)
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died on 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key. The key belonged to his father, he`s sure of that. But which of New York`s 162 million locks does it open?...
Fizzy Pink`s new school has been a lot better since she made friends with Daisy (formerly known as Stringy Plaits!) but things don`t look so glamouroony now her mean form teacher Mrs SCary is back - despite wishful...
1995, Scotland - The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she`s been battling for justic - insisting that she didn`t kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their...
Faithful Spy (NY Times bestseller)
John Wells is the only CIA agent to ever penetrate al Qaeda. While living in the mountains of Pakistan, he became a Muslim, convinced of the decadence and shallowness of the United States.
World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics. Now, Ken Follett takes readers on a new journey in Fall of Giants. This magnificent...
New Orleans, 1840s. Sent to watch over the decadent city, the angel Gabriel loses himself in the liquid pleasure of absinthe. So when his mistress, Anne, is murdered — and all evidence points to him — a foggy Gabriel...
The game started with a murder. Now, it`s Eve Dallas`s move. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced: the founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play is found decapitated in his locked, private...
Fantastic Mr Fox (Film tie-in)
Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They’re the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they’ve concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and...
Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the meanest three farmers you could meet. They are determined to get Mr Fox - but he has other plans! This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover and new author biography.
Far from the Madding Crowd (Ned)
Thomas Hardy`s richly evocative novel opens with the arrival of Bathsheba in the village of Weatherbury to work the large, dilapidated farm that is her inheritance. The plot turns on her sentimental education, her...
`s products became classics of the English literature of the XX-th century. The collection included adventure stories about the priest-detective father Brown. A sharp detective plot, fascinating methods of disclosing...
In these nine unforgettable, impressionistic "tales of little madness", the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clezio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or...
The Twentieth Anniversary EditionAs a young boy, growing up in London and watching his parents` marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby - author of High Fidelity, About a Boy and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - had little...
For many people watching football is mere entertainment; to some it`s more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. For Nick Hornby his devotion to the game has provided one...
In the heart of the old Soviet Union, a mining tycoon has declared himself tsar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the current Russian...
In his novels "Serpent" and "Blue Gold", #1 bestselling author Clive Cussler introduced a hero for the new millennium: Kurt Austin, the leader of NUMA`s Special Assignment Team, and an instant hit with critics and...
First Love (Penguin Great Loves)
At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For one of them, it will be a dark journey into his past, reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the...
Distinguished by Smith`s trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, "The First Person and Other Stories" sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a...
