Francois Besson listens to a tape-recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with...
Henry Grey takes a dirty, demanding job transporting racehorses by air. But when he discovers that he`s actually transporting something altogether different, he has to call upon every ounce of resourcefulness he has...
Fooled by Randomness: Chance in Life & Markets
Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth...
The publication of "The World According to Clarkson" in 2004 launched a multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon. But to no avail. Jeremy`s one-man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And our...
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a suave Englishman to investigate a scandal involving drugged racehorses. But after another investigator dies mysteriously, Roke...
When reporter Bert Checkov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone thinks he can prove it was murder. But there`s no such thing as a sure thing.
Rebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married Isabel and, for 20 years, they have been inseperable. But all that is about to When Alex walks out on...
Fraction of the Whole (Booker08 shortlist)
From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire continent. Incorporating death,...
What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? How can your name affect how well you do in life? The answer: Freakonomics. It`s at the heart of everything we do...
From Potters Field (Scarpetta)
An unidentified nude female sits propped against a fountain in Central Park. There are no signs of struggle. When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues Benton Wesley and Pete Marino arrive on the scene, they instantly...
Spanning 1979-1987, "The Fry Chronicles" charts Stephen`s arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. "Heartbreaking, a delight, a lovely, comfy book". ("The Times")". "Perfect prose and excruciating honesty. A...
Let`s get one thing straight: I`m not an outdoorsy type. If I was offered the choice between white-water rafting and being savaged by a rabid dog, I`d be likely to tick the box marked "dog". Slide further under the...
1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of...
In this arivetinga( The New York Times ) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicagoas crack-dealing gangs First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself...
Trojan Industries are in Russia and there`s a new gang in their sights. Eagles 88, a twisted group of Neo-Nazi extremists, are terrorizing the streets of Moscow, attacking innocent civilians. Can Alexi Zukov, Trojan`s...
Deep in the heart of Rio, a new gang has emerged in the favelas. A gang with a sinister reputation, heavy-duty weaponry and a seemingly limitless drug supply. Recruited by the shady organization Trojan Industries,...
