The first kiss occurred in a dimly lit hallway on the upper floor of Elwin Hastings`s grand house. Louisa never saw it course, Anthony Stalbridge couldn`t possibly have had romantic intentions. The kiss was an act of...
Roald Dahls Book of Ghost Stories (Ned)
`Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts ...` Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister...
From Isaac Asimov, the writer whose name is synonymous with robots and the science of robotics, are five decades of robot visions gathered together in one volume. These 36 landmark short stories and essays include...
You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you .... Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly...
Jonathan Coe`s widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine...
What`s it like to drive a car that`s actively trying to kill you? This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions...
December 1899 – New York City Manhattan has bid farewell to its brightest star, the dazzling Miss Holland. Yet the rumours about her untimely demise continue. Meanwhile, her sister, the irrepressible Diana, has been...
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book...
Russian Affair (Penguin Great Loves)
When Gurov sees the lady with the little dog on a windswept promenade, he knows he must have her. But she is different from his other flings - he cannot forget Chekhov`s stories are of lost love, love at the wrong...
S is for Silence (NY Times bestseller)
In Kinsey Millhone`s 19th excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, a daughter wants the solace of closure in the mystery surrounding her mother`s absence. Thirty-four years earlier, Violet Sullivan put...
You open your home and your heart to a victim. But your house is anything but Samantha Laschen is a doctor specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder. She`s moved to the coast to escape her problems and to be...
Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime-solving in the latest novel in the №1 "New York Times"-bestselling series. In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some...
In the forty-third millennium of human history, Imre Bergamasc awakens after two hundred years to the realization that he has been the victim of an elaborate murder plot-a plot that also destroyed the intergalactic...
From America`s #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in...
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta - despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN - to offer her services pro bono to New York...
Tim Lott`s parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems `as strange as China`. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents` lives, his...
Now in paperback - the latest entry of the New York Times bestselling series featuring teen spy Alex Rider. Alex learns that his father was an assassin for Scorpia, the most powerful terrorist organization going. Now...
Search (No.1 NY Times bestseller) ***
Nora Roberts presents a riveting novel of a canine search and rescue volunteer who fights danger and finds love in the Pacific Northwest.
