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Child of God Ned

Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee, preying on the population with...

Julia Donaldson: Cave Baby (PB)

A hairy mammoth takes a cheeky little baby on a thrilling ride through a moonlit landscape populated by a sabre-toothed tiger, a leaping hare, a laughing hyena and even, just maybe, by a big brown bear . . . But where...

Rowan Moore: Why We Build

2666

Written in the last years of Roberto Bolano`s life, "2666" was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer`s masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope. At the...

A History of Modern Britain (New Edition)

"A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be...

Abortionist`s Daughter

Absolute War: Soviet Russia in Second World War Ned

In this magisterial work, the fruit of more than a decade`s research, Chris Bellamy provides, in one volume, a modern history of the greatest and most hideous land-air conflict in history. It was a war fought by all...

Agent of Deceit

Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business in Kazakhstan crushed, the cost of his scrutiny a terrible Now employed by a private London intelligence agency, Webster`s...

All That Follows ( Все, что следует )

All the Pretty Horses (B) Ned

This is Volume One of the "Border Trilogy". `A uniquely brilliant told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time` - Stephen Amidon, "Sunday...

Amulet

`Roberto Bolano redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece 2666; with the hallucinatory narrative of Amulet, he reimagines what literature can become` New Statesman Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve...

An Area of Darkness. His Discovery of India

Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded over the decades in the pages of Playboy, the...

And Thereby Hangs a Tale

Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer`s short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H. H. Munro, W. Somerset Maugham and O....

Apartment 16

In an upmarket apartment block in Knightsbridge called Barrington House, the door to apartment 16 is always locked. For the last twenty years it has been empty. No one goes in. No one comes out. One evening a night...

As the Crow Flies (Ned)

Charlie Trumper`s earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather`s sales patter from behind his costermonger`s barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his...

Assegai (A) NY Times bestseller

It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his...

Avalon High

Avalon High, Ellie`s new school, is pretty much what she`d expected. There`s Lance, the hunky footballer. Jennifer, the cute cheerleader. Marco, the troublemaker. And then there`s Will - the most gorgeous guy Ellie`s...

Better Than Sex

`Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants` Philadelphia Inquirer Since his blazing 1972 opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign...

Blood Meridian

Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, this novel traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are...

C. Sansom: Lamentation

Camel Club

The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days as a protester camped opposite the White House, his only goal to keep watch on Washington politics and expose corruption wherever he finds it....

Cantona. The Rebel Who Would Be King

Chameleons Shadow

When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines,...

Chances Ned

From the casinos of Las Vegas to the streets of New York, Chances was the name of the and everybody took them. A brand spanking new, rejacketed B format edition featuring a letter from Jackie Collins to her Gino...