Sealed for one hundred and twenty-five years, Wilkie Collins`s scribbled words launch a feverish descent into the underbelly of Victorian London as he is dragged into Charles Dickens`s pursuit of a spectral figure...
Earth: In 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries (TPB)
Uncovered here are the 100 groundbreaking discoveries that reveal why Earth is the one lucky blue planet in our Solar System that can support life and how this has come about in its myriad forms. The Material World:...
Field Grey: Bernie Gunther Mystery
`A man doesn`t work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.` So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie...
A richly entertaining, compellingly readable survey of 21st-century England from a sharp-eyed American with a winningly humorous way with words.
This stunning collection of over 170 large-format colour illustrations includes paintings of ships at sea, in action, in convoy, and in siege; architectural drawings; battle diagrams; sea charts and signals; portraits...
Fighting Ships: From Ancient World to 1750
Beginning with Ramses III`s dramatic defeat of the `sea people` in 1176 BC - the world`s earliest visual record of a naval battle - Fighting Ships tells the story of 3000 years of maritime history through 150 glorious...
Melander likes to do things flashy. When Parker finds himself working with Melander on a bank heist in a mid-sized midwestern city, his job is throwing a Molotov cocktail into a gas station. The resulting explosion...
The Daemon is now firmly in control and moving towards its endgame, using an expanding network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear civilization apart and build it anew. As the global economy begins...
Frightfully Friendly Ghosties (illustr.)
Tabitha Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Rusty Chains and friends can`t understand why the still-alives in their house are so mean. When Pamela Fraidy gets locked in the attic by a still-alive, the ghosties are determined to...
Frightfully Friendly Ghosties: Ghostly Holler-day (illustr.)
It`s winter and what better than a ghostly holler-day by the sea? But how are Tabitha Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Humphrey Bump and the other ghosties to decide between Frighten-on-Sea and Scare-borough? A postcard from...
Girl Who Played With Fire (Film Tie-In)
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating...
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (US film tie-in) Ned
Tie-in edition to the major Columbia Pictures/Sony production starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, directed by David Fincher. The first volume in Stieg Larsson`s phenomenal Millennium Trilogy, with combined sales of...
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the...
Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest (Film Tie-In)
The Trial. Lisbeth Salander - outsider and apparent enemy of society - is charged with attempted murder. The state has also ruled that she is mentally unstable, and should be locked away in an institution once again....
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is a Tolstoyan re-invention of the "closed room" murder mystery, Agatha Christie for adults... It`s also a profound investigation into tribal violence in the world of high finance,...
On an amateur dig in Israel, two students discover what appears to be the femur of a very large humanoid, and there`s compelling evidence to suggest that it`s the thigh bone of the Biblical giant, Goliath. Back in New...
Great Commanders of the Modern World 1866-1975
The Art of War, is a sumptuous chronological survey of the 25 greatest commanders of the modern world. Compiled by an distinguished team of historians (including such names as Antonia Fraser, Saul David and Stephen...
50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title that will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of British history. The...
Arranged thematically, the 130 reproductions of Klimt`s most important work are accompanied by Rachel Barnes` expert and insightful commentary on all aspects of the artist`s life, influences and paintings.
It was a beautiful winter`s day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse on Gavasten. There was no one around, so they let her go...
History of the World (HB) illustrated
10000 - 500 BC: The river civilizations; Danube; Mesopotamia; Indus; Early empires; China to the Zhou; Egypt; Mycenae and Knossos. 500 BC - 1000 AD: An Axial Age? Plato; Ezra; Buddha; Confucius; The glory that was...
Horse: Celebration of Horses in Art (430 x 353 mm)
The fascinating history of humanity`s bond with the horse is spectacularly brought to life in this beautifully illustrated volume. With over 100 giant images from the extraordinary Parthenon Frieze to the thoroughbred...
