Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against...
Childrens Book (Man Booker Prize shortlist09)
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house...
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother`s hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who `saves you` will feel responsible for you for the rest...
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother`s hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who `saves you` will feel responsible for you for the rest...
An all-absorbing journey into man`s possible past. Jean M. Auel, a storytelling genius, weaves a compellingly readable saga of human survival; an epic that transcends time and place. It is peopled with rich and...
Em adores her funny, glamorous dad - who cares if he`s not her real father? He`s wonderful to her, and to her little brother and sister. True to form at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, including a real...
The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides. Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance. He`s helplessly in love with Adeline, but what use are his...
From the master storyteller comes a tale of gothic mystery as elegantly crafted as the most intricate clockwork. A tormented apprentice clock-maker - and a deadly knight in armour. A mechanical prince - and the...
This is an Uncle Fred novel. It was never the habit of Frederick, fifth Earl of Ickenham, to grumble when events crowded in on him, but he did sometimes feel that the life-work he had set himself of spreading...
A Jeeves and Wooster novelWhen Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers` breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn-t expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there...
