Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense, raved the Washington Post, A new synonym for terror, crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring...
The author of "The Name of the Rose" considers a wide range of topics, from "Superman" and "Casablanca", Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and Woody Allen, to pop festivals and...
Sophia Chrysanthis is initially dazzled when the celebrated German archaeologist, Herr Obermann, comes in search of a Greek bride who can read the works of Homer and assist in his excavations of the city he believes...
Special Agent Faith Mitchell returns home to a nightmare. Her baby daughter Emma has been locked outside, and there`s a trail of blood to the front door. Without waiting for back-up, Faith enters the house. Inside a...
From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, #1 "New York Times" - bestselling author Steel weaves a powerfully compelling story that reminds readers how challenging and unpredictable life can be - and how the...
Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham`s experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover`s curse,...
Barely escaping with his life after his first mission, young Fitz returns to the chaotic royal court. With King Shrewd near death and Fitz`s only ally off on a futile quest, the throne is ripe for the taking. And as...
What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds and another thirty quid? Is the catwalk...
What is fashion? Who decides what`s in and what`s out? Is the catwalk really that catty? Is everyone high on drugs and full of champagne? What makes a supermodel so super? Exquisitely cut and gorgeously detailed,...
A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperence Brennan is first on the scene. The task that confronts her...
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler`s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to...
Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva, he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets....
A Discworld Howdunnit Who`s murdering harmless old men? Who`s poisoning the Patrician? As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can`t be seen. Maybe the golems...
Fenella McCabe works alone in the archive section of Trust Art, housed in one of the corridors of the Tate Gallery. She is hoping to trace a piece of art stolen in the 1930s and simultaneously trying to decide between...
Hemingway`s first novel, set in 1920s Paris, a city of Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with the aristocratic, beautiful and sensuous Brett Ashley, and...
