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Highland Fling

When `Virtual Assistant` Jenny Porter`s boyfriend accuses her of being impulsive, soft-hearted and unbusinesslike, dashing off to Scotland to sort out a failing mill for one of her clients may not be the best way of...

Hippopotamus

Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted...

History of World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Ned)

Beginning with an unlikely stowaway`s account of life on board Noah`s Ark, A History of the World in 10??? Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic...

Hitlers Canary``

Hogfather

Susan had never hung up a stocking. She`d never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expectation that a dentally inclined fairy would turn up. It wasn`t that her parents didn`t believe in such things. They...

Hollywood Girls Club

Meet Lydia Albright, one of Hollywood`s hottest movie producers; Lydia`s best friend and tinseltown`s favourite celebrity Celeste Solange; Ueber-agent to the stars Jessica Caulfield, who knows everything and everyone...

Holy Fools

Set in 17th-century France against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, a travelling actress and her daughter.

Honor Thyself

Carole Barber has come to Paris to work on her novel and to find herself. A legend of film and stage, Carole has set a standard of grace, devoting herself to her family and causes around the world. But one fiery...

Honour Thyself (A)

Carole Barber, a legend of film and stage, after a lifetime in the spotlight, has come to Paris to work on a novel, and, she hopes, to find herself. But one cool November evening, as her taxi speeds into a tunnel just...

Hostage, the

Hot Water

Chateau Blissac, on its hill above St Roque, is in a setting where every prospect pleases. But it doesn`t please its current occupier, Gedge. Mr Gedge wants none of it - and particularly none of the domineering Mrs...

Hotel Babylon B NEd

‘Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel...

Hotel Vendome

When Swiss-born Hugues Martin sees a small, run-down hotel in New York for the rough diamond it is, he transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance, run with the precision and attention to...

House of Gold

House of Meetings

House Husband, the

House on Hope Street

A story of courage and loss, of the power of the family and the strength of the human soul. Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage they had built a family, a successful law practice,...

House of Sand & Fog (No.1 NY Times bestseller)

In this stunning novel Andre Dubus III set in present-day California a story of human conflict that has the power and resonance of a classical tragedy. Working on a road crew in California, a former colonel in the...

How Democracies Die What History Reveals About Our

How Far Can You Go

Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that...

How Life Imitates Chess

`In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one’. Garry Kasparov Here Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating...

How Late It Was How Late (Vintage Booker Ed.)

Sammy`s had a bad week - his wallet`s gone, along with his new shoes, he`s been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he`s just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend,...

How Not to F*** Them Up

How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie

If you were a Londoner visiting Cornwall would you know how to recognise a grammersow? If you were from the West Country and took a trip up to Scotland, would you be bewildered if someone described you as crabbit? And...

How to Travel With a Salmon

Eco

Hilarious and provocative, fanciful and wise, offering answers to questions we never thought to ask and questions to the answers always thought we knew, these essays range over subjects marginally useful and...