"Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive". Sunday Times "What clinches the novel`s success is Mr Sharpe`s brilliant comic style. His phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic...
A dazzling new novel from a modern master of the form. It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his...
"Vintage Sin" is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of "Inferno" by Dante and Philip Roth`s shocking novel, "Sabbath`s Theater." "Vintage Sin" is just one of ten...
Part noir, part psychedelic romp - private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L A fog. In this lively...
A classic collection of stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman`s gentleman - in which Bertie`s terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages,...
Ron Williamson was a star college baseball player in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma. When he left to pursue his dreams he seemed destined for glory. But years of injury, drinking, drugs and women took their toll. He...
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance only a pawn in an...
Alison Weir, our pre-eminent popular historian, has now fulfilled a life`s ambition to write historical fiction. She has chosen as her subject the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England, Lady...
She`s a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of...
In 1660 a small group of men, led by Sir Robert Moray, met in London with a secret plan to reshape the world. They were members of the ‘Invisible College’, better known today as the Freemasons Emerging from the...
Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends and dastardly deeds, mixed with portions of exploration literature. Roberto, a young nobleman, waits alone on a...
Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on...
Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother`s funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family...
Synthesising the experiences of a long-standing resident into a single Neighbours is not about the escape to an idyll, but about a different way of living life`s idiocies and hardships. It`s a clever job Parks has...
Everybody knows Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson’s best-loved character. But what do they know about Jacqueline herself? In this fascinating book, ...how Jacky played with paper dolls like April in "Dustbin Baby"....
When walter f. Starbuck, the least celebrated of the watergate conspirators, is freed from jail after two years, his first 24 hours of freedom take shape with the unforeseen turns of fortune and moral innuendo of an...
