With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence. "Liars in Love" is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of...
A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he`s claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have...
Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson`s first travel book opened with the immortal line, "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to". In this deeply funny new book, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious...
This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of Russian life in the epoch of the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1960 and then...
Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O`Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling...
Lily isn`t home ALONE - but she sort of wishes she was; looking after her three younger siblings is a lot of responsibility. When Mum goes off on holiday with her new boyfriend and her stepdad fails to show up, Lily...
Sunset lives a life of luxury with her beautiful ex-model mum, her world-famous ex-rocker dad and two little celeb siblings. But life on the red carpet is no compensation for rowing parents, constant nagging,...
Why did he do it? Why had it happened? What sort of fiend was he? Why should Victor Jenner, the child of happily married, middle-class parents, succumb to such violent rages? Why should he have needed to make...
Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five and celibate, living in a small Gloucestershire town with a possessive cat for company and a Rayburn for comfort. After all, a relationship would only complicate things... But...
Lizzie refuses to speak. She doesn`t want to talk to Rory or Jake, her new stepbrothers. Or to Sam, their dad. Or even to her mum. She`s completely fed up with having to join a new family, and nothing can convince her...
When life with Jayni`s violent-tempered father becomes too frightening to cope with, Jayni, her mum and her little brother Kenny are forced to escape in the middle of the night. Slipping out of the house unseen,...
London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. Now its story has a unique voice. In this epic novel Edward Rutherfurd takes the reader on a magnificent journey across sixteen centuries, from...
London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground...
The image of London as a human body is striking and singular; we may trace it from the pictorial emblems of the City of God, the mystical body in which Jesus Christ represents its head and the citizens its other...
In the tradition of his phenomenal bestseller "Sarum", Edward Rutherford now gives readers a sweeping novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning 2,000 years. He brings this vibrant city`s long and noble history...
Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented...
Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Diana Gabaldon, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "A Breath of Snon an J Ashes", delivers three tales of war, intrigue and espionage featuring the unforgettable Lord John Grey. In the heart of the eighteenth...
