Random House

Lords of Finance: 1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World

Many of us take it as a given that the Great Depression - the consequences of which reverberated for decades, crippling the future of an entire generation and setting the stage for WWII - resulted from a confluence of...

Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum

Lots of Dogs

It`s hard to resist a fuzzy, cuddly canine. In one slipcase are two paw-sitively adorable volumes of Artlist Collection`s priceless canines at their wet-nosed, ear-flopping best. The dogs are photographed at "strange...

Love Letters (A)

Phillida Horsley might have bitten off more than she can chew when she agrees to help organize a literary festival and finds herself going to Ireland to persuade the infamous and reclusive author Dermot Flynn to come...

Love Lessons

Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. They know they are different to `normal` girls but their attempts to find out what...

Love Letters

Love, Etc (Ned)

In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In Love, Etc Julian Barnes revisits the three of them, using the same intimate technique of allowing the...

Loving, Living, Party Going

Luck of Bodkins Ned

Seize this wonderful chance to embark on a Wodehousian voyage on the luxurious liner - in the company of Monty Bodkin, whose passion for Gertrude Butterwick knows no bounds (except those set by the wild-at-heart...

Lucky Man

The remarkable memoir of film star Michael J. Fox and his first ten years living with Parkinson`s Disease. Diagnosed in 1991, Michael eventually lost his balance, his grace, his spontaneity, and the ability to read...

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married. Tv Tie-in

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Lucy Sullivan is getting married. Or is she? Lucy doesn`t even have a boyfriend but the tarot cards predict she will be walking up the aisle within a year. Lucy and her flatmates are appalled at the idea, then Lucy...

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

When Lucy Sullivan is dragged by her friends to visit a psychic, she thinks it will be a bit of a laugh. She doesn`t believe for one second that the prediction will come true; there`s just no way that she will be...

Luka and the Fire of Life (Exp)

Like all children about to set off on an adventure, Luka Khalifa is a special kid. For one thing, his father is the famed storyteller Rashid Khalifa, "the Shah of Blah", "the Ocean of Notions". For another, Luka`s

Lullaby

The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk`s darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS,...

Lullaby

Lurid & Cute

Lustrum

Lustrum

The second book in the stunning Roman Empire trilogy by Robert Harris, author of the acclaimed bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium and The Ghost. It is 63 BC, the year when Cicero is consul....

Madame de Pompadour

Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold

What is that makes urban myths so persistent but many everyday truths so eminently forgettable? How do newspapers set about ensuring that their headlines make you want to read on? And why do we remember complicated...

Madonna: Like an Icon

Madonna Ciccone is the highest-earning female singer of all time, one of our greatest living pop icons and possibly the most famous woman in the world. She has reinvented herself time and time again and continues to...

Magdalene Cipher

This is a stunning international thriller of psychology and conspiracy, espionage and prophecy, history and suspense. After someone he has under surveillance is slaughtered - literally - CIA agent Jack Dunphy is...

Magician (B)

Set in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham`s exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley. At the start of this...

Making Money (A)

The long awaited, brand new adult Discworld novel. It`s an offer you can`t refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork`s Royal Mint and the bank next door? It`s a job for life. But, as former...

Making History

Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerman, an ageing physicist with a theory that can change worlds. Together they realise that they have the power to alter...