Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he`s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning Living in the past is hard. Dying in the...
`This is the Gyre - the most hostile environment in the galaxy`. 250,000 years` worth of junk is floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all - the Humans. The...
Part of the "Night Watch" trilogy, this book follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city, protecting ordinary people from the...
Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, Noah`s Compass chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and...
"Non-Fiction" proves just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on...
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo,...
When the going gets tough, you find out who your friends really Laura Fanning has talent to burn, a brand-new jewellery design company and a wonderful husband. Nicola Peters has independence, a job she loves and her...
Nothing but the Truth: Selected Dispatches
Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. She won international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian state corruption....
I don`t believe in God, but I miss Him. Julian Barnes` new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art,...
Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village
Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her...
Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a colourless member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. Against a background of prejudice and distrust, highlighted...
Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works.Polish exile and imaginary soldier, the `Count` watches over Gertrude with loving patience. An accomplished...
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don`t know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems,...
The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called "Odessa" ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of "of a young German journalist tumed...
Of Love and Evil (Songs of Seraphim) Exp
""I dreamed a dream of angels. I saw them and heard them in a great and endless galactic night. I saw the lights that were these angels, flying here and there, in streaks of irresistible brilliance . . . I felt love...
