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...
The story of an old man`s tragic fishing-trip, following the original publication of which Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. "Perhaps there`s some allegory of art and experience floating...
"Vintage Youth" is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens and Irvine Welsh`s controversial bestseller "Trainspotting." "Vintage Youth"...
Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia`s sense of honour for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omerta carried the Mafia through a century of change, but now at the century`s...
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante`s "Paradiso" is followed by one...
Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family, her last name loaded with expectations. Her mother is a mega-bestselling author who writes under the name of Florence Flowers and her sister, Jane, is one of...
Danielle Steel celebrates families of every stripe in her compelling "New York Times" bestseller - a tale of three very different couples who struggle and survive, love, laugh, and learn to take life one day at a time.
