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...
Not quite novel or novella, McEwan`s masterful 13th work of fiction most resembles a five-part classical drama rendered in prose. It opens on the anxious Dorset Coast wedding suite dinner of Edward Mayhew and the...
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...
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.
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...
One Good Turn (Quick Reads) Exp
1917, Western Front, Ypres. A soldier wakes up in a damp, dark basement. He can`t get out. He is covered in skin is badly burned. And he can`t remember anything. But his nightmare doesn`t end there. He is tried and...
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev & Castro
October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer to nuclear apocalypse. As the opposing Cold War leaders, John...
One Step Behind (Wallander TV Tie)
It is Midsummer`s Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander`s...
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get...
As the mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game thunders across the computer screen, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces. And they send him a message: We surrender. They`re not...
Operation Napoleon (Intern. bestseller)
1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims...
