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...
Our Man in Havana (intro. Christopher Hitchens)
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne`s offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6`s man in Havana. To keep the job,...
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy`s early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend...
Roddy Doyle`s Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation...
September 1952. The cotton is almost ready in the fields of Arkansas. The harvest will soon begin. Luke Chandler is a seven-year-old who lives with his family in a small, unpainted house on rented land. In the next...
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a...
`She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. "I`ve got all the proof necessary" `. Kitty Fane is...
Jilly Cooper explores the art world - where successful young artists strut around like rock stars and where the more beautiful the painting, the greater the backstabbing. And few pictures are more beautiful than...
