Random House

Practical magic

A. Hoffman

Precious (film tie-in)

This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy...

Pregnant Widow (Exp)

The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though dedicated to the cause they have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the death of one social order...

Princess Poppy: Twinkletoes +D

When Poppy and her best friend Honey go to Riverside Stables, they fall in love with a gorgeous chesnut pony called Twinkletoes. But poor Twinkletoes is not well, and the girls must help to get him better before they...

Princess Poppy: Birthday +DVD

Children can now enjoy their favourite Poppy story, time and time again with this brilliant picture book and DVD set. The DVD features a soundtrack read by Tamzin Outhwaite, animated stills from the book and brilliant...

Prisoner of the Daleks

The Daleks are advancing, their empire constantly expanding into Earth s space, and now the future of the galaxy hangs in the balance. The Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline with a...

Private (No.1 NY Times bestseller)

Former US Marine Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential...

Probable Future

When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella`s case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, is the ability to see a person`s probable future. Stella...

Pulse

The stories in Julian Barnes` long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a...

Pygmy ***

Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An exchange student he is welcomed with open arms by his Midwestern host family....

Pyramid

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly...

Q

Set in Reformation Europe, Q begins with Luther`s nailing of his 95 theses on the door of the cathedral church in Wittenberg and traces the adventures and conflicts of two central characters, an Anabaptist, a member...

Quartz and Feldspar

Queenie

It’s 1953, the year Elizabeth is to be crowned Queen of England. Elsie Kettle can`t wait to go to London to see the celebrations on Coronation Day. Elsie lives with her Nan – her mum works as a showgirl, so she`s not...

Quicksilver

N. Stephenson

Quickening Maze (Booker09 Shortlist)

After a lifetime`s struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in London`s Epping Forest, is run on the reformist principles of occupational...

Quiet American

Greene

R. Symes: Rock and Mineral

Rachel Papers Ned

Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously,...

Radiant (The Diamond Trilogy)

Rainbow and the Rose

Ransom

A violent crime brings together four lives in Steel`s 60th bestselling novel, the story of a mother`s courage, a family`s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.

Rant

Rant: Oral History of Buster Casey

Rasputin File

E Radzinsky

From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the...