"In the high-energy magic facility of Unseen University, the wizards have created a miniature cosmos that includes Roundworld, known to us as Earth. As they bicker over the meaning of this - to them - unfeasible and...
The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved...
Jilly Cooper`s latest story is about loneliness in high places, and heroism and passionate love triumphing against the odds. Sir Robert Rannaldini has two ambitions: first, to seduce Tabitha and second to conduct Don...
The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to...
`Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live ` London, the 1880s. A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in...
Silent and lethal, USS "Seawolf", the US Navy`s most up-to-date stealth submarine, is on an ultra-secret mission - to spy on China`s brand new, hugely-improved "Xia"-Class submarine.
In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets her match, Danielle Steel proves that, in life and love, it`s never too late for a second chance.
Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for "The Guardian beginning", ‘It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment’. And...
For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn`t all astanga yoga and Cath Kidston prints. It`s been years since the dirty laundry pile was less than a metre high, months since Lucy remembered to have sex with her husband, and a...
India lives in a large, luxurious house with a mum she can`t stand and a dad she adores, though he hasn`t had much time for her recently. She seeks solace in her journal, which she keeps in sincere imitation of her...
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
During Emily`s life only seven of her 1775 poems were published. This collection of her work shows her breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and eternity. Once branded an...
Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
Tragedy did not wither her: it crowned her with life, in Keats's phrase, became 'a continual allegory', its strands interwoven with the story of a people. Indeed, her poems can be read in sequence as a...
Service with a Smile: Blandings Novel
This is a Blandings novel. As a peer of the realm, Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings, surely the most considerable pig in the whole world, and travel to London...
Seven Troop is Andy McNab`s account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable group of men - from the day, freshly-badged as a member of the SAS Regiment, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day,...
