In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, blizzards howl through the streets as the Edgeworld descends into an endless winter. Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy -...
From Stonehenge in Wiltshire to Land`s End in Cornwall, Jason Hawkes has compiled a magnificent portrayal of the glorious west of England. His bird`s-eye views show the land and the buildings from often startling...
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld
`A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores` - From, The Fifth Elephant. `Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened` - From, Moving...
The main character of John Irving`s second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to...
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of an...
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. On stage she is a true professional, in full possession of her emotions. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband, less disciplined about her...
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us back in time to an age of scandal and glittering society—and brings to life an extraordinary family: the daring, passionate Huxtables. Katherine, the youngest...
A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence `Tubby` Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy,...
From the author of End in Tears comes a chilling thriller for "Quick Reads" — books for emergent readers, published as part of the UK’s World Book Day Adult Literacy Initiative 2006. What you do in childhood may come...
Since the times of Ivan the Terrible, generations of Russian leaders have turned the Kremlin into a fortress within a fortress, stocking its labyrinthine underground with secret vaults, elegant chambers, and priceless...
Florence, 1291. In a disused church on the ouskirts of the city the disfigured corpse of a master mosaic artist sits at the foot of his latest - unfinished - creation. Young, ambitious Dante Alighieri, Prior of the...
Like the other Sasek classics, this is a facsimile edition of the original book. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved, remaining true to his vision more than 40 years later. Facts have...
