Random House

Artistic Licence

Ashenden, or British Agent

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to...

Ashland & Vine

Assassini

Associate

Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career, and possibly his entire life. One night that secret...

At Home with Books: How Book Lovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries

From an elegant, curved modern library with sunny picture windows to a simple apartment library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, this guide showcases 40 libraries and offers professional advice on editing and...

At Risk

For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday`s Counter-Terrorist meeting. An invisible may have entered mainland Britain. An "invisible" - a...

Atomised Les Particules elementaires

M. Houellebecq

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by...

Atonement

Иэн Макьюэн

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country home. Watching her is Robbie Turner,...

Atonement

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner,...

Atonement (film tie-in) Ned

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner,...

Attack of the Clones C-format

Salvatore

Aunts Arent Gentlemen: Jeeves and Wooster Novel

Bertie Wooster has been overdoing metropolitan life a bit, and the doctor orders fresh air in the depths of the country. But after moving with Jeeves to a cottage at Maiden Eggesford, Bertie soon finds himself...

Autobiography of A Geisha

Sayo Masuda`s story is an extraordinary portrait of rural life in Japan and an illuminating contrast to the fictionalised lives of glamorous geishas. At the age of six masuda`s poverty-stricken family sent her to work...

Avenger

Forsyth

Avenger is the latest international thriller by Frederick Forsyth, who needs no introduction: his past bestsellers in this vein include The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File. The avenger is Calvin Dexter,...

Awakening

When a man dies from what appears to be a random snake bite in a quiet country village, the hospital seeks the expertise of wildlife vet Clara Benning. But the postmortem reveals this was no freak accident. Clara...

Bachelor Boys

Saunders

Cassie is nothing if not organised. A successful journalist, shes ticked almost all the boxes: attentive boyfriend, own flat, good job, great all fallen into place. In theory, at least. Theres one part of Cassies...

Back from the Brink

Back When We Were Grownups

Bad Girls

Mandy has been picked on at school for as long as she can remember. That`s why she is delighted when cheeky, daring, full-of-fun Tanya picks her as a friend. Mum isn`t happy - she thinks Tanya`s a bad girl and a bad...

Bad Luck and Trouble

From the first shocking scenes in Child`s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends and is on its way to becoming something even worse.

Bagambo Snuff Box

Vonnegut

Bagombo snuff box, Vonnegut, Kurt

Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress

Barbarians at the Gate

The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent Shockwaves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed,...