Southern Lights (A) No.1 US bestseller
Assistant D A Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa relentlessly builds her...
A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn`t bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy`s humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of...
Strangers on the 16:02 (Quick Read) Exp
The characters in this book develop quite well for such a short story, and they all have their different dilemmas.
Sitting among the rows of tills in Supersafe supermarket in the North of England, the fortunes of a young checkout girl are on the brink of change … Linda works the tills at Safeshop. It`s what everyone does. The...
Swimming Pool Sunday (Reissue)
On a shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, Louise is at a neighbour's pool with her daughters - and glaring at her resentfully is her estranged husband Barnaby. While the children splash and shriek in the cool, blue...
Talk to the Snail: Ten commandments for understanding the French
Have you ever walked into a half empty Parisian restaurant, only to be told that it`s "complet"? Attempted to say "merci beaucoup" and accidentally complimented someone`s physique? Been overlooked at the boulangerie...
It was Patrick`s idea that they should have the tennis party. After all, he has the perfect setting -- the White House, bought out of his bonuses as an investment banker. He hasn`t actually told Caroline, his brash...
Thanks For Nothing, Nick Maxwell
In Rachel Covington`s view, the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have children and those who don`t. Neither side can understand the other and each believe that they have the best deal. Rachel...
1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration...
Michael Adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river...
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .In the beginning there was…a...
It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is...
