It''''s the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn''''t usually reach the finishing line with three.38 rounds in the chest. But this is precisely how he finds ...
The greatest love story ever told doesn\''t feature kissing in the snow or racing to airports. It features pain and confusion and hope and wonder and a ban on cheesy cliches. Oh, and zombies.YA star Holly Bourne tackles real love in this hugely funny and poignant novel.
Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love-she''s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can''t stomach the idea of rejection. So she''s ...
With six shots, five people were dead and one heartland city is thrown into terror. But within hours, the cops have it solved. It is a slam-dunk case, except for one thing - the accused man claims: You got the wrong guy". After that, all he'll say is: "Get Reacher for me." Jack Reacher lives off ...
There was some excitement recently at the offices of Transworld, publisher of the British thriller writer Lee Child, who has so successful conquered America with his Jack Reacher adventures. Child usually produces only one novel featuring his tough ex-army action hero each year, but the latest book, ...
Kniha - autor Haruki Murakami, 224 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá.What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story ...
Events are building to a climax in Sachaka as Lorkin returns from his exile with the Traitor rebels. The Traitor Queen has given Lorkin the huge task of brokering an alliance between his people and the Traitors. Lorkin has also had to become a feared black magician in order to harness the power of an ...
The stunning debut novel, from the author of A Little Life. It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality ...
A colourful book full of pictures to fingerprint and with its own inkpad of seven bright colours to paint with. The colourful inkpad allows children to make fingerprint pictures quickly and easily wherever they are, with no need for brushes and paint pots. With fingerprinting tips and extra pages for ...
Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ''woke'' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, ...
The international bestseller and modern classic - over 20 million copies sold worldwide ''Shadow is the real deal, a novel full of cheesy splendour and creaking trapdoors, a novel where even the subplots have subplots. One gorgeous read'' STEPHEN KING ''An instant classic'' DAILY TELEGRAPH The Shadow ...
What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give \''a last lecture\'' lecture, he didn\''t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. But the ...
