The Secrets of Happiness is an extraordinary tale of sisterhood, from Lucy Diamond author of The Beach Cafe. The best things in life. can be just around the corner Rachel and Becca aren\''t real sisters, or so they say. They are stepsisters, living far apart, with little in common. Rachel is the successful ...
What doesn''t kill you makes you. stronger? A poignant and gripping story about the power of fear, the resilience of love and the magic of food - from bestselling Waterstones Children''s Book Prize and Specsavers Children''s Book of the Year shortlisted author Sarah Moore Fitzgerald. "Gripping, with ...
An extraordinary thriller, told from the perspective of two Aboriginal protagonists, which weaves together themes of grief, colonial history, violence, love and family. Nothing''s been the same for Beth Teller since she died. Her dad, a detective, is the only one who can see and hear her, and he''s drowning ...
Elizabeth has wanted two things her entire life to keep her happy and fulfilled - an Italian husband and lots of rosy-cheeked bambini. The first is ticked off now she''''s bagged dark and sexy Roberto, the second is proving harder to achieve. But when Roberto loses his job and decides to leave London ...
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers.§Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing ...
The inspiration behind ''''Life of Pi'''' director Ang Lee''''s ''''Brokeback Mountain'''' is one of the short stories to be found in this haunting collection of Wyoming tales. ''''Brokeback Mountain'''' is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. ...
''It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth''s calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn''t open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places.'' Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ...
How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel\''s magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country. But when the Nazis invade, his father and two ...
Darkness falls.Despair abounds.Evil reigns.Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the ...
Die junge Chinesin Zhuang reist zum ersten Mal in den Westen und taucht in eine fremde Welt ein. Sprache und Umgangsformen, Essen und Trinken, Liebe und Sex alles ist befremdlich, überraschend und manchmal unbegreiflich. Ebenso amüsante wie erhellende Missverständnisse verbinden sich zu einem rasanten ...
Junot Diaz made his remarkable debut as a writer with this collection of stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey. The stories are all unflinching and strong and Diaz''''s prose crackles with an electric sense of discovery. In ''''Ysrael'''', ...
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bys tander - until he becomes a suspect. With "Case Histories", ...
Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to The Dark or The Light. In "The Day Watch", second ...
Just what goes on behind the screen, beneath the keyboard and inside the electronic ''brain'' of a computer? This colourful book has 70 flaps to lift to uncover w….
Beautiful Redemption&,nbsp,is the much-anticipated finale of the spellbinding love story that began with&,nbsp,Beautiful Creatures&,nbsp,- a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere.One night in the rain, Ethan Wate opened his eyes and fell in love with Lena Duchannes. ...
