From the internationally-renowned author of The Beach, a gripping mystery and stylistic tour de force that delves into the subconscious mind, with brilliantly disturbing results. The brilliant mindmessing thriller from the author of 28 Days Later and The Beach A big success in its original editions, ...
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with emigre Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner\''s.
Evie is desperate for a holiday - a good one. Not only because she\''s been working all hours as a receptionist for two high-powered plastic surgeons, but also because every holiday she\''s ever been on has involved sunburn, arguments and projectile vomiting - sometimes all three at once. Why can\''t ...
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying ...
Mutant Message Down Under is the gripping fictional account of the spiritual odyssey of an American woman in Australia. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals to accompany them on a walkabout through the outback, she makes a four month long journey with the ''''Real People'''', as the tribe ...
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah''s best bud, wh o has been resurrected to tell the story in this ...
From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of&,nbsp,The Forty Rules of Love&,nbsp,and&,nbsp,The Architect''s Apprentice,&,nbsp,The Gaze&,nbsp,is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at.An obese woman and her lover, ...
An ecological romance with a pulsing heart, equal parts Rider Haggard and Chico Buarque - one of the world''''s greatest and most beloved storytellers broadens her style and reach with a Amazonian adventure story that will appeal to all ages. Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the ...
The sea: turbulent and leaden,transparent and opaque,magician and mother. When Cahrles Arrowby,over sixty,a demi god of the theatre- director,playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in order to ''abjure magic and become a her mit'',it is to the sea that he turns. He hopes at least ...
In this third volume of highly original ''detective'' stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ...
Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing ...
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father. And so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Klima''''s beautiful, jealous ...
Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first title in Cassandra Clare\''s internationally bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy with this sumptuous new edition. Brand new content, including the first chapter of Chain of Gold. Love is the most dangerous magic of all. First in the bestselling prequel series ...
''I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in hell if I speak false.'' In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, ...
Is there any safer space for secret desires than virtual reality? This is the most unusual and compelling love story of the new millennium. It begins by chance: Leo receives emails in error from an unknown woman called Emmi. Being polite he replies, and Emmi writes back. A few brief exchanges are all ...
Trains hold a fascination for just about everybody and this lift-the-flap history of locomotion tells it all from Stephenson''s Rocket to the bullet trains of today. You can lift the flaps to explore all kinds of exciting trains, from a luxury steam train fit for a queen to super-fast trains that run ...
