Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey''s premier novelists and My Name Is Red, when published in the original Turkish in 1998, became the fastest-selling book in Turkish history. It is high time then that a translation to English was made, and this publication will be widely welcomed by Pamuk''s growing legion ...
''A Skinful of Shadows confirms Hardinge''s status as one of our finest storytellers. It''s rare to find a book which is every bit as intelligent and stylish as it is riveting - I was enthralled'' - Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent Frances Hardinge weaves a dark, otherworldly tale in A Skinful ...
Third gripping thriller in Lars Kepler''s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna.
When the decomposed body of a young woman is found by near railway tracks just outside Bristol one hot May morning, all indications are that she’s committed suicide. That’s how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone ...
A rumour is like a fire. You might think you''ve extinguished it but one creeping, red tendril, one single wisp of smoke is enough to let it leap back into life again. Especially if someone is watching, waiting to fan the flames. New school. Tick. New town. Tick. New surname. Tick. Social media profiles? ...
With a new introduction by Richard Bradford. Alan Sillitoe\''s classic novel of the 1950s, reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its original publication. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting young rebel, he knows ...
Tristan Wemyss, Earl of Trentham, never expected he\''d need to wed within a year or forfeit his inheritance. But he is not one to bow to the matchmaking mamas of the ton. No, he will marry a lady of his own choosing. And the lady he chooses is the enchanting neighbour living with her family next door. ...
Bumper collection of three totally brilliant Horrid Henry books - including HORRID HENRY AND THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN, HORRID HENRY ROBS THE BANK and HORRID HENRY WAKES THE DEAD.§Bumper collection of three totally brilliant Horrid Henry books - including HORRID HENRY AND THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN, HORRID ...
The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world´s greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship. The action takes place in the 1620s at the court of Louis XIII, ...
Isabel, a world-weary photojournalist, is grounded back home in Oklahoma, when her car plummets off a bridge into a lake. Struggling on the edge between life and death, she's miraculously saved by the Water Goddess, but with one tiny caveat: Isabel must travel to another time to seduce the legendary ...
"Sulphuric Acid" tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation''''s obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. It is a blackly funny and shocking satire on the modern predilection for reality television and c elebrity, in which the audience at home develops ...
If Wes Anderson wrote feisty, female-led mysteries set in Poland, this is what he might write! Cracow, 1893. Desperate to relieve her boredom and improve her social standing, Zofia Turbotynska decides to organise a charity raffle. In a bid to recruit the patronage of elderly aristocratic ladies, she ...
Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. ...
