Martin Chorley, aka the Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring Chorley to justice. But even as ...
The book that shone new light on our times: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009, The Glass Room is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year. Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the ...
The second book in the highly acclaimed crime fiction series by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before ...
International best-selling author of Love & Misadventure, Lullabies (Goodreads Readers Choice Award), and Memories, Lang Leav presents a completely new collection of poetry with a celestial theme in The Universe of Us. Planets, stars, and constellations feature prominently in this beautiful, original ...
What event could unite the world in peace - or in war? From the bestselling author of The Last Templar. A remote shelf in the Arctic circle. A small TV crew is braving the harsh conditions to film the breaking off of a major ice shelf - yet another nail in the planet\''s eco-coffin. Then someone calls ...
"How the cat purred and how the witch grinned, As they sat on their broomstick and flew through the wind." The witch and her cat fly happily over forests, rivers and mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch\''s hat, bow and wand. Luckily, they are retrieved by a dog, a bird ...
The sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Strange Planet, featuring more hilarious and poignant adventures from the fascinating inhabitants of Nathan W. Pyle''s colourful world. In this eagerly awaited sequel, Nathan takes us back to his charming and instantly recognisable planet coloured ...
The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realizes ...
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason" follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is ...
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak''s The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original ...
Little ones will love Santa, Snowman, Reindeer and their soft-to-touch friends in this hand-puppet board book. With an adorable animal on each fingertip and a board book attached to the palm, this soft hand puppet is an easy way to read and play with your baby.
Half a crusading epic, half based in Tolkien-esque mythology, Neil Gaiman\''s award-winning graphic novel fantasy is now back in a brand-new edition! It is here in Wall that young Tristran Thorn loses his heart to the town beauty—a woman who is as cold and distant as the star she and Tristran see fall ...
AutorPatrik Rothfuss VydavateľstvoGollancz VäzbaBrož Strán1002 ISBN 9780575081437 Sequel to the extraordinary THE NAME OF THE WIND, THE WISE MAN''''S FEAR is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy from Patrick Rothfuss. This is the most exciting fantasy series since George R. R. Martin''''s ...
Split into two books for the paperback, the third volume in George R.R. Martin''''s superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter ...
Split into two books for the paperback, the third volume in George R.R. Martin''''s superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter ...
After the Feast - A Dance with Dragons 2 (A Song of Ice and Fire).HBO''s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin''s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the ...
