Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller, A Brief History of Time. Now, in his first collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from the warmly personal to the wholly scient ific - Stephen Hawking is revealed variously as the ...
This is a brand new title in the innovative "See Inside" series, putting the often intimidating world of mathematics into simple, easy-to-follow language and showing how maths fits into readers'' everyday life. It introduces mathematical concepts in the simplest of terms from basic addition and subtraction, ...
A story about online culture - good and bad - and its power over our sense of self, All The Lonely People explores the experience of loneliness in a connected world.
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang''''s achievement is her short fiction - tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written ...
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She''''s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn''''t get out much - not because she''''s not pretty - she''''s a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is.but Sookie''''s got a bit of a disability. ...
Deverell, Viscount Paignton, is in desperate need of a wife. Unmoved by the matchmaking \''herd\'', he seeks help from his aunt, who directs him to a lady she vows is perfect for him. Dispatched to a country house party, he discovers the lady not swanning about among the guests but with her nose buried ...
The bestselling author of Scarecrow and Area 7 takes us on a thrilling, non-stop treasure hunt across the world. It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone ...
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides its time for a c hange of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, ...
"Got You Back" is the brilliantly witty novel from Jane Fallon author of "Getting Rid of Matthew". A husband. A wife. A mistress. And the ultimate plan for revenge.The husband James never intended to lead a double life - with a wife in London and a mistress in the country, it''s exhausting. But that''s ...
The next thrilling novel in the Women's Murder Club series. After a dramatic shoot out at a ferry dock, Detective Lindsay Boxer is called to the scene to find that three people have been killed, and one of her closest friends, Claire, has been shot and lies bleeding, whilst the murderer is on the ...
Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal''''s red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source ...
The third book in the wildly romantic Gabriel''''s Inferno series by Sylvain Reynard, following on from Gabriel''''s Inferno and Gabriel''''s Rapture. Professor Gabriel Emerson has left his position at the University of Toronto to embark on a new life with his beloved Julianne. Together, he''''s confident ...
Childhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmaline have formed a very successful wedding-planning business together but, despite helping thousands of happy couples organise the biggest day of their lives, all four women are unlucky in love. Chef Laurel McBane has worked hard all her life to secure ...
Forget the diamonds - chocolate is a girl''''s best friend! A sweet and delicious treat from the Sunday Times bestselling and readers'''' favourite Carole Matthews For Lucy Lombard, there''''s nothing that chocolate can''''t cure. From heartache to headaches, it''''s the one thing she knows that she ...
Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is Scandinavia''s new bestselling crime writing sensation.At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give ...
Thomas Chaloner has forged a living as spy to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, since the early days of the Restoration. Now, in February 1664, he is aware of an undercurrent of restlessness on the streets of London. The coffee houses are thick with rumours. There is anger at the new laws governing ...
There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their ...
The eighth book in the Discworld series. "Of all the cities in the world it could have flown into, it flew into mine.. " Some night-time prowler is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city of the fantasy Discworld*, into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that''''s a real problem ...
