After being saved from a suicide attempt by a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow''s theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, ...
His second major venture into non fiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway''s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway''s well-known interest in ...
The much anticipated final instalment in the bestselling conspiracy thriller trilogy by Simon Toyne, author of SANCTUS: ‘Plenty of action, plenty of intrigue and wonderfully imaginative. The sort of novel to devour in one sitting'''' Kate Mosse. For all fans of Dan Brown.AFTER THE RISE, COMES THE FALL.The ...
Long before she was the Queen of Hearts, Catherine Pinkerton was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with ...
The eighth novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler. The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no apparent heir. His wife is a born leader, but no woman has ...
If you can persuade a cat. you can persuade anyone. This is the essential guide to getting your way. Jay Heinrichs, award-winning author of Thank You for Arguing and advisor to the Pentagon, NASA and Fortune 500 companies, distils a lifetime of negotiating and rhetoric to show you how to win over anyone ...
The thrilling finale to the New York Times bestselling Young Elites series from Marie Lu. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen. Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She''s turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: ...
The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle ...
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, he meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted by two ...
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed ...
It\''s never easy to face the fact that a man you once loved passionately has found the girl of his dreams, as Alice discovers when Joe introduces her to his new girlfriend Ginny. Then Alice finds an old diary hidden away in Ginny\''s room and reads about Daniel Holmes and his friend Robert and the mysterious ...
"The Secret" offenbarte das Gesetz der Anziehung. Jetzt gibt Rhonda Byrne das größte Geheimnis im Universum preis "The Power", die Kraft, alles zu bekommen, was man sich wünscht.§In diesem Buch werden Sie erfahren, dass Sie nur eines brauchen, um Ihre Beziehungen, Finanzen, Gesundheit, Glück, Karriere ...
The sweet scents of rural life infuse Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a collection of Roald Dahl''''s country stories - but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth.Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ...
A beautiful 50th anniversary edition of the best-selling Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Exuberantly coloured artwork and favourite animals make this rhythmic story the perfect introduction to looking and learning about colours. Each spread leads seamlessly into the next and young children will ...
Best selling international author, Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance. ''''Portrait in Sepia'''' is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from ''''Daughter of Fortune'''' ...
A unique selection of 24 tales. Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe''''s extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well ...
Seven Years to Sin - a classic erotic romance - by Sylvia Day - author of the sensational international bestselling Bared to You, first book in the Crossfire series - is a smart, sensual story of a young woman''''s sexual awakening at the hands of a handsome rogue in Regency England. Seven years ago, ...
One of the finest war novels ever written, Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway -Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; ...
In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows if that the President issues the pardon only after receiving ...
