Danny Watts''s grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor. One of the worst sort. An SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his Regiment for money. Drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. At least, that''s what seventeen-year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming ...
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bys tander - until he becomes a suspect. With "Case Histories", ...
As America gasps in the stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars… ARAMCHEK… the word scratched in the sidewalk of the President’s childhood home. ARAMCHEK… the name of the subversive society ‘with no official membership’ whose sole purpose ...
The new novel from the bestselling author of You Had Me At Hello. Anna Alessi - history expert, possessor of a lot of hair and an occasionally filthy mouth - seeks nice man for intelligent conversation and Mills & Boon moments. Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn''''t ...
My name is Meghan Chase. In less than twenty-four hours I\''ll be sixteen. Countless stories, songs and poems have been written about this wonderful age, when a girl finds true love and the stars shine for her and the handsome prince carries her off into the sunset. I don\''t think it will be that way ...
''That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no sense.'' This is the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. Like the City itself, however, it is a journey that is doomed, ...
''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, ...
Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed.Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey''''s Booker prize-winning ...
A guide to twelve children\''s art workshops by one of the world\''s most innovative facilitators and best–selling bookmakers. Art Workshops for Children is a guide for parents and teachers to organize and execute artistic workshops for children. 12 workshops are featured, each offering a list of materials ...
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small American town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet unassuming, Katie is determined ...
June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Mount Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night.Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men''s footsteps, accompanied only by two friends. Off piste and with no support team, the ...
Meet Dexter Morgan, the chief protagonist of Darkly Dreaming Dexter. He´s a highly respected lab technician specialising in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He´s a handsome, though reluctant, ladies´ man. He´s polite, says all the right things, and rarely draws attention to himself. ...
In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlah Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World--forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, ...
Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal stories have become cult favourites. This collection of anecdotal short stories demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and his mastery of visceral language and the depiction of seamy underworlds. Focusing ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.'' An idyllic snapshot of a boy''s childhood along the banks of ...
"Allen Ginsberg''''s Howl & Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. Customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trial at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...
Nakoniec sme po dlhých týždňoch hľadania našli ten pravý dom. Po zložení zálohy vyšla mesačná splátka na 789,81 dolárov. Od cesty ho delil vysokánsky živý plot a záhrada bola tiež vpredu, vďaka čomu nebolo dom z ulice vôbec vidno. Ideálne miesto, kam sa schovať. Mal dokonca schodisko a celé horné poschodie, ...
Classic / British English This is the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. One day, Nemo finds three men in the sea. For months the men live on the Nautilus. They find a town on the sea floor, beautiful coasts and a lot of gold. But they want to go home. Can they escape from Nemo's ...
This title is second in the "New York Times" bestselling urban fantasy series set in Victorian London. Still reeling from her terrifying confrontation with the Magister and her brother''''s betrayal, Tessa Gray is drawn ever deeper into the Shadowhunter''''s dark underworld of demons and danger. In a ...
