Ever wished you could delve a little deeper into your favourite character\''s life? Now you can travel back in time and relive something old and something new. Our favourite bad boy, Travis Maddox, is in serious trouble. Will he be held responsible for the fire that ravaged the underground fight scene? ...
\''Bataille is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century\'' Michel Foucault \''Literature is not innocent,\'' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate ...
Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. ...
It\''s July 2012: The Games have arrived in London. Preparations have gone flawlessly and the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years for this chance, he is now ready for vengeance. When Sir Denton Marshall, a ...
''People can only be free in relation to one another.'' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas ...
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 ...
The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Voted one of the top ten fantasy novels of 2008 by amazon.co.uk. The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, ...
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 ...
Illustrated by John D. Batten. Stories selected by Jennifer Chandler, The Folklore Society. The captivating Irish stories collected in this new edition include both comic tales such as Paddy O''Kelly and the Weasel, and tales of heroes from ancient literature such as How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery. ...
Philippa Gregory has long been one of the most assured practitioners of historical fiction, but her profile was raised even higher by the film of her novel The Other Boleyn Girl. Gregory admirers, however, were heard to remark of that movie: ‘Not as good as the book!’ And if her new novel, the highly ...
When Ryan Media Group opens a new office in New York, numbers whiz Sara Dillon happily accepts the position of Director of Finance. On her first weekend in her new town, Sara has wild - and very public - sex with a gorgeous stranger on a balcony overlooking Chloe Mills\'' raucous engagement party. Sara ...
Following the publication of Anna Gavalda''s international bestseller, "Hunting and Gathering", this book introduces us to Anna Gavalda''s witty and dazzling collection of stories, "I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere", together with her heart breaking and poignant novella, "Someone I Loved" ...
Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never saw before, say ''please'' before you open the latch, go through, walk down the path... The reader is invited on a lyrical journey peopled by a cast of mythical characters, with a set of instructions that is both intriguing and reassuring. The advice for travelling ...
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, ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.'' Set in ...
