The Resurrectionist
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London, 1826. Leaving behind his father s tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city s anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master s nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful (...)
Oracle Night
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The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time' (San Francisco Chronicle).Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys (...)
Selected Poems of Simon Armitage
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This land and its killing epochs. Nadeem Aslam s dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. It is possible that (...)
The Story of a Marriage
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This selection provides a perfect introduction to Armitage's work as well as offering a retrospective of one of the brightest stars of contemporary poetry. Made by Simon Armitage himself from his poetry to date, Selected Poems includes work from six published volumes, from Zoom! (1989) through to (...)
The Last King of Scotland
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What would it be like to become Idi Amin s personal physician?Giles Foden s bestselling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator s surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Amin s thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda (...)
Medusa
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When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his (...)
Churchill's Wizards
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The story of how the British really won two world wars by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn.By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. To protect itself, the nation fell back on cunning and camouflage. With Winston Churchill in (...)
New and revised Edition
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The classic evocation of Venice, acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written about the city.'Entertaining, ironical, witty, high spirited and appreciative . . . Both melancholy and gay and worldly, I think of it now as among the best books on Venice; indeed as the best modern book about a (...)
Ghosts of Spain
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The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death (...)
Spain
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Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain s pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a history that set its seal upon half the world . . (...)
The Complete Book of Mothers-in-Law
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Most of us either have a mother-in-law or will be one, and it s not a role most women take on gladly. Mothers-in-law are traditionally the butt of jokes, declared to be nasty, possessive and interfering but are they really as bad as this reputation suggests? Luisa Dillner looks beyond the (...)
My Gonads Roar
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Welcome to the twisted world of anagrams …What s in a name, like Jeremy Clarkson (Only Cars Jerk Me) or Gordon Ramsay (My Gonads Roar)? A few vowels and some consonants or a whole new identity just waiting to burst free? In My Gonads Roar, expert wordsmith Richard Napier rearranges hundreds of (...)
Surprises According to Humphrey
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Surprises can be good, like my brand new hamster ball or a surprise party. But surprises can be bad, like coming whisker to whisker with a cat (EEK!) or having an alien from another planet move into Room 26. All this and LOTS-LOTS-LOTS more happens in my new book of adventures, Surprises According (...)
Friendship According to Humphrey
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Dear Friends,When Og the Frog came to live in Room 26, I felt a little jealous. Still, I tried to be welcoming but I soon discovered that it s HARD-HARD-HARD to make friends with a lumpy, bumpy frog!
Trouble According to Humphrey
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Join Humphrey for his third adventure and this one is going to be packed with trouble! When all sorts of problems crop up in the classroom, from Pay-Attention-Art s marks going down, to Golden-Miranda finding herself in big trouble, Humphrey must step in to lend a helping paw. Using his charm, (...)
The World According to Humphrey
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The time had arrived to put my plan into action. I was in grave danger and I had no choice. I only had one weapon: a rubber band. It had taken me a long time to get it hooked around the edge of my food dish. Now I carefully pulled it back as far as I could, aiming directly at those big doggy (...)
Innocent Blood
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At eighteen, Philippa Palfrey, the confident adopted daughter of a celebrated academic, exercises her right to find the names of her real parents. What she uncovers is a terrible secret that will for ever change her life.'Remarkable ... could be read as a mainstream novel, and a considerable one.' (...)
Devices and Desires
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An Adam Dalgliesh MysteryWhen Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt s estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial (...)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
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A Cordelia Gray MysteryMeet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. (...)
Burton on Burton
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'Tim Burton is one of the great modern-day visionaries of cinema, a director who has fabricated his own deliciously nightmarish universe in movies as extraordinary as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and The Nightmare before Christmas not to mention his twisted takes on the tales (...)
Original Sin
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'An Adam Dalgliesh MysteryThe Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies a (...)
And Then You Die
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'Aurelio Zen of Rome's Criminalpol is back, but nobody's supposed to know it. After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. Zen has clear instructions: (...)
Blood Rain
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'After his last case, among the gentle hills and lush vineyards of Piedmont, Inspector Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting to Sicily.The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a disused siding (...)
Ratking
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'Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families.'Tremendously exciting. (...)
Tales from Firozsha Baag
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'In these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry reveals the rich, complex patterns of life inside a Bombay apartment building. The occupants from Jaakaylee, the ghost-seer, through Najami, the only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the Curmudgeon and Kersi, the boy (...)
Family Matters
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'Nariman Vakeel is a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past. He lives with his two middle-aged step-children. When Nariman's illness is compunded by a broken ankle, he's forced to take up residence with his daughter Roxana, her husband (...)
Such a Long Journey
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'Such a Long Journey is set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family.It was the brilliant first (...)
Harry Hill's Whopping Great Joke Book
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'The ultimate family joke book from the UK s favourite comedian and host of TV Burp.
A Fine Balance
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'Set in the mid-1970s in India, A Fine Balance tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become (...)
The Bell Ja
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The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'It is a fine (...)
Jayme Alfonso el Barbud
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El Arcángel y los siete pilares de la Tierra
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En la cima de una montaña, Axián dialoga con un ser: el Arcángel Miguel. Este encuentro inicia un periplo cuya primera parte está narrada en Los siete pilares de la Tierra , y la segunda todavía más indescriptible en El camino de en Medio . Ahora, mientras vivimos importantes tiempos para la (...)
Amor y Rabia
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"Lucas es un joven universitario que parece no tener las cosas claras. Poco a poco, empieza a darse cuenta que sus anhelados sueños de juventud se deshacen entre los dedos de una realidad cruel y egoísta. Amparo está colgada de él y él a su vez de Sergio, el gordito de su clase que dibuja cómics y (...)
GUÍA SECRETA DE SEVILLA, OVNIS Y MISTERIOS EN LA SEMANA SANTA
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OVNI s, cementerios, lugares desconocidos, inquisición, historias misteriosas de la Sevilla capillita, la Madrugada del Pánico. Te presentamos el tercer volumen de esta GUÍA , un paseo por el lado más oculto de SEVILLA.
GUÍA SECRETA DE SEVILLA, ESOTERISMO EN LA CATEDRAL
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Esoterismo y misterio dentro de la Catedral, rutas mágicas. Una segunda GUÍA para pasear por el lado misterioso de SEVILLA. Organizada como un cuaderno de rutas, con itinerarios practicables sobre el mapa para que puedas hacerlos a pie, en bicicleta, y -es un consejo contra la desazón- siempre en (...)
GUÍA SECRETA DE SEVILLA, CASAS ENCANTADAS Y APARICIONES
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Casas y edificios encantados, apariciones, espiritismo, profecías, rutas mágicas, crónica negra, raros acertijos. Una GUÍA por el lado misterioso de SEVILLA. Organizada como un cuaderno de rutas, con itinerarios practicables sobre el mapa para que puedas hacerlos a pie, en bicicleta, y -es un (...)
LECCIÓN DE AMOR
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Sí, ese era Clyde, aunque le llamaban K aalógii y tenía la mirada profunda y misteriosa de un encantador de serpientes. Un auténtico vaquero de los de siempre, con verdadera sangre india corriendo por sus venas y un extraño sentido del humor que amenazaba con hacer que una mujer perdiera (...)
SHIFT : How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLERUSA TODAY MONEY BESTSELLER"Tough times make or break people. My friend Gary teaches you how to make the tragic into magic. Read & reap from this great book."--Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best selling series (...)
O bosque de levas
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"Unha novela repleta de humor na que un estraño personaxe vido do alén aparece na Galicia do século XX. Un liberal axustizado durante o reinado de Fernando VII, vai visitar, por obra e graza da arte narrativa, a Galicia de finais da centuria pasada. Co recurso do contraste entre dúas realidades (...)
Contos do camiño e da rúa
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"Relatos magníficos que toman como unidade temática a oposición entre a vida da aldea e a vida da vila. Estes contos, publicados en 1932, destacan pola capacidade do autor para combinar de maneira maxistral a imaxinación creadora cunha técnica case cinematográfica para recrear ambientes, poñendo (...)