The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson bronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor...
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany...
>The Ghosts Of Sleath< is vintage James Herbert. David Ash is set to investigate reports of mass hauntings in the picturesque Chiltern village of Sleath. There he discovers a terrified...
From the bestselling author of "Of Paradise and Power" comes a major reevaluation of Americas foreign policy from the colonial era to the turn of the 20th century.
The macabre, witty, "New York Times"-bestselling series--and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, "Dexter"--continues as the darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic...
Jared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened behind closed doors during the Trump presidency.Few White...
Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. A homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned. But few people care. Or when a young woman on her way home from a club vanishes....
Speaking for the first time about the profound impact that his brother's death had on him, the author offers a tribute to Duane that only a younger brother could write, showing how, to this...
From the author of THE DISCOVERY OF CHOCOLATE - a romantic historical quest set in Renaissance Florence and China surrounding the search for ultramarine. THE COLOUR OF HEAVEN is a fictional account...
Top music writer tells the story of such influential figures as Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Eagles, James Taylor, Jackson Browne and David Geffen, from the mid-60s to the...
A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the Body Farm, which has helped police crack cold cases and pinpoint times of death. In this riveting book, the bone sleuth explores the rise of...
When ten-year-old Max is sent to boarding school, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end. Away from the freedom of his grandfather's farm, a world of rules and punishment awaits. But so...
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong cynic and spirituality-sceptic - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With...
The #1 Indie Next Pick and instant, long-running New York Times bestseller from Ian Caldwell, coauthor of the international sensation The Rule of Four The Fifth Gospel is a masterful intellectual...
The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author.
'"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"' They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her...
In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets I May Destroy You, this dark YA thriller will have your heart in your mouth from the very first page! "Gina Blaxill weaves together a dark and engrossing...
A wealthy and bitter exile, he most dangerous and desirable man in all of England, he burns to possess a proud, headstrong beauty who is promised to another. But winning Emma Stokehurst's...
The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be...
Latest instalment in this adventure story series that links to an online game and the chance to win $50,000 worth of prizes. A library edition is also available, together with a new game card pack....
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Clue when six children navigate a mansion full of secrets--and maybe money--in this "delightful gem" (School Library Journal, starred review) with...
An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind this famous television personality. Inventor of...