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The Heat's On | Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn'

Under Fire | A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War 'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down'

Stiff | What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the li

The Drowning Pool | When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follo

The Wayward Daughter | Unwanted and unloved, fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson is everything her mother doesn't want her to be - adventurous, outspoken and unusual. As soon as she's old enough, Mari

Brodie's Report | The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories the quality of his inspiration is unmistakable. With their deceptively simple, alm

Citizens. A Chronicle of The French Revolution | One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social

Marauder | A deadly venom. A ruthless terrorist. A billionaire's terrifying final wish… Answering a research ship's distress call in the Timor Sea, Juan Cabrillo's Oregon finds the crew unable to move

The Sudden Departure of the Frasers | My name is Amber Fraser. I've just moved in at Number 40, Lime Park Road. You'll think of me as a loving wife, a thoughtful neighbour and a trusted friend. But th

Mad | What if you could take the life you'd always wanted? Alvie has always been in the shadow of her glamorous sister Beth. So when she's invited to her identical twin's luxurious Sicilian villa, Alv

Cecily | 1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant. England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men within a corrupt government manipulate a weak king - and name Cec

Selected Short Fiction | This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fic

Wailing Ghosts | '...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist

British Rail. A New History | You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story. From its creation after the Second World War, through its fifty-year lifetime, British Rail was an in

The Life of Charlotte Bronte | Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enig

Why Are We 'Artists'? 100 World Art Manifestos | 'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across t

Agnes Grey | Anne Bronte's first novel is the compelling autobiographical tale of a young woman desperately seeking a place in the world When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financi

Declarations of War | Len Deighton's only collection of short stories explores the devastating experiences of ordinary soldiers across over two thousand years of war. From Hannibal's march on Rome to

A Murder of Quality | John le Carre's second novel is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley. Now available in a collector's hardback edition. Stella Rode has twice distu

Clive Cussler's Dark Vector | 1808, South China Sea. The infamous Chinese Pirate Queen Ching Shih was as powerful as she was feared. When a rogue captain in her fleet dares defy her wishes, devastatio

The Oracle | Husband and wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo ARE BACK in a brand-new thrilling adventure to find an ancient scroll which carries a deadly curse... North Africa, 533 A.D. The

The Long Weekend | By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands. In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a weekend getaway. Their husbands wil

A History of Wales | Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning pr

Mrs Bridge | Evan S. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century. Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and con

Petersburg | Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist revolution in 1905. Considered Bely's masterpiece, the stor

Poseidon's Arrow | Poseidon's Arrow by bestselling Clive Cussler is the twenty-second thrilling Dirk Pitt adventure. In 1943 a submarine returning from a secret mission is attacked, its vital cargo be

Hiroshima | The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in huma

A Gift of Love | As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures. King had begun w

The Adulterants | From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy - a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one man's valiant quest to come of age in

The Beast Within | His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and no

A Zoo in My Luggage | 'For many years I had wanted to start a zoo . . . any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards

Those Other Women | Poppy never thought her husband wanted children - especially not with her best friend. When Poppy arrives home to find her husband and best friend sitting side by side at her kitch

Fear | Think you know Dahl? Think again. Discover a collection of deliciously dark ghost stories for adults, picked by Dahl himself… Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chillin

Poor Folk and Other Stories | With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the them

Orpheus. The Song of Life | For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leave

The Uncanny | An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including The Uncanny, Screen Memories and Family Romances. Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to

Maigret and Monsieur Charles | He needed to get out of his office, soak up the atmosphere and discover different worlds with each new investigation. He needed the cafes and bars where he so often ende

Metamorphosis and Other Stories | This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most f

Lieutenant Hornblower | The Second Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower is ordered to the Caribbean and dangerous waters.

22 Seconds | 22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge - or her life. SFPD Sergeant Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican

The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China. The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun | Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of moder

Remembrance of Things Past. Volume 2 | One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal

Mindfulness for Mums. Simple ways to help you and your family feel calm, connected and content | Being a mum is often anything but mindful. Having suffered from anxiety for much of her life, Izzy Judd

Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound edition One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across th

Greyhound. The Good Shepherd | The Gripping Naval Thriller, Now A Major Motion Picture Starring Tom Hanks 1942. America enters the war and an untested officer receives his first wartime command... Plo

1984 - Nineteen Eighty-four | Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels

Supper Club | If you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into? Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry. So she invents Supper Club: a secret society for women sick of bad me

London Bridge is Falling Down | It was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Amelia Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it's considered an example of what

Bird | 'Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John. His name was John until Grandpa said he looked more like a Bird with the way he kept jumping off things, and the name stuck. Bird’s

Oliver Twist | The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through

The Road to San Giovanni | In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and figh

Perfectly Imperfect Puppy. The ultimate life-changing programme for training a well-behaved dog | I've been training puppies for years and I am yet to come across one who behaved perfectly at all time

Victory | Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote isla

The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays | In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here

The Periodic Table | Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for s

Dark Watch | Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew return in Clive Cussler's Dark Watch. A deadly band of pirates is terrorizing the waters of the Far East - and the crew of the Oregon may be the only peo

Speaking Out. Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 | This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century's most enduring

Half a Lifelong Romance | From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manzhen is a yo

How Green Was My Valley | A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics

Meditation now or never | From our bestselling author of Buddhism Plain and Simple, a straightforward guide to meditation In the modern world our lives are more frenetic than ever. We live with a burn

Elizabeth and Her German Garden | ' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and

Early Greek Philosophy | The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet th

Business or Pleasure | Chandler Cohen lies for a living. When she accepts her next ghostwriting gig penning a memoir for cult actor Finnegan Walsh, it should be a dream job. However, Chandler knows hi

How to Fight Anti-Semitism | 'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia Ozick The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming r