Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly...
March 1943. The war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied...
Throughout 1990s, Deric Longden has shared his life with Aileen Armitage and four cats: Thermal, Tigger, Frink and shabby old Arthur. And the cats have found that sharing a life with Aileen can be a painful business....
Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins have been friends and colleagues for nearly 50 years. They have now teamed up to write this frank and funny account of their unlikely partnership and his extraordinary life....
Eric Clapton: Autobiography PB
Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. He is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of records, played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to the significant musical...
"The Essential Hemingway" is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prizewinning author. This impressive collection includes: the full text of "Fiesta", Hemingway`s first...
Philip Roth`s twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be...
Everything Flows (Vintage Classics)
Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin`s death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an...
Three tons of Saddam Hussein`s gold in an unguarded warehouse in For two of Nick Stones closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they`re double-crossed and the robbery goes...
One frozen January morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to...
Up to her eyes with her friends` dramas, Harriet Grey has not time for her own. Let alone getting entangled with John Mackenzie. He might be the most gorgeous man she`s met for ages. But he`s involved with someone...
The author of "The Name of the Rose" considers a wide range of topics, from "Superman" and "Casablanca", Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and Woody Allen, to pop festivals and...
Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense, raved the Washington Post, A new synonym for terror, crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring...
Sophia Chrysanthis is initially dazzled when the celebrated German archaeologist, Herr Obermann, comes in search of a Greek bride who can read the works of Homer and assist in his excavations of the city he believes...
