Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to....
With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. Irvine Welsh has here...
More than anything else in the world, Lila wants to be a Firework-Maker. But every Firework-Maker must make a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire-Fiend! Can Lila possibly survive? Especially when she doesn`t...
Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A girl held in police custody escapes and disappears without a trace. An unexpected blackout leaves half the country...
A world away from the killing fields of France was a battle that could have changed the face of history. Over the course of 1917, German bombers threatened to engulf London in firestorms – a portent of the London...
First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome)
Here are the stories of Marius, wealthy but lowborn, and Sulla, penniless though aristocratic and debauched - men of vision whose ambitions will lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known. Great events...
A volume of 49 Hemingway stories which includes "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", the "Winner Take Nothing" collection, and the "Men Without Women" collection.` Mr Hemingway, applying that quick eye and wrist of his to the...
Against the scandal and seduction of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh introduces an extraordinary family—the fiery, sensual Huxtables. Vanessa is the second daughter, proud and daring, a...
Flat Earth News: Falsehood & Propaganda in Global Media
`Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession`. When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street`s unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the...
Flaubert`s Parrot is a massive lumber room of detail about the great man: in it we learn an enormous amount about his life, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But the voice that tells us all of...
Mary Jane Moran is a brilliant actress who has just lost the role she created and the only man she ever loved. Rejected for being too plain, too fat and too old, her life is transformed by a plastic surgeon. She...
Flight from the Enchanter (Vintage classics)
A group of people have elected ambiguous and fascinating Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe, a high-minded bluestocking...
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway, Ernest
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, ahs been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds...
"For Whom the Bells Tolls" is Hemingway`s finest novel, a passionate evocation of the pride and the tragedy of the Civil War that tore Spain apart.
Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade. Obstinate and myopic, he is oblivious to...
Worldwide number one bestseller John Grisham takes you into the heart of America`s Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams...
"Returning to the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, longtime bestseller Grisham presents seven short stories about the residents of Ford County, Miss. Each story explores different themes-mourning, revenge,...
Forgotten Legion Chronicles: Forgotten Legion
Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman. At thirteen years old they are sold - Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch...
