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~ London 1609 ~Elspet Leviston's greatest ambition is to continue the success of her father Nathaniel's lace business. But her dreams are thrown into turmoil with the arrival of her...

This book reflects part of the author's attempt to work out an authentic spirituality for these times at the end of the 20th century. The word "spirituality" is too easily...

The most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, by acclaimed biographer Lyndall GordonT. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive...

'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David LammyForeword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive LloydVoices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the...

The darkly romantic revenge thriller featuring ballet and broken hearts____________________________'Dark, witty and gloriously twisted - I loved it' Joanna Wallace'Deranged, in the best possible way' Julie Mae Cohen'Celine Saintclare's writing...

Fannie Flagg turns her magical story-telling talent to a short and poignant Christmas story for all the family. Oswald T. Campbell, aged 52, down-and-out in a Chicago winter, is given...

Everyone loves to doodle, whether they mean to or not. When you're on the phone, in a meeting or just on your lunch break. Doodle While You Work helps you...

The world is overrun with monsters called Nemesis-and a young boy infected by them will stop at nothing to defeat them all! Seth is an aspiring wizard living in a...

Maureen O'Hara was born for Technicolour. Her fiery red hair and piercing green eyes made the screen crackle with electricity. Her bold Irish bearing cast her as the prototypical strong,...

On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together...Warm, witty and wise, 'All Families Are Psychotic' is Coupland at the very top of his form....

'A raw, honest rollercoaster that touches the heart' *****'Kate and her family's courageous battle over the last year is told with such candour' *****'Written from the heart with the will...

Seriously Senior Moments is the witty follow-up to the bestselling Senior Moments and More Senior Moments - not that you remember, of course. Entertaining and uplifting, this book is another...

The authors of the bestselling IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? survey the post-crash landscape. Are we better people now, or just the same people with less money?...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 3 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY PICKDAVID RAKER IS BACK WITH ANOTHER HEART-POUNDING MISSING PERSONS CASE'Tim Weaver is the master of clever, unpredictable plots' CLAIRE DOUGLAS'If...

The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived - just about - to tell the tale... Chris Evans's extraordinary career has seen him...

The Sunday Times number 1 bestseller.Charlotte Crosby has been one of the UK's best-loved TV stars since she burst onto the celeb scene in 2011 with Geordie Shore. Laugh-out-loud hilarious,...

Tony Curtis is famous for his roles in films such as "Sweet Smell of Success", "Some Like It Hot" and "The Boston Strangler". He is also renown for saying that...

This highly accessible introduction to translation theory, written by a leading author in the field, uses the genre of film to bring the main themes in translation to life. Through...

Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on...

For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. A woman finds her voice and leaves behind a book...

'People say "Like father, like son", and the story of my life has mirrored my father's to a quite uncanny degree. Right from when I was a little boy, he...

From best friends James Bowen and street cat Bob, stars of the number one bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob, comes a special edition of The World According to Bob...

The phenomenal bestseller A Street Cat Named Bob, featuring best friends James and street cat Bob, now available as a special edition for children aged 11 and above.'We are all...

The brand-new must-have super funny series from the creators of the bestselling Naughtiest Unicorn! It's a beautiful sunny day in the World of Cute and everyone is preparing for a...

Twelve-year-old Moll Pecksniff wakes one night in the middle of the forest, lured there by a recurring nightmare - the one with the drums and the rattles and the masks....

Since 1990 Julian Barnes has written a regular `Letter from London' for the New Yorker magazine. These already celebrated pieces cover subjects as diverse as the Lloyd's insurance disaster, the...

'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' Sir Jeremy Isaacs Michael Steen's 'Great Composers' was originally published in 2003. A...

Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes anagathics possible on Stittara is fragile, and...

His forbidden innocent... And the consequence of their surrender! Aurora Messina is everything cynical hotel tycoon Nico Caruso shouldn't want. Impetuous and far too innocent, she's trouble-and temptation!-personified. But even...