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Worried about what to do in the event of the dead rising from their graves and trying to destroy humanity? Worry no more! With the help of numerous films and...

After a dramatic accident, Kit and his parents find themselves washed up on a small island. But there is no sanctuary here. The local community is hostile and menacing. Soon...

The Quality of Mercy opens in the spring of 1767, in the immediate aftermath of the events in Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger. It follows the fortunes of two central characters...

Avery James didn't have the easiest start in life. Abandoned by her mother, and brought up in foster homes, she developed a hard shell to protect her from caring for...

Thrilling suspense from the number one bestselling author of Body Double.The sinking of a cargo ship and the slaughter of its crew seemed a senseless act of violence. But Clea...

In the tenth installment of this dramatic Elizabethan series, Westfield's Men are flying high after a celebrated performance of The Insatiate Duke at the Queen's Head. However, victory is bittersweet...

This is the third and final book in the stunning series of exclusive manga stories from Melissa Marr, set in the same seductive and dangerous faerie world as her bestselling...

A comprehensive and fully updated guide to the biological mysteries that lie behind teenage behaviour.Contrary to popular (parental) opinion, teenagers are not the deliberately lazy, risk-taking and work-avoiding individuals they...

'All the stuff in the papers was lies. We were never The Ice Cream Girls'Serena and Poppy were teenagers when they were branded as the Ice Cream Girls. When they...

His name was Will Fowler, an actor in the esteemed theatrical company called Lord Westfield's Men, a vibrant young man flushed from the success of a recent performance at the...

Lizard Village, 1903. Cornwall is rich with natural wonders: gorgeous shorelines and imposing cliffs. But these natural beauties conceal dangerous secrets, as amateur detectives Lord and Lady Sheridan discover. Wireless...

George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be...

The French-English section contains entries for some 40,000 headwords, including nearly 3,000 new words and vocabulary items.

Trouble brews when an old flame of Meany's arrives back in town. She brightens up his lonely life, but if they are every to marry, Meany must loosen his grip...

The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her years of training as a clinical psychologist, when trainees find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers. Through the...

"The Seventh Well" is a short autobiographical novel, whose loose, episodic chapters cover the period of 1942-5, which the author spent in German concentration camps. Flashbacks recall his early internment...

The indispensable primer for achieving redstone greatness Minecraft Redstone For Dummies is the complete guide to finding, using, and maximizing the power of redstone in the Minecraft world. This key...

This is an indispensable guide to over 1000 abbeys, cathedrals, churches and other places of worship across Scotland. It is compiled from information supplies by the churches themselves - the...

The first in the outstanding MOVING TIMES trilogy, from a Guardian Award winner. It's the 1950s: there's no half-way between girlhood and womanhood - so where does a schoolgirl seek...

On 16 November 2010, the long-awaited engagement of HRH Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton was formally announced, with a London wedding promised for April 2011. Andrew Morton, famous the...

A Times Crime Novel of the Year, the perfect murder mystery read for fans of Richard Osman and Elly GriffithsIn the second instalment of Lynne Truss's joyfully quirky crime series,...

When three women find their lives inextricably linked after a terrible mistake, they must work together to make the most of their futures.Alexis Marshall never meant to cause the accident...

A first novel - bittersweet and comic - on the elusive nature of happiness, from the eldest daughter of novelist Carol Shields. Maggie, the 31-year-old middle child who is just...

In this book, adapted for children aged 9 to 13, Michael is a boy in the fourth grade, stuck in what seems to be a pretty sorry life. Then Michael...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallinson brings us another compelling and deeply atmospheric adventure featuring Matthew Hervey. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, you will...

Politics in the Republic of Ireland is now available in a fully revised fourth edition. Building on the success of the previous three editions, this text continues to provide an...

Bibi (it means princess) is the sole survivor of a massacre. Lady Nef, the General's wife, stops the General taking her as a concubine, winning Bibi's eternal and passionate devotion....

This book looks at the most extraordinary buildings of the twenty-first century. Focusing on landmarks and public buildings, this is a well-informed survey of the most innovative structures to be...

A US State Senator is dead. Only Mark Sway knows where the body is hidden.And he's eleven years old.The FBI want him to tell them where it is, regardless of...

FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP. Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life - having lessons taught by...

Accounting for Decision Making and Control provides students and managers with an understanding appreciation of the strengths and limitations of an organization's accounting system, thereby allowing them to be more...

Catherine is a soldier. Fast, strong, lethal, she is the ultimate in military technology. Bred by scientists, indoctrinated by the government, she and her sisters will win this war, no...