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Short-listed for the Orange Award for New Writers Long-listed for the Orange Prize Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Debut Novel Prize It is 1917 in the South Dakota...

A riveting psycho-thriller with unforgettable characters: the serial killer, the psychiatrist he kidnaps, and the world-weary FBI agent who is in pursuit. The man in the prison cells calls himself...

It is August, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic, but the crew must return home before the ice closes in. All, that is, save Thomas...

There are totally new case studies including the first case study written on Newbridge Silverware, the very successful Irish giftware producer Every chapter completely updated with new vignettes, statistics, theory...

A fifth edition of this book is now available. This fully updated and revised fourth edition of the classic text offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the...

Our feline friends have spent eons observing, napping, pondering, napping and taking notes about the human condition. In between naps, they've realised that we humans could use some catlike guidance...

From acclaimed author Elana K. Arnold and with illustrations by Charles Santoso, A Boy Called Bat is the first book in a funny, heartfelt, and irresistible young middle grade series...

We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret.We are Private. And we're the best.___________________________Paris: city of art. City of culture. City of death.When Jack Morgan stops...

Sophie and Riba have known each other since childhood. Though they couldn't be more different - Sophie is elegant and diffident, while Riba is flamboyantly extrovert - the bond between...

Get the scoop on bringing a Beagle home and raising him rightBeagles are an extraordinary breed-no bones about it. They're cute, compact, fun-loving, and great with kids. (Not to mention...

Asne Seierstad began her writing career as a Moscow correspondent; the conflict in Chechnya was the first war she covered. Now ten years later, she returns to Chechnya and discovers...

What was the perilous pig chase? Which sport includes the 'naked strangle'? How did Tarzan become a gold medal winner? Find out in this illuminating guide to the games. With...

Blaine Grayson returns to Three Sisters Island with a grand plan--to take Camp Kicking Moose to the next level. Her dream starts to unravel when she discovers Moose Manor's kitchen...

From the bestselling author of LABYRINTH and SEPULCHRE - a compelling story of ghosts and remembrance. Illustrated throughout by Brian Gallagher. The Great War took much more than lives. It...

Bake a cake in a mug; take part in a people-watching challenge; create a time capsule; diarise a week of your life and learn to make origami. Fully illustrated and...

With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. He is smuggled out of the country on...

"They Kill plunges readers deep into the heart of pulse pounding supernatural horror with a story that could only come from the mind of Tim Waggoner." - This is HorrorWhat...

Gilly Hopkins is a tough operator - she's super-cool and super-intelligent. And Gilly's not going to be 'had' by anyone: teacher, social worker or foster parent. All she wants is...

Three powerful women. Once best friends. Now deadly rivals...Texan honey Sally Lassiter, English rose Jane Morgan and Jordanian Helen Yanna meet at an exclusive girls school and become best friends....

Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful...

The Wunderkammer, or "cabinet of curiosities," saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of humankind's knowledge in...

Mankind has always been fascinated by space - prehistoric man built temples to honour the moon and sun, early civilisations developed theories about what went on up there, and scientists...

Young Bond: SilverFin is the first explosive book in Charlie Higson's bestselling Young Bond series.Before the name became a legend. Before the boy became a man. Meet Bond. James Bond.There's...

ARE YOU READY TO BELIEVE IN YOU? "Game-changing. Authentic. A must-read for every woman! Jamie is the real deal-and that's rare." -Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of...

'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than from several...

Following on from the successful The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children this is Doreen Virtue's first book on Crystal Children. These children are aged 0-7, and like Indigo Children...

The Tenant and the Motive are two darkly humorous novellas from the award-winning author of Soldiers of Salamis. Written with the lightest of touches and layered with sardonic wit, they...

by Ellis, Raney, Elliott, Jimenez, & various An exciting trade paperback reprinting issues from writer Warren Ellis' run on StormWatch collects two classic adventures of the team that would evolve...

Rachel de Luca's uncanny sense of perception is the key to her success as a self-help celebrity. Even before she regained her sight, she had a gift for seeing people's...

I've experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share. So I hope that you'll take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy...

In 1977, naive, twenty-one-year-old Maggie Lennon leaves Northern Ireland to look for summer work in America. What she finds is a job as an all-night DJ for Radio WA1A, a...

'Complex, intriguing, clever, twisty, beautifully put together'MARI HANNAH, author of WITHOUT A TRACE* * * * * * *How do you find a killer when you can't recognise a face?Last...