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I Refuse
From the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. Tommy`s mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim
No Man`s Nightingale: (A Wexford Case)
No Man`s Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell`s bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series.The woman vicar of St Peter`s Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her vicarage.Inspector Wexford is retired, but he retains a
Great Northern?
Flat on his front, binoculars to his eyes, alone at dusk, Dick makes a remarkable discovery: two rare birds, never before seen in the British Isles. Captain Flint and his crew decide to consult an expert to confirm the discovery. But when the man they ask turns out to have his collector`s eye on the
Other People`s Countries: A Journey into Memory
Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. Let me take you down the alleys that lead into its past. To a town peopled with eccentrics, full of charm, menace and wonder. To the days before television, to Marie Bodard`s sweetshop, to the Nazi occupation and unexpected
Caught
It`s June 1978 and David Slaney is sure of only one thing: he can`t get caught. Not this time. He`s escaped from prison and needs to make good on the drug heist that went wrong, win back the woman he loves and buy himself a new life. First he must travel across a vast country
Make Something Up
This book includes twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display. In `Zombies`, the best and brightest of a high school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In `Knock,
From Doon With Death: A Wexford Case – 50th Anniversary Edition
A 50th anniversary edition of the first Inspector Wexford novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell. An ordinary life. An extraordinary death. The trampled grass led to the body of Margaret Parsons. With no useful clues and a victim known only for her mundane life, Chief Inspector Wexford
Sense and Sensibility (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA SEGALThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.`Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire`
Ivanhoe
It is the dark days of King Richard`s reign, when the beloved king is fighting in far-off lands, leaving his corrupt brother John in charge of his kingdom. Tensions between Saxon and Norman lords erupt in bouts of bloodshed or foul play; good men are banished, forced to turn outlaw and serve the true king
The Constant Nymph
Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his `Circus` of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away. When Sanger dies, his Circus
The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain`s Railways
SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to…well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is
Grimm`s Fairy Tales
`Once upon a time.` Once upon a time there was a book, and inside the book were princes who had been turned into frogs or ferocious beasts, princesses so beautiful they astonished the sun, faithful sweethearts and evil stepmothers, giants taller than mountains and a boy no bigger than your thumb, houses made of bread
Anne of Green Gables
`It`s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn`t it?` My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called `carrots` by Gilbert Blythe. My likes: Living at the Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew, my bosom-friend Diana, dresses with puff sleeves. My regrets: Dying my
The Book of Complete Nonsense
Come bathe in stew, and dine on meals of eels or worms or jellied gnats, See shoes and ships and sealing wax and fuzzy bears and owls and cats, Depart for the Land where the Bong Tree grows or the Land of Bumbley Boo Find sky in your pie and teatrays in the sky and
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
This is the number one bestseller. Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months
Those We Left Behind
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK DCI. Serena Flanagan is forced to confront a disturbing case from her past: the murder conviction of a 12-year-old-boy who has just been released from prison DCI Serena Flanagan hasn`t heard the boy`s name in years. Not since the blood on the wall and the body in the
Boxer Handsome
“A genuinely impressive debut. Boxer Handsome does everything great fiction should…revealing a world that most people will never even think about. If you can`t see what it is that people need from boxing, or why it somehow persists into the 21st century, then read this.” (Guardian). Boxing runs in Bobby`s blood. His Irish dad was
Dear Life
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life
Levels of Life
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own
The Forgiven
David and Jo Henniger are on their way to a party at their old friends` home, deep in the Moroccan desert. But as a groggy David navigates the dark desert roads, two young men spring from the roadside, the car swerves and collides with one of the boys…Meanwhile, festivities at the house are in full
