Category Archives: Shower Curtains
Poirot – the Mystery of the Blue Train
The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice…When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again – for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more,
Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All
A madcap new novel from the one-of-a-kind author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden IT`S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It`s always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in south
Collins Wild Flower Guide
Following on from its successful launch in 2009, Collins Wild Flower Guide – the ultimate reference book for wild flower enthusiasts – now enters its second edition. Featuring all flowering plants, including trees and grasses, and ferns, this fully revised and updated field guide to the wild flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the
Dragon Teeth
From Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, comes a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last! If you thought Jurassic Park was an adventure, you should try the Wild West! 1876. In
The Thousandth Floor
Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A thousand-storey tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible – if you want it enough. A hundred years in the future, New York`s elite of the super-tower lie, backstab and betray each other to find their place at the top of the world.
Collins Life-Sized Birds: The Only Guide to Show British Birds at Their Actual Size
Collins Life-Size Birds is a photographic celebration of Britain and northern Europe`s richly varied birdlife. The photographs are gloriously detailed, appealing to both beginners and experienced birdwatchers. For decades, bird photography has been used to capture and create images of these photogenic subjects. Recent advances in technology mean that digital imaging has come of age
Three Things About Elsie
The Sunday Times Bestseller `Powerful and profound` Guardian `Another sure-fire hit` Daily Mail `Funny, melancholy, acutely observant` Sunday Express 84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew –
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
As delightfully wry and witty as his bestselling debut, `The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared`, this is a tale of how one young woman`s attempt to change her future ended up changing everything. On 14th June 2007, the King of Sweden disappears. In 1994 South Africa dismantles six missiles, developed during
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of Russia`s most illustrious institutions into scandal. In Bolshoi Confidential, renowned musicologist Simon Morrison shows how the attack, and its torrid aftermath, underscored the importance of the Bolshoi to the art
Putin`s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020 A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2020 `The Putin book that we`ve been waiting for` Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland `Books about modern Russia abound … Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the best and most important
Four: A Divergent Collection
Fans of the Divergent series by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories told from Tobias Eaton`s point of view. DIVERGENT – a major motion picture in 2014. Readers first encountered Tobias Eaton as “Four” in Divergent.
Collins Fungi Guide: The Most Complete Field Guide to the Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Ireland
The sixth title in the bestselling Collins Guide series, this book covers the fungi of the British Isles, with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world. Leading mycological artists have been specially commissioned to ensure accurate, detailed illustrations. Where possible, species are described and illustrated on the same page, with up-to-date authoritative text
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths
Lakes, Loughs and Lochs
Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book gives a comprehensive account of the natural history of Britain and Ireland`s inland waters, many of which are popular holiday destinations. The study of life in British lakes and rivers has been traditionally neglected in natural history publications, and yet the intricacies of plant and
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. Enemies Within is a new history of the
The Invisible Guardian
A killer at large in a remote Basque Country valley , a detective to rival Clarice Starling, myth versus reality, masterful storytelling – the Spanish bestseller that has taken Europe by storm. The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztan. Less than 24 hours after this discovery,
Divergent Trilogy
No. 1 New York Times bestsellers DIVERGENT, INSURGENT and ALLEGIANT in collector`s trilogy set. DIVERGENT – a major motion picture in 2014. Divergent: In the world of Divergent, society is divided into five factions and all are forced to choose where they belong. The choice Beatrice Prior makes shocks everyone, including herself. Once decisions are
This Moose Belongs to Me
WINNER of the Irish Book Awards Children`s Book of the Year 2012 and the Honour Award for Illustration from Childrens` Books Ireland, 2013. An exquisite new book, featuring a boy and his moose, from internationally bestselling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers. “Wilfred owned a moose. He hadn`t always owned a moose. The moose came
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
`Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.` On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle
Snow in May
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE The stories of Kseniya Melnik`s debut collection are small-town miracles, each a miniature epic. Their focus is Magadan, a town in the Northern Far East of Russia, and the unvisited lives of its inhabitants and emigrants – schoolchildren, doctors, teachers, mothers, daughters. Some characters span several stories. Some of
