Author: Amitav Ghosh The acclaimed author of 'The Calcutta Chromosome' and 'The Shadow Lines' has burst out on to the big stage with a major saga on that hidden country,...
Author: Robin Cooper Synopsis: For several years, Robin Cooper has been plaguing department stores, hotels,associations, fan clubs and a certain children's book publisher with his letters. From Prince Charles to...
Author: Eggers, Dave Synopsis: Dave Egger's parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was 21 and his brother, Christopher, was seven. They left the Chicago...
Author: Libby Brooks Childhood. We've all known it, but do we remember what it was like? Can we as adults relate to children or do we misunderstand them? Do we...
Author: Ken MacLeod Synopsis: Centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And one young scholar working in the space ship yard, Clovis colha Gree, could make...
Author: Jeanette Winterson Synopsis: A celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess. Set on board the QE2, and in New York and Liverpool, Gut Symmetries explores parallel...
Author: Michael Connelly Detective Renée Ballard is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck...
Author: Mohsin Hamid At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man begins the tale that has led to his fateful meeting with an uneasy American stranger... Changez is living...
Author: Susan Faludi "What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the rising pressure to...
Author: Verena Tay In the Company of Heroes, an anthology of seven plays by seasoned theatre practitioner Verena Tay, taps into the realm of myth and archetype, while still being...
Author: Keri Smith From the author of Wreck This Journal, a collaborative creative journey where you complete the book Dear Reader, One dark and stormy night, author Keri Smith found...
Authors: Mestre Poncianinho, Ponciano Almeida Capoeira dates back to the 18th century, probably created by slaves in Brazil during their battle for freedom. Since then, Capoeira has developed and is...
Author: Haruki Murakami The tragic death of their best friend has a profound influence on the passionate relationship between Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, and Naoko, an...
Author: William Shakespeare
Biographical information and critical essays accompany Shakespeare's play about a prince's wavering determination to avenge his father's murder
Author: Margo Lanagan In this companion volume to White Time, Margo Lanagan offers another 10 outstanding stories that delight, shock, intrigue, amuse and move the reader to tears with their...
Author: Paul R. Niven This book explains how an organization can measure and manage performance with the Balanced Scorecard methodology. It provides extensive background on performance management and the Balanced...
Author: Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed 'the Witch of...
Author: Mark Twain A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty,...
Authors: Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney As China plans to invade Taiwan, and launches a cyber attack on the U.S., President Jack Ryan, his son and the team at the Campus...
Author: Beng Huat Chua While the economic miracle of Singapore is widely known, the ideas that have underpinned it remain to be documented and critically examined. The single political party...
Author: Albie Sachs Synopsis: On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, by...
Sonnets From The Singlish Upsize Edition is a collection of 88 poems on love, language and the pursuit of laughter. the poems are loosely translated from the english-based creole language...
Author: Steven Pinker Steven Pinker's riveting, myth-destroying new book reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Given the images of conflict...
The Therīgāthā, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. These women were therīs, the senior ones, among...
Author: Travis Bradberry FOREWORD BY PATRICK LENCIONI, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose -- increasing your EQ....
Author: Jessica Bennett 'Engaging, hilarious and practical - I will proudly proclaim myself a card- carrying member of the FFC' - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and bestselling author of...
Author: Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of twentieth-century literature. In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads...
Author: Joanna Handlin Smith "In her study of the rise of charities amidst the late-Ming crises, Joanna Handlin Smith has marshaled so many interesting and rare sources that she is...
Author: Michael Booth Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese, their dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such...
Authors: Ruth Tang, Daryl Qilin Yam Write one poem a day for thirty days in the cruel month of April: that was the challenge we first gave the Internet in...
Author: Alyssa Sheinmel When Maisie is struck by lightning, her face is partially destroyed. She's lucky enough to get a face transplant, but how do you live your life when...
Martin Cruz Smith The Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, "the master of...
Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton The many dramatic moments of Secretary Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State frame her thoughts about the recent history of US foreign policy and the...
Author: Gregory David Roberts'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily...
Author: Jane Bull This is a special Jubilee edition of this fun-filled baking book from bestselling activity expert Jane Bull. Join Jane Bull in the kitchen and get baking with...
Author: James FreyA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Inspirational and essential' Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho 'Poignant and tragic' The Spectator 'Easily the most remarkable non-fiction book about drugs...
Author: William Golding First published in 1954, William Golding's debut novel, now a classic, is a stark story of survival, probing the depths of human nature, and what happens when...
Author: James Baldwin First published in 1957, this book attempts to tackle the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love. It tells of David, a young man awakening to his true...
Author: Chang-Rae Lee June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But...
Author: Einhard This is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it...
Author: Jojo Moyes From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You,...
Author: Clive James In this latest collection of essays, Clive James tackles burning issues and shining personalities from Barry Humphries to Barry Manilow and Michael Jackson to Michael Foot. He...
Author: The Secret WAG Money, cars, homes, holidays, parties and all the shoes you've ever dreamed of. The life of a footballer's wife or girlfriend must be as glamorous and...
Author: Sophie Kinsella No. 1 internationally bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns with her trademark blend of sparkling wit and playful romance in this page-turning story of a wedding to remember—and a...
Author: Veronica Roth What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelationlike a single choicechanged everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you...
Authors: Béatrice Tauzin, Anne-Lyse Dubois Ce cahier d'activites propose un entrainement diversifie, reprenant les bases de chaque point de langue etudie dans le livre, en les approfondissant grace a une...
Author: Sue Grafton It was like being in the presence of a snake, first hissing its presence and then coiled in readiness. I didn't dare turn my back or take...
Author: Patricia Cornwell Hornet's Nest is the first book in the Andy Brazil series, from bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. Deputy Chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss, Hammer, but...
Author: Caitlin Moran Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season Selected by...
Authors: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan From the Golden Globe winning director of The Shape of Water "The most credible and frightening of all the vampire books of the past...
Author: Edmund Ng "Mourn with those who mourn." (Romans 12:15b) God commanded all Christians (not just ministers, pastors and leaders) to comfort those who mourn. However, many Christians are not...
Author: Pat Conroy The piercing, iconic semi-autobiographical novel of a domineering father and ambitious son, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides Step into...
Author: Ian Tregillis 'Brilliantly imagined and beautifully written, Tregillis has created a perfect end to his series' Christopher Farnsworth I am the mechanical they named Jax. My kind was built...
Author: Adam Blade Battle Beasts and fight Evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up! Mortaxe the Skeleton Warrior has...
Author: Charlaine Harris Harper Connelly had a lucky escape when she was hit by lightning: she didn't die. But sometimes she wishes she had died, because the lightning strike left...
Author: Rajeshwari Ghose This illustrated book traces the spread of Buddhist art throughout Asia from India. It includes 14 essays discussing aspects of recent research in Buddhist art historical studies...
