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With a new preface by the author Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novels strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Hellers cla...

Some People Have Dreams That Are So Outrageous That, If They Were To Achieve Them, Their Place In History Would Be Guaranteed. But What If One Man ...

At the time of his death from cancer on 1 March 2001, journalist and broadcaster John Diamond had completed six chapters of what was to be an uncom...

With a cast of characters that covers the whole spectrum of London life, from the grotesque nouveax riches Veneerings to the poverty-stricken Betty...

Its just another day in the life of an average kid. If you are Alex Rider, that is. A con artist has realized there is big money in charity the big...

Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing t...

A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesnt understand. Until he begins to read to her...

In Consequence Of A Number Of Stunning Catastrophes, Arthur Dent Is Surprised To Find Himself Living In A Hideously Miserable Cave On Prehistoric E...

Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943...

It was 1882 when Antoinette Giry, Maitresse du Corps de Ballet at the Paris Opera House, took her small daughter to the funfair at Neuilly. And the...

It is the summer of 1921 and eight year old Lucy Gault stays Close to the glens and Woods above Lahardane - The much loved house that her family is...

Lady Chatterley's Lover has been notorious since it was written. Banned for 30 years it was published unexpurgated, by Penguin Books in 1960 and im...

Cubicle farms are full of enemy combatants begging to be taken out.' WIREDAchieve clandestine ends practically and inexpensively with Desk Wars - p...

Smollett's lively rendition of Cervantes's epic burlesque attempts to catch the feeling and tone of the Spanish original - a comic novelist's homag...

I am never too busy to think of S & S. I can no more forget it than a mother can forget her sucking child. So wrote Jane Austen to her sister i...

DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST. --The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to ...

As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's just the people on his s...

t is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' Thus memorably begins Jane Aus...

Veronika has everything she could wish for - young and pretty, with plenty of attractive boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet Veronika is...

This Was A Man Opens With A Shot Being Fired, But Who Pulled The Trigger, And Who Lives And Who Dies In Whitehall, Giles Barrington Discovers The T...

Erskine Childer’s gripping espionage thriller is set in the eerie seas and sands off the north coast of Germany Languishing one summer at the Forei...

Its time to get serious with Britains favourite funny man - Camp David, by David Walliams. David Walliams has been the camp aide to the Prime Minis...

Something Or Somebody That Begins With Just A Passing Thought And Ends Up Being The Only Thing We Can Think About. This Can Be Unerstood As Saintli...

Taken from the poverty of her parents home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her h...

Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime,...

'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday The Discworld is very much li...

From such an innocent beginning Wodehouse weaves a comic tale of suspense and romance involving one of his most distinctive early heroes, Ronald Eu...

Maeve Binchy fans will love THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER Roisin Meaney's warm storytelling and unforgettable characters. The residents of Roone are getting...

The sequel to the million-selling international hit Sh*t My Dad Says

Ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into them twelve years later and realizing you still fancy them rotten. Thats exact...

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847,...

David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy & impoverished childhood to the discovery of his voca...

Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village. All goes to plan until German soldier...

With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain Then the vision of an enormous town prented...

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworlds first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalists life - p...

This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeares career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duk...

Mostly Harmless: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Part Five Mostly Harmless: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Part Five The Hitchhikers Guide...

When youre as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isnt easy to hitch ...

An elderly lady loses her money on an investment; a conjuror is pursued by thugs; and a clairvoyant mentions the name of the richest man in Europe ...

At the time of his death from cancer on 1 March 2001, journalist and broadcaster John Diamond had completed six chapters of what was to be an uncom...

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here . Its New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffan...

The only official sequel, penned by Lewis himself, to the ever-popular 'Screwtape Letters' - published alongside other short essays.

He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta, in their canoe, La Belle Sauvage. But now as the rain builds, the world around Malcolm and Asta it se...

Books can be attributed to "Unknown" when the author or editor (as applicable) is not known and cannot be discovered. If at all possible, list at l...

A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly suc...

Here at last is the long awaited sequel to the international bestselling phenomenon, Freakonomics. Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and...

When youre as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isnt easy to hitch ...