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This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. This edition includes passages from ...

D. H. Lawrence's "John Thomas and Lady Jane" offers a provocative exploration of sexuality, love, and the complex dynamics of human relationships s...

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school wher...

Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood a...

A $60-million PG movie from Walt Disney pictures is released in Summer 2005. It stars Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beebleb...

By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end . . .'Following the death of his father and the ...

Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the ...

Kellerman isnt just an Edgar Award-winning thriller writer, hes a prominent child psychologist, and it shows in Billy Straight . The hero is a 12-y...

In the beginning, there was chaos..." Margaret Atwood's chilling new novel Oryx and Crake moves beyond the futuristic fantasy of her 1985 bestselle...

THE COMPLETE FATHER BROWN STORIES (COMPLETE COLLECTION) 

That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childho...

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here . After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Tr...

Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidn...

Written in verse, this was Vikram Seths first novel. Set in the 1980s, in the affluence and sunshine of Californias silicon valley, it is the story...

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas celebrated foursome of D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, ...

Fans of H.G. Wells's famous, genre-spawning science fiction novels may be startled to read his less-remembered but once bestselling The History of ...

Cranford depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village - their petty snobberies and appetite for gossip, and their loy...

Wounded, dehydrated, and escaping a violent feud with the men of Bob Sutton's ranch, trace Jordan is near collapse when he descends from the heat o...

Includes the ever popular "If", along with the best of Kipling''s powerful, fluent poetry.

With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scotts finest w...

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,And careful hours with Time’s deformed handHave written strange defeatures in my face.But tell me ye...

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a band of anti-fascist guerrilla prepares to blow up a strategically vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a...

A collection of ten stories of air battles in the sky; of the nightmare of being shot down; of the infectious madness of conflict; and of the nervy...

Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he ...

A classic collection of Jeeves and Wooster stories from P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century.In his new role as valet to Bert...

Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading...

A Man Apart by Ginna Gray offers a compelling narrative crafted with expert storytelling. This book delves deeply into complex themes with nuanced ...

The 2007 World Cup changed the terms of the debate around cricket. For India, the tournament turned out to be a national tragedy for the first time...

This text presents a simple system for inspiring employees. It is based on three ideas: work must be seen as important; workers must be put in cont...

The Music of Solitude .By author: ,published by:

The much awaited sequel to the bestselling Mediocre But Arrogant: The first ten years are the most eventful, they say, in anybodys working life. Th...

When a man plunges down a cliff, two adventurous young friends decide to find his killerWhile playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices ...

I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction. So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (185...

Conn Iggulden burst onto the scene with Emperor, his series on Julius Caesar. His new novel, ‘Wolf of the Plains’, is the much anticipated beginnin...

Roald Dahls first-ever novel presents the scurrilous memoirs of that delightful old reprobate from switch bitch, Oswald Hendryks Cornelius - connoi...

An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond,...

For readers of Laura Hillenbrands Seabiscuit and Unbroken , the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitlers 1936 B...

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In The Children of the New Forest , Marryat describes the trials and triumphs of the four Beverley children, orphaned during the English Civil War ...

Within each of us is a warrior of light. Each of us capable of listening to the silence of the heart, of accepting failure without letting it get u...

Want to know the best way to get over being dumped? Do you need to pull a sickie? Do you want to pull a popstar? Or is your flatmate driving you ma...

In fact I wrote my first book when I was ten, stuck in a miserable, north London boarding school where reading and telling stories were my only lif...

From the American West to the Siberian coast, from Hollywood to the boxing ring, here are timeless tales of war, mystery, romance, crime, and punis...

Scrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas, calling it "humbug". On a Christmas eve, he refuses his nephew Fred's dinner invitation, and rudely turns a...

Offers examples of the artist's work and provides a brief biographical profile.