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When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her fami...

Dickens's first novel - with its creative use of the old tradition of graphic satire - is an episodic series of adventures featuring the noble Mr P...

The fountain was not working. Nothing unusual in that...'Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been bl...

Smaug Certainly Looked Fast A, When Bilbo Peeped Once More From The Entrance. He Was Just About To Step Out On To The Floor When He Caught A Sudden...

A young American aid volunteer, Ricky Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, ...

Why didn't you tell me there wasdanger in men-folk?Why didn't you warn me?”Tess Durbeyfield, the young, graceful and virtuous daughter of a poor pe...

Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more and...

Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook had a lot in common. Both high flying army women, both victims of sexual harassment, they left the...

This perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das kapital to illustrate economic theory, but it is readers of all ages over the last 280 ...

From humble beginnings, Toby Temple becomes a superstar. He knows what he wants – and he always makes sure he gets what he wants. He is the world's...

During five days in the midst of a hot, steamy Louisiana summer, the lives of a colorful cast of characters intertwine in a series of public, priva...

When the NSAs invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletche...

While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's traditional 'string choir' and ...

The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus, and Mars. Outer space in...

His mission: Kill President Charles de Gaulle His code name: Jackel His price: Half a million dollars His demand: Total secrecy, even from his empl...

Jane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion and thrill a...

Sons and Lovers is considered to be D.H. Lawrence’s first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insights into...

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isnt on it - even though...

OPRAH WINFREY LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH SHE ASKED JOHN GRAY TO TAKE OVER AN ENTIRE EPISODE OF HER SHOW TO TALK ABOUT IT! This personal development bo...

A practical guide for improving communication within relationships, helping both sexes get what they want from love and friendship. The author enco...

'Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? ...To give people some kind of intellec...

Love in a Blue Time is a brilliant new collection of stories by the bestselling author of The Buddha of Suburbia.This time, Hanif Kureishi's subjec...

Distant lands, the beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the jungle and its beasts, even the desert, are the exotic settings for these st...

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirat...

A new star-studded adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Little Dorrit for BBC1 starts this November.The 15-part serial was adapted by highly accl...

John is a leading internationally recognized expert in the fields of communication and relationships. His unique focus is assisting men and women i...

Set against the history of the gay pride movement in America, this book charts the discovery of AIDS by a Los Angeles doctor and its growth from a ...

Mostly Harmless: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Five The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, a gr...

This complete, line-by-line Macbeth translation makes the language of Shakespeares play more modern while preserving the metrical rhythm, complexit...

Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren – he felt sure of it. So did his brother Hazel, for Fiver’s sixth se...

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has...

Having got rid of their human master, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite among...

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an intro...

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, "Sophie's World "has fired the imagination...

This is the fifth volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a southern American prison.

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, h...

The Titan's Curse: the third book in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. The third book in the most exciting commercial fantasy adventure series s...

Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away . . . the gripping second novel from the author of GONE GIRL and SHARP OBJECTSLibby D...

Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of t...

When Dan and Una stage a performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance of Puck in person. He ex...

There was a time when the world was sweeter . . . when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats. . . when somet...

Dickens had already changed achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel con...

The Lightning Thief, written by Rick Riordan, is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and can be purchased from Amazon site...

A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring Bill Hodges, a retired cop who is tormented by 'the Mercedes massacre', a case he never solved.Brady Ha...

Tell Me Your Dreams is a novel by American author Sydney Sheldon. The book is about the lives of three very different women, and how events over th...

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wa...

In How to Live for Change and Change for Life, renowned self-help guru John Gray turns his successful healing advice to how we live in modern times...

The Best Laid Plans tells the explosive story of the beautiful and ambitious Leslie Stewart, who learns that for some men power is the greatest aph...