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An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home…Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrie...

`It is hoped that we are not destined to see very much more of each other, Mr Carleton! You arouse in me an almost overmastering desire to give you...

Ever since its first publication, John Gray's relationship classic, MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS has held its place at the top of the in...

Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot’s early cases from the days before he was famous… Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was pro...

Six Four . The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no listener could predict. For five days in January 1...

Set In An Unnamed Caribbean Seaport, Garcia Marquez's Extraordinary Love In The Time Of Cholera (1988) Relates One Of Literature's Most Remarkable ...

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a novel about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us.

From the impish to the brilliantly comic, Vikram Seth's animal fables in verse can (like Diwali sweets) be enjoyed by young and old alike. Familiar...

A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie’s stage play by Charles Osborne Sir Claud Amory’s revolutionary new formula for a ...

The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. Ho...

Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London ...

When a group of bohemians takes over Arcadia, a house on the seafront, Lottie Swift and Celia are as drawn to its temptations as Merhams citizens a...

India’s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ‘want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops’. From that striking i...

In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespr...

The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous ...

Hercule Poirot is summoned when a young woman is accused of murdering her wealthy aunt's house companion

The third stunning thriller in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. ‘This is crime writing of the very highes...

Indian tennis star Arya Ashok is twenty-seven and ranked among the world's top ten players. But she's dogged by a breathing disorder, and a Grand S...

The Mallen Litter is the third and final part of the multi-generation story of the Mallens, which began with The Mallen Streak and continued with T...

'Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin ...' In this book, the explosion that detonates the narrative also...

About The Book : The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, ...

Douglas Yandell, a youngish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and l...