From the acclaimed - and controversial - Chinese novelist, Brothers is a big-spirited comedy of society running amok in modern China.When Baldy Li's mother marries Song Gang's father their lives becom
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known... Of Tom, the mason who becom
Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as the S
We may think we know its history, its culture and its people from long-ago lessons at school.However, the notion of "the French" as one nation is relatively recent and actually rather misleading; in o
The internationally best-selling story of survival against the odds.There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal, and the plane blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down to slam
A wonderfully funny first novel for children from the best-selling Pan Macmillan author.Roy Eberhardt is recently arrived in Florida. ‘Disney World is an armpit compared to Montana’, he announces. Roy
Five British men in an open, rigid inflatable boat fighting for their lives in perhaps the most dangerous seas in the world.Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2004, this is
Judy Blume's most powerful, raw and emotional novel - reissued with a fabulous new look. Rediscover the original queen of teen.Davey’s father has been murdered – and the aftermath is causing her famil
In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others – particularly on the lonely and romantic Ev
The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 1987. A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place
The breakout second novel from the award-winning author of Bed, for fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and Little Miss Sunshine.
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn'
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly differe
With an introduction by Alan Moore It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland - those derelict spaces once described to him by a child as the bla
In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where
Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by following the rules. She avoids the Principal. She doesn't complain. She's loyal to her MLK 'family'. An
