Three von Igelfeld novels - "Portuguese Irregular Verbs", "Finer Points of Sausage Dogs" and "The Villa of Reduced Circumstances" - available in one volume.

01 'So I was the 6787th person in Beijing wanting to act in the film and TV industry. There were 6786 young and beautiful, or ugly and old people before me trying to get a role. I felt the competition, but compared with 1.6

The multi-award-winning first collection by NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Joe Hill

A small but perfectly formed masterpiece about love and cricket. Do cricketers blush? What happens if the ball hits a seagull? Can a woman have a lover and a husband and still keep her family together? Can the rules be

Novel from Alexander McCall Smith, full of his trademark humour and wisdom.

Vampire hunter Laura Caxton returns in another gore-soaked tale where vampires and mortals fight in a modern battle of Gettysburg. Book two in David Wellington's mile-a-minute action/vampire series. Laura Caxton vowed

Tender, touching and beautifully humane, the dozen new stories contained here explore the subject of adultery, and tell of secret passions, domestic infidelities, office romances, and the broken and unbroken rules of love

02 A wonderfully warm, witty and wise novel of small-town dreams and eccentric families. 03 Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter, Summer Feelin', to look after her

'A blistering portrait of a New York couple going through a divorce in the aftermath of the attacks on September 11, 2001 ... a staggeringly controlled and moving piece of prose...Ken Kalfus is a talent to watch' SUNDAY TELE

Written in 1876 and published for the first time in 2001, this story chronicles the fortunes of a farmer determined to marry off his daughter Mary to the scion of the town's wealthiest family. But the appearance of a strange

Will is 36 and doesn't really want children. But then he comes across 12-year-old Marcus and it's pretty clear that Marcus would like a dad. The trouble is, Marcus is weird - a boy who prefers Joni Mitchell to Nirvana. He al

Will is 36 and doesn't really want children. but then he comes across 12-year-old Marcus. Marcus is weird - under the influence of his mother, he prefers Joni Mitchell to Nirvana. But Marcus is also sharp for his age and kno

A sharp, funny and beautifully observed satire about the disturbing influence of the Christian right from one of America's most cherished authors. Ruth Ramsey went too far. She hadn't noticed the changing climate. A Sex Ed

Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body and the only place he feels at home is New York; he just wants to live in the South Bronx with his Latina girlfriend, but after his gangster father murders an Oklahoma busin

Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia and proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA. Misha is an American i

Nineteenth-century Istanbul comes alive in this thrilling tale about a stolen reliquary and an international conspiracy.

The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotion

Adrian Mole's pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century.

With his battered leather jacket, his trademark Fedora and his bullwhip, Indiana Jones has gone in search of adventure, confronted danger and unearthed an untold wealth of ancient treasures. In "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the fearless

The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born an

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to

Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia in the 1960s, three kilometres north of the American border, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world.

Alice and Joseph fall into a serious relationship. Each brings with them an emotional burden. Joseph refuses to speak about his army experiences and Alice suspects that his reticence hides troubled past. When her grandfather

Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Co

Sacrificed to further a father's blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten. In his compelling prequel to "The Successor", Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a countr

An epic that follows the fortunes of one family as it follows the fortunes of India in the violent aftermath of Partition, this work is the story of a country in turmoil and a portrait of maternal love.

01 In fall 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tama

A fable about undauntedly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a shepherd boy and an unnamed being. Reissue.

Celebrating the chaotic spirit of India at a time of great change, this book offers a sensual account of the complex chemistry between sex, ambition and love.

Tells the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates.

Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? Mesmeric beauty, consuming desires, an insatiable hunger. Then premature death. This is the story of a boy, born to a great king - Philip of Macedon - and his s

This is a truly compelling, romantic and exciting book, and a fitting conclusion to the bestselling Alexander trilogy.

Continuing the epic saga of Alexander the Great, this book describes Alexander's quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by Darius, the great King of the Persians. Alexander and his men cripple Darius' domination o

As Matthew Sedon, an Egyptologist, and Isabella de Reims, a student in Paris, struggle to make sense of their feelings and a world beyond their experience, Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem come to their aid.

Cotton Malone is in trouble. His son has been kidnapped and his bookshop attacked, all because he is the only man alive who knows the whereabouts of the Alexandria link - the means of locating an important cache of ancient k

This tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery is wound around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s. Was Grace Marks a female fiend? A femme fatale? Or a weak and unwilling victim? The ac

01 A series of disasters in her home town causes Australian actress Alice Evans to flee to Hollywood where she finds life is not the glittery stuff of dreams. It's the Hollywood nightmare. She is forced to navigate her way round the c

Set in the 1930s, this is a novel on American politics. It traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of th

01 A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, IAll the Sad Young/I ILiterary Men /Icharts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years,

For years, Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now-grown daughters. Unfolding over twenty-four hours, this novel explores the ties between mothers and daughte

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from the author 'Wonder Boys'. 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic

Gerald Samper is a ghost-writer to the stars. Gerald pines for greater things, however, and would prefer to write the memoirs of Max Christ, the celebrated conductor. While he schemes to land this unattainable catch, he muse

On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, there is a little known and never visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state makes the

02 A stunning novel, set in the Nixon era and today, about a great family, a political tragedy, and the impact of fate on history ... and a young man's life. 03 It is the early 1970s; Nixon is in the White House and Co

Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father's factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple of his eye until America begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s, and Me

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightma

Two old friends, Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence. In the days that