With crime lords openly challenging the Mexican government for control of the country, and an exiled former Mexican president plotting his return to power, Mexico City is a ticking time bomb—a...
When Kilmer returned to Dunetown after a twenbty year absence,he discovered things had changed.Gone were the friendly stores,quiet street and elegant houses.Now there were 24-hour porno places...
When you read this novel about19th, 1775, you will see the British red-coats marching in a solid column throughyour town. Your hands will be sweatingand you will shake a little as you grip you...
Eat the Document is a compelling story of activism, sacrifice and the cost of living a secret. It tells the story of two lovers, passionately committed 1970s anti-war protestors who, as a cons...
Liu Heng is one of contemporary China's most acclaimed writers,and with Green River Daydreams, he has written a tragic story of love, duty, and the coming of modernity. Ears is a slave to the ...
Three apparently isolated thefts are simultaneously investigated in three cities, but these crimes have much more in common than anyone imagines. In Rome, police enlist the help of renowned ar...
Kathy Burton longs to escape the drudgery of her life as an unpaid labourer on her father's farm. With only the local church choir and the occasional dance at the village hall for amusement, s...
Mary Jo Putney’s passionate, vivid characters and captivating stories have earned enthusiastic acclaim from reviewers and readers everywhere. Now the New York Times bestselling author weaves a...
It is 1847, northern England, and Charles Weightman has been given the unenviable task of overseeing the flooding of the Forge Valley and evicting its lingering inhabitants. Weightman is heart...
Each of the plays in this volume arrived onstage to loud cries of derision and bafflement. In some cases they were deemed downright dangerous, incurring the wrath of the censors and the morals...
Harry always knew he must go back one day ... Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he made a decision that drove him from the place he knew and loved. In those early years, between boy and...
The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be...
Extravagant power of invention and remarkable comic vitality make Aristophanes one of the most brilliant of the ancient Greek playwrights. From the hilariously bawdy yet fundamentally serious ...
Starred Review. At the start of bestseller George's stellar new suspense novel, the grieving Thomas Lynley, a Scotland Yard detective who left the force after the murder of his pregnant wife, ...
"The lab lady most likely to dethrone Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta" (USA Today), forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan--the alter ego of New York Times bestselling author Kathy R...
For all the right reasons,Edinburgh Detective Inspector John Rebus calls for comparison with Colin Dexter's Oxford copper Inspector Morse.Both spend a lot of time in pubs and bemoan the onset ...
The Taming of the Shrew is generally seen as an experimental comedy of situation. This it certainly is, but above all, it is a comedy of illusion, and the illusion begins in The Induction. Chr...
Florence, 1291. In a disused church on the outskirts of the city the disfigured corpse of a master mosaic artist sits at the foot of his latest - unfinished - creation. Young, ~ambitious Dante...
Sent home to Ireland on a secret mission for King Bridei of Fortriu, Faolan must first deliver the news of a brave warrior’s death.Unexpectedly, Bndei’s chief assassin and spy also finds hinse...
Tommy dwelled for a minute on on idea that had not visited him in months. It was against the odds, against the evidence and the course of pure reason, but he asked himself anyway. What if Rusty...
The sweltering city of Seville is still recovering from a shocking and unsolved terrorist attack but now a spectacular car crash brings to light another threat. A dead gangster and a suitcase ...
Between 1750 and 1815, Britain lost one empire, won another, and emerged from the blood-soaked Napoleonic wars as the greatest power the world had ever known. But at the very centre of the Emp...
For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward, to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved s...
A woman is Left to die in a burning theatre. Another Woman is drowned Like OpheLia, skirts swirling in the water. A doctor has his throat stashed open on the steps of Washington’s Capitol bui...
Moscow, 1936, and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the altar for all to see. Captain Alexei Dmitriyev...
