The seductive Diamond Lil lived life to the full until Captain Cummings of the Salvation Army came onto the scene. One of eleven new edition launching Virago's new look for the Modern Classics. ...

Crime fiction. Can a hitman, hired to kill innocent commuters on the packed Washington D.C. metro be stopped before it's too late? Tense, psychological thriller from the bestselling author of )The Bone Collector( (now a major film) and )The Coffin Dancer(. Expect great publicity including cinema and national press advertising for this title. "Deaver is a terrific storyteller, and he takes the reader on a rollercoaster of suspense, violence and ...

A classic country house murder from one of the Queens of Crime in stunning new retro packaging. When she found the body of her beloved Uncle Jonathan, Georgina instinctively stooped to pick up the revolver, thus becoming the prime suspect. Georgina stood to inherit a large fortune when her uncle died. But her uncle had a second secret will and the beneficiary is the wide-eyed ingenue Mirrie Fields. But there was also the puzzle of the missing ...

Umberto Ecos dritter Roman, Abenteuerstory, Liebesgeschichte und gewaltiges Zeitepos, spielt Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts, zu Beginn der Aufklärung. Roberto de la Grive wird vom französischen Kardinal Mazarin auf eine strenggeheime wissenschaftliche Expedition in die Südsee geschickt. Als er bereits einen Teil seines Auftrags erledigt hat, erleidet er Schiffbruch und wird an Bord eines verlassenen englischen Schiffes gespült. Dort findet er ...

While testing her Mark 5 prototype space yacht, things start to go badly wrong for Nimisha. She is sucked into a wormhole and is thrown out again into an uncharted dimension of space, and it appears as if she is not the first to have suffered this fate. From the author of DINOSAUR PLANET, THE DOLPHINS OF PERN and FREEDOM'S CHALLENGE.
...

New novel from the author of )The Winter House( and )Some Old Lover's Ghost(. With her family constantly travelling to new places in a variety of European countries, Faith, the eldest daughter, longs to settle down. Then war intervenes and they flee to London where Faith becomes the cornerstone of the family.
...

Flamboyantly futuristic farce about the glamorous world of snuff-snorting. Prophetic vision of an imminent dystopia, or the rabid ranting of a snuff-crazed technophobe? Read and decide!! Rankin's latest hardback, )Sex, Drugs And Sausage-Rolls( (Doubleday), is also published in December.
...

Consisting entirely of staff emails, 'e' spends a fortnight in the company of Miller Shanks, an advertising agency that scales dizzying peaks of incompetence. Among the cast are a CEO with an MBA from the Joseph Stalin School of Management, a Creative Director who is a genius, if only in his own head, designers and copywriters driven by breasts, beer or Bach Flower Remedies, and secretaries who drip honey and spit blood. An unforgettable first ...

In this book Hemingway shares his passion for bullfighting. The technical skills are described and explained, with chapters on individual bullfighters and the bulls. This work also contains a number of short stories inspired by the intense life and inevitable death of those violent afternoons.
...

This is a collection of four stories on the theme of 'midnight', the moment when the familiar world gives way to an alternative reality, and a new and terrifying world is revealed. It is written by the author of "Carrie", "The Shining" and "The Dark Half". ...