Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gand...
Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to com...
Five of Philip K. Dick's best novels in one fantastic value volume: the best of SF's visionary masterThis volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as BLADERUNNER), M...
This book is with an introduction and notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. "To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on...
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ...
Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer.When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone.Now he’s finally met the wom...
The sensational new Jack Caffery thriller from Mo Hayder, bestselling author of Gone and Poppet. Who's afraid?I believe, from what I can hear, that either my daughter or my wife has jus...
Tamsin and her best friend Michelle have been inseparable since they were teenagers. Even now they spend all their time together, along with Patrick, Michelle's handsome husband.So when...
'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs'Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution o...
Im Mittelpunkt des unterhaltsamen DaF-Lernkrimis fur Leserinnen und Leser mit Deutsch-Vorkenntnissen (A2-B1) steht Privatdetektiv Patrick Reich. Er ist "der Mann fur alle Falle". Von sein...
Is there really such a thing as a good luck charm? Ex-soldier Logan Thibault thinks he just might have found one. Haunted by memories of the friends he lost in Iraq, Logan knows how fortunate he is...
Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounde...
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ...
Nick Stone is suffering. The two people he cared for most are gone.Thousands of miles away five ex-servicemen, badly wounded in Afghanistan, are preparing for a trek to the North Pole i...
The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the frig...
A dazzling second novel from the author whose debut was compared to Sarah Waters and Daphne Du Maurier. Set during the long, hot summer of 1976, where a young Cambridge mathematician arrives in a r...
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often seemed to personify the Victorian Age, he was a poet before it began and his poems endure to speak clearly to this modern one. His mastery of a great variety...
‘I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own, and moving slowly over it, and of several - I don't know how many - legs and arms or ten...
New summer novel from the bestselling author of "Chances, Secrets, Pillow Talk" and many others. This centres around a Georgian estate in a Herefordshire village and whether it should be ...
The first English translation of one of the Swedish crime writer's novels featuring Chief Inspecter Van Veeteran, first published in Sweden in the 1990s. 5 million copies of Nesser's novels have so...