'"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!
When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E.
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.
Lena leaves her metropolitan dream behind to take a menial job at the snow-bound sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.1933: Still struggling to come terms with the loss of so many friends on the Eastern Front, Anton, now an established writer, is commissi
THE COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED TEXT 'Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it' When her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. She is poor, orphaned and alone but Pollyanna just feels lucky to have an aunt at all.
A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. Nia demands a single promise from him - that Marcus will never enter her study in the basement, her private space. But when Marcus's curiosity begins to mount Nia feels more and mo
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. There is a savage kill
Her husband, Henry, manages her every need making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation. Can Delia coax Alan out of his grumpiness?
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. For the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his turf, a killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity.
Harry Hole faces a new rising enemy. 'A page-turner you won't want to put down' Time OutHarry knows he shouldn't get involved. A report of a rare and unusual gun - a type favoured by assassins - being smuggled into the country sparks Detective Harry H
Jeanette Winterson retells 'Hansel and Gretel'. 'Deep in the wood'Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees
In his heyday as a star - and as a zealous, bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's beloved leading lady, Eve Frame. This book charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditch
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN - OVER 9 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE THE MARK OF THE DEVIL, THE SIGN OF A KILLER...A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case, alongside his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it.
Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki's friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections wit
A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. A raincloud-duck, with the heart of a lion, who struck out into the world on her own...'On the farm, some eggs are hatching. Cast out and all alone, this odd duckling will need all
