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Synopsis A breakneck race against time . . . and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying charac...

Synopsis Vespasian #1. 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his bro...

Synopsis This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially com...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. A Million Copy Best-Seller. Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell an...

Synopsis In Naomi Alderman’s The Power, the balance of the world is irrevocably altered overnight - women now dominate. The novel weaves four centr...

Synopsis First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literat...

Synopsis Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen delivers a thoroughly menacing thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of...

Synopsis On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950's underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his h...

Synopsis About Scotland is a complete source book about Scotland providing a huge range of information in an accessible form. A handy reference gui...

Synopsis Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband's work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990's, she re...

Synopsis The Book of Dave is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote ...

Synopsis In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-yea...

Synopsis It is the world's bestselling book on how to give up smoking and over nine million copies have been sold worldwide. 2015 marked the 30th a...

Synopsis One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations with the Dalai Lama. This book records the first time the Dalai Lama has spoken at length about the story of Tib...

Synopsis The critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas fa...

Synopsis 'No Logo' was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For it’s 10th anniversary Naomi Klein has updated this...

Synopsis The definitive work of Arthur C. Clarke’s brilliant career - a pageant of dozens of futuristic pieces that anticipated many of this centur...

Synopsis Weeding out vital components of Scottish identity from decades of political and social tangle is no mean task, but it's one journalist Les...