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Synopsis Blood Simple, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, Hudsucker Proxy, and The Big Lebowski - moviegoers either love the C...

Synopsis The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Hugh Glass isn't afraid to die. He's done it once alr...

Synopsis Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage flo...

Synopsis Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports sh...

Synopsis Mary Bergen is a successful clairvoyant who, along with help from her brother Alan and husband Max, aids the police in murder investigatio...

Synopsis Villages of Britain is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's vil...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize. In 49 B.C . . . the seven hundred and fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar cross...

Synopsis Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plan...

Synopsis The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel written by British author Howard Jacobson. The novel won the Man Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a pro...

Synopsis Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. The extraordinary new novel from the author of Life of Pi. In Lisbon in 19...

Synopsis Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age of seven Morley has ...

Synopsis The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable as...

Synopsis The International Bestseller - over 300,000 copies sold. A delightful and quirky story about Monsieur Jean Perdu’s Literary Apothecary: a ...

Synopsis The Number 1 International Bestseller. Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and ...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Stories And Transcripts Of The Moments That Made History. Introduction : Simon Sebag Montefiore. Speeches that Changed the...

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

Synopsis From the classic Greek origins of the world map, through the elaborately decorated manuscript maps and printed maps of the seventeenth and...

Synopsis The Girls' Bicycle Handbook is for women cyclists everywhere who need practical no-nonsense advice and information on cycling, and cycling...

Synopsis Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It ...

Synopsis John Grisham's 1st foray into Non-Fiction crime writing - an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry. In the major league dra...

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 A busker is a wee guy (or woman) who plays on the streets for tips. In bands, to busk, means to bluff your way through a song that you hav...

Synopsis A Sunday Times Bestseller. A richly moving novel - the first since the author’s Booker-Prize winning, internationally celebrated debut, Th...

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