'They came at a run, side by side, seeming to wade through the thick swamp of mortar smoke and dust, and they appeared monstrous and inhuman in the stark li...
'The bend in the road rushed towards them, just a few more seconds. Then, with a succession of jarring crashes that shook the whole body of the car, a burst...
'Only once in his life had Sean met a man whose strength matched his own - and now again they were pitted against each other. He drove the heel of his right...
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which...
After the death of his beloved Queen Lustrous, Tabita performs the rites of embalmment and burial for her. Then, stricken with grief, he retreats into the forbi...
The fifth volume in the fast-selling series of high-tech, high-action thrillers created by Tom Clancy and Steve Peacenik.
Tom Clancy’s Op-Centre, the s...
Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction is the sixth book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. Wednesday April 2nd My birthday. I...
Speaking of this novel, Conrad wrote, "The origin of _The Secret Agent_: subject, treatment, artistic purpose, and every other motive that may induce an au...
The publication of "The Tin Drum" in 1959 launched Gunther Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing ...
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Win...
A legend is born
Mario Pozzo’s novel, The Godfather, has dominated the cinema and book culture for years and left behind an unparalleled legacy. The su...
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to t...