Lennox is looking for legitimate cases - anything's better than working for the Three Kings, the crime bosses who run Glasgow's underworld. So when a woman comes into his office and hires him to follow her husband, it seems the perfect case...
Abattoir worker Terry Borders' love life is crippled by the stench of death that clings to his skin from his days spent slaughtering cows; teenage vegan Geldof 'Scabby' Peters alternates between scratching furiously at his rash and baiting his overbearing New Age mother.
Sequel to WOLF HALL, the story of the downfall of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012
Instructs readers to collect a spectrum of quirky items: something that is miniature, a stain that is green, something from the year you were born, a used envelope, and more.
From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books. Told with Burroughs's unique voice, black humor, and in-your-face advice, [...]
The latest gripping thriller from worldwide bestselling author David Baldacci. The Hit will feature freelance hitman Will Robie, who first appeared in The Innocent.
If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. This book is about how all that is [...]
A threat has been made. An ultimatum delivered. Innocent people are in mortal danger. DC Tina Boyd and DI Mike Bolt have just twelve hours to stop the terrorists - before its too late. Dont miss the new novel from Simon Kernick, the master of the race-against-time thriller.
Tells about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart.
What if you had an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you be able to save the world from its destiny? LIFE AFTER LIFE follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. Profound, inventive and compelling, this [...]
At the heart of the story is an interracial couple, Steve and Jabulile, living in a newly - tentatively - free South Africa, he a university lecturer she a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.There is nothingso extraordinary [...]
Recent years have seen the Eurozone in crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland are on brink of economic catastrophe, and a number of other EU countries weak enough to follow, with dire consequences for the global economy. The Great Eurozone Disaster presents a bold vision for [...]
Sage Singer, who befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone favorite retired teacher and Little League coach and they strike up a friendship at the bakery where Sage works. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. [...]
An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th century Princeton.
Thomas is a map-obsessed schizophrenic who spends his days and nights on a website called Whirl360, believing he's employed by the CIA to store the details of every town and city in the world in his head. Then one day, he sees something that shouldn't be there: a woman [...]