What links Taylor Swift to a factory worker? Kanye West to a German engineer? Beyonce to a boardroom mogul? They've all changed the face of the music business, in the most unexpected ways. How Music G
Depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. This book follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CERYS MATTHEWS 'It has got a marvellous morning freshness - there is hardly a sentence in it that does not set the senses of touch and smell, as well as sight and hearing, ting
Adam Thorpe's unflinching translation brings Zola's dark and shocking masterwork to life Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out . . . the law can look as deep as
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Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious and has married the wrong man. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town and has married the wrong woman. Both of them long to make a positive difference
"Eliot dealt in human relationships and she was a mistress of the art."? ?Times ? Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both willful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. A
Sent on leave after his last, brutal, case, Max Camara returns to his home town in La Mancha, famous for producing the finest saffron in the world. There, the past keeps pulling at him. The town is ex
There are some choices no parent should ever have to make Nikki Grant has her whole life ahead of her when she discovers she is pregnant. But she welcomes the news with joy?the baby will be a wonderfu
What you create can destroy you. One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the Artic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, m
Includes John Lennon's autobiography, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" as well as accounts of falling in love, marriage, the break-up of the Beatles and life in America.
This book is with an introduction by Ruth Scurr. John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His 'lives' of the prominent figures of his generati
People are going missing. Only thing links their cases. They all disppear on the hill.A woman vanishes in the fog up on the Hill in Lafferton. The police have one lead - a pair of expensive cuff-links
Offers a collection of twelve writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards violence.
DC Smith Serrailler is faced with his worst crimes yet, and Lafferton is left reeling. The eighth in the Simon Serrailler crime series.The cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways i
