Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the...

and any other kind you may have sat through wide-eyed in a million small-town halls or metro multiplexes - and the effect they had on individual lives. Ranging from the sparse, undemonstrative work of Finland's Kaurismaki brothers to a boisterous Punjabi masala movie that...

And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever? The present: In Utah, the fabled remains...

And just as Petra is beginning to relax guiltily into her happy ever after, she finds herself catapulted to West Africa, and to Bev, her best friend who she's been betraying so spectacularly. It turns out that no matter where you are in the...

and she's brought The Grit Doctor along for the ride WHAT'S IN YOUR HANDBAG? To Do lists scrawled on the back of receipts An unpaid bill Half a chocolate bar, covered in fluff Is your handbag a metaphor for the rest of your life?...

And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzeard sorting and then planting hundreds of...

And Then There Were Noneand meetsand The Inheritance Games, with a heavy dash ofand The Woman in Black,and in this gloriously gothic YA mystery-thriller.When eighteen-year-old Helena is sent to be a governess at Archfall Manor - a beautiful but crumbling manor house, perched at...

AND THEN THERE WERE NONEand meetsand THE TRAITORSFive beautiful couples.One deadly game.Who will escape alive?Lyla Santiago has spent months working on a research project that could be the key to getting a permanent job in her field.So, she can't really drop everything to go...

And there's more. Her flat isn't hers. Her cats aren't hers. Even her hair isn't really hers.Nor is she any of the other women she pretends to be. Not the bestselling romance novelist who gets her morning snack from the doughnut van on the...

And what of those whose roots are planted deep in the soil of their land? what does it take for them to thrive, transplanted?'east pakistan, 1950. Nayantara flees riot-ridden narayanbari with her two daughters, leaving behind her life as she knew it. The only...

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the windup girl - the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko -...

Anderson profoundly changed the American short story, transforming it from light, popular entertainment into literature of the highest quality. His art belonged as much to an oral as a written tradition, and, as this collection shows, the best of his stories echo the language...

We all know the system isn't working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there's nothing we can do: "It's just the way things are."In this book, Russell Brand...

Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no ordinary murder. Though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage's death wasn't. Only his soul actually died, and when it...

Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X.Fiercely suspicious...

Angelique Latham grew up at the magnificent Belgrave Castle with her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally deny her very existence and send her out into the world alone.At eighteen, Angelique has...

Angela's planning her very own fairytale of New York… • Enormous Christmas tree • Eggnog • Eccentric British traditions • Gorgeous man But Santa's throwing her a few curveballs - new job (as if it's not mental enough already), new baby-craze from her best...

Anger was something to believe in when the world let her down. FURIOUS THING roars with justifiable anger at an unfair world, as one girl fights to claim back the spaces that belong to her and battles to be heard . . . Lexi's...

anger who appears as the snow falls, only to disappear in spring.Leaving behind a broken heart…Carrie Morgan expects trouble when she returns to Woodsmoke after ten years.What she does not predict is the beautiful stranger who walks into her life with the first frost...

Angie has always wanted to travel. But at twenty-seven, she has barely stepped outside the small mining town where she was born. Instead, she discovers the world through stories told to her by passing travellers, dreaming that one day she'll see it all for...

Angie Watts used to have everything. A new home. A beloved husband. Three adored children.But Angie's happy life is shattered when her son Liam falls in with the wrong crowd. And after her son's bad choices lead to the murder of her husband, it's...

Anil's Ghostand transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted...

Anime coming July 2020! You can rent a girlfriend, but can you buy love? Reeling from a bad breakup, Kazuya rents the beautiful, polite Chizuru for a date. But rock bottom might be so much lower than he thought! Chizuru is much more than...

Anime coming July 2020! You can rent a girlfriend, but can you buy love? Reeling from a bad breakup, Kazuya rents the beautiful, polite Chizuru for a date. But rock bottom might be so much lower than he thought! Chizuru is much more than...

Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie'Rosaritaand is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai's enduring genius as a writer' -and The Guardian'Tantalising' -and Financial TimesFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita...

Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its collection of medieval and Renaissance art.There she is drawn into...

"Of course,and noand one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." 'Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit...

Anna is less than thrilled to be shipped off to boarding school in Paris, leaving a fledgling romance behind - until she meets Etienne St Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Etienne has it all... including a girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have...

Anna K is the golden girl of New York high society. She's beautiful, she's kind, she's unbelievably rich, and she has the perfect boyfriend.Until she meets Alexi Vronsky. He's a notorious playboy, totally gorgeous, and he only has eyes for Anna.Despite everyone who matters...

Anna Kareninaand is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density.Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of...

ANNA O - THE WORLD WILL KNOW HER NAME Certain to be one of the year's best thrillers' LEE CHILD'Reads like a dream but unsettles like a nightmare' A J FINN________________________________________________*The instant global phenomenon**Publishing in over 30 territories**The thriller that will wake up the...

Annabelle is a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, planning the heist of the century - two short cons to fund a long con, then a life of unashamed luxury, incognito in a foreign land. Jonathan DeHaven, the shy head of the Rare Books...

Annalie and Margaret are sisters who agree on only one thing- that they have nothing in common. Nineteen-year-old Margaret is driven, ambitious, and keenly aware of social justice issues. She couldn't wait to leave their oppressive small hometown and take flight in New York....

Annals of Mewar by James Tod presents the illustrious history of the Sisodia Rajputs who presided over the land of Mewarand the vaunted fortress of Chittor. Part history, part legend,this is an account of the saffron-robed heroes who guarded Mewar's frontiers, defending her against...

Anna's running away. From a failed relationship, a dead-end career and a complicated family life.On the island of Santorini, with its picturesque villas, blue-tiled roofs, and the turquoise waters of the Aegean lapping at the white sand beaches, Anna inherits a less-than-picturesque summer house...

Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will...

Anne and George are unexpectedly met by Julian and Dick at Captain Johnson's Riding School. They spend a few days riding and taking care of horses when they decide on an impromptu plan of camping in the Mystery Moor. An encounter with the gypsies...

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary...

Anne of Green Gablesand meets Diana Wynne Jones in this whimsical fantasy adventure perfect for teen readers.Each step was like an old familiar song…Still recovering from the inferno that consumed Kelseth lighthouse, apothecary Lily Knight, powerful witch Alice Blackwell, and their newfound family find...

Anne of Green Gablesand meets Diana Wynne Jones in this whimsical fantasy adventure perfect for teen readers.I don't know who you are, or why you need me, but you hurt her again and I will make you pay…Aliceand has lived in the forest on...

Anne Rice is back, with more werewolves, gothic mansions and epic battles between good and evil. It is the beginning of December and it is cold and grey outside. In the stately flickering hearths of the grand mansion of Nideck Point, oak fires are...

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy...

Annibale Canessa was a legend: the most notorious cop during Italy's brutal Years of Lead, he hunted down terrorist suspects with unmatched ferocity. But then the fighting stopped, and suddenly Canessa was a soldier without a war.30 years later and he's settled into a...

Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow...

Annie has a secret. But if she's not going to tell, we won't either. It's a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn't have - yet Annie isn't broken, not quite yet. Especially now there's someone who seems determined to fix her. Kate has run...

Another amazing read from Lucy Coleman that captures the beauty of Italy so perfectly' -and Mandy Baggot, bestselling author ofand My Greek Island SummerOne summer in Italy might just change everything...Marci James loves her job so much she's not had a holiday in 5...

Another day. Another mood. Meet Judy Moody at her moodiest-best, in this laugh-a-minute first adventure in the international bestselling series.Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson's younger fiction and Clarice Bean, this hilarious book is the first installment in the internationally popular and bestselling series...

Another day. Another mood. Meet Judy Moody at her moodiest-best, in this laugh-a-minute sixteenth adventure in the international bestselling series.Judy Moody is Monday-morning mopey. Another week in her same-old seat at her same-old desk in her same-old school. Even worse, there aren't any days...

Another exciting tale from the Really Useful Engines on the Island of Sodor. This time, it's all about James and an exciting rescue!

Another exciting tale from the Really Useful Engines on the Island of Sodor. This time, it's all about Thomas and Scruff.