“The Hungry Tide is a contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks […]
Finance expert, Tara Malhotra, forced to quit her job and follow her husband on a job promotion and transfer back from the States ? and hating every minute of it ? decides to bring some excitement into her empty, high-society Mumbai life by indulging her taste for contemporary Indian art. Determined to set up an […]
From all over Europe – even from behind the Iron Curtain – the gypsies make their annual pilgrimage to Provence. The Duc de Croytor, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, is there, and so is Englishman Neil Bowman. But something is different about this years gathering… What is the secret the gypsies are so determined to hide? […]
The Dolphin, pride of Americas nuclear fleet, is the only submarine capable of attempting the rescue of a British meteorological team trapped on the polar ice cap. The officers of the Dolphin know well the hazards of such an assignment. What they do not know is that the rescue attempt is really a cover-up for […]
Hamilton knows the way to the ruins deep in the Brazilian jungle – and the secrets they hold… The millionaire who calls himself Smith seeks the lost city to avenge a wrong from his hidden past… Their journey down the River of Death is an epic of violence and danger. But the secret that awaits […]
Eight job advertisements. Eight jobs. Eight specialists in modern technology required.Eight scientists to fill them. Applicants to be married, with no children, and prepared to travel. Highly persuasive salaries.One criminal mastermind. Eight positions filled. Eight scientists – and their wives – disappear. Completely.One secret agent to stop him.Advertisment no.9. Sydney, Australia. Fuel specialist required. Looks […]
HELL IS ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED-Five strands of high-voltage wire, 200 yards of bare ground and double barbed wire fences patrolled by armed guards with dogs separated Mordon Research Centre from the outside world.Yet behind the locked doors of E block, a scientist lies dead, and a new toxin of terrifying power has vanished-
A boy spends a summer and a winter with his parents in a Bombay high-rise, and spends other summers in Calcutta immersed in the more traditional life of his uncles extended family … A young man at Oxford, whose memories of home in Bombay bring both comfort and melancholy, faces a choice between “clinging to […]
First published to rave reviews in 1967, this compelling novel follows Stephanie from her childhood in France, through her fathers mysterious disappearance, her emigration to America, her adolescence in New York, her marriage, her children, and ultimately her self-liberation, with each phase illustrating the painful ambivalence toward the irreconcilable poles of love and freedom.
Elizabeth and Richard, 18 years married, have come to Morocco on holiday. As the adventures and disasters of their travels unfold, so too does Elizabeths account of the desert her life has become. The authors book “Circles of Deceit” was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize.
Once it had been the great forest of Lythe–a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by […]
As I Lay Dying is Faulkners harrowing account of the Bundren familys odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members??including Addie herself??the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. This edition follows the text of As I Lay […]
In the final adventure of the Musketeers, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK sees DArtagnan remain in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have gone their separate ways. Meanwhile a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask languishes in the Bastille, where he has been for eighteen years. When the […]