Set during one day at the Cannes Film Festival, this is the story of a successful, driven entrepreneur who will go to the darkest lengths to reclaim a lost love. Captured in all their crassness are producers, actors, aspiring starlets, supermodels, and notorious fashionistas, whose lives and actions hold sway over millions.
The life of the 13th Prime Minister of India is fraught with constant conflict from both the opposing party and his own party. In this book by his former spokesperson, the author puts forth the argument that Mr. Manmohan Singh is in a constant battle for power, as the principal portion of it rests with […]
One of his great works, and a must-read for any student of philosophy, The Problems of Philosophy was written in 1912 as an introduction to Russells thought. As an empiricist, Russell starts at the beginning with this question: Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt […]
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town??s water supply, causing the worst ??cancer cluster? in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. […]
Shot-proof, fever-proof and a veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellingtons army. But at the siege of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his career. For when Harry meets the defenceless Juana, a fiery passion consumes him. Under the banner of […]
One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop.The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiahs neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow and ice, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as […]
A haunting and utterly original novel in which a famous pianist confronts unresolved emotional aspects of his life. Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical and always strangely […]
ivien Simpson is a happy stay-at-home mom with a young son who adores her successful husband. Edward Davis is an ambitious aide to an important Congressman who loves his wife. When a plane crash brings about the discovery that their supposedly loving and now deceased spouses were entangled in a deeply passionate love affair, they […]
Vibrant and headstrong, Ally Pearce loves working on the Edith, her familys narrowboat, proving shes the equal of any man on the Leeds to Liverpool canal. Betsy, delicate, calculating and sensuously beautiful, wants only to become a lady — and will use the most unladylike means to become one. When Dr Tom Hartley enters the […]
She??s changed my perception on life?? Anna Chancellor ??One of my favourite authors ?? Liane Moriarty ??She spins gold Elizabeth Buchan ??Anne Tyler has no peer?? Anita Shreve ??My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world?? Nick Hornby ??A masterly author?? Sebastian Faulks ??Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good?? […]
he retired head of the US Federal Reserve Board is inexplicably jailed on a routine visit to Switzerland, accused of massive financial market frauds. The case against him is solid, but Charles Black is being framed and his only way of proving innocence is to get to the bottom of the conspiracy.