Only Greg Rucka, the thriller genres most fearless writer, would dare create a spy so edgy, so explosive, so extreme, she should be rated X. Tara Chace was once the most dangerous woman alive. And now that the international spy network thinks shes as good as dead, shes even more dangerous than ever. Only one […]
Jeannette Wallss memoir The Glass Castle was “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. “Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.” So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, […]
Civil-servant-turned-schoolteacher Arunava Varman is secretive and reticent. But he turns into an inspired teller of tales after a couple of drinks, especially in the company of his friend, Tapan. Arunava??s bizarre stories??involving friends, family and colleagues??add a dash of excitement to Tapan??s mundane life of a bureaucrat. But over the years, as Tapan gets to […]
Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful pregnancy which is dominated, however, by a crucial but terribly awkward question ?? who is the father? Mark Darcy: honourable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notable fuckwit? 9.45 […]
A thrilling journey through a thousand years of obsession and betrayal, this is the most extraordinary work of imagination youll read all year Adam Johnson, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 An extraordinary novel. Erudite, intriguing and compulsively readable, Susan Barker, a born story-teller, has written one of the most remarkable novels of […]
aking a movie is a lot like going on a road trip. There are twists and turns and lots of surprises along the way. Hit the road with author and illustrator Jeff Kinney and get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the latest 20th Century Fox movie, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long […]
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . . So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she […]
Memories of Fire is the compelling story of five childhood friends meeting after a gap of fifty-four years. They embark on a journey into the past, laden with nostalgia and humour, and encompassing all the ugly and wonderful things life has to offer. Inspired by true events and interspersed with the dark contemporary history of […]
Set against a vibrant sixties backdrop, this is the story of two bright young things: Eliza, an ex-deb making a splash in the world of fashion, and Matt, a working-class boy carving out a serious name for himself in property. Their story begins with a love affair, closely followed by a marriage, followed by a […]
A riveting new anthology series??a year??s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the most astute and smartest, in short, the best crime journalism. Included in this first volume are Mark Singer??s ??The Chicken Warriors? from The New Yorker: an up-close look at the tawdry, wildly popular, illegal world of cock-fighting; E. Jean Carrol??s […]
Motherhood is supposedly akin to sainthood??a blissful, happy mother looking adoringly at her smiley, chirpy baby. And not a cocktail in sight. But The Flaky Mummy pulls the truth out from under the carpet??in a world full of dirty diapers, the only salvation is a chilled cocktail! This book is about the journey of six […]
he book readers of The Forest of Stories have been eagerly awaiting Book Two in the unfolding saga of the worlds greatest epic – from Indias epic storyteller, author of the internationally- acclaimed Ramayana and Krishna Coriolis series The Seeds of War, Book Two in Ashok Bankers MBA series, introduces us to the elder protagonists […]
When a plane carrying American journalist Aidan Shaw goes down in Kashmir in 1949, his wife Joanna refuses to accept that he is dead. Convinced her husbands disappearance is no accident, Joanna enlists the help of his best friend, Lawrence Malcolm, a member of Australias secret service. In search of answers, they set off, bringing […]
Dom Casmurro ?? uma obra-prima publicada em 1899.Nesta grande obra, o g?¦nio de Machado de Assis aponta com maestria os contornos da sociedade brasileira, valendo-se das lembran??as de Bento Santiago, o Bentinho, sobre os eventos mais relevantes de sua exist?¦ncia.Machado, utilizando-se da tem?tica do ci?§me, acaba por dar vida a uma das mais marcantes personagens […]
Welcome to the Custer Hill Club – an informal mens club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of Americas most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to gather with old friends, hunt, eat, drink, and talk off-the-record about war, life, death, sex […]
In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome – the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush the vibrant native civilization of our island home … Dreaming The Bull continues the story […]