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America's most acclaimed crime writer returns to Louisiana and one of the best-loved detectives in fiction, Dave Robicheaux.

Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones. Sent out into the galaxy, they meet every two hundred thousand years, to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings. Campion and Purslane are late for their thirty-second reunion, and they get more than the scolding they expect. They face the discovery that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line, and there is a very real possibili...

Not for the first time in the last two centuries, Russia leaves the world wondering about its destiny. In spite of the losses incurred when the Soviet Empire imploded, Russia is still a power with vast military inventories. Questions abound as to what constitutes Russia's national interest. With Vladimir Putin no longer President, and after several years of rising oil and gas revenues, many Russians fear instability and insecurity. But the out...

Both biography and exploration of a time when religious and scientific understanding had become deeply and dangerously intertwined, Galileo Antichrist traces the path that led to its subject's denunciation as a heretic.

Catherine Carreg has grown up a tomboy, in a small Welsh village. But she is consumed by a longing to escape she runs away to London. Catherine finds a job in a home for sick governesses in Harley Street, run by Miss Florence Nightingale, but wants more adventure, so volunteers as a nurse in the Crimean War. She is pitched into a living nightmare and is forced to grow up quickly and painfully

The latest mesmerising Dave Robicheaux novel from one of American crime fiction's greats.

The long-awaited return of one of the most exciting new commercial fantasy writers. After their adventures on the high seas, Locke and Jean come back to earth with a thump. Jean is mourning the loss of his lover and Locke must live with the fallout of crossing the all-powerful magical assassins, the Bonds Magi. It is a fall-out that will pit both men against Locke's own long-lost love, Sabetha. Employed on different sides of a vicious dispute,...

Returning home to a nation divided by fanaticism, Lord Isak is haunted both by the consequences of his actions in Scree and by visions of his own impending death. As the full extent of Azaer's schemes become clearer, he realizes prophecy and zealotry must play their part in his battle-plans if there is to be any chance of surviving the coming years. The third in the TWLIGHT REIGN series, with excellent sales to date, THE GRAVE THIEF is fantasy...

Debut, written in the style of a biography, exploring the conflicts of creativity, family and love. Born in Yorkshire in the 1920s, Jennet's interest in art alienates her family, so she moves to London in search of adventure and finds it in the form of painter David Heaton.

Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different - and rigidly enforced - level of technology. Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito. But there is far more at stake than just Quillon's own survival, for the limiting technologies of the zones are det...

The autobiography of pop's hottest property ...

A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.

A stunning historical novel - the first in an epic trilogy about the rise and fall of one of history's greatest villains.

Bagshawe's debut novel "Adored" was a "Sunday Times" bestseller, and this second sexy romp also received excellent reviews across the board. Following Milly, a young jockey determined to prove herself to her disapproving millionaire father, it will appeal to anyone wanting exciting, escapist fun. 'The glitzy world of horse-racing makes this a galloping good read!' "The Sun

A sequel to the bestselling LIGHT, 'a novel of full-spectrum literary dominance' (GUARDIAN).

A classic, page-turning story of secrets and science, passion and betrayal, innocence and experience - in the tradition of Tracy Chevalier and Philippa Gregory

A young boy finds a faded, home-made Advent calendar in a bookshop. A piece of paper falls out of the first window on which is written the first part of an extraordinary story about a small girl who travels back in time to Bethlehem and the birth of Christ... Meanwhile, the intertwining story of the present unfolds, and the boy finds out about the strange man who made the calendar and about a girl who disappeared on Christmas Eve 40 years ago....

In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history, filming its exquisite sights and talking to its diverse peoples, Michael fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many of his own generation. As in all his series, Palin's New Europe takes the form of a journey through countries which have rich and complex cultures. Few have survived intact, as the ebb and flow of warring armies has c...

A delightful and informative take on one of the nation's favourite sports, by cricketing legend and renowned angler Ian Botham.

A gripping thriller by the author of the Unlikely Spy.