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Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions. Go for the big ones.' Now in his late seventies, Sir Ranulph Fiennes looks back on a lifetime of exploration, and draws powerful, inspiring lessons that we can all use when faced by the tribulations of everyday life. Having crossed both Polar ice caps on foot, climbed Everest and the Eiger, served in the SAS and circumnavigated the world along its polar axis - a 53, 000 mile odyssey th...

A diverting and witty crime novel by the renowned author of A YEAR IN PROVENCE.

A memoir of reflections and pictures by the great European novelist, which is playful and poignant, and beautiful and bizarre, illuminating the broadest questions of human existence through the minutiae of everyday life. Now in paperback.

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Set in the USA, a chilling modern horror story from the bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series of historical thrillers.Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. Once a religious man, now his job makes him question the existence of a God who could allow the violence he sees every day. Gil is asked to investigate a series of unexplained deaths of victims known for their liberal views. When a woman te...

Paperback edition of the case for Bruno, Chief of Police, set in the French town of St Denis. A woman's body is found on a boat, showing signs of a black magic ritual. 'A page-turning thriller... well crafted and enjoyable' Denis McShane, "Tribune

Now longlisted for the International Booker Prize, a cabinet of curiosities exploring notions of loss and disappearance by one of Europe's finest and most original voices

1867, Canada.As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a woman steels herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered and her seventeen-year-old son has disappeared. The violence has re-opened old wounds and inflamed deep-running tensions in the frontier township - some want to solve the crime, others seek only to exploit it.To clear her son's name, she has no choice but to follow the tracks ...

The latest novel to feature Bruno Courreges, set in France. Includes truffle trouble, Asian antagonism and sadistic slaughter, and all things French - food, wine, eccentric characters a beguiling Gallic hero - in abundance. Walker is a prize-winning journalist and author of several acclaimed works of non-fiction.

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Use the puzzles in this book to sharpen your mind and improve your ability to focus. The perfect antidote to staring at a screen for hours on end, Paper, Pencil and You: Focus presents over 100 puzzles designed to improve focus in a distracted world. With each one you will learn to eliminate mental distractions, improve concentration and develop your powers of deduction. Test your skills with a range of visual conundrums and lateral-thinking p...

THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD.China: 1200 A.D.Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in three trials to win her hand in marriage.But now, along with his sworn brother, Zhou Botong of the Quanzhen Sect, and his shifu, Count...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ROSAMUND PIKE AND CLIVE OWEN'Extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail'Destined for the big screen' Daily Mirror'Three Seconds is just about how long it feels it takes to read Three Seconds . . . Terrific' TimeOutWINNER OF THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER. NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER. SCANDINAVIAN CRIME DOES NOT GET MORE EXPLOSIVE...ONE MURDER.Piet Hoffmann is the Swedish police force's best undercover operativ...

War, nationalism, and trees shape lives in unforeseeable ways in this novel about a family and a country struggling with enormous transformations. "In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman" - so begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist's instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight aga...

Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench in the parc des Buttes Chaumont.Aïcha wants to know the truth behind the death of her mother, Vodka Satana. And if she finds the bastards responsible, she wants to make th...

Describes the extraordinary feats of human engineering and design from across the globe, created between the dawn of human civilization and the onset of the Dark Ages. This guide looks at the problems that the ancients solved to build various wonders. It introduces us to the travellers, ancient and modern, who saw and rediscovered various sites.

We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and the rest is covered by farms, pasture, and plantations. Increasingly, as we become ever more city-centric, species and ecosystems crafted by millions of years of evolution teeter on the brink of extinction - or have already disappeared.A growing band of 'urban ecologists' is beginning to realize that...

The fourth Stephens and Mephisto mystery from the author of the bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway series - a must-read for fans of Bryant and May. 'Mixes cosiness and sharpness in a way that recalls the best of Agatha Christie' Sunday Express (on Smoke and Mirrors)What do a murdered Brighton flower seller, the death of Cleopatra and a nude tableau show have in common? Read the most dangerous case yet for Stephens and Mephisto to find out. Christmas...

By Norway's bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. "An intricate story about war, family, secrets and, yes, wood ... An engaging, satisfying read" The Times"So cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic momentum as it zeroes in on its conclusion" ScotsmanEdvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he...

Handwriting is something of a dying art nowadays, as we tap messages to each other day after day. But handwriting analysis can divulge everything from a person's timidity to their ambition, from their desire to please to their need to control. In fact, so revealing is your writing that in Japan all CVs are still written by hand. Written by the UK's leading handwriting expert, Reading Between the Lines will show you how to judge someone's handw...