When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital impor...
The latest installment of the Women?s Murder Club series begins on a ferry ride across the San Francisco Bay. It?s a picture-postcard day until a gunman opens fire without warning or reason. Several o...
Of all Manhattan's fabled East Side dwellings of the super-rich, 740 Park Avenue has perhaps the best pedigree. Designed by Rosario Candela and developed by James T. Lee, Jackie O's maternal grandfath...
Charlotte's tetchy Grandmama from Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries does a bit of sleuthing on her own (and learns the true meaning of Christmas) in the author's latest holiday treat (A Chri...
In this flat but intermittently intriguing follow-up to his bestselling debut, The Piano Tuner, Mason takes readers to two impoverished locales in an unnamed, possibly South American (and heavily Cath...
A GARDEN OF VIPERS initially centers on the investigation by Ryder and Nautilus of the brutal murder of a radio newswoman who, interestingly enough, has some ties to Dani Danbury, Ryder's significant ...
Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Ru...
12 short months...that's how long photographer Caroline Rogers has until she gets her life back. 6 years since her parents passed away, leaving her to take care of her two younger siblings. But now it...
Four different people find themselves on the same roof on New Year's Eve, but they have one thing in common?they're all there to jump to their deaths. A scandal-plagued talk-show host, a single mom of...
Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder-or suffer guilt over th...
February, AD 668, and Cashel is full of distinguished visitors. The reason? Under the old Irish custom, Fidelma of Cashel and Eadulf of Seaxmund's Ham, having been joined together for a year and a day...
Sometimes crime affects you directly: in A Question of Blood Inspector John Rebus is caught up in two cases that are closer to home than he would like. He is under investigation for the burning alive ...
There's a Condé Nast Traveler article fighting to get out of bestseller Buffett's first new novel in a decade, a groovily laid-back, ramblingly anecdotal, sun-soaked bit of Caribbean escapism that his...
Christina's mother walked out on her when she was just six years old. Now in her early thirties Christina has reached a desperate crossroads as a mother herself and goes on the run with her youngest, ...
How well do we ever know our friends? When Jemima offers to flat-sit for her friend the last thing she is expecting is threatening anonymous phone-calls on her very first night. A vicious assault by C...
The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany returns to immerse herself - and her readers - in the sights, aromas and treasures of twelve new special places. ...
"An astonishing achievement! Olson and Cloud give us fascinating account of the extremely well documented heroic and daring struggle of a group of Polish military pilots, and through it they present u...
How cool is 36-year-old Will Lightman? Sub-zero, according to the questionnaire in his favorite men's magazine. Not only does he own more than five hip-hop albums (five points), he's also slept with a...
To the outside world, Siena McMahon has a fairy-tale life. Born into a great Hollywood dynasty-granddaughter of movie legend Duke McMahon, daughter of billionaire producer Pete McMahon-she is blessed ...
Life couldn't be happier for Nicholas Lyon, divorce lawyer and contented husband of the beautiful - if chaotic - Mal, a cookery writer who combines working from a comfortable home in Wiltshire with be...
Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Terri...
She confidently and convincingly paints a grim picture of a bombed-out east London...curious and memorable
The subject of this book is ostensibly US foreign policy since September 11 2001. Its real purpose, though, is to show that my position as a neoconservative has been deeply misunderstood and that I ha...
It's Osama bin Laden's network of choice. Saudi Arabia has accused it of 'serving up poison on a silver platter'. When the Bush administration failed to shut it down, they decided to blow it up, and i...
Am Anfang hängt in einem abgetakelten Bahnhofsviertel ein Mann kopfüber von einem Klettergerüst. Sein Name ist Abel Nema, und man sagt ihm nach, ein Genie zu sein. Doch was nützt das, wenn sich einmal...
Former U.S. Senator Quintrell is dead. His son, New Mexico's governor, is preparing his run for the highest political office in the land. And dark family secrets are about to explode with the devastat...
Bret Easton Ellis (ur. 1964), jeden z najwybitniejszych współczesnych pisarzy amerykańskich. Porównywany do Ernesta Hemingweya, Francisa Scotta Fitzgeralda czy Nathanaela Westa. Oprócz swojej najsłynn...
It's bad enough being a teenager, but Georgia Nicholson's problems go way beyond the average! Georgia relates her tales of love, life and full-frontal snogging in her diary, where she records all her ...
Entries from Annie May's Black Book: October 15th, 1974: Miss Baker for telling me how to blow my nose and not believing when I still couldn't do it. February 6th, 1977: David Llewellyn for saying my ...
"I had to go back to New York and try to find him. There was a chance he mightn?t be there but I had to give it a go because there was one thing I was certain of: he wasn't here." Anna Walsh is offici...