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Here are ruined castles, spires and bats silhouetted against full moons, sharp-toothed men seducing beautiful, innocent young women, coffin lids being raised to reveal unspeakable residents. But the classic vampire of gothic tradition is not the...

The latest instalment of the )CWA Gold Dagger( award-winning Rekyavik Murder series. Eriendur and his team investigate the murder of a young boy, unearthing dark tensions in Icelands seemingly liberal society. This series is a bestseller all over...

The Beacon uses a small canvas, but it examines larger issues of truth, mental health and memory... Ideas about wasted lives, about grinding exhaustion at the expense of self-expression and about rank injustice are all here in a novel of...

May 1989. Tens of thousands of students are camped out in Beijings Tiananmen Square. But what started as a united protest has begun to lose direction: the students at its heart are confused by the influence they suddenly wield, and riven by...

The essential read for all fans of Kurt Wallander. When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless KILLERS back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely...

Hans Olofsons early life is isolated and difficult, overshadowed by the disappearance of his mother. When he loses both his best friend, and then his girlfriend in tragic circumstances, his only remaining desire is to fulfil her dream of visiting...

A brilliant reimagining of Mary Shelleys bestselling classic. Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The nearby coroners office provides corpses - but they are damaged and...

Paperback edition of the intimate, final memoirs from the great playwright and dissident-turned-politician, who along with Walesa and Gorbachev, will always be an icon of the bloodless collapse of Soviet Bloc communism. VACLAV HAVEL was born...

First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winners stories including those from her most recent hardback TAKING PICTURES. In YESTERDAYS WEATHER Anne Enright presents a series of deeply moving stories about women stirred, bothered,...

Are newspapers seriously damaging your insight Does what you read every day contain lies, pr, propaganda and distortion Find out whos controlling your news in this shocking expose from the ultimate...

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Henry and Paul are strangers when they find themselves sharing a sleeping compartment on a night train from Munich to Berlin. When they begin to talk, their stories appear to be variations on the same theme: young guys adrift in the big...

Starred Review. Washington Post reporter DeYoung covers Powells entire career in this nuanced, comprehensively researched first complete biography to bring to life the Jamaican immigrants son who became chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretary...

1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans...

Peter Ackroyd can riff with the best, and he brings to the task of making the old facts fresh some themes and variations of his own that deserve a hearing. He is particularly good, in fact, on the question of sound: the way the language...

A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known, and brilliantly told story of the scores of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during the Battle of Britain and of their stunning betrayal by the United States and England at the end of...

In the course of the twentieth century, there occurred a development unique in the story of humankind. States, which had defined themselves from Thucydides to Bismarck by their claims to sovereign independence, gradually came together to...

With The House of Meetings, Martin Amis may finally have written the novel his critics thought would never come. By taming his signature (and polarizing) stylistic high-wire act, Amis has crafted a sober tale of love and cynicism against the...

The View from Castle Rock is, in some important ways, a departure for this masterful Canadian writer. Half of the collection is more or less historical fiction, written at a considerable distance from the probing investigations of contemporary...

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured...