The book that shone new light on our times: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009, The Glass Room is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year. Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the ...
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bys tander - until he becomes a suspect. With "Case Histories", ...
It was Patrick\''s idea that they should have the tennis party. After all, he has the perfect setting - the White House, bought out of his bonuses as an investment banker. He hasn\''t actually told Caroline, his brash and beautiful wife, what the real reason for the party is. She is glad to welcome Stephen ...
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu\''ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - ...
Junot Diaz made his remarkable debut as a writer with this collection of stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey. The stories are all unflinching and strong and Diaz''''s prose crackles with an electric sense of discovery. In ''''Ysrael'''', ...
An epic love story, which became a major Hollywood film starring Mandy Moore, by the bestselling author of THE NOTEBOOK and THE LAST SONG. Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. ...
In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlah Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World--forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the Old World from whence they came. Now the barrier has been breached, ...
A seminal comic masterpiece of our time, now published for the first time in Penguin. The Monarchy Has Been Dismantled; When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the ...
This, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth, gives us a privileged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth, through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien′s world - those of Túrin and Lúthien. The first of the poems is the unpublished ...
Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening request ...
Becky Bloomwood is back! Becky thought being married to Luke Brandon would be one big Tiffany box of happiness. But to be honest, it's not quite as dreamy as she’d hoped. The trouble started on honeymoon, when she told Luke the tiniest little fib, about the teeniest little purchase. Now she's ...
Nicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter--but did you know he really lived? And he might still be alive today! Discover the truth in Michael Scott''s New York Times bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel with The Warlock, book five. The twins of prophecy have been ...
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the ...
Beautiful Chaos&,nbsp,is the third instalment of the spellbinding love story that began with&,nbsp,Beautiful Creatures -&,nbsp,a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of&,nbsp,Twilight&,nbsp,fans everywhere.Some loves are meant to be. Others are cursed...Ethan wate is in love with ...
Mladá a krásná Ada Monroeová následuje svého otce, který je duchovním, do zapadlé osady pod Cold Mountain a netuší, jak těžké časy ji čekají. Když se zamiluje do místního mladíka Inmana, vypadá všechno ještě jako idyla. Jenže Inman musí narukovat do americké občanské války a Adin otec nečekaně zemře. ...
Every year for ten years, a young woman\''s body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. Ten years, ten women. The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean\''s fiancée. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a shop, ...
Paperback edition of this short novel of remarkable depth, power and poignancy from the author of }Atonement{, among many other acclaimed novels. In a hotel in Dorset in 1962, a couple who got married that morning are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties ...
A tie-in edition of Arthur Conan Doyle\''s classic Sherlock Holmes novel, with a new introduction from the team behind the hit BBC series.The hit BBC series Sherlock offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans ...
The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization - a ''''flattening'''' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge pools and resources have ...
