Zack and Lara have superpowers. Luke has new school shoes and a burning sense of resentment. He KNOWS that aliens disguised as gym teachers are about to attack Earth but will anyone listen? No. So one dodgy pact with a self-styled supervillain later, and Luke is ready to save the world. He just needs ...
Fighting alongside the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia are locked in a war against their son Jacen, who grows more powerful and more dangerous with each passing day. Nothing can stop Jacen\''s determination to bring peace with a glorious Galactic Alliance victory-whatever the price. While Luke grieves ...
A paperback story book featuring four charming fairy stories, plus a 50 piece jigsaw all packaged in a handy carry pack.
In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banners, hastily constructed ...
Fans of Jonathan Stroud\''s Bartimaeus books will devour this book - a cracking adventure brimming with magic, intrigue and a treasure trove of characters that the reader can\''t help but fall for.We find everyone\''s favourite irascibly insolent djinni serving at the court of King Solomon in 950 BC ...
The meticulously dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery. ''''Too decomposed for standard autopsy. Request anthropologic expertise''''. Enter Dr Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, who has been researching recent ...
Macbeth is a famously cursed play, fraught with gruesome violence and supernatural evil. Some of Kate Stanley's friends question her choosing to direct its production for the 400th anniversary of its first performance, but Kate's expertise in the little-known secrets and obscure mysteries of ...
The prize-winning debut novel by the author of Before the Feast Aleksandar is Comrade-in-Chief of fishing, the best magician in the non-aligned States and painter of unfinished things. He knows the first chapter of Marx\''s Das Kapital by heart but spends most of his time playing football in the Bosnian ...
The biggest ever bestselling novel in Iran, banned twice by the government, The Book of Fate isthe story of Iran during the second half of the twentieth-century told through the life of an Iranian woman. A teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, Massoumeh is an ordinary girl, passionate about learning. ...
The basis of the major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton, KimBasinger and Mickey Rourke, The Informers is a seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, in which Bret Easton Ellis, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed so unforgettably in Less Than Zero. This time ...
The warm, engrossing new paperback from the natural heir to Maeve Binchy. Welcome to Avalon: a quaint, sleepy town on the Irish coast. Nothing has changed here for generations - least of all the huge mansion on Willow Street; the house in which sisters Tess and Suki Power grew up. Now, years later, Tess ...
Penguin Audiobooks presents a brand new recording of Roald Dahl''s "Over to You", a collection of ten terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, from the master of the short story. It is complete, unabridged and brought to life by an all-star cast including Cillian Murphy, Julian Rhind-Tutt, ...
Fast-paced and full of intrigue, "Heat Rises" pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in "New York Times" bestselling author Richard Castle\''s most thrilling mystery yet. The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki ...
''Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother !''As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man ...
Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetite. He\''s the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious lover-for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. Possessed by this dark side, Rhage fears the times when his inner dragon ...
From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak, Honour is a novel of love, betrayal and a clash of cultures. "A powerful book; thoughtful, provoking and compassionate". (Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat). ''My mother died ...
The Death of Bunny Munro recounts the last journey of a salesman in search of a soul. Following the suicide of his wife, Bunny, a door-to-door salesman and lothario, takes his son on a trip along the south coast of England. He is about to discover that his days are numbered. With a daring hellride of ...
The only purebred vampire left on the planet and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago. But when his most trusted fighter is killed—orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate—Wrath must put ...
Con El Juego del Ángel, el autor de La Sombra del Viento vuelve al cautivador mundo de la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para sumergirnos de nuevo en una apasionante historia de traición, tragedia y amor. David Martín es un joven periodista y aspirante a escritor en los ańos 20 que ...
Deception, blackmail, murder, revenge – these are the themes of stories that move from London to the coast of Spain, from Mauritius to Dublin to Dordogne. Whether his subject is assassination by stealth, the cruel confidence trick or the cold shock of coincidence, Frederick Forsyth is never less than ...
