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General Fiction books are books that fall into no particular category.
After living for eighty-three years a war veteran dies while saving a child from drowning.
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Crime Fiction books are, undoubtably, among the best fiction books of all the fiction genres. Detective fiction is everywhere.
Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, in N Ireland, who shares with his wife, Patricia.
Mickey Haller operates his criminal defence attorney business out of and old Lincoln because he cannot afford an office. Short Story writing is one of the broadest kinds around.
Alentejo Blue is the story of a place. It is Mamarrosa, a small town in rural Portugal. It is where people run from or pass through. But for some it is where to go, when there is a reason to do so
Brilliantly depicting the supernatural terror of the incomprehensible in these thirty-one stories. Short Story Books Top Thrillers are one of the most popular categories of books. It is the thrill-of-the-chase.
John Wells has many enemies. His girlfriend is left for dead in one attack. Wells discovers a plot which he has to stop at all costs.
When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and start to rip off drug dealers at gunpoint, undercover cop Dan `Spider` Shepherd is given his most dangerous mission so far. His orders are to infiltrate the tight-knit team, to gain their confidence and ultimately to betray them. See More Thrillers Top Science Fiction introduces us to possibilities. It is the world of the future, a world that has the potential to come about.
This is the Film tie-in edition to the massively successful TV and Radio show which followed the book of course.
This is the story of two stories. Spiralling round a central core of secrecy,See More Science Fiction Books Top Fantasy books are for dreamers. What is wrong with a dream? It was dreamers that brought civilisation to the world.
This small boy whose only wish is to serve in battle has managed to enthral both friend and foe
The second of three volumes concerning the quests and adventures of Corum Jhaelen Irsei of the Vadhagh Folk,
who is also called the Prince of the Scarlet Robe. See More Fantasy Books Back to Top Horror fiction is enthralling, dark and scary. A horror book is a not-put-down book.
Covering twenty years of work these excerpts are stunning examples of why Clive Barker has always stayed on top of his game.
Sookie Stackhouse is a loner. She doesn't mix. Her ability to read minds keeps her away from people. But Bill comes along and mystifies her. She can't read his mind and she does not know why. But then she finds out.See More Horror Fiction Books Back to Top Children's Books. Enlightening, entertaining and educational. The theory is that if it is fun it is not work.
Through his fear he recognised it; it was a siren. He had heard them on films.
This was war; the German planes were coming.
Tom and Johnny are on a husky expedition in Finland having fun. Grainne has to stay at home, waiting to meet her natural mother. Meanwhile the boys' mother's sledge does not make it back to the lodge.See More Children's Books Back to Top Anthropology is the study of humans in a societal sense in both the past and the present circumstances.
This is a synopsis of a very broad subject. Biology has been simplified and brought to the readership of the general public without losing of its immense complexity or wonder. Art Books comprises art history, art appreciation and art instruction.
This book has a general account of painting during the Renaissance period relating to its historical and social background.
This is a review of Dutch Painting, perhaps not by the Masters but of interest as it is intertwined with comments on Queen Beatrix and on Dutch life in general.
With 30 full colour plates and a review of each picture. This is a fascinating book to augment the interest in the more celebrated colleagues of the Netherlands. See More Art Books Top Biography & Autobiography includes a wide vista of works on people from Literature, music, entertainment, politics, the sciences.
No more than a promising actor with a handful of films to his name when he died in 1955, James Dean has since been elevated to an iconic status surpassed only by Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. This book draws on new and documented sources to reveal to truth behind the myths.
One of the funniest and best loved comedians tells us how he came to achieve his extraordinary success.
Business books tell us how business works and how it sometimes does not work.
See More economic advice from a master
Computer & Technology - The Cyber world explained and examined.
A new breed of supercomputer is about to alter the balance of power in the world. Can the West rise to the challenge?
A fascinating look at the management of a company that has withstood the test of time through adversity.
Correspondence is how we relate to each other.
From King Henry V111(to Anne Bolyn) to G.K.Chesterton(to Francs Blogg), this book contains some of the most romantic letters sent to a loved one by men of great renown.
Written by women famous and unknown, these letters enable the reader to look directly into and compare women's lives throughout the ages.
The environment is possibly the most important issue we face today.
The Dream of the Earth is about the link between scientific breakthrough and the general consciousness,
the link between the world that is alive and the people that live on it
The unofficial report for the United Nations Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972.
There are famous essays and famous essayists. Here we have some famous essayists and some not so famous essayists.
Burgesss`s reputation as a novelist is assured but the title of this book refers more to his journalistic writings than his novels. He has written many thousands of words and has collected some of the best in this volume.
This collection of autobiographical essays ranges over adultery and parenthood, ghosts and gods, fiction and football. Living in Italy seems to sharpen the author`s prose and make him even more cleverly English.
This book debunks traditional diets and stresses the need for a new approach to dieting. The Body Awareness Programme shows you the easy way to achieve life-long weight-loss, health and vitality.
Joan Geraghty started running by practicing on the treadmill in the gym. She built up her regime to the point where she runs every day. She has great tips on progressing your running skills in a healthy way.
This book examines the historical foundations of the Arthurian tradition and then presents the results of excavations at Cadbury (reputed site of Camelot).
1945 50,000 Cossacks, men, women and children found themselves in Nazi Germany. Some were prisoners of war, others refugees from the tyranny of Stalin. Many of them ended up fighting for Hitler believing that when the war had ended they could throw themselves on the mercy of the Allies. None of them could have expected what followed. They were systematically herded onto trains and forcibly repatriated. Many killed themselves rather than face Stalin`s revenge.
D H Lawrence has been one of the great formative influences on the twentieth century, not just in literature, but also in conduct and belief. Graham Hough believes that he is the only modern English writer, besides Yeats, to break into new spiritual territory outside the bounds of Christianity.
J B Priestley has had a prestigious output of work.
Here he describes his craft with adeptness and style.
This is an authoritative history of the Artic convoys of essential supplies for the Allied forces for Russia.
It is the nitty gritty of warfare
This is the story of a top-secret SAS mission that would go deep behind enemy lines in Iraq.
Essential Elton charts the highs and lows in the career of one of pop`s most dazzling characters. From "Your Song" to "Candle in the Wind" in `97.
There are also the moments of shameless extravagance, charity and vanity
Drawing from songs from The Jam. The Style Council and his solo career, this collection of lyrics show Weller's ability as a storyteller and writer.
This is a classic of the occult genre, full of obscure bits of kabbalistic lore and stories.
Catherine Conlon - Sonas
With contributions from Joseph O'Connor, Patricia Scanlan, David Norris, Cathy Kelly, Sheila O'Flanagan, Alice Taylor and many more. This is a book about happiness and how a diverse group of people achieve it.
Robert Fulghum is an ex-minister and he often is asked about rituals and ceremonies. His response is to inform us about the rituals we all share, knowingly or unknowingly.
Pam Ayres Some Of Me Poetry
Pam Ayres in effervescence, ready to burst with enthusiasm for life. She enjoys the everyday things we pass over.
Containing the much-maligned poem SLOUGH this book of poems has also been called a Little book of bourgeois poetry.
It also includes the poem `The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel`.
Noam Chomsky Hegemony or Survival
A history of American foreign policy from
This is an unvarnished, behind the scenes account of the run up to
the Iraq War as seen by one of Britain`s foremost politicians.
Robin Cook was Leader of the House of Commons on March 17 2003 when he resigned from the Cabinet in protest at the oncoming war.
This book tells the story of water's journey out of the sea right through to its eventual return.
Faster dissects with acute insight and mordant with our unceasing struggle to squeeze as much out of the time we have, and never quite seem to get enough.
Fergal Keane is a BBC Foreign Correspondent. Having spent years abroad reporting on current events in such places as South Africa, Asia and the Balkans, Keane undertook a journey through Britain. This was for a programme called Forgotten Britain. Foreign Correspondent. Having spent years abroad reporting on current events in such places as South Africa, Asia and the Balkans, Keane undertook a journey through Britain. This was for a programme called Forgotten Britain.
Aunt Guadalupe dies of cancer and her death becomes a major event for everyone because of the things that have to be done.
Bjorn Borg speaks of his tennis game and how it affected his life.
There are also instructions on tennis game play, useful to anybody who wants to improve their game.
Steven Gerrard's autobiography, published in 2006. From Steven's young days dreaming of football to that night in Istanbul in 2005, this book has it all.
This is the account of the arrest and trial of Charles Manson and his subsequent conviction for the murders of Sharon Tate, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and several others.
Helter Skelter won the 1975 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Book. It sold more than 7 million copies and is the biggest selling true crime book ever.
It was a chain of events that led Silas Cool to commit an act that also led to complete devastation for so many people. Ann Rule picks out the person behind the crime and unlocks the secrets that contribute to the horror.
Keith Charles, as Keith Wright, was a serving officer in the C.I.D. of London's Metropolitan police. Whilst there he used his 'psychic powers' to assist him in solving crimes which he would not hitherto have been able to solve. This is his claim in this book
See More than two hundred people had premonitions of the avalanche of slag that took the lives of 144 people in Aberfan in 1966.
Fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic a novelist told the story in almost perfect detail. He called the ship the Titan.
These and more incidents are features in this book which catalogues many examples of disasters being foretold.
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