by Title by Author by ISBN by EAN13 by Publisher by Category   BOOK OF OTHER PEOPLE, THE ZADIE SMITH Literary Fiction Click cover for more information   Price: 14,50 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: The Book of Other People is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you’ll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life of Jamie Johnson; Hari Kunzru twitches open his net curtains to reveal the irrepressible Magda Mandela (at 4:30a.m., in her lime-green thong); Jonathan Safran Foer's Grandmother offers cookies to sweeten the tale of her heart scan; and Dave Eggers, George Saunders, David Mitchell, Colm Tóibín, A.M. Homes, Chris Ware and many more also have someone to introduce you to.   Click cover for   more information DEPORTEES, THE RODDY DOYLE Short Stories        Price: 10,50 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, "The Deportees" specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie. WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS? KATE ATKINSON General Fiction Click cover for more information   Price: 16,00 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: In a quiet corner of rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime, Andrew Decker, is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie, wise beyond her years, works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr. Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, David Needler, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend–Jackson Brodie–himself on a journey that is about to be fatally interrupted.   Click cover for   more information BREAKING DAWN STEPHENIE MEYER Science fiction & fantasy        Price: 18,00 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: Twilight tempted the imagination ...New Moon made readers thirsty for more ...Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon ...And now ? the book that everyone has been waiting for ...Breaking Dawn. The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling vampire romance series that has developed a cult following among teens. APPEAL, THE JOHN GRISHAM Crime, Mystery & Horror Click cover for more information   Price: 9,75 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too.   Click cover for   more information CAREFUL USE OF COMPLIMENTS, THE ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH General Fiction        Price: 12,75 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: The fourth novel in the hugely popular Sunday Philosophy Club series. Philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is about to find her Edinburgh home life profoundly altered by the birth of her baby. But this event is not universally welcomed: Cat, Isabel's niece, has her reasons for not feeling warmly disposed towards the new arrival. Isabel is nevertheless, as her profession dictates, philosophical about such difficulties. But it is her professional curiosity that draws her into the investigation of a strange affair involving a painter. ONE FIFTH AVENUE CANDACE BUSHNELL General Fiction Click cover for more information   Price: 19,50 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: In this, her fifth novel, Candace Bushnell traces the lives and loves of the aspirational sophisticates in New York City. Using one of the trendiest areas of Manhattan—known as “the gold coast”—as a backdrop, the bestselling author tells the stories of five women all living in the same swanky downtown Manhattan apartment building. One Fifth Avenue is The Building—the chicest, the hottest, the best pedigree, with all the most interesting people. It’s the One to Get Into. Within its thick, pre-war walls, the lives of New York City’s elite play out.   Click cover for   more information CRITICAL ROBIN COOK Crime, Mystery & Horror        Price: 9,50 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton returns in the stunning new novel from the master of the medical thriller-a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of an innovative doctor's dangerous downward spiral. PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE, THE REBECCA MILLER General Fiction Click cover for more information   Price: 11,50 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and neighbour, she seems to glow with feminine serenity. But when her husband spontaneously decides they should cast off Gramercy Park for Marigold Village retirement home, as a `preemptive strike against his decrepitude´, Pippa finds her beatific persona uravelling in alarming ways.   Click cover for   more information MAN IN THE DARK, THE PAUL AUSTER Literary Fiction        Price: 20,00 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: A long, dark night of the soul as a bed-ridden middle-aged man contemplates his past and tries to find a meaning for his life - and that of his daughter and granddaughter - in a violent, chaotic world. In his warmest and most compelling novel for some time, Paul Auster addresses today's most controversial issues - from Iraq to Bush's regime - through the story of these three characters, united by grief in the family home, but searching for hope. SILKS DICK FRANCIS Crime, Mystery & Horror Click cover for more information   Price: 20,00 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: "Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family, including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society." When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge's verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he'll be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than he'd ever imagined.   Click cover for   more information ELEPHANTA SUITE, THE PAUL THEROUX General Fiction        Price: 10,50 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: The title of Paul Theroux’s highly readable but unattractive book is taken from the rooms in which several of the characters stay at the famous Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai. Elephants are, however, symbols of India, and they play a significant role in each of the three loosely interlinked novellas that make up this volume. Characters, too, reappear from one story to another. Further unifying the book is the sense that India is a place in which people have “transformative” experiences. SECRET SERVANT, THE DANIEL SILVA Crime, Mystery & Horror Click cover for more information   Price: 11,00 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: In London, a young woman vanishes... She is the daughter of the American Ambassador - and goddaughter of the President of the United States - and the kidnappers' demands are at once horrifically clear and clearly impossible to meet. The President turns to Gabriel Allon, spy turned art-restorer, a man whose abilities he has depended on before...   Click cover for   more information GRASS ARENA, THE JOHN HEALY Modern Classics        Price: 14,50 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: John Healy is an extraordinary, exceptionally gifted and truly inspirational human being and one of the most subversive, unique and compelling writers of the last twenty years. He was born into an impoverished, Irish immigrant family, in the slums of Kentish Town, North London. Despite the brutality of John's life (which is well documented in this book) he overcame heroically all obstacles and achieved remarkable, indeed phenomenal expertise in both writing and Chess. John also displayed outstanding talent as a boxer during his youth. TO SIBERIA PER PETTERSON General Fiction Click cover for more information   Price: 11,50 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco. Their home, with a mother who sings hymns all day and a silent father, is as cold as their surroundings.   Click cover for   more information DARKER THAN YOU THINK JACK WILLIAMSON Crime, Mystery & Horror        Price: 13,00 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: The unsettling dreams begin for small-town reporter Will Barbee not long after he first meets the mysterious and beautiful April Bell. They are vivid, powerful and deeply disturbing nightmares in which he commits atrocious acts. And one by one, his friends are meeting violent deaths. It is clear to Barbee that he is embroiled in something far beyond human understanding, something unspeakably evil. And it intimately involves the seductive, dangerously intoxicating April, and the question, 'Who is the Child of the Night?' When he discovers the answer to that, his world will change utterly. BRASYL IAN MACDONALD Science fiction & fantasy Click cover for more information   Price: 13,00 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: Ian Macdonald's RIVER OF GODS, painted a vivid picture of a near future India, 100 years after independence. It revolutionised British SF for a new generation by taking a perspective that was not European or American. BRASYL will do the same for South America's largest and most vibrant country. A story that begins in the favelas, the slums of Rio, and quickly expands to take in drugs, corruption, and a frightening new technology that allows access to all the multiple worlds that have slipped into existence in other planes everytime we make a decision. This is rich, epic SF that opens our eyes to the world around us and posits mind-blowing alternative sciences. It is a landmark work in modern SF from one of its most respected practitioners.   Click cover for   more information TOOTH FAIRY, THE GRAHAM JOYCE Crime, Mystery & Horror        Price: 13,00 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: Seven-year-old Sam Southall loses a tooth, and that night he's visited by a sinister, rank, foul-mouthed, mercurial Tooth Fairy, a demonic being that apparently only he can see, but whose malignant influence spills over onto his family and friends. The Tooth Fairy Sam throughout his growing years, teaching him to make mischief at school, influencing his actions. One day she insists that Sam have his friend Terry sleep over. That same night, Terry's father shoots his wife, his other children, and himself ... WITHOUT PREJUDICE ANDREW ROSENHEIM General Fiction Click cover for more information   Price: 15,50 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: Robert, recently returned to live in Chicago, is contacted by a childhood friend who has just completed more than twenty years in prison for a horrific crime. Without Prejudice is a compulsive story of race and the dangers that can lie in the past.   Click cover for   more information BLOOD DETECTIVE, THE DAN WADDELL Crime, Mystery & Horror        Price: 11,50 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: As dawn breaks over London, the body of a young man is discovered in a windswept Notting Hill churchyard. And the killer has left DCI Grant Foster a cryptic clue. However it's not until the clue is handed to Nigel Barnes, a specialist in compiling family trees, that the message becomes spine-chillingly clear. VITA NUOVA MAGDALEN NABB Crime, Mystery & Horror Click cover for more information   Price: 15,50 €       to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: When Marshal Guarnaccia is called upon to investigate the murder of a young woman, he is convinced that there's more to her family than meets the eye, and wonders if the girl's father, Paoletti, might have had something to do with her death...Enlisting the help of a local journalist, Marshal Guarnaccia's investigations draw him into the seedy underworld of Florence - lap dancing, prostitution and the illegal, human trafficking of Eastern European women who are sold into the sex trade.   Click cover for   more information PONTOON GARRISON KEILLOR General Fiction        Price: 12,50 €  to Shopping Basket  to My Catalogue Description: In Lake Wobegon lives a gook Lutheran lady who wishes for her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns. Meanwhile, a wedding between a veterinary aromatherapist and her boyfriend Brent is set to take place aboard a pontoon boat.The a delegation of renegado Lutheran pastors from Denmark come to town on their tour of America- their punishment for having denied the divinity of Jesus.