'This time the fiction is founded upon facts

‚The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.‘ Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wro ..

There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Daily Express as ‚a fabulous teller of stories‘, Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. Everything is famili ..

On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their home town to look after him. But when he finally awakes from his coma, Mark believes that Karin ..

The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS. What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska – and not Israel – had become the homeland for the Jews after the Second World W ..

Includes double page spreads on mountains, deserts, oceans etc. Each page is bursting with flaps to lift and reveal scientific and natural history information. Also features a section on climate change. Ages: 6+.

Surviving the battle of Krefeld and a searing personal betrayal, John Grey returns to the Lake District to try and find the man who may hold the key to his quest: a Jacobite prisoner named Jamie Fraser.

Where tragedy confronts eternity.

„The Great Railway Bazaar“ is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes – the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to K ..

Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. Like Dylan and McCartney he is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of records, played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to the significant musical developments of hi ..

‚You're a firestarter honey…just one big zippo lighter‘ A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terri ..

„On the Road“ chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, „a sideburned hero of the snowy West.“ As „Sal Paradise“ and „Dean Moriarty,“ the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge an ..