Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton's bestselling fiction – powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skill ..

Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize and published by Bloomsbury for the first time.

Nouvelle édition en 2004

„I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom,“ writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about this novel, arguably Patricia Hi ..

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ‚Third Force‘. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, ..

Cussler's most famous book is now back in print. Dirk Pitt begins his most thrilling mission–to raise the „RMS Titanic“–to retrieve a secret cache of an extremely rare radioactive element for an unprecedented defensive weapon. Reissue.

The book behind the hit TV series and movie. Presents the true-life heroes and lunatics who fought in the Korean War. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean war.

Award-winning new fiction from one of Latin America's hottest young stars.

With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century–he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasn't the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howar ..

The international literary sensation–a runaway bestseller in Spain–is about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.

Published posthumously in 1977 to international acclaim, Tolkien's oldest tale of Middle-earth is now available in this revised and expanded volume. This new illustrated edition of „The Silmarillion,“ containing 48 stunning color paintings by Ted Nasmith, is the most sumptuous ever published.

In these Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from hauntingly tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.