Aims to bring to life the great dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars - the Algerian disaster, and the student and worker revolt of 1968. This title presents the history of people and events that tells a multitude of stories, exploring the special worlds of the workplace, the role of women, and the politics of everyday life.

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Alice Robinson, art critic for a magazine so fashionable it's just gone out of business, finds herself agreeing to housesit for her parents. Moving back home to a suburbia she thought long behind her, she finds herself reconnecting with a different landscape, a fraught and painful past.

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Somewhere along the line he had made a mistake. Dave Lister - the LAST HUMAN. The future of the species is in the hands of one man. And all he has to help him are his wits, his cunning, and a two-page section from a mail-order catalogue.

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Angela Derby, the woman behind the discovery, enlists the help of ex-army Captain, Jack Shepherd and together they decipher the runes and begin a journey across the world. But they are not the only ones seeking the treasure and their quest soon becomes a race to stay alive.

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A collection of Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical writing, diaries, and letters related to the last year of Tolstoy's life.

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Two years ago William Bantling was put on death row by Florida's Assistant State Attorney, CJ Townsend for the torture and murder of eleven young women. Now three cops crucial to Bantling's conviction have been brutally slain. CJ knew them all - and the shocking secret they took to their graves. But clear that somebody else also knows the truth.

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Features the poem of the author.

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Buried for centuries, the Vatican's darkest secret is about to be discovered. And that attracts the attention of the Event Group, a top secret government organisation made up of soldiers, scientists and historians, dedicated to uncovering the truth behind history's greatest myths.

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Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, commits suicide on the deck of his boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood. Finally, Roy lays his father's ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge.

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A decade ago a series of roadside shootings made The Good Shepherd killer headline news. But then the killings stopped, and nobody could say for sure why. Finding himself drawn back into the case, Gurney soon discovers new facts the original investigation missed and literally stakes his life on finding The Good Shepherd.

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The author sets out his party's vision for the country, and explains how politics actually works. He presents his guide to British politics and a vision for a Greater Britain.

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Features the letters of William S Burroughs that show the development of both the man and the writer, documenting his (often turbulent) personal and cultural history.

Published in 1782, this collection of stories includes a vivid portrait of the American scene, from New England seafaring life to Southern plantation culture. The second collection of stories explores some of the unpleasant truths about America's birth pangs.

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Reveals the impact of political decisions on the people of Burma, from the terrible cost to the children of imprisoned dissidents - allowed to see their parents for only fifteen minutes every fortnight - to the effect of inflation on the national diet and of state repression on traditions of hospitality.

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Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century. Throughout his working life in Paris Daudet never lost his almost umbilical attachment to Provence. Here, he presents tales of that region that are characterised by tenderness and delicacy, as well as wistfulness and wry humour.

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The ships of the world are under fire - attacks so sudden that most of them sink without even making a distress call. As navies from many nations attempt to locate the losses and find this destructive and hidden enemy, even their ships disappear without a trace. Enter the Event Group - the most secret organization in the US government's history.

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Lewis Carroll's books have delighted children and adults for generations, but behind their exuberant fantasy and delightful nonsense was the mind of a brilliant mathematician. This title explores the curious imagination of this man who filled his writings with problems, paradoxes, puzzles and teasing games of logic.

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Janice and Nelson Angstrom, and several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium, as a number of old strands come together in entirely unexpected ways.

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How does it feel to speak to dead people What happens when spirits need to contact us Is there really life after death The author communicates with dead people. As the UK's best-loved medium, she delivers messages from departed loved ones to thousands of bereaved people with her sell-out psychic roadshow.

An erotic glimpse into the Hungary of the early twentieth century. It collects ten short stories focusing on the poor and dispossessed and describing the human condition and the futility of life.

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What are the selling secrets of Majid, Tangier's greatest rug peddler How does Mrs Shibata, Japan's top life insurance seller, seal the deal Why does Belyamani, a seller of Boeing planes, believe trust is all Few of us have the chance to meet let alone work with the best. But to get on, we need to learn their secrets of success.

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