The unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. \"If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.\" Miles Halter\'s whole life has been one big non-event, until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever and undoubtedly screwed-up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world and irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles, nothing can ever be the

A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her

The gorgeously indulgent, funny and touching new novel from the bestselling author In relationships things are not always what they seem...Hiding from a secret in her past, Ellie is looking for a fresh start. But then an old friend tracks her down, forcing her to face what she has been trying so hard to escape. Meanwhile her boss Zack seems to have it all - everything, that is, except the woman he

1796: Nathan Peake, captain of the frigate Unicorn is sent with a small squadron into the Adriatic to help bring Venice into an Italian alliance against the French. He establishes a British naval presence, harrying the French corsairs that swarm out of Ancona in Italy. While Nathan confronts the politics of \'intrigue, poison and the stiletto\' in Venice, his mission is further complicated by the arrival

First published in 1979, the latest edition of this pioneering study in the World of Art series surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the new millennium. Art historian and gallery curator R ose Lee Goldberg explains how a medium once used only in sporadic outbreaks of artistic dissent has become, over the course of a century, a vital and

This is the wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively. When ...Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is ...just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events. In

She was a brazen hussy.\" \"She wasn\'t. And she was pretty, wasn\'t she?\" \"I didn\'t look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they\'re running after you, they\'re not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes\"\'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband,

In this reader you will find nine of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories of mystery and suspense. They range from Gothic historical stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum, through to detective fiction like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and an early science fiction tale - A Descent into the Maelström. Ghostly mysteries such as Ligeia and The Fall of the House of Usher are also in the collection

En los cuentos de Cuando fui mortal nos encontramos con personajes y situaciones de nuestra imaginación: un médico español que visita de noche las casas parisinas de mujeres casadas& un guardaespaldas que deseará la muerte del hombre a quien protege& o un fantasma que conoce cuanto ocurrió en su vida. Doce relatos escritos de forma magistral entre 1991 y 1995 y que van desde la crónica de costumbres

Travel back in time and share the experience of everyday thoughts and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Great Diaries traces the history of the diary from ancient times to the present day, bringing together more than 80 historical and literary diaries, artists\' sketchbooks, explorers\' journals, and scientists\' notebooks. Discover what it was like

The stunning new summer besteller from Freya North. Vita\'s nursing a broken heart. Oliver\'s heart belongs to the past. They should be perfect for each other. But will they chance it? Vita\'s gift shop would do better if she ran it as a business, not as somewhere to daydream. But she\'s not one to tell herself off: she leaves that to Tim, her ex. Active and outdoorsy Oliver runs his tree-surgery business

The sixth title in an epic series of adventures through time and space - The Lord of the Rings for the Alex Rider generation.

\'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here\'s the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.\' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur\'s son instead of the son of the rich

Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the biggest and best humorous quotation book there is - a complete one-stop shop of witty one liners. Quotations are ordered not by A-Z, but by thematic categories: love, business, religion, celebrity, you name it, every category is covered. The collection includes all the

Has Laura found her leading man? This is a wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match. With the bookshop where she works about to close, hopeless romantic Laura Horsley, in a moment of uncharacteristic recklessness, finds herself agreeing to help organise a literary festival deep in the heart of the English countryside.

?\'«Voina i mir?\'» - roman-epopeia Lva Tolstogo, odno iz krupneishikh proizvedenii mirovoi literatury, opisyvaiushchee zhizn russkogo obshchestva v epokhu Napoleonovskikh voin. ?\'«Voina i mir?\'» - eto masshtabnaia kartina zhizni Rossii, vziataia vo vsekh ee sotcialnykh sloiakh (ot krestian do imperatora Aleksandra I)... eto i i detalnoe opisanie khoda voennykh deistvii, i osmyslenie povedeniia

Life as a writer is colder, hungrier work than John Kendall bargained for. Not even the survival guides he\'s written can help him. So when notorious racehorse trainer Tremayne Vickers approaches Kendall to write his biography, it\'s an offer he can\'t turn down. Kendall becomes immersed in his host\'s lifestyle: riding racehorses and getting to know the family. But then a local stable girl is found

Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.Since the time of the earliest settlers, Americans have been expressing their individuality through the embellishment of everyday objects. Such classics as whirligigs, ship models, and carousel animals fill these pag

Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr Rochester appears to be hiding a terrible secret. Can Jane even hope for happiness?