It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bardur. Three weeks, but already Bardur\'s ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and ea rth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Shakespeare\'s Hamlet, Jens the postman

There\'s a reason why Stephen King is one of the best selling writers in the world ever. He knows how to write stories that suck you in and are impossible to put down. The New York Times describes it as a \'relentless tidal pull\' and Stephen King has done it time and time again with stories like The Shawshank Redemption, Misery, The Green Mile and The Stand. In Under the Dome, he has produced another

He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface\'. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena\'s vivacious cousin enters their household as a \'hired girl\', Ethan finds himself

In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the

Take one aspiring cook. When Zoe Harper wins a coveted place in a televised cookery competition, she can\'t wait to put her cooking skills to the test. Add a very desirable judge. But as the competition heats up, she realises she\'s developing an inconvenient crush on one of the judges, the truly delicious Gideon Irving. Stir in a heaped tablespoon of romance. All too soon there\'s more than canapes,

Stories by: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodor Gautier, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lafcadio Hearn, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, and many others.

Alone, on the brink of death, and with nothing but his sword, Conan the Cimmerian stumbles into a camp of Kozaki raiders. With a band of determined Turanian hunters at his heels, the Kozaki chief hesitantly offers the barbarian refuge. As Conan\'s grievous wounds heal, he gains acceptance into the clan and becomes a mentor to one of the chief\'s two sons . . . only to discover that mortal danger is

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE \'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights\' Financial Times _____________________________________ On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned

The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected\'. Written with great humour, irony and honesty, \"The Way of All Flesh\" exploded perceptions of the Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Ernest Pontifex, a young man who casts off his background and discovers himself. The awkward but likeable

After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own: Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. Now, in a brand-new series from blockbuster

What is the information highway? How will the new technology change our lives? The Road Ahead is Bill Gates\' vision of the future. In it he describes how he thinks the revolution of the information age will change the way we buy, work, learn and communicate with each other. Bill Gates has built the Microsoft Corporation into one of the most successful companies in the world. His book is an optimistic

When your whole life is a lie, can you trust anyone? Even yourself? ANNA has always been taught by her mother that cleanliness and purity are the path to God; that her heart\'s desire to visit Astroland, Florida\'s biggest theme park, is ungodly. But it\'s her eighteenth birthday, and Anna\'s feeling rebellious. But on arrival at Astroland, everything feels familiar. Almost like she\'s been there before...

The only hope for humanity isn\'t human. But she\'s fighting to stop a war that could destroy them all...Kira is fighting to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment of the teen sci-fi blockbuster Partials series. Humans and Partials alike are on the brink of destruction, and their only hope is to work together. But there is no avoiding it - the final war to

The second truly sumptuous book in this illustrated series by Madonna.

From the author of Jane Eyre, a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over \"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?\" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë\'s final novel appeared in 1853. \"It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power.\" Arguably Charlotte Brontë\'s most refined and deeply felt work--Virginia Woolf called

A highway patrol trooper notices something strange on the side of the road: a homemade cross, fashioned as a memorial. Except the date being \'remembered\' is the following day - the day the police find a kidnapped teenage girl in the trunk of a car, left for dead. Special Agent Kathryn Dance, kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation, is on the case. The teenage victim points her

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead?and keep it together?in New York City. It’s January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York, dreaming of Broadway

The importance of the nineteenth-century British watercolorists has often been underestimated. J.W.M. Turner\'s late, ethereal watercolors, so central to the canon, became widely popular only with the advent of abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s. Turner\'s friend Thomas Girton, one of the first artists to exploit watercolor as a medium in its own right, was another innovator, whose landscape

The name of Yves Saint Laurent, one of the great fashion designers of the twentieth century, evokes the now-iconic looks he helped popularize as part of the modern woman\'s wardrobe: the Le Smoking tuxedo jacket, the pea coat, the Mondrian dress, the jumpsuit. But seven years after Saint Laurent\'s death, the man himself remains an enigma and a source of fascination (two Yves Saint Laurent biopics

When Ned helps his grandmother clear out her attic, he finds a very unusual Victorian doll - she speaks! Ned and Lady Daisy soon become fast friends, even though he\'s teased at school for owning a doll. Ned learns to stand up to his father and the school bully in order to protect Lady Daisy. But then the doll is stolen - will Ned ever find her again?