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Author: Jill Paton WalshCondition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2001Pages: 331Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937. She was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an apparently abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others - the idealistic Jiri, the sinister Slavomir and his partisans, and Count Michael Blansky, who is the castle's ancestral owner.
Author: Mark Costello Condition: NEW Published Date: 2005
Mark Costello's Kaleidoscopic novel weaves together the stories of three people who guard the life of the vice President of the United States.
Author: Peter Hoeg Condition: 7/10This books Published Date: 1995 Pages: 251A novel of three damaged children suffer the regime of an experimental school where time is an instrument of oppression to be resisted and subverted.
Author: Karl Taro GreenfeldCondition: NEWPublished Date: 2006
Was the 2003 SARS outbreak a warning of deadly epidemics to come?
Author: Jonathon Santlofer Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2007 Pages: 441In this run-of-the-mill serial killer thriller, nothing much separates Santlofer's psychotic villain from his fictional brethren other than his fancying himself an artist and being cursed with cerebral achromatopsia, unable to see the world in anything other than sludgy shades of gray.
Author: Jean- Christophe Grange Condition: 9/10This books Published Date: 2004 Pages: 374
Anna Heymes, the wife of a senior government official, is suffering from amnesia and terrifying hallucinations. In Paris 10th arrondissement - the Turkish district - two police officers are trying to solve the mystery of the atrocious torture and subsequent killing of three clandestine Turkish women workers.
Author: Matthew Kneale Condition: 7/10Published Date: 2000 Pages: 462
It is 1857 and the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson had set out for Tasmania, hoping to find the true site if the Garden Of Eden. But the journey is turning out to be less than straight forward - dissent is growing between him and sinister reacial - theorist Dr Potter, and unknown to both the ship they had hurrriedly chartered is in fact a Manx summgling vessel, fleeing from British Customs.
Author: Jonathan Safran FoerCondition: NEWPublished Date: 2003
Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Everything is illuminated , which won the national Jewish book award and the Guardian first book award, and extemely loud and incredibly close. He is also the editor of A convergence of birds, a tribute to the work of the American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. He lives is Brooklyn, New York..
Author: Imogen Edward-JonesCondition: 10/10Published Date: 2004
Author: Kenneth J HarveyCondition: 10/10Published Date: 2006
Fourteen years after been wrongfully convicted of a murder Mister Myrden is pardoned and released from prison. Stepping back into the world, he feels overwhelmed and disorientated on the outside.
Author: Elizabeth McGregorCondition: 10/10Published Date: 2006Pages: 336 Type: Softcover
One small, faded, leather-bound journal. One photograph in a newspaper. These two seemingly small items are set to change lives forever.
Just when success seems set fair for Zeph's writer husband Nick, she discovers that he has been having an affair. Wounded and angry, she turns to her mother for support, only to discover that the past has come back to haunt Cora, a person who always seemed utterly flawless.
Author: Edited by Karen Slaughter Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2004Pages: 340With each crime writer picking up the story in their usual locale, each of the authors tell a gripping story of murder, betrayal and intrigue. Running through each story is a charm bracelet which brings bad luck wherever it's found.
Author: Jacqueline Wilson Condition: 9/10This books Published Date: 2003Pages: 192
Violet has always been in the shadow of her mesmerizing, controlling brother Will - by turns delightful and terrifying. But now Will has learned a shocking secret about his own past, and things seem to be getting worse. Violet retreats into fantasies based on the fairy characters created by her absolute favourite author, Casper Dream.
The dead man turns out to be from the Boston DA's office, a prosecutor who had been investigating a series of gang-related murders in the city.
Author: Jodie PicoultCondition: 9/10Published Date: 1999
Your baby is born in secret. If your father finds him you will loose everything.
Author: Rupert EverettCondition: NewPublished Date: 2006
Rupert Everett was born in Norfolk in 1959. Educated at Ampleton College, he was latter expelled from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, but soon made a name for himself in the avant - garde Glasgow Citzen's Theatre. In 1984 he found international fame following his lead role in Another Country, and has since appeared in many successful films, including Shakespeare in Love; An Ideal Husband; The Madness of King George; The Importance of Being Earnest; Dance with a Stranger; Pret - a Porter and My Best Freinds Wedding.
Author: Richard Yates Condition: 9/10Published Date: 1962Pages: 337
Hailed as a master piece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road, is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decesion to change their lives for the better leads to bretrayal and tragedy.
Now A Major Motion Pitcure Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
Author: Jenny SeedCondition: 8/10This books Published Date: 1990Pages: 107
In the dark it was easy for Jannie Bobbels to creep down to the harbour of Texel and slip on board Salamander just before she set sail for Batavia. By the second day out to sea, he was almost relieved to be discovered by the crew. But nothing seemed to go according to plan and, to his dismay, he was put ashore at the Cape on the return journey to Holland.
Author: John UpdikeCondition: 10/10Published Date: 2006
Gaze on the United States post-9/11, a gripping, searing and meticulous portrait of what it means to be alienated and powerless in the early twenty-first century.
Author: Stephen BowkettCondition: 10/10Published Date: 2002
Kell knows that he is only a player in the ancient enigma of the Wierd's game