Modigliani. Unarguably one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Modigliani's women. Those elongated, haunting figures, as eternally provocative as the Mona Lisa. Adn Modigliani's missing masterpiece. A priceless lost treasure or a chillingly dangerous game? Up and coming artist Peter Usher has...
A collection of writings by the late Gonzo journalist from his column "Hey Rube" from ESPN.com, features his commentary on such topics as retaliation for September 11th, his comparision of NBA commissioner David Stern to the Three Stooges, his hilarious suggestions for "fixing" baseball, and other t...
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With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Worried that she still has what it takes, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler, involving organi...
Mom, I went to the store. See inside the fridge. I watered the plants. I cleaned out Peter's cage. I tidied the sitting room. And the kitchen. And I did the washing up. I'm going to bed. Your live-in servant, Claire 'Life on the Refrigerator Door' is told exclusively through notes exc...
Allan Prime’s eyes were as large as any man’s Peroni had ever seen. He looked ready to die of fright, even before the bright, shining spear with the bloodsoaked tip reached his head . . . The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of a controversial film, Inferno, based on...
Jane, a brave and sensual Englishwoman, is caught in a deadly romantic triangle between rival spies Ellis and JeanPierre. Love, hatred and deception sweep them from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to fulltilt guerilla warfare in Afghanistan. JeanPierre and Jane marry and go to work as doctors in t...
'Robinson is definitely one to watch' Independent on Sunday 'Every page here is readable and compelling' Washington Times The broken body of Jason Fox has been found in a dirty alleyway. At first it looks like a typical afterhours pub fight gone wrong. But Inspector Alan Banks soon realizes that...
Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is about to become infamous. When two police constables are sent to the house following a report of a domestic disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. A scene which leaves one of them dead and the other fighting for...
Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications – but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into F...
When the Abbot spoke, his voice was thin and resigned. ‘It is the end of our monastery. By nightfall I will be dead and our walls will lie shattered. A terrible evil is coming from the forest . . .’ A monastery in Tibet is overrun with Chinese soldiers searching for a sacred relic. The monks fle...
Cat O’ Nine Tales is the sixth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller illustrated by the internationally acclaimed artist, Ronald Searle, creator of Molesworth. These twelve yarns are so satisfying because they are ingeniously plotted, include richly drawn characters ...
'Epic, actionpacked adventure ... unbelievably pace' Mirror Philip Schofield is sent to a topsecret US Air Force installation in the Utah desert. After the notoriety of his recent adventures in Antarctica, the Marine Corps decide they want him well out of the media's reach so assign him to the US...
No one could believe that a man like Keith Rothwell would be murdered. Except Keith Rothwell was leading a double life as Inspector Alan Banks is about to find out . . . It was 2.47 a.m. when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only ...
A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two gluesniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently m...
'A writer at the very height of his powers' IAN RANKIN. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has reached a turning point. With his wife now living with another man in London and his career in the doldrums thanks to Chief Constable Riddle, it is time to ring the changes. Perhaps a move to the Natio...
Fen works in a bookshop and is devoted to her young son, Connor, but she keeps herself to herself. Haunted by guilt and a terrible secret, Fen lives a compromised life, isolated from her family, far from home and too afraid of the past to risk becoming close to anyone. She is constantly looking over...
In 59 Seconds, psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman presents a fresh approach to change that helps people achieve their aims and ambitions in minutes, not months. From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, and resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting this new ...
The eighth novel in the critically acclaimed Inspector Alan Banks series.'Robinson is steadily ascending toward the pinnacle of crime fiction.' Publishers WeeklyDetective Inspector Banks had seen crimes just as savage in London, but somehow the murder of a teenage girl seemed all the more shocking i...
Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or home of her own, she needs to work out where she belongs in the world and who she really is. So begins a year-long trial as Cassie ...
This is the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia and thrown inside the notorious San Pedro prison. He found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that is wrong with South American society. ...
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In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men's...