THE ORIGINAL ANTI-DIET BOOK IS BACK
- In one volume together with its bestselling sequel

When it was first published,


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When Troy (a hugely overweight social leper) befriends Curt (a skinny homeless punk guitar genius), they both get much more than they bargained for. Troy's macho brother & ex-Marine father think Curt is just a junkie loser
- but as Curt stopped Troy's suicide attempt, Troy can't just forget him. Curt recruits Troy as the new drummer in his punk band
- but Troy has never played the drums in his life. When Curt's around, though, almost anything seems possible. An outstanding, heart-warming, funny, edgy, debut novel.

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De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue'
- that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. Over the centuries,
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Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale & fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat & decreeing a new religion for France. Robespierre & the Revolution were inseparable: a single inflexible tyrant. But what turned a shy young lawyer into the living embodiment of the Terror at its most violent? Admirers called him 'the great incorruptible'; critics dubbed him a 'monster', a 'bloodthirsty charlatan'; even his friends found him hard to underst&.

Ruth Scurr sheds a dazzling new light on this puzzle, tracing Robespierre's life from a troubled childhood in provincial Arras to the passionate idealist, fighting for the rights of the people, & sweeping on to the implacable leader prepared to sign the death warrant for his closest friends. No backdrop can match the French revolution: it burns with human interest. As Scurr says, ' More than haunting, it obsesses, because it will not lie down & die'. Her brilliant, probing narrative brings the Revolution & its chilling hero to fiery life once again, helping us to understand how ideals & fanaticism can so often go hand in h&, as they still do today.

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It began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.

As Paola

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For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call.

A sudden act of vandalism has just been committed

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It began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.

As Paola

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A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina.

But a severed foot is discovered a good distance

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