Gentle Nell Trent lives a simple, if solitary life with her doting grandfather in his curiosity shop. Her parents died in poverty & unbeknownst to Nell her grandfather is obsessed with winning her an inheritance through gambling, but is forced to borrow heavily from malicious money-lender Quilp. As their debts mount up Nell & her grandfather are forced to flee London, pursued by the vindictive Quilp & others who seek to exploit them, in Dicken ...

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy & a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique & timeless vision of the beauty & grief of man ...

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy & a giant fish. It was The Old Man & the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique & timeless vision of the beauty & grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives. ...

A shiver passed through her body as she thought of what favours she might offer, & how she could hint at what she desired, yet still feign reluctance & into the most delightfully improper acts. She knew enough to populate her imagination with highly vivid scenes. A man was not strictly necessary, although she wanted one very badly indeed.
In a foggy Victorian London, gambler Edward Trent manages to lose all his worldly goods & the right to Nell's virginity to the money lender Daniel Quilty. Charles Truscott rescues Nell from her fate but cannot resist taking advantage of both her innocence & her voluptous body, as does just about every body she meets as she flees London for Plymouth with Quilty in pursuit.
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Following the death of Carmen Flores, the lubricious Mexican star, Adela Cork buys her Hollywood house. Hoping to escape from the domineering Adela, her brother-in-law Smedley, who has lived with her since losing his money, searches the house for Carmen ...

The King James Bible of 1611 has been one of the richest sources for English language & literature for nearly four centuries & is itself a work of the greatest poetic beauty. This beautifully designed edition is for the general reader, uncluttered by footnotes & set in full pages rather than the usual narrow columns. George Steiner's introduction illuminates the Bible's profound effect on the history of English literature &

Includes:: a moving personal reading of the greatest of texts. It also places the Bible within the history & development of Judaeo-Christian thought.

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Pavel Ivanchenko's life begins in poverty & violence, but he is destined to become one of the richest men in the world: one of the post-Glasnost Oligarchs. He starts his business life trading illegal vodka on the freezing, grimy streets of Kargasok, he ends up buying most of the steel in the old Soviet Union, believing that he can buy, sell, or destroy anything or anyone
- especially women. This is principally the story of two of those women: one English, one Russian, who become friends as girls in Moscow, & whose lives then become entwined through their turbulent relationships with the Oligarch. From Moscow to London & the French Riviera, back to St Petersburg, from the grinding boredom of extreme poverty, to the surreal stage sets of fabulous wealth, the story leads us deep into the heart of an unknown & fascinating world, with a larger-than-life man
- part hero, part villain
- at its centre.


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Pavel Ivanchenko's life begins in poverty & violence, but he is destined to become one of the richest men in the world: one of the post-Glasnost Oligarchs. He starts his business life trading illegal vodka on the freezing, grimy streets of Kargasok, he ends up buying most of the steel in the old Soviet Union, believing that he can buy, sell, or destroy anything or anyone ...