SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH' Spectacular' Mail on Sunday' Top-tier' New York Times The pulse-racing international thriller of the year Meet Will Rhodes travel writer recently married barely solvent his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment & the worry that he's living the wrong life Then one night in Argentina a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can't refuse Soon Will's bad choices
- & dark secrets
- take him across Europe from a Bordeaux chateau to a midnight raid in Paris from a Dublin dive-bar to a mega-yacht in the Mediterranean & an isolated cabin perched on the cliffs of Iceland As Will is drawn further into a tangled web of international intrigue it becomes clear that the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense & deadly conspiracy with terrifying global implications
- & that the people closest to him may pose the greatest threat of all' Continues his run of smart elegant thrillers written with wit & charm as well as satirical brio' Guardian' It's hard to believe this is only Pavone's third book
- he's already an automatic must-read for me' LEE CHILD'A successful mix of Gone Girl & John Le Carre Events speed to a spectacular denouement' Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Week



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SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH' Spectacular' Mail on Sunday' Top-tier' New York Times The pulse-racing international thriller of the year Meet Will Rhodes travel writer recently married barely solvent his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment & the worry that he's living the wrong life Then one night in Argentina a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can't refuse Soon Will's bad choices
- & dark secrets
- take him across Europe from a Bordeaux chateau to a midnight raid in Paris from a Dublin dive-bar to a mega-yacht in the Mediterranean & an isolated cabin perched on the cliffs of Iceland As Will is drawn further into a tangled web of international intrigue it becomes clear that the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense & deadly conspiracy with terrifying global implications
- & that the people closest to him may pose the greatest threat of all' Continues his run of smart elegant thrillers written with wit & charm as well as satirical brio' Guardian' It's hard to believe this is only Pavone's third book
- he's already an automatic must-read for me' LEE CHILD'A successful mix of Gone Girl & John Le Carre Events speed to a spectacular denouement' Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Week



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play On Christmas Eve a small town is cut off from the interstate by a wreck right after a mysterious stranger appears in the local pol ice station to confess to murder The police think he looks like a drifter they thought was responsible for the disappearance of Det ective Black&s daughter a year ago When cops start to die after each confession of murder Detective Black discovers that Mr Nobod y is a revengeful spirit that has come to kill them for what they did to the drifter & they are doomed to die ...

From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia the everyday is invaded by the evil otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the author of The Woman in Black In the title story on a murky evening in a warmly lit club off St James a bishop listens closely as a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building In ' The Front Room' a devoutly Christian mother tries to protect her children from the evil influence of their grandmother both when she is alive & when she is dead A lonely boy finds a friend in ' Boy Number 21' but years later he is forced to question the nature of that friendship & to ask whether ghosts can perish in fires This is Susan Hill at her best telling characteristically flesh-creeping & startling tales of thwarted ambition terrifying revenge & supernatural stirrings that will leave readers wide-awake long into the night ...

From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia the everyday is invaded by the otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black In the title story on a murky evening in a club off St James a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building A lonely boy makes a friend in ' Boy Number 21' but years later is forced to question the very nature of that friendship ' Alice Baker' tells the story of a mysterious new office worker who is accompanied by a lingering smell of decay & in ' The Front Room' a devoutly Christian mother tries to protect her children from the evil influence of their grandmother both when she is alive & afterwards This paperback edition

Includes:: the chilling ' Printer's Devil Court' in which three medical students make an unholy pact whose consequences will pursue one of them to the grave
- & perhaps beyond This is Susan Hill at her best telling characteristically creepy & surprising tales of thwarted ambition terrifying revenge & supernatural stirrings that will leave you wide-awake long into the night


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Charming tales from the life of a young vet whose clients range from guinea pigs to giraffes 336 pages Integrated b&w line drawings 2x 8pp colour plates Cranston Jonathan ...

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written Marco Polo&s seminal account of his journeys in the east Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war & met Rustichello of Pisa with whom he collaborated on this book His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad unfamiliar religions customs & societies; the spices & silks of the East; the precious gems exotic vegetation & wild beasts of faraway lands Evoking a remote & long-vanished world with colour & immediacy Marco&s book revolutionized western ideas about the then unknown East & is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time For this edition
- the first completely new English translation of the Travels in over fifty years
- Nigel Cliff has gone back to the original manuscript sources to produce a fresh authoritative new version The volume also contains invaluable editorial materials including an introduction describing the world as it stood on the eve of Polo&s departure & examining the fantastical notions the West had developed of the East

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A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east in a collectible clothbound edition Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war & met Rustichello of Pisa with whom he collaborated on this book His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad unfamiliar religions customs & societies; the spices & silks of the East; the precious gems exotic vegetation & wild beasts of faraway lands Evoking a remote & long-vanished world with colour & immediacy Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the then unknown East & is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time For this edition
- the first completely new English translation of the Travels in over fifty years
- Nigel Cliff has gone back to the original manuscript sources to produce a fresh authoritative new version The volume also contains invaluable editorial materials including an introduction describing the world as it stood on the eve of Polo's departure & examining the fantastical notions the West had developed of the East Marco Polo was born in 1254 joining his father on a journey to China in 1271 He spent the next twenty years travelling in the service of Kublai Khan There is evidence that Marco travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire & it is fairly certain he visited India He wrote his famous Travels whilst a prisoner in Genoa Nigel Cliff was previously a theatre & film critic for The Times & a regular writer for The Economist among other publications & now writes historical nonfiction books His first book The Shakespeare Riots was published in 2007 & shortlisted for the Washington-based National Award for Arts Writing His second book The Last Crusade Vasco da Gama & the Birth of the Modern World appeared in 2011 & was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize

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He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map covering seventy-five thousand miles & getting as far north as the Volga as far east as China & as far south as Tanzania He wrote of his travels & comes across as a superb ethnographer biographer anecdotal historian & occasional botanist & gastronome With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith Battuta's Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre ...

Ostensibly written by an English knight the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land Egypt India & China Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army & to have travelled in 'the lands beyond'
- countries populated by dog-headed men cannibals Amazons & Pygmies Although Marco Polo's slightly earlier narrative ultimately proved more factually accurate Mandeville's was widely known used by Columbus Leonardo da Vinci & Martin Frobisher & inspiring writers as diverse as Swift Defoe & Coleridge This intriguing blend of fact exaggeration & absurdity offers both fascinating insight into & subtle criticism of fourteenth-century conceptions of the world
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