` Hell is other people.` This is a chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it`s dark, & very foggy. Inside there`s no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world. Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated & jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event. But this is no ordinary celebration. & this is no ordinary family. As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people`s secrets & lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape. ...

For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother`s suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals & gardens of East Bengal, & admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily`s family home are papered over, so do the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability, & it is through the Nikolides that Emily is exposed to a world of adult deceit & attrition. & when her beloved dog dies, the event forces a confrontation & reveals to Emily that nothing in the town is quite as it seems.. . ...

I hadn't even sat down yet, one buttock still hovering, my hand on the car door, & already my sister-in-law was on the attack: At last! Didn't you hear the horn? We've been waiting here for ten minutes! Good morning, I replied. On the car journey to a family wedding, Garance reflects on how adult life, with its disappointments & responsibilities, has not always gone to plan for herself or her three siblings. But just around the corner lies the chance for them to revisit their younger, carefree selves in a delightfully unplanned escapade. ...

On a car journey to a family wedding, Garance reflects on how adult life, with its disappointments & responsibilities, has not always gone to plan for herself or her three siblings. But just around the corner lies the chance for them to revisit their younger, carefree selves in a delightfully unplanned escapade. In this exquisitely told story, Anna Gavalda explores the themes of time passing & the highs & lows of family life with characteristic wit, warmth & brilliant characterisation. ...

Featuring 20 different postcards depicting scenes & locations from Breaking Bad. Send a postcard from the DEA Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from a Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant or the candlelit shrine to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Wish you were here! ...

A LIZ CARLYLE INVESTIGATION` Rimington tells her story with the crisp authority one would expect of James Bond`s M` New York Times Book Review Recovering from a gruelling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5`s counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the change of scene will give her some breathing space, but they haven`t counted on Putin`s increased aggression towards the West. Soon Liz is on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War. Meanwhile, MI6 has hired Jasminder Kapoor, a controversial young civil rights lawyer, to explain issues of privacy & security to the public. But in this world of shadowy motives & secret identities, Jasminder must be extra-careful about whom she can trust.. . ...

Twilight tempted the imagination.. . New Moon made readers thirsty for more.. . Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon.. . And now
- the book that everyone has been waiting for.. . Breaking Dawn. In the much anticipated fourth book in Stephenie Meyer`s love story, questions will be answered & the fate of Bella & Edward will be revealed.
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Discover an astonishing collection of extraordinary characters in this brand new compilation of women`s travel writing. Spanning three centuries, this assortment of writings reveals a rich treasure trove of anecdotes & adventures from incredible women worth celebrating & remembering. Celia Fiennes travelled the length & breadth of Engl&, riding side-saddle, at the dawn of the eighteenth century. Discover the multiple journeys around the world undertaken in the 1840s by the Austrian Ida Pfeiffer. Dora d` Istria, a mountain-climbing duchess & polymath, travelled widely through Europe but her account of ascending Mont Blanc in 1860 is perhaps the most striking. Read about Isabel Burton`s adventures as a government employee`s wife stationed all over the world. Explore the writing of Isabella Bird who travelled around the world on doctor`s orders
- until finally retraining as a doctor & missionary in her sixties for a trip to India & its surrounding countries. Find out what motivated Marie Kingsley to travel solo to the deepest parts of West Africa & how her journeys shaped not only her own way of thinking but that of Europe as whole. Learn how May Kellogg Sullivan undertook her journey to Alaska & the Yukon to seek her fortune in the gold-mining world. Astonish yourself by finding out that, on a trip to Burma, India, Ceylon & Indonesia with her husb&, Fanny Bullock Workman cycled 15, 000 miles (as a welcome break from glacier-climbing in the Himalayas). Follow investigative journalist Nellie Bly as she takes up Jules Verne`s gauntlet to travel around the world in eighty days. Or find out how Ella Sykes once rode on horseback from the Caspian Sea all the way to India.
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Wry, satirical & bawdy, Tamer`s stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity & of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the storm that has brought Syria to near-disintegration. Tamer`s stories explore taboos & power relations, bringing together religion, politics & sexuality (often all at once) & implying that these forms of oppression are connected. An assault is deflected when the victim responds enthusiastically; a woman is spared stoning because the streets have no cobbles, & her neighbours cannot afford any; A comatose man awakens after years to find the regime unchanged, & tries to escape back into the coma; a newborn baby curses the hospital staff that delivers him, & when his mother tries to quiet him, retorts: ` You`re talking like our leaders!`; a man is warned by two apples not to eat them, & anxiously questions them about their political connections. Unsentimental & brilliantly compressed, these sixty-three stories are the work of a virtuoso, & translator Ibrahim Muhawi has found exactly the right deadpan style with which to express them. ...

After decades of civil war, the people of southern Sudan voted to secede from the north in an attempt to escape the seemingly endless violence. On declaring independence, South Sudan was one of the least developed places on earth, but with the ability to draw upon significant oil reserves worth $150 million a month, the foundation for a successful future was firmly in place. How, then, did the state of the new nation deteriorate even further, to the point that a new civil war broke out two years later? Today, with both Sudans still hostage to the aspirations of their military & political leaders, how can their people escape the violence that has dominated the two countries` recent history? By giving voice to those who, after the break-up of Sudan, have had to find ways to live, trade & communicate with one another, Jok Madut Jok provides a moving insight into a crisis that has only rarely made it into our headlines. Breaking Sudan is a meticulous account, analyzing why violence became so deeply entrenched in Sudanese society & exploring what can be done to find peace in two countries ravaged by war. ...