James Ivory directs this period drama, starring Ralph Fiennes. In 1930s Shaghai, Sofia (Natasha Richardson) a peniless Russian countess displaced by the revolution & civil war, is forced to take work as a taxi-dancer & bar girl in order to support her ...

Vittoria, as she's known in Italy, is a small-time actress who left behind a dark past in her native Texas & followed her writer

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Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the young Lord Jaxom & his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth. Nearly everyone else on Pern thought Ruth was a runt who would never amount to anything, but Jaxom knew his dragon was special. ...

A lost boy. A dead girl, & one who is left behind.

A village full of whispers & secrets.

When the white hare appears,

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A thrilling collection of myths, legends & ghost stories from War Horse author & former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo.

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Read by Emilia Fox, Sandra Duncan & Gareth Armstrong. In the White Queen Philippa Gregory brilliantly evokes the life of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position & fights tenaciously for the survival of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes in the Tower whose fate remains unknown to this day. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores this most famous unsolved mystery, informed by impeccable research & framed by her inimitable storytelling skills. ...

Meet Balram Halwal, the ' White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story? Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family & put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal & wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape of breaking away from the banks Mother Ganga, into whose murky depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations. His big chance comes when a rich village landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son, daughter-in-law, & their two Pomeranian dogs. From behind the wheel of a Honda, Balram first sees Delhi. The city is a revelation. Amid the cockroaches & call-centres, the 36, 000, 004 gods, the slums, the shopping malls & the crippling traffic jams, Balram's re-education begins. Caught between his instinct to be a loyal son & servant, & his desire to better himself, he learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. As the other servants flick through the pages of Murder Weekly, Balram begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top? THE WHITE TIGER is a take of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing & altogether unforgettable. Read by Kerry Shale ...

Details: When George & Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from Engl&, George instantly takes to their new life, but Sabine
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Books Puzzle Books Summon your inner Miss Marple & get ready to deduce whodunnit in this fiendish collection of crime puzzles from Dr Gareth Moore. Mischief is afoot, & you’ve been summoned to stop it – pit your wits against nefarious criminals & solve a townful of mysteries. Put your Agatha Christie hat on & find out if you’re sharp enough to catch the criminals before they cause any more trouble. Featuring 10 scenarios, each scenario opens with a scene setting & notes made in the notebook of the investigator which lead you through a series of puzzles to the denouement. With all kinds of puzzles, including logic, word, number, picture & memory challenges, this book will put your wits to the test – so grab a cup of tea & a pencil & get ready to snuggle up with this perplexing collection of cosy crime puzzles. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781789295825 •†Author: Gareth Moore & Laura Jayne Ayres •†Publisher:†  Michael O' Mara •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 224 •†Dimensions:†15.3 x 1.65 x 23.4 cm ...

Ffyona Campbell was on the last leg of her record-breaking round the world walk when On Foot Through Africa was published. In The Whole Story, she gives a complete account of her remarkable achievement. This book also contains an astonishing revelation which will prove that Ffyona Campbell is not only an intrepid adventuress but a very brave woman prepared to face up to a final challenge which has haunted her almost since the beginning of her walk around the world. ...