With its rich & ebullient language, ironic twists & startling juxtapositions, Dead Souls (1842) stands as one of the most dazzling & poetic masterpieces of the nineteenth century. This brilliant new translation by Christopher English is complemented by a superb introductory essay by the pre-eminent Gogol scholar, Robert Maguire. ...

Two girls meet by chance on Londons Hampstead Heath
- well-mannered & smartly dressy Verity & dishevelled & grubby Ruby.




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Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire
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IN AN EVIL WORLD, EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE? The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, a further two more bodies are found... Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down her mother takes drastic action & goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide what she wants, but it will come at a price. As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace & his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughters life... ? James manages to add enough surprises & drama that by the end you're rooting for the police & really don?t know if they will finally get their men? Sunday Express ? Another of James? sophisticated, complicated & well-informed snap-shots of the Brighton police at work? His research is obviously careful. Its well worth the effort, as the result is a superior thriller? Literary Review ...

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, & doesn't get out much
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Journalist Jerry Markham has been found dead, hidden in a boat by the marina.

Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted

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From New York Times best-selling author, Kim Harrison, comes the first book in her brilliant Hollows series; packed with the perfect balance of wry humour & thrilling action, which will delight fans of thrillers & fantasy alike. Rachel Morgan lives in a world where a bioengineered virus wiped out most of the world's human population ? exposing the existence of supernatural communities that had long lived alongside humanity. Its her job as a white witch working for Inderland Security to protect the humans from things that go bump in the night. For the last five years Rachel has been tracking down lawbreaking Inderlanders in modern-day Cincinnati, but now she wants to leave & start her own agency. Her only problem: no one quits the I.S. Marked for death, Rachel will have to fend off fairy assassins & homicidal werewolves armed to the teeth with deadly curses. Unless she can appease her former employers by exposing the city's most prominent citizen as a drug lord, she might just be a dead witch walking. ...

Against the backdrop of Euro '96 & the soundtrack of Oasis, a summer of terror begins. Sal Kilkenny has two very frightened clients on her hands. Debbie Gosforth is the victim of a deranged stalker while teenager Luke Wallace is afraid he might be a murderer as he has, allegedly, stabbed his best friend Ahktar Khan to death. & then the IRA bomb Manchester's Arndale Centre & the city goes up in smoke... Praise for Cath Staincliffe:' Gritty, intelligent, humane & involving' Big Issue' Deftly organised, with several surprising twists. ' Evening Standard' Has her finger on the pulse of her city & that rare ability to write about love, motherhood & friendship without sentimentality' Val Mc Dermid' Modest, compassionate... a solid ingenious plotter with a sharp eye for domestic detail' Literary Review' Complex & satisfying' The Sunday Times'about as good as the British private eye novel gets' Time Out ...

The two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least they have each other.

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Double-bill of classic espionage action, starring Richard Johnson as British adventurer Bulldog Drummond. In ' Deadlier Than the Male' (1966), when a group of seductively beautiful women start committing a series of political assassinations, Bulldog Drummond is called in to investigate. Before long Drummond has determined that his old rival Carl Petersen (Nigel Green) is responsible, & the scene is set for a taut confrontation in Petersen's isloated castle. ' Some Girls Do' (1969) sees Drummond trying to track down Petersen (James Villiers) before he can destroy a top-secret experimental fighter aircraft being tested by the British military. What Drummond hasn't reckoned with are Petersen's gang of deadly female androids who will stop at nothing to protect their master. ...