A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history & literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption & violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. ...

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. & a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'. These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed
- & whose dirty linen is gleefully aired
- in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story & a hugely entertaining & deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil is as bracing & intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps. This flipback book has 648 pages & is 8.2cm x 11.9cm x 1.2cm

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Award-winning director Clover Phillips is riding high when she encounters Kit Foley; a surfer & snowboarder as well-known for

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When newlywed heiress Kit Preston (Doris Day) is unnerved by a series of threatening telephone calls & near-fatal 'accidents', she finds husband Anthony (Rex Harrison) less than sympathetic. He believes that the danger is all in her mind, but she sees p ...

Compton Castle is a Victorian psychiatric hospital long overdue for demolition. Its warrens of rooms & acres of grounds, originally designed as a sanctuary for the mentally ill, now provide the ideal stalking ground for a serial killer. Physically & mentally battered after his last case, Sergeant Trevor Joseph is a temporary inmate
- but the hospital loses all therapeutic benefit when a corpse is dug out of a flowerbed. Then more bodies are found; young, female & both linked to the hospital. Everyone within the mouldering walls is in danger while a highly unpredictable malevolence remains at large. &, as patients & staff are interrogated by the police, the apparently motiveless killer watches & waits for the opportunity to strike again... The pit reeks of rot & decay. Staring upwards she can see the sky, the moon, the trees & the silhouette of her killer as earth is shovelled over her. Another shower comes down... There can be no more fight for air
- for anything. Only a soft blackness that caresses & envelops, plunging her into the darkest oblivion of all. Now she knows that she is going to die.

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Pirates, shipwrecks & a hotel run by children?!

As three kids find out, running a hotel is hard work
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In a world of shadows & consuming passions, desire is the deadliest weapon... Fuelled by pain & rage over a shattering betrayal, the warrior Rio has pledged his life to the war against the Rogues. He will let nothing stand in his way
- least of all a mortal woman who carries a secret power. But now an ancient evil has been awakened & a new darkness is on the rise. For journalist Dylan Alexander, it began in Prague, where suddenly she is at the centre of a gathering storm of violence & secrets. But nothing is as dangerous as the scarred, lethally seductive man who appears from the shadows to plunge her into his world of dark desire & endless night. Very soon Dylan will have to choose: leave Rio's midnight realm, or risk everything for the man who has shown her infinite pleasures of the heart...
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Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) is sent to catch an accountant (Charles Grodin) who has jumped bail. However, the Mafia & a rival bounty hunter are also after the same target, & when Jack catches up with him, he finds himself cast in the unl ...

Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo’s biggest crime lord: the Fisherman.

Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway,

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It is finally here! Number one bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes an extraordinary return to the world of Twilight with

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