Marlene Dietrich teams up with director & mentor Josef von Sternberg for the last of their collaborations, in this romantic drama about a love-triangle involving a femme fatale. Set against the background of Spain's Carnaval, young army officer Antonio ...

When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She’s never heard of the world’s most fashionable magazine. Or it’s feared & dawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly. Soon she knows way too much. She knows it’s a sacking offence to wear less than a three-inch heel to work – but there’s always a fresh pair of Manolos in the accessories cupboard. She knows that eight stone is fat. That you can charge anything – cars, manicures, clothes – to the Runway account, but you must never leave your desk, or let Miranda’s coffee get cold. That at 3am, when your boyfriends dumping you because you’re always working & your best friends just been arrested, if Miranda phones with her latest unreasonable dem&, you jump. Most of all, Andrea knows that Miranda is a monster boss who makes Cruella de Vil look like a fluffy bunny. But this is her big break, & its all going to be worth it in the end. Isn’t it? ...

Rosa Fisher is the smart girl, the good girl & at twenty-five & mid-way through a Ph D in the psychology of fraud, she thinks

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He's won every trial. Because he's behind every murder.

Ambitious District Attorney Randal Korn lives to watch prisoners

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' On September 11, we will destroy one of your cities with a nuclear weapon.' A nuclear warhead disappears. A chilling broadcast follows. A country waits in fear. Yet the broadcast deceives. &, with the world's eyes fixed on America, the true target is dangerously exposed. Agent Brooke Chandler senses the decoy & raises his concern. His superiors are not prepared to listen. Unless he can convince them, one cataclysmic flash of light will signal a dark new dawn of civilization. ...

It’s their usual Thursday girls’ night in, & best friends Skye, Elena, & London are enjoying hanging out at Skye’s house in

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The disturbing new thriller from the king of southern gothic. When he was a prosecuting attorney Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown
- Natchez, Mississippi
- that Penn will face his most dangerous threat. Urged by old friends to restore the town to its former glory, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs & fresh money, Natchez has turned to casino gambling. Five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market like props from Gone With the Wind. But one boat isn't like the others. Rumour has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas. & with them comes an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport, & the dark vices that go with it. When a childhood friend of Penn's who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn's failure to protect this city hits home. So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it's a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money & power of his hidden enemy. With his family's life at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or honour.

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Books Thriller Books A young woman is murdered in her flat & a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case, alongside his long-time adversary Tom Waaler & initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on his final warning & has little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor when it becomes apparent that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781529916935 •†Author:†  Jo Nesbo •†Publisher:†  Penguin Books •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 544 •†Dimensions:†13.21 x 3.3 x 19.81 cm ...

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As a mysterious poisonous fog rolls over the English countryside, bringing death & destruction in its

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The notoriously brutal & bloody Crimean War saw British troops fighting alongside the French & Turks in an uneasy nineteenth century alliance. They faced not only the dreaded Cossacks on the battlefield but also debilitating diseases such as cholera in their campsites. Sergeant Jack Crossman, known to his comrades as ...