Now a major film starring Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger & Billy Bob Thornton Capturing the lives of a group of people in Los Angeles, The Informers is an intense narrative that blurs genders, generations & even identities. The characters go to the same schools & eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys & girls & buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in the only way people can be in L.A. -- suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul. ' The Informers is spare, austere, elegantly designed, telling in details, coolly ferocious, sardonic in its humour, every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged' New York Times 'A well-observed & bleakly funny indictment of a culture with money, cars & drugs, where the nearest things to spiritual values are health food & good looks' Times Literary Supplement ' Ellis has the ability to capture modern reality with the ferocity of a collector driving a pin through a social butterfly' Guardian ...

A collection of novellas & stories from one of the most critically acclaimed authors in the fantasy genre, Robin Hobb. Including work written under her pseudonym, Megan Lindholm. Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders in this wonderful collection with vampires & alien musicians, tramps & feral cats. In The Homecoming, Lady Carillion Carrock & a number of other Jamaillian nobles are sailing to the Cursed Shores. Their journey is not by choice: for plotting against the Satrap, their wealth has been confiscated & they have been exiled. Until now, Carillion has done nothing but lead a life of privilege. She believes they are bound for wondrous cities, cities where ancient kings & queens dusted their skin with gold & wore jewels above their eyes. But when she is marooned by the ship's unscrupulous captain, she will soon discover the grim reality of what survival in the Rain Wilds entails. The Silver Lady is a would-be writer, ekeing out a dull existence by working in a Sears store. The one day a man comes in: fortyish, pleasant-looking. Nothing out of the ordinary. Except he says his name is Merlin, & he's about to change her life. Rosemary got involved with the wrong man. Pell is lazy, good for nothing, a bully. Her best friend Hilia knew it & so did her tom cat, Marmalade. But love is blind: Rosemary had Pell's baby, renovated the cottage his grandfather left in his will, turned its land to good use; & then he left her for another woman. Now he's back, & something must be done! ...

A billion-dollar fortune to die for. A deadly game. The winner takes all... Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. & no one, least of all Avery, knows why. Now she must move into the mansion she's inherited. It's filled with secrets & codes, & the old man's surviving relatives
- a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got 'their' money. Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing. But just how far will they go to keep their fortune? Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780241476178 •†Author:   Jennifer Lynn Barnes •†Publisher:   Penguin Random House Children's UK •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 376 •†Dimensions:†13 x 19.6 x 3.3 cm
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The Inmate is a propulsive, mind-bending thriller about how we define guilt―and who has to pay for it, from bestselling author Freida Mc Fadden. The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars… As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules: Treat all prisoners with respect. Never reveal any personal information. Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But nobody knows that Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious & dangerous inmates. They certainly don't know that Shane was Brooke's high school sweetheart―the star quarterback, the golden boy who's serving a life sentence for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke's testimony was what put him there. But Shane knows. He knows more than anyone. & he will never forget. Product Information:  •†ISBN:†9781464221385 •†Author:  Freida Mc Fadden  •†Publisher: Sourceb... ...

Details: Matt Hunter's life has already been blown apart once. A fight, a friend in trouble, & the dull crack of someone's
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On 12 CD's. Vincent Marzello reads John Grisham's gripping tale of a terrible miscarriage of justice, based on a true story. In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada, Oklahoma, called Debra Sue Carter was raped & murdered. For five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson
- a major league drop-out
- & his friend Dennis Fitz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 & charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's defence was built on hearsay & unreliable testimonies. Dennis Fritz was found guilty & given a life sentence; Ron Williamson was sent to Death Row. John Grisham's first work of non-fiction is an exploration of small-town justice gone terribly awry.

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As five we were mighty, the points on a star? Once we five joined, it was never boys against girls? Two of our triangles cut themselves off & ran away together, & we were never whole again. Never. As five we were mighty, the points on a star? Once we five joined, it was never boys against girls? Two of our triangles cut themselves off & ran away together, & we were never whole again. Never. Years ago, they were the best of friends. But as time passed, they grew apart, became adults with families of their own, & began to forget about the past ? & the terrible lies they shared. But now Gordon, the youngest & wildest of the five, has died & the others are thrown together for the first time in years. Could their long-ago lie be the reason for their troubles today? Is it more dangerous to admit to what they?d done or is it the strain of keeping the secret that is beginning to wear down on their souls. ...

' Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe & the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny & provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World
- to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, & Bethlehem. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings & sculptures of the ' Old Masters'. He responded with wonder & amazement, but also with exasperation, irritation, disbelief. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour, more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries.
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You must not use police or intelligence services to carry out your investigation. Those channels are compromised.

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