' Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same way. She & her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored & walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, & her mother said, absurdly, Don't look!' The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she & her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lives upstairs with her sister, Pamela. & the bathroom, where Guy drowned, has been demolished. But Death will rear its ugly head once more... Ismay & Heather get on well. They always have. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day. But as their love lives start to develop, someone is murdered along the way, & long buried suspicions re-emerge with potentially tragic results. ...

In three of her lesser-known works, Jane Austen created some of her most imaginative stories.

In The Watsons, an unfinished

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I am writing to a rhythm & not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest & most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature & the passage of time. Six children
- Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny & Louis
- meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back & forth from the shore. The subsequent continuity of these six main characters, as they develop from childhood to maturity & follow different passions & ambitions, is interspersed with interludes from the timeless & unifying chorus of nature. In pure stream-of-consciousness style, Woolf presents a cross-section of multiple yet parallel lives, each marked by the disintegrating force of a mutual tragedy. The Waves is her searching exploration of individual & collective identity, & the observations & emotions of life, from the simplicity & surging optimism of youth to the vacancy & despair of middle-age.

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Delve into this astonishingly beautiful & poetic novel by the illustrious twentieth-century author, Virginia Woolf.



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North London, 1916. When Olivia Bone & Lieutenant Lucas Black shared a passionate kiss one summer's evening, it seemed as

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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. & he is the city's most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, & learned the hard way to judge people quickly
- & to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life & embrace a new identity & name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics & strange magics
- & cultivate a flair for death.

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Drawing on more than a decade's experience working with former tennis World Number One Sir Andy Murray, The Way of the Tortoise

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Explore every style of martial art in the world, form ancient fighting arts of India & China to modern self-defence techniques & Olympic sports. Follow the lives of the masters & their disciples, & experience the ultimate in combat training methods. Examine the weaponry, armour, & culture associated with an incredible range of style & traditions. Written by kung-fu virtuoso & TV presenter Chris Crudelli, who has travelled the world to learn form the masters first-h&. ...

Join award-winning spirits writer Dave Broom as he tells the story of Japanese whisky, unveiling the philosophy that lies behind this fascinating whisky culture!

Profiling the distilleries in detail, Dave interviews whisky makers & tastes all sorts of whiskies, providing full tasting notes.

Visiting Japans whisky distilleries for almost 20 years, this expert personal guide uncovers the essence of Japans whiskies & how to enjoy them!

Product Information:
ISBN: 9781784721428
Author: Dave Broom
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Format: Hardback
Pages: 254
Dimensions: 28 x 20 x 3cm













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The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker's ranges over the map of life to examine what ails us, what eases our pain, & what gives us joy. Baker-recently hailed as "one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time" by The New York Times-moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, & the manufacture of the Venetian gondola. In one essay, Baker surveys our fascination with video games while attempting to beat his teenage son at Modern Warfare 2; in a celebrated essay on Wikipedia, he describes his efforts to stem the tide of encyclopedic deletionism. Through all these pieces Baker shines the light of an inexpugnable curiosity; The Way the World Works is a keen-minded, generous-spirited compendium by a modern American master. ...