The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is the award-winning international bestseller by Mohsin Hamid. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Hudson & Kiefer Sutherland shortlisted for the man booker prize 2007. Excuse me sir but may I be of assistance? Ah I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America... So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea you learn his name & what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For her is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled & better educated. He knows the West better than you do. & as he tells you his story of how he embraced the Western dream
- & a Western woman
- & how both betrayed him so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear... Praise for " The Reluctant Fundamentalist": " Beautifully written.. .more exciting than any thriller Ive read for a long time". (Philip Pullman). " Admirably spare & amazingly exciting". (Rachel Cooke " New Statesman"). " Sharp relevant impressively intelligent.. .entertains at the same time as it makes you think". (" Daily Telegraph"). "A cleverly constructed fable of infatuation & disenchantment... Intelligent & highly engaging genuinely provocative". (" Guardian"). "A brilliant book". (Kiran Desai). " Prods the intellect quickens the pace & captures the imagination". (" Sunday Times"). Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels: " The Reluctant Fundamentalist" " Moth Smoke" & " How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia". His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages received numerous awards & been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays & short stories to publications such as the " Guardian" " The New York Times" " Financial Times" " Granta" & " Paris Review". Born & mostly raised in Lahore he spent part of his childhood in California studied at Princeton University & Harvard Law School & has since lived between Lahore London & New York."

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The Reluctant Heiress The illegitimate daughter of a late Texas billionaire Sophia stands to inherit a fortune. But she doesnt want a penny! Its up to Garrett to convince her to accept the inheritance. If she doesnt her half-brothers will lose theirs. But in trying to persuade her he accidentally falls for the proud beauty. Now the truth may cost him his heart...A Case of Kiss & Tell Billionaire bachelor Conner knows just what hes worth & hes ready to make a deal. Nosy reporter Nichole wants him
- owner of New Yorks high-end matchmaking service
- to spill his guts for her story. Hell tell all
- when shes in his bed as his mistress for a month!


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When Harry Jones discovers that former friend Zac Kravitzs life is in danger a debt of honour sends him on a perilous rescue mission to Taargistan a mountainous & landlocked former Soviet republic bordering Russia China & Afghanistan. Muscling his way onto a delegation of MPs who happen to be paying the state a visit Harry finds an unlikely ally in the stubbornly independent Martha & together they devise a plan to break Zac out of the grim prison Bodima. But when the attempt backfires & he finds himself stuck in prison in Zacs place little by little Harry realises that all is not as it seemed & that he has been lured into a web of international conspiracy. ...

A Reluctant Hero is the first biography of Captain Robert Ryder V.C. Royal Navy (1908-1986) one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Nazaire in March 1942 which completely destroyed the ports dry dock depriving the Germans mighty pocket battleships of its use for the remainder of the war. The raid was one of the most brilliantly-executed combined operations of the war much of the credit for which must go to Ryders outstanding planning & courageous leadership. He received one of five Victoria Crosses awarded for the operation. Although Ryders name will be forever linked with the raid on St Nazaire the rest of his war service was no less distinguished. Torpedoed in a Q ship in 1940 he was rescued after clinging to a piece of wreckage for four days. After St Nazaire he was heavily involved in the planning of combined operations & took part in the ill-fated raid on Dieppe. On D Day he lead a naval assault party in the first wave of the invasion. For the rest of the war Ryder commanded a destroyer on the Arctic convoys. Ryders naval career before the war was as The Times put it on his death unorthodox. In 1933-34 he as captain & four other young naval officers sailed the Tal-Mo-Shan a 54 food ketch from Hong Kong to England via the Panama Canal in a voyage lasting exactly a year an outstanding achievement. Recently there has been press speculation that the voyage was a cover for naval espionage in Japanese waters. The Tal-Mo-Shan herself has now acquired international celebrity as a result of her sail-on part in the Abba film Mamma Mia. Between 1934 & 1937 Ryder served in the Antarctic as captain of the Penola the base ship of the British Graham Lane Expedition. His formidable navigation & seamanship was largely responsible for the Penola which was ill-adapted to polar conditions surviving her ordeal intact. Ryder also took part in some of the earliest ocean yacht races including the second Fastnet race in 1926. ...

It's been months since Rafel ventured over Barl's Mountains into the unknown in a desperate bid to seek help. With his father's Weather Magic exhausted & Lur ravaged by polluting magics there seemed no other hope. Now this too has died. Only Deenie believes Rafel still lives sensing her brother in tortured dreams. She also knows she must try to find him as only Rafel's talents could heal their l&. The prospect terrifies Deenie yet she sees no other choice. But she finds the lands beyond Lur blighted with lawlessness & chaos
- & here Deenie & her companion Charis find the dark sorcerer Morg's deadly legacy. As they travel they learn of a dangerous new power in the l&. Deenie comes to suspect that not only is her brother involved but that the evil their father destroyed is somehow reborn. & if she can't save Rafel then through him Morg's vast power could once again command their world. THE RELUCTANT MAGE is the sequel to THE PRODIGAL MAGE & set in the same world as Karen Miller's bestselling debut THE INNOCENT MAGE. With her cast of unforgettable characters & masterful storytelling Karen Miller has once again created an irresistible drama of political intrigue & magical adventure.
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Stepping into the wrong carriage at a Sussex village Elinor Rochdale is swept up in a thrilling & dangerous adventure. Overnight the would-be governess becomes mistress of a ruined estate & partner in a secret conspiracy to save a family's name. By midnight she is a bride by dawn a widow. A typically thrilling & sweeping tale of romance & tragedy The Reluctant Widow is Georgette Heyer at her best
- the undisputed queen of historical romance.
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Like many people Carla Mc Kay thought that yoga was for health nuts only. Things changed however when a friend persuaded her to give it try for a laugh. She did laugh
- throughout the class. But the practice was also different from what she had expected. In The Reluctant Yogi she describes how she got hooked over time & asks experts what yoga does for us. She discovered that research shows yoga has something for everyone of every shape & size young to old: it will tone your body calm your mind make you sleep better strengthen your bones boost your immune system & even make you lose weight. Learning her asanas from her pranayama Carla finds along the way how you too can change your life with yoga.
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Traumatised by an accident which involves something falling from the sky A & leaves him eight & a half million pounds rich- er but hopelessly estranged from the world around him Remainders hero spends his time & money obsessively reconstructing & re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes & situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance the familiar smells & sounds of liver frying & spluttering lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them... But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity he starts reconstructing more & more violent events as his repetition addiction spirals out of control." ...

Merrily Watkins parish priest single mum & Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is called in when two people are killed in a head-on crash that is also linked to the revamped local pub which it seems has injected the valley with a shattering strobing surge of inner-city nightlife.. .and drugs. When a dealer is found savagely murdered below the great earthen hillfort of Herefordshire Beacon police ask: is it a ritual killing a gangland disposal or a cry of outrage? As Merrily & the police follow separate paths towards the truth Merrilys teenage daughter Jane faces the consequences of her own obsession with a possibly prehistoric site in their home village of Ledwardine. Until on a night of frenzied violence in a place at the centre of an ancient universal mystery the final shocking connections are made. ...

The Calder valley west of Halifax was the last ditch of Elmet the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was considered a more or less uninhabitable wilderness a notorious refuge for criminals a hide-out for refugees. Then in the early 1800s it became the cradle for the Industrial Revolution in textiles & the upper Calder became the hardest-worked river in England. Throughout my lifetime since 1930 I have watched the mills of the region & their attendant chapels die. Within the last fifteen years the end has come. They are now virtually dead & the population of the valley & the hillsides so rooted for so long is changing rapidly". (Ted Hughes Preface to " Remains of Elmet" (1979). Ted Hughes remarkable pennine sequence celebrates the area where he spent his early childhood. It mixes social political religious & historical matter
- a tapestry rich in the personal & poetic investment of a landscape that both creates & is inured to its people whose moors Are a stage for the performance of heaven. Any audience is incidental. " Remains of Elmet" is one of Hughes most personal & enduring achievements."
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