More than just a joyful, glorious novel, vintage Weldon, here's a literary handbook to all our pasts and, with any luck, our futures too. The Life Force stirs, Leslie Beck returns — all vital 10 inches of him — bad wives rejoice, good husbands beware — timeless embers burn and blaze... Every wise child — that's you and you and you — should possess this book...

Life Force

Weldon,Fay

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip Ii

Business & Money

Braudel, Fernand (trans Sian Reynolds, abridged Richard Ollard)

Economics

New official film tie-in edtion of this magnificent tale of rivalry and jealousy set in the volatile court of King Henry VIII. The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way than to place their most beautiful young woman at court? But Mary becomes the king's mistress at a time of change. He needs his personal pleasures, but he also needs an heir. The unthinkable happens and the course of English history is irrevocably altered. For the women at the heart of the storm, they have only one weapon; and when it's no longer enough to be the mistress, Mary must groom her younger sister in the ways of pleasing the king. Now this bestselling novel is brought to life as a major film, starring Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman as the Boleyn sisters and Eric Bana as Henry VIII. The cast also features Kristin Scott Thomas and Mark Rylance. Directed by highly acclaimed Justin Chadwick (BAFTA and Emmy nominated for 'Bleak House') with screenplay by Peter Morgan (Oscar nominated for 'The Queen'; BAFTA winner for 'The Last King of Scotland').

The Other Boleyn Girl

Literature & Fiction

Philippa. Gregory

Genre Fiction

Previously published in paperback as October Sky.\nThree years in the life of Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket. 
In 1957, Coalwood, West Virginia, was a town the post-war boom never quite reached, and dominated by the black steel towers of the mine. For fourteen-year-old Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam there are only two routes in life: a college football scholarship, or a life underground. But from the moment the town turns out to watch the world’s first space satellite, Sputnik, as it passes overhead, Sonny and his friends embark on a mission of their own – to form the Big Creek Missile Agency, and build a rocket.\nLooking back after a distinguished career as a NASA engineer, Homer Hickam tells the warm, vivid story of youth and ambition that inspired the 1999 film October Sky. It is the tale of a group of teenage boys who dared to imagine a life beyond the confines of the coal pit, and went on to design, build and launch the rockets that would change their lives, and their town, forever.

Rocket Boys

History

Homer Hickam

Americas

2004 Arrow Books Paperback Edition by the internationally bestselling author of 'The Pursuit of Happiness.'

A Special Relationship

KENNEDY, Douglas

Contemporary

The eighteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.A young girl disappears, then another.A notorious paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of the Muriel Campden Estate are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their own hands...Chief Inspector Wexford is faced with the effects of violence and prejudice every day as a policeman, and he is also involved with a new programme to help victims of domestic violence. His daughter, Sylvia, has come to work nearby in a refuge for battered women. Her marriage is not a happy one, although her husband has never raised a hand to her. They are merely incompatible. Other women in Kingsmarkham are not so lucky...Wexford is soon called upon to investigate two extremely serious crimes which will affect the lives and attitudes of police and innocent villagers alike...

Harm Done

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

RENDELL,RUTH

Mystery

Piranha to Scurfy

The Rottweiler

The first girl had a bite mark on her neck. When the tabloids got hold of the story, they immediately called the killer 'The Rottweiler', and the name stuck. The latest body was discovered very near Inez Ferry's antique shop in Marylebone. Someone spotted a shadowy figure running away past the station, but couldn't say for

A Sight for Sore Eyes

Slow Waltz In Cedar Bend / The Bridges Of Madison County

WALLER, Robert James

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