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Novelist Tom Oliver is not the most popular man in the world and, initially, he isn't much missed when he disappears at the end of a week tutoring at a writer's centre in rural Shropshire. Is his disappearance an innocent affair, or has he himself now been Written Out?

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The exciting new Richard Mariner marine adventure - "Richard and Robin Mariner are aboard "Tai Fun, " preparing to join their friends at the opening ceremony of the luxury Volcano Roads hotel on the Indonesian island of Pulau Baya, when they spot two bodies floating in the sea. Richard and Robin soon discover that all is not as it should be on this rejuvenated island. There are fortunes to be made and everyone - from the clearly legitimate to ...

The second in a fascinating new mystery series" - Suzie Fewings, a keen family history researcher, is delighted to be given access to a chest of old documents at the local stately home, Hereward Court. She tries to ignore disturbing rumours about the owner, Floridus Hereward, but when she's threatened by a sinister visitor to the house, the police are bafflingly unhelpful . . .

Somewhere between adventure story, historical voyage, and a quest for self-discovery, "Show Me the Sky" is an ambitiously crafted debut novel bringing four riveting narrative threads together into an unforgettable ride.

Anne Cartier observes a mob storming the royal fortress in the heart of Paris. The city revolts and the king's authority vanishes. His adversary the Duc d'Orleans exploits the chaos. When several royal officers are assassinated, the Marquis de Lafayette and Mayor Bailly call upon Anne's husband, Colonel Paul de Saint-Martin, to investigate.

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In Bill James' London, everything seems to lead back to the drug-ridden housing estates of Whitsun Festival and Temperate Park Acres, where a connection, once made, is only ever one thing: trouble. Trouble for journalist Gervaise Maniciple Tasker, whose investigation into the drug firms at the heart of the estates leads to his murder.

MICHEL FABER has written several other books, including the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, the Whitbread-shortlisted novel Under the Skin, and The Book of Strange New Things. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps (2001) and The Courage Consort (2002), and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives...

From the author of "Timoleon Vieta Come Home" and "Anthropology" comes this novel that is at once a bittersweet, idiosyncratic, affirmation of life and a touchingly satisfying story rich in pathos, insight, and asides.

The bestselling author of the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series unites dreams and reality, leaving readers to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?

Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escaping Aberdeen. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan in 1858. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune. Yet behind Glovers astonishing success lies a man cut to the heart.

Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.

In addition to introducing the beloved character Pig-Pen, The Complete Peanuts: 1953-1954 shows many of the cast of characters beginning to take on their best-known personality traits - from Linus's philosophical thoughtfulness to Lucy's fussiness, as well as Snoopy's emerging eccentricity. This volume also features an essay on Schulz by the legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite, a biography of Schulz, and the popular index to characters, obje...

The third volume, with Linus just learning to talk, Snoopy exploring his eccentricities, Lucy's unrequited crush on Schroeder reaching its end and Charlie Brown becoming even more Charlie Brown-ish. With a special introduction by Matt Groening.

One can scarcely overstate the importance of Peanuts to the comics, or overstate its influence on all of us who havefollowed." -Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)"The understated clarity of Peanuts influenced virtually every comic strip that's appeared in recent decades . . . TheComplete Peanuts reveals how one of the masters of the comic strip developed." -Los Angeles Times Book Review"These [early volumes] reaffirm that Schulz's work deserve...

Helen Walsh was born in Warrington, England, in 1976. Her first novel, Brass, was published in 2004 and was the winner of a Betty Trask Prize. She now lives in Liverpool.

A bright, fine-cut gem.' Sunday TimesSigmund Freud lies ill. A man whose work, whose very life, has depended on the power of speech has now been all but silenced by cancer of the jaw. In the waking darkness he receives a strange visitor, who has come to tell a story that Freud will recognize.But this is a different account of what happened when Oedipus met his father at the place where three roads meet. Salley Vickers's retelling of this great...

This unassuming debut novel plucked from the imagination of a remarkable new 21-year-old talent is an affecting, ingeniously crafted coming-of age novel that has critics calling Milward the voice of the MySpace generation.