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Vatican City, 29 September 1978: the world wakes to the shocking news that Pope John Paul I is dead, just a month after his accession . . . Thirty years later in London, young journalist Sarah Monteiro receives a mysterious package. Enclosed, a list of names and a coded message.Moments later a masked assassin attempts to silence her forever. It seems Sarah holds the key to unveiling a deadly secret . . . a plot that implicates unscrupulous mer...

What difference can one person make to the world? Is it worth following dreams that seem impossible? Or taking on challenges that seem too great?When Ellen MacArthur set sail on her solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2004 it was the culmination of a lifetime's love for the sea and the fulfilment of an ambitious dream. As a toddler she had begun a love-affair with sailing that would see her save every penny of pocket money to buy her first b...

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Offers a collection of recipes, suffused with all the heat, spice and sensual aromatics of the Middle East. This book was written for readers who had never eaten an aubergine, let alone cooked one. It is illustrated throughout with luscious photography.

Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership in the Second World War once put him above criticism. This book makes sense of this extraordinary man and his controversial and heroic career. It brings out Churchill's strengths and weaknesses, looking at the many received versions of Churchill, and offers a fresh insight into his character.

Presents chronologically works such as "Paterson", selections from "White Shroud", "Cosmopolitan Greetings", and including the poems "Howl" and "Kaddish" as well as songs, and notes by Ginsberg. This volume brings together the personal verse of an American poet.

Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Molière and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute son who has squandered his father's money is throw...

An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It also questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Jeremy Strong was once a primary head teacher. He is now one of the most popular authors writing for the younger age-group. His books include The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog and My Brother's Famous Bottom. He lives near Bath.

Banned in Germany for years after publication, >Mephisto< subsequently became a bestseller throughout Europe. Translated from the German by Robin Smyth.

When Roberto sneaks off to see a movie in his Italian village, German soldiers raid the theater and pack them onto a train bound for a work camp. Roberto and his best friend, Samuele, vow to stick together. But Samuele has a terrible secret which, if discovered, could get them both killed.

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, sto...

Paul Christopher is the pseudonym of a bestselling US novelist who lives in the Great Lakes region.