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Mary Boleyn catches the eye of Henry VIII when she comes to court as a girl of fourteen. Dazzled by the golden prince, Mary"s joy is cut short when she discovers that she is a pawn in the dynastic plots of her family. When the capricious king"s interest wanes, Mary is ordered to pass on...

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Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob"s life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has...

?All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.?Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts...

Jack Kerouac's Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics editionOn the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat...

?There is no looking glass here and I don"t know what I am like now? Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I??If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young...

Lucky Santangelo - she"s ruthless, she"s wild... and dangerous. In Chances she showed how deadly a woman can be. In Lucky she showed what she had to do to win - one hundred per cent of the time. Now she"s reaching for the ultimate prize - control over a major Hollywood studio...

With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious...

?Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father?s eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love.?The French Riviera: home...