The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker`s sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. 1917, Scotl&. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotl&, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen, & Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil & paper... Regeneration, The Eye in the Door & The Ghost Road follow the stories of these men until the last months of the war. Widely acclaimed & admired, Pat Barker`s Regeneration trilogy paints with moving detail the far-reaching consequences of a conflict which decimated a generation. ” Harrowing, original, delicate & unforgettable”. (Independent). ”A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male & female, soldiers & civilians. Constantly surprising & formally superb”. (A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph). ” One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction”. (Jonathan Coe). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration (1991); which was made into a film of the same name; The Eye in the Door (1993), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize; & The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize, as well as the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, Life Class & Toby`s Room. She lives in Durham. ...

From the bestselling author of The Real Bravo Two Zero comes the definitive history of the world`s most elite fighting force
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The Regional Office & its band of super-powered female assassins protects the world from annihilation. But a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. & now the Regional Office is under attack... Rose is a young assassin leading the assault, eager to stretch into her powers & prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah
- who may or may not have a mechanical arm
- fiercely devoted to the organisation that took her in as a troubled young woman. On the day that the Office is attacked, Rose`s & Sarah`s stories will overlap, their lives will collide, & the world as we know it just might come to an end...

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Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, & a residency permit is a ticket to paradise. When he ends up in a small town in Germany, Selim believes he is finally safe, until the law catches up with him & the clock starts ticking. Selim realises there is only one way to avoid deportation, if he dare try.. . Fifteen years later, in a town hall in Paris, a Registrar receives an unsettling book in the post. The Registrar`s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages only fuels her suspicions surrounding an impending Kurdish wedding. Unsure how to intervene, she embarks on an investigation that brings her uncomfortably close to an old acquaintance: Selim. ...

This title is based on the true story of Charles Sainte-Beuve, his lover Adele & her husb&, Victor Hugo. When Charles Saint-Beuve, a French literary journalist met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer who intended to become famous, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But it is not Victor he is really attracted to
- it is his wife Adele. Soon the two lovers are on the edge of a great scandale & a wounded Victor must exact his price for betrayal, a price that will change the lives of many, including his own children. As Saint-Beuve
- a man like no other man
- struggles to hold on to what is left of his great love, he finds that only words can rekindle the flame. Set during the tumultuous reign of Napoleon III, this mesmerising novel draws a rich portrait of old Paris, where duels were fought & cholera-ridden bodies float in the Seine. Towering over all is the genius of Victor Hugo, already the voice of France, eventually banished to the island of Guernsey for his opposition to the regime. In contrast come the quieter voices of two women destroyed by Hugo's ferocious literary ambition as well as the unique, acerbic & heart-breaking voice of the critic & essayist, Saint-Beuve, first Hugo's friend & then his unlikely competitor in love. An atmospheric story of delicacy & emotion, of the experience of professional jealousy & personal passion, The Reinvention of Love is an outstanding piece of fiction writing, in part about writing itself.


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Learn to think like the father of relativity himself as you ponder over puzzles, enigmas, quizzes & logic trials based on & inspired by Einstein`s works. In Einstein`s Relatively Difficult Puzzle Universe you`ll come across more than 80 puzzles drawing on his scientific exploration, along with a selection of the wisest"es from the genius physicist himself. ...

The Matrix meets Oliver Twist, WARP: The Reluctant Assassin is the first of a major new series by Eoin Colfer, the bestselling author of Artemis Fowl. It all began with the FBI & WARP (Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme). Hiding witnesses in the past to protect the future
- until now... Riley is a Victorian orphan, hurtled into the twenty-first century & on the run from his evil master... Albert Garrick, the terrifying assassin-for-hire pursuing Riley through time, along with... Chevie Savano, the FBI`s youngest & most impulsive special agent. As Garrick relentlessly hunts them down, Riley & Chevie face a desperate race to stay alive & stop Garrick from returning to his own time
- armed with knowledge & power that could change the world forever. Colfer has the ability to make you laugh twice over: ”first in sheer subversive joy at the inventiveness of the writing, & again at the energy of the humour”. (Sunday Times). Readers mourning the end of the Artemis Fowl series can take heart: ”this first book in the time-bending WARP series is an all-out blast”. (Publishers Weekly). Eoin Colfer is the megaselling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Airman & The Legend of.. .books. His brilliant new series WARP is out now. Eoin lives with his family in Irel&.

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At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting... Among the brightest & best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by an elite firm & thrives on New York & the intensity of his work. & his infatuation with fragile Erica promises entree into Manhattan society on the exalted footing his own family once held back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez`s meteoric rise to personal & professional success: the fulfillment of the immigrant`s dream. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, & his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. & Changez`s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, & perhaps even love. ...

Rising From The Mist in the sun-blushed hills of Tuscany is Il Piccolo Rustico, a 300-year-old stone farmhouse that Nancy Doran dreams of lovingly restoring into an idlyllic home. All her husband Phil can see is a crumbling money pit that, as far as dreams go, is more of a nightmare. Reluctantly leaving behind high -octane, air-conditioned Los Angeles where he lives & works as a writer-producer, Phil is uprooted to a strange country intoxicated by O sole mio, virgin olive oil & oak-aged Chianti. The local village reveals itself to be a hive of seething passions, secrets & age-old blood feuds, & the newcomers find that life is not all strolls around town during the passagiato & relaxing under the awnings of picturesque cafes. Beset by a rift of exasperating challenges
- from the cunning tricks of the Pinatore family to an infuriating Byzantine Italian bureaucracy
- it is only with an inspired touch of the ` Inner Italian` that Phil & Nancy finally manage to soften the hearts of their neighbours & are embraced by the community.

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This title is winner of the Booker Prize. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside & into his past. A contemporary classic, ”he Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro`s beautiful & haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes & lost love. ...