` Sad, funny, wise & unblinkingly honest, this is truly wonderful.` Daily Mail Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower & cynical troublemaker. He has lived his whole life by his own rules & has no intention of changing now. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his days avoiding the old cat lady next door & screening calls from his children. But when the enigmatic Emma moves in next door with her strange & sinister husb&, Cesare suspects there is more to their relationship than meets the eye. He enlists the other residents to help him investigate & soon discovers a new & unexpected sense of purpose that leads him to risk everything for a future he had never thought possible. Laced with humour & pathos in equal measure, this is a delightful book to savour, for young & old alike
- perfect for fans of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window & Disappeared & The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.` Immensely charming... Uplifting & very much on the side of life.` Mail on Sunday
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In Kenya`s ` Happy Valley` no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn & indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his Buick in the early hours of 24 January 1941. Some said the good-looking womaniser had it coming. He was a philanderer who could have had any number of enemies who wanted revenge. Ageing Jock Delves Broughton stood trial for Erroll`s murder but was acquitted & the mystery remained unsolved
- until now. American heiress Alice de Janze had been conducting a clandestine affair with Joss for years. Married into French aristocracy, her stunning beauty was to prove a fatal lure to men of adventure. Previously tried by a French court for shooting one of her lovers, scandal followed her wherever she went. She arrived in Kenya as a newly married Countess in the 1920s, but by 1941 she had turned forty & the years of partying had taken their toll. Pushed aside by Erroll for younger lovers, Alice was thrown into desperation, resulting in Errol`s murder & her own tragic demise. The Temptress not only solves the mystery of Josslyn Hay`s murder with the utmost conviction
- it eloquently paints a portrait of a volatile, captivating woman.

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Britain`s culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what & how we eat. The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them, but they don`t offer those of us located in the 21st Century much in the way of guidance when it comes to our relationship with our food. & Lord knows we need it. Enter our new culinary Moses, the legendary restaurant critic Jay Rayner, with a new set of h&-tooled commandments for this food-obsessed age. He deals once & for all with questions like whether it is ever okay to covet thy neighbour`s oxen (it is), eating with your hands (very important indeed) & if you should cut off the fat (no). Combining reportage & anecdotes with recipes worthy of adoration, Jay Rayner brings us the new foodie rules to live by. ...

With a touch of Bill Bryson`s humour, this wacky, fun book takes readers on a fascinating journey to parts of the world that few people visit. The Ten-Letter Countries is a story of a unique blend of countries visited by David based solely on their spelling... David Jenkins is The Alphabet Traveller. Having previously made an 85 000 mile journey to visit all countries in the world whose names are made up of four letters, David is now off to explore 12 countries which all have ten letters to their name. He heads to Bangladesh in search of the elusive Bengal tiger but disaster strikes quickly & worse is to follow. After a bungled attempt to break into a Luxembourg jail he sets off to cross the Stans of Central Asia by horse, jeep & bicycle only to stumble upon the world`s most notorious heroin trail. Assaulted by customs officials & hi-jacked at gunpoint, he manages to escape across the mountains & make it safely over the Steppes in a Lada full of vodka. To a land of oil, pelicans & naked men beating themselves with branches. He follows the Silk Road & the spread of Islam to the deserts of Mauritania & makes the rail journey of a lifetime through the mountains of tiny Montenegro. In the sparkling Indian Ocean he uncovers the sinister side of the seductive Seychelles, finds himself at the helm of an aircraft over the islands of Mozambique & takes a razor attack in his stride to enjoy the wacky wildlife of magical Madagascar... David Jenkins hitchhiked to France the day he left school & has trotted the globe ever since. He has waited tables in Switzerl&, sprayed crops in Israel, crewed yachts around the Pacific & cleaned urinals at Sydney Cricket Ground. He became a professor in Japan & then ran a business school in Rio de Janeiro before setting up his own company delivering newspapers across Africa. Now based in Cambridge, David`s first book The Four-Letter Countries, was widely featured in the national media. ...

When the mysterious & beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome. ...

When the mysterious & beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome. ...

A special, limited edition, with a brand new cover & the first two chapters of The Invisible Ones. Winner of the Costa Book ...

Ten-year anniversary edition of this bestselling book, with exclusive extra content. 1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered & a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man`s cabin head north towards the forest & the tundra beyond. One-by-one various searchers set out from Dove River, pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild animals, madmen & fugitives, variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for 17 years, a Native American culture, & a fortune in stolen furs before the snows settle & cover the tracks of the past for good. In this modern classic, Stef Penney deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelation & humour into a panoramic historical romance, an exhilarating thriller, & keen murder mystery that vividly conjures up the sights & smells of Canada`s frontier country. ...

For the 70s child, summer holidays didn`t mean the joy of Centre Parcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma & heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home & a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves. For Emma Kennedy, & her mum & dad, disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. Whether it was being swept away by a force ten gale on the Welsh coast or suffering copious amounts of food poisoning on a brave trip to the south of France, family holidays always left them battered & bruised. But they never gave up. Emma`s memoir, The Tent, The Bucket & Me, is a painfully funny reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with sand between your toes. ...

His parting gift to her was a new beginning... Julia Lovat walks away from her seven-year affair with Michael with a broken heart & a book of secrets. Her book tells the true story of Cat Tregenna, kidnapped by Barbary pirates & sold into slavery in Morocco four hundred years ago. When Julia travels to Morocco to discover Cat`s fate, she is quickly lost in an exotic & vibrant l&. Yet her guide is Idriss, a man so charismatic & beguiling that their meeting feels like destiny. & so, in the heat & dust, two love stories, separated by four centuries, entwine & blossom... The Tenth Gift is an enthralling story of secrets & discovering love where you least expect it. ...