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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl — $16.95
Mr Wonka's inventions are out of this world. He's thought up every kind of sweet imaginable in his amazing chocolate factory, but no one has ever seen inside, or met Mr Wonka! Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a golden ticket and wins the trip of a lifetime around the famous chocolate factory. He still could never have dreamed what surprises lie in store!

Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom — $22.95

Five People You Meet Heaven Mitch Albom — $22.95
From the bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie . On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his - and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet...

Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher — $39.95
When Oscar Blundell suffers a double tragedy, he accepts an invitation to take over a rambling old house in Scotland, taking Elfrida Phipps, his friend and neighbour, with him. As the house becomes a magnet for waifs and strays, it seems to weave a magic spell for Elfrida and Oscar.

You Are What You Eat Cookbook Gillian McKeith — $29.95
Packed with over 150 recipes and ideas for juices, smoothies, breakfasts, soups, salads, lunch-boxes, main meals, quick bites, snacks and treats, here is a plan for you and your family to savour. Energy, vitality and simply 'feeling great' is just around the corner.

Red Dragon Thomas Harris — $12.95
In the realm of psychological suspense, Thomas Harris stands alone . Exploring both the nature of human evil and the nerve-racking anatomy of forensic investigation, Harris unleashes a frightening vision of the dark side of our well-lighted world. In this extraordinary tale - which preceded The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal , Harris introduced the unforgettable character Dr. Hannibal Lecter. And in it, Will Graham - the FBI man who hunted Lecter down -- risks his sanity and his life to duel a...

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton — $14.95
Deeply moving study of the tyrannical and rigid requirements of New York high society in the late 19th century and the effect of those strictures on the lives of three people. Vividly characterized drama of affection thwarted by a man's sense of honor, family, and societal pressures. A long-time favorite with readers and critics alike.

The Deep End of the Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard — $39.95
"Watch your brother," says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son, Vincent. She's checking in at her high school reunion in Chicago. Even with a hotel clerk who is, in Beth's estimation, slower than weight loss, it's not more than five minutes before she turns again and asks, "Where's Ben?" It's the moment every mother dreads. Three-year-old Ben is gone. And no one can find him. Despite a police search that will turn into a nation-wide obsession, Ben has vanished, seemingly without a trace. His...

More Tales of the City Armistead Maupin — $16.95
Few works of fiction have blazed a trail through popular culture like Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series ... The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppleganger in a desert whore-house, and Michael Tolliver bumps into a certain gynecologist in a seedy Mexican Bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all—without ever leaving home.

The Iliad Homer — $14.95
Focusing on the closing days of the Trojan War, this novel incorporates the same epic cast of gods and warriors from The Odyssey . From the kidnapping of Helen from her Greek home to the death of Achilles's companion, the battle rages between two warring nations and the gods which protect both sides. Thrilling in content, but literate and subtle in its meaning, The Iliad remains a classic among classics.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne — $14.95

Sacred Dennis Lehane — $14.95
Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War , his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand , got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep , as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find...

Restoration Rose Tremain — $16.95
Restoration is a dazzling romp through 17th-century England. The main character Robert Merivel not only embodies the contradictions of his era, but ours as well. He is trapped between the longing for wealth and power and the realization that the pursuit of these trappings can leave one's life rather empty.

Inconceivable Ben Elton — $16.95
When Lucy first suggested they make a baby, Sam was gung ho — after all, sleeping with his wife is one of Sam's favorite things to do. Then out came the thermometers, followed by the holistic home remedies — not to mention some humiliating bouts with specimen jars. Soon Lucy's demands are driving Sam out of his mind. That is, until Sam conceives a plan of his own: He'll write a screenplay based on his and Lucy's poignant (and often uproarious) efforts to conceive a child. It could be a big hit. It...

A Sight For Sore Eyes Ruth Rendell — $39.95
Ruth Rendell may just be the master of the modern psychological mystery, and now, more than 40 books into her career, she has written one of her most brilliant. Dealing with Rendell's usual theme of the disturbances of human love, Sight for Sore Eyes finds a rock star and his lover dealing with the nightmare of misbegotten romance, and with the darkness that enters their lives in the form of a young man named Teddy. Rendell fans and readers new to her work will love this one.

The Works of Sir Walter Scott — $12.95

Entombed Linda Fairstein — $29.95
The latest blockbuster . After her resignation as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and the horrifying events which threatened her life in THE LAST PRECINCT, Kay Scarpetta has abandoned her elegant home in Richmond and is quietly living in Florida, beginning to get some balance back in her life and slowly establishing herself as a private forensic consultant. But her past won't let her rest, and her grief for Benton Wesley continues to grow, not diminish, as does the rage within Lucy, her niece....

Trunk Music Michael Connelly — $42.95

Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th Century American Women Elaine Showalter — $45.95
Short Stories By 19th-Century American Women. These tales of remarkable and of ordinary lives in nineteeth-century America are told through women's voices that call out from the kitchen hearth, the solitary room, the prison cell.

The Kills Linda Fairstein — $29.95
Prosecuting Andrew Tripping for the assault of Paige Vallis is already hard enough for Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper. No evidence, no forensics, it is the classic 'he said-she said' scenario that is so difficult to prove. Which is why Alex is pinning her hopes on Kevin Bessemer, Tripping's cellmate at Riker's, and Dulles, Tripping's ten-year-old son, who was in the house on the night in question. But on the way from Riker's to meet Alex, Bessemer uses the situation to make good his...

The Gizmo Paul Jennings — $12.95
An award-winning book by one of Australia's most popular children's author. Some gizmos are pretty weird, but this one is the weirdest ever! And it won't go away. A wacky story by the amazing Paul Jennings.

How to Make An American Quilt Whitney Otto — $10.95
Inventive and haunting, How to Make an American Quilt powerfully captures the rites of passage in women's lives. The art of quiltmaking becomes a metaphor for the realities of being a woman in America as the unforgettable stories of seven members of a contemporary California quilting group unfold. And as we come to understand the beauty and complexity of the quilting process — to see its evolution in our country's history — we come to intimately know the history of these women as well.

Blood Work Michael Connelly — $42.95
FBI Agent Terry Mclaeb comes out of retirement to investigate the murder of the woman that gave a new heart so he could survive . With the help of the victim sister he discover that her murder is not just a hit a run incident, but a calculated murder to get the organs of her rare blod group. Under pressure from the LAPD detetives, Mclaeb becomes a suspect himself. He is is convinced though that the murderer was hired by some famous figure . His only mistake is not guessing that famous figure.

Cold Hit Linda Fairstein — $26.95
Alexandra Cooper has seen many murder victims, but few more disturbing than the silk-clad body of a woman , her hands and feet tied to a ladder, pulled from the turbulent waters at Manhattan's northern tip. With her colleagues, including NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex races against the clock and hopes for a "cold hit" -- a DNA match that would reveal the identity of the murderer by linking the crime to someone already in the police database. But as the case pulls her into the...

Caroline's Sister Sheila O'Flanagan — $16.95
To her younger sister, Tessa, Caroline O'Shaughnessy has everything - great looks, easy charm, and the distinctly desirable Damien Woods. But for Caroline, things don't feel quite so rosy. She'd dreamed about moving in with Damien, but not about having his child, just yet. And though he did the honourable thing when she told him she was pregnant, it obviously wasn't what he wanted either. And as both of them struggle to make the best of a bad job, neither are prepared for the impact a moment of drunken...

A Dangerous Vine Barbara Ewing — $19.95
Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after the two English princesses. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret Rose still living, searching and reaching out for life and its meaning. And against the frankly odd, strained and curiously English household she inhabits in a New Zealand city, it is hard to make out the truth. So Margaret abandons what her parents think is right: learning English history, the French language, listening to comedy shows on the World Service and...

The Privilege of Youth Dave Pelzer — $29.95
R For Dave Pelzer, standing on the threshold of adulthood in 1970s America, his adolescence formed a crucial bridge between the shocking abuse of his childhood and the worrying world of responsibility ahead. In The Privilege of Youth , he tells the story of those years with his unique insight and sensitivity. Whilst recounting the relentless physical and emotional attacks of the high-school bullies, he also recalls the joy of exploring a new neighbourhood and encountering true friendship for the...

Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver — $19.95
When Turtle witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her mother responds and a man's life is saved, but their lives are changed by the incident.

Happy Now Charles Higson — $16.95
Tom Kendall has stopped attending his anger–management therapy sessions. They were making his blood boil. He’s always tried to live a quiet, blameless, normal life, keeping at bay the white–hot anger that threatens to engulf him. But he still gives people the creeps. Such as his brother–in–law. And his brother–in–law’s two daughters. And their cat. Meanwhile, Will Summers has discovered the secret of happiness. So what if he has to break into houses — 47 so far — to find it? When Tom discovers Will...

Werewolves in their Youth Michael Chabon — $34.95
Werewolves in Their Youth is a masterful collection of stories, featuring a cast of characters haunted by their pasts and attempting to make sense of their futures. Serious in their subject matter, yet shot through with wit, humour and compassion, these nine short stories demonstrate Chabon's ability to weave together comedy and tragedy with unforgettable results.

Monster Jonathan Kellerman — $16.95
Two murder victims have been discovered in the boots of their cars . The first was would-be actor, Richard Dada; the second Dr Claire Argent, a psychiatrist at a maximum security hospital. Milo Sturgis tends to think there will be plenty of suspects amongst her clientele, but as his friend Alex Delaware remarks, none of his patients ever killed anyone and as they investigate the backgrounds of both victims it appears that Milo needs to look elsewhere, because neither of them are who they made themselves...

Billy Straight Jonathan Kellerman — $24.95
Lisa, the estranged wife of TV superstar cop Cart Ramsey, is found murdered in a Los Angeles park. She'd divorced him for cruelty and the detectives on the case, Petra Connor and Stu Bishop, immediately elevate him to No 1 suspect. But a thorough investigation of the scene reveals that there was probably a witness to the killing. Reading the evidence on the ground Petra and Stu believe it is a homeless man, but in fact it is a homeless boy - Billy Straight. He knows he has vital evidence, but he...

Timeline Michael Crichton — $42.95
Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the 21st century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized—and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in 14th century feudal France.

Be My Enemy Christopher Brookmyre — $29.95
Except the longer the weekend goes on, the weirder things start to get. First someone steals the SIM cards from everybody's mobile phones. Then, when the group accidentally strays on to army land, the army starts firing back - and not with cans of Dulux. Suddenly no one can tell what's real and what isn't, whether this is part of the game, or if everybody is fighting for their lives . . .

Triage Scott Anderson — $34.95
Hit by an artillery shell in Kurdistan, photo-journalist Mark Walsh finds himself in a primitive hospital. Days before, his colleague Colin had been photographing the appalling conditions there. Returning to New York, Mark is nursed back to health, but the question remains: where is Colin?

Leadership Rudolph Giuliani — $24.95
This is Giuliani's unique guide to the principles that were so effective for him as the mayor of America's biggest city and throughout the rest of his remarkable career. Whether dealing with a major catastrophe or the day-to-day challenges afflicting a large city, handling complex human issues or assembling a team - Giuliani's approach applies to any manger in any sized enterprise.

The Solitaire Mystery Jostein Gaarder — $42.95
Hans Thomas, on his way to visit his mother in Greece, is given a magnifying glass by a dwarf in Switzerland, with the advice that he might need it. The boy finds a minute book in his bread roll, which he reads with the magnifying glass, and is soon set on an adventure beyond imagining.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Ron Hansen — $14.95
A fictionalized portrait of the legendary outlaw Jesse James, his violent career, and his murderer, Robert Ford, in an epic tale of the old West.

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception Eoin Colfer — $19.95
Evil pixie Opal Koboi is planning world destruction. Stopping her will involve clearing Captain Holly Short's name of murder, springing a kleptomaniac dwarf from jail and convincing a super-intelligent centaur that he doesn't know it all.

Tall Poppies Louise Bagshawe — $26.95
Through their dream of starting a diet and fitness company, three marginalized women from vastly different backgrounds come together. Between them they climb their way to the top of the industry, finding love and romance along the way. But danger threatens their future.

Family Baggage Monica McInerney — $29.95
When her foster sister Lara vanishes suddenly, Harriet is left in charge of a party of tourists on a theme tour of Devon and Cornwall. The eccentric group are fans of Willoughby, an English TV detective show, and can't wait to meet Patrick Shawcross, the handsome actor who played him fifteen years ago.

Honey-Dew Louise Doughty — $16.95
A respectable middle-aged couple have been stabbed to death in a small, rural village. Alison, a young local reporter, is covering the murders, but when the couple's teenage daughter confesses to the deed, the story becomes a "why dunnit" rather than a "who dunnit".

The Girl Most Likely Rebecca Sparrow — $22.95
But one rash decision changes everything. Suddenly Rachel finds herself living back at home in her childhood bedroom, nannying a surly six-year-old and watching Mary Tyler Moore re-runs. Her friends worry she's having a 'quarter-life' crisis - but the real story is far more bizarre. As she confronts her idea of perfection, she finds that happiness is living the life you want to live, rather than the one you're expected to

Ferney James Long — $14.95
It was an accidental detour inspired by one of Gally's frequent panic attacks that sent her husband Mike down a twisting lane to the abandoned cottage. Yet from the moment she saw it, Gally felt a peace she hadn't known in years and the inexplicable sense that she had finally come home. And so she had. For as Mike worries and fusses over their new home's restoration, it is Gally who seems to know exactly how it should look. Indeed, Gally seems to flourish in the tiny village of Penselwood, deep in...

In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead James Lee Burke — $16.95
Haunted by the reemergence of a forty-year-old unsolved murder, detective Dave Robicheaux must also contend with a spate of serial killings of prostitutes and local dissension about the movie company that is shooting in town

Charades Janette Turner Hospital — $12.95

The Christmas Mystery Jostein Gaarder — $16.95
Fifty years ago a girl called Elisabet Hansen disappeared from her home in Norway. She ran after a lamb and found herself travelling right across Europe to Palestine, and back through 2000 years to meet the Holy Family in Bethlehem. As she ran she met angels, shepherds, wise men and other biblical characters who joined her on her pilgrimage; and she heard of many of the things that happened in the world in the last 2000 years. In present day Norway, a boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent...

Day of Confession Allan Folsom — $24.95
The Addison brothers, Harry and Danny, have been estranged for many years, but when Danny calls from Rome pleading for Harry to get in touch, his brother doesn't ignore him. Except it seems he is too late, as Danny was on board a tourist bus which was blown apart by a bomb. But when Harry arrives in Italy he is plunged into a Kafka-esque nightmare, discovering that his brother is accused of assassinating the Cardinal Vicar of Rome and when he dares to suggest that Danny is still alive he finds that...

Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field Melissa Nathan — $16.95
It starts as a lark for Jasmin Field, the charming, acerbically witty columnist for a national women's magazine. She joins a host of celebraties gathering in London to audition for the season's most dazzling charity event: a one-night only stage production of Jane Austen's immortal Pride and Prejudice, directed by and starring the Academy Award — winning Hollywood heartthrob Harry Noble. And nobody is more surprised than Jasmin herself when she lands the lead of handsome Harry's love interest...

On the Move: Feminism for a New Generation Natasha Walter — $26.95
Feminism is on the move. In this book more than a dozen young writers outline their vision of the feminist future. Oona King, Britain's second black woman MP, tells us why feminism matters in government; Helen Wilkinson writes on Thatcher's liberating relationship with power; Stephanie Theobald gives us a darkly humorous attack on lesbian chic; Julie Bindel uncovers the dangers women still face in their own homes; Katharine Viner reminds us why the personal is still the political; novelist Livi Micheal...

The Friends of Eddie Coyle George V Higgins — $16.95
It has, by now, become something of a cliché to describe George Higgins as a "master of dialogue," but that, in fact, is what he was. Higgins's ear for the rhythms of human speech - for the shrewd, funny, obscene, discursive monologues that form the heart of so much of his work - was uncanny and unprecedented, and has exerted an influence on the novels and stories of a great many writers who followed in his footsteps, such as Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy, David Mamet, and John Gregory Dunne, to name...

The House Husband Owen Whittaker — $14.95
One minute he was changing the world – the next he was changing nappies . Andy is a musician and songwriter. At least, that's what he was until he was persuaded by his wife to become a House Husband when she goes back to work. And so begins a life of school runs, changing nappies and watching Sesame Street. But things turn out to be far more complicated than Andy ever expected ... The trials and tribulations of Andy's role reversal are relayed in minute by minute diary form in this wonderful debut...

Strange Things Margaret Atwood — $24.95
Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious - and disastrous - Franklin expedition of the nineteenth century; the myth of the dreaded snow monster, the Wendigo; the relations between nature writing and new forms of Gothic; and how a fresh generation of women writers in Canada have adapted the imagery of the Canadian...

Buxton Spice Oonya Kempadoo — $34.95
The time is the 1970s. The place is the coast of Guyana, a world of color and light, dust and heat, flesh and earth . Here in the cool, wood-floored home that doubles as a school and a community center, a young girl opens her window and breathes in the redolence of a Buxton Spice mango tree. And asks the tree to tell her its secret - and the secret of its indifference. Buxton Spice is the song of Oonya Kempadoo's young narrator, Lula, and the song of her ill-fated town of Tamarind Grove: its colorful...

The Carbon War: Dispatches from the End of the Oil Century Jeremy Leggett — $49.95
The oil industry's hold on economies and politics has dominated the 20th century. The oil industry expects no different in the next. Yet if oil and other fossil fuels continue to be used at the current rate, the world is heading for environmental disater. Since the end of the 1980s, global warming has grown to be widely accepted as the single biggest threat to a viable future. This work is an insiders account of the global warming crisis, beginning with Jeremy Leggetts days as a progressively guilt...

Bombay Talkie Ameena Meer — $16.95
Sabah sets out to discover her heritage in India, only to stumble on a Bombay set more decadent than the folks back home in the US. Her friend Rani is the queen of the Delhi disco and her uncle is an ageing movie star searching for his lost gay son in New York and London.

The Crow: City of Angels Chet Williamson — $12.95
I believe there's a place where the restless souls wander . Burdened by the weight of their own sadness, they cannot enter Heaven. And so they want, trapped between our work and the next, endlessly searching for a way to rid themselves of their pain - in the hopes that somehow, some day they will be reunited with the ones they love.

Where Are You, Henry? Anna Yeomans — $14.95
Jenny's boyfriend Henry loves her. His passion for his work has taken him to theartic for nine months. Nine months is a long time and Henry is hopeless at communicating - is he worth waiting for? Along comes Sanjay who is gorgeous, eager and THERE - and stuck in a loveless arranged marriage to Nita. Jenny's work colleage, Kate, would like to bed Nita. When Henry returns, expecting Jenny to have waited for him, he's in for a surprise or two ...

Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism George Soros — $34.95
Lauded by the New York Times as "brilliant and persuasive," and published in more than thirty-five foreign editions, George Soros's The Crisis of Global Capitalism became an instant classic. A must read for anyone concerned with the complex market forces that rule our global economy and that have thrust us into a state of financial flux and international economic insecurity. Now Soros takes a whole new look at the arguments he made in that book, incorporating the very latest in global economic and...

The Inner Sanctum Stephen Frey — $14.95
On the surface, David Mitchell and the beautiful Jesse Hayes could not be more different. David is a fast-rising, lavishly compensated young portfolio manager in the nation's most profitable closed-end fund, the ultra-exclusive and expensive Sagamore Investment Management Group. Jesse, both attractive and smart, is an underpaid agent for the IRS. But both are drawn closer together in a web of venomous deception and death that stretches from the frenzy of Wall Street to the darkest corridors of Washington...

Where You Find It Janice Galloway — $26.95
'Valentine's Day makes me embarrassed,' writes Janice Galloway in the opening lines of Where You Find It . The collection deals with love in its many guises - the way relationships suddenly turn; how a look, a gesture, a word can heal or hurt. Love in Galloway's world is more likely to resemble a heart-shaped ham sandwich than the flowers and chocolates that bear the standard in more traditional "love stories." In the manner of Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver, Galloway's tales explore the psychological...

Staying On Paul Scott — $19.95
In this sequel to The Raj Quartet , Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage.

Premeditated Murder Sloboden Selenic — $23.95
A novel translated from the Serbo-Croat by Jelena Petrovic set in the years between the Second World War and contemporary Belgrade. A young woman unveils the loves and death of her grandmother and the afflictions of separation, political chaos and destruction.

The Private Parts of Women Lesley Glaister — $14.95
Inis runs away to a Sheffield terrace and encounters the seemingly calm and normal Trixie, her 84-year-old neighbour. Through trying to help her, Inis unwittingly fans the flames of Trixie's madness and finds herself perilously grappling with demons not her own.

Lying, Crying, Dying Dominic Martell — $26.95
Pascual is a legend in some circles; the terrorist who broke his secret world wide open for some semblance of inner peace, the killer who repented, recanted and walked away. He may have retired but now the one secret he never revealed has returned to haunt him - and it might yet claim his life.

City of God E L Doctorow — $35.00
CITY OF GOD begins in mystery: the large brass cross behind the altar of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in lower Manhattan has disappeared ... and even more mysteriously reappeared on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side. The church's maverick rector and young rabbinical couple who lead the synagogue set about attempting to learn who the vandals are who have committed this strange double act of desecration and to what purpose, but their joint clerical investigation...

The Tinner's Daughter Rosemary Aitken — $14.95
Carrie leaves the familiar terrace in Penvarris to go into service in Penzance. She soon adapts to her employers' little peculiarities, and then to the even stranger life of a clayer's wife in St Austell, but she always keeps Penvarris, and the enigmatic Frenchman she met there, in her heart.

And This Too Shall Pass E Lynn Harris — $16.95
Professional footballer Zurich's bid for fame is interrupted by a sexual assault charge from an ambitious sports broadcaster with her own sights on success. Tamela, a high-powered lawyer is brought in to defend Zurich, while Sean, a gay sportswriter, covers the story and uncovers his heart.

The Nerve: The 1998 Virage Book of Writing Women Andrea Badenoch — $24.95
In this, the best of new women writers of 1998, the sensuality, the eating, the loving that has always characterised women's writing is combined with a dangerous edginess: the elegant Mrs Beecham convulses with secret pleasure at the hairdressers; barefoot Camilla makes her lover drink her blood; bald Eva, with no eyebrows or palm-prints, has a terrible secret; Dr O serves vodka in a jagged bean tin. Ranging in age from 20 to 50, mainly from the north, these authors fly in the face of the idea that...

The Last Thing He Wanted Joan Didion — $45.95
It is 1984. Journalist Elena McMahon is watching her father ebbing away before her . Keener, harder forces impel her to do his bidding and go into Central America because things are "hotting up again".

Playing the Bones Louise Redd — $29.95

Careless Talk Gill Totten — $19.95

Evita: The Real Lives of Eva Peron Nicholas Fraser — $19.95
In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, Eva Peron wielded a power - spiritual and practical - that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. In this "fascinating, frightening, straightforward" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) biography, Fraser and Navarro have produced "a work of great political sophistication. . . . Factual, nuanced, and absorbing" (Kirkus Reviews).

The Prodigal Spy Joseph Kanon — $26.95
Walter Kotlar is the epitome of the American dream, the son of working class immigrants who attends Yale and becomes part of the establishment, but he is caught up in the '50s fear of the 'red menace' and forced to testify before the Committee on Un-American Activities. He seems a very unlikely Communist, but before the hearing is concluded he has disappeared - defected to the East though not before the chief witness has committed 'suicide'. Nineteen years later his son, Nick, receives a message...

Mariette In Ecstasy Ron Hansen — $23.95
'A luminous novel that burns a laser-bright picture into the reader's imagination, forcing one to reassess the relationship between madness and divine possession, gullibility and faith, sexual rapture and religious ecstasy... an astonishingly deft and provocative novel,' New York Times

Pure Deception David Michie — $26.95
London. Mark has just been wooed to LA to be groomed as the new singing partner to the rock star, Isis. Still not totally believing his good luck he allows himself to be 'made over' - new wardrobe, new hair style, new name - until he's not too sure who he really is. Even when he learns that he and Isis have a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Berkeley Square, Mark doesn't make the connection between the violence in London and his new role. Then someone targets them in a bomb attack and Mark...

Horseman, Pass By Larry McMurtry — $16.95
Hud Bannon was as tough as the Texas land he lived on. Women were drawn to him like pins to a magnet and the boy Lonnie made an idol of him, but was he a rapist? Only two people never bowed to the force of his personality, but Hud was determined to conquer them too, at any cost.

If This World Were Mine E Lynn Harris — $14.95
Friends since their days at Hampton Institute, the four group members are as different as the seasons, yet they all share a love of one another. Yolanda, a media consultant, keeps it going on with a no-nonsense attitude and independence that are balanced by the theatrics of Riley, a former marketing executive, whose marriage has reduced her to "a kept woman with kids." Computer engineer Dwight's anger at the world is offset by the compassion of Leland, a gay psychiatrist, whose clients make him question...

Icefields Thomas Wharton — $26.95
Nearly sixty feet below the surface, Byrne is wedged upside down between the narrowing walls of a chasm, fighting his desire to sleep. The ice in front of him is lit with a pale blue-green radiance. There, embedded in he pure, antediluvian glacier, Byrne sees something that will inextricably link him to the vast bed of ice, and the people who inhabit this strange corner of the world. In this moment, his life becomes a quest to uncover the mystery of the icefield that almost became his tomb.

Messages Naomi Lewis — $12.95

The Voice of the Moon Ermanno Cavazzoni — $23.95
The madness particular to all those who come under the influence of the city of Padua is celebrated in this novel by Italian writer Ermanno Cavazzoni. Savini, the central character, finds himself the victim of even more alarming circumstances at the time of the full moon.

Collaborating to Compete: Using Strategic Alliances and Acquisitions in the Global Marketplace Joel Bleeke — $49.95
Culled from international experts writing for the Harvard Business Review and the McKinsey Quarterly , this book brings together the current thinking on cross-border alliances and acquisitions and their impact on global collaboration. A strategic and operational guide, it shows you the ``ropes'' when it comes to financial, legal and accounting issues in cross-border cooperation. Based on hundreds of case studies worldwide, this work gives you the results of a year-long study of current alliances...

Under House Arrest Yevgeny Kharitonov — $23.95
A dissident, a utopian poet and a homosexual, Kharitonov was a proscribed writer whose work circulated in samizdat but was never officially published in his lifetime. Kharitonov's homosexuality, which was central to his identity as a writer, gave him a unique perspective from which to write about Soviet society. A collection of his autobiographical fictions, Under House Arrest is the first book of Kharitonov's to be published in English.

The Deep Field James Bradley — $26.95
The Deep Field introduces us to a brilliant young photographer named Anna Frazier, whose latest project is a photographic study of shell fossils called ammonites. At a museum in Sydney she meets Seth La Marque, a blind paleontologist who senses that Anna is hiding something from her past that has wounded her and made her shut down her emotions. Slowly, as they become friends and then lovers, Anna reveals her tumultuous and obsessive love affair with a Hong Kong-based financier and the painful ending...

Dear Mr. Capote Gordon Lish — $8.95

Invitation to the Waltz Rosamond Lehmann — $16.95
In a home-made dress of flame-coloured silk, a gawky, would-be curate as an escort, Olivia Curtis' first dance is either going to be gloriously romantic or an agonizing public humiliation. But whatever it entails it has to be an improvement on the Sheer Ordinariness of normal life.

Otherwere: Stories of Transformation Keith R A DeCandido — $6.95

A Dry Spell Susie Moloney — $14.95
Now darkness has descended on Goodlands: Fires are singeing the already parched land, suspicious crimes are on the rise, and an ever-increasing sense of doom is enveloping the town. Tom Keatley has pulled rain from the sky in town after arid town. A loner, a drifter, Tom is a rainmaker, the stuff of myth. But to Karen Grange, Goodlands' beleagured mortgage lender, Tom is her only hope to save the dying town.

The Temporary Rachel Cusk — $26.95
By the author of Saving Agnes , which won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1993. Francine is a temporary, who moves through corporate London, men, flats and friends, always convinced there is something better ahead. But when Ralph proves able to resist her, Francine feels her powers failing.

Return of the Stranger Reay Tannahill — $12.95
Tassie Smith's childhood is violently disrupted when a stranger appears on her mother Grace's, doorstep claiming to have inherited the family house and fortune. It emerges that he is Tassie's long-lost brother, and, after a tricky start, shesoon begins to hero-worship him. But as her life unfolds it becomes apparent that there is very much more to brother Max than meets the eye, and that he has some powerful enemies - not least the man with whom Tassie herself falls in loveReay Tannahill uses wonderful...

Scruples Judith Krantz — $14.95
It has more inside information about the worlds of high fashion and Hollywood than you'd find in a dozen manuals." With Scruples, Judith Krantz earned her reputation as a blazingly talented and original storyteller. she takes her readers behind the scenes of wealthy and fame to show them the real people and the real emotions that exist at the core of even the most high-powered lives. Scruples is the leader of her #1 best-selling novels.

Fair Exchange Michele Roberts — $42.95
In the early 1800s, Louise, a French peasant woman, fearing she is about to die, calls for her priest. She has a secret to confess . Though the priest is impatient, she wants to tell her tale from the beginning. The story opens in Stoke Newington, London, in the 1780s, with Jemima Boote, arriving at Miss Mary Wollstonecraft's school. Jemima follows her beloved teacher to Paris wanting to be part of the erupting revolution and then - six months pregnant - retreats to the tiny village of Louise's youth...

Autobiopsy Bernice Rubens — $14.95
This humorous novel tells what happens when a close friend dies and you can't let go. Martin Peabody responds by cutting out the mind of his friend and mentor, Walter Berry, a great novelist. "Autobiopsy" is the story he culls from the late Walter's life-time thoughts.

The Dumas Club Arturo Perez-Reverte — $19.95

The Hanging Garden Ian Rankin — $42.95
A tense and complicated thriller featuring inspector John Rebus from the acclaimed author of Black and Blue . Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a possible war criminal resident in Edinburgh. His immediate superiors are more than happy to have him tucked away in a quiet backwater for several months looking into ancient history. But the Crime Squad are forced to bring him back to the present day when a young upstart gangster, Tommy Telford, muscles in on...

Blessings Sheneska Jackson — $19.95
At Blessings, Patricia Brown's Los Angeles salon, we listen in on the dish and the drama and get real with the four unforgettable women who work there. Pat is the owner and matriarch of the salon, and she presides over Blessings with a kind but commanding air - preventing fiery arguments, smoothing over conflicts, and lending a sympathetic ear to those who need it. Zuma is Blessings' star stylist, and she knows it. This brash diva is a self-described superwoman committed to making her dream of being...

In a Fishbone Church Catherine Chidgey — $39.95
When Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard. But Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignored, and start to permeate his family's world.

The Black Rubber Dress Lauren Henderson — $26.95

The Architect of Desire Suzannah Lessard — $16.95
In this extraordinary book , the author digs and digs until she finds out the whole story. Throughout the gripping narrative, snippets of information about Stanford are woven into the incredible tale of the author's own upbringing and the whole family, finally revealing the sordid circumstances of the murder. But this is more than just a riveting murder mystery - it ius an amazing four- generation family story which offers a glimpse into another time and world.

The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline Flora Fraser — $26.95
At the heart of the Regency period - nine years from 1811 to 1820 - lies the mismatch between the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince Regent, later George IV, separated privately from Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales, later Queen Caroline, within a year of their marriage in 1795. They remained separated until her death in 1821, but the mockery of their marriage resisted the public efforts to dissolve it. Barred from the Regent's court, Caroline travelled through Europe with a small court...