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When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...

I was working as a journalist when I began work on my first novel. Like a lot of journalists, I think I entered the trade because I loved to write, and it was one of the few ways I thought I could be paid to do what I loved. But there is a difference between being a writer and a journalist, and I was certainly a poorer journalist than I am a writer (and I make no great claims for myself in either field.) I got quite frustrated with journalism, which probably gave me the impetus to start work on the novel. That book, Every Dead Thing, took about five years to write and was eventually published in 1999. It introduced the character of Charlie Parker, a former policeman hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. Dark Hollow, the second Parker novel, followed in 2000. The third Parker novel, The Killing Kind, was published in 2001, with The White Road following in 2002. In 2003, I published my fifth novel - and first stand-alone book - Bad Men. In 2004, Nocturnes, a collection of novellas and short stories, was added to the list, and 2005 marked the publication of the fifth Charlie Parker novel, The Black Angel. In 2006, The Book of Lost Things, my first non-mystery novel, will be published.

The Hamlyn Classic Chefs series is a celebratory collection of some of the most admired chefs the world has to offer - noteworthy not only for their pioneering approach to food, but also for their dependable, uncomplicated and trustworthy recipes. Rose Elliot comes from a family of three generations of vegetarians and is regarded as one of the world's finest vegetarian writers with over 50 books to her name.

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The Hamlyn Classic Recipes" series is a celebratory collection of some of the most admired chefs the world has to offer - noteworthy not only for their pioneering approach to food, but also for their dependable, uncomplicated and trustworthy recipes. This definitive cookbook contains over 75 signature recipes accompanied by beautiful photography. In this elegant collection of Italian cuisine, you'll find delicious traditional dishes such as Bucatini with pancetta, Beef braised in Barola, Calamari stuffed with rice, parsley and garlic and Pistachio ice cream.

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of 56 short stories and four novels, he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help, and when it was thought that he had died in his clash with the evil Professor Moriarty ('the Napoleon of Crime') young men in London wore black armbands. This handsome edition, bound in real cloth, with head and tail bands, a ribbon marker, top edge gilt and a gold-blocked jacket, presents all of the short stories, many illustrated by Sidney Paget, who prepared these drawings for the original publication in "The Strand Magazine". It also contains the four novels: "A Study in Scarlet" in which Holmes and Dr Watson first meet, "The Sign of the Four", "The Valley of Fear" and the chilling masterpiece "The Hound of the Baskervilles". This title features Introduction by David Stuart Davies, former editor of "Sherlock Holmes: The Magazine".

Under the expert guidance of Patrick Cox and Eric Lanlard, cupcakes have received a sultry and seductive makeover, and Cox Cookies & Cake is far sexier than the average cake shop. The edgy atmosphere of its Soho home is ravishingly reflected in the cakes it produces - from Mrs Nickolchuk's Nanaimo squares to cupcakes bejewelled with skulls and gothic black frosting. Oozing sexy Soho, this book features 80 recipes from classic Bling cupcakes and chunky chocolate chip cookies to all-time favourite cheesecakes and brownies. Edgy design and graphic photography make this a voluptuous and completely delicious new take on cakes.

Román Emauzy rozpráva príbeh o štyroch sedemnásťročných chlapcov, ktorí uviazli v dusivej, nepríjemnej realite. Na prahu dospelosti sa zmietajú medzi pevnými hranicami tradícií a vlastnými rozhodnutiami s fatálnymi dôsledkami. Pohybujú sa medzi školo u a miestnym kostolom, pri omši hrajú na gitarách, a ako dobrovoľníci pomáhajú v nemocnici. Do ich mentálnej výbavy patrí neotrasiteľná viera v Boha. Jedného dňa sa ako víchrica vrúti medzi chlapcov ich spolužiačka Andre, najprv sa zmocní ich myslí, potom ich sŕdc a napokon aj ich tiel. Všetci štyria jej postupne prepadajú a odhaľujú zmysel bolesti, sexu, dokonca aj smrti.

Desať životopisov panovníkov z celého sveta odhaľuje prekvapivé a často nepovšimnuté vplyvy v životoch slávnych. Dozvieme sa , kým sa inšpiroval Alexander. Veľký, Henrich VIII., Alžbeta I, Ľudovít XIV. či Katarína Veľká. Texty sú doplnené komiksovými ilustráciami.

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Román Emauzy rozpráva príbeh o štyroch sedemnásťročných chlapcov, ktorí uviazli v dusivej, nepríjemnej realite. Na prahu dospelosti sa zmietajú medzi pevnými hranicami tradícií a vlastnými rozhodnutiami s fatálnymi dôsledkami. Pohybujú sa medzi školo u a miestnym kostolom, pri omši hrajú na gitarách, a ako dobrovoľníci pomáhajú v nemocnici. Do ich mentálnej výbavy patrí neotrasiteľná viera v Boha. Jedného dňa sa ako víchrica vrúti medzi chlapcov ich spolužiačka Andre, najprv sa zmocní ich myslí, potom ich sŕdc a napokon aj ich tiel. Všetci štyria jej postupne prepadajú a odhaľujú zmysel bolesti, sexu, dokonca aj smrti.

Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' So begins Jane Austen's perennially popular novel in which the prejudice of Elizabeth Bennett - surely one of literature's most engaging heroines - meets the pride of Mr Darcy as they pit their wits against each other in this classic tale of romantic misunderstanding. Published for the first time in flipback classics - so now you can always carry an Austen in your pocket

Vlado Petric, former detective in war-torn Sarajevo, has left his beloved homeland to join his wife and daughter in Germany, where he scratches a meagre living among the dust of former conflicts on the building sites of the new Berlin. Returning home one evening, he finds an enigmatic American investigator waiting for him in the small apartment he now shares with his wife and daughter. The investigator, Calvin Pine, works for the International War Crimes Tribunal, and he tells Petric that they want him to go to The Hague. It doesn't take Petric long to accept, especially when Pine tells him they are after a big fish: one of the men who they think is responsible for the terrible massacre of Srebrenica. What Petric doesn't know is that he is also being used as bait to lure into the open a murderer from the previous generation; a man whose activities in the Second World War makes the current generation of killers look like amateurs. As Petric travels from modern-day Germany, through the ruins of Bosnia, to the peaceful hills of southern Italy where bitter, unresolved tensions still crackle beneath the surface, the stakes become all too personal. And he soon finds that investigating the mysteries of the past can be every bit as dangerous as finding his way through the war zones of the present.

Full of mischief, valour, ribaldry, and romance, "The Arabian Nights" has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved Shahrazad whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending - a thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume contains the most famous stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multi-volume translation, and unlike many editions, the more adult ...

My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house'. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three, emerging as a young man and experimenting as a writer, when his mother asked him to come with her, back to the village of Aracataca, back to his grandparents' house and the memories of his Colombian childhood. In this first part of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's memoir, the Nobel prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that shaped his formidable imagination and formed the basis of his world-famous, and much-loved, ...

Keď máš kamaráta, nemusíš sa ničoho báť!" Medveď a tiger sú nerozluční priatelia. Ničoho sa neboja, lebo spolu sú úžasne silní. Bývajú v útulnom domčeku pri rieke, ale jedného dňa sa vyberú hľadať Panamu, ich vytúženú krajinu. Na ceste zažijú pekné dobrodružstvá. A kde sa Panama nachádza? Líška, krava ani myš o nej nikdy nepočuli, ale vrana o nej niečo vie. Nájdu napokon, čo hľadali?