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Marshal Guarnacci's investigation draws him in the underworld of Florence

A story for our times—a humorous but uncompromising look at what it takes, in this day and age, to have the courage of our convictions. In his third novel, Nick Hornby, whom "The New Yorker"...

Suppose you meet an Australopithecine when on a Kenyan safari. You will have to learn his ways - surviving, hunting, making love... A thrilling mix of sci-fi with live action.

An extraordinary work of fact-based fiction. Set during the 1830s in a hellish island prison colony off the Tasmanian coast, the novel plucks a real-life thief and prisoner, English forger William Bue...

He who calls himself a Civilized Man, an Englishman - is he able to discipline his heart so as to distinguish oneself from a savage? That is the question - for Charles Dickens and for the wife of a go...

A not unlike John Updike critical look at the Americam middle class - spiced with some exotica.

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under hi...

Of course it's pathetic! If you like Coelho, you'll LOVE Evans.

There is no retirement in Special Operations business. Especially if your former employers seek to annihilate you for no discernible reason...

A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the ...

Reading this book was a real repose - dramatic family events, if sometimes predictable, are masterfully intertwined with descriptions of English country and its modern life.

A happy-end melodrama from the early-days Kinsella. Easy reading for all ages.

Wizard and Glass, the fourth episode in King's white-hot Dark Tower series, is a sci-fi/fantasy novel that contains a post-apocalyptic Western love story twice as long.

Three children have been orphaned twice - first their families perished, then their guardians. There must be some connection - is it alien life?