Kate and her partner, AI Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man,handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and frail--and has an airtight alibi. Kate and AI are stumped, until a second body turns up--also zapped, cuffed, and strangled...and carrying a candy bar. This victim: a convicted rapist.As newspaper headlines speculate about vendetta killings, a third death draws Kate and AI into a network of pitiless destruction that reaches far beyond San Francisco, a modern-style hit list with shudderingly primal roots.
Eighteen witty and brilliant essays on France from Julian Barnes; Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with France began more than forty years ago. As sceptical observer on family motoring holidays, assistant in a school in Brittany, student of the language and literature, author of Flaubert's Parrot and Cross Channel, he has criss-crossed the country and its culture The essays collected here, written over a twenty-year period, attest to his cleareyed appreciation of the Land Without Brussels Sprouts. He ranges widely, from landscape to literature, food to Flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France. His humour, timing and intelligence never falter. When Picador published his Letters from London, the Financial Times called him 'our finest essayist'. Something to Declare confirms that judgment: it is a great literary delight.
Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, where busy denizens lament, "Oh where does the time go?" While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He's going to stop. Well, stop time that is, by building the world's first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time -- as we know it -- will end. And then the trouble will really begin... Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular living authors in the world,His first story was published when he was thirteen,and his first full-length book when he was twenty.He worked as a journalist to support the writing habit,but gave up the day jo
A commercial jetlinet disaster has brought Tempe Brennan to the North Carolian mountaina as a member of the investigative agency DMORT.As bomb theories abound,Tempse soon discovers a jarring piece of evidence that raises dangerous questions-and gets her thrown from the DMORT team.Relentless in her pursuit of its significance,Tempe uncovers a shocking ,multilayered tale of deceit and depravit as she probes her way into frightening territory-where someone wants her stopped in her tracks.
There is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things.He is Morpheus,the lord of dreams.Older than humankind itself,he inhabits-along with Destiny,Death,Destruction,Desire,Despair,and Delirium,his Endless sisters and brothers-the realm of human consciousness.His powers are myth and nightmare-inspirations,poeasures,and punishments manifested beneath the blanketing mist of sleep.
Someone has to stand against the dark And youre the only one who can
When life's unexpected changes pull two people in different directions, sweeping them into new lives and changed worlds... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Love, that most universal of emotions, has been the wellspring of some of our most enduring and irresistible works of fiction. Many authors have mined this rich vein to produce a wide range of tales from the light hearted to the passionate to the tragic. Long before the genre of "romance" filled the aisles of bookstores, writers filled pages on the subject. Classic Love Stories gathers together a rich assortment of their work. Collected here are vintage tales from Shakespeare's time through the dawn of the twentieth century. Life may have been simpler then, but human emotion was just as complex as it is today. An anthology filled with some of your favourite writers-O. Henry, Edna Ferber, Charlotte Bronte, Charles and Mary Lamb, Kate Chopin-and some lesser-known gems-Ada Cambridge, Frederic Jesup Stimson, Henry Clay Lewis-CLASSIC LOVE STORIES is a perfect gift for the love of your life.
Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only image doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious 200-year-old farmhouse in the Luberon and began a new life. In a year that begins with a marathon lunch and continues with a host of gastronomique delights, they also survive the unexpected and often hilarious curiosities of rural life. From mastering the local accent and enduring invasion by bumbling builders, to discovering the finer points of boules and goat-racing, all the earthly pleasures of provencal life are conjured up in this portrait. Peter Mayle has contributed to a wide range of publications in England,France and America,and his work has been translated into twenty-two languages.His boks,many of them published by Penguin,include A Year in Provence,oujours Provence,Hotel Pastis,A Dog's Life,Anything Considered and Chasing Cezanne.His latest book,Encore Provence,has just been published by Hamish Hamilton.
Sixteen-year-old Becky is about to have her life changed. A dramatic explosion is only the start of her incredible adventure. As maid to the cockney Crown Princess of a tiny kingdom in Europe, she is plunged in a turmoil of murder and intrigue.