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Hot Topics
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17 May 2013
The Order of Genesis?
Hi Andrew. Really interested to read about your book. Especially in light of the ENCODE projects findings that at minimum 80 % of the humane genome is functional. Way higher than the previous thought of just 2%. This makes seemingly a catastrophic case for evolution and a closer look at Other sour...
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17 May 2013
The Order of Genesis?
Hi Andrew. Really interested to read about your book. Especially in light of the ENCODE projects findings that at minimum 80 % of the humane genome is functional. Way higher than the previous thought of just 2%. This makes seemingly a catastrophic case for evolution and a closer look at Other sour...
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20 June 2012
Mimi Spencer's bag for Cargo: MINX
I have bought three of Mimi Spencer's Six in a Bags. All of the bits are good (although I'm about 30 skin shades paler than the foundation) but Minx, the pencil, is the perfect eyeliner for my pale brown eyed skin/eyes combination. I can't overstate its perfection. BUt the tiny pencils in the Six in...
Latest Blog Entries
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20 May 2013
Steaming to Victory in the Sunday Express
'Gripping as a fictional thriller', says the Sunday Express in its review of my new book 'Steaming to Victory'
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15 May 2013
Steaming to Victory and Dam Busters anniversary
Proud that my new Random House book on the heroes of the Home Front of World War Two should be published on the 70th anniversary of the achievements of the fighting men and engineers of the Dam Buster...
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12 May 2013
PETE JOHNSON ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS EAGERLY AWAITED NEW BOOK ‘MY PARENTS ARE OUT OF CONTROL’
‘MY PARENTS ARE OUT OF CONTROL’ IS THE SEQUEL TO ‘HOW TO TRAIN YOUR PARENTS.’ BUT IS IT TRUE IT HAS TAKEN YOU TEN WHOLE YEARS TO WRITE IT?It really has. Let me tell you why. First of all when you hav...
Featured Books
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The Accidental Family
Six months ago, city girl Sophie Mills gave up everything to move to Cornwall. All to be with the ma...
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Avenger
Danny and Elena are now working for the Firm, desperately attempting to track down the vengeance-see...
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Avenger
Danny and Elena are now working for the Firm, desperately attempting to track down the vengeance-see...
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The Missing
Jenny Shepherd is twelve years old and missing...Her teacher, Sarah Finch, knows better than most th...
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A Beginner's Guide To Acting English
It's 1977 and life in Iran is becoming unpredictable. The Shah will be overthrown and events are ab...
Sortable Authors (86)
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Adele Geras
ADELE GERAS was born in Jerusalem and travelled widely as a child. She started writing over thirty years ago and is the author of more than ninety books for young readers, including Happy Ever After,...
Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales from the Storybag
Magic beans. Sow them. Plant them. Watch children grow.'If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a...
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Andrea Busfield
Andrea Busfield was born in Warrington in 1970. During her fifteen years as a journalist she worked for The Western Gazette in Yeovil, Somerset; News Team International in Birmingham; The Sun in Londo...
Born Under a Million Shadows
The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul's streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remai...
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Andrew Parker
Born in 1967 in England, Professor Andrew Parker moved to Australia in 1990 where he spent ten years studying marine biology and physics. On returning to the UK as a Royal Society University Resear...
The Genesis Enigma
The description of creation as it appears in the Bible makes no sense. The first page of Genesis fea...
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Andrew Rosenheim
Andrew Rosenheim came to England from America as a Rhodes Scholar in 1977 and has lived near Oxford ever since. He is the author of Stillriver, Keeping Secrets, and most recently Without Prejudice. H...
Without Prejudice
Late one night, Robert Danziger receives an unexpected call from a childhood friend, Duval Morgan. D...
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Anthony McGowan
Anthony McGowan was born in Manchester in 1965. He went to school in Leeds. He has an M.Phil in philosophy and a PhD on the history of the concept of beauty He has worked as a nightclub bouncer, civ...
Einstein's Underpants - And How They Saved the World
A stinking alien commander.Eight freaky kids.And a pair of faded Y-fronts.When crazy Uncle Otto warn...
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Ariana Franklin
Transworld Publishers is greatly saddened to announce the passing of Diana Norman, who wrote the Mistress of the Art of Death novels under the pseudonym Ariana Franklin. She was a talented, much-love...
The Assassin's Prayer: Mistress of the Art of Death 4
Adelia Aguilar is to accompany 10-year-old Princess Joanna on her thousand-mile journey to marry the...
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Barbara Bloomfield
'I love writing and I love the subtle dance of relationships.' For the last year, Barbara has been researching The Relate Guide to Finding Love, distilling the experiences of both romance-seekers and...
The Relate Guide to Finding Love
Why are you looking for love right now? What kind of relationship do you want? How will you know if...
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Candy Gourlay
Candy Gourlay was a journalist writing about dictators in the Third World before she took up a full time position battling dictators of the nappy-clad variety. She inadvertently became a web designer...
Tall Story
Be careful what you wish for . . . Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could p...
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Catherine Ryan Hyde
Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of several highly acclaimed novels including Pay it Forward, which was made into a film starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt. In 2007 her novel Love in the Present Te...
Love In The Present Tense
Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision...
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Cathy Marie Buchanan
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN’s debut novel, The Day the Falls Stood Still, is a Barnes & Noble Recommends Selection, a Barnes & Noble Best of 2009 book, an American Booksellers Association IndieNext pick, and...
The Day the Falls Stood Still
Niagara Falls, 1915When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to a...
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Chris Eakin
Chris is a presenter on the BBC News Channel. He has been a journalist on newspapers and in broadcasting for more than 25 years. He is a qualified Offshore Yachtmaster. He lives in London.
A Race Too Far
In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race - an incredible test of endurance never be...
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Christine Hill
I live in London with my husband. We have three grown up children and a small grandchild who I am lucky enough to look after one day a week.I trained as a physiotherapist at St. Mary’s Hospital, Londo...
Christine Hill's Pregnancy Guide: The essential handbook for all expectant mothers
Having spent the last 25 years taking ante- and post-natal classes, Christine Hill knows what questi...
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Christopher Fowler
Christopher Fowler writes novels, short story collections and screenplays, and has had around thirty books published to date. His story The Master Builder became a movie starring Tippi Hendren. Anothe...
Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood: (Bryant & May Book 9)
On a rainswept London night, the wealthy unscrupulous Robert Kramer hosts a party in his penthouse j...
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Christopher Stocks
An award-winning journalist, editor and copywriter, Christopher has written for, among others, the Daily Telegraph, ES, Patek Philippe magazine and Wallpaper, reporting on everything from Uruguayan...
Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables
In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behin...
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Clare Byam-Cook
Clare Byam-Cook trained as a nurse and midwife. She has worked as a breast-feeding specialist in Christine Hill's private antenatal practice in Chiswick since 1989 and previously worked as a midwife a...
What To Expect When You're Breast-feeding... And What If You Can't?
While some mothers take to breast-feeding like a duck to water, others just can't seem to get the ha...
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Craig Russell
Craig Russell is the author of the Jan Fabel novels set in contemporary Hamburg and the Lennox series in 1950s Glasgow. His novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. The seco...
The Valkyrie Song
Jan Fabel is a troubled man. His relationships with the women in his life are becoming increasingly...
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Craig Simpson
Born in the New Forest in 1962, Craig Simpson trained as a scientist and spent many years working on the development of new medicines. About ten years ago he ditched the rat race to write. His first b...
Special Operations: Dead or Alive
PARIS, FRANCE, NOVEMBER 1941A rogue British agent has vanished with a suitcase full of cash and a he...
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Danny Kelly
Here's the raw truth. Danny Baker and I have been working together for years. We win all the big prizes for our radio broadcasts, newspaper columns and podcasts. Then we are unceremoniously sacked. We...
Classic Football Debates Settled Once and For All, Vol.1
At last! The award-winning Baker & Kelly bring you the most entertaining, radical and unreliable fo...
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Dee Shulman
Dee Shulman has written and /or illustrated about fifty books for children, ranging from board books to teenage fiction. Her books have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Italian...
Dora's New Brother
A new baby in the family is always tricky to handle. And Dora, star of Dee Shulman's THE VISIT finds...
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Doug Jackson
I was born in Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders in the summer of 1956. Educated at Parkside Primary School and Jedburgh Grammar School, I left three weeks before my 16th birthday with six O levels and...
Claudius
CLAUDIUS - EMPEROR OF ROME, CONQUEROR OF BRITAINEmperor CLAUDIUS has unleashed the Roman legions aga...
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Ewan Morrison
Ewan Morrison is the author of the novels Ménage, Swung and Distance and the collection of short stories, The Last Book You Read. He was recently made the recipient of Scottish Arts Council writers bu...
Distance
They fall in love in New York City and spend a passionate week together before he returns to his hom...
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Fiona Mountain
Fiona Mountain was a press officer at BBC Radio 1 for ten years. She is the author of three previous novels, but only returned to writing after the birth of her four children. She lives in the Cotswol...
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Fred Pearce
Fred Pearce was recently described by The Times as one of Britain's finest science writers. Based in London, he has reported on environmental, popular science and development issues from over 60 count...
Turning Up The Heat\australia Onl
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Giles Kristian
Having Viking ancestors himself,Giles Kristian believes that the story of Raven has always been in his blood waiting, like the Norsemen, for the right time to burst upon the world. Inspired by both h...
Raven 3: Odin's Wolves
We lusted for an even greater prize...the one prize that can never be lost or stolen or burnt. And w...
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Grant McKenzie
Born in Scotland, living in Canada and writing American fiction, I like to cover all the bases. My debut novel, SWITCH, will be published on July 2, 2009. My short stories have been featured in Out...
No Cry For Help
What would you do if your family disappeared and all the evidence points at you?Wallace Carver fears...
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James Patterson
James Patterson is one of the best-known and bestselling writers of all time. He is the author of the two bestselling detective series of the past decade, the Alex Cross novels and the Womens Murder C...
Maximum Ride: Max
Nobody said saving the world would be easy.Until now, Max and the flock have lived a lonely existenc...
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Jane Casey
Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. She then studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, followed by an mPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Married to a criminal barris...
The Stranger You Know
He meets women.He gains their trust.He kills them. Thats all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she...
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Jason Webster
Jason Webster is a leading Anglo-American writer on Spain, author of DUENDE and the crime novel OR THE BULL KILLS YOU. Born near San Francisco in 1970, he grew up in England and Germany. After studyin...
Andalus: Unlocking The Secrets Of Moorish Spain
As Islam and the West prepare to clash once again, Jason Webster embarks on a quest to discover Spai...
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Jo Rees
Jo Rees published her first novel when she was 26. She went on to write several screenplays and internationally successful novels with her husband, Emlyn Rees, including the number one bestseller, Co...
Platinum
The Maid - Frankie Willis is a twenty-five-year-old blonde computer whizzkid, searching for adventur...
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Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris is the author of a number of books, including "Chocolat", "Five Quarters of the Orange", "Gentlemen & Players", "The Lollipop Shoes". You can find out more about Joanne's books on her we...
Runemarks
Seven o'clock, on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had b...
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John Macken
John Macken works as a research scientist in a large windowless building. He is married with two children.
Dirty Little Lies
Reuben Maitland runs the UK's elite forensic crime squad - GeneCrime. Their work is at the cutting e...
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John Man
John Man is a historian and writer with special interests in Central Asia and the history of written communication. He likes to combine history with travel to the places he writes about. He studie...
Genghis Khan
The creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen is one of history's immortals. In Central...
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Jonathan Hayes
Hayes Bio Jonathan Hayes attended medical school at the University of London. Graduating with honors, he did internships in medicine and surgery before moving to the United States. He trained in an...
Precious Blood
'They found her in the East Village, nailed to the wall of a railroad flat'Dr. Edward Jenner is a Ne...
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Judi James
Judi James is a leading television expert in body language, social behaviour, image, workplace culture and communication skills and has her own four-part body language series on Channel Five called Na...
Being Confident: Tips and Techniques to Help You Unlock Your Potential
Would you like the confidence to achieve your goals and go for whatever you want?The good news is th...
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Judith Allnatt
Judith writes fiction and poetry, sometimes drawing on the landscape, history and fascinating characters of rural Northamptonshire, where she lives. Her first novel, 'A Mile of River', was shortlisted...
A Mile of River
It is 1976 and England is suffocating. The long, dry spring has given way to a summer of severe drou...
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Julia Widdows
Julia Widdows was born in London and now lives in Brighton. She is a prize-winning short story writer, and has run creative writing groups in a variety of settings, including with recovering addicts a...
Living In Perhaps
Carol has always resented her family - her mother, endlessly knitting, her father and his obsession...
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Julian Thompson
Julian Thompson served in the Royal Marines for 34 years in many places and campaigns round the world, retiring as Major General. He commanded 3 Commando Brigade, which carried out the initial landing...
Forgotten Voices of Burma: A New History of the Second World War's Forgotten Conflict in the Words of Those Who Were There
From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-E...
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Ken Howard
Ken Howard was educated at University College School, London and Edinburgh University. He trained with Granada TV and for several years in the Drama department of BBC TV. His directing career has span...
The Young Chieftain
Has life ever ganged up on you, hit you from behind and forced you to become a totally new person?It...
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Linda Newbery
Linda Newbery, winner of the Costa Children's Book Prize 2006 with SET IN STONE, has published more than thirty books for children and young adults. She writes for a wide age-range, from her first pic...
Flightsend
Flightsend is Charlie's new home, whether she likes it or not. Her mother sees it as an end to all t...
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Lisa Unger
LISA UNGER is an award winning New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author. Her novels have been published in over 26 countries around the world. She was born in New Haven, Connecti...
Sliver of Truth
Love hurts ... Sometimes it even killsIt's like any other day in New York for freelance writer Ridle...
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Lucy Edge
Lucy worked in advertising for many years; spending her days debating whether the Jolly Green Giant should extend his vocabulary beyong 'ho ho ho' and her evenings eating M&S ready meals for one. One...
The Handbag and Wellies Yoga Club
When Lucy worked in advertising her city life seemed to revolve around office hours and ready-meals....
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Luisa Plaja
Luisa Plaja (pronounced 'playa' like the Spanish for 'beach') is a Glasgow-born, Sicily-and-London-bred Extreme Reader. She has two young children and lives in Devon.
Extreme Kissing
Carlota and Bethany are best friends. Bethany is the sensible one with a long-term boyfriend, Carlot...
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Marc Morris
Marc Morris is an historian and broadcaster. He studied and taught history at the universities of London and Oxford, and his doctorate on the thirteenth-century earls of Norfolk was published in 2005....
The Norman Conquest
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom....
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Mark Pearson
For the last fifteen years Mark Pearson has worked as a full-time television scriptwriter on a variety of shows for the BBC and ITV, including Doctors, Holby City and The Bill. He lives in Norfolk. HA...
Murder Club
Detective Inspector Delaney is looking forward to spending Christmas with Kate Walker and his young...
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Melissa Wareham
Melissa Wareham spent fifteen years at Battersea Dogs Home, from February 1988 to September 2004. Her first job was as a kennel maid at the age of eighteen. She went on to become their rehoming manage...
Rescue Me: My Life with the Battersea Dogs
Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs. After failing her biology O-level she realised she'...
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Michael Booth
Hello. I am a food and travel writer, journalist, father and cook. I write for Condé Nast Traveller, The Independent on Sunday, Esquire, Monocle and quite a few other publications. I once had somethin...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People
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Michael Simkins
Michael Simkins is a familiar face on the west end stage and TV screens, usually playing experts, policemen or unsuspecting husbands. Most recently he's played Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago and t...
The Last Flannelled Fool: My small part in English cricket's demise and its large part in mine
Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer - passionate, obsessive, technically inept, and hop...
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Michael Williams
Michael Williams is a national newspaper and magazine journalist. When he's not travelling around the country on slow trains, he commutes at speed on the 440-mile round rail trip between his home in L...
On the Slow Train Again
Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for...
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Mike Carter
Mike Carter grew up in Birmingham and now lives in south-west London. He works for the Guardian as a travel writer and subeditor, although he considers his spell as a dancer at the Halikarnas nightclu...
Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-Life Crisis
A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious,...
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Mikkel Birkegaard
Mikkel Birkegaard lives in Copenhagen. The Library of Shadows is his first novel. It was first published in his native Denmark where it was a national bestseller, and has now gone on to be published i...
Death Sentence
A murder committed on paper, safely within the confines of a novel, is one thing. To see that same c...
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Mimi Spencer
Mimi Spencer is a prizewinning fashion and beauty journalist. She has a column in You magazine and writes for Observer Woman, Grazia and many other magazines and newspapers. She was editor of ES Magaz...
101 Things to Do Before You Diet
From the co-author (with Michael Mosley) of the bestselling The Fast Diet, a feel-good, fun book tha...
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Miranda Glover
Miranda Glover read English at Oxford before embarking on a publishing career, specialising in art, design and the web. She has edited several well-received books set in the art field as well as writi...
Soulmates
Emi and Polly Leto are identical twins with a shared life until Emi vanishes and Polly is left searc...
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Mitchell Symons
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a w...
Why Do Farts Smell Like Rotten Eggs?
Ever wondered why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit alwa...
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Muriel Zagha
Muriel Zagha was born and grew up in France. She studied English literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. A lifelong Anglophile, she first came to Britain aged 21 as a French lectrice at C...
Finding Monsieur Right
A tale of two cities...Two girls...And a life-altering swap.Daisy's just landed the perfect job: spe...
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Natasha Farrant
Natasha Farrant previously worked in publishing and now runs her own children's literary scouting agency. She grew up in the heart of the French community in London, and has therefore never considered...
Diving Into Light
Every summer throughout her childhood, Florence would return to her family home on the west coast of...
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Niamh O’Connor
Niamh O'Connor is the true crime editor of the Sunday World newspaper. She has written three novels in the DI Jo Birmingham series, two of which, If I Never See You Again and Too Close For Comfort, we...
If I Never See You Again
The DetectiveMeet Jo Birmingham. Single mum, streetwise detective, and spiky as hell. Recently promo...
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Nick Drake
Nick Drake was born in 1961. He is an award-winning poet and screenwriter. He is also Literary Associate at the National Theatre. His first collection of poems, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Bloodaxe), w...
Tutankhamun
For Rahotep, chief detective, life is about to get very complicated. On the shadowy city streets the...
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Pam Hobbs
Pam Hobbs in an award-winning travel writer, who has written for Canada's Globe and Mail amongst other papers and magazines.
Don't Forget to Write: The true story of an evacuee and her family
'Dad walked determinedly down the path, joined by two neighbours with five children between them. As...
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Patricia Scanlan
Patricia Scanlan was born in Dublin, where she still lives. Her books have sold world wide and been translated into many languages. She has always been interested in publishing and worked part time as...
City Woman
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Patrick Woodhead
Patrick Woodhead spent 8 years exploring some of the most remote places on the planet, from the Amazon jungle to the cold deserts of Antarctica, before settling down to write his first thriller novel,...
Novel 3
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Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson has now written over forty books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is best known for his award-winning comedies such as ‘How To Train Your Parents,’ ‘Help! I...
Traitor
Tom, Mia and Oliver are the victims of a gang of bullies - who waylay them on the way home from scho...
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Peter Ward
Peter Ward was born in 1958 and grew up in different places all over the Far East, England and Germany. In between Bristol University and finally graduating from Leeds University with a degree in Engl...
Dragon Horse
Set in ancient China, two brothers fight the classic battle between good and evil as the Shadow-with...
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Philip Augar
Philip Augar worked in investment banking for over twenty years. He led NatWests global equity and bond business before becoming a Group Managing Director at Schroders. Since 2000 he has combined cons...
Chasing Alpha - Executive Edition: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade
In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. The incoming Labour government gave...
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Rebecca Farnworth
Rebecca Farnworth is a highly successful ghostwriter for one of Britain's most famous celebrities. She lives in Brighton with her husband and three children. Valentine is her first novel.
A Funny Thing About Love
The funny thing about love is that just when you think you've got it sorted, it turns round and bite...
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Rhys Thomas
Rhys Thomas' first novel, THE SUICIDE CLUB, was released in 2009 and his second, ON THE THIRD DAY, in July 2010.
The Suicide Club
Craig Bartlett-Taylor was always trying to kill himself, but when he took an overdose at the back of...
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Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson is a hugely successful international entrepreneur and icon, and is chairman of the Virgin Group.
Losing My Virginity
An autobiography of entrepreneur, Richard Branson. It discusses Richard's family, friends and philos...
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Rick Stroud
Rick Stroud is a film director and writer. After Oxford University he joined Granada TV where he directed Coronation Street and was an Associate Producer on Brideshead Revisited. Since then he has dir...
The Book of the Moon
The Book of the Moon is an absorbing, clear account of all things lunar. It is divided up into the f...
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Rosemary Clement-Moore
Rosemary Clement-Moore lives and writes in Arlington, Texas. THE SPLENDOR FALLS is the fourth book she has had published in the US for young readers.
The Splendour Falls
Sylvie Davies is a ballerina who can't dance. A broken leg ended her career, but what broke her hear...
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Rowan Coleman
Rowan Coleman lives in Hertfordshire with her daughter. Before becoming a writing she worked in both bookselling and publishing for seven years. In 2000 she won the Company magazine Young Writer of th...
Growing Up Twice
Jenny, Rosie and Selin have been best friends since school. Their teenage years were spent drinking...
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Rupert James
Rupert James is a celebrity and fashion journalist. He lives in London and is married to a barrister. "Sexy, funny, compelling. Silk sizzles!" TILLY BAGSHAWE Author photo by Jonathan Dredge www.jo...
Silk
Money. Sex. Power. Some things are always in fashion...Christine Fairbrother is a high-powered barri...
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Sam Enthoven
For ten years Sam Enthoven worked in a big London bookshop, helping people find the most thrilling books in the world while chasing his dream of becoming a published author himself. In 2006 that dream...
TIM Defender of the Earth
TIM is Tyrannosaurus Improved Model. He's a genetically modified dinosaur that the government have b...
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Sasha Blake
Sasha Blake leads an amazing double life. She spends every morning with her characters, wafting around the pool of a Hollywood mansion or sunbathing on a private beach in the Maldives. The afternoons...
Betrayal
MONEYWild and beautiful Emily Kent is the daughter of one of the most powerful women on the planet....
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Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for 14 years before taking up writing books full time in 1991. He is the author of A Trick of Light, The Girl at the Lion D'Or, A Fool's Alphabet, The Fatal Eng...
The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives
Christopher Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had see...
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Shappi Khorsandi
Shappi Khorsandi was born in 1973 in Tehran and moved to London with her family in 1976 who were exiled after the revolution of 1979. She studied drama at university and has now been a stand-up for ov...
A Beginner's Guide To Acting English
It's 1977 and life in Iran is becoming unpredictable. The Shah will be overthrown and events are ab...
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Steven Carroll
Born in Melbourne, Steven Carroll taught at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and at the Victoria College of Arts. He is the Theatre Critic for Australia’s The Sunday Age and is the author...
The Time We Have Taken
'That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment.'1970, Glenroy. One summer's morni...
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Stuart Neville
Stuart Neville has been a musician, a composer, a teacher, a salesman, a film extra, a baker and a hand double for a well-known Irish comedian, but is currently a partner in a successful multimedia de...
The Twelve
Sooner or later, everybody pays.Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by th...
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Tahir Shah
Born in 1966 into a distinguished Afghan family (his father was the philosopher Idries Shah), Tahir Shah is the author of 10 books including Sorcerer's Apprentice, In Search of King Solomon's Mines an...
In Arabian Nights
Shortly after the 2005 London bombings, Tahir Shah was thrown into a Pakistani prison on suspicion o...
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Tessa Hainsworth
Tessa Hainsworth worked as UK marketing manager at The Body Shop. She now lives in Cornwall with her husband and two children. To see collection of photos and video link check out: www.upwiththelarks...
Seagulls in the Attic
Having given up a high-powered job and the lifestyle to match, Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard...
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Tom Cain
Tom Cain is the pseudonym for an award-winning journalist, with 25 years experience working for Fleet Street newspapers, as well as major magazines in Britain and the US. During the course of his care...
Assassin
When a people-trafficker bites the dust in Dubai, and a gangland money-launderer has a fatal car acc...
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Tom Chatfield
Tom Chatfield (@TomChatfield) is a British writer and commentator. The author of five books exploring digital culture – most recently How to Thrive in the Digital Age (Pan Macmillan) and Netymology ...
Fun Inc.: Why games are the 21st Century's most serious business
'Tom Chatfield's Fun Inc. is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer ga...
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Tony Black
Tony Black lives in Edinburgh. An award-winning journalist, he has written for most of the national newspapers. He is the author of the Gus Dury novels, PAYING FOR IT and GUTTED. Visit his website at...
Long Time Dead
Gus Dury is back on the drink. While in hospital after a hit-and-run accident, his best friend, Hod,...
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Tony Wrighton
Tony Wrighton is one of the UK's top self-development experts. With a background in NLP, his audiobooks have sold over 100,000 copies and have been Top 10 bestsellers on iTunes in many countries arou...
Confidence in a Minute
You're about to discover the key to instant confidence. Offering quick-fix confidence boosts based o...
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Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup is a member of the Indian Foreign Service. Q&A was his first novel. An international sensation, it has been translated into over forty languages, and was recently made into the multiple O...
Q & A
Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammed Thomas is in prison after answering twelve questions correctly on a T...