Few writers portray Native American history and life as authentically and insightfully as Conley, an important voice of the Cherokee past. This first novel of his "Real People" series centers on a group of tribal priests confronting a terrible drought, and tribal rivalries over a young woman.

A dark uncanny jolt of literary perfection.

The climactic final volume in a gripping historical trilogy set in Venice, about ambition, revenge and the rise of a vampire assassin

The third instalment in the chilling Antichrist Trilogy - this high-octane commercial thriller tells of the rise of the third antichrist and the Armageddon he threatens to bring...

A captivating new novel about the world of acting from the acclaimed author of Hideous Kinky and Love Falls

The year is 1899, and Boer forces have surounded the small South African town of Ladysmith. As shells and shrapnel rain down, British soldiers and townsfolk dig themselves in, waiting for rescue. But General Buller's relief column can't break through.

'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.' From the point of view of his life now, the author moves you through the events of his life.

Since the year all British women became infertile, Bobby Sullivan's veterinary clinic has been packed with primate 'children' and, speaking as an alpha male, he's sick to death of them. Hoping to reincarnate himself, he moves north, but finds there is no escape from the Darwinian imperative - or from the sexual pull of the twins Rose and Blanche.

In fin-de-siecle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897. But the home of their new employer soon reveals itself to be riddled with dark secrets. The hapless duo discover a whole new world of glass, and impossible romance.

Nine-year-old Tess has never seen anything like The Wild. An old bakery, converted into a home, it has a fireplace big enough to sit in, a garden with a badminton net and another one for vegetables. And then there's William, its owner. Single father of three, he cooks homemade ravioli, cuts trees down with a chainsaw and plays the guitar.

Includes stories of a young eccentric named C Auguste Dupin: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter'.

Presents a guide to the works of Martin Amis. This work offers an interview with Martin Amis, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. It deals with Amis' themes, genre and narrative technique.

Features five short stories that gives ordinary events a hallucinatory strangeness and renders dreams as if they were entirely ordinary, subject to the same ethical and political judgements appropriate to the daylight world.

The final volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. It is 1964 and Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenaged - son, Guy, to finish university in Ghana, while America pulses with the changes wrought by the civil rights movement.

Elizabeth and Richard, 18 years married, have come to Morocco on holiday. As the adventures and disasters of their travels unfold, so too does Elizabeth's account of the desert her life has become. The author's book "Circles of Deceit" was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize.

Issy doesn't know where she came from or who she is. Night after night, she has the same nightmare: she burns in a fire and at the heart of the flames is a face she dare not look at. She must run - from the Witch-finder, from the evil hag who wants her, from those she loves and maybe even from her own true nature...

London is in ruins. The once-glorious city is now a gated wasteland cut off from the rest of the country and in the hands of two warring families - the Volsons and the Connors. Val Volson offers the hand of his young daughter, Signy, to Connor as a truce.

High Church ritual, evangelical revivalism and the ancestor-worship of the English gentry are all subjected to merciless scrutiny. This book is both a devastating portrait of Church of England and a reworking of the central myth of Western culture.

Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, this title features tales that are among the most darkly humorous of the nineteenth-century literature.

A stunningly vibrant novel from Amitav Ghosh, author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller THE GLASS PALACE

Arianne knew Luc as a child, of course she did. Everyone in Samaroux knows each other. But he's been away, and five years really makes a difference to a boy. A young man. As they fall headily into love - first love - their world starts to crumble around them. Arianne will do anything to make Luc stay. Luc wants to prove he is a man.