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Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for velvet and lace'a desire that leads her to a life of prostitution, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virt

From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth.

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace.

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.

A child describes his hen and the beautiful eggs she lays.

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships-the kind milli

In the late '70s, convent school teenagers Pen O'Grady and Cara Wall fall in love.

It is 1876, and San Francisco, the freewheeling "Paris of the West," is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic.

Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosak Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from.

An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder.

Goldminer. Counterfeiter. Slave. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse.

"One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral.

Previously published as The Murder Stone.

Previously published as Dead Cold. The award-winning second novel from worldwide phenomenon and number one New York Times bestseller Louise Penny.

Clive King's wonderful classic, Stig of the Dump, is now available to download, complete and unabridged and read by the brilliant Tony Robinson.Barney is a solitary little boy, given to wander