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Mark Chamberlain is a man who has everything: a job he loves; the criminal record to prove it; a cop on his trail and a houseful of stolen goods.

Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego. He is aged twenty three, and suffers from hereditary manic depression.

This vet shares a collection of anecdotes as he travels from the Yorkshire dales, the Scottish highlands, the fjords of Norway and to the wilds of Southland.

Anna Walsh returns to her family in Dublin to recuperate from a debilitating and disfiguring accident.

What began as a universal belief system has become a ritualistic institution headed by ultraconservative literalists.

The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days as a protester camped opposite the White House.

Set between the 1930s and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's history, and of the secrets that come to light when, 60 years

John Berendt arrived in February 1996 for a prolonged spell in the city that had captivated him on his first visit.

This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu.

'Certainly not!' says Marie Sharp, when a friend suggests she join a bookclub when she turns sixty.

Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr.

Eleanor Meecham cycled alone around South America, and lived to tell the tale. And what a tale it is.

Hari's father has been captured and enslaved to work in Deep Salt. He vows to rescue him, a forbidding task: Deep Salt is the most feared of Company's mines.

Charlie Fox really didn't care who shot dead her ex-army comrade, Kirk Salter during a bodyguard training course in Germany.

Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for both box-office hits and art-house gems.