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The meticulously dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery. 'Too decomposed for standard autopsy.

Although Waris Dirie fled her homeland, she never forgot the country and culture that moulded her. The world of famine and violence, where women have no voice.

Waris ran away from her desert nomad family at the age of 12 when her father arranged her marriage to a sixty-year-old stranger in exchange for five camels.

This story is the sequel to Princess Sultana's bestselling memoir 'Princess', where readers were gripped by her revelations about a life of unimaginable privilege and wealth inside t

The story of Hilary Craven's involvement in a unique organisation which arranges the escape of scientific geniuses.

A Catholic priest turned detective is asked to hear a criminal's confession as he faces the death penalty.

In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacamo Nerone has inspired talk of saint-hood.

A war party of Apaches was on the rampage between the burnt out relay station and the next stopover. Only on Blood Hill could the travellers find safe shelter.

The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred.

The controversial biography of the Princess of Wales. This book exposes the private unhappiness and dramas behind the public front of Charles and Diana.

Sparhawk, Pandion knight and Queen's champion, returns from exile to find the young queen ill and the country overrun by evil.

It is late Christmas Eve and the London streets are almost empty.

A collection of humorous poems about amazing or nasty creatures, including a flying cow, a pig who turns the tables on a farmer, and crocodiles, lions and anteaters who delight in devouring people.

A collection of chilling Australian true-crime stories that will draw you inside some of the most intriguing and violent cases on the police books.

A mixture of science fiction, fantasy, horror and whacky romance, this novel follows the hilarious adventures of Dirk Gently, "holistic detective", as he searches through space and time f