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Francis Tucket's life has been exciting ever since his family headed to Oregon in a wagon train. First he was kidnapped by Pawnee Indians. Then Mr.

'I am going to be cremated. I want you to take my ashes out alone on the Frog, out to sea alone, and leave me there.

Since the age of 21, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock 'n' roll lives played out on the most public of stages.

It' s not the work that' s so hard-- it's the people. The micromanaging control freak. The boss who takes credit for everything.

Publisher Marketing: Alistair Cleary is the kid who everyone trusts. Fiona Loomis is "not" the typical girl next door.

The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a true literary event.

When a young girl is discovered dead on an isolated Irish country road, it seems to be a simple hit and run. Then the cops see the tattoo on her back - a pair of beautifully wrought angel wings.

These are the recently discovered journals of Benjamin Tooth: alchemist, inventor and discoverer of the Windvale Sprites. My name is Benjamin Tooth. This is my journal.

When Dillon's dad turns up unannounced to take him and his brother on a trip, Dillon isn't sure what to do - Mum's at work and they haven't seen Dad in months.

The title, the terrorist and the punch-drunk pugilist... Fat Boy McMaster is a hopeless heavyweight boxer, who has somehow managed to become the champion of Ireland.

Winner of both the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, Rachel Cusk was hailed by Granta magazine as one of the best young British novelists.

In To the Wedding John Berger offers us a sharply modern situation set in the traditionally pastoral and idyllic background of rural Europe.

Trying to cope with the unchecked technological innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, the members of the Macx family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically at

Vanessa Colton-Kirk is a divorce court judge who's seen it all, but nothing prepares her for her own husband Thomas asking for a divorce.

Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he's tailing his quarry through the Chelt