A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAX PORTER WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014

The sensational debut novel that became a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller and took the world by storm.

Dykeford, 1857

The city of the rich and noble. At least that is what’s on display. Behind the scenes an army of workers keep the city going. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The rich squander the wealth of the nation and the workers decide they have had enough.

They storm city hall and take over the city with force. A new kingdom is created, one that is led by one of their own; Alexander Blackfort. He vows to take down the class system together with his best friend Percival.

However, in thei...

Layla is a young woman living and working in Amsterdam. She works as a receptionist but hopes to be a writer someday. She has figured out most of her life but hasn’t had much luck with dating and has been without a relationship for some time. Under pressure from her best friend Sam she installs a dating app. But the first date didn’t go as planned. That is when Sam comes up with the idea to start a blog about Layla's dating experience: Disaster Dates. This is the perfect subject for Layla...

We've all dreamed of finding someone with whom we have a connection that transcends life, someone with whom we feel immediate affinity and attraction and with whom we want to share our dreams, goals, objectives and even fears. Is it not true? The famous soulmate!

The Tangier Connection" describes the experiences of a yachtsmen who in the eighties got involved in smuggling hashish, the number -one export product of Morocco. During that period he made his acquaintance of a traditional native girl Samira, and fell in love with her. Their relationship was not accepted by Moroccan standards, and as a result he encountered serious problems.

This is a fantastic tale of how humans and nature can work together to manage the Earth. In this case, it is about water. The story takes place around a small area with a dry wadi, which can turn into a raging torrent during torrential rains.

That is the outer side of the story.

What matters to the collaborating people in this fiction is that nature itself gets a say. Globally, this already happens here and there, but nature’s interests are represented there by humans.

It is called a «Parl...

Just when the situation on planet Earth is becoming unbearable, a mysterious man shows up to save the day. According to Time Bender our planet is the most precious jewel of the cosmos, because it carries the DNA of just about every species in the universe. That’s why our forefathers called it the Living Library and many galactic wars have been fought over her. As time is short and the stakes are high a pact of friends is formed to save the Living Library from the grips of evil. Time Bender ...

'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT... Wise and bleakly funny...' IAN McEWAN'A REMARKABLE book... An impressive achievement and a rewarding read' TIME OUTThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns a...

A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE'A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' GuardianEmma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through extravagant spending sprees and, eventually, adultery.

As Emma pursues her impossible reverie she seals her...