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When Buffy hosts a slumber party her other "acquaintances" choose to come calling. For Sunnydale's population of vampires, the answer to the question: "What do you call a houseful of teenage girls in nighties?" is always the same: "Bedtime snacks!"

A monstrous creature known as the Hollower - the only creature other than the Slayer known to prey on vampires - is at large in Sunnydale. Not even the combined powers of Buffy and Angel may be enough to defeat it.

A hilarious odyssey in which an amateurish bunch of English eccentrics go cricketing across the globe

Sweeping from the towering wilds of the American West to the killing fields of Africa, this is the story of three people's quest for happiness and self-fulfillment, played out against the heroism of firefighting in the wilderness and photojournalism at the edge of human experience.

In the dazzling new thriller from the master of dark suspense, the hand of fate reaches out to touch an ordinary man with greatness. So long as he is ready. So long as he is, above all, afraid.

In upstate New York, a 13-year-old girl and her horse are hit by a 40-ton truck. They both survive, but suffer horrible injuries. When the girl's mother hears about a man said to have the gift of healing troubled horses, they set off for distant Montana, where their lives are changed for ever.

Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared. Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun.

When John G, a pyschotic tramp, threatens Jake and Dana's teenage son with a knife, Jake allows Phil, a crazed gangster from his old neighbourhood, to go after John with a baseball bat. A man is killed and suddenly Jake's successful career as a lawyer is ruined when he is arrested for murder.

Who's afraid? Alex Cross is back to battle the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered -- a shadowy predator known as The Wolf.

What happens to us when we die? Oblivion, or so believes Dr Miles Fleming, a young neuroscientist who has developed a device capable of reading human brainwaves. But when his own brother contacts him after being certified dead for six whole minutes, he wonders if he's got it all wrong. This book presents the faith of religion against science.

Helen Ross is a 29-year-old biologist, sent into a hostile place to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. She struggles for survival and for self-esteem, embarking on a love affair with the 18-year-old son of her most powerful opponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder.

The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has done before.

John Meron receives a phone call that will change his life for ever: his friend Jack Calley is screaming down the phone for help. As he listens, Calley is murdered. His last words, spoken to his killer, are the first two lines of Meron's address. Within minutes, a car pulls up outside, and three men get out. He's being hunted and has no idea why.

A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm.

Set at the end of World War II, this novel explores the lives of four shell-shocked survivors who find themselves holed up together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. It is a tale of love, loss, horror and confusion and won Ondaatje the Booker Prize in 1992.

The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst.

The vampire Angelus flees to Sunnydale where he restricts his feeding to blood banks. Then 16-year-old Buffy Summers, the vampire slayer, arrives in town to battle the Forces of Darkness, and so begins their star-crossed love story. This volume contains three tales from the TV series.

Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion. Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system.

For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him.

The stunning debut novel from the creator of SPOOKS.

The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex.

Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous and decadent Kyoto of the 30s and on to postwar New York.

Raymond's had a rough couple of days. Snatched from his allotment by a flying starfish from Uranus and sold as a delicacy in a Venusian food market, it seems like his luck has changed when he is rescued by the travelling circus. But then this isn't an ordinary circus.

America is a difficult place to live below the surface. But Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are trying to do just that. Nathan Boone, a mercenary, has been tasked to hunt down the brothers. The only person who stands between them and death is Maya. When she is summoned to protect the brothers, she must leave everything behind if she is to succeed.

You wake up. Your house is empty. Your family has disappeared...