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About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace - and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust.

Follow the family's excitement as they wade through the grass, splash through the river and squelch through the mud in search of the bear. What a surprise awaits in the cave on the other side of the dark forest.

* Reissued in a new look is this richly imagined historical novel that combines mystery, history, politics and passion in a story of gripping power, from the author of SACRED HEARTS

A first novel buzzing with 'the energy and angst of contemporary urban life' (The Times)

Still a teenager Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage to a man twenty years older. Moved away from her childhood village, Nazneen is moved to London, not knowing a word of english and confined to her flat. This title exlpores the role of fate in our lives and traces the transformation of an Asian girl.

Mr Mailer's tour group are unperturbed when he goes missing in a Roman basilica, but when a corpse is discovered in an Etruscan sarcophagus, Superintendent Alleyn, already on the trail of an international drugs racket, is asked to investigate. From the author of DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMAN and DEATH AT THE DOLPHIN.

A new edition of one of the "The Famous Five" adventures involving Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy the dog, where the five find themselves in a spot of trouble. This is part of a series of reissues to commemorate the birth of Enid Blyton. Original illustrations by Eileen Soper are reproduced.

DI Liz Graham and DS Cal Donovan are not ones to shrink from violent situations, but neither could imagine the terrifying ordeals they are about to endure when they set themselves up as decoys.

A tale that tells the story of a geisha girl, uncovering a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a geisha house. She tells her story many years later from New York.

A sequel to "Eon". It returns to Thistledown, the extraordinary asteroid starship from a future which is not quite our future; it portrays Gaia, a parallel reality where Alexander the Great's empires has persisted for 2000 years; and it continues to explore the infinite corridor through space-time.

Above our planet hangs a hollow Stone, vast as the imagination of man. The inner dimensions are at odds with the outer: there are different chambers to be breached, some containing deserted cities; the furthest chamber contains the greatest mystery ever to confront the Stone's scientists.

The epic story of the first manned mission to Mars, told by Hugo Award-winning author of science and science fiction. Ben Bova is also the author of "Cyberbooks", "Voyagers" and "Colony".

Tony Hill and Carol Jordan make a nail-biting return

Frank lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations.

A science fiction novel,in which a science advisor to the American President cannot help but feel uneasy when a dying alien announces dire news in the Californian desert.While in Australia another spaceship appears promising peace and hope. From the author of STRENGTH OF STONES, BLOOD MUSIC and EON.

The fifth of this author's novels set against the backdrop of the power and politics of the Church of England in the 20th century, which can also be read independently of the others. Set in 1968, it follows the fortunes of Nick, younger son of Jon Darrow, as he struggles against his Anglican upbringing. Follows SCANDALOUS RISKS.

This account of the events which led to Marilyn Monroe's death on 4th August 1962 contends that the Los Angeles Police Department have perpetuated a cover-up generated over 30 years ago. The story behind the conspiracy of silence is revealed.

Your life is your responsibility: the choices you made yesterday brought about the life you have today. If you don't like what you have, then get ready to act and move on. This title gives advice on shaping your life and tells you how to make dramatic changes, whether it's a bad relationship, a dead-end career, or a harmful habit.

An environmental disaster movie of a thriller.

'If they existed, they would be here' ENRICO FERMI. In the second volume in Stephen Baxter's epic Manifold Series Reid Malenfant inhabits the universe Malenfant kick-started in TIME ('science fiction at its best' FHM) -- and 'they' are here.

At his death from cancer, journalist John Diamond had completed six chapters of "an uncomplimentary look at the world of complementary medicine". Written with total candour and his usual wit, they appear here together with a selection of emails, press articles, and excerpts from his final notebook.

In the millennium's last great sf novel, Stephen Baxter takes us a short step byond Y2K. The year is 2010. We have survived ! so far.

The sixth Dr Kay Scarpetta novel, in which the FBI's chief medical examiner finds herself once more on the trail of a serial killer she almost caught in a previous novel. Follows THE BODY FARM.

Two plays about love and marriage take place in different auditoria simultaneously with the same large cast appearing in both of them. As always in Ayckbourn, hilarity is combined with hurt.

The meticulously dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery. Despite the deep cynicism of Detective Claudel who head the investigation, Dr Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Antrhopology for the province of Quebec is convinced that a serial killer is at work.