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This Ladybird Classic is an abridged retelling of the classic tale of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. A perfect introduction to the famous story, it is ideal for adults to read with children, or for newly confident readers to tackle alone. Please...

To Steve Jobs, Simplicity wasnt just a design principle. It was a religion and a weapon.The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from other technology companies. Its what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the...

Life and work are intrinsically linked. They are not separate; they are one.If we want to live an extraordinary life, we have to make our work equally extraordinary.When your work resonates with purpose, you jump out of bed every morning, excited by...

A superb four-part fantasy, comparable with the work of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the Earthsea books follow the fortunes of the wizard Ged from his childhood to an age where magic is giving way to evil.As a young dragonlord, Ged, whose use-name...

When Bono goes into any organisation on his mission to eradicate Third World debt, he asks Whos the Elvis around here Its a fabulous question.The Elvis Bono is looking for is the person who stands out, breaks the rules, makes things happen, shines a...

The multi-million copy bestseller, Kim Edwards The Memory Keepers Daughter is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayal.Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of...

Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in Californias Central Valley to discuss Jane Austens novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about...

The Help is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett.Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but arent trusted not to steal...

After following the advice from a manual called How to Meet and Marry Mr Right, Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise. The Girls Guide To Hunting and Fishing is a deeply funny collection of connected stories and a portrait...

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ellas life - an emptiness once filled by love.So when Ella reads a...

The Sunday Times bestseller The Postmistress by Sarah Blake is a heart-rending and profoundly moving story of love and loss in World War II.It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London.In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter...

Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivors Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitlers Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures...

For Joyce, literature is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness...

From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of NapoleonNapoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from...

At the heart of Jojo Moyes heartbreaking new novel, The Girl You Left Behind, are two haunting love stories that of Sophie and Édouard Lefevre in France during the First World War, and, nearly a century later, Liv Halston and her husband...

Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash BoysIf you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead.Now, the worlds money is traded by computer...

Decoded tells the story of Rong Jinzhwen, one of the great code-breakers in the world.A semi-autistic mathematical genius, Jinzhen is recruited to the cryptography department of Chinas secret services, Unit 701, where he is assigned the task of...

Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, knowing gets mysterious, fiction gets real - and all lifes givens get given a second...

One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed, collides with a Range Rover and meets a handsome man who wants her telephone number. She thinks he is arrogant and dismisses the incident.But in this meeting is...

The Tutor is a sumptuous debut from Andrea Chapin set against the historical intrigue of Shakespearean England.Since meeting you, dear lady, I have put quill to page every day. I write and write and write.Headstrong young widow Katherine de LIsle...