December

James Steel is a writer and journalist based in the UK.

A new Cold War has hit Europe...

In the coldest winter in living memory, Russia turns off the gas to Britain. Embittered mercenary Alex Devereux has the fate of Europe in his hands. Under secret instructions from the British government, Alex finds himself at the heart of a plot to overthrow a new Russian dictator, Viktor Krymov. Alex must attack the Siberian prison camp where former Russian football captain Roman Raskolnikov is being held. Roman is the solitary hope of bringing down the regime. But only if Alex gets to him in time...

Working with an unstable Russian oligarch and his former lover, Lara, Alex races against the clock towards a violent showdown in Moscow - with the highest imaginable stakes.

Combining action, history and political intrigue, Steel creates a truly epic modern thriller. For anyone who''s a fan of Robert Harris, Frederick Forsyth or Alistair MacLean, December is a must read.

ISBN: 9781847561626
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Silk

Penny Jordan has been writing for over 25 years. In that time, she has written over 170 books and sold almost 90 million copies worldwide. She also writes under the name Annie Groves and is a mentor for new writers. Sins is set in the rag trade and inspired by the silk manufacturing industry in Macclesfield in Cheshire where Penny lived for 25 years with her late husband. She still lives in Cheshire today.

The first in a multi-generational trilogy by mega-seller Penny Jordan is set in the decadent world of the silk industry.

Dangerous liaisons�
Skeletons in closets�
A scandalous web of lies and deceit�
The Pickfords are just your average family.

1920s Cheshire. A time of great glamour and decadence, high living and loose morality. A time where anything goes - and does.

Amber Vrontsky is the heiress to the wealthy Pickford dynasty, presided over by the formidable Blanche.

Obsessed with social climbing, Blanche wants nothing more for her granddaughter than a titled husband - a prize which she herself failed to secure, despite her immense wealth.

But free spirited Amber is intent on forging her own artistic career with the silk she loves so much. Unable to disobey Blanche, however, she moves to society London to become a debutante - and enters a world of illicit affairs, drug-taking, gambling, lavender marriages�

From the lavish decadence of society London to the opium dens of the Far East, the chic boutiques of Paris to the Nazi-controlled streets of Berlin, Silk spans the depravity and the glamour of this tumultuous time.

Spoil yourself with this dazzling, decadent treat by international multi-million-copy selling Penny Jordan - the ultimate read for fans of Danielle Steel and Penny Vincenzi.

ISBN: 9781847560735
Author: Penny Jordan
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The Dating Detox

Gemma Burgess moved to London at the age of 22. She started working as an advertising copywriter, and applied herself more wholeheartedly to having a good time. Eight years later she decided to distil some of her experiences into The Dating Detox: the book for women with confidence, wit and style but absolutely no clue whatsoever how to know the real thing when they see it. (Love, that is.)

If you can''t date anyone nice, don''t date anyone at all…

Dating is a dangerous sport. So after her sixth successive failed relationship, romantically-challenged 20-something Sass decides she''s had enough.

The Dating Detox is born. No men, no break-ups, no problem.

The result? Her life – usually joyfully/traumatically occupied with dates, clothes and vodka – is finally easy. Chastity rocks. No wonder nuns are always singing. Everything falls at her feet. Especially men.

Will Sass break the rules? Why does fate keep throwing her in the path of the irritatingly amusing – and gorgeous – Jake? Will she ever roll the dice and play again? Or is a love-free life too good to risk losing?

For the post-Carrie Bradshaw, post-Bridget Jones, post-credit crunch generation of singles, life isn't beautiful, a bitch, or a beach. It''s a party.

ISBN: 9781847561916
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The thing about thugs

Tabish Khair is an acclaimed poet and novelist whose recent novels have been shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK) and the Crossword Prize (India). Translated into various languages, his works include Where Parallel Lines Meet, Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels, The Bus Stopped, Filming: A Love Story, The Glum Peacock and The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere.

Amir Ali leaves his village in Bihar to travel to London with an English captain, William Meadows, to whom he narrates the story of his life – the story of a murderous thug. While Meadows tries to analyse the strange cult of the Indian Thug, a group of Englishmen sets out to prove the inherent difference between cultures and people by examining their skulls – with bizarre consequences.

Set in Victorian London, this story of different voices from different places draws intricate lines of connection from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, between England and India, across individual and cultural differences.

Known for his refusal to fit his work into established ''diasporic'', subalternist or post-colonialist narrative traditions, in The Thing About Thugs, Khair finally engages with these traditions by subtly and ironically deploying echoes from Victorian literature, ranging from Charles Dickens to P.M. Taylor''s Confessions of a Thug and Joseph Conrad''s Heart of Darkness.

''Khair''s skill lies in making us question our assumptions about what we do and why we do it.'' – New Statesman

Formally and intellectually intrepid, and emotionally resonant, Tabish Khair''s novels are some of the most exciting to have come out of the Indian subcontinent.'' Pankaj Mishra

ISBN: 9788172239787
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Aslan Ka Geet

ISBN: 9788172237370
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
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The Geneva Deception

James Twining was born in London but spent much of his childhood in Paris. After graduating from Oxford University with a first class degree in French Literature, he worked in Investment Banking for four years before leaving to set up his own company which he then sold three years later, having been named as one of the eight "Best of Young British" Entrepreneurs in The New Statesman magazine. Married and living in London, James is currently completing the second Tom Kirk adventure.

Mafia, a secret society and the world''s greatest treasures all converge in James Twining''s all new jaw–dropping thriller featuring reformed art thief Tom Kirk

It begins with a young man hanging from the Ponte Sant'' Angelo Rome, his pockets weighed down with lead whilst the current of the river below slowly tightens the noose around his neck.
Back in Rome Art Protection Squad officer Allegra Damico has been called to the Parthenon where a second body has been found, It begins with a young man hanging from the Ponte Sant'' Angelo Rome, his pockets weighed down with lead whilst the current of the river below slowly tightens the noose around his neck.

Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, retired art thief Tom Kirk is asked by an old friend to investigate a case involving the theft of a long lost Caravaggio painting. When tragedy strikes Tom is left holding a blood-soaked body.

Back in Rome police Lieutenant Allegra Damico has been called to the Parthenon where a second body has been found, but this time the body is surrounded by mannequins. When a third body is found crucified upside down in the middle of the ancient forum Allegra realises there is a sinister link between the murders. Someone is staging famous Caravaggio paintings. Suspecting the detective leading the case is corrupt Allegra begins her own investigation.

Spurred on by grief and the desire to avenge the murder of his friend, Tom follows a trail to Rome where he finds Allegra piecing together a similar mystery. Before long they both find themselves submerged in a vast criminal conspiracy involving the police, politicians, the church and a secret society born of a pact between two Mafia families'' decades before.

ISBN: 9780007230433
Author: James Twining
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The Vagrants

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China, and moved to the United States in 1996. She is the recipient of several prizes for her writing and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Li's stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and elsewhere. Her collection of short stories, ‘A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’, won the Guardian First Book Award. She lives in Iowa City, USA, with her husband and their two children.

The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.

In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. The citizens stage a protest after her death and, over the following six weeks, the town goes through uncertainty, hope and fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. They are all taken on a painful journey, from one young woman''s death to another. We follow the pain of Gu Shan''s parents, the hope and fear of the leaders of the protest and their families. Even those who seem unconnected to the tragedy – an eleven-year-old boy seeking fame and glory, a nineteen-year-old village idiot in love with a young and deformed girl, an old couple making a living by scavenging the town''s garbage cans – are caught up in a remorseless turn of events. Yiyun Li''s novel is based on the true story which took place in China in 1979.

ISBN: 9780007196654
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Your Chinese Horoscope 2011: What the year of the rabbit holds in store for you

Neil Somerville is one of the West's leading writers on the subject of Chinese Astrology. As well as the Your Chinese Horoscope series, he is the author of several books on the subject, including Chinese Love Signs and Chinese Success Signs. He is also the author of The Answers.

The year 2011 is the Chinese Year of the Rabbit – what will this mean for you? This complete guide contains all the predictions you will need to take you into the year ahead – a year which offers great hope, advancement and opportunity.

The ancient art of Chinese astrology, which predates the Western zodiac, is a detailed system of divination that has been in use in the Orient for thousands of years.

The depth of its wisdom and the accuracy of its character analysis and prediction has caught the imagination of the Western world in recent years and led to a rapid rise in its popularity.

This popular and enlightening bestselling guide – now in its 21st year – includes:

• Everything you need to know about the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac

• An explanation of the Five Elements: metal, water, wood, fire and earth, and which one governs your sign

• Individual predictions to help you find love, luck and success

• What the Year of the Rabbit has in store for you, your family, your loved ones and friends.

ISBN: 9780007354092
Author: Somerville Neil
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Emma

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.

Fiona Stafford is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Somerville College, Oxford. Tony Tanner was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Professor of English and American Literature at Cambridge.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

''I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.''

Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in match-making those around her, with no apparent care for her own romantic life. Taking young Harriet Smith under her wing, Emma sets her sights on finding a suitable match for her friend. Chided for her mistakes by old friend Mr Knightley, it is only when Harriet starts to pursue her own love interests that Emma realizes the true hidden depths of her own heart. Delightful, engaging and entertaining, Emma is arguably Austen''s most well-loved social comedy.

ISBN: 9780007350780
Author: Jane Austen
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Sidney Sheldon`s After the Darkness

Tilly Bagshawe is the international bestselling author of three previous novels. A single mother at 17, Tilly won a place at Cambridge University and took her baby daughter with her. She went on to enjoy a successful career in The City before becoming a writer. As a journalist, Tilly contributed regularly to the Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Evening Standard before turning her hand to novels.

Tilly's first book, Adored, was a smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic and she hasn't looked back since. She is married to an American businessman and together they have had two sons. The family divide their time between their homes in the UK and America.

All-new Sidney Sheldon from the international bestseller Tilly Bagshawe.

Grace Brookstein is the beautiful, young, and naive wife of financial superstar, Leonard Brookstein; a billionaire many times over with estates all over the world.

In 2009 the US stock market goes into a terrifying freefall. The economy is on the brink of collapse, and the public want someone to blame, their eyes and their rage directed firmly at Wall Street.

Oblivious and seemingly unscathed, Grace continues her charmed life, until the death of Lenny in a tragic sialing ‘accident’ forces her to face reality. His financial affairs unravel, revealing expensive crimes, and now Grace is in the frame.

Exposing a spiralling web of vicious lies and well-planned deceit, she soon puts her own life in danger.

Grace is alone, angry, and desperate for revenge.

ISBN: 9780007395170
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The Sword in the Stone

The extraordinary story of a boy called Wart – ignored by everyone except his tutor, Merlyn – who goes on to become King Arthur.

When Merlyn the magician comes to tutor Sir Ector''s sons Kay and the Wart, schoolwork suddenly becomes much more fun. After all, who wouldn''t enjoy being turned into a fish, or a badger, or a snake? But Merlyn has very particular plans for the Wart.

This new edition of T.H White’s classic story includes a special “Why You’ll Love This Book” introduction by bestselling-author, Garth Nix.

ISBN: 9780007263493
Author: T. H. White
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The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster was born in New York State in 1929, just prior to the Great Depression of 1929. There are still a number of people who attribute that catastrophic event directly to his birth. He grew up (carefully) in Brooklyn, studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent a year in Liverpool on a Fulbright Scholarship, doing graduate work in urban planning and learning to ride a motorcycle. After spending three years in the US Navy, he practised architecture in New York and Massachusetts before teaching architecture and planning. He began writing seriously while in the Navy. His work includes The Dot and the Line, which was made into an animated film, and a musical adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth. Between the teaching, architecture and writing his life can sometimes get quite hectic. of the three things he does, Mr Juster enjoys most the two he is not doing at any given time. He is married and lives in Massachusetts. He has one daughter and one granddaughter.

The Phantom Tollbooth, his most famous book, won the George C. Stone Center for Children’s Books Award.

When Milo finds an enormous package in his bedroom, he''s delighted to have something to relieve his boredom with school. And when he opens it to find – as the label states – One Genuine Turnpike Tollbooth, he gets right into his pedal car and sets off through the Tollbooth and away on a magical journey!

Milo''s extraordinary voyage takes him into such places as the Land of Expectation, the Doldrums, the Mountains of Ignorance and the Castle in the Air. He meets the weirdest and most unexpected characters (such as Tock, the watchdog, the Gelatinous Giant, and the Threadbare Excuse, who mumbles the same thing over and over again), and, once home, can hardly wait to try out the Tollbooth again. But will it be still there when he gets back from school?

This new edition of Norton Juster''s classic story includes a special "Why You''ll Love This Book" introduction by award-winning author, Diana Wynne Jones.

ISBN: 9780007263486
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Alpahari Grihtyagi : IIT se Pehle

Prachand Praveer is a chemical engineer who studied at IIT Delhi . Born and raised in Bihar, India, he moved to New Delhi in pursuit of higher studies and has continued to live there. This is his first book.

Miles away from home, thousands come to prepare for the IIT entrance examination. Perhaps among them, you will find a Savyasachi, or a Satya, or maybe even a Tarang.

It is their first venture away from home. The landlord is eccentric. Not all tenants are easy to get along with. Satya and Savyasachi are struggling to stay focused. However life, at the Gul Factory boys'' hostel, is quite carefree. Here each resident is in a category of his own, on a quixotic quest of his own. Tarang and Paramhans are also lost in questions of their own. External circumstances have brought them so far from home and made them petty eaters, but they must bring the perseverance, dedication and alertness on their own

ISBN: 9788172239275
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