Product Description: Every child loves a story about a horse, and Black Beauty remains one of the finest, most touching ever written. Set in Victorian London, the novel follows the shifting fortunes of a horse as he moves from owner to owner. Narrated by the noble Black Beauty himself, the tale offers an animal's perspective of the world and highlights the thoughtless, even cruel treatment animals endured during that period...read more

Product Description: It is the Black Dawn, a time of environmental apocalypse, the earth wracked and dying.It is the Bright Day, a time long generations hence, when a peace has descended across the world.In each era, a child shall be chosen. Their task is to find a dark messiah known only as the Crowman...read more

Product Description: [Read by Simon Vance]As Enzo Macleod takes on the third of seven famous cold cases he has confidently bet he can solve, this is one instance when his Scottish stubbornness might pay off. -- Sometimes it's what you dont see. -- Enzo MacLeod, a Scot teaching in southwest France, has confidently bet that he can crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases...read more

Product Description: [MP3CD Audiobook format in vinyl case] [Read by Simon Vance] Enzo MacLeod, a Scot teaching in southwest France, has confidently bet that he can crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases. He has, in fact, solved the first two crimes, but the third is far from his mind right now...read more

Product Description: An astonishing, ambitious, and masterful new novel, with echoes of Robert Graves's great autobiography Goodbye to All That, that reads at the pace of a thriller. On its way to the Galapagos Islands, a light aircraft crashes into the sea...read more

Product Description: Naomi Novik's beloved Temeraire series, a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons, is a twenty-first-century classic. From the first volume, His Majesty's Dragon, readers have been entranced by the globe-spanning adventures of the resolute Capt...read more

Product Description: [Read by Simon Vance]As Enzo Macleod takes on the cold case of a famous French chef murdered before he could make a shattering announcement, he must unravel the relationships around the man - a spurned lover, jealous wife, estranged brother, and embittered food critic.

Product Description: When France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars. Instead, on arrival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made...read more

Product Description: The Boleyn Deceit is a captivating novel set in the imagined Tudor court of King Henry IX, son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who must navigate a terrain rife with palace intrigue, impending war, and unbridled passions.The regency period is over and William Tudor, now King Henry IX, sits alone on the throne...read more

Product Description: The Boleyn King is the first book in an enthralling trilogy that dares to imagine: What if Anne Boleyn had actually given Henry VIII a son who grew up to be king?Just seventeen years old, Henry IX, known as William, is a king bound by the restraints of the regency yet anxious to prove himself...read more

Product Description: Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges' frequent theme of a world where time, culture, and place converge is both timely and pertinent in our advance toward globalization. Drawing from his multi-ethnic and -lingual upbringing in Argentina, Borges' focus on universal themes early on came to belittle the sentiments of racism and communism, earning him widespread recognition...read more

Discover the man behind the myth in this new biography of one of the most pioneering and influential performers of our time—David Bowie.David Bowie—the iconic superstar of rock, fashion, art, design, and the quintessential sexual liberator—is a living legend. However, for the past five decades, he has managed to retain his Hollywood star mystique. Now, New York Times bestselling author Wendy Leigh reveals the real man behind the mythology. Through scores of interviews with Bowie’s lovers (both male and female), his girlfriends, business associates, groupies, and band members, Leigh, who grew up just a mile from where Bowie was born and went to school, has written an intimate biography of rock’s greatest enigma.In an unexpurgated exploration of Bowie’s kaleidoscopic personal life, she reveals his star-crossed inheritance—his mother was once an acolyte of the British Fascist party; his father, the PR genius who masterminded his early career—in a dramatic contrast to those family members grappling with mental illness, fears that would haunt Bowie for most of his life.Above all, there is Bowie’s hard-won rise to fame and fortune, his astounding creativity, his courage as a performer, and his shape-shifting style, coupled with a ruthless ambition that caused him to submit to the casting couch on his way to the top. In the process, Leigh tells of Bowie’s strong bond with John Lennon, his love/hate relationship with Mick Jagger, his male sexual partners, and his women, as disparate as Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Sarandon, Tina Turner, Marianne Faithful, Nina Simone, and most notable, his marriage to Iman, which has lasted for the past quarter of a century.This biography is a once-in-a-lifetime look at the iconic superstar who changed the world.

Product Description: This is the second novel in a spectacular new series about two brother lawyers who lease offices on London's Baker Street--and receive mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes. The first Sherlock Holmes letter barrister Reggie Heath answered cost him most of his personal fortune, all of his Baker Street chambers clients, and quite possibly Laura Rankin, the love of his life...read more

Product Description: This is the second novel in a spectacular new series about two brother lawyers who lease offices on London's Baker Street--and receive mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes. The first Sherlock Holmes letter barrister Reggie Heath answered cost him most of his personal fortune, all of his Baker Street chambers clients, and quite possibly Laura Rankin, the love of his life...read more

Product Description: Explorer and inventor, soldier and poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was the most versatile and remarkable man of his age. But he was foremost an adventurer: "an adventurer in the intellectual and the spiritual as well as the physical world...read more