Simon, a prisoner in Greece, is offered the chance to escape and thus begins one of the greatest thrillers of our time.
General Fiction
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
- Author:TSUKIYAMA, GailSummary:
On the eve of the Second World War, a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. Stephen's adventure begins when he meets four local residents - a beautiful Japanese girl and...
- Author:WEST, MorrisSummary:
Gilbert Langton, respected linguist and trusted negotiator, has been selected to mediate the interests of Japan and Germany in an ambitious deal masterminded to lift the Russian Republic out from under the threat of famine and bloodshed...
- Author:BRINK, AndreSummary:
Ruben Oliver's life is coming apart. He is obliged to take early retirement as a librarian due to the new political realities of South Africa. His wife dead, one son in Australia, the other emigrating, the only constants are his...
- Author:WINTON, TimSummary:
Fred Scully can't wait to see his wife and daughter. He's got them all worked out. He's sweated on this reunion. The doors hiss open. Scully's life falls apart.
- Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
Three women who were inseparable during their college years meet again after 20 years at a ranch in Wyoming to find courage, healing and truth as they reach out to one another and rekindle old relationships.
- Author:DRABBLE, MargaretSummary:
Three women, all brought up in the North of England, at Cambridge together and now all living in London. The social and political changes of 1980's Britain make unforeseen alterations to their expectations.
- Author:CABOT, MegSummary:
Mia's love life is a disaster - and her being heir to the throne of Genovia sure doesn't help. Because while Mia's finally got herself a boyfriend, he's SO not the right guy. The one she really wants is Michael,...
- Author:CABOT, MegSummary:
Nothing's simple when you're the new Princess of Genovia. At least, that's what Mia reckons. With her mother dating her Algebra teacher, a secret admirer sending her mysterious emails, and a bad case of the hots for...
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
A novel of a small boy's triumph over cruelty and loneliness. Set in the turbulent 1940's in Southern Africa. An epic of survival in the best of dramatic traditions.
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
Ikey, his brothel mistress wife Hannah and Mary his sometime mistress, are transported to Van Dieman's Land where the two women raise separate families. They are all irrevocably locked into Ikey's greed, Hannah's hate and...
- Author:KENEALLY, ThomasSummary:
The true story of an officer from the First Fleet and his production of "The Recruiting Officers" - Australia's first theatrical venture. But this is only part of an enthralling story of this time.
- Author:AUEL, Jean MSummary:
This, the fourth novel in the "Earth's Children" series, tells of Ayla and Jondalar's epic journey across the windswept grasslands of Ice-Age Europe. Together they encounter savage enemies and brave friends and finally reach a place...
- Author:Hinton, S. E.Summary:
Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves 'outsiders'.
- Author:SHELDON, SidneySummary:
From Paris to Washington, Hollywood to the Greek Islands, against the glittering world of theatre, films, high finance and beautiful people, four star-crossed lives play out a deadly game of passion, intrigue and corruption.
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
See how it rises silver from the water, the moon over the Night Country. It is here you can come whenever you are sad, or frightened. It is here where you can re-think your courage and find the way to go and the path to take. See the...
- Author:Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph)Summary:
A young priest with problems between the sacred and the profane.
- Author:BARCLAY, TessaSummary:
Novel set in the 1920s, following the fortunes of Ruth Barnett, a love-child brought up by grandparents after the death of her `flighty' mother.
- Author:AUEL, Jean MSummary:
When Ayla and Jondalar leave their valley they meet and are befriended by the Mamutoi and become part of their camp. Ayla is soon drawn to the magnetic Ranec. She finds herself torn between her strong feelings for him and her love for...
- Author:DU MAURIER, DaphneSummary:
A powerful romance of three generations of Cornish folk and their sometimes imprudent need to love and be loved.