A dark, comic and timely novel from Sean French, one half of the acclaimed thriller-writing duo, Nicci French. Mark Foll is someone you might have spoken to, although you wouldn't necessarily know it; he might have called you in the middle of your favourite television programme to ask if you could take part in some market research, or you might even have called him to sort out your mobile phone contract or to find out where your airline tickets are. Mark has been drifting from terrible job to even worse job when he washes up at Wortley Insurance, working as claims adjuster. It is only when he is sent to Marson Greem, a Norfolk village, to investigate what might or might not be a cancer cluster caused by a waste management company insured by Wortley, that life beging to become something Mark might believe actually involves him. Start From Here is a social comedy, a love story, and a novel about patterns, randomness, and the patterns we see in randomness -- in love, in life, and in insurance.

Countless fossilized remains of dinosaurs are buried throughout the U.S. and Canada--and plenty of places invite you to act like an archaeologist and search for them. Sift through the pages of "Dinosaur Digs" for information on joining a dinosaur dig and touring fossil sites, background information and expert insight on paleontological science and speculation, excavation techniques, and more. More than 250 full-color images, including specially commissioned maps and evocative illustrations are included.

In 1993, when books are virtually obsolete, a book on a famous chess match between a man and a computer sparks serious debate about the place of technology as opposed to human creativity

A coming-of-age story finds immigrant Jewish boy Ira Stigman in World War I New York, struggling with the ingenuity and consequences of his imagination. By the author of Call it Sleep. Reprint.

Wayne Paschke's life is turned upside down when he discovers a crate of apparently authentic twenty-dollar bills, left in his garage by his best friend, Randy Potts

This Superb Novel Portrays The Last Years Of The Raj Through The Eyes Of Three Generations Of A Garhwali Family.

The death of her beloved novelist uncle forces thirty-two-year-old Violet Clay, currently producing jacket paintings for Gothic romances, to reassess her vision of herself as an artist and the evaded truths of her life

Three women, and the men who love them, are victims of a serial adulterer: Michael Knight. But this year, the crop of pain and anguish which Michael has sown will be harvested.

Traditionally, texts and images have been discussed together on the assumption that they are 'sister arts,' but in Reading Iconotexts Peter Wagner pushes beyond the world-image opposition in a radical attempt to break down the barriers between literature and art. He sets out here the new approach he has identified for dealing with the 'iconotext'—a genre in which neither image nor text is free from the other. Examples include Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a number of William Hogarth's best-known engravings, and a sample of the so-called 'obscene' propaganda prints that were published during the French Revolution. Throughout, the author argues for the importance of seeing text and image as mutually interdependent in the ways they establish meaning. It becomes clear in the course of Wagner's exposition that one cannot study prints without taking into account their accompanying inscriptions; whilst illustrated books contain two kinds of 'text'—one verbal, one visual—that are invariably at odds with one another. Drawing on theories of intertextuality and semiotics as developed by Barthes and Kristeva, as well as post-structuralist studies by Derrida, Foucault and others, Reading Iconotexts treats pictures as encoded visual discourse and illustrations in books as counter-discourse. The author's persuasively argued polemic in favour of recognising the 'iconotext' as a viable advance in methodology is an important contribution to current debates on word and image.

Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she's stuck in a dead end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications. Living her life through wild weekends, yearning for something more. When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all, its' only a minor crime. Nobody will be hurt, will they? But Colin gets hurt. He's the man who Natalie marries. And other people's lives are changed, terribly and irrevocably. Because Natalie's actions do have consequences - tragic consequences. Poignant and beautifully written, Deborah Moggach's new novel is a cautionary tale about the terrible battle between desires and greed, about human hopes and our own frailty in the face of temptation.