Pensees

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explo...

Mr Hire's Engagement

Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal. 'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his movements were hard to make out. Very red lips stood out from his orb-like face, as did the thin moustache that he curled with a...

Mistletoe and Murder

Robin Stevens

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes of its beautiful libraries and inviting tea-rooms - but there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College. Two days before Christmas, a brutal accident takes place - but the Detect...

Surrounded by Bad Bosses and Lazy Employees: or, How to Deal with Idiots at Work

Thomas Erikson

Surrounded by idiots at work? Fed up with a bad boss or lazy colleagues? Thomas Erikson, author of the runaway international bestseller Surrounded by Idiots, will help you handle them and get things done, the right way. Surrounded by idiots at work? Fed up with a bad boss or lazy colleagues? Thomas Erik...

Puberty Blues

Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette

I don't recall reading Puberty Blues so much as devouring it. I was about thirteen, alone in my bedroom with the door firmly shut. I was fascinated. Kylie MinogueA revolutionary and timeless book.'By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night - in the back of cars, under the bowling alley,...

The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul

Deborah Rodriguez

This special edition includes exclusive new author content.One little cafe. Five extraordinary women . . .In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together.Sunny, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - and fast - to keep her cafe a...