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Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to 'Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics;

From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best.

Volume 16 in ONE PIECE, the manga series from VIZ Media and Simon & Schuster UK.

A gripping new outing in London for PC Grant in the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling series from Ben Aaronovitch.

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many.

An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. This volume follows our band of survivors as they set up a permanent camp inside a prison. Relationships change, characters die, and our team of survivors learn there's something far more deadly than zombies out there: each other.

First in the bestselling and award-winning manga series from VIZ Media and Simon & Schuster UK

Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasn't had a drink for four months and five days.

A standalone novel based on the popular and award-winning Death Note manga series.

A beautifully and faithfully reissued edition of a revolutionary publication by one of Britain's most important artists.

The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. This title deals with this topic.

Lou shares her year, detailing its high points like Christmas. She celebrates these with her mum in a Paris flat which looks, well, "lived in". Please don't laugh at her awkward first steps in the dating game: Valentine's day starts well, until schemes begin to unravel ...Lou! won the 2005 Angouleme award in the 9-12 year category for author Julien Neel.

An Indian Cyrano de Bergerac, about the relationship between an extraordinary street boy and the enemy who came to help.

In South Sea Tales Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection--the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume--Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross-cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world.

When factory worker Pinquean Smallcreep, who has slotted a certain type of slot into a certain type of pulley for many years, packs his sandwiches and sets out on a journey to investigate what it is he is producing, his discoveries become increasingly more bizarre and disturbing.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a deeply moving novel written by the renowned author, John Boyne. Published in 2007 by Transworld Publishers Ltd, this book has touched the hearts of many since its release. The genre of this book is difficult to pin down due to its complex themes and wide appeal. However, it can be best described as a historical and adventure novel. Set against the backdrop of the Holocaust, it tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two boys. The plot is gripping, the characters are well-developed, and the setting is described in vivid detail. This book is not just a piece of fiction, but a poignant reminder of a dark period in human history. If you're looking for a book that is both thought-provoking and engaging, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a must-read.

'Makes you laugh out loud, then finally breaks your heart. That's why [Homes] has and deserves her A-list status' Independent

With "Spawn", writer and artist Todd McFarlane unleashed his iconic antihero on the world, and launched one of the most successful independent comic book in history. This title includes stories penned by Grant Morrison, and introduces various characters.

"First published 1982 as Love and death, by the Folio Society"--T.p. verso.

Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.

The story of a half-caste boy, part Indian part Irish who journeys throughout the subcontinent with an aged lama in search of religious enlightenment, the nominal plot revolves around the Great Game: the struggle between Britian and Russia for control of Afghanistan.

A collection of linked stories, encounters, journeys and perceptions that bear testament to the extraordinary creativity of this Booker-winning writer

Very Good Jeeves! (1930) is a collection of eleven short stories starring Bertie Wooster in eleven alarming predicaments from which he has to be rescued by his peerless gentleman's gentleman.

Focuses on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation.

Thirty years old, successful and stunning, Darcy Rhone used to think that 'being down and out' meant not finding a size four at the Barney's Warehouse Sale. Preparing for motherhood and settling into a new career, she builds herself a new life from scratch, finally finding romance - in the most unexpected place ...

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I.

This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships.

The hotly-anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada - the million copy bestseller that took the world by stormEverything's in place for the season's hottest launch:Tall latte (with two raw sugars)? Check.Gucci trench (draped over desk)? Check.Outrageous, unreasonable demands? Check.Andy has just turned thirty and is an incredibly successful magazine editor, working closely with her best friend Emily, another Runway survivor. She's about to get married - life's on track and she's been careful to stay clear of Miranda Priestly, her dreadful first boss. But Andy's luck is running out. Miranda Priestly isn't the kind of woman who hides in the background.She's back... and more devilish than ever.