The Gunslinger is a haunting figure, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.

The fourth novel in Stephen King's magnificent epic tale about the quest to reach the Dark Tower, relaunched in B format with a new series look.

The last Gunslinger encounters 3 doors which open to 1980s America, where he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes, and confronts serial killer Jack Mort. As the titanic forces gather, a struggle between underworld evil and otherworldly enemies conspire to bring an end to Roland's quest for the Dark Tower.

In the fertile lands of the East, the farming community has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers want to enlist some hard calibers. Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils.

The last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares. Pursued by the Ageless Stranger, he and his friends follow the perilous path to Lud, an urban wasteland. And crossing a desert of damnation in this macabre new world, revelations begin to unfold about who and what is driving him forward.

To accompany the final novel in King's magnificent epic, Hodder are producing trade paperback editions of the first 4 volumes in the attractive new livery.

Fiction's greatest journey is almost complete - the pivotal, penultimate instalment in Stephen King's bestselling epic is finally available in mass market paperback

On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a Pyrenean pass. Written by an unknown poet, this book tells of Charlemagne's warrior nephew, Lord of Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies defiant to the end.

Provides information on the past of Stephen King's Roland - an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. This book collects Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born , numbered 1-7.

There's trouble on the Aching farm - a monster in the river, a headless horseman in the driveway and nightmare spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching's little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Fairies. Tiffany's got to get him back.

Tells the story of a seventeen-year-old dropout who has been kicked out of his fourth school. This novel dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

Third in Allan Massie's celebrated Dark Ages series

Harry Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with an alcoholic wife and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he flees from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life.

When Tiffany Aching - young witch - steps into a dance she shouldn't, the spirit of winter falls in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - and suddenly winter is all around her. Tiffany must put the mess right - or there will never be another springtime.

'This book addresses a fundamental question--the universality of human nature...Drawing upon work with patients and therapists in both India and Japan, he describes the profound differences between the Western individualized self and the familial self so central to Asian culture...Of particular value is Roland's sensitive treatment of the evolving identity of women in the two cultures, as well as

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include The Birthday Party and Old Times .

'I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.' So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave them birth. This unabridged ..

Set in the 1930s, this novel traces the rise and fall of an American demagogue - Louisiana Governor Willie Stark - a once humble man of the people, steadily corrupted by power. Often labelled a political novel, it is also about personal corruption and disillusionment.