Offers practical insights into why nice people never win and how people should adapt their own behavior to improve their chances of success in our competitive world. This book describes what it really takes to be wealthy, powerful and successful in life and uses humorous anecdotes, true stories and examples.

Prepare yourself for a serial killer who will get inside your head. Literally.

Abel Haggard lives on his family's farm in Dallas. To the south in suburban Austin, Seth Waller is devastated when his mother is diagnosed with an early-onset form of Alzheimer's. Though neither one knows of the other's existence, they share a unique tradition: as children, both were told stories of Isadora, a land free from the sorrows of memory.

Features a portrait of people attempting to come to terms with a devastating historical event and their role within it.

A meticulously researched and revelatory perspective on the political, social, religious and economic events throughout the world in the years leading up to World War II.

The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead.

A powerful deconstruction of the consumerist fantasy. In a shocking expose eagerly awaited around the world, renowned economist Napoleoni unearths the paradoxical economic connections of the new global marketplace.

Gabriel Corrigan is a man who will fight to the death to protect little freedoms. The system doesn't like it. It says that you cannot opt out, that you have to participate. And it will do whatever it takes to return Gabriel to the fold - alive or dead.

Whit Mosley rediscovers his family ties in the latest of this series by the author of PANIC

Just before she died, Patty Bigelow confessed to having killed a man. Now her niece Tanya is obsessed with finding out the truth about her aunt's crime - and she needs Alex Delaware's help.

It was thanks to Lord Byron that Itchy ended up living in Chamonix Mont Blanc, among the high mountains and low morals. Now a serial rapist is stalking Cham's tourist-thronged streets, haunting the same shadows as Itchy and triggering an obsession which will lead him far from Europe's zenith, to the depths of the valley and himself.

Reveals the tensions and terrors that underpin apparently ordinary lives, and can lead them to spiral suddenly out of control.

A powerful and disturbing first novel about growing up and the power of education to distort, transform and illuminate

An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head and limbs, the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification - bar one crucial detail. Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man.

The final book in the Soldier Son from the author of the Tawny Man and Farseer trilogies, following on from the bestselling Shaman's Crossing and Forest Mage.

Investigative journalist Susan Ward is about to print the story of her career - proving long-rumoured allegations about a respected senator's affair with a young girl. But the day before her story is published, the senator is killed in a car crash.

Sometimes the worst nightmares happen in broad daylight! An utterly gripping novel for fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham, from a rising star in the crime genre.

A collection of stories about people who make choices that seem inevitable, whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience. This book takes readers into the marriages, minor disasters and moments of revelation in an uneasy America.

Dr Siri Paiboun, 73 but still as sturdy as a jungle boar, is summoned to the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the new communist government hid in caves, waiting to assume power. On the eve of a major celebration of their glorious new regime, an arm is found protruding from a concrete walk.

Nancy may have died but her fractured family still turn to her for guidance. When ex-daughter-in-law and single mum Nina, takes her two boys camping in France, her plan is to 'find herself.'