The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. This book tells the story of this desolate crossroad.

Volume VI of the definitive Peanuts publishing programme - with an introduction by Charlie Brooker

Presents the story of a cop who went undercover inside the notorious Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.

Volume V of the definitive Peanuts publishing programme - with an introduction by Russell T. Davies

Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage.

Charts a friendship as it is tested by the threat of death.

An unputdownable thriller, I'm Not Scared is a devastatingly authentic portrayal of childhood and the tension when it must join the adult world.

Examining the 'gift economy', this title argues defence of the place of creativity in our increasingly market-orientated society.

Introduces Howard Moon, Vince Noir, Naboo, Bollo, Bob Fossil, Old Gregg, the Moon, and other characters on a journey in to the world of the mighty boosh.

In the outer reaches of a Siberian country lives a small Christian sect. Stationed in their midst is a company of Czech soldiers. Into this community trudges Samarin, an escapee from a Russian prison. His arrival intrigues many, including Anna Petrovna, a war widow, but when a shaman is found dead, suspicion and terror engulf the little town...

With his fourth novel, legendary barfly Charles Bukowski follows the path of his alter ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection, drinking his way through the Depression, and ends at the start of World War 2.

When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour (a young silkworm breeder) has to travel overland to distant Japan, to smuggle out healthy silkworms. In the course of his secret negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by the man's concubine, a girl who does not have oriental eyes.

Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age.

Outlines the vision of Barack Obama for America and its standing in the world. This book includes ideas about how Barack Obama plans to fix the ailing American economy and strengthen its middle class, make health care affordable for all, achieve energy independence, and keep America safe in a dangerous world.

A wonderful gift book for word freaks, scrabble nuts, and crossword fans everywhere...

Tells about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.

Sugar, a 19-year-old whore in the brothel of Mrs Castaway, yearns for a better life. Her ascent through the strata of 1870s London society offers the reader a host of characters. At the heart of the story, however, is a young woman's struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter.

A collection of stories from the author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee .

A collection of stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives. It reveals how a single moment can change everything.

The only book to collect together interviews with every member of The Fall, past and present.