It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect.

Examines how England's peculiar class system was established by some snobby French nobles whose posh descendents still have wine cellars and second homes in the Dordogne. This title explores the complex socio-economic reasons why Britain's kings were the first in Europe to be brought to heel. It is a journey through Britain' bizarre history.

Despite the flurry of media images to come of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. This title tells the soldiers' story in their own words. It is the story of young men that have been trained to become ruthless killers.

Takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection.

Her passion is fashion, but she's on a budget! Personal shopper Annie Valentine is about to hit the big time: presenting a glamorous TV makeover series! But too late, Annie discovers this is TV on a shoestring. They're paying her buttons and her budget is zip. Can she make do with Primark when all she wants is Prada?

The author has developed a weight-loss system that re-patterns your thoughts, attitudes and beliefs about yourself, your health and food to help you easily take control of your diet and lose weight permanently. Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight? Are you unable to lose those last 10 pounds? This book and CD can help you.

Shows you how easy exercise and simple changes in your thinking and behaviour can have a significant impact on your sleep. This book also comes with a hypnosis CD that re-sets your body's natural sleep mechanism so that you can automatically find it easier to get deep restful sleep and improve your overall of quality of your life.

Everyone has some degree of stress in their life, but hardly anyone has the skills to deal with it. An astonishing 50 per cent of the reasons why people go to the doctor are stress-related. This title helps to have greater control over the stress in your life, and to feel better and live longer.

Shows the people and events that have shaped the army: how Marlborough's victory at Blenheim is linked to Wellington's at Waterloo; how the fight at Rorke's Drift in 1879 underpinned the heroism of the airborne forces in Arnhem in 1942; and why Montgomery's momentous victory at El Alamein mattered long after the Second World War was over.

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it. The people are cheerful, their cities are clean, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines.

Presents the story of a girl who needs to slow down, to find herself, to fall in love, and discover what an iron is for... Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She has no home life, and cares about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day... she makes a mistake, so huge, that it'll wreck her career.

Bill Bryson shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. He retraces his travels as a student twenty years earlier with caustic hilarity and his own unique brand of humour. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson lived in North Yorkshire for many years. First published in 1991 by Secker & Warburg.

Emma is a nervous flyer and she can't help but tell the man next to her - quite a dishy American, but she's too frightened to notice - all her innermost secrets. She survives the flight, but when the American boss of the whole corporation visits the company, he seems strangely familiar.

For the Anfield faithful, Jamie Carragher represents everything that is great about Liverpool Football Club, prompting the Kop to sing 'we all dream of a team of Carraghers'. This autobiography reveals what made him discard his blue Evertonian roots to become a fully fledged Red and how he mended his wild ways to become a true professional.

Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year old. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 - and she's married! To a good-looking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life? What the **** happened to her? Will she ever remember? And what will happen if she does?

Learn how to master your emotions and run your own brain, how to have supreme self-confidence and become the person you really want to be. This title from Paul McKenna, author of 'Unlimited Power', provides strategies and techniques for effective self-improvement.

It is 1498, and the whole of Venice is abuzz. Hidden somewhere in the labyrinthine city is an ancient book, rumoured to contain thorny heresies and secrets of immeasurable power. Luciano, an orphan, is taken on as apprentice to the chef at the doge's palace. He finds himself entangled in the search for the ancient tome.

Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain. But Margrave has just had its first homicide in 30 years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. So the murder is pinned on him. As nasty secrets leak out, only one thing is for sure: they picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

Jack Reacher is strolling nowhere in a Chicago street when he spots an attractive young woman struggling on crutches. He stops to offer her a steadying arm. And then he turns around to see a handgun aimed straight at his stomach. Locked in a dark, stifling van racing across America, chained to the woman, Reacher needs to know why he's there.

On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious buy inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course the edge of the planet.