THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE: Trolls have smashed down the door, there's a banshee on the roof, the river's caught fire, the librarian has turned into some kind of ape, and this is your starter for ten... Questions about figgins, DEATH, mind-destroying footnotes, carnivorous Luggage with lots of little legs, quantum butterflies, the magico-numerical significance of what we must always call twice four or seven plus one, and even the precise sex of the Great Turtle who supports Terry Pratchett's phenomenal planet (via four elephant middlemen). This is a quizbook for fans of fantasy and fun alike - and the ultimate challenge for all Discworld aficionados.

Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" Quizbook

Langford, David

Vista

After marrying his beloved Dawn, private eye Nick Sharman expects his rackety streetlife to come to an end. But a call from his ex-wife telling him that their daughter has run away with a group of travellers is the beginning of a gut-wrenching spiral of violence and heartbreak.

Paint It Black (Nick Sharman Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

TIMLIN, MARK

Mystery

Here is another of Simon Bretts fascinating blends of crime and backstage drama. This time he provides what might be described as the biography of a playfrom the cradle to the grave. Murder Unprompted takes you from the author, to an unscrupulous producer, to the theater itself, to director, to castincluding Mr. Bretts bit-player detective, Charles Paris.But trouble starts the first night. The star cant remember his lines, and worsehes shot dead on stage. Paris takes on not only his usual role of detective, but lead of the play as well . . . a role that will lead him to the perpetrators of the crime. Murder Unprompted will delight theater buffs as well as all lovers of mystery.

Murder Unprompted

Simon, Brett

Thrillers & Suspense

The Death Prayer

Bowker, David

The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain, with her calculating-cannons, steam dreamnoughts, machine-guns and information technology, prepares to better the world's lot ...

The Difference Engine

William, Gibson

In this compelling biography, Christopher Sandford explores the full, inside story of Kurt Cobain. From the disruptive childhood which had such a crucial impact on Cobain's personality to the ambitious career musician who, as a friend said, "lunged for success", and the worldwide breakthrough of Nirvana's Nevermind, Sandford also writes about Cobain's stormy marriage to Courtney Love, his heroin addiction, and how he became more and more of a recluse. Finally, he writes of the crisis when, in April 1994, Cobain turned a shotgun on himself and became a martyr for disaffected youth. The result is a saga of success and corruption which John Peel has called "the ultimate rock and roll morality story".

Kurt Cobain

Biographies & Memoirs

Christopher Sandford

Arts & Literature

A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.

The Wind from the Sun

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarke,Arthur C.

Science Fiction

Owen Deathstalker, the last of his line, was wrongly outlawed by the evil Empress Lionstone IV, but in making an enemy of Deathstalker, the Iron Bitch sowed the bitter seeds of rebellion. Now that rebellion has fomented into war. Opening skirmishes on Mistworld and Haceldama and Virimonde reveal just a few of the horrors the Iron Bitch is prepared to unleash on the rebels, but the opposition only fuels their determination to win justice. It's war: no quarter, no prisoners, no compromise.

Deathstalker War

simon-r-green

An old friend's promise of access to some rare texts of Aristotle's has taken Master William Falconer far from Oxford to the remote Furness Abbey. While crossing the dangerous shifting sands of Lancaster Bay, he witnesses the recovery of a body from the sandbanks that mark the changing course of the River Kent. Back at the abbey, the body is identified as that of a monk who disappeared twenty years earlier. His death may not have been an accident. The dead man was to have been the new abbot, and the present incumbent, who took his place exactly two decades ago, is the prime suspect. But Falconer's friend is convinced of the abbot's innocence. Will Master William look into the matter?

A Psalm for Falconer (A Medieval Oxford Mystery)

MORSON, IAN

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Phoenix Cafe

Jones, Gwyneth

Fantasy

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