Books from Random House
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Doctor Who: At Childhood’s End
By Sophie AldredPast or future, which path do you choose? Past, present and future collide as the Thirteenth Doctor meets classic Doctor Who companion Ace – in the first epic novel from the woman who played her, Sophie Aldred.
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Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown
By Angela ThirlwellRobin andjohn Gere, Pre-Rophnelite Pointer: (London: Phnidon, 194.8). jalland, Pat, Women, Mam'age and Politic 1860—1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, r986). James, Henry, The Painter's Eye, ed. by john L. Sweeney (Wisconsin: University of ...
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Dragonheart: Fantasy
By Todd McCaffreyWhen Fiona, the only surviving member of Lord Holder Bemin's family, Impresses a queen dragon, she doesn't begin to realize the perils and privileges that come with her new role.As she grows into a young woman and her dragon reaches her ...
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Dragonsblood
By Todd McCaffrey'Dragonsblood is a good yarn, fitting perfectly into the Pern series, yet something I don't think I would have thought up myself.Enjoy, as I did, another point of view about Pern' Anne McCaffrey (from her introduction to Dragonsblood) 'A ...
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Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
By Richard Todd, Tracy Kidder... 4–5, 138, 151 first person, 23–26 major, 25–26 minor, 24–25 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 125, 140–41, 153 Fitzgerald, Robert, 11, 151 floating, 149–50 Florman, Samuel, 127 Forster, E. M., 33 A Fortunate Man (Berger), 61 Fowler, H. W., 105, ...
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Nothing But Grass
By Will Cohu... a girl behind the desk who looked a bit like Jean Seberg, and he'd found that charm and money did well together and they had lunch, him and the girl, and kissed on the steps behind the Carlton Club, overlooking St James's Park.
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Root Around Britain
By Will DonaldsonLADY BOUNTIFUL: THE Lady Bountiful of old has, for the most part, been replaced by the so-called Social Services — the upshot, as the PM perceptively observed in an address to the Carlton Club, being a breakdown in moral values.
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
By Jon MeachamNew York: Oxford University Goff, Reda C. “A Physical Profile of Andrew Jackson.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 28 (Fall 1969): 297-309. ... Edited by David Philipson. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. 1929.
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Being Nixon: A Man Divided
By Evan Thomas... Ryan laughed. “Don't laugh,” said Nixon, pointing a finger at her. “Some day I'm going to marry you.” She was taken aback; the two had barely spoken. When she got home, she told a friend, “I met this guy tonight, who says he is ...
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The Tangled Webs of Spider-Man
By Michael Siglain, Marvel, Nachie CastroAnd what of the terrifying Lizard creature that is prowling the streets of New York? Only the Amazing Spider-Man can break through this web of confusion, and these are his tales . . .
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Bloody London
By Reggie NadelsonThe lobby at Lulu Fine's building blazed with a million watts. Next to it, the unfinished building Castle had showed me loomed in the darkness, a massive hulk shrouded by the scaffold and metal nets. She said, “1 just wanted you to see.
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Armed and Dangerous: The Hunt for One of America's Most Wanted Criminals
By William Queen, Douglas CenturyA fascinating look into the daily life of an ATF agent and a taut portrayal of a monthlong manhunt, Armed and Dangerous depicts a classic race against time–lawman versus outlaw–in a harrowing true story of life-or-death suspense.
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John Robertson: Super Tramp: My Autobiography
By John Robertson, John LawsonIncidentally, Mrs Coakley's son Tommy went on to become manager of Walsall . . . another Uddingston product in a small world. I also remember ending up in York Hill Hospital, Glasgow, on a couple of occasions after getting bangs on the ...
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Bright Morning
By Don HaworthIn 'The Scorer of Westfield', Joe Smith the porter's son is the central hero who, brought into the school cricket team in emergency, saves the match. In looks, as the illustration makes clear, he is of a different race, 'a tousle-haired ...
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Dog Days in Andalucía: Tails from Spain
By Jackie Todd'I've just been speaking to Javier; he says that Clouds will have her kittens on the day of the next full moon.' Locally, the moon's activities carry great weight. Crops are planted when it is waxing and, months later, harvested only as ...
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Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century
By John CraceTen million francs was on its way from M; it wasn't enough, but it would have to do. ... M yawned. 'Mathis will keep you covered.' Some of this back story conveniently passed through Bond's mind over a breakfast of seven scrambled eggs ...
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The Gamblers
By John PearsonThe Gamblers follows the fortunes of five men at the centre of the ultra-fashionable Clermont Set: the Clermont Club's eccentric founder John Aspinall; Dominic Elwes, who was to betray the Set's code of silence; the socialite owner of ...
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James Bond: The Authorised Biography
By John PearsonIt reveals adventures, situations and incidents only hinted at in Ian Fleming's books; the story of Bond's life, the Bonds of Glencoe; the night he lost his wallet and his virginity in Paris - and found his first love; his first assignment ...
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Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins
By John PearsonWhy? This is the question John Pearson, author of the ground-breaking The Profession of Violence, asked himself as he began to re-examine their history, unearthing much previously unknown material which sheds new light on the deadly duo.
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One Of The Family
By John PearsonThis is the remarkable true story of that man: 'the Englishman'.