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Andrzej Sapkowski The Last WishThe New York Times bestselling introduction to the Witcher series that inspired the Witcher video games. Geralt is a witcher. Yet he is no ordinary killer-for-hire. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good. . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.
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Andrzej Sapkowski The Last Wish ENThe Last Wish is one of the two collections of short stories (the other being Sword of Destiny - Miecz przeznaczenia), preceding the main Witcher Saga, written by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski. The first Polish edition was published in 1993, the first English edition in 2007. The book has also been translated into several other languages.
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Karin Slaughter The Last WidowIt begins with an abduction. The routine of a family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but in the end...they find...
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Sergei Lukyanenko The Last Watch ENIndistinguishable from normal people but possessed of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each other owes allegiance either to the Dark, or to the Light. While on holiday in Scotland, visiting 'The Dungeons of Edinburgh', a young Russian tourist is murdered.
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Sergei Lukyanenko The Last Watch ENWhile on holiday in Scotland, visiting a macabre tourist attraction, 'The Dungeons of Edinburgh', a young Russian tourist is murdered. As the police grapples with the fact that the cause of the young man's death was a massive loss of blood, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton - the hero of The Night Watch and The Day Watch - is detailed to this seemingly mundane…
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Ally Condie The Last Voyage of Poe BlytheWho do you become when you have nothing left to lose? Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost's last mining ship has revenge on her mind as she and her crew voyage up the Serpentine River in search of gold...
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Philip Coggan The Last Vote ENIn this urgent wake-up call, Philip Coggan shows how democracy today faces threats that we ignore at our own risk. Amid the turmoil of the financial crisis and high debt levels, it is easy to forget that the ultimate victim could be our democracy itself. Tracing democracy's history and development, Coggan revisits the assumptions on which it is founded. What exactly is democracy? Why should we value it? What are its…
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Karen Robards The Last Victim ENDr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not. An expert in criminal pathology, Charlie regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. She's been obsessed with learning what makes human monsters commit terrible crimes since she was sixteen, when a man butchered the family of her best friend Holly, then left the girl's body on a seaside boardwalk one week later. Charlie kept quiet about her eerie postmortem visions of Holly…
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Peter S. Beagle The Last UnicornThe bestselling graphic novel of the adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's novel with art by Renae De Liz! Whimsical. Lyrical. Poignant. Deeply Moving. The Last Unicorn is a tale for any age about the wonders of magic, the power of love, ...
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Peter S. Beagle The Last Unicorn ENThe unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. So she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all about the joys and sorrows of life and love before meeting her destiny in the castle of a despondent monarch and confronting the creature that would…
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William D. Cohan The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.Tells the story of the world's elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. In this title, the author himself a former high-level Wall Street banker...
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Last Tycoon ENHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.'The lights of Hollywood do little to distract Cecelia as she watches Monroe Stahr, wunderkind studio executive and object of her desire, descend into a reckless and ardent love affair with an auspicious starlet – an affair that threatens to destroy his reign…
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Last Tycoon ENThese sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call'. A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr.…
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Last Tycoon EN1930s Hollywood. The depression has receded, the studios are booming, and the glitz and glamour are bewitching. But for Cecilia Brady, this is just life. That is, until she meets Monroe Stahr...Stahr is at the centre of it all.A genius production chief in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cecilia is mesmerised. But Stahr's attentions are caught elsewhere - in the arms of a mysterious woman - and Cecilia watches as a…
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Philippa Gregory The Last TudorJane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his conspirators put her on the throne ahead of the king’s half-sister Mary, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her crown and locked ...
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Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl The Last Theorem ENThe novel will spearhead a re-launch of all Arthur C. Clarke backlisttitles in 2008 and 2009. The proofs for this novel were signed offonly a week before his death earlier this year. Clarke worked withFrederik Pohl, who completed the writing due to the SF grandmaster's failing health. It is a fitting tribute to man whose visionary writing predicted communications satellites and created the landmark work 2001AD: A…
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Arthur C. Clarke The Last Theorem ENThe novel will spearhead a re-launch of all Arthur C. Clarke backlisttitles in 2008 and 2009. The proofs for this novel were signed offonly a week before his death earlier this year. Clarke worked withFrederik Pohl, who completed the writing due to the SF grandmaster's failing health. It is a fitting tribute to man whose visionary writing predicted communications satellites and created the landmark work 2001AD: A…
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Sam Bourne The Last Testament ENThe new, brilliantly high-concept religious conspiracy-theory thriller from the author of 'The Righteous Men', set against the backdrop of the world's bitterest conflict. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten vault. He takes it and runs off into the night ! Several years later, at a peace rally in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime…
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Raymond Khoury The Last Templar EN1291 AD, Acre. As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men, the Falcon Temple sets sail, carrying a small band of knights and a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. But the ship vanishes without a trace...Present day New York. At the Metropolitan Museum, four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures and, in a brutal and…
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Raymond Khoury The Last Templar ENIn a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order’s dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace. In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from…
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Maggie Harcourt The Last Summer of Us ENLimpet, Steffan and Jared. three best friends crammed into a clapped-out rust bucket of a car on a whirlwind road trip to forget their troubles and see out the end of the summer. But no matter how far they drive, they can't escape the hidden secrets and slow-burning romance that could upset the balance of their friendship - perhaps forever.
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Rick Yancey The Last Star ENThe highly-anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling 5th Wave series The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our…
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Rick Yancey The Last Star ENWe’re here, then we’re gone, and that was true before they came. That’s always been true. The Others didn’t invent death; they just perfected it. Gave death a face to put back in our face, because they knew that was the only way to crush us. It won’t end on any continent or ocean, no mountain or plain, jungle or desert. It will end where it began, where it had been from the beginning, on the battlefield of the last…
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