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As everyone knows, the Western world is apparently in the midst of an obesity epidemic that threatens to make this generation of children th...

America's CIA is of overwhelming significance to a select, small but significant number of Americans, even though many outside that coun...

When chef David Nicholls' son was paralysed during an accident on Bondi Beach, he decided to raise funds for spinal research by asking h...

A young woman tries to escape her sullied past by taking a job as a maid in lonely house outside Edinburgh. She is fascinated by her beautif...

Inspired by famed French food writer and chef Brillat- Savarin's oft quoted observation that a the true food lover is one who manages to...

Through a series of anonymous letters we get a glimpse into a year in the life of a high-school boy. We see his struggle to make new friends...

While researching for her latest book a biblical scholar is shown part of a document supposedly written by James, brother of Jesus, shortly ...

Subtitled The Sookie Stackhouse Stories , this is, unsurprisingly, a collection of short stories featuring Harris' most popular heroine,...

This collection of short essays presents a fictionalised potted history of everything from the creation of the universe (In the beginning Go...

Subtitled Drop the Weight, Change Your Life , this is US Biggest Loser trainer Michaels’ take on weight loss and exercise. She takes the rea...

Rudi Mackenzie, tanist of the Clan Mackenzie, and his travelling companions are en route to the fabled island of Nantucket, and arduous cros...

When a naval courier is mutilated and murdered by highwaymen, a Bow Street Runner is assigned to the case. Though a little trickier than his...

On a summer's evening in the middle of Jun, 1811, the Prince Regent is delighted to find Guinevere Anglessey lying, waiting for him in B...

A penniless young gentlewoman takes a job as a governess in a lonely house on the Cornish coast. But, if the servants’ gossip is to be belie...

It's twenty two years since the night when something altered physics, preventing gunpowder sparking or internal combustion, electricity,...

A retired demon hunter suddenly finds herself back on active duty when a spate of demon attacks occur in her, hitherto, demon-free small tow...

At the end of the long, hot summer of 1979, police officer John Cylin was shot in the face while on his way to work. Hospitalised for months...

When charming Irish politician Paddy de Courcy's engagement is announced, five women are particularly affected - his long-time girlfrien...

On the death of her mother, a young girl is sent from the life she knows in India to the English boarding school her mother attended as a ch...

In the second chapter of A Dance to the Music of Time we pick up with narrator Nick Jenkins, who has finished his education and is now a me...

This is a collection of 20 Gothic stories covering the spectrum from the supernatural through insanity to just plain violent horror. It incl...

When Miss Elenora Lodge discovers her rapacious, recently deceased stepfather wagered, and lost, her home, she is reassured by her relations...

Subtitled How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and How to Get it Back , this work traces the pattern of American food preparation ...

I have an academic interest in death and deathwork studies, and have only myself to blame for my unmet expectations of this comprehensive in...

Harper Connelly's life is pretty much as good as it gets - she's happy in her relationship with her step-brother and manager, Tolliv...

When a disgraced royal demon scheming to regain power by bearing the emperor a child, dies before her plans come to fruition, the daughter s...

Kitty Norville used to DJ the midnight shift for a local Denver radio station - her focus was music, particularly anything before 1990. When...

Subtitled A Surgeon’s Stories of Life on the Edge, Making the C ut is the “impressionistic memoir” of an Australian surgeon, from the first ...

I found this tome, by "a much sought-after fitness educator whose secrets of endurance have helped people from all walks of life" ...

After his younger brother was murdered, child prodigy Randall “Pete” Armstrong tries to understand how it happened, how a convicted criminal...