Mr Scobie's arrival at the nursing home of St Christopher and St Jude - and into the clutches of Matron Hyacinth Price - is accidental. Self-educated and still preserving the gift of idyllic memory and wish, Mr Scobie stands apart from the others. For long term resident and eccentric, Miss Hailey, he represents a kindred spirit; for Matron Price - a lady of questionable practices - the latest victim...

Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie's life gets shaken up. Max claims he's here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana's now taking his shots in the political ring.. Beaumont could use a mayor with scruples, but what it gets is a crime - and what Jamie gets is a story that's taking her for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins, a washed-up stripper and an insane poacher. Between a spray of bullets and a fast getaway, could it get any more romantic - or dangerous?

Porterhouse is a Cambridge College held fast by the steel cobwebs of tradition. When Sir Godber Evans is appointed Master, disturbing whispers of radical change echo through the Court and the Cloisters. But Skullion, the intensely reactionary head porter, is determined to get everything heading backwards towards normal again

From the white heat of Miami, to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of terror, armed with a hatpin, razor-sharp wits and a very special underwired bra. How could a girl not be drawn to the alluring, powerful Pierre Ferramo - he of the hooded eyes, impeccable taste, unimaginable wealth, exotic international homes and dubious French accent?

In Roddy Doyle's witty and poignant novel of working-class life in Dublin, 10-year-old Paddy copes with his parents' fights, his earthy neighbourhood, and the trials of his little brother Sinbad. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1993.

Isobel has always done the 'right' thing. She went to university, got a job, married a successful man and delighted her parents by rapidly becoming pregnant. Isobel's now thirty something with two young children and all the trappings. Yet she's finding herself increasingly restless and irritable. Isobel's younger sister Clare is her confidante and best mate. Dubbed by her family as 'arty' and 'scatty' Clare has progressed through all sorts of creative jobs - advertising copy-writing, television production and now writer on a women's magazine. Trouble is, she's starting to yearn for a life partner and kids....

Writer Ivan Connor is desperate. His publisher has turned down his wonderful new novel, his agent is out of ideas, and the only person to turn up at his latest reading is his mum. He's deeply jealous of the marketable Francesca Brady, a hugely successful author of fat romantic books for fat romantic people, whose expansive hair and bright red lipstick mock him from posters everywhere he goes. He's also living at home since his marriage broke up, and he's just collected the wrong child from school........

Journalist Drew Looney is in a rut, waiting for her job to get better - or at least for a decent story. Then, while covering a mundane deportation, she accidentally stumbles upon something far more sinister.... Georgina Fitz-Simons has just overcome a flourishing cocaine habit, but not soon enough to stop her falling foul of gangster Broylan Grillo. As Drew and George are thrown together by circumstance they become increasingly mired in a dark world of drugs, slave labour, money and murder. Not to mention an inconvenient corpse, a Serbian hit man, and a retired Glam rocker...

A wonderfully picaresque and profoundly moving tale of innocence at large amidst the shrines and fleshpots of modern Spain. Graham Greene's novel, like Cervantes' 17th century classic, is also a brilliant fable for our times.

Steven Ralph lives alone and drinks alone. When his luckless life as an advertising copywriter is about to implode he prescribes himself a dog - seventy-five kilos of canine anti-depressant. Caesar is his four-legged clover, and suddenly anything seems possible. Until Ralph's world becomes a dog's breakfast - literally. Just how far can loyalty go? (AUTOGRAPHED)