The Monarch of the Glen

Author	Walter Scott
ISBN	0140436588

For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the...

Author	Jasper Fforde
ISBN	0143037234

It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs—and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the...

Author	Matt Sewell
ISBN	0091959993

In this beautiful follow-up to Our Garden Birds, Our Songbirds and Our Woodland Birds, street artist Matt Sewell captures the world’s most evocative bird: the owl. In his much-loved pop-art watercolours and accompanied with his whimsical descriptions, Matt Sewell expresses the individual characters...

Author	David Nicholls
ISBN	1444715410

One life-changing summer
Charlie meets Fran...

In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all,...

Author	Georges Simenon
ISBN	8845920488

Sui giornali del mattino non c’era nulla. Si accontentavano di riproporre, con minori dettagli, quanto pubblicato il giorno prima sui fogli della sera.Improvvisamente si era creato un vuoto, come se il caso fosse giunto a un punto morto. Si sentiva frustrato. Il suo primo pensiero fu: «Ma che diavolo...