The Burning Maze - The Trials of Apollo Book 3
ISBN : 9780141364018
I was a god, once. Until I was out by my father, Zeus. Now I'm an awkward mortal teenager called Lester. Thanks a lot, dad. My way out ? A series of scary and dangerous trials, of course. For my latest mission, I must journey through the Labyrinth to free an Oracle who only speaks in puzzles and defeat a third vicious bloodthirsty Roman emperor. And I have to do everything without any of my godly powers. Wonderful. Looks like I'll be needing help — from new friends and old ...
Peppa the Pirate
ISBN : 9780241371688
Peppa and her friends love playing pirates. Can they help Grandad Dog find his golden treasure ? Arrrrr !
Lolita
ISBN : 9780241951644
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD
ISBN : 9780241979464
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour - available for pre-order now 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...' For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to
