The Midnight Hour
ISBN : 9781405956161
Present day Paris : Maggie Parker receives a call. The new owners of her family's old Notting Hill home are digging up the basement. They've no idea what might lie beneath... London, twenty-one years earlier : teenaged Maggie, babysitting her little brother, waits in vain for her mother to come home after a night out. Seeking clues to her mother's mysterious disappearance, she's drawn away from the neighbourhood's grand terraces and into its hustling backstreets - and the arms of someone else living on their wits. Over two decades later, the clock is ticking on a secret set to shatter Maggie's grown-up life. But the draw of the past is irresistible...
The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
ISBN : 9780140449099
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romance of chivalry that he determines a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the ageing Quixote's fancy leads them widly astray. As the same time the relationship between the two men grows with fascinating subtlely. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its discovered protagonist is obsessed with.
