Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Read More...

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statemenet .. Read More...

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realised Ghost-Horror-Detective-Whodunit-Time-Travel-Romantic-Musical-Comedy Epic. Dirk Gently himself is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Read More...

Lear is best known for his nonsense poems, deceptively simple rhymes that together describe a surreal and uniquely engaging imaginative world, through one with a deep underlying sense of melancholy.. Read More...

John Mortimer chose his favourite Rumpole stories for this collection - the ones that made him laugh while writing them, which is, he says, ‘the only reliable test of a successful piece of work’. Read More...

Action, adventure, sex education, intrigue, tears, laughter, a homicidal brother with a penchant for amateur dramatics, Someone Like Me has got it all and then some. Read More...

Scott Adams turns futurist, offering a bold, compelling - and often hysterical - vision of future society. Drawing on his keen grasp of human nature and social dynamics, Adams daringly predicts key developments in every part of the futurescape. Read More...

After seventeen years of working in a cubicle and reading thousands of e-mail messages from readers who've been 'downsized,' 'rightsized,' 'flattened,' and put in charge of 'quality teams,' Scott Adams can no longer restrict himself to a single artistic medium. Now, in an unabashed attempt to cash in on the lucrative business book, Scott brings us The Dilbert Principle. Read More...

It began as a sudden strange fancy... Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time ... And now she's enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother. Read More...

Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake...And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit...cool. Read More...