Andy Cooper, a veteran detective on the St. Louis County Police Department faces his most challenging cases as his son, Michael begins his senior year in high school. A professor is discovered atop the atrium at the University of Missouri and Andy meets his new partner, Jason Trimble, a rookie, at the site of her murder.As autumn turns into a brutal winter, dismembered and frozen bodies are discarded along the interstate. The case is stalled until Andy gets his first solid lead fro...

A "luminous" story of love and sorrow spanning from London to Romania, from a prize-winning novelist ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Kitty Crozier first laid eyes on Virgil Florescu, a dissident poet who swam across the Danube to escape Ceausescu's Romania, in the hospital. She woke up after surgery to find a stranger sitting beside her bed gazing at her. He just smiled, then stood and left the room.She next sees him in London's Green Park pic...

'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece' ROBERT McCRUM, GUARDIAN'An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' SARAH WATERS'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all' ANNE TYLEROn a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magni...

In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life.An innocent in a new city, still grieving the sudden loss of his beloved mother Elena seven years earlier, Dinu is encouraged to enjoy la vie de Bohème by his distant cousin, Eduard. But tentativel...

The haunting novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize.At the age of seventy, Andrew Peters looks back across the years to remember life with his doting Uncle Rudolf, who rescued him from fascist Romania as a child. Vivid, often hilarious, stories of Rudolf’s brilliant but blighted singing career are intertwined with the slow unfolding of secrets that have shadowed Andrew’s otherwise happy life. Told in matchless prose, this deeply moving n...

TWENTY MILLION people have walked the acres of Knott's Berry Farm at Buena Park, California. Its chicken dinners, its wild west atmosphere, its "Ghost Town," are familiarly known to travellers from every part of the world. Less known, perhaps, is the remarkable story of Walter Knott and his family, who have built their strange enterprise into one of the wonder of the west.Here is the story of how a once penniless sharecropper parlayed ten acres of berries into a farm of golden wonde...

New and experimental ways to capture landscape in acrylics.Landscape artist Paul Bailey's fascination with the natural world is sensationally conveyed in his colourful and semi-abstract paintings. In Experimental Nature in Acrylics, he reveals his techniques for the first time – making it simple for readers to produce their own work that is abstract, evocative and full of vivid colour.Through easy-to-follow explanations and step-by-step demonstrations, Paul...

'A very funny book, but never jeering, full of pity, but unsentimentally harsh with the tragedy of old age which institutional kindness cannot cushion' Financial Times.Following the death from leukaemia of her daughter, Celia, Mrs Gadny goes to live with her sullen stepson Henry. But she finds little affection or contentment either with him, or with his selfish wife Thelma, or with their ungrateful children. She is sent to an old people's home, 'The Jerusa...

The Diary of a Nobody is a comic masterpiece that has been hugely influential since its first publication in 1892.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features Weedon Grossmith’s original illustrations and an afterword by novelist Paul Bailey.Proud to be ensconc...

A moving tale about middle age, divorce, modern love, and returning home by one of the great American storytellers.Asher’s career as a Hollywood screenwriter has come to a humiliating end; so has his latest marriage. Returning to New York, where he grew up, he takes a room at a hotel and wonders what, well into middle age as he is, he should do next. It’s not a question of money; it’s a question of purpose, maybe of pride. In the company of the arch young poet Mich...

Les Misérables is a magnificent, sweeping story of revolution, love and the will to survive amidst the poverty-stricken streets of nineteeth-century Paris.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by Paul Bailey.Escaped convict Jean Valjean t...

Growing up in inner-city Manchester in the 1970s and 80s was no easy feat-especially for a strong-willed Black kid navigating peer pressure, overt racism, and a system that often looked the other way. Paul Bailey had two choices: fight or flee. He chose to stand his ground.From his early days as a determined student and talented athlete to a 30-year career as a police officer, Paul's journey is one of resilience, defiance, and an unshakable commitment to justice. As the founder and...