Nick Hornby   In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. That's why she became a GP. That's why she cares about Third World...

Derek LandyMeet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yeah. And dead.Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back – just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down.With Valkyrie...

It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers(Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #2)Louise RennisonBrilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison’s second book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Louise...

Away Laughing on a Fast Camel(Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #5)Louise RennisonThe Barnes Noble Review: The tres bon and marvy heroine of Louise Rennison's Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series returns in...

Fannie Flagg   Fannie Flagg takes us on a journey to a South that only Southerners know, to a time when 'Blue Velvet' was played at the Senior Prom, and...

Allison Pearson   Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson's smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as "The national anthem for working mothers." Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother...

Peter MayleBennett is a drifter, attracted to the good life in the South of France and willing to try anything for easy money. He ends up in trouble with some...

Augusten BurroughsRunning with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist...

Fay WeldonThe Life and Loves of a She Devil(She Devil #1)Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact -- simply a tall, not terribly...

David LodgeChanging Places: A Tale of Two Campuses(The Campus Trilogy #1)Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this an amusing and accurate send-up. David Lodge,...

Valerie BlockWhen Justine and Barry meet during a plane crash just before the Christmas holidays, the relationship that follows is wild, turbulent, and maybe, just maybe, a keeper.Justine is a...

Tom HoltIn Your Dreams(J. W. Wells & Co. #2)'A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy' - ENIGMA'Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative ... Holt doesn't skimp on...