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To celebrate the bicentenary of the publication of "Pride and Prejudice", the Collector's Library will publish its lavishly illustrated edition in colour in January. Jane Austen's best-loved novel is a memorable story about the inaccuracy of first impressions, about the power of reason, and above all about the strange dynamics of human relationships and emotions. Here, where Hugh Thomson's delightful period illustrations were originally black-and-white, they have been sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's most accomplished colourists. Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) was the finest exponent of period illustration in what is sometimes known as the 'powder and patch' school.

1954. Alors que Bernie Gunther tente de fuir Cuba en bateau accompagné d''une sulfureuse chica, il est arrêté par la CIA et enfermé à New York puis au Landsberg à Berlin. C''est que nous sommes en pl

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder...Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked couples return home, they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better. But they don''t always like what they find: buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some dark secrets, hidden kinks, ugly vices...Then, a second girl goes missing. Could it be that one of these six has a secret far darker than anybody can imagine? A brilliantly plotted, utterly gripping thriller about the danger of making friends on holiday, Rush of Blood is Mark Billingham''s most ambitious and accomplished work to date.

Sophie Morgan is a submissive. An ordinary, successful young woman who in private surrenders her body and mind to a dominant man. Some of these relationships have been loving, others casual, one just cruel. But what happens when she meets the dominant man of her dreams? When they move in together? When life, love and play collide?

As Irish people prepare to welcome President John F Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a German is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. He is the third foreign national to die within a few days, and Minister for Justice Charles Haughey is desperate to protect a shameful secret: dead men were all former Nazis granted asylum by the Irish government.

The new bestseller from Anne Tyler: a story about two ordinary people so intertwined they cannot be separated - even by death ... Anne Tyler is a bestselling and prizewinning author The Amateur Marriage was a top 10 bestseller in hardback and paperback; Digging to America and The Amateur Marriage were both shortlisted for the Orange Prize; Tyler was shortlisted for the International Man Booker in 2011 The Beginner''s Goodbye is Tyler at her best - quirky, charming, poignant, beautifully precise - all the ingredients her fans love Whole backlist now available as ebook ''My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world'' Nick Hornby, Independent on Sunday.

Although characters and stories like Sam Spade and The Maltese Falcon are famous the world over, Dashiel Hammett wrote only five full-length novels in his career. Now two new stories have been discovered in his papers. Following the enormous success of 'The Thin Man' movie in 1934, Hammett wrote two novellas starring the same retired private investigator Nick Charles and his former debutante wife Nora. Written with classic, barbed Hammett dialogue, these two novellas have finally come to light. Together they make The Return of the Thin Man, the first new Dashiell Hammett book in nearly half a century. Dashiell Hammett died in 1961. His influence inspired writers as diverse as Raymond Chandler and William Burroughs and changed the face of crime writing forever.