Cool Millennium: 22 books

Four full-length novels! Over 350,000 words! Two thousand one hundred and sixty-three print pages! The Kramski Case The Girl From Kandahar The Vengeance of San Gennaro The Eastern Ukraine Question "This is what J. J. Ward is really good at. He only needs a few words...

"I've looked down on life from a high mountain, Peter, and do you know what I saw? We're all just doing nothing, that's what!" In the middle of the 19th century, the great French writer, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), set out to write a fictional compendium of every aspect of humankind. An...

Twenty-five poems covering subjects like the difference between Cow Parsley and Hogweed, the ghosts of Pevensey Castle, school exams, the history of flies, Rawls's Veil of Ignorance, train journeys to distant universes, Jack O'Kent, eviction, Humphrey Bogart, and shopping. Buy it now while copies last.

The Latest Noel is a collection of poems on subjects as diverse as British Summer Time, car boot sales, the 20th century thinker Georges Bataille, the connection between bird watching and waterfalls and Marxism, Valentine's Day, English folklore, Magpies, extraterrestrials visiting the Earth, and...

Romance isn't always a garden of delights. Sometimes it's a no-holds-barred battle to the death with the incarnation of evil. Prem's wedding to Nasreen collapses when she uncharacteristically bows to her conscience and walks out of the ceremony. He wanders alone to the town centre where he...

When the world is bursting with prospective life-partners, how can two young people, thousands of miles apart on different continents, possibly be the only ones who are right for each other? Well, sometimes… they just can. "While not normally a book I would choose, I couldn't put it down....

Agent John Mordred gets a nasty shock when he finds himself touted in the press as one of ten potential "Ultimate Londoners". Especially given that he's spent his entire adult life trying to pass beneath the radar of just about anyone with a camera or a microphone. Yet with a five million pound prize-pot...

A New Theory of Justice and Other Essays consists of six independent chapters, each of which attempts to break new ground in philosophy. Altogether, it runs to just under 50,000 words. The first, 'A New Theory of Justice', argues that the so-called war of all against all, described in Thomas...