It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skils of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?

All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake.

The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of the her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threates the very BookWorld itself.

The Redemption opens in the world's most oppressive and isolated totalitarian state: Albania in the 1970s. A prisoner suspected of being an enemy agent is held by state security. An usettling presence, he maintains an eerie silence though subjected to unimaginable torture. He escapes - and on the way to freedom, completes a mysterious mission. The prisoner is Dimiter, the American 'agent from hell.' The scene shifts to Jerusalem, focusing on Hadassah Hospital and a cast of unusual characters. All become enmeshed in a series of baffling, inexplicable deaths, until events explode in a surprising climax.

It's 1.15 am and Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she's logging on a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it's for sale; there is an estate agent's board in the front garden.

Soon Connie is clicking on the 'Virtual Tour' button, keen to see the inside of 11 Bentley Grove and put her mind at rest once and for all. She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, in the middle of the carpet, a woman lies face down in a huge pool of blood. In shock, Connie wakes her husband Kit. But when Kit sits down at the coputer, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in a perfectly ordinary room...

Abandoned as a child on the steps of the St. Rose Convent in New York, Evangeline Cacciatore grew up knowing little of her parents. Assisting a scholar in the convent one day, she uncovers a disturbing secret connected to her family. It relates to a sinister discovery in the Bulgarian mountains: a beautiful humanlike body impervious to decay. Who is it? And what has it to do with her parents?

Her discovery puts Evangeline in terrible danger. Unwittingly, she has reopened the war between societies of merciless individuals racing to control powerful hidden artifacts. It is a battle that will have a devastating effect on humankind.

Only by delving deeper into her family's secret history will Evangeline uncover the truth. But will it save, or destroy her?

John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He does not put down roots. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him. But you can't run forever.

So when he stops in Paradise, Ohio, John decides to try and settle down. To fit in. And for the first time he makes some real friends. People he cares about - and who care about him. Never in John's short life has there been space for friendship, or even love.

But it's just a matter of time before John's secret is revealed. He was once one of nine. Three of them have been killed. John is Number Four. He knows that he is next...

Now a major motion picture!

It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarassed the British royal family, and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination.

"Do Singaporeans have a sense of humor?"

Many people overseas still see Singaporeans as too business-like, overly serious, or earnest in their interactions with other people. However, On a Street in Singapore, so named after the 1940s song, shows Singaporeans in all their food-loving, kiasu, kaypoh, seow, shiok, and funny glory.

There was a time when 'universe' meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years, discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many. With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy, Brian Greene shows how a range of different 'multiverse' proposals emerges: a multiverse in which you have an infinite number of doppelgangers, each reading this sentence in a distant universe; a multiverse comprising a vast ocean of bubble universes, of which ours is but one; a multiverse that endlessly cycles through time, or one that might be hovering millimeters away yet remains invisible; another in which every possibility allowed by quantum physics is brought to life. Or, perhaps strangest of all, a multiverse made purely of mathematics.

The Hidden Reality is at once a far-reaching survey of cutting-edge physics and a remarkable journey to the very edge of reality - a journey grounded firmly in science and limited only by our imagination.

One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King.'

Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 over his love of Mrs. Simpson. Now a major motion picture!

One of the greatest entertainers of our time candidly reveals her very personal struggle with an issue so many of us face every day: self-esteem.

This book is about meeting those challenges that face all of us. With candor and courage, Janet shares her painful journey to loving herself. She addresses the crazy rumors that have swirled around her for most of her life, shines an intimate light on her family, and pulls us behind the velvet rope into her unforgettable career. She also shares lessons she has learned through contact with friends and fans and reveals the fitness secrets she has learned from her trainer.

True You is a call to tune in to your own fundemantel wisdom, to let go of the ugly comparisons, and to understand that who you are, the true you, is more than enough.