Black Swan

From the bestselling author of "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" comes the story of a mother and daughter who take refuge in a moldering house off the coast of Scotland and who soon notice that strange things are starting to happen.A thoroughly original and hilarious novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of "Behind the Scenes at...

Though there are flashes here of the dramatic verve of The World According to Garp and Cider House Rules , Irving's long-awaited eighth novel is generally a tedious affair: rambling; lacking suspense; devoid of energetic or lyric prose; sometimes verging on farce and other times almost as lethargic as the sultry atmosphere of Bombay, where it is...

The lead singer of "We've Got Blondie's Drumsticks and We're Going To Use Them" has a problem. He only wants one woman in the world, and that woman is Debbie Harry. Unfortunately, he works in a bank. His brother has a problem too. His wife has gone missing - on his wedding day....

Research geneticist, club DJ and novelist John McCabe serves up more science, crime and a wry take on the modern world in his second novel. His debut, Stickleback, featured the antics of a couple of techno-drones toiling in the new coal mines that are computer data bases. Paper is again set amid the hi-tech drudgery of a modern lab as Dr Darren...

When ten-year-old Loren is kidnapped at a Manhattan planetarium from Mala, his young adoptive aunt, he believes he has been mistaken for another child. But his abductor is his great-uncle, a wealthy former gambler, who lives in a converted hotel in the desert surrounded by a host of idiosyncratic guests, each in search of the lost treasures of the...

Elton knows how to keep his characters moving quickly enough to entertain even the most jaded readers....