Gai-Jin by James Clavell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front cover otherwise good
Price: RM20

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell’s latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan—an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.…

How to Walk in High Heels by Camilla Morton

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The bestselling U.K. sensation, hailed as "the most fabulous instruction manual the world has ever seen" by Vogue.com

Can you make yourself up in five minutes flat? Make the first move without breaking a sweat? Hang a picture without becoming unhinged? Get out of a car -- or an unpleasant situation -- gracefully in a short skirt? Load an iPod as effortlessly as a dishwasher? If not, international style and fashion journalist Camilla Morton can help you navigate these and more than two hundred other hazards of modern living with grace and aplomb. Much more than just a style manual or crash course in social skills, How to Walk in High Heels also illuminates the finer points of achieving better homes and gardens, tackling technophobia, climbing the career ladder, and joining the jet set.

From the practical, such as what to do when a heel breaks and how to catch a mouse, to the imaginative, such as how to enjoy karaoke and swim in sunglasses, How to Walk in High Heels overflows with useful nuggets of advice delivered in the author's inimitable witty style, accompanied by a foreword from Dior's John Galliano and a Louis Vuitton trunkful of insight from experts including: -Manolo Blahnik on How to Pick a Shoe -Dolce & Gabbana on How to Get Ready in Five Minutes -Gisele Bundchen on How to Look Good in a Photo -Jade Jagger on How to Compile Your Own Soundtrack

This comprehensive do-everything-better bible takes the guesswork out of flaunting your fabulousness so that you can stop teetering and start striding confidently through the obstacle course of life.

Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on back cover otherwise good
Price: RM15

In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.

The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.

Heiresses by Lulu Taylor

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

They were born to the scent of success. Now they stand to lose it all ...Fame, fashion and scandal, the Trevellyan heiresses are the height of success, glamour and style. But when it comes to ...WEALTH: Jemima's indulgent lifestyle knows no limits; Tara's one purpose in life, no matter the sacrifice, is to be financially independent of her family and husband; and Poppy wants to escape its trappings without losing the comfort their family money brings...LUST: Jemima's obsession relieves the boredom of her marriage; while Tara's seemingly 'perfect' life doesn't allow for such indulgences; and Poppy, spoiled by attention and love throughout her life, has yet to expose herself to the thrill of really living and loving dangerously...FAMILY: it's all they've ever known, and now the legacy of their parents, a vast and ailing perfume empire, has been left in their trust. But will they be able to turn their passion into profit? And in making a fresh start, can they face their family's past?

The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel’s parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka. With his Jewish identity hidden, Gamaliel survives the war. But in 1956, to escape the stranglehold of communism, he leaves Budapest after painfully parting from Ilonka.

Gamaliel tries, unsuccessfully, to find a place for himself in Europe. After a failed marriage, he moves to New York, where he works as a ghostwriter, living through the lives of others. Eventually he falls in with a group of exiles, including a rabbi––a mystic whose belief in the potential for grace in everyday life powerfully counters Gamaliel’s feelings of loss and dispossession. When Gamaliel is asked to help draw out an elderly, disfigured Hungarian woman who may be his beloved Ilonka, he begins to understand that a real life in the present is possible only if he will reconcile with his past.

Good Bones by Margaret Atwood

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), and theology amongst other matters. We hear Gertrude's version of what really happened in Hamlet; an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves, and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula all wrong. Good Bones is pure distilled Atwood - delieciously strong and bittersweet.

The Museum Guard by Howard Norman

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Small price sticker tear on back cover, slightly yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Orphaned by a zeppelin crash at age nine, DeFoe Russet was raised in a Halifax, Nova Scotia, hotel by his magnetic uncle Edward. Now thirty, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. He and his uncle disturb the silence of the museum with heated conversations that prove them to be "opposites at life." Away from the museum, DeFoe courts the affection of Imogen Linny, the young caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery. Everything changes when Imogen, inspired by the arrival of a painting, Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam, abandons Halifax for the ennobled life she imagines for the painting's subject—even amid the growing perilousness of being a Jew in Amsterdam. Set against the impending events of World War II, The Museum Guard, the second book of his Canadian trilogy, explores the mysteries of identity and self-determination, and the desire to step out of the ordinary into an alluring and dangerous sphere of action.

Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM10

Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man

Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -- motherhood

Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes -- until a ghost from her past turns up

At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner, the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or almost everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed.

In Cocktails for Three, Madeleine Wickham combines her trademark humor with remarkable insight to create an edgy, romantic tale of secrets, strangers, and a splash of scandal.

New Books!

Hi guys.

Here are the freshly added books.. as promised!

Hardcover - hc
Paperback - pb

1. A Prison Diary by Jeffrey Archer - RM20 (hc)
2. Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer - RM10 (pb)
3. The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer - RM20 (hc)
4. Saving Faith by David Baldacci - RM20 (hc)
5. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks - RM15 (pb)
6. Agatha Christie The Pocket Essential by Mark Campbell - RM15 (pb)
7. 24 Declassified: Operation Hell Gate by Mark Cerasini - RM15 (pb)
8. 24 Declassified: Vanishing Point by Mark Cerasini - RM15 (pb)
9. The Clocks by Agatha Christie - RM15 (pb)
10. Curtain by Agatha Christie - RM15 (pb)
11. The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories by Agatha Christie - RM15 (pb)
12. Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction by Michael Crick - RM25 (hc)
13. The Woman & the Ape by Peter Hoeg - RM10 (pb)
14. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman - RM10 (pb)
15. The Cider House Rules by John Irving - RM10 (pb)
16. Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes - RM15 (pb)
17. Desperation by Stephen King - RM10 (pb)
18. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb - RM15 (pb)
19. Shopgirl by Steve Martin - RM20 (hc)
20. How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto - RM20 (hc)
21. Black Horn by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
22. The Blue Ring by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
23. In the Name of the Father by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
24. Man on Fire by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
25. Message From Hell by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
26. Perfect Kill by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
27. Snap Shot by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
28. The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice - RM20 (hc)
29. The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi - RM20 (hc)
30. The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender - RM10 (pb)
31. A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
32. Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
33. Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
34. Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
35. Morning, Noon & Night by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
36. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks - RM10 (pb)
37. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan - RM25 (hc) Sold
38. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend - RM10 (pb)
39. Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler - RM25 (hc)
40. Reader's Digest: Select Editions 4 - RM20 (hc)
(Authors: Frederick Forsyth, Rosie Thomas, Michael Connelly, Jacqueline Winspear)
41. Reader's Digest: 4 Books by Frederick Forsyth - RM40 (hc)

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Category: Fiction

Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding, an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair, she begins to unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back to its creation.

In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city's rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah's extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna's investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love.

Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Prada-wearing magazine editor Lisa Edwards thinks her life is over when her "fabulous" new job turns out to be a deportation to Dublin, launching Colleen magazine. No more jet-setting to the fall collections. No more fabulous parties and photographs in the society pages. The only saving grace is that her friends aren't there to witness her downward spiral. Might her new boss, the disheveled and moody Jack Devine, save her from a fate worse than hell?

Ashling Kennedy, Colleen's assistant editor, is an award-winning worrier, increasingly aware that something fundamental is missing from her life -- apart from a boyfriend and a waistline. And then there's her closest, oldest friend Clodagh "Princess" Kelly, who is apparently living the domestic dream in a suburban castle. So why, lately, has Clodagh had a recurring urge to kiss a frog -- sleep with a frog, if truth be told?

Set in the sparkling -- and serpentine -- world of women's fashion magazines, as well as the hilarious underground comedy club circuit, Sushi for Beginners is about searching for happiness. And how, if you let things bubble under the surface for too long, sooner or later they'll boil over. Sharp, funny, and sweet, Marian Keyes's latest novel confirms her place as the queen of contemporary fiction.

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

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In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

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Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary -- an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has convulsed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenaged Adrian's obsession with intellectuality after understanding "nearly every word" of a Malcolm Muggeridge broadcast to his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate, from his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan, and deadly accurate, satire. ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks. Monty Python, the Falklands campaign -- all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend's brilliant comic creation: A. Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.

The Woman & the Ape by Peter Hoeg

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

An hour after nightfall the ape rose, wrapped an arm around Madelene, parted the screen of leaves at a shadowed spot, and leaped, almost horizontally, into what seemed to Madelene to be a pitch-black void. Madelene Burden is a Danish beauty who lives in an alcoholic haze while her husband, Adam, a behavioral scientist, dreams of restoring the London Zoo to its original glory. Hes about to get his chance with Erasmus, a 300-pound gorilla unlike any other. But a spark ignites between Madelene and Erasmus and begins a love affair as emotionally and erotically charged as any male-female relationship can be and a revelation that stuns the world.

The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender

Category: Non-Fiction/Memoir
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front cover, otherwise good
Price: RM10

After Mama is taken away by the Nazis, Riva and her younger brothers cling to their mother's brave words to help them endure life in the Lodz ghetto. Then the family is rounded up, deported to Auschwitz, and separated. Now Rive is alone.

At Auschwitz, and later in the work camps at Mittelsteine and Grafenort, Rive vows to live, and to hope - for mama, for her brothers, for the millions of other victims of the nightmare of the Holocaust. And through determination and courage, and unexpected small acts of kindness, she does live - to write the unforgettable memoir that is a testament to the strenght of the human spirit.

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

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For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared brought them back-almost as if by magic...

The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

When a young secretary, Sheila Webb, is sent to the home of a blind woman on an errand, she is horrified to discover a dead man behind the couch, surrounded by four clocks that have all been stopped at 4:13. The owner arrives home and denies that the clocks belong to her, the deceased's business card turns out to be a fraud, and a woman shows up claiming to be the dead man's wife. There is only one man who can unravel this complicated case: Hercule Poirot.

Curtain: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?!

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Nine previously uncollected gems from the worlds most popular mystery writer have finally been incorporated into a stellar book of Agatha Christie short stories. Fans around the world will welcome the mysterious delights found in The Harlequin Tea Set as Christies famous detectives unravel the webs of intrigue spun by the most beloved mystery writer of all time. Agatha Christies works have been published in more languages than any other book except the Bible, and her worldwide legions of fans will delight in the release of this previously unpublished collection of stories.

The Pocket Essential: Agatha Christie by Mark Campbell

Category: Non-Fiction/Guide
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. In this book, Mark Campbell provides an informed introduction to the Agatha Christie phenomenon, including a biography of the great author, in-depth profiles of 10 of her most popular characters, analyses of the stories, and a section on film, TV, and stage adaptations. Appendices include an exhaustive biography and an overview of the best Christie websites around.