Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead'Brilliant, hilarious fun from a master wordsmith you will LOVE this book' Kit de Waal 'Extremely entertaining and very useful for new insults' Russell Kane Join wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense. Learn unusual insults from France (You are a potato with the face of a guinea pig), how to hurry someone up in the US (You're going as slow as molasses in January) and what they call a shark in

For as children quietly vanish from the Parisian streets

These three brilliant screenplays are uniquely accessible cameos of modern fiction as they move from the reassuring naturalism of our most familiar medium to the harrowing ambiguities of McEwan's uncompromising vision of reality

Menelaus' wife

It's a place that outsiders can never find - but Kellen is getting desperate

Sent to cover the case on his first major assignment

The Forest of Hands and Teeth transitions effortlessly between horror and beauty

Then a teenage vampire struggles to balance homework

Nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction' The Times

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exotic and sensual

It is always the innocent who suffer to make the powerful rich

star of The Devil's Playground