Item category 1: Playaway

'I need you to say that I was with you' - with these simple words, two women's enduring friendship is put to the ultimate test. For one, the appeal is borne of desperation to conceal a secret and a desire to protect her family. For the other, the request turns her world upside down.

From his experiences as a naval officer in the battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as an editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol reigns, writers struggle and publishers hustle. It is a world in whi...

The French Foreign Legion at Camerone, Scott of the Antarctic, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Mirbat, the Gloster's Last Stand: full of courage, adventure and sacrifice these are the stories that every boy should know.

Firmly established as a classic, this novel defined the 1980s. 'American Psycho' is a very disturbing, bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to face.

June Whitfield discusses the great comics she has known in her long professional life, and comments upon the changing fashions in television, whilst telling her own life story.

When a severed arm is discovered by a couple on honeymoon in the Florida Keys, former police detective - now reluctant restaurant inspector - Andrew Yancy senses that something doesn't add up. Determined to get his badge back, he undertakes an unofficial investigation of his own. Andrew's search ...

Orphaned by an act of senseless violence that took their mother from them, half-brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger have been raised in state institutions, unaware of any world outside. But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route t...

Buddhist detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, first introduced in 'Bangkok 8', investigates when a mutilated body is found in a hotel bedroom in Bangkok. The self-confessed murderer is Canya, the best-working girl at the Old Man's Club, a brothel owned jointly by Sonchai's mother and his boss.

Billeted together in a tiny cottage in a sleepy country village, three ATA girls, Evie, Stella and Megan, must learn to live and work together. Brave, beautiful and fiercely independent, these women soon move beyond their different backgrounds as they find romance, confront loss, and forge friend...

Berlin, 1933. Clara Vine, an attractive young Anglo-German actress, arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting, she is drawn into a circle of Nazi wives, among them Magda Goebbels, Anneliese von Ribbentrop and Goering's girlfriend Emmy Sonnemann. As part of...