Books published by Cornerstone

Idle, homesick, afraid, bored, oversexed and unsatisfied. A young virgin like Brigg had to grab his fun while and where he could - in the Liberty Club, in Juicy Lucy's flat or up in Phillipa's room - in one frantic attempt at living before he died or got demobbed...

There was enough trouble around to keep the police busy for months. All over Florence tourists were being robbed, cars stolen, and somewhere in the city terrorists were quietly at work. But the only witnesses were a blind man, and an old woman given to vicious lying. Yet the Marshal felt uneasy - it was all so conveniently simple...

Veteran cop Kevin Byrne and his rookie partner Jessica Balzano set out to hunt down the elusive killer, who leads them deeper and deeper into the abyss of a madman's depravity. While the body count rises, Easter is fast approaching: the day of resurrection and of the last rosary to be counted ...

A young woman walks home by herself, the tapping of her high heels the only sound. In Houghton-le-Spring it's Feast week, a time when all hell is let loose as the fair comes to town, and a frenzy of celebration and decadence provides a temporary distraction from the grim realities of everyday life.

Let's face it, there are thousands of books on the market on how to avoid self-destructive behaviour - but how many tell you to embrace self-destruction, enjoy it and pursue it to its fullest extent?

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing.

Gilly Ware, the shy young Duke of Sale, has never known his parents. Instead, he has endured twenty-four years of pampering and pandering from his uncle and valet, which he accepts without quarrel.

It is a study of the secret, erotic fantasies that men have always kept hidden, a taboo-shattering investigation that reveals the deepest, most conflicting feelings that men have about women, men and their own sexuality.

'Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside Korem it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the Twentieth Century.'Those words opened Michael Buerk's first report on the Ethiopian famine for the 6 o'clock news on October 24th 1984.

Joe Goffman's vicious first novel has savaged the reputation of Bush Falls. But the more Bush Falls resents Joe, the more it becomes obvious that Joe cannot turn his back on Bush Falls.

As thousands of successful slimmers have testified, the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet is, quite simply, the diet that works. This fully updated and expanded edition of Rosemary Conley's diet book provides further evidence of the diet's long-term success.

Gene Simmons lives in Beverley Hills, California, and was recently the rock star teacher on Channel 4's Rock School. Here for the first time Gene Simmons, the notorious mainman of the explosive rock and roll group KISS, tells his story.

The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour and a passionate belief in the sovereignty of Parliament.

Winner of the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival, Skinner's comedy is a groundbreaking mix of laddish and philosophical humour, one which has helped shape the British comedy scene ever since.

A must-read for every fan of Star Wars fiction and the New Jedi Order series in particular! There, with his brother and sister at his side, he will come face to face with his destiny--as the New Republic, still fighting the good fight, will come face to face with theirs...

Both in his private life and his work as a successful actor and TV comedian, he begins a lifetime's habit of pratfalls that he would later turn to good use in the character of Frank Spencer in smash hit 1970s TV comedy show Some Mothers Do`Ave 'Em.

Talks about the three factors that are directly responsible for the development of a child's ability to speak. This work also shows how to use these factors to maximise a child's learning curve.

Edward Rutherfurd's great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city.

She does, however, have an imaginary boyfriend, Dominic, a little white lie designed to keep Sophy's mother off her back. So does Sophy admit Dominic is a fantasy? Sophy hires an escort. But when the distinctly delicious Josh Carmichael arrives on her doorstep, Sophy can tell things are going to get tricky.

'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature.

August Penrose created the stained glass 'Lady Window' to adorn the chapel of the university he founded for the daughters of the women who worked in his factory, the Rose Glass Works. But before Christine can discuss her findings with Juno, she's found dead in a boating accident that eerily echoes that fate of the Lady of Shallot.

C was for cars which he'd nicked and crashed, R was for robbery, armed and fast, A was for arson, fire and theft, Z was for the cuts his switchblade left, E was for drugs, the Whizz and Horse, which just left murder, the hardest, of course. But he just needed that extra score to make things work for him-Three lives - one crime - the Craze.

John Kelly, once a reporter, always a maverick, has become embroiled in the mystery surrounding a series of disturbing deaths at a tough army training base in the heart of Dartmoor.

A vulcanologist mysteriously disappears after a lecture. Two policemen are found executed nearby. Then, Mount St Helen inexplicably erupts in Washington State. The new, liberal administration in the White House speaks of coincidences, but the retired Admiral Morgan and Lt Jimmy suspect an old nemesis: Major Ray Kerman, the fabled Hamas terrorist.

From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021On the brink of forty, newly single with a failed business, Philip thought he'd reached an all-time low. It only needed a discarded chip on a South London street to lay him literally flat.

They had many legendary names - the Divine Pelasgians of Greece, the Luwians of Troy and western Anatolia, the Rephaim and Anakim of the Bible, and the Hyksos rulers of Avaris who suppressed Egypt for generations.

All Julia Scheeres ever wanted was to have a normal, happy family. But with a mother who whose first concern is her church missionaries, and a distant father whose rare presence is resented by all and feared by others, home for Julia becomes a place of unspeakable secrets...

IF YOU LOVE BRIDGERTON, YOU'LL LOVE GEORGETTE HEYER!'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ...