Books published by Cornerstone

On websites like eBay, people sell virtual clothes and rent virtual property for real cash - for a total of GBP400 million worth each year. Tim Guest takes us on a revelatory journey through the electronic looking-glass, as he investigates one of the most bizarre phenomena of the 21st century.

The Essential Hemingway is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prize-winning author.

What began as a small weight loss chain run by an expert nutritionist, has now become the fastest growing franchise. In this text the Curves plan is brought to the general reader so that everyone can benefit from this easy-to-follow and fast-working programme.

Voted in a BBC poll the book, is an insight into all that is best and worst about Britain.

Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French.Threatened with eviction, unemployment and bankrupcy, Paul realises that his personal merde factor is about to hit the fan...

On a sun drenched beach in Barbados, feisty sports presenter Charlie meets the irresistibly gorgeous Felipe Castillo. Instantly attracted to each other, they have a passionate affair, until he walks out with no explanation. Will Charlie be able to overcome her past in the name of love?

In Willful Creatures Aimee Bender takes us on a journey to a fantastical world in which authentic love blossoms.

** SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RENEE ZELLWEGER, LOUIE ANDERSON AND OWEN TEAGUE **Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade.

WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE 2013Today is Christmas Eve. Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Nelly enjoys playing the violin, eating cornflakes with Coke and reading Harry Potter. But on Christmas Eve, the sisters have to join forces and put their differences aside.

England, 1070. Renowned for his exploits, the knight Tancred has become a lord in his own right, with men to command and a manor to call home on the turbulent Welsh Marches. But his hard-fought gains are soon placed in peril, as the Normans' newly won kingdom falls under siege on all sides.

On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses.

An iconic friendship, an uneasy alliance a revisionist account of the couple who ended the Cold War.

Night Shyamalan and starring Jaden Smith and Will SmithAfter their exodus from Earth, the last humans settled a remote planet: Nova Prime. Conner Raige's ancestors were on the front lines of victory against the Skrel, a long defeated enemy.

As she begins the long vigil by William's beside, she fears she will lose the little boy she has grown to love as her own... A fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series).

It's fair to say that Charlie Glass is carrying a little excess baggage - emotionally and physically. For years her excess weight means she's been the butt of her skinny stepmother and half sisters' jokes, and she's had enough.

You can do anything in Hollywood and be forgiven, anything except grow old... It's the 1930s and cinema stands at the dawn of a new age, the silent era is all but dead, talkies are here and Technicolor is on its way.

An F-18 Navy fighter careens out of the blue sky above Mojave desert. A TV cameraman, who grew up in a small town just miles away, can see what is going to happen next. Frantically, Wes Stewart races to the downed jet and tries to save the pilot's life. When the plane explodes, Wes escapes without harm - and plunges into a murderous conspiracy.

Psychopath. No sooner is the word out than images of murderers, rapists, suicide bombers and gangsters flash across our minds. But unlike their box-office counterparts, not all psychopaths are violent, or even criminal. This title reveals a shocking truth: beneath the hype and the popular characterisation, psychopaths have something to teach us.

Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective investigation firm - sought out by the famous and the powerful to discreetly handle their most intimate problems.

When Anna, Mike's beautiful and self-possessed wife, begins to mangle her sentences as a result of a brain aneurysm that could kill her at any moment, it's as if Mike has woken from a long dream in which he was only thinking about himself. Or is he still only thinking about himself?

The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. Campbell describes in detail the discussions with President Bush and other world leaders as the steps to war are taken, and delivers a unique account of Blair as war leader.

Two men lie in wait in a basement garage underneath the Boulevard St. Germain for the Minister of Special Affairs, their aim to kidnap their target and use him as a bargaining chip in the internecine strife that is tearing France apart.

'My father was a millionaire in Shanghai in the 1930s.'Anna Schoene was a golden child. Anna grows up in Los Angeles and slowly, over the years, begins to learn the real story of her father - both then in Shanghai and, finally, his last years in California.

Ellen Franck and Amy Jacobs are smart, attractive, urban women, with big jobs in the fashion business. They have witnessed their contemporaries following the traditional route of marriage, children, exile to suburbia, and a general loveless, sexless existence. But now Ellen and Amy discover that they both hear the same, terrible noise.

But it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. But Danny Dennison has been living a lie. His true identity is buried half way around the world in the ruins of a Nazi concentration camp. Danny believes his secret to be safe - until he meets Luba, a young, sensuous call girl, whose mesmerising sexuality begins to shatter his well-guarded facade.

'If someone had asked me a year ago why I thought it was that men leave women and never come back. I would have said this: New Cow New Cow is short for New Cow Theory, which is for Old Cow-New Cow Theory, which, of course, is short for the sad sorry truth that men leave women and never come back because all they really want is a new Cow.

Now, after her death, Lucy suddenly gets her chance to repay Suzannah, for crucial things about the night of her death don't add up. But as Lucy starts to discover the secret life that Suzannah kept from even her, she realises that Suzannah was playing a dangerous game.

In 1983, the freighter Marine Electric ran into a violent storm off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Despite Force 10 conditions and fifty feet waves the crew were unconcerned: the ship had survived worse.