Books published by Cornerstone

'I think you know who killed your stepfather', said Wexford, and so begins this scintillating collection of long and short stories by the world's best living crime writer, Ruth Rendell. It was clear both to Wexford and Burden that Tom Peterlee was not killed for GBP360, but various people would have liked them to believe the lie.

When ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield graduated from university with a degree in magic, he never imagined he would soon be teaching English to a bevy of gorgeous high school girls.

A "Star Wars" adventure. In this novel, Jedi Jax Pavan and his companions try to help other Jedi and ordinary people in need while constantly evading Darth Vader's attempts to destroy all surviving Jedi.

Desmond and Deirdre Doyle will have been married for 25 years in October. It falls to the Doyles' eldest daughter, Anna, to decide how to commemorate her parents' Silver Wedding. No use in asking her sister or brother. But it is unthinkable not to have a party, even though for the Doyles, family occasions are more difficult than for most.

The time is January 1782, and British Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to take the frigate Phalarope to the Caribbean, where the hard-pressed royal squadrons are fighting for their lives against the combined fleets of France and Spain and the upstart American privateers.

Night Watch Agent Anton Gorodetsky's holiday is abruptly shortened when an urgent call from Gesar - his boss and Night Watch head - forces him to return to work. The note has also been sent to the Day Watch, and to the Inquisition - but only the very highest-level Others know the addresses.

In 1944 Tom Wainwright, a British soldier, arrives in the small Italian town of Petriano. Fifty years later Isabel Wainwright, Tom's daughter, sets off for Petriano herself, to attend a ceremony naming a piazza in her father's honour.

For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday's Counter-Terrorist meeting. An invisible may have entered mainland Britain. An 'invisible' is a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country, who can cross its borders unchecked. Who or what is the target?

Murder and intrigue prevails in medieval Byzantium in the year 1096. When a mysterious assassin looses his arrow at the emperor, he has more than a man in his sights; the keystone of a crumbling empire, he is the solitary figure holding its enemies in check. If he falls, then the mightiest power in Christendom will be torn apart.

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs.

Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is surely one of the best loved comic creations, in both literature and television. This omnibus collects together the first three Reginald Perrin novels containing outrageous adventures.

Nellie delights in the promise of love - and tastes the bitterness of betrayal - just as the long finger of war stretches out to divide the girls and rob Liverpool of a whole generation of its young men ... Sure to please fans and newcomers alike, this is classic Katie Flynn saga writing at its best.

Unlocking the secrets of the pyramids. For thousands of years the pyramids have stood, imposing and enigmatic, refusing to give up their secrets.

'A Manchurian Candidate for the computer age' Seattle WeeklyThere's no way William A. He's a likeable Midwestern governor with one insidious advantage. An advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers. Forget issuesForget policy He's more than the perfect candidate - he's a special effect.

NOW THEY INHERIT THE LEGACYThe O'Donnell family ran their manor in the East End with a fist of iron, keeping control of their gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. But gang warfare brought horror and sorrow with it, losing Catherine O'Donnell her life and finally bringing murder and violence into the heart of the family.

Growing up in a small Wiltshire village, Abbie Morris knows what lies ahead of her - a life of drudgery as a menial servant, like that of her sisters. Six years later the Morris family have rebuilt their lives, and when Abbie and Beatie, Abbie's adored elder sister, set off for the county fair, the world seems a good place.

In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest.

Presents the history of the battle between the superpowers, the Soviet Union and America, from the first Sputnik into space in 1957, through Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight in 1961 to the years of America's Apollo Saturn rocket programme that finally saw the USA snatch the prize from Russia.

FINAL ROUNDS celebrates a lifetime of golf shared by a father and son who take on a last trip together to the finest courses of England and Scotland.

When Lara Richards jets off to glamorous California, the last thing she's expecting is to find her old friend Helen transformed from a clipboard-clasping frump into a shimmering surf goddess.

Willie Cooper arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York in the wake of a disastrous affair with her much older, married archaeology professor. That same day, the discovery of a prehistoric monster in the lake brings a media frenzy to the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded.

and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a shattered career... This vintage collection of stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends is Maeve Binchy at her best - her trademark warmth, wit and compassion are unmistakeable.

An international thriller of psychology and conspiracy, espionage and prophecy, history and suspense. After someone he has under surveillance is slaughtered, CIA agent Jack Dunphy is ordered to leave London immediately and return to the US. Determined to learn why, Dunphy uses all his CIA tradecraft on the agency that has turned against him.

Four men: Conor, Sean, Martin, Jeff. Four choices: friendship, sex, money, a husband. Jo is trying to run a business, a home and a family when her husband falls in love with someone else. Suddenly single again - with the added complication of children in tow - she has four very different men buzzing around her.

There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the subject of her PhD thesis. But a progressively darker reality unfolds as we are led inexorably towards a terrible and shocking climax.

This was partly due to her long life, and the difficulty that always exists when a biography of a living person is attempted, partly because she was a queen - and the real person gets hidden behind the perceived image - and partly because she is hard to pin down.

"Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bathe. Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved?" This old nursery rhyme is a favorite of Jerry Leach, a handsome ne'er do well, who sponges off women. Five women, unknown to each other, are his willing victims. But Jerry, almost accidentally, becomes the victim of one of his female prey.

In The Seven-Day Weekend, Semler explains how he transformed a small family business into a highly profitable manufacturing, services and high-tech powerhouse - 40 times larger - while watching his favorite movies or relaxing with his son in the middle of the business day.

Aims to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about you, your lover, father, daughter , boss and even A-list celebrities. This work is an in-depth astrological portrait for the 21st century. It reflects and embraces sensibilities and values looking at the way we function in sexual relationships.