Books published by Transworld Publishers Ltd

Beth Elon - a renowned cookery-book writer - has lived in and loved Tuscany for more than thirty years and in TASTING TUSCANY shares with her readers a side of Tuscany that is not widely known.

The First Heroes tells the extraordinary story of the daring raid and shows for the first time the real story of what was to be the turning point in the war against Japan.

Portia Davenport is the luckiest woman in the world. She and her gorgeous husband, Andrew, have just finished ploughing a fortune into renovating her ancestral home, Davenport Hall, and are now planning to unveil it as one of the most fabulous, luxurious, five-star country house hotels in Kildare. But life never turns out like you think.

It is Christmas, 1940, and Kate is making her debut in New York society. As the months pass, they meet again, and although Kate goes off to university and Joe skyrockets to fame in modern aviation, he is always drawn back to her, as a moth to a flame. When the war is over Kate wants a marriage and family - while Joe wants the world.

- STEVE BERRY"A thriller on a par with the best literature out there" - JAMES ROLLINS"So much going on and lots of twists and turns keeping you on edge from start to finish."

On a remote South Pacific island paradise, an elderly tribesman is translating "Hamlet" into local Pidgin English. Much to his annoyance, he is interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected visitor. William Hardt is an American lawyer, he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and has come to help. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.

Killed in the name of oil and steel. How did the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, in somebody else's gravy train?Deborah and Geoffrey know, but they have transport problems of their own, and anyway, whoever it was that murdered the city can just as easily murder them.

Tells the full story of how a quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge of how to destroy it. This work tells how a scientific adventure shared openly between nuclear physicists from many different nations transmuted into a secretive wartime race for the ultimate weapon of mass destruction - the atom bomb.

In 1972 Clifford Irving pulled a sensational hoax involving Howard Hughes, a prestigious New York publishing house and over a million dollars. This book recreates his own audacious literary sting when he and fellow conspirator convinced McGraw-Hill that Howard Hughes, the billionaire, had commissioned Irving to write his authorised autobiography.

But when his own brother contacts him after being certified dead for six whole minutes, Fleming wonders if he's got it all wrong. His search for the truth uncovers a terrifying religious conspiracy to stage the most ambitious experiment the world has ever seen - to prove beyond doubt the existence of a heaven or a hell.

'To hell with the calendar,' a music critic wrote before his death in 1998, 'The day Frank Sinatra dies, the twentieth century is over.'There have been many books about Sinatra, but the last comprehensive biography was Kitty Kelly's HIS WAY, published in 1986.

Heard the one about the airline that has introduced 'corpse cupboards' on new planes to cope with the number of people who die in the air?

After winning the Global Reuters IUCN media award for excellence in environmental reporting, Alanna Mitchell launches herself on an odyssey that takes her around the world, zeroing in on it's environmental hotspots.

'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.'Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this in his journal.

One house, 10 contestants, 30 cameras. Another group of people submit themselves to the exposure of the televised real-life soap opera. But this time it's different. Who is the murderer? How did they manage to kill under the constant gaze of 30 cameras? How did they do it? And who will be next?

'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.'While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion;

When Steven Grlscz saves a young woman from throwing herself in front of a train he finds himself consumed by a love affair which transforms her into a happy and beautiful young woman. Then she vanishes without trace. George Winnicott, wakes from a nightmare screaming that he knows the meaning of life. How are these events linked?

The light-hearted, hilarious and gorgeous novel from the much-loved classic author - 'The Jane Austen of our time'There was no doubt Bella Parkinson was a success: the most promising actress in London, bright, sexy - and hopelessly scatterbrained - she was taking the town by storm.

He was four years old... Paddy Doyle's prize-winning bestseller, The God Squad, is both a moving and terrifying testament of the institutionalised Ireland of less than fifty years ago, as seen through the bewildered eyes of a child.

Most of us can remember a defining moment in our lives. A split second when time stood still and our lives changed forever. For Lily Ormond, that moment came late one night when she answered a knock on the door and discovered that while she'd been smashing garlic and rosemary and watching the soaps, her sister Alison had drowned.

In Neck and Back Problems Jan de Vries deals with many of the most common problems relating to the spine. Slipped discs, tennis elbow, 'whiplash', bursitis and problems with vertigo are all discussed in layman's terms.

Addresses the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe. This book guides nonscientists in the search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.

Art, fashion, fame and sex - artist Esther Glass has it all. Trying to cover her tracks, Esther goes for ultimate sensation, selling herself as a living work of art. But underneath the surface the cracks start to show as Esther is forced to reconcile a very private history with a very public life.

More than five thousand cases of such honour killings are reported around the world each year and many more take place that we hear nothing about. Miraculously, Souad survived rescued by the women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital.

In ancient Rome, parents used to silence misbehaving children with the utterance 'Hannibal ad portas' (Hannibal is at the door).

Tom, lazy and charming, looks after the children and thinks about writing a novel while his ambitious wife Sarah pursues her career as a journalist.Nat is married to the unstylish Cassie, who spends her life in jodhpurs, but although an ill-matched couple they have a strong and enduring marriage.

Callum Pope cannot get over the brutal killing of his girlfriend Sarah Glass. He and Sarah had created strawdonkey.com. Four years later and, on the day Sarah's killer is released from prison, Callum flies to Reykjavik to try and make a fresh start. But can he escape the horror he is running away from?

Hedonism and Ibiza have gone together for many years. Around 650 BC, the Carthagenians established a cult on the island, dedicated to Tanit, their goddess of sex. They even named the island Bez, after the god of dance. This title explores a history of Ibiza that few visitors to the island will be aware of.

To make matters worse, Beth has insisted on bringing along their sixteen-year-old daughter Delilah, who's been ill and needs some rest and sunshine. Not so ill, however, that she can't look around for some entertainment.

An international bestseller and sensation: fans of Dan Brown and Michael Crichton will love this jaw-droppingly captivating and compelling thriller from bestselling author Michael Cordy. "Jurassic Park meets the quest for the Holy Grail meets Raiders of the Lost Ark" -- MAIL ON SUNDAY"Michael Cordy has given the British thriller a much-needed adrenalin injection..." -- MIRROR"Engrossing and intelligent" -- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE"Loved every minute of this book. I couldn't put it down..." -- *****Reader review"Un-Put-Downable!" -- *****Reader review*************************************************************AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS, THE WAIT IS OVER... At the moment of his supreme triumph, a man of science dodges an assassin's bullet and loses everything that truly matters in his life. Now only a miracle can save Dr Tom Carter's dying daughter: the blood of salvation shed twenty centuries ago. In the volatile heart of the Middle East, amid the devastating secrets of an ancient brotherhood awaiting a new messiah, Tom Carter must search for answers to the mysteries that have challenged humankind since the death and resurrection of the greatest Healer who ever walked the Earth. Because suddenly Carter's life, the life of his little girl, and the fate of the world hang in the balance...