The illustrated edition of the worldwide bestseller with all the reference sources the fan could want.

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunière, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci – and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history.
Langdon suspects the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion – a centuries-old secret society – and has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. But it now appears that Opus Dei, a clandestine sect that has long plotted to seize the Priory's secret, has made its move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret – and a devastating historical truth – will be lost for ever . . .
Breaking the mould of traditional suspense novels, The Da Vinci Code is simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail. From the opening pages to the unpredictable and stunning conclusion, Dan Brown proves himself to be a master storyteller.

Dan Brown is the bestselling author of Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he has taught English and creative writing.

With old friends like these, who needs enemies?
It's a question mild-mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself, when in romantic desperation he logs on to the Friends Reunited website in search of the girlfriends of his youth. Newson is not the only member of the Class of '86 who has been raking over the ashes of the past. As his old class begins to reassemble in cyberspace, the years slip away and old feuds and passions burn fiercely once more.
Meanwhile, back in the present, Newson's life is no less complicated. He is secretly in love with Natasha, his lovely but very attached sergeant, and then failing comprehensively to solve a series of baffling and peculiarly gruesome murders. A school reunion is planned, and as history begins to repeat itself the past crashes headlong into the present. Neither will ever be the same again.

In Past Mortem, Ben Elton – previous winner of The Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for his novel Popcorn – delivers both a heart-stopping thriller and a killer comic romance.

Neil Gaiman 'Astonishing...a perfect work of magical literature'
Publishers Weekly 'Buffyesque baker Rae 'Sunshine' Seddon meets Count Dracula's hunky Byronic cousin in Newbery Award winner McKinley's first adult-and-then-some romp'
Time Out 'This is a book about growing up and making peace with the world around you, and it is excellent'
Joanne Harris 'Move over Clive Baker and Anne Rice. Robin McKinley is set to blow them out of the water.'
Vector 'McKinley seamlessly weaves the fantastic and mundane together...a finely crafted book. The characterisations are strong'
Enigma 'McKinley has created an intruiging world...One of the most enjoyable readings of the past few months.'

There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk. Sunshine knew that. But there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and she needed a place to be alone for a while. Unfortunately, she wasn't alone. She never heard them coming. Of course you don't, when they're vampires...
They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion - within easy reach of a figure stirring in the moonlight.
She knows that he is a vampire. She knows that she's to be his dinner, and that when he is finished with her, she will be dead. Yet, when light breaks, she finds that he has not attempted to harm her. And now it is he who needs her to help him survive the day...

Robin McKinley is an American writer and has won many awards
in the US, including the Newbery Medal for The Hero And The Crown and a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword. She now lives in Hampshire with her husband, author Peter Dickinson, three whippets, five hundred rose bushes and a 1965 cream-coloured MGB convertible.

Nick Stone's future has never looked as bleak. The only person he's ever loved is dead. The only people who might give him a reason not to join her have turned their backs. Until a chance encounter with a man he saved ten years ago appears to throw him a lifeline . . . But on the bullet- and bomb -scarred streets of Baghdad, second chances are in short supply. A simple quest becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy; too late, he realizes that he is being used as bait - to lure into the open a man he believes can offer some salvation, but whom the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing to destroy . . . From its violent and shocking opening in the Muslim enclaves of Bosnia, through vivid, lightning-paced action in war-torn Iraq, this unforgettable story proves Andy McNab yet again to be the master of the modern thriller, a writer at the very top of his game.