Author:H G Wells,China Mieville

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they find - a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever.
Marian Keyes' Sushi for Beginners is the blissfully funny, smart tale of three women who discover that the line between success and failure, happiness and sadness, sanity and madness is finer than they ever thought . . .
'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'
Classic Keyes. Constantly surprising, gloriously entertaining, and has a dark underbite that makes it irresistible
—— The PoolNails the joy and pain of the working world . . . a brilliantly written and fabulously well-observed romantic comedy
—— IndependentShould come with a health warning. It's totally addictive . . . a real page turner
—— Sunday ExpressChatty and warmhearted, Keyes's talent is to tell it how it is
—— IndependentOur funniest living novelist
—— Daily TelegraphReaches a transcendental realm of its own. I couldn't even read it at times, because I was crying and choking with laughter
—— Daily ExpressSharpe is the funniest novelist currently writing ... I sat curled up with laughter
—— Time Out