Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. A born sceptic, he believes everything has a rational explanation. But when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish isl&, everything he thought he knew is overturned.

Questions mount: Why has the community been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader, Pastor Malachi Dove? And perhaps most important, why will no one discuss the strange apparition seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island?

Their confrontation, & its violent & bloody aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oaksey to question the nature of evil, & whether he might not be responsible for the terrible crime about to unfold.

In her compulsive & haunting new novel, Mo Hayder dares her readers to face their fears head on & to look at what lurks beneath the surface of everyday normality. Pig Island is about the unspeakable things people can do to each other. Brace yourself for a terrifying read.





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Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. A born sceptic, he believes everything has a rational explanation. But when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish isl&, everything he thought he knew is overturned.

Questions mount: Why has the community been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader, Pastor Malachi Dove? & perhaps most important, why will no one discuss the strange apparition seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island?

Their confrontation, & its violent & bloody aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oaksey to question the nature of evil, & whether he might not be responsible for the terrible crime about to unfold.

In this compulsive & haunting novel, Mo Hayder dares her readers to face their fears head on & to think about the unspeakable things people can do to each other.





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I am drowning in this roaring silence. I am drowning. I'm going to die... Cameron is thirteen & desperately in need of a heart transplant when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart
- but not one from a human, one from a pig. It's never been done before. It's experimental, risky & very controversial. But Cameron is fed up with just sitting on the side of life, always watching & never doing. He has to try
- to become the world's first pig-heart boy.

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Reunited for the summer, the Swallows & Amazons with Dick & Dorothea launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold mine of the high hills above the lake. But the mining camp runs into all sorts of trouble: not only the danger of fire in the drought ridden countryside but also scary encounters with unsafe tunnels. Worst of all is the sinister Squashy Hat, who appears to be a rival prospector & who's certainly a spy
- how can they keep working without him discovering what they've found?
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A Blandings novel

Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running?

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It is pig stealing time in Shropshire. After winning the Fat Pig competition for two years in a row with Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's ascendancy at the Agricultural Show is threathened by Sir Gregory Parsloe's new sow, Queen of Matchingham. Always keen to help, Lord Emsworth's brother Galahad plots the theft of the Parsloe pig. In retaliation, Sir Gregory's pigman, George Cyril Wellbeloved, snaffles the Empress. While these momentous events are under way, a romantic comedy unfolds at Blandings Castle whither Jerry Vail her pursued Penny Donaldson. But Penny is engaged to Orlo Vosper who pines for Gloria Salt who is engaged to Sir Gregory who rediscovers Maudje Stubbs who has charmed Lord Emsworth, who is Jerry's employer. ...

Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life. In this extraordinary book, Ann Wroe recounts the lives of all our Pilates; among them the glittering medieval tyrant, devoted to gambling & getting around the law, & the wriggling modern pragmatist, whose dilemma over Jesus has been described by Tony Blair as 'a timeless parable of political life'. This is also the story of the man Pilate might have been; & the man who mirrors us. Ann Wroe shows how, in his struggles with fate & free will, Pilate's story has also become the story of ourselves. ---' The sheer skill of the writing-the touch of a master novelist-Few have ever explored so imaginatively, or with such passionate attention to detail' Sunday Telegraph--' Extraordinary & compelling' Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph --' She manages always to keep Pilate living & breathing in the text, & occasionally kicking & screaming' Independent on Sunday--' Wroe is a creative, even a beautiful writer-It is a wonderfully enjoyable, rich, generous book' A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail--' Because so little s known, it is possible to speculate endlessly. If one's mind is a brilliant engine of speculation like Wroe's, then one is dazzlingly equipped to do so. Her book is excellent & discloses an intense imaginative sympathy, a lyricism, & a fine-tuned psychological perception' Daily Express ...

Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life. In this extraordinary book, Ann Wroe recounts the lives of all our Pilates; among them the glittering medieval tyrant, devoted to gambling & getting around the law, & the wriggling modern pragmatist, whose dilemma over Jesus has been described by Tony Blair as 'a timeless parable of political life'. This is also the story of the man Pilate might have been; & the man who mirrors us. Ann Wroe shows how, in his struggles with fate & free will, Pilate's story has also become the story of ourselves. ---' The sheer skill of the writing-the touch of a master novelist-Few have ever explored so imaginatively, or with such passionate attention to detail' Sunday Telegraph--' Extraordinary & compelling' Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph --' She manages always to keep Pilate living & breathing in the text, & occasionally kicking & screaming' Independent on Sunday--' Wroe is a creative, even a beautiful writer-It is a wonderfully enjoyable, rich, generous book' A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail--' Because so little s known, it is possible to speculate endlessly. If one's mind is a brilliant engine of speculation like Wroe's, then one is dazzlingly equipped to do so. Her book is excellent & discloses an intense imaginative sympathy, a lyricism, & a fine-tuned psychological perception' Daily Express ...