The Silent Sister is a gripping novel from Diane Chamberlain the bestselling author of The Midwife's Confession What if everything you believed turned out to be a lie? Riley Mac Pherson is returning to her childhood home in North Carolina A place that holds cherished memories While clearing out the house she finds a box of old newspaper articles
- & a shocking family secret begins to unravel Riley has spent her whole life believing that her older sister Lisa died tragically as a teenager But now she's starting to uncover the truth her life has been built on a foundation of lies told by everyone she loved Lisa is alive Alive & living under a new identity But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago & what secrets are being kept now? As Riley tries to separate reality from fiction her discoveries call into question everything she thought she knew about her family Can she find the strength inside herself to decide her future? Incredibly gripping & emotionally powerful The Silent Sister is perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult & Liane Moriarty A companion short story featuring Riley The Broken String is available in e Book
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When Emily Gordon editor at a London publishing house commissions an account of great English novelist Hugh Morton she finds herself steering a tricky path between Morton's formidable widow Jacqueline who's determined to protect his secrets & the biographer charming & ambitious Joel Richards But someone is sending Emily mysterious missives about Hugh Morton's past & she discovers a buried story that simply has to be told One winter's day in 1948 nineteen year old Isabel Barber arrives at her Aunt Penelope's house in Earl's Court having run away from home to follow her star A chance meeting with an East European refugee poet leads to a job with his publisher Mc Kinnon & Holt & a fascinating career beckons But when she develops a close editorial relationship with charismatic young debut novelist Hugh Morton & the professional becomes passionately personal not only are all her plans put to flight but she finds herself in a struggle for her very survival Rachel Hore's intriguing & suspenseful new novel magnificently evokes the milieux of London publishing past & present & connects the very different worlds of two young women Emily & Isabel who through their individual quests for truth love & happiness become inextricably linked ...

When identical twins June & Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with anyone but each other & so began a childhood bound together in a strange & secret world As they grew up love hate & genius united to push them to the extreme margins of society & following a five week spree of vandalism & arson the silent twins were sentenced to a gruelling twelve-year detention in Broadmoor Award-winning investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace delves into the twins' silent world revealing their genius alienation & the mystic bond by which the extremes of good & evil ended in possession & death ...

The Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller ' The slow murderous disintegration of a marriage is all too believable As the novel advances into treacherous territory Harrison's elegant incisive prose gets dirtier more dangerous' Observer Fans of Into the Water & The Couple Next Door will love The Silent Wife Having nothing left to lose changes everything Todd & Jodie have been together for more than twenty years They are both aware their world is in crisis though neither is willing to admit it Todd is living a dual existence while Jodie is living in denial But she also likes to settle scores When it becomes clear their affluent Chicago lifestyle could disintegrate at any moment Jodie knows everything is at stake It's only now she will discover just how much she's truly capable of Shocking & compelling in equal measure THE SILENT WIFE is a chilling portrayal of two people in turmoil & the lengths they will go to in order to protect themselves' One of those books you hate to put down Devastating Profoundly disquieting' Guardian' Dark as hell & totally engrossing' Daily Mail' Fans of Gone Girl will love it' Sunday Mirror ...

I'm so sorry Casey' my link worker John said sounding weary I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight' It's the night before Christmas when Casey & Mike get the call A twelve year old girl stuck between a rock & a hard place Her father is on a ventilator fighting for his life while her mother is currently on remand in prison Despite claiming she attacked him in self-defence she's been charged with his attempted murder The girl is called Bella & she's refusing to say anything The trouble is that she is also the only witness ...

Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome the Silk Road was for 1500 years a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged exotic goods art knowledge religion philosophy disease & war From the East came silk precious stones tea jade paper porcelain spices & cotton; from the West horses weapons wool & linen aromatics entertainers & exotic animals From its earliest beginnings in the days of Alexander the Great & the Han dynasty the Silk Road expanded & evolved reaching its peak during the Tang dynasty & the Byzantine Empire & gradually withering away with the decline of the Mongol Empire In this beautifully illustrated book which covers the Central Asian section of the Silk Road
- from Lake Issyk-kul through Tashkent Samarkand Bukhara the Kyzyl Kum Desert Khiva & Merv to Herat Kabul & Iran
- Jonathan Tucker uses travellers' anecdotes & a wealth of literary & historical sources to celebrate the cultural heritage of the countries that lie along the Silk Road & illuminate the lives of those who once travelled through the very heart of the world

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The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal But what was it exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track reaching from China to Rome The reality was different-and far more interesting-as revealed in this new history In The Silk Road Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes For centuries key records remained hidden-sometimes deliberately buried by bureaucrats for safe keeping But the sands of the Taklamakan Desert have revealed fascinating material sometimes preserved by illiterate locals who recycled official documents to make insoles for shoes or garments for the dead Hansen explores seven oases along the road from Xi'an to Samarkand where merchants envoys pilgrims & travelers mixed in cosmopolitan communities tolerant of religions from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism There was no single continuous road but a chain of markets that traded between east & west China & the Roman Empire had very little direct trade China's main partners were the peoples of modern-day Iran whose tombs in China reveal much about their Zoroastrian beliefs Silk was not the most important good on the road; paper invented in China before Julius Caesar was born had a bigger impact in Europe while metals spices & glass were just as important as silk Perhaps most significant of all was the road's transmission of ideas technologies & artistic motifs The Silk Road is a fascinating story of archeological discovery cultural transmission & the intricate chains across Central Asia & China ...

The No 1 Sunday Times & international bestseller
- a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic & political renaissance
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For centuries fame & fortune was to be found in the west
- in the New World of the Americas Today it is the east which calls out
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1 Three & Six 2 Waterscape Silhouette 3 Rainbow Feather Dance 4 Raining in My Heart 5 Autumn Moon Over The Still Lake 6 Flute & Drum at Sunset 7 In That Remote Place ...