Oscar-nominated WALK THE LINE star Joaquin Phoenix announces that he's retiring from acting to launch a hip-hop career as his brother-in-law Casey Affleck captures the curious transition on camera in the film some are labeling an elaborate Andy Kaufman-style prank In the fall of 2008 Phoenix shocked his fans with the announcement that he would no longer be appearing in features but instead trying his hand in the music business In the wake of a particularly bizarre appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman everyone began to wonder if the eccentric actor had finally fallen off the deep end In this film Affleck follows Phoenix as he attempts to convince Sean Combs to produce his debut album & responds to a request by Ben Stiller to appear in director Noah Baumbach's GREENBERG with casual indifference ...

‘I didn’t want you to come here’ So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings But young Kingshaw & his mother have come to live with Hooper & his father in the ugly isolated Victorian house for good To Hooper Kingshaw is an intruder a boy to be subtly persecuted & Kingshaw finds that even the most ordinary object can be turned by Hooper into a source of terror In Hang Wood their roles are briefly reversed but Kingshaw knows Hooper will never let him be Kingshaw cannot win not in the last resort He knows it & so does Hooper & the worst is still to come… This extraordinary evocative novel boils over with the terrors of childhood & won the Somerset Maugham Award ‘ Hill’s exploration of a juvenile ghoul & his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force’ Guardian ...

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award this tale is linked in its poignancy & humour to Lord the the Flies This edition is part of a series of pre- & post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18 year olds The series features fiction anthologies poetry plays & non-fiction ...

Geronimo is determined to prove that he's a true friend even if it means climbing Mouse Everest! Professor Paws von Volt needs him & that's good enough for Geronimo Guided by Sherpas & with 'help' from his family he sets out on an epic rescue mission But what is that looming shadow following him? & why is Geronimo the only mouse to see it? ...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR SPRING 2017 When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck It reads I'm travelling alone' In response police investigator Holger Munch is immediately charged with assembling a special homicide unit But to complete the team he must track down his former partner Mia Kruger
- a brilliant but troubled detective
- who has retreated to a solitary island with plans to kill herself Reviewing the file Mia finds something new
- a thin line carved into the dead girl's fingernail the number 1 She knows that this is only the beginning To save other children from the same fate she must find a way to cast aside her own demons & stop this murderer from becoming a serial killer PRAISE FOR I'M TRAVELLING ALONE' Terrific Intelligent & gripping May well propel Bjork to deserved international fame' The Times ' This is a simply terrific debut The characters are completely believable the plot is scalpel sharp & as the hunt escalates it will frighten the wits out of you in an utterly brilliant way' Sunday Mirror Tense thrilling & genuinely scary' Heat Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series & Danish crime drama The Bridge' Crime Scene Magazine' Samuel Bjork's formidable I'm Travelling Alone is despatched with real elan Mia's confrontation with both her own demons & a very human one is mesmerising fare' Independent The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation' Sunday Times


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WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORThe definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen
- singer-songwriter musician poet & novelist
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When I first came to this world I said I&d live a carefree laidback life Recently I&ve been thinking about trading the R&R for quality time with my new family but Argh! First Falfa gets stuck in her (admittedly adorable) slime form then a witch cons me & gets me involved in a huge mess! Why does this keep happening?! ...

When Mamrie simultaneously enters her thirties & finds herself single for the first time since college the world is suddenly full of possibilities Emboldened by a maturing cool confidence plus the newfound independence of an attachment-free lifestyle Mamrie commits herself to living life as fully as possible She seeks out once-in-a-lifetime experiences (like meeting the Dixie Chicks) bucket-list goals (like visiting the Moulin Rouge) & madcap adventures (like going anchors-away on a Backstreet Boys cruise)
- all while diving back into the dating world for the first time in a decade
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When Laurie Moran's husband was brutally murdered only three-year-old Timmy saw the face of his father's killer Five years later his piercing blue eyes still haunt Timmy's dreams Laurie is haunted by more
- the killer's threat to her son as he fled the scene ' Tell your mother she's next then it's your turn' Now Laurie is dealing with murder again this time as producer of a true-crime cold-case television show The series will launch with the twenty-year-old unsolved murder of Betsy Powell Betsy a socialite was found suffocated in her bed after a gala celebrating the graduation of her daughter & three friends The sensational murder was news nationwide Reopening the case in its lavish setting & with the cooperation of the surviving guests that night Laurie is sure to have a hit on her hands But when the estranged friends begin filming it becomes clear each is hiding secrets small & large & a pair of blue eyes is watching events unfold too
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I've lost it (The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose My engagement ring It's been in Magnus's family for three generations & now the very same day his parents are coming I've lost it The very same day Do not hyperventilate Poppy Stay positive!! )A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls & Poppy's life has gone into meltdown Not only has she lost her engagement ring but in the panic that followed she's lost her phone too When she spots an abandoned phone in a bin it seems it was meant to be Finders Keepers! Except the phone's owner elusive businessman Sam Roxton doesn't agree He wants his phone back & doesn't appreciate Poppy reading all his messages & wading into his personal life Can things get any more tangled? ...