One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late It is 1963 & an anonymous Englishman has been hired by the Operations Chief of the OAS to murder General de Galle A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to get to But this latest plot involves a lethal weapon an assassin of legendary talent Known only as The Jackal this remorseless & deadly killer must be stopped but how do you track a man who exists in name alone? ...

They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one & took me to Mokotow prison Cambridge the present day & out of the past a cry for help Father Anselm the brilliant Benedictine receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell
- the story of a woman betrayed by time fate & someone close to her someone still unknown As a young woman Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland But after her arrest an agent of the secret police makes her a devil's bargain
- & in the dark of a government prison a terrible choice is made Now fifty years later Anselm is called upon to investigate both Roza's story & a mystery dating back to the early 1980s in the icy grip of the Cold War & as he peels back years of history decades of secrets a half-century of lies he exposes a truth that victim & torturer would keep hidden

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The most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids published as a Penguin Essential for the first time' When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday there is something seriously wrong somewhere' When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind Bill Masen
- one of the lucky few to keep his sight
- finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see But another menace stalks blind & sighted alike With nobody to stop them the Triffids
- walking carnivorous plants with lethal stingers
- rise up as humanity stumbles & falls



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A modern classic of a science fiction The Day of the Triffids is the novel that invented the 'cosy catastrophe' 288 pages Wyndham John ...

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation Carefully removing his bandages he realizes that he is the only person who can see everyone else doctors & patients alike have been blinded by a meteor shower Now with civilization in chaos the triffids
- huge venomous large-rooted plants able to 'walk' feeding on human flesh
- can have their day The Day of the Triffids published in 1951 expresses many of the political concerns of its time the Cold War the fear of biological experimentation & the man-made apocalypse However with its terrifyingly believable insights into the genetic modification of plants the book is more relevant today than ever before John Wyndham was born in 1903 After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921 Careers which he tried included farming law commercial art & advertising & he first started writing short stories intended for sale in 1925 During the war he was in the Civil Service & afterwards in the Army In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including The Kraken Wakes The Chrysalids & The Midwich Cuckoos

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The gripping unputdownable new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Loving Husband' The escalating fear in this female-in-jeopardy gripper is balanced with real emotional heft'
- Sunday Times' Christobel Kent is developing into a reliably classy purveyor of psychological suspense & this is her best book yet'
- Mail on Sunday Your best friend will always be there for youwon't she? Have you ever had that sense that you're being watched? & you turn suddenly but it's just a curtain blowing in the wind? Or the dress hanging in the doorway? Nat knows something's wrong Her best friend Beth would never have upped & left without saying goodbye to her But no one believes that Beth was taken
- she is a fly-by-night a party girl who can't be trusted No one's listening to Nat But someone is definitely watching her


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The gripping unputdownable new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Loving Husband Your best friend will always be there for youwon't she? Have you ever had that sense that you're being watched? & you turn suddenly but it's just a curtain blowing in the wind? Or the dress hanging in the doorway? Nat knows something's wrong Her best friend Beth would never have upped & left without saying goodbye to her But no one believes that Beth was taken
- she is a fly-by-night a party girl who can't be trusted No one's listening to Nat But someone is definitely watching her
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A laugh-a-minute action-packed alien adventure perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart & Frank Cottrell Boyce Best friends Freddy & Sal have accidentally intercepted a message from Alan
- a spectacularly grumpy brain-munching alien from outer space Alan has only one message Earth is going to be invaded in exactly ten hours' time Soon the police Nasa & even Presidents from around the world are getting involved
- & Freddy is about to become the most famous kid on planet earth for all the wrong reasons Wolverhampton we have a problem

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WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2018 My younger brother's name is Nicholas Beard 288 pages Beard Richard ...

The hilarious sequel to the prize-winning international bestseller The Day the Crayons Quit! Watch out
- the crayons are back &
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