An unforgettable book from Portugal's bestselling author that promises to change how we write about love 480 pages Freitas Pedro Chagas ...

A chilling new case for Thora Gudmundsdottir from Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh & sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland Thora is hired to investigate Is there any connection with the woman who vanished from the site some months earlier? Why are the locals so hostile? & could one of the team staying at the site with Thora be responsible for the disappearances? Already an international bestseller this fourth book to feature Thora Gudmundsdottir ('a delight'
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Ahmed drives his donkey cart through the streets of Cairo delivering butane gas cylinders to his father's customers He knows everyone & has a part to play in the life of the city He is proud to be strong enough to help his family but most of all he is proud of his precious secret a secret that he keeps until the end of the day The book reveals a lot about Ahmed's life & finally his secret
- that he can write his name
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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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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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' One of those books that haunts you for the rest of your life' Sunday Times When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight The London he walks is crammed with groups of men & women needing help some ready to prey on those who can still see But another menace stalks blind & sighted alike With nobody to stop their spread the Triffids mobile plants with lethal stingers & carnivorous appetites seem set to take control The Day of the Triffids is perhaps the most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century & its startling imagery of desolate streets & lurching lethal plant life retains its power to haunt today ...

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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