Top Mafia hit man Doting father For 30 years Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighbourhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey Kuklinski was Sammy 'the Bull' Gravano's partner in the killing of Paul Castellano John Gotti hired him to kill his neighbour & he was also intimately involved in the killing of Jimmy Hoffa He conducted this sadistic business with cold-hearted intensity never disappointing his customers For an additional price he would make his victims suffer By his own estimate he killed over 200 men taking enormous pride in his cunning & the ferocity of his technique The Ice Man is a blood-chilling insight into the mind of one of the world's most prolific contract killers ...

From No 1 bestselling children's author David Walliams comes his biggest & most epic adventure yet! Illustrated by the artistic genius Tony Ross This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan & a 10000-year-old mammoth 496 pages Walliams David ...

From No 1 bestselling children's author David Walliams comes his biggest & most epic adventure yet! Illustrated by the artistic genius Tony Ross This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan & a 10000-year-old mammoth Walliams David ...

' How simple this novel is How subtle How strong How unlike any other It is unique It is unforgettable It is extraordinary' Doris Lessing'I'm surprised it isn't the most famous book in the world' Max Porter author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers' She was close to the edge now the ice laid its hand upon her' The schoolchildren call it the Ice Palace a frozen waterfall in the Norwegian fjords transformed into a fantastic structure of translucent walls sparkling towers & secret chambers It fascinates two young girls lonely Unn & lively Siss who strike up an intense friendship When Unn decides to explore the Ice Palace alone & doesn't return Siss must try to cope with the loss of her friend without succumbing to a frozen world of her own making ...

Ivan lives in a land where the winter is dark & fearful Starjik King of Winter steals Ivan's little brother & Ivan braves the bitter cold to find him ...

Alice Hoffman is at her electrifying best in this fairy tale for grown-ups The story begins with a little girl who makes a wish one snowy night & ruins her life She grows up with a splinter of ice in her heart until one day standing by her kitchen window she is struck by lightning Instead of killing her this cataclysmic event sparks off a new beginning She seeks out Lazarus Jones a fellow lightning survivor He is her opposite a burning man whose breath can boil water & whose touch scorches As an obsessive love affair begins between them both are forced to hide their most dangerous secrets
- what turned one to ice & the other to fire The Ice Queen is a haunting story of passion loss second chances & the secrets that come to define us if we're not careful
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The Oslo Detectives are back in another slice of gripping dark Nordic Noir & their new colleague has more at stake than she's prepared to reveal 336 pages Dahl Kjell Ola ...

One of Sarah's daughters died But can she be sure which one? THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING NOVEL A terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN A year after one of their identical twin daughters Lydia dies in an accident Angus & Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives But when their surviving daughter Kirstie claims they have mistaken her identity
- that she in fact is Lydia
- their world comes crashing down once again As winter encroaches Angus is forced to travel away from the island for work Sarah is feeling isolated & Kirstie (or is it Lydia?) is growing more disturbed When a violent storm leaves Sarah & her daughter stranded Sarah finds herself tortured by the past
- what really happened on that fateful day one of her daughters died?


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The Icebound Land is the third thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
- over eight million sold worldwide
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From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s Bell Labs-officially the research & development wing of AT&T-was the biggest & arguably the best laboratory for new ideas in the world From the transistor to the laser from digital communications to cellular telephony it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs In The Idea Factory Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions & delivers a riveting & heretofore untold chapter of American history At its heart this is a story about the life & work of a small group of brilliant & eccentric men-Mervin Kelly Bill Shockley Claude Shannon John Pierce & Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs Today when the drive to invent has become a mantra Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our understanding of the challenges & solutions to technological innovation Here after all was where the foundational ideas on the management of innovation were born ...