' 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 ...

The psychological thriller debut of No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg A small town can hide many secrets Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy The death of her childhood friend Alex is just the beginning Her wrists slashed her body frozen in an ice-cold bath it seems like she's taken her own life Meanwhile local detective Patrik Hedstroem is following his own suspicions about the case It's only when they start working together that the truth begins to emerge about a small town with a deeply disturbing past ...

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 ...

The Icebound Land is the third thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
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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 ...

Take your passion & make it happen with The Idea In You by Martin Amor & Alex Pellew Do you have an idea in you? A hobby a project a product something that could change your life? The Idea in You is a bulletproof system for finding the right idea & shaping it in to a success
- on your own terms With advice from the people behind the likes of Pizza Pilgrims Parkrun & Decoded The Idea in You will show you what to expect how to think & what to do when launching your own venture Making your idea happen is possible
- & it will be one of the most inspiring & energizing experiences of your life What are you waiting for?'A wonderfully inspirational book that will help unleash your ideas on the world' Michael Acton Smith creator of Moshi Monsters' Every great business starts with an idea this book will help you find yours' Richard Reed co-founder Innocent Drinks' It seems to me that many could-be creators simply lack support in their lives someone genuine who listens to their ideas & pushes boundaries to make it all seem possible Alex & Martin must recognize this too because their book is a generous offer of encouragement & spirit a drum beat that stirred my creative confidence' Zach Klein co-founder of Vimeo

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From Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen The Idea of Justice is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice Is justice an ideal for ever beyond our grasp or something that may actually guide our practical decisions & enhance our lives? At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust But there are always choices to be made between alternative assessments of what is reasonable & competing positions can each be well defended Rather than rejecting these pluralities we should use them to construct a theory of justice that can accommodate divergent points of view Sen also inspiringly shows how the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism & address vital questions of global injustice The breadth of vision intellectual acuity & striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book 'A major advance in contemporary thinking' John Gray Literary Review ' The most important contribution to the subject since John Rawls's A Theory of Justice' Hilary Putnam Harvard University ' Sen writes with dry wit a feel for history & a relaxed cosmopolitanism a conviction that economists & philosophers are in business to improve the world burns on almost every page' Economist ' Sen's magisterial critique of the dominant mode of liberal political philosophy confirms him as the English-speaking world's pre-eminent public intellectual' New Statesman Books of the Decade Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 & was Master of Trinity College Cambridge 1998-2004 His most recent books are The Argumentative Indian Identity & Violence & Development as Freedom His books have been translated into thirty languages ...

With an introduction by Evie Wyld The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville is a funny & touching romance between two people who've given up on love Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook New South Wales pop 1374 it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman a gawky engineer with jug-handle ears & Harley Savage a woman altogether too big & too abrupt for comfort Harley is in Karakarook to foster ' Heritage' & Douglas is there to pull down the quaint old Bent Bridge From day one they're on a collision course But out of this unpromising conjunction of opposites something unexpected happens sometimes even better than perfection ...