FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 Leningrad September 1941 Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous desperate winter in its history For two pairs of lovers
- Anna & Andrei Anna's novelist father & banned actress Marina
- the siege becomes a battle for survival They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup so cold you burn furniture & books But this is not just a struggle to exist it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive A brilliantly imagined novel of war & the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives & a profoundly moving celebration of love life & survival ' Remarkable affectingthere are few more interesting stories than this; & few writers who could have told it better' Rachel Cusk Daily Telegraph ' Literary writing of the highest order set against a background if suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there' Richard Overy Sunday Telegraph ' Utterly convincing A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances The story of their struggle to survive appears simple as all great literature should a world-class novel' Antony Beevor The Times Novelist & poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel the Mc Kitterick Prize winning Zennor in Darkness Her novels Counting the Stars Your Blue-Eyed Boy With Your Crooked Heart Burning Bright House of Orphans Mourning Ruby A Spell of Winter & Talking to the Dead & her collection of short stories Love of Fat Men are all published by Penguin This edition

Includes:: the first chapter of Betrayal the sequel to The Siege



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When a crowded city bus blows up in Brooklyn & a campaign of terror begins to make its bloody mark on the streets of New York it’s up to FBI special agent Anthony “ Hub” Hubbard (Washington) & US Army General William Devereaux (Willis) to find out who’s responsible & put an end to the destruction Together they face explosive danger at every turn when they team up to a wage an all-out war against a ruthless band of terrorists ...

' For a novel to be witty is one thing to tell a good story is another to be serious is yet another but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece' New Statemsan 400 pages Farrell JG ...

The Siege of Macindaw is the sixth thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
- over eight million sold worldwide
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A close encounter changes a woman&s life forever & gives her a permanent alien "tenant" in her mind affecting the lives of everyone she encounters The novel found among Patricia Anthony&s papers after her death is one of her final books ” a taut gripping narrative with fully realized characters It&s Anthony at the top of her form & sure to be one of the most talked about science fiction novels of the year ...

The Penguin English Library edition A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation For Mary Marston has received several large pearls
- one a year for the last six years
- & now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor bringing with her two companions But unbeknownst to them all others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind
- & his companion who places no value on human life


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' You are a wronged woman & shall have justice Do not bring police If you do all will be in vain Your unknown friend' When a beautiful young woman is sent a letter inviting her to a sinister assignation she immediately seeks the advice of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes For this is not the first mysterious item Mary Marston has received in the post Every year for the last six years an anonymous benefactor has sent her a large lustrous pearl Now it appears the sender of the pearls would like to meet her to right a wrong But when Sherlock Holmes & his faithful sidekick Watson aiding Miss Marston attend the assignation they embark on a dark & mysterious adventure involving a one-legged ruffian some hidden treasure deadly poison darts & a thrilling race along the River Thames ...

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman
- Mary Morstan whose father vanished ten years before Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year a large lustrous pearl Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor & urges Holmes & Watson to accompany her & in the ensuing investigation
- which involves a wronged woman a stolen hoard of Indian treasure a wooden-legged ruffian a helpful dog & a love affair
- even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim ' Isn't it gorgeous!'


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A young woman desperate for help enlists the aid of Sherlock Holmes & his assistant Watson Draw in by her intriguing tale the game is afoot & they begin to delve deeper into the case of a missing army captain in India secret pacts & a king&s ransom in stolen jewels all the while shadowed by a mysterious peg-legged man & his dangerous associate ...

One for sorrow two for death On Wrath a dump-world for human outcasts identical twins are feared Only one will grow up human while the other becomes a condemned monster with twisted' blood When sixteen-year-old Kyle is betrayed he flees for his life with the help of Sky a rebel pilot with trust issues As the hunt intensifies Kyle soon realises that he is no ordinary runaway
- although he has no idea why he warrants this level of pursuit The hideous truth they discover could change the fate of Wrath & its harsh laws forever Their reluctant conflicted partnership will either save them
- or bring about their destruction

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