Approaching forty, Nigel Marsh`s life seems almost perfect: he has moved with his family from the UK to Sydney & runs the Australian office of a leading advertising agency. However, he is also stressed, overweight & struggling to balance a career, a marriage & the demands of four small children. But everything changes when he loses his job. After the initial shock of redundancy, Marsh decides to embrace life outside the office & reconnect with his family. FAT, FORTY & FIRED is the hilarious, insightful & deeply moving account of his `gap year` at home, as he rediscovers fatherhood, loses twenty kilograms, kicks his drinking habit, trains for an ocean swim race & generally gets his house in order. FAT, FORTY & FIRED is a story for anyone who has dreamed about leaving the rat race behind & living a more meaningful life. ...

De Gaulle called it a `fatal avenue`
- that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. Over the centuries,
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When a picture of two Danish girls who disappeared on a boat bound for England in 1985 emerges many years later in an old suitcase from a British second-hand dealer, the journalist Nora Sand`s professional curiosity is immediately awakened. But before she knows it, she is mixed up in the case of a serial killer who is serving a life sentence in a notorious prison & the quest to discover the truth about the missing girls may be more dangerous that she had ever imagined... ...

Christopher Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had seen. He went to Paris in 1921. By day he studied, by night he attended the parties of the beau monde. He knew Picasso, worked for Diaghilev & was a friend of Cocteau. In the last months of his 29-year life, he fought a ravening opium addiction to succeed in claiming a place in history of English painting. Richard Hilary, confident, handsome & unprincipled, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain before being shot down & horribly burned. He underwent several operations by the legendary plastic surgeon, A H Mc Indoe. His account of his experiences, The Last Enemy, made him famous, but not happy. He begged to be allowed to return to flying, & died mysteriously in a night training operation, aged 23. Jeremy Wolfenden was born in 1936, the son of Jack, later Lord Wolfenden. Charming, generous & witty, he was the cleverest Englishman of his generation, but left All Souls to become a hack reporter. At the height of the Cold War, he was sent to Moscow where his louche private life made him the plaything of the intelligence services.A terrifying sequence of events ended in Washington where he died at the age of 31. ...

The real life disappearance of `the most beautiful car ever made` sparks a compelling new case for Bruno, chief of police The Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic was called the most beautiful car of all time. Only four of them were ever built. A California museum paid $37 million for one; Ralph Lauren bought another; a third was smashed by a train at a level crossing. The fourth disappeared in France during World War 2. It was the car used by British racing ace, William Grover Williams, twice winner of the French & Monaco Grand Prix, who became an undercover agent in Occupied France. The latest adventure in the Bruno series of mystery novels starts from this true story. Two young men, both racing drivers with a passion for antique cars, compete to find new clues as to the car`s hiding place in the Perigord region of France where Bruno is the local chief of police. When a local researcher turns up dead on Bruno`s patch, & French intelligence starts investigating the use of classic car sales to launder money for funding Islamic terrorism, Bruno finds himself once more caught up in a case that reaches far beyond his small town & its people. With the bucolic charm & gourmet cooking that are the hallmarks of this series, Bruno`s latest adventure finds him falling in love again as he races to find the murderer & to track down the fate of the most beautiful car ever made. ...

In the hills above Valencia is a notorious nightclub called Sunset. When its larger-than-life owner, Jose Luis, dies suddenly, everyone assumes it was a heart attack. Meanwhile, all is not well for Max Cámara at HQ. His new boss, Rita Hernández, has it in for him & his idiosyncratic methods. He must abandon a complex investigation to check out what looks like a routine death at Sunset. But an anonymous phone call suggests otherwise, leading him to an unholy network of drug dealers, priests & shady officials protecting a dark government secret. ...

In the hills above Valencia is a notorious nightclub called Sunset. When its larger-than-life owner, Jose Luis, dies suddenly, everyone assumes it was a heart-attack. Perfectly understandable for a man of his age, size & lifestyle. Meanwhile, all is not well for Max Camara at HQ. His new boss, Rita Hernandez, has it in for him & his idiosyncratic methods. He must abandon a complex investigation into home-grown extremism to check out what looks like a routine death at Sunset. But an anonymous phone-call suggests otherwise... Back in the city, Max`s journalist girlfriend Alicia is working on a lead that could turn out to be the story of her career. How her own investigation connects with Max`s at Sunset, & an unholy network of drug dealers, priests & shady officials protecting a dark government secret, will place both their lives in jeopardy & push everything to the very edge. ...

Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the firm`s bookkeeper
- his final business transaction before being sent to a labour camp. Two months after saying goodbye to his father, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a `permanent workplace`, but within a fortnight he is unexpectedly pulled off a bus & detained without explanation. This is the start of his journey to Auschwitz. On his arrival Gyuri finds that he is unable to identify with other Jews, & in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer, dogmatically insisting on making sense of everything he witnesses.
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Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the firm`s bookkeeper
- his final business transaction before being sent to a labour camp. Two months after saying goodbye to his father, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a `permanent workplace`, but within a fortnight he is unexpectedly pulled off a bus & detained without explanation. This is the start of his journey to Auschwitz. On his arrival Gyuri finds that he is unable to identify with other Jews, & in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer, dogmatically insisting on making sense of everything he witnesses.
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AMAZON.COM`s 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. & sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At age twenty-two, Lotto & Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love & destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors things are even more complicated & remarkable than they have seemed. ...