The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason THE PASTIn wartime Reykjavík, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as ‘the shadow district’. An Icelandic detective & a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.THE PRESENTAn elderly man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrád, a retired detective, finds old newspaper cuttings in the man’s home reporting the shadow district murder. It’s a crime Konrád remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood.A MISSING LINKWhy, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? How are these events connected across the decades? & will Konrád’s link to the past help him solve the case & finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavík to rest?‘ Arnaldur Indridason introduces a new hero… Beautifully told’ The Times‘ An international literary phenomenon’ Harlan Coben ...

Tea-Bag, a young African girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long & dangerous journey to escape the horrors of human trafficking. Leyla has come with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home. Meanwhile, celebrated poet Jesper Humlin is looking for inspiration. Harried by his mother & girlfriend, misunderstood by his publisher & tormented by his stockbroker, Jesper needs a new perspective on life. A chance encounter with Tea-Bag leads him into the shadow world of the immigrant experience in Sweden. Initially he sees the girls purely as material for his next work, but soon discovers they have very different ideas. In ” The Shadow Girls”, Henning Mankell tells the extraordinary stories of three young women who are determined to overcome the hardships they face to take control of their own lives. This inspiring novel encompasses both humour & tragedy & illuminates our understanding of those left on the margins of our society. ...

Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long & dangerous journey to escape themisery of life in a brothel. Leila has travelled with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home. Meanwhile, celebrated poet Jesper Humlin is looking for inspiration. Harried by his mother & girlfriend, misunderstood by his publisher & tormented by his stockbroker, Jesper needs a new perspective on life. A chance encounter with Tea-Bag leads him into the shadow world of the immigrant experience in Sweden. Initially he sees the girls purely as material for his work, but they have very different ideas. This inspiring novel encompasses both humour & tragedy & illuminates our understanding of those left on the margins of our society. ...

The second book in Philip Pullman`s classic SALLY LOCKHART quartet in a beautiful new edition. Sally Lockhart is twenty-two, & running her own financial consultancy
- a thoroughly modern woman in a world of pompous men
- but she`s about to be thrown headlong into a vicious web of murder, mystery & pure evil. When a client`s lost investment appears suspicious, Sally investigates. Soon she is ensnared in a whirl of high-society danger & deceit, which can lead her in only one direction
- to the terrifying secret of the Shadow in the North.


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Torn from his father & a loving sister, the young student Zuba is imprisoned for a crime he has not even thought about committing. His misfortune: to live in a world where corruption is rife & honest & law-abiding people are crushed by the wheels of a blind, unscrupulous bureaucracy. What seems at first to be an irksome judiciary misunderstanding gradually becomes a journey through the hell of Nigerian prisons. Only by showing the utmost daring & integrity will Zuba be able to regain his freedom. ...

This is a remarkable account of a thrilling journey on foot from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Indian Ocean. Rick Ridgeway, one of the world`s foremost mountaineers & adventurers, offers us a rare view of East Africa as it is today, & how it once was before the incursion of European civilisation, before the balance of its primal wilderness was destroyed. ...

Fatima Bhutto`s stunning debut novel The Shadow of the Crescent Moon begins & ends one rain swept. Friday morning in Mir Ali, ...

Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces & big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole & as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. Except as a geographical term, ” Africa” doesn`t exist. As always, Kapuscinski writes vividly about his experiences & the people he meets. But The Shadow of the Sun is more than a clear & sharp account. It is both a sustained meditation on the mosaic of peoples & practises we call ` Africa`, & an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war & from politics as theft. ...

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the `cemetery of lost books`, a labyrinthine library of obscure & forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves & pulls out ` La Sombra del Viento` by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from La Sombra del Viento, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax`s work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life & death of Julian Carax & to save those he left behind. A page-turning exploration of obsession in literature & love, & the places that obsession can lead. ...