An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow & causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train & sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils), & the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista. A trio of today`s bestselling authors
- John Green, Maureen Johnson, & Lauren Myracle
- brings all the magic of holidays to life in three hilarious & charming interconnected tales of love, romance, & kisses that will steal your breath away.

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The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They`re both wrong. One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of her husband just months before. Their daughter, Anna, has struggled to come to terms with their loss ever since. Now with a young baby of her own, Anna misses her mother more than ever & starts to ask questions about her parents` deaths. But by digging up the past, is she putting her future in danger? Sometimes it`s safer to let things lie... The stunning, twisty new psychological thriller from number one bestseller Clare Mackintosh, author of I LET YOU GO & I SEE YOU. ...

LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson`s account of his journey following the loss of his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami. If it is a story of grief, it is also a story of hope & of the unexpected places where healing can be found. Simon`s journey takes him from Edinburgh in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, to Downing Street in London, to Thailand & the island where his brother died, to the scene of an ancient tsunami on the north-west coast of the United States, & to the town where he & his brother`s favourite childhood film was made. Along the way there is heartbreak, dengue fever, Greek mythology, & hard physical labour in the tropical heat, but there is also memory, redemption & humour as well. ...

Let our Fame be Great brings together untold stories from the conquest of the Caucasus. Two centuries ago, the Russians pushed out of the cold north towards the Caucasus Mountains that blocked their access to the riches that lie beyond. The mountains & those that lived there were in their way
- the Caucasus had to be conquered
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Oliver Bullough`s ” Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant Peoples of the Caucasus” is the extraordinary untold story of the inhabitants of the Caucasus & their unbreakable spirit. The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks & rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia`s attempts to add them to its empire. Oliver Bullough`s extraordinary debut tells their story for the first time. Travelling from remote village to refugee camp, rocky mountain gorge to forgotten massacre site, he discovers exiles, fighters, lost sects, defiant survivors
- & an unbreakable spirit. ” With this impassioned volume Bullough has struck a blow for the glory of the Caucasus & helped to give voice to the voiceless”. (Justin Marozzi, ” Financial Times”). ” Gripping stories that tell of the terrible things that happen to people caught up in constant warfare... Now their stories are sung by a champion & will resound beyond their boundaries”. (” The Times”). ”A haunting portrait of a people blown to the winds by a forgotten storm”. (” Economist”). ” Wonderful, moving”. (Norman Stone). ” Brilliant... Bullough draws you irresistibly into his narrative, fusing reportage, history & travelogue in colourful, absorbing prose... The book is a pleasure”. (” Spectator”). ” Gr&, furious”. (” Sunday Times Books of the Year”). ” Let its fame be great”. (Scotsman Oliver). Bullough (b. 1977) studied modern history at Oxford University & moved to Russia in 1999. He lived in St Petersburg, Bishkek & Moscow over the next seven years, working as a journalist first for local magazines & newspapers, & then for Reuters news agency. He reported from all over Russia & the former Soviet Union, but liked nothing more than to work among the people & mountains of the North Caucasus.
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It`s New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid & proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; & Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York. In the shadow of one reckless & beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, & be transformed for ever. ...

When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn`t her father at all. Abandoning her fiance, Clarissa travels from New York to Helsinki, & then north of the Arctic Circle
- to Lapl&. There, under the northern lights, Clarissa not only unearths her family`s secrets, but also the truth about herself.
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Oskar & Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. & how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city`s edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, & wets himself when he`s frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn`t go to school & never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200-year-old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, & condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist`s novel is a unique & brilliant fusion of social novel & vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship & loyalty. ...

Paris, 1958. Ralf is alone, filling his days with glasses of red wine at Jacques` bar, waiting for life to happen to him. Then, one night, Elsa
- bold, enigmatic, unpredictable
- whirls into Jacques` bar & into Ralf`s world, knocking him out of his cautious routine & into a life full of spontaneity & excitement. But Elsa is hiding something. As Ralf falls deeper in love, he reveals more of his past
- his childhood in Nazi Germany, his time in a British tank division at the end of the Second World War. But what is Elsa hiding? & can their love survive it? Let Us Be True charts the lives of these two extraordinary characters through an era of great uncertainty, from the war & its aftermath through to the deadly unrest of 1960s Paris. Evocative, charismatic & sweeping in scope, Alex Christofi`s second novel is a moving story of love & loss, of the things we hide from ourselves & from others, & of the personal cost of Europe`s turbulent twentieth century.


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In this unique gardening chronicle Vita Sackville-West weaves together simple, honest accounts of her horticultural experiences throughout the year with exquisite writing & poetic description. Whether singing the praises of sweet-briar, cyclamen, Indian pinks & the Strawberry grape, or giving practical advice on pruning roses, planting bulbs, overcoming frosts & making the most of a small space, her writings on the art of good gardening are both instructive & delightful. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside
- but it has profoundly shaped us too. It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians & people who live & work on the land
- as well as those who are travelling through it. English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie & country churches, to man's relationship with nature & songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts & love-struck soldiers).

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