Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna? Who exactly were Besfort Y & Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the back seat? How was Besfort connected to the war in the Balkans? & why was his affair with Rovena clouded in jealousy & mistrust? Who wanted them dead? This is the story of the last forty weeks of their lives
- a fever dream where love & obsession collide.
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From Edgar Award-winning Chris Pavone, author of the Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller The Expats, comes a riveting time-bomb of a thriller (fans of The Expats will be excited to see a few characters from Pavone`s first book pop up here as well). Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours, The Accident draws on the rich worlds of publishing, politics & international spies to tell a suspenseful tale of intrigue in the vein of John Grisham & Laura Lippman. In New York City, Isabel Reed, one of the most respected & powerful literary agents in the city, frantically turns the pages of a manuscript into the early dawn hours. This manuscript
- printed out, h&-delivered, totally anonymous
- is full of shocking revelations & disturbing truths linked to a car accident that occurred years ago, things which could compromise national security. Is this what she`s been waiting for her entire career: a book that will help her move on from a painful past, a book that could save her beloved industry.. .a book that will change the world? In Copenhagen, Hayden Gray, a veteran station chief, wary of the CIA`s obsession with the Middle East, has been steadfastly monitoring the dangers that abound in Europe. Even if his bosses aren`t paying attention, he`s determined to stay vigilant. & he`s also on the trail of this manuscript
- & the secrets that lie at its heart. For him, quite simply, it must never see the light of day. As Isabel & Hayden try to outwit each other, the nameless author watches on from afar. With no-one quite sure who holds all the cards, the stakes couldn`t be higher: in just one day careers could be ruined, devastating secrets could be unearthed, & innocent people could die. As the manuscript moves from person to person, it leaves a trail of bodies in its wake. Gripping, sophisticated, & impossible to put down, The Accident is a masterful follow-up to one of the most acclaimed & striking debut thrillers of recent years.


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From the author of ” His Bloody Project”, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of the sleepy French backwater of Saint-Louis. Graeme Macrae Burnet returns with a literary mystery that will beguile fans of ” His Bloody Project” & ” The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau”. Darkly humorous, subtle & sophisticated, ” The Accident on the A35” burrows deep into the psyches of its characters & explores the forgotten corners of small-town life. ...

The Accidental is Ali Smith`s dazzling novel about a family holiday & a stranger who upends it. Arresting & wonderful, The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries & sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light. A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate & the power of storytelling. ”A beguiling page-turner.. .a brilliant creation. To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last”. (Independent). ” Joyous, a shot across the bows...writing as rapture, as giddy delight”. (The Times). ” Brilliant & engaging, frequently hilarious... Smith makes one look at the world afresh”. (Sunday Telegraph). ...

The Accidental Adventurer by Ben Fogle tells the story of this extraordinary explorer & TV presenter. Follow him tracing back adventures that raised money for charity & took him around the world: rowing across the Atlantic, walking to the South Pole & running the Sahara are just a few. Ben Fogle offers a fine example & answer to a universal dilemma about how one could live a life different from expectations. Here is the story of a man who chose to follow his heart on a journey that saw him treading an unconventional route. Packed with action, challenges & setbacks, this book also cast some light on how it all started & some pictures just add more colours to the story. Get ready for a rollercoaster! ...

Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart takes her usual gentle & gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters & what doesn`t. In Roman times, blocks of text were commonly written just as blocks without even wordspacingnevermindpunctuation to help the reader to interpret them. Orators using such texts as notes for a speech would prepare carefully so that they were familiar with the content & didn`t come a cropper over a confusion between, say, therapists & the rapists. As we entered the Christian era & sacred texts were widely read (by priests if not by the rest of us), it became ever more important to remove any likelihood of misinterpretation. To a potential murderer or adulterer, for example, there is a world of difference between ` If you are tempted, yield not, resisting the urge to commit a sin` & ` If you are tempted, yield, not resisting the urge to commit a sin`. & the only surface difference is the positioning of a comma. So yes, you SMS-addicts & `let it all hang out` Sixties children, punctuation does matter. &, contrary to what people who tear their hair out over apostrophes believe, it is there to help
- to clarify meaning, to convey emphasis, to indicate that you are asking a question or"ing someone else`s words. It also comes in handy for telling your reader when to pause for breath. Caroline Taggart, who has made a name for herself expounding on the subjects of grammar, usage & words generally (and who for decades made her living putting in the commas in other people`s work), takes her usual gentle & gently humorous approach to punctuation. She points out what matters & what doesn`t; why using six exclamation marks where one will do is perfectly OK in a text but will lose you marks at school; why hang glider pilots in training really need a hyphen; & how throwing in the odd semicolon will impress your friends. Sometimes opinionated but never dogmatic, she is an ideal guide to the (perceived) minefield that is punctuation.
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In life you never get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate… What would you do if, out of the blue, a billionaire industrialist decided to make you the CEO of his company? No prior business experience necessary. There is only one catch: you need to pass seven tests from the `textbook of life`. This is the offer made to Sapna Sinha, an ordinary salesgirl in an electronics boutique in downtown Delhi, by Vinay Mohan Acharya, one of India`s richest men. Thus begins the most challenging journey of Sapna`s life, one that will test her character, her courage & her capabilities. Along the way she encounters a host of memorable personalities, from a vain Bollywood superstar to a kleptomaniac Gandhian. At stake is a business empire worth ten billion dollars, & the future she has always dreamt of. But are the seven tests for real or is Acharya playing a deeper game, one driven by a perverse fantasy? From the acclaimed author of Slumdog Millionaire, one of the biggest films of the decade, comes this compelling, suspenseful tale of the power of dreams, the lure of money & the universal need to know who we are. ...

In life you never get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate… What would you do if, out of the blue, a billionaire industrialist decided to make you the CEO of his company? No prior business experience necessary. There is only one catch: you need to pass seven tests from the `textbook of life`. This is the offer made to Sapna Sinha, an ordinary salesgirl in an electronics boutique in downtown Delhi, by Vinay Mohan Acharya, one of India`s richest men. Thus begins the most challenging journey of Sapna`s life, one that will test her character, her courage & her capabilities. Along the way she encounters a host of memorable personalities, from a vain Bollywood superstar to a kleptomaniac Gandhian. At stake is a business empire worth ten billion dollars, & the future she has always dreamt of. But are the seven tests for real or is Acharya playing a deeper game, one driven by a perverse fantasy? From the acclaimed author of Slumdog Millionaire, one of the biggest films of the decade, comes this compelling, suspenseful tale of the power of dreams, the lure of money & the universal need to know who we are. ...

America`s most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested, hurricane-battered swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries & ambitious settlers who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, the site became a crossroads for the Atlantic world. Powell gives us the full sweep of the city`s history from its founding through statehood. ...

The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window & Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip & three bottles of champagne. Allan & Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea & be rescued by a North Korean ship, & they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un … Soon Allan & Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel & President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated … Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man:‘A mordantly funny & loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully’ Sunday Times‘ Imaginative, laugh-out-loud... a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind’ Daily Telegraph‘ Fast-moving & relentlessly sunny’ Guardian ...