` The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell & Graham Greene` Jay Mc Inerney, author of Bright, Precious Days When Charlie & I were young, we played a game called Destroyers... We were sharpening our instincts, jettisoning attachments. We were honing strategies for survival.. . Ian Bledsoe is on the run, broke & humiliated, fleeing the emotional & financial fallout of his father`s death. His childhood friend Charlie
- rich, exuberant & basking in life on the Greek island of Patmos
- is his last hope. At first, Patmos is like a dream
- sun-soaked days on Charlie`s yacht & the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian`s past
- & Charlie readily offers the lifeline he desperately needs. But, like Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath. When he vanishes leaving behind his murky business affairs, Ian finds himself caught in a terrifying labyrinth of deceits. As boys, the pair played a game called Destroyers
- a game, he now realizes, they may never have stopped playing. Expansive, vivid & suspenseful, in the vein of Donna Tartt`s The Goldfinch, The Destroyers is a mesmerizing drama of power & fate, fathers & sons, self-invention & self-deception. ` Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith & F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical & suspenseful, thoughtful & riveting` Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You ` The Destroyers manages to be both fast-paced & contemplative, an excellent entertainment & also something more lasting, a haunting meditation on friendship & desperation` Guardian, Best Holiday Reads of 2017




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There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell. She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell. Peter`s dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell. Whether it`s finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path, her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work. But Nell has other talents too. Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read. So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school`s books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There`s only one dog for the job.. .and Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie, Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books, reading, libraries, & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog. ...

There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell. She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell. Peter`s dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell. Whether it`s finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path, her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work. But Nell has other talents too. Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read. So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school`s books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There`s only one dog for the job... & Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie, The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books, reading, libraries, & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog. ...

There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell. She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell. Peter`s dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell. Whether it`s finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path, her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work. But Nell has other talents too. Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read. So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school`s books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There`s only one dog for the job... & Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie, The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books, reading, libraries, & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog. ...

Join Detective Dog Nell, her owner Peter & all his friends in this must-have sticker book based on the bestselling picture book The Detective Dog by Julia Donaldson & Sara Oglivie. Who`s been stealing all the children`s books? Help solve the mystery as you join in with colouring pencils & stickers! Packed with games, activities & over four hundred stickers, The Detective Dog Sticker Book is perfect for journeys, rainy days & school holidays
- a great gift for any child.
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Willard is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who can`t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his `prayer log`. Carl & Sandy Henderson, a husb&-&-wife team of serial killers, trawl America`s highways searching for suitable models to photograph & exterminate. The spider-handling preacher Roy & his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick are running from the law. & caught in the middle of all this is Arvin, Willard & Charlotte`s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN PRIZEOn the elite New England campus of Webster College, a student protest is underway. Initially supported by Webster`s first female president, the former activist Naomi Roth, the protest begins to grow & fester, attracting the media. Attention becomes focused on one charismatic student, a Palestinian immigrant named Omar, as rising tensions on the once-tranquil campus threaten to turn violent. Faced with an impossible & potentially tragic conflict, that now involves her own student daughter, Naomi must reconsider her responsibilities to Webster, & her own long held beliefs. ...

As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy & a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields & on river banks. When she receives letters from her husb&, they burn them together. Intoxicated by passion, they cannot bear to end their affair, even when it causes a scandal among their friends & neighbours. Instead, they hurtle towards tragedy. Written in spare, haunting prose when Raymond Radiguet was still a teenager, this semi-autobiographical novel became an instant bestseller & its author was hailed as a genius before his tragic death at the age of twenty. Expressing all the anguish & joy of adolescence, it is a work of startling imagery & subtle beauty. This Penguin Modern Classics edition

Includes:: an introduction by Fay Weldon.

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Raymond Radiguet wrote the highly scandalous Devil in the Flesh between the ages of sixteen & eighteen, following his own love affair with a married woman. At the time, in post WWI France, the book created a stir comparable to that of Lady Chatterley`s Lover Francois, the adolescent narrator, meets Marthe in Paris at the start of the First World War when her husband is away at the Front. They fall in love with each other. Their passion leads to a tragic climax four years later when Marthe passes off their love child as her husband`s legitimate child even though everyone knows the truth. The themes of freedom, family & passion against a background of war & honour in The Devil in the Flesh created a scandal at the time of publication, which was also the year of the author`s death. ...

WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014. Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014. London, 1727
- & Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels & coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors` prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor & disease. & those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the hands of the gaol`s rutheless governor & his cronies. The trouble is, Tom Hawkins has never been good at following rules
- even simple ones. & the recent grisly murder of a debtor, Captain Roberts, has brought further terror to the gaol. While the Captain`s beautiful widow cries for justice, the finger of suspicion points only one way: to the sly, enigmatic figure of Samuel Fleet. Some call Fleet a devil, a man to avoid at all costs. But Tom Hawkins is sharing his cell. Soon, Tom`s choice is clear: get to the truth of the murder
- or be the next to die.A twisting mystery, a dazzling evocation of early 18th Century London, THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA is a thrilling debut novel full of intrigue & suspense.


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