WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, & Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer & television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives, they`ve never quite lost touch with each other
- or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor & Finkler are recently widowed, & together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved & lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked
- & his whole sense of who & what he is slowly & ineluctably changes.

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The Finns, in the Xenophobe guide series; consisting of a range of pocket-sized guides which take a humorous & irreverent approach to a wide range of world cultures. Each guide explores the characteristics of a country’s people in a series of dedicated sections, encompassing nationalism & identity, behaviour, manners, character, obsessions, beliefs & values, leisure & pleasure, culture, custom & tradition, business, systems, health & hygiene, crime & punishment, government & bureaucracy, conversation & gestures & language. Written in a wholly irreverent style, Xenophobes guides attempt to forewarn readers of the main stereotypes & foibles that are associated with individual nationalities. ...

The chilling new psychological thriller by S. K. Tremayne, author of the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller, THE ICE TWINS. It only took six words to shatter her dreams... When Rachel marries dark, handsome David, everything seems to fall into place. Swept from single life in London to the beautiful Carnhallow House in Cornwall, she gains wealth, love, & an affectionate stepson, Jamie. But then Jamie`s behaviour changes, & Rachel`s perfect life begins to unravel. He makes disturbing predictions, claiming to be haunted by the spectre of his late mother
- David`s previous wife. Is this Jamie`s way of punishing Rachel, or is he far more traumatized than she thought? As Rachel starts digging into the past, she begins to grow suspicious of her husb&. Why is he so reluctant to discuss Jamie`s outbursts? & what exactly happened to cause his ex-wife`s untimely death, less than two years ago? As summer slips away & December looms, Rachel begins to fear there might be truth in Jamie`s words: ` You will be dead by Christmas.`
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From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of London Somewhere in the soot-stained ruins of Restoration London, a killer has gone to ground... The Great Fire has ravaged London, wreaking destruction & devastation wherever its flames spread. Now, guided by the incorruptible Fire Court, the city is slowly rebuilding, but times are volatile & danger is only ever a heartbeat away. James Marwood, son of a traitor, is thrust into this treacherous environment when his ailing father claims to have stumbled upon a murdered woman
- in the very place where the Fire Court sits. Then his father is run down & killed. Accident? Or another murder...? Determined to uncover the truth, Marwood turns to the one person he can trust
- Cat Lovett, the daughter of a despised regicide. Marwood has helped her in the past. Now it`s her turn to help him. But then comes a third death... & Marwood & Cat are forced to confront a vicious & increasingly desperate killer whose actions threaten the future of the city itself.

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The fifth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s
- the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime
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A timely & groundbreaking collection of essays & poems about race in America edited by Jesmyn Ward, the first woman to win the National Book Award twice THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bestselling collection of essays & poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers & thinkers to speak on race. From Claudia Rankine to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Jericho Brown to Carol Anderson, these voices shine a light on the darkest corners of American history, wrestle with the struggles the country faces today & imagine a better future. Envisioned as a response to The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin`s groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, The Fire This Time considers the black experience in modern America. Significant progress has been made in the fifty years since Baldwin`s essays were published, but America is a long distance away from a post-racial society
- a truth that must be confronted if the country is to continue to work towards change. Baldwin`s `fire next time` is now upon us, & it needs to be talked about. Sage, urgent & impassioned, this is an essential collection edited by one of America`s greatest writers.
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The No 1 Swedish thriller by the author of The Hypnotist & The Nightmare One girl is dead Detective Inspector Joona Linna has been called to a home for troubled girls, north of Stockholm. A young girl has been brutally murdered, her body arranged in bed with her hands covering her eyes. One girl is missing Vicky Bennet is the only girl unaccounted for. Did she run away to escape the chaos or does a bloody hammer found under her pillow make her the prime suspect? One girl claims to have witnessed it all In Stockholm, Flora Hansen works as a medium, pretending to commune with the dead. When she begins to suffer crippling visions of the young girl`s murder, will anyone believe her? As Joona refuses to accept the easy answers, his search leads him into darker, more violent territory, &, finally, to a shocking confrontation with his past. ...

THE FIRST OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA NOVELS, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE. LI YAN A grotesquely burned corpse found in a city park is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Yan, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost during the Cultural Revolution, needs outside help if he is to break the case. MARGARET CAMPBELL The unidentified cadaver in turn provides a welcome distraction for forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Campbell, married to her work & having left America & her broken past behind, throws herself into the investigation, & before long uncovers a bizarre anomaly. THE FIREMAKER An unlikely partnership develops between Li & Campbell as they follow the resulting lead. A fiery & volatile chemistry ignites: exposing not only their individual demons, but an even greater evil
- a conspiracy that threatens their lives, as well as those of millions of others.
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The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irene Nemirovsky`s life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Francaise, it is a panoramic exploration of French life & a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. After four years of bloody warfare Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. No more the naive hopes & dreams of the teenager who went to war. Attracted by the lure of money & success, Bernard embarks on a life of luxuriant delinquency supported by suspect financial dealings & easy virtue. Yet when his lover throws him off, he turns to a wholesome childhood friend for comfort. For ten years he lives the good bourgeois life, but as another war threatens everything Bernard had clung to starts to crumble, & the future for his marriage & for France looks terribly uncertain. First published posthumously in France in 1957, The Fires of Autumn is a coruscating, tragic evocation of the reality of war & its dirty aftermath, & the ugly colour it can turn a man`s soul. ...

What Lila wants to be more than anything else in the world is.. .a Firework-Maker! But firework-making is not just about being able to make Crackle-Dragons & Golden Sneezes. There is also one special secret: every Firework-Maker must make a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire-Fiend! Not knowing that she needs special protection to survive the Fire-Fiend`s flames, Lila sets off alone. Her friends, Chulak & Hamlet
- the King`s white elephant
- race after her. But can they possibly reach her in time?

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