` The Missing has a delicious sense of foreboding from the first page, luring us into the heart of a family with terrible secrets & making us wait, with pounding hearts for the final, agonizing twist. Loved it` Fiona Barton, Author of THE WIDOW You love your family. They make you feel safe. You trust them. But should you...? `A twisty-turny psychological thriller.. . Well-written, pacy & gripping` Fabulous When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, his mother, Claire, blames herself. She`s not the only one. There isn`t a single member of Billy`s family that doesn`t feel guilty. But the Wilkinsons are so used to keeping secrets from one another that it isn`t until six months later, after an appeal for information goes horribly wrong, that the truth begins to surface. Claire is sure of two things
- that Billy is still alive & that her friends & family had nothing to do with his disappearance. A mother`s instinct is never wrong. Or is it? Sometimes those closest to us are the ones with the most to hide...”I was grabbed by this book from the first page & read the ending with an open mouth.I wish I could unread it so that I could go back & discover it again. Brilliant!” Angela Marsons, Author of SILENT SCREAM
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Barbegazi are fabled creatures who live in the alps, rather like gnomes. Tessa knows that they exist because her beloved grandfather told her about them. So she sets out to prove to her family & friends that her grandfather wasn`t just a confused old man. Soon she finds not only a family of Barbegazi but also a dastardly plot to kidnap one & keep it captive. But Tessa realises that uncovering the truth carries great responsibilities
- & sometimes things have to remain a secret. The Missing Barbegazi is a delightful debut novel about the importance of family & the power of hope.
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`A captivating mystery at heart but also a poignant study of grief, loss & the unbreakable bonds of family... A triumph` Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little Lies A stunning debut thriller, The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana is a gripping novel full of twists & turns, & a desperate hunt to solve a decades-old mystery. Anna Flores was just a child when her adored teenage sister disappeared. Unable to deal with the pain, Anna took the first opportunity she had to run from her fractured family, eventually building a life for herself abroad. Now, thirty years on, her mother has died, & Anna must return home to sort through her possessions. In doing so, she has to confront the huge hole her sister`s disappearance left in their lives, leaving just one question unanswered: what really happened to Gabriella? Because not knowing is worse than the truth. Isn`t it? ...

` Quietly brilliant & original... a thoughtful food writer who deserves to be better known`
- Bee Wilson, Sunday Times The Missing
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The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war & remembrance. It weaves a network of myth & memory, photos & films, poetry & sculptures, graveyards & ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, & relationship to, the Great War. ...

Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is not stranger to the Official Secrets Act. But this is the first time he has been asked to change his identity
- &, worse still, his clothes
- in service of his country. Whisked to a remote island to interpret a top-secret conference between no-name financiers & Congolese warlords, Salvo`s excitement is only heightened by memories of the night before he left London, & his life-changing encounter with a beautiful nurse named Hannah. Exit suddenly, the unassuming, happily married man Salvo believed himself to be. Enter in his place, the pseudonymous Brian Sinclar: spy, lover
- & perhaps, even, hero.


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` Mesmerising` Sunday Times As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in dem&. He makes it a principle to remain neutral
- no matter what he hears. But when he is summoned on a secret job for British Intelligence, he is told he will have to get his hands dirty. His mission is to help bring democracy to the Congo
- democracy that will be delivered at the end of a gun barrel. The Mission Song is an excoriating depiction of a corrupt world where loyalty can be bought & war is simply an opportunity to settle old scores.` Simply astonishing.. . a formidably sophisticated work of fiction` Charles Cumming

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I hear someone coming. It has happened before. I pause & listen but no longer hear anything. I sigh. As always, hope is snatched away before it can take root. & so then, as always, I am carried back to that first December so very long ago... Rooted in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany & the Languedoc, here are tales of ghosts & spirits seeking revenge, grief-stricken women & haunted men coming to terms with their destiny. ...

As the acknowledged ` Queen of Crime`, P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers & magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best of these have been drawn from the archives & published here. P. D. James` prose illuminates each of these perfectly formed stories, making them ideal reading for the darkest days of the year. While she delights in the secrets that lurk beneath the surface at family gatherings, her Christmas stories also provide tantalizing puzzles to keep the reader guessing. P. D. James embraces the challenge of the short-story form, & ingeniously weaves the strands of plot, setting, characterisation & surprise to create a satisfying whole within only a few thousand words. From the title story about a strained country-house party on Christmas Eve, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, & two cases for James` poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, each treats the reader to James` masterfully atmospheric storytelling, always with the lure of a mystery to be solved. ...

P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers & magazines to write a short story for Christmas, & four of the best have been drawn from the archives & published here together for the first time. From the title story about a strained country-house Christmas party, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, plus two cases for detective Adam Dalgliesh, these are masterfully atmospheric stories by the acknowledged ` Queen of Crime`. ...