Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) & Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster & his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry & book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour & wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He`s had a career & a single marriage, a calm divorce. He`s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer`s letter is about to prove. ...

Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his memories. As his health ultimately declines, his two daughters move him from his trailer in North Dakota to Casablanca, Ontario, to live with the father of a friend who was killed in action. It is to Casablanca, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains of the former town, that Napoleon`s youngest daughter also retreats when her own life comes unhinged. Living with the two old men, she finds her father in the twilight of his life & rapidly slipping into senility. With love & insatiable curiosity, she devotes herself to learning the truth about him; & through the fog, Napoleon`s past begins to emerge. ...

1936, Badajoz: His unit defeated, his ammunition spent, a boy-soldier flees into the hills pursued by Franco`s shock-troops. He will need more than luck to survive the day. 1953, Madrid: Amid snow-bound streets, the head of Franco`s secret police discovers the web of lies burying his past is unravelling. Even for a man feared throughout the city, the truth is a death sentence. 2009, Las Penas: Forensic Investigator Ana Maria Galindez unearths a mass grave in a disused mine. Her investigation will disturb forces that have lain dormant for decades. THE SENTINEL is a spellbinding thriller in a trilogy of rare power & scope that unlocks the dark heart of Spain, weaving past & present together to portray a country still scarred by civil war, still riven by fear & hatred, still plagued by secrets that refuse to die. ...

The Separation, Dinah Jefferies` stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies & one mother`s ...

As Isaac navigates the tedium & terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their once-trusted housekeeper has turned on them & is now acting as an informer. & as his daughter, in a childlike attempt to stop the wave of baseless arrests, engages in illicit activities, his son, sent to New York before the rise of the Ayatollahs, struggles to find happiness even as he realizes that his family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger. ...

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal Winner of the American Library Association Morris Award for best debut YAWinner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award for Young Adult Fiction A Buzzfeed Best of 2016 book Goodreads Choice Awards finalist A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2016 Publishers Weekly Best of 2016 Dill is a misfit in his small, religious Tennessee town. His dad is in prison for a shocking crime, & his mom is struggling to make ends meet. The only things getting Dill through senior year are his guitar & his fellow outcasts, Travis & Lydia. Travis is an oddball who finds comfort from his violent home life in an epic fantasy book series. & Lydia is like no one else: fast-talking, creative & fiercely protective. Dill fears his heart will break when she escapes to a better life elsewhere. What Dill needs now is some bravery to tell Lydia how he feels, to go somewhere with his music
- & to face the hardest test of all when tragedy strikes.
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CARTER & SADIE KANE, descendants of the magical House of Life, are in pretty big trouble. Despite their bravest efforts, Apophis, the giant snake of Chaos, is still threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Now the Kanes must do something no magician has ever managed
- defeat Apophis himself. No pressure there then. Battling against the forces of Chaos, their only hope is an ancient spell
- but the magic has been lost for a millennia. Will they find the serpent`s shadow, or will they be led to their deaths in the depths of the Underworld?

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Through the personal story of Yasmin`s family & the food & recipes they`ve shared together, ” The Settler`s Cookbook” tells the history of Indian migration to the UK via East Africa. Her family was part of the mass exodus from India to East Africa during the height of British imperial expansion, fleeing famine & lured by the prospect of prosperity under the empire. In 1972, expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, they moved to the UK, where Yasmin has made her home with an Englishman. The food she cooks now combines the traditions & tastes of her family`s hybrid history. Here you`ll discover how Shepherd`s Pie is much enhanced by sprinkling in some chilli, Victoria sponge can be enlivened by saffron & lime, & the addition of ketchup to a curry can be life-changing. ...

The tomb of Rascar Capac has been unearthed! But one by one, the finders fall into a terrifying coma. Can this be the curse of the Inca gods? Tintin must somehow fathom out the meaning behind his only clue: the shattered crystal ball lying beside each of the victims... ...

There are some ingredients that are so adaptable they appear in dishes all over the world. This book looks at the seven most important
- the culinary wonders: rice, salt, honey, pork, tomato, chili & cacao. These are the ones ones that have played a long & valuable role in human life, & this book traces their epic journeys, as they have been transported around the globe to feature in cuisines far away from their countries of origin. As well as telling their diverse culinary & cultural stories, there are 63 traditional & innovative recipes
- with one of the ingredients in the starring role
- for readers to try. This is the fascinating history of the world`s seven most important ingredients & an enchanting exploration of world cuisine.


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