Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved but Hakan`s son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier Hakan was eager to talk to Kurt about a controversial incident from his past. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When Hakan`s wife also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth but the investigation will force him to look back over his own past, as he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we love the most can remain strangers to us... ...

An unforgettable adventure story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, into the untravelled heart of Burma. Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People is an enormously appealing & vivid account of Sir George Scott, the unsung Victorian adventurer who hacked, bullied & charmed his way through uncharted jungle to help establish British colonial rule in Burma. Born in Scotland in 1851, Scott was a die-hard imperialist with a fondness for gargantuan pith helmets & a bluffness of expression that bordered on the Pythonesque. But, as Andrew Marshall discovered, he was also a writer & photographer of rare sensibility. He spent a lifetime documenting the tribes who lived in Burma`s vast wilderness & is the author of The Burman, published in 1882 & still in print today. He also not only mapped the lawless frontiers of this ”geographical nowhere”
- the British Empire`s eastern-most land border with China
- but he widened the imperial goalposts in another way: he introduced football to Burma, where today it is a national obsession. Inspired by Scott`s unpublished diaries, Andrew Marshall retraces the explorer`s intrepid footsteps from the moldering colonial splendor of Rangoon to the fabled royal capital of Mandalay. In the process he discovers modern Burma, a hermit nation misruled by a brutal military dictatorship, its soldiers, like the British colonialists before them, nicknamed ”the trouser people” by the country`s sarong-wearing civilians. Wonderfully observed, mordantly funny, & skillfully recounted, ` The Trouser People` is an offbeat & thrilling journey through Britain`s lost heritage & a powerful expose of Burma`s modern tragedy.

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` Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.` Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary & three moody children, widowed accountant Martin Santome is about to retire. He assumes he`ll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people do. What he least expects is to fall passionately in love with his shy young employee Laura Avellaneda. As they embark upon an affair, happy & irresponsible, Martin begins to feel the weight of his quiet existence lift
- until, out of nowhere, their joy is cut short. The intimate, heartbreaking diary of an ordinary man who is reborn when he falls in love one final time, this beloved Latin American novel has been translated into twenty languages & sold millions of copies worldwide, & is now published in Penguin Classics for the first time.
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In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? & who ultimately is deceiving whom? In this portrayal of two women grappling with truth & lies, nothing can be taken for granted. By the time the snow thaws, both their lives will have changed irrevocably. ...

Matt Charman, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Stephen Spielberg`s Bridge of Spies, & Mammoth Screen, producers of Poldark & Victoria, are producing a big budget TV series based on the book. Maxwell Knight was a paradox. A jazz obsessive & nature enthusiast (he is the author of the definitive work on how to look after a gorilla), he is seen today as one of MI5`s greatest spymasters, a man who did more than any other to break up British fascism during the Second World War
- in spite of having once belonged to the British Fascisti himself. He was known to his agents & colleagues simply as M, & was rumoured to be part of the inspiration for the character M in the James Bond series. Knight became a legendary spymaster despite an almost total lack of qualifications. What set him apart from his peers was a mercurial ability to transform almost anyone into a fearless secret agent. He was the first in MI5 to grasp the potential of training female agents. M is about more than just one man however. In its pages, Hemming reveals for the first time in print the names & stories of seven men & women recruited by Knight, on behalf of MI5, & then asked to infiltrate the most dangerous political organizations in Britain at that time. Until now, their identities have been kept secret outside MI5. Drawn from every walk of life, they led double lives-often at great personal cost-in order to protect the country they loved. With the publication of this book, it will be possible at last to celebrate the lives of these courageous, selfless individuals. Drawing on declassified documents, private family archives & interviews with retired MI5 officers as well as the families of MI5 agents, M reveals not just the shadowy world of espionage but a brilliant, enigmatic man at its centre.
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National Bestseller Don`t despair. Don`t retreat. Fight back. The stunning election of Donald J. Trump rocked an already divided ...

Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime
- to pen the biography of the elusive
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The truth about Christmas
- its traditions unravelled! Have you ever wondered:
- Who decided to celebrate Jesus` birthday on

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August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman
- Quebert`s most gifted protege
- throws off his writer`s block to clear his mentor`s name. Solving the case & penning a new bestseller soon merge into one. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of ` The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America`. But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.

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