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
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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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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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Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for... Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance & searches through their things. And realises her life has been a lie. Her mother & father aren`t hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they`ll never think to look
- the favelas. But there she learns a terrible secret
- the truth about her real parents & their past. & the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago...

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Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled by his estrangement from his daughter, & struggling with the consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy, veteran Republican & recently appointed government minister, risks losing what feels tantalisingly close to his grasp. In America, Danny & his partner plan for the arrival of their first child, happily oblivious to what is about to pull him back to Belfast & rupture the life they have started together. Retired detective James Fenton, on his way to an orphanage in Romania with a van full of supplies, will soon be forced to confront what he has come to think of as his betrayal, years before, of a teenage boy. In a society trying to heal the scars of the past with the salve of truth & reconciliation, these four men`s lives become linked in a way they could never have imagined. ...

From number one bestselling author Matt Haig comes a hilarious & heartwarming story, brilliantly illustrated throughout by Chris Mould Wherever she is, whatever the day, She only has one kind of thing to say. Just as cats go miaow & cows go moo, The Truth Pixie can only say things that are true.A very funny & lovable tale of how one special pixie learned to love herself. The Truth Pixie is an enchanting, rhyming story that will delight younger readers
- with words by the bestselling mastermind Matt Haig & pictures by the inky genius Chris Mould.
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Romanticised by nineteenth-century explorers as mysterious `people of the veil`, but with a reputation tooas fearsome warriors, the Tuareg have been guardians of the Sahara for over one thousand years. Survivingin one of the most pitiless & inhospitable terrains on earth, they controlled the lucrative caravan tradingroutes until nineteenth- & twentieth-century colonization followed by twenty-first century global politicsand the rise of political Islam, jihadism & terrorism fragmented their society & way of life. And yet the unique & distinctive Tuareg culture, with its ancient Tifinagh script & traditions ofproverbs, poetry & song & strict behavioural codes, survives despite pressures on a proud race. With an introduction by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, a preface by Justin Marozzi, & contributions from Ghoubeid Alojaly, Edmond Bernus, Suzanne Bernus, Henrietta Butler, Pierre Boilley, Henri Delord, Jean-Marc Durou, Berny Sebe, Akli Sh`kka & Jeremy Swift The photographer Henrietta Butler has masterminded & edited this volume & the accompanying Tuareg exhibition in London at The Royal Geographical Society in June 2015www.tuaregtime.co.uk http://www.tuaregtime.co.uk/ She has assembled a team of renowned experts whose common theme is above all their passionate interestin these marginalised peoples who find their way of life & culture now so challenged. ...

Join much-loved author/illustrator Marcia Williams on a comic strip journey through Tudor history! A witty, accessible introduction to the Tudors, with full-colour illustrations throughout, from the author of Mr William Shakespeare`s Plays & The Romans: Gods, Emperors & Dormice. Arthur Inkblott, Queen Elizabeth I`s favourite scribe, retells the most famous moments in Tudor history, from the Wars of the Roses & the Spanish Armada to Christopher Columbus`s discovery of America & Henry VIII`s many marriages! Packed with jokes & colourful comic-strip illustrations, this is Marcia Williams at her very best. ...