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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Arthur & The Truth are not the best of friends right now. Why? Because today Arthur did something he shouldn`t have done
- he rode
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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. ...

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. ...

The Tudors were an odd bunch, more odd than their subjects, perhaps. When they weren`t beheading wives & enemies they were threatening to, or going around earning themselves nicknames like ` Bloody Mary` & ` The 9 Day Queen`. The Tudors: A Very Peculiar History tells the story of the Tudor monarchs, their castles, their lives & their subjects in a time when it was fashionable to slash up your clothes for that fresh from battle A” look. The book details each monarch`s reign & casts light on the more bizarre elements of their time in power, right down to an analysis of their seals & signatures & the various torture & execution methods they liked to use. ...

Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months & fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed which swiftly convinced him of their mutual love. But Castel`s growing paranoia would lead him to destroy the one thing he truly cared about... Sabato`s first novel ” El Tunel” (translated as ” The Outsider” or ” The Tunnel”), written in 1948, is framed as the confession of the painter Juan Pablo Castel, who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him. Sabato`s novels were praised by authors such as Albert Camus & Graham Greene. ...

Crossrail, the ` Elizabeth` line, with its spacious, light-filled stations, is simply the latest way of traversing a very old east-west route through what was once country side to the old city core & out again. Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Tottenham Court Road (alias St Giles-in-the-Fields) & the route along Oxford Street (alias the Way to Oxford & also Tyburn) this richly descriptive book traces the course of many of these historical journeys across time as well as space. Archaeology disinters layers of actual matter; one may also disinter the lives that walked where many of our streets, however altered in appearance, still run today. These people spoke the names of ancient farms, manors & slums that now belong to our squares & tube stations. They endured the cycle of the seasons as we do; they ate, drank, laughed, worked, prayed, despaired & hoped in what are essentially the same spaces we occupy today. As The Tunnel Through Time expertly shows, destruction & renewal are a constant rhythm in the city`s story. ...