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In 1968 Stephen Newman
arrives in England from
California. Sent down
from Oxford, he
hurriedly marries his
English girlfriend Andrea
to avoid returning to
America and the draft
board. Over the next
forty years they and
their friends build lives
of middle-class success
until the events of late
middle-age and the new
century force them to
realise that their
fortunate generation has
always lived in a fool's
paradise.
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It is a night in
Manhattan. The President
of the United States is
scheduled to have dinner
with an old friend, but
in the building across
the street, a man has
disabled the security and
stands at a window, a
rifle in his hand. The
assassination doesn't go
according to plan, but
this is only the
beginning. Someone is
recruiting a shadowy
network of agents with
the intention of creating
terror. Their range is
broad, their identities
masked, their methods
subtle. White House
operative Blake Johnson
and his opposite number
in British Intelligence,
Sean Dillon, set out to
trace the source of the
havoc, but behind the
first man lies another,
and behind him another
still. And that man is
not pleased by
interference. Soon, he
will target them all:
Johnson, Dillon,
Dillon's colleagues. And
one of them will fall
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At two international
auction houses, fine art
experts vie to get the
world's most fabulous and
expensive paintings into
their salerooms. At
Ludbrooks of London,
Lizzy Duffy does her best
get ahead as an
auctioneer, while her
boss Nat Wilde takes
advantage of her in more
ways than one. Meanwhile
Carrie Klein, number two
fine art expert at
Ehrenpreis in New York
has been charged with
opening Ehrenpreis's new
operation in London, and
she's determined that
it's going to make her
name. And in a draughty
farmhouse in Cornwall,
impoverished artist
Serena Macdonald
struggles to support her
young daughter by
painting family pets.
Until a mistake leads to
a cottage industry in
'old masters' - and a
daring sting...
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The motto of the boarding
school to which Tommy
Bedford is dispatched is
Fortune Favours the
Brave. It's 1959 and the
school bristles with
bullies and sadistic
staff. Tommy, a quirky
loner, obsessed with
cowboys and Indians,
needs all the bravery he
can summon. Salvation
comes when his glamorous
actress sister is swept
off to Hollywood by one
of his heroes, TV cowboy
Ray Montane. But with the
Cold War looming, the
sinister side of
Tinseltown seeps through
and Tommy and Diane soon
find themselves in
jeopardy. Forty years on,
Tommy has to confront
his boyhood ghosts when
his own son finds himself
charged with murder.
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Jacob Hunt is a teenager:
brilliant at maths,
wicked sense of humour,
extraordinarily
organised, hopeless at
reading social cues. And
Jacob has Asperger's. He
is locked in his own
world - aware of the
world outside, and
wanting to make a
connection. Jacob tries
to be like everyone else,
but doesn't know how.
When his tutor is found
dead, all the hallmark
behaviours of Jacob's
syndrome - not looking
someone in the eye, odd
movements, inappropriate
actions - start looking a
lot like guilt to the
police. And Jacob's
mother must ask herself
the hardest question in
the world: is her child
capable of murder?
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Amber and Chelsea Stone
are sisters who share the
same dream - huge,
global fame. As children
they were close, but
success has pulled them
apart. Both have the
looks, the talent, and
the star quality - but
only one has the ruthless
ambition to make it to
the very top. And she
will stop at nothing to
get what she wants.
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Amy has enjoyed a charmed
life, shopping and
lunching while the nanny
looks after her children.
Until her world is thrown
into disarray when
husband Ben's business
collapses overnight,
taking their house and
savings with it. Suddenly
Amy finds herself the
breadwinner. Can she rise
to the challenge? Will
her marriage survive such
an upheaval? Or is it a
case of 'Till Debt Do Us
Part'? Kate has always
had to struggle by,
juggling her job with two
children and a husband,
though she wouldn't have
it any other way. But her
safe little world is
rocked when she meets
enigmatic Jack in a
chance encounter. Feeling
increasingly estranged
from husband Miles, Kate
wonders if Jack can offer
her a fresh start. But
there's something about
Jack that Kate doesn't
know...Jennifer is only
just beginning to recover
from the death of her own
husband. When Jennifer
makes contact with old
flame Hugh she unlocks a
dangerous Pandora's box.
She is desperate to find
the answer to a question
that has tormented her
for decades. But will she
be able to cope with the
truth?
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Following the death of
her father, Angie Powell
takes over his business
as a wilderness guide in
the Montana mountains.
Business is booming until
disaster strikes when
enigmatic ex-soldier Dare
Callahan returns from
service and sets up as a
rival guide. His hardy
exterior and battle scars
are an attractive
combination for those
looking to hire a tough
type to help them tackle
the mountains - and three
years on Angie's business
is feeling the impact of
Dare's return. However,
Dare's sights are set on
something other than
business, and it's Angie
he's looking to steal
away, rather than her
clients. Angie wants
nothing to do with him,
especially as she blames
him for her failing
business, but she has to
put her feelings to one
side when they are
suddenly thrust together.
An animal with a thirst
for blood of a human
variety is on the loose
and it's up to Angie and
Dare to stop it before it
kills again...
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Destitute. Quinta Haig is
struggling to make ends
meet at Top Field with
her ailing mother,
Laura. Their small
Yorkshire farm is
run-down and isolated and
when the only way to take
their goods to market is
lost, Quinta is prepared
to sacrifice almost
anything for both of them
to survive. Coveted. Noah
Bilton, a wealthy
neighbour, has designs
on Top Field as well as
ideas for the future of
Laura and her daughter.
He offers an uneasy
solution to keep them out
of the workhouse, but
Laura Haig will have
nothing to do with it,
or him. When strangers
appear at Top Field
looking for shelter,
Quinta's hopes are
renewed - but Noah is
resolved to take what he
wants by fair means or
foul. Deserted. Quinta
finds love against all
odds, but is deserted at
her most vulnerable. The
hardships that follow
give her a steely
determination to seek
retribution from the man
who has wronged her - but
can revenge ever bring
back her happiness?
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Half-elven Leesil burns
with the need to rescue
his mother, an alleged
traitor, now held
captive by elven
assassins. But his
obsession will endanger
him and his friends, as
they cross the mountains
in the dead of winter,
to a land known for its
eerie beauty and hatred
of humanity. For all of
them, the journey will
raise more questions than
answers.. .Magiere,
part-human,
part-vampire, is plagued
by visions of humanity's
ancient enemy. But which
side is she destined to
serve? And Chap, their
canine guardian, faces a
new fear. He united
Magiere and Leesil for
his kin, their goal
being creation of an
alliance against the
forces of dark magics.
But now this alliance is
under threat, why have
the Fay abandoned him?
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Scruples is a temple of
high fashion where the
rich and the super-chic
can sip champagne,
browse, gossip - and buy
the most beautiful and
expensive clothes in the
world. Its owner Billy
Ikehorn is stylish,
beautiful and rich and
her ruthless search for
fulfilment leads her from
lover to lover. Then she
meets the one man who can
match her ambition and
her passion... From the
romance of Paris and the
streets of New York to
the staggering luxury and
wealth of Beverly Hills
Rodeo Drive, Scruples is
the cult classic that
everyone remembers: the
original sexy read is
back.
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When a loved one
disappears, you can
never be sure whether
they are alive or dead
Jay once content with
life in rural Ireland,
left his childhood home
and those who loved him
to embark on the journey
of his life in search of
his father. Now Jay is
fully grown and living in
a mission hospital in
Africa. Alone without his
family or his roots, he
has given up his quest.
Back in Ireland, the man
known as the master is
recovering after a
terrible accident. Sure
that his missing
grandson, the only
person left of his
family, is alive
somewhere, he cannot
rest untill he knows for
sure. Both men are
seeking, amid the human
suffering they are
surrounded by, to have
their belief in life
confirmed. And for both
of them, its the
kindness of strangers
which brings comfort.
From the travelling nun
to the Polish builder,
for the trusting truick
driver to the released
prisoner, it is these
strangers who guide us on
life's journey and who
help bring the missing
home to each other.
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From the author of Number
One bestseller ?Damaged?
comes the poignant and
shocking memoir of
Cathys recent
relationship with Tayo,
a young boy she fosters
whose good behaviour and
polite manners hide a
terrible past. Tayo
arrives at Cathys
with only the clothes he
stands up in. He has been
brought to her by the
police, but he is calm,
polite, and very well
spoken, and not at all
like the children she
normally fosters. The
social worker gives Cathy
the forms which should
contain Tayos
history, but apart from
his name and age, it is
blank. Tayo has no past.
Tayo is an 'invisible'
child, kidnapped from
his loving father in
Nigeria and brought
illegally to the UK by
his drink and drugs
dependent prostitute
mother, where he is put
to work in a sweat shop
in Central London. When
he sustains an injury and
is no longer earning, he
is cast out. When Cathy
takes Tayo to school he
points out a dozen
different addresses where
he has stayed in the last
six months, often being
left alone. Tayo lies,
and manipulates
situations to his own
advantage and Cathy has
to be continually on
guard. Tayos social
worker searches all
computer databases but
there is no record of
Tayo ? he has only
attended school for 3
terms and has never seen
a doctor. He and his
mother have been evading
the authorities by living
?underground?. With his
mother recently released
from prison, Tayo is
desperate to live with
his father in Nigeria,
but no one can track him
down or even prove that
he exists.
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Stay-at-home mum Fran
Clarke is approaching
both her thirty-seventh
birthday and crisis
point. Once a brilliant
voiceover artist, she
now hasn't worked for
years. The talent hasn't
deserted her -- only her
self-belief. She could
have it all, if she
could only see it. But
with her confidence shot
and a husband who no
longer knows how to help
her, most days all she
sees is the bottom of a
wine glass. Fran knows
she has to stop the
downward spiral before
she self-destructs
completely. But she hits
rock bottom when she
realises she can't even
solve the problems of her
own two children. And if
she thinks she's a
hopeless flake, imagine
what the other school-run
mums think of her.
Ultimately it is her two
best friends she must
thank for her salvation.
Not because they are
there for her, but
because she learns to be
there for them. Being a
mum can be hysterically
funny. But it can also be
heartbreakingly tough.
That's Motherland.
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After the oil company
that employs Arthur
Dashwood fails to protect
him from a kidnap attempt
in Baghdad, he returns
to his traumatised family
in London. But everything
is not as it should be.
Having quit the
blistering heat and
swimming pool luxury of
Saudi Arabia for fear of
terrorist attack, Arthur
finds that danger is
closer to home. Arthur's
young son Timothy is
struggling in the hostile
terrain of his new public
school. Bullied by other
pupils and neglected by
his preoccupied parents,
he withdraws into a
fantasy world, a hybrid
of computer-generated
guerrilla warzone and
exotic dreams of his time
in Saudi Arabia, a place
where boys can fight and
escape their teachers and
families. As one
middle-class boy from
Timothy's school and then
another disappears, so
evidence emerges of an
extreme and disturbing
rejection of the adult
world. And then it is
Timothy's turn to
disappear. Haunted by
memories of post-Saddam
Baghdad, Arthur embarks
on a terrifying search
for his son, one that
will reveal his own
complicity in the brutal
consequences of Western
power.
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Amy's written a
bestseller, the ultimate
shopping and shagging
novel only without the
shopping. She should be
enjoying the money, the
fame, the eight-page
spread in Hello! And
maybe she would be if
only she could tell her
mother. But the woman's
so over-bearing and
puritanical, Amy hasn't
even told her she smokes.
So instead, Amy does
what she does best, she
hides, protected by her
pseudonym. But for how
long, now that the
tabloids have launched a
crusade to uncover Marsha
Mellow's true identity?
Being found out isn't her
only worry. There's the
sex-crazed ex who
inspired this mess in the
first place, the boss
that she'd hate if he
weren't so irritatingly
gorgeous and the growing
realisation that everyone
else in her life seems to
have a dirty little
secret of their own.
"Marsha Mellow and Me"
shows that keeping
secrets can be really
painful and painfully
funny.
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Nestled in the heart of
Dublin city, St Endas
Terrace is like any other
close-knit community:
warm, colourful, looks
after its own. But behind
closed doors lie
secrets... In Number
Eight he wants a baby,
she doesnt. The guy a few
doors down just wants to
find love. Across the
street a single mum
struggles to cope. While
the people next door
might appear to have it
all, their mortgage
holder knows different.
When the street syndicate
wins the National
Lottery, it seems that
things are looking up.
Enter a New York
production company on a
mission to document a
quintessential Dublin
community - just as it
becomes clear that the
winning ticket is nowhere
to be found. Facades
begin to crumble in the
scramble to uncover the
missing ticket and, as
the gloves come off for
the once unremarkable
residents of St Endas,
its game on with
everything to play for.
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Longlisted for the Man
Asian Literary Prize,
this is a superb second
novel from the author of
the multiple-award
winning 'Saraswati Park'.
Twenty-something Leela is
trying to figure out what
to do next, who to fall
in love with and where
she belongs in the world.
The problem is that no
matter where she goes -
Paris, London, Bombay -
or what she does -
teaching or temping,
dating or committing -
life doesn't appear to
offer any straightforward
answers. A poignant,
evocative journey over
two continents and
through the adult spheres
of work, sex and
convenient friendships,
Another Country is about
growing up, moving on
and discovering that what
you really want is very
different from what you
thought it would be.
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The path of true love
never did run smooth...A
heart-warming tale of
love in the face of
family and friendship,
perfect for fans of Cathy
Kelly and Maeve Binchy.
Divorcee Jennifer Irwin
has it all - a successful
interior design business
and two loving children.
But as her 45th birthday
approaches and her
children prepare to start
their own lives,
Jennifer is left feeling
lonely in her empty nest.
That's when she meets Ben
Crawford - a man 16 years
her junior - as their
attraction heightens,
Jennifer realises what
she's been missing. But
mindful that the
small-town Ballyfergus
residents would never
approve, they conduct
their affair in secret.
But a secret is never a
secret for long...As the
affair surfaces,
Jennifer encounters
opposition from friends
and family, especially
her daughter Lucy.
Enraged by her mother's
relationship, Lucy seeks
comfort in the arms of
charismatic but troubled,
Oren. Jennifer knows
that Oren is not the man
he seems, but can she
convince her daughter of
that? And with everything
going against them, can
Jennifer and Ben's love
survive? Or will she risk
losing her daughter to be
with the man she loves?
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Gwynna had fallen from
grace once, bearing a
stillborn child out of
wedlock. Determined to
have a respectable
future, she finds a
position for herself as a
nursemaid at Hungerton
House. But just as she
begins to find her feet,
the secrets of her past
are revealed. She is
swiftly dismissed but not
before she becomes the
target of a lascivious
groom. And even
afterwards she is pursued
by Hungerton, an evil
old man who wishes to
send her back to the
gutters. She returns home
to Hedderby, only to
find the small Lancashire
town reeling after the
arson attack on the local
pub and music hall, The
Pride. Her only ally is a
talented carpenter, also
once employed by
Hungerton. His former
employer will stop at
nothing, however, to
bring him back to the
estate. Will money buy
revenge and destroy two
lives, or will the young
lovers find a way to
achieve their dreams?
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The town of Rossmore is a
special place, full of
character and charm.
Nestled beside the
Whitethorn Woods, the
town has grown since the
days when it was small
and friendly and everyone
knew everyone else. But
it still has the woods,
with the well dedicated
to St Ann, where
generations have come to
pray or make wishes or
just to look back at the
pretty little town. Which
is why there is going to
be such a fuss about the
plans for the new road,
cutting through
Whitethorn Woods. The
people of Rossmore are
divided. No one is more
concerned than the
curate, Father Brian
Flynn, who has no idea
which faction to support.
Surely Neddy Nolan's
family should take the
compensation being
offered for their land?
But wasn't Neddy's mother
given a cure at the well
many years ago? And what
about the childless
London woman who came to
Whitethorn Woods begging
the saint for help, with
unexpected consequences?
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In the violent country of
Ludania, the classes are
strictly divided by the
language they speak. The
smallest transgression
results in immediate
execution. 17-year old
Charlaina has always been
able to understand the
languages of all classes,
and she's spent her life
trying to hide her
secret. The only place
she can really be free is
in the underground clubs
where people go to shake
off the oppressive rules
of the world they live
in. It's there that she
meets a beautiful and
mysterious boy named Max
who speaks a language
she's never heard before.
..and her secret is
almost exposed. Charlie
is intensely attracted to
Max, even though she
can't be sure where his
real loyalties lie. As
the emergency drills give
way to real crisis and
the violence escalates,
it becomes clear that
Charlie is the key to
something much bigger:
her country's only chance
for freedom from the
terrible power of a
deadly regime.
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A wonderfully
entertaining
riches-to-rags story with
the glitz of a celebrity
mag expose, mixed with
an old-fashioned tale of
comeuppance and self
discovery. Meet Charlotte
Williams! Rich,
gorgeous, blonde and a
talented singer, she has
everything going for her.
Spoiled and indulged,
her life has always
revolved around fashion,
gossip, partying and
men. When Charlotte's
father -- her only family
since her mother's tragic
death years ago -- is
arrested on fraud
charges, her glittering
world shatters around
her. Alone and penniless,
she must make her own
way for the very first
time. Harassed by
paparazzi and the
outraged victims of her
father's crimes,
Charlotte flees to New
Orleans to escape the
scandal. But what happens
when a Park Avenue
Princess is forced to
fend for herself? How
will she adapt to the Big
Easy's bohemian
lifestyle? And in the
face of anonymous death
threats, can she keep
herself out of danger?
From the stylish avenues
of Manhattan and dark
clubs of the French
Quarter to the bright
lights of Los Angeles,
Nicole Richie's
scintillating tale shows
that the very life you
run from is the one that
won't let you hide.
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Annie Cross has few
pleasures in her tough
life. On the bleak family
farm on the Essex
marshlands, she slaves
all day for her cruel
father. The one thing
that keeps her going is
her secret meetings with
Tom Featherstone. But War
steals Tom from her when
he joins the RAF. Annie
would love to do her bit
but stuck on the farm,
she lives for Tom's
letters - until they stop
coming. When, against
the odds, her beloved
Tom returns, he finds a
different, stronger
Annie to the one he left
behind. But he also finds
the girl he loved is
carrying another man's
child...
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Photographer and
conservationist Bryant
Austin had long searched
for an impactful way to
inspire change in whaling
nations. For many years,
he searched for a way to
photograph whales in the
wild that would capture
their awe inspiring
beauty, grace and
intelligence. A chance
encounter with a humpback
calf and mother finally
opened Austin's eyes and
helped him to develop a
novel way of producing
high resolution, life
size photography of these
astounding creatures.
Spending weeks with
groups of whales off
Tonga, Dominica, and
the Great Barrier Reef in
Australia, Austin
immerses himself in the
water for many hours each
day, waiting patiently
for whales to approach
him. He remains
motionless, allowing
humpback, sperm and
minke whales that are
sometimes 100 feet in
length and weigh as much
as 55 tons to come within
ten feet of him. This
allows him to create
detailed, intimate
portraits of his
subjects. Austin's first
book, Beautiful Whale
presents remarkable close
ups of whales, including
a special focus on their
eyes, as well as full
body portraits created by
compiling hundreds of
images. The book includes
a foreword by
oceanographer Dr. Sylvia
Earle.
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The chilling, ghostly
account of a doctor who
is determined to find
light in a lifeless body.
Patient DL lies
motionless in a small
room at the end of a
hospital corridor. She
has suffered massive
damage to her brain, and
it's not clear whether
she can see or hear the
world around her. When
Sarah Newman, the
narrator of this ghostly
tale, is charged with
finding a spark of light
in her lifeless body,
she is drawn into a drama
which extends far beyond
the hospital walls. What
accident befell DL to
cause her such massive
brain damage? Why does
her family behave in such
unsettling and perplexing
ways? Why is DL's
estranged husband
visiting the patient
after hours, in the dead
of night? And what is
troubling the narrator
herself, who seems to
carry a burden from her
past? As the tension
builds and the strange
case of Patient DL
becomes known to the
outside world, Sarah
Newman finds herself at
the heart of a personal
and an ethical dilemma.
'The Quick 'is the
thrilling account of an
obsession, charged
throughout with a sense
of the mystery of
consciousness. It heralds
the arrival of a major
new talent.
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The year is 1016 and
England burns while the
Viking armies blockade
the great city of London.
King Ethelred lies dying
and the England he knew
dies with him; the
warring kingdoms of
Mercia, Wessex and
Northymbria tremble on
the brink of great
change. One man lives to
bear witness to the
upheaval: Godwin, barely
out of boyhood and
destined to become one of
his country's great
warriors. When Ethelred's
son Edmund takes the
throne, determined to
succeed where his father
failed, he plucks Godwin
from domestic peace to be
right-hand man in his
loyal shield wall. Godwin
must traverse the
meadows, wintry forests
and fogbound marshes of
Saxon England, raising
armies of monks,
ploughmen and shepherds
against the Viking
invader. With epic
courage and ferocity,
Godwin and Edmund repel
the butchering Danes in
three great battles. But
an old enemy, the
treacherous Earl Eadric,
dogs Godwin's footsteps,
and as the final battle
approaches, around the
valiant English the trap
begins to close.
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Hailed by the critics as
a masterpiece, Tatty is
a devastating, yet
hilarious, depiction of
a troubled Dublin family
told through the lively,
charismatic voice of a
little girl. With brutal
honesty, Tatty tells the
story of her life with
her beloved, feckless
Dad, her tormented Mam,
her five siblings and the
booze that brings them
down. This not just an
entertaining tale, but
also a heartbreaking
account of a disturbed
childhood that makes for
compulsive reading.
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Failed Shadowknight Tylar
witnessed the death of a
god, whose blood healed
his deformities but
branded him a Godslayer
and a hunted criminal. In
this second volume of the
trilogy, Tylar's
struggle for the truth is
vindicated when he is
officially reinstated as
a Shadowknight. Yet this
is a trap, revealed as
Naethyn forces flow from
the Ice Eyrie to wage a
deadly siege, trapping
Tylar and his friends.
But even Tylar's skill
and magic cannot save the
Citadel of Tashijan,
ancient Shadowknight
headquarters, for
something foul lies at
the heart of their Order.
The Cabal has infiltrated
the inner council and
Tylar and his allies must
flee for now there can be
no refuge from evil.
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Matthew Viss just wants
to help. That's all he
ever wanted...So it's
lucky he works at The
Greatest Gift - the
city's premier concierge
service. A godsend to
stressed-out, time-poor
executives, The Greatest
Gift allows them to
outsource partically
every element of their
lives, including their
families. Whether they
need a limo to the
airport, a name for
their dog, or someone to
run their whole life,
Matthew can help. And
he'll do it with a smile.
But what starts out as
the perfect job soon
becomes a nightmare that
ends in Matthew's
devastating downfall.
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'I was upstairs with a
girl I shouldn't have
been upstairs with when
my wife whispered in my
ear, 'You have
twenty-four hours to move
out'. The book that
started it all,
Bateman's first novel
published in 1995. It
introduced the world to
the hapless, endlessly
wily and witty Belfast
journalist Dan Starkey.
Dan shares with his wife
an appetite for drinking
and dancing. But when he
meets Margaret, things
get seriously out of
hand. Terrifyingly,
unbelievably, she is
murdered. Before long Dan
is a target himself,
racing against time to
crack the mystery.
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'I didn't realize he was
a werewolf at first. My
nose isn't at its best
when surrounded by axle
grease and burnt oil.. .'
Mercedes Thompson runs a
garage in the Tri-Cities.
She's a mechanic, and a
damn good one, who
spends her spare time
karate training and
tinkering with a VW bus
that happens to belong to
a vampire. Her next-door
neighbour is an alpha
werewolf - literally,
the leader of the pack.
And Mercy herself is a
shapeshifter, sister to
coyotes. As such, she's
tolerated by the 'wolves
but definitely down the
pecking order. As long as
she keeps her eyes down
and remembers her place,
the pack will leave her
in peace. Hardly a normal
situation, but then,
Mercy Thompson is not
exactly normal
herself...and her
connection to the world
of things that go bump in
the night is about to get
her into a whole lot of
trouble.
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1809 - Returning to
England after the
dramatic capture of
Martinique, Vice-Admiral
Sir Richard Bolitho finds
all too brief respite
from war and politics in
the arms of his mistress,
Lady Catherine
Somerville, But the
shadow of a new conflict
already darkens the
horizon. France has
forged an uneasy alliance
with America. Together,
they threaten Britain's
trade routes. Bolitho is
ordered immediately into
the Indian Ocean, but,
even though he is his
country's newest Admiral,
for the first time
Bolitho begins to ponder
whether there might be
life beyond the sea.
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A girl with a gun fights
for survival in the
American wilderness, in
a tale that will enthral
fans of The Hunger Games
and True Grit. After the
violent death of her
father, in which she is
complicit, Margo Crane
takes to the Stark River
in her boat, with only a
few supplies and a
biography of Annie
Oakley, in search of her
vanished mother. But the
river, Margo's childhood
paradise, is a dangerous
place for a young woman
travelling alone, and
she must be strong to
survive, using her
knowledge of the natural
world and her ability to
look unsparingly into the
hearts of those around
her. Her river odyssey
through rural Michigan
becomes a defining
journey, one that leads
her beyond
self-preservation and to
deciding what price she
is willing to pay for her
choices.
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Heddy Partridge was never
my friend. I have to
start with that. Heddy
Partridge was never my
friend because I was
pretty, popular, clever
and blonde and my friends
were pretty, popular,
clever and generally
blonde, too. Heddy
Partridge was none of
these things. Laura
Hamley is the woman who
has everything: a loving
and successful husband,
two beautiful children,
an expensive home and a
set of equally fortunate
friends. But Lauras
perfect world is suddenly
threatened when she
receives an unwelcome
phone call from Mrs
Partridge, mother of
Heddy ? the girl Laura
and her friends bullied
mercilessly at school.
Heddy has been
hospitalized following a
mental breakdown, and
Mrs Partridge wants
Laura's help to get her
released. As Laura
reluctantly gets drawn
back into the past, she
is forced to face the
terrible consequences of
her cruelty. But, as her
secrets are revealed, so
too is another even more
devastating truth, and
the perfect world Laura
has so carefully
constructed for herself
begins to fall apart.
This Perfect World is the
debut novel from a
brilliant dark new voice.
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No. 1 international
bestseller and Swedish
crime sensation Camilla
Lackberg's new
psychological thriller -
irresistible for fans of
Stieg Larsson and Jo
Nesbo. Mats Sverin was
Fjallbacka's financial
director on a
regeneration project
worth millions. When he
is found murdered,
Detective Patrik Hedstrom
must find answers. It
seems Mats was a man who
everybody liked yet
nobody really knew - a
man with something to
hide...Is it just a
coincidence that his high
school sweetheart,
Nathalie, has returned
to the area? What does
she know about who Mats
really was? However,
Nathalie has her own
secret. Something has
made her and her
five-year-old son flee to
their remote family home
on the 'Ghost Isle'. And
that is where she'll stay
and shield her son from
the evils of the world.
But, as the murder
investigation draws a
blank, the police have
to dig deeper - and
before long, everyone's
lives will be dragged
into the light.. .
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Annie Delancey is happily
married with three grown
children. But she guards
a secret. Aged eighteen
she had a baby boy, and
gave him up for adoption.
Out of the blue, she
receives an
official-looking letter
from Social Services. Her
son wants to make
contact. As the son she
has never known comes
back into her life, his
presence begins to expose
the cracks in the family
that Annie now has to
try, desperately, to
hold together.
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Orphaned by an act of
senseless violence that
took their mother from
them, half-brothers
Clarence Luckman and
Elliott Danziger have
been raised in state
institutions, unaware of
any world outside. But
their lives take a sudden
turn when they are seized
as hostages by a
convicted killer en route
to death row. Earl
Sheridan is a psychopath
of the worst kind, but
he has the potential to
change the boys' lives
for ever. As the trio set
off on a frenetic escape
from the law through
California and Texas,
the two brothers must
come to terms with the
ever-growing tide of
violence that follows in
their wake - something
that forces them to make
a choice about their
lives, and their
relationship to one
another.
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It is Spring 1944 but
noone realises yet that
the end is in sight. For
the four friends their
world has changed
absolutely in five years,
friends have been
killed, love has been
lost, it seems that this
terrible world of
violence and seperation
will continue forever. In
one moment Richard makes
a mistake behind enemy
lines that causes
devastating tragedy.
Rose, performing for the
troops crossing France,
at last finds a man she
feels she can love and is
forced to make the most
difficult decision of her
life. Merry's lover is
returned to him from the
jaws of death only to be
seperated from him by the
demands of the future. In
war and peace, in joy
and despair, life
continues - but never as
you may expect.
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What happens when a life
implodes? When a
respected older man, a
product of the liberated
1970s, is incapable of
cleaning up his act for
the twenty-first century?
When he pursues sex with
a rabidity his body and
his reputation can no
longer sustain? In this
collection, which
features two new,
previously unpublished
stories, Edmund White
explores different
aspects of ageing,
romance and sex. Taking
an unsparing look at gay
midlife, these stories
are not fiction devoted
to the dim splendours and
miseries of the past but
rather to the unsettling,
irresistible claims of
the present. Age remains
one of the great taboos
of gay culture, but
Edmund White, as
iconoclastic as ever,
writes about maturity
with the same precision
and insight he brought to
adolescence in A Boy's
Own Story. Edmund White
has always been the ideal
travelling companion, as
he demonstrated in The
Flaneur; here, he
invites the reader to
accompany him to Florida,
the Greek Isles, and
Turkey - and into the
chaotic gay demimonde of
contemporary New York.
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Whether he's wearing a
bear suit that's slightly
too small for him,
cloaked in mystery as a
fortune teller or
unwillingly attired in
the robes of a Fairy
Queen, William is
unmistakably himself:
trouble in human form.
Only Great-Aunt Jane
manages to take William
on at his own game - and
win!
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Ethan Jarlewski and five
co-workers whose surnames
end in 'J' are
bureaucratically marooned
in JPod. JPod is a
no-escape architectural
limbo on the fringes of a
massive Vancouver game
design company. The six
workers daily confront
the forces that define
our era: global piracy,
boneheaded marketing
staff, people smuggling,
the rise of China,
marijuana grow-ops, Jeff
Probst, and the ashes of
the 1990s financial tech
dream. JPod's universe is
amoral and shameless. The
characters are products
of their era even as
they're creating it.
Everybody in Ethan's life
inhabits a moral grey
zone. Nobody is exempt,
not even his seemingly
straitlaced parents or
Coupland himself. Full of
word games, visual jokes
and sideways jabs, this
book throws a sharp,
pointed lawn dart into
the heart of contemporary
life.
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Medusa is Clive Cussler's
eighth NUMA files novel
featuring hero Kurt
Austin. In the
Micronesian Islands, a
top-secret US undersea
lab vanishes... At the
same time, off Bermuda,
a bathysphere operated by
NUMA and overseen by Kurt
Austin is attacked and
becomes stranded half a
mile below the surface.
Only quick thinking and
bold action will save the
crew - which includes the
head of a certain,
now-missing undersea lab
- from a watery grave.
Austin is convinced both
events are connected,
and he puts NUMA on the
case. Soon he's
uncovering some hideous
medical experiments and
evidence of a terrifying
virus that could be used
to create a worldwide
pandemic. Behind it all
lies an ambitious Chinese
criminal organization
prepared to commit mass
murder to achieve its
ends. Now Austin must put
his life on the line in
order that millions will
be saved from death...
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Details: Rosie finds it
hard to cope with her
eldest sister's
over-possessive nature.
Since the death of their
mother Beatrice has been
insufferably dominating,
taking over the running
of the house and ruling
their father and servants
with an iron hand. She
glories in being the
mistress at Pine Hurst
and never dreams of
leaving. But when the
girls' father dies
unexpectedly their
security is threatened,
and Beatrice must lay
plans to protect this
most prized possession.
Ideal for: Fans of
contemporary fiction
books and fans of novels
by Catherine Cookson.
This paperback book has
476 pages and measures:
17.7 x 10.7 x 3cm
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The new novel from the
Orange Prize-winning
author of We Need to Talk
About Kevin. When Pandora
picks up her older
brother Edison at her
local Iowa airport, she
literally doesn't
recognize him. The once
slim, hip New York jazz
pianist has gained
hundreds of pounds. What
happened? Soon Edison's
slovenly habits,
appalling diet, and
know-it-all monologues
are driving Pandora and
her fitness-freak husband
Fletcher insane. After
the brother-in-law has
more than overstayed his
welcome, Fletcher
delivers his wife an
ultimatum: it's him or
me. Rich with Shriver's
distinctive wit and
ferocious energy, Big
Brother is about fat: why
we overeat and whether
extreme diets ever really
work. It asks just how
much sacrifice we'll make
to save single members of
our families, and
whether it's ever
possible to save loved
ones from themselves.
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An extraordinary cast of
characters play out their
dramas amongst the chaos
of the emerging modern
world. Jamaica 1909.
Millionaire Silas Whittam
is struggling to bring
his dream of a luxury
hotel to life. Hes
relieved when his sister,
Eve, arrives - basking
in the success of her
Yorkshire pies and
puddings business. But as
Eve befriends the staff,
secrets hidden by Silas
begin to emerge. In
England, the Earl and
Countess of Netherwood
try to hide their empty
marriage, as they enjoy
the whirlwind of the
London season. Yet the
Earls suffragette sister,
Lady Henrietta, could
disgrace them all. And
for new Labour MP Amos
Sykes, times are tough.
Especially with his wife
decorating the homes of
the very aristocrats he
would like to see ruined.
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Every family has a story.
Mal was ours. He was
always different from the
other kids. Larger than
life. Trips to pantomimes
were ruined by him
stripping off his
clothes. But people loved
him. Especially Lou; it
seemed like their love
would last forever. Then
something happened that
changed everything.. .Mal
grew up.
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The fabulously addictive
new novel from No. 1
bestselling author Sheila
O'Flanagan. When
high-flying journalist
Sheridan Gray loses her
job, her boyfriend and
her flat, she knows she
must pick herself up and
make a new start. But how
will she adjust to
small-town living and
local reporting?
Meanwhile, home-loving
Nina Fallon's life is
shattered when the
exploits of her actor
husband become national
news. Now she's avoiding
friends as she runs
Ardbawn's guesthouse on
her own. When Sheridan
moves into Ardbawn, she
realises Nina holds the
key to a story that will
make her name as a
reporter again. But as
she gets closer to the
truth, Sheridan risks
jeopardising her
relationship with the man
she has come to love. Is
she better off going it
alone? Or is love the
greatest prize of all?
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Robbie is an ordinary
Dublin boy until he hurts
his head in an accident
on St Patrick's Day. His
injury changes
everything. When he
returns to conciousness,
Robbie believes that God
has given him the power
to perform miracles. At
first he contents himself
with winning the
spot-the-ball competition
in the newspaper, but
when he sent to hospital
for 'observation' he
decides to cure the other
boys of their various
ailments. Then tragedy
strikes closer to home
and Robbie needs all his
powers to keep his world
intact.
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Behaving badly made Lydia
feel better. She hoped
she wasn't turning into
one of those maniacs who
murder people in order to
establish their
superiority over their
fellows who say Please
and Thank you and conform
to the basic customs of
society. Recovering from
a love affair gone wrong,
Lydia retreats to the
Welsh countryside,
leaving behind her
sophisticated friends,
but accidentally inviting
Betty, the human
equivalent of sackcloth
and ashes, as her
companion. There they
encounter Hywel, a dour
farmer, Elizabeth, his
nervous wife, the
aspiring priest Beuno,
Hywel's brother, and
randy Doctor Wyn.
Meanwhile Hywel's strange
sister Angharad roams the
land, observing all,
while Lydia is
increasingly unnerved by
the unexplained laughter
that comes down from the
hills.
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When Hetty Huggins made a
promise to her dying
mother that she would
look after her younger
sister and brothers,
little did she know how
difficult this would be.
But despite the threat of
being turned out onto the
streets by the
unscrupulous tallyman and
the never-ending struggle
just to exist, Hetty is
determined her family
will never starve or want
for a roof over their
heads. Longing for
something better out of
life than the daily grind
of making matchboxes for
a pittance, she dreams
of setting up her own
business. With the help
of friends she sells hot
potatoes on the streets
and things begin to look
up for them all. But when
the tallyman comes
calling, they are faced
once more with a future
full of hardship and
despair.
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On a late August night a
young man is kicked to
death outside a Dublin
nightclub and celebration
turns to devastation. The
reverberations of that
event, its genesis and
aftermath, are the
subject of this
extraordinary story,
stripping away the veneer
of a generation of Celtic
cubs, whose social and
sexual mores are
chronicled and dissected
in this tract for our
times. The victim, Conor
Harris, his killers -
three of them are charged
with manslaughter - and
the trial judge share
common childhoods and
schooling in the
privileged echelons of
south Dublin suburbia.
The intertwining of these
lives leaves their
afflicted families in
moral free fall as public
exposure merges with
private anguish and
imploded futures.
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August Chalmin feels the
weather like no one else.
A large awkward recluse,
with bright orange hair
and sun-shy eyes, August
hides himself away behind
the counter of a
Shepherd's Bush deli. One
winter's day two things
change his life forever:
his mother's ex-lover
Cosmo shambles back into
his life, and he
discovers a rash on his
arm which looks like
frost. A rash which is
frost. As Cosmo raises
questions about August's
identity, August finds
himself changing with the
seasons, in a journey
that takes him deep into
his past and to the very
centre of his soul...
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In her Muslim hijab,
with her down-turned
gaze, Najwa is invisible
to most eyes, especially
to the rich London
families whose houses she
cleans. But twenty years
earlier, it was a
different story. Najwa
was at university in
Khartoum and, as an
upper-class westernized
Sudanese, and her dreams
were to marry well and
raise a family. However,
those days of innocence
came to an abrupt end and
tough years followed. Now
Najwa finds solace in her
visits to the Mosque,
the companionship of the
Muslims she meets there,
and in the hijab she
adopts. Her dreams may
have shattered, but her
awakening to Islam has
given her a different
peace. Then Najwa meets a
younger man and slowly
they begin to fall in
love.
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A new war is
dawning...For millennia,
the vampires walked the
earth undetected,
feasting on humans in
keeping with ancient
tradition. In the
Information Age,
vampires realised they
must be more careful to
avoid detection. In the
late 20th century they
created the global
Vampire Federation to
police vampire activity,
with special agents like
Alex Bishop authorised to
hunt down her own kind
who break the laws. The
old traditions are
history. But not all
vampires bow down to
Federation rule. When
rebel vampire Gabriel
Stone declares war
against them, Alex and
her team are plunged into
danger. Police inspector
Joel Solomon, haunted by
a secret terror of
vampires, discovers a
series of corpses left
behind by Stone's
bloodthirsty gang. As he
and Alex are drawn
together in an unlikely
alliance between human
and vampire, the race
begins to destroy the
evil Stone before his
uprising tears their
world apart.
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From a prison cell, in
which he has been held on
suspicion of breaking the
Official Secrets Act,
Charles Thoroughgood
awaits not only his bail,
but also the
reappearance of the woman
whom all the major roads
in his life have led back
to. After his years in
the army and then with
MI6, Charles has begun a
new chapter in his life
with the Secret
Intelligence Agency,
shadowing the movements
of a suspected double
agent. Charles knows that
he has nothing to hide,
and as he casts his mind
over the course of recent
events, he begins to
suspect a more sinister
motivation, both
personally and
politically, behind his
incarceration...
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Longlisted for the Man
Asian Literary Prize and
a modern Chinese classic
with over one million
copies sold. Sisters Tiao
and Fan grew up in the
shadow of the Cultural
Revolution where they
witnessed ritual
humiliation and
suffering. They also
witnessed the death of
their baby sister in a
tragic accident. It was
an accident they could
have prevented; an
accident that will stay
with them forever. In the
China of the 1990s the
sisters lead seemingly
successful lives. Tiao is
a successful children's
publisher but incapable
of finding love. Fan has
moved to America,
desperate to shun her
Chinese heritage. Then
there is their childhood
friend Fei: beautiful,
hedonistic and outwardly
ambitious. As the women
grapple with love,
rivalry and past secrets
will they find the
freedom and redemption
they crave? Spellbinding,
unforgettable, and an
important chronicle of
modern China, The
Bathing Women is a
powerful and beautiful
portrait of the strength
of female friendship in
the face of adversity.
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The End of the world is
here?Unlocking those
secrets of the 'Seven
Ancient Wonders' was only
the beginning. The planet
is still in mortal
danger. For Jack West Jr
and his loyal team of
heroes. The challenge now
is to set six fabulous
diamonds, known as 'the
Pillars', in place at
six ancient sights around
the world before the
deadline for global
destruction arrives. The
precise locations of
these sites, however,
can only be revealed by
the legendary Six Sacred
Stones. Thier quest will
involve the terrifying
hijack of a mountain top
railway in remotest
China, a midnight
expedition to unlock the
secrets of Stonehenge, a
headlong chase across the
deserts of Egypt,
involving trucks, jeeps
and a crippled 747, and
a terrfying journey into
the dark realm of an
African tribe long
forgotten by time. With
only riddles of ancient
writers to guide them,
and time rapidly running
out, Jack and his team
must fight their way past
traps, labyrinths and a
host of deadly enelies -
knowing that this time
they cannot - they must
not fail.
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'I woke up in a cold
sweat, knowing for a
definite fact that death
was a teenage girl and
that she had been
standing silently by my
bed during the night...'
Jim Beaudry, or Biscuit
as he's known, is a
teenage boy trying to
stay out of trouble. But
trouble has a way of
finding him. Especially
after his cousin L.A.
turns up on his doorstep.
When one summer afternoon
Biscuit and L.A. discover
the body of a teenage
girl in the Texas
wilderness, an
investigation begins that
will put both of their
lives in grave danger.
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Details: For
seventeen-year-old Brid
Stevens, the day began
with such promise. At
four o?clock on a summer
morning, her alarm clock
roused her from a
dream-filled sleep. She
had an appointment to
keep with Joe Lloyd whom
she had met at the weekly
dance. On the cliff-top
at Stockwell Hill,
overlooking the sea,
they were to watch the
sun come up. But upon her
return home, where she
lived with her parents
and her brother, all
hell was let loose. Harry
Palmer was also there,
fresh from telling his
tale of the lovers? tryst
he said he had witnessed.
Brid and Joe, he
claimed, had spent the
night together, there on
the cliff-top. What was
to occur after that would
bring the day to a
horrifying end, as
family and friends of all
concerned displayed their
prejudices and made their
own judgements. The
events of this powerful
novel, set on the
Northumbrian coast in the
1960s, take place over
one day, a period during
which everyone involved
discovers that the
consequences of an
innocent meeting between
two young people are far
more significant than the
event itself. Ideal for:
Fans of contemporary
fictions books and fans
of novels by Catherine
Cookson. This paperback
book has 251 pages and
measures: 17.7 x 10.5 x
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Take your partners,
please. Suburban witches,
defiant old ladies,
ageing monsters,
suicidal Lottery winners,
wolf men, dolphin women
and middle-aged
manufacturers of erotic
leatherwear: in these
twenty-two short stories
from the author of "Holy
Fools" and "Five Quarters
of the Orange", the
miraculous goes
hand-in-hand with the
mundane, the sour with
the sweet, and the
beautiful, the
grotesque, the seductive
and the disturbing are
never more than one step
away. "Jigs and Reels" is
Joanne Harris' first
collection of short
stories. As she says in
her foreword, a good
short story can startle,
ignite, and
illuminate...giving you
vivid, anarchic glimpses
into different worlds,
different people. Here,
she proves she is as good
as her word by creating
an eclectic selection of
tales for our times that
will delight, surprise,
entertain and horrify in
equal measure. Sly,
funny, sometimes
provocative but always
personal, Jigs and Reels
shows a side to Joanne
Harris you have never
seen before. So go on,
be tempted. After all,
it's only dancing.
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With the death of a
mother and the abduction
of a young girl, Susan
Fletcher has written a
vividly beautiful novel
about the innocence and
terror of childhood which
will be repackaged and
promoted as part of
Perennial's fiction
promotion in 2008.
Following the loss of her
mother, eight-year-old
Evie is sent to a new
life in rural Wales -- a
dripping place, where
flowers appear
mysteriously on doorsteps
and people look at her
twice. With a sense of
being lied to she sets
out to discover her
family's dark secret --
unaware that there is yet
more darkness to come
with the sinister
disappearance of local
girl Rosemary Hughes. Now
many years later Eve
Green is waiting for the
birth of her own child,
and when she revisits her
past something clicks in
her mind and her own
reckless role in the hunt
for Rosie's abductor is
revealed! A truly
beautiful and hypnotic
first novel, this is
both an engaging puzzle
and an enchanting work of
literature.
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MILDRED PIERCE is the
story of a determined and
ambitious woman who,
after her feckless
husband abandons her,
builds a successful
business through hard
work and sacrifice in
order to ensure the
future of her pampered
and selfish daughter. But
she isn't prepared for
the intrigues and
devastating betrayals of
those closest to her.
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Set in the 1980s and 90s,
in Cardiff, London and
America, Richard tells
the story of Richard
Edwards as he might have
told it. A story of hope
and despair in equal
measure, it's an account
of an unhappy young man
who'll try anything and
everything to get some
peace from the voice in
his head that tells him
he's useless, that he'd
be better off dead. He
drinks, takes risks and
drugs both, and even
cuts himself sometimes,
because physical pain can
be easier to bear than
emotional. He can't play
a musical instrument,
but that doesn't stop him
from joining a band - and
as that band becomes more
and more successful
(record deals and
interviews in the music
press; national and
international tours, and
managers who seem to have
bottomless pockets), it
seems he might just be
okay after all. But the
demons that nag at him
won't be easily assuaged,
and ultimately, he has
to decide whether or not
he has a future. The
story of a band looking
to make it big and a
young, troubled soul
looking just to make it
through the night,
Richard marks the arrival
of a dazzling new talent.
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Does for the music
industry what The Devil
Wears Prada did for
fashion. Does for the
music industry what The
Devil Wears Prada did for
fashion. By day, Zoe
Kidd lives a tedious
existence, following
orders and trying to
appease her parents. By
night, she's the raucous
lead singer of all-girl
rock band, Dirty Money.
For six years, Dirty
Money has toured the
London scene, playing
pubs, clubs, shopping
centres and the odd
public toilet. They're
gifted, they're
beautiful and they're
determined to make it to
the top. So when the
American hit-maker Louis
Castle appears at one of
their gigs with talk of
record deals and stadium
tours, it seems as
though their dreams are
finally beginning to come
true. But fame turns out
to be more elusive and
divisive than any of the
girls could imagine! The
Fame Factor is a
fast-moving story of
friendship, resilience
and revelation, exposing
the darker side to an
industry obsessed with
the limelight.
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From the author of the
million copy bestselling
The Devil Wears Prada.
Heartbreak, headlines
and Hermes - welcome to
Brooke's new
world...Brooke and Julian
live a happy life in New
York - she's the
breadwinner working two
jobs and he's the
struggling musician
husband. Then Julian is
discovered by a Sony exec
and becomes an overnight
success - and their life
changes forever. Soon
they are moving in
exclusive circles,
dining at the glitziest
restaurants, attending
the most outrageous
parties in town and
jetting off to the
trendiest hotspots in LA.
But Julian's new-found
fame means that Brooke
must face the savage
attentions of the
ruthless paparazzi. And
when a scandalous picture
hits the front pages,
Brooke's world is turned
upside down. Can her
marriage survive the
events of that fateful
night at Chateau Marmont?
It's time for Brooke to
decide if she's going to
sink or swim...
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A cross between 'The
Memory-Keeper's Daughter'
and 'The Sixth Sense',
this mesmerising first
novel takes the reader
into a world of secrets,
confused identities,
lies and half-truths,
culminating in an
extraordinary twist.
Would knowing the future
be a gift or a burden? Or
even a curse!? The
Whitney women of Salem,
Massachusetts are
renowned for reading the
future in the patterns of
lace. But the future
doesn't always bring good
news -- as Towner Whitney
knows all too well. When
she was just fifteen her
gift sent her whole world
crashing to pieces. She
predicted -- and then
witnessed - something so
horrific that she vowed
never to read lace again,
and fled her home and
family for good. Salem is
a place of ghosts for
Towner, and she swore
she would never return.
Yet family is a powerful
tie. So it is that
fifteen years later,
Towner finds herself back
in Salem. Her beloved
Great Aunt Eva has
suddenly disappeared --
and when you've lived a
life like Eva's, that
could mean real trouble.
But Salem is wreathed in
sickly shadows and
whispered half-memories.
It's fast becoming clear
that the ghosts of
Towner's fractured past
have not been brought
fully into the light. And
with them comes the
threat of terrifying new
disaster. A literary
page-turner with depth,
narrative power and a
story that novels like
'The Thirteenth Tale' can
only dream of, 'The Lace
Reader' is a bewitching
and tightly plotted read.
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On 12 CD's. Leaving
behind her forensic
pathology practice in
South Carolina, Kay
Scarpetta takes up an
assignment in New York
City, where the NYPD has
asked her to examine an
injured patient in a
psychiatric ward. The
handcuffed and chained
patient, Oscar Bane,
has specifically asked
for her, and he begins
to talk. He says his
injuries were sustained
in the course of a
murder...that he did not
commit. Is Bane a
criminally insane stalker
who has fixed on
Scarpetta? Or is his
paranoid tale true, and
it is he who is being
spied on, followed and
stalked by the actual
killer? The only thing
Scarpetta knows for
certain is that a woman
has been tortured and
murdered - and that more
violent deaths will
follow...Since the
publication of
'Postmortem', Patricia
Cornwell and her creation
Kay Scarpetta have become
household names and
bywords for the best in
crime fiction all over
the world.
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The stunning conclusion
to the KINGMAKER,
KINGBREAKER series.
Prince Gar now has the
magic for Weather Working
and is able to keep his
enemies at bay, while
Asher has become the most
powerful Olken in the
history of Lur. For them
peace and prosperity seem
assured. But Morg, the
evil sorcerer mage,
remains trapped inside a
shattered body. He knows
his time is running out
and that desperate
measures are called for.
Unwittingly, Gar and
Asher become caught up in
a dangerous deception
which threatens to tear
apart the kingdom and
destroy the fragile
balance between Olken and
Doranen. And no-one, not
even Dathne and her
secret Circle, is
prepared for the
consequences when the
Innocent Mage is revealed
at last...
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High comedy as only
Muriel Spark can write
it--witty, precise, and
illuminated by moral
inquiry. From a young
woman who strangely
attracts violent death,
to delightfully mad Uncle
Magnus, to the hilarious
Sisters of Good Hope,
the cast of characters
move through the
ingenious plot at
dizzying speed, and
readers are once again in
the hands of a master
stylist.
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A novel of extraordinary
power and imagination,
FOREST took you to the
centre of a terrible
future and showed you
that even there the
hardest decisions are the
decisions of the heart. A
companion novel, THE
DEAD TOSSED WAVES,
followed in Spring 2010
and this novel will
continue Ryan's superb
story. Perfect for
readers looking for their
next injection of
supernatural thrills and
dread, the series has
already proved to be a
word-of-mouth sensation,
powered by extraordinary
internet activity.
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It is the late 1940s in
rural Ireland, and
Kathleen Steele has been
prematurely thrust into
adulthood by the death of
her twin sister, Nuala.
Debilitated by grief,
their mother has
descended into a state of
near-catatonia, and it
is left to Kathleen to
care for her younger
siblings, and her
taciturn father. When a
traumatised young man,
Joseph Foley,
mysteriously appears in
the small farming
community, a tentative
love affair develops. But
as Mrs Steele's illness
deepens, Kathleen's
relationship with her
father grows ever more
disturbing. When Kathleen
agrees to marry Joseph,
her mother begins to
regain her health. But by
then it has become clear
that the events of the
intervening years will
cast a dark shadow over
the new generation.
Tender and unblinking,
The Road to the Sea is a
novel about faith and
fidelity, about the
heart's ability to break,
and to heal. A paean to
the lost landscapes and
communities of Ireland,
and a meditation on the
responsibilities of
parents, this is an
exquisite debut from a
young novelist of great
promise.
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The book that inspired
the movie Field of
Dreams. The voice of a
baseball announcer tells
the Iowa farmer Ray
Kinsella: "If you build
it, he will come." "He"
is Shoeless Joe Jackson,
Ray's hero. "It" is a
baseball stadium which
Ray carves out of his
cornfield. Like the movie
FIELD OF DREAMS that was
made from this novel,
SHOELESS JOE is about
baseball. But it's also
about love and the power
of dreams to make people
come alive...
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John and Naomi Klaesson
are grieving the death of
their four-year-old son
from a rare genetic
disorder. They
desperately want another
child, but when they
find out they are both
carriers of a rogue gene,
they realize the odds of
their next child
contracting the disease
are high. Then they hear
about geneticist Doctor
Leo Dettore. He has
methods that can spare
them the heartache of
ever losing another child
to any disease - even if
his methods cost more
than they can afford. His
clinic is where their
nightmare begins. They
should have realized that
something was wrong when
they saw the list.
Choices of eye colour,
hair, sporting
abilities. They can
literally design their
child. Now it's too late
to turn back. Naomi is
pregnant, and already
something is badly
wrong...
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Details: Love isn?t meant
to be perfect? Except
when it is Some things
are worth waiting for?
This is the book you?ve
been waiting to read
since you put down One
Day and Fifty Shades of
Grey. Some things are
worth experiencing? ?Cam
stole my heart? ?One of
the most endearing,
touching and fun
friends-to-lovers I?ve
read? ?Gripping ? the
sweetest yet hottest
romance? And some things
are worth fighting for?
Avery knows she should
stay away from Cam
Hamilton: he might be the
hottest guy on campus but
she really doesn?t need
that sort of drama right
now. Love is best left in
the past ? along with her
troubles. But sometimes,
the last thing that you
want is just the thing
you need? Ideal for: Fans
of contemporary fiction
books.
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The Man Booker longlisted
Communion Town reveals
the shadows and sinister
inhabitants of a city
that never appears the
same way twice. On
crowded streets, in the
town squares and
half-empty tower blocks,
the lonely and lost try
to make a connection. A
weary gumshoe pounds the
reeking sidewalks,
seeking someone he knows
he will never find.
Violence loiters in blind
alleys, eager to embrace
the unsuspecting and the
reckless. Lovers are
doomed to follow
treacherous paths that
were laid long before
they first met. This city
is no ordinary place.
Here, the underworld has
surfaced; dreams melt
into reality and memories
are imagined before they
are lived. Ghosts and
monsters, refugees and
travellers - the voices
of Communion Town clamour
to tell the stories of
the city, stories that
must be heard to be
believed.
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Details: Good brides
promise to obey. Bad
brides wouldn't dream of
it? Milly Gamble is an
up-and-coming actress,
and the perfect English
flower child. At 23,
she's always been cast as
the innocent heroine. But
looks can deceive.
Calculating and fiercely
ambitious, Milly is
determined to be the most
famous star in England.
And how better to achieve
her goal than by dating
Tarquin Ormond, lead
singer of the biggest
folk band of the moment?
Tarquin is madly in love
with Milly; Milly is only
in love with herself.
Brianna Jade is an
all-American pageant
girl. The daughter of
Tamra Maloney, a
stunning billionairess,
Brianna is a sweet,
pretty girl who is more
than happy to go along
with her mother's
ambitious plans for her.
Now Tamra's brought her
to the UK and hooked her
up with an Earl. He has a
crumbling stately home
and needs a rich wife to
help restore it to its
former glory. Tamra is as
ambitious and determined
as Brianna is sweet and
innocent - is this more a
case of
mother-in-law-zilla than
bridezilla? Both Milly
and Brianna's upcoming
weddings will be huge,
lavish events that garner
national press. But with
the cover of the biggest
magazine in the country
to be won, things are
about to get very dirty.
Ideal For: This book is
ideal for all women who
love fiction books.
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The story of an
independent young woman
whose life is changed
forever by a chance
encounter with a
childhood friend. A
magical blend of
compelling action,
exotic locations and
intriguing characters,
told with Paulo's
characteristic power and
insight. Pilar is an
independent and practical
young woman who is
feeling bored and
frustrated by the daily
grind of her university
life. Looking for a
deeper meaning to her
existence, she happens
to meet an old childhood
friend, now a handsome,
mesmerizing spiritual
teacher - and a rumoured
miracle worker. As he
leads her on a magical
journey through the Fench
Pyrenees, Pilar begins
to realize that this
chance encounter is going
to transform her life
forever. With Paulo's
trademark blend of
mysticism, magical
realism and folklore,
Pilar's story is a
poignant and deeply
inspiring tale
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Charlie Bell's picture is
in the paper. He is a
popular young man with a
successful hedge fund and
London is full of money.
Then in one evening,
everything changes. When
his wife Leila threatens
to leave him, a journey
begins in which they are
both forced to discover
what they believe in. The
plot sweeps the reader
from glitzy pre-crisis
London, through the
Midsummer Night's Dream
of rural Spain and then
back again to the
grittier London of The
Hillford Estate and a
charitable drop-in centre
for kids. Throughout the
book, the inner stories
reflect the outer one of
the financial crisis. As
grand illusions fade,
Disappear questions the
connection between
couples, between family
members, even between
the helper and the
helped. Ultimately it
looks at our very sense
of belonging and asks: is
it possible simply to
disappear from your own
life? In the climactic
final scenes, set in the
heat and sensual chaos of
Notting Hill Carnival,
each of the main
characters will live out
their answer.
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Charlie Bell's picture is
in the paper. He is a
popular young man with a
successful hedge fund and
London is full of money.
Then in one evening,
everything changes. When
his wife Leila threatens
to leave him, a journey
begins in which they are
both forced to discover
what they believe in. The
plot sweeps the reader
from glitzy pre-crisis
London, through the
Midsummer Night's Dream
of rural Spain and then
back again to the
grittier London of The
Hillford Estate and a
charitable drop-in centre
for kids. Throughout the
book, the inner stories
reflect the outer one of
the financial crisis. As
grand illusions fade,
Disappear questions the
connection between
couples, between family
members, even between
the helper and the
helped. Ultimately it
looks at our very sense
of belonging and asks: is
it possible simply to
disappear from your own
life? In the climactic
final scenes, set in the
heat and sensual chaos of
Notting Hill Carnival,
each of the main
characters will live out
their answer.
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In 1954, in the
cookhouse of a logging
and sawmill settlement in
northern New Hampshire,
an anxious
twelve-year-old boy
mistakes the local
constable's girlfriend
for a bear. Both the
twelve-year-old and his
father become fugitives,
forced to run from Coos
County - to Boston, to
southern Vermont, to
Toronto - pursued by the
implacable constable.
Their lone protector is a
fiercely libertarian
logger, once a river
driver, who befriends
them. In a story spanning
five decades, Last Night
in Twisted River - John
Irving's twelfth novel -
depicts the recent
half-century in the
United States as 'a
living replica of Coos
County, where lethal
hatreds were generally
permitted to run their
course'. From the novel's
taut opening sentence -
'The young Canadian, who
could not have been more
than fifteen, had
hesitated too long' - to
its elegiac final
chapter, Last Night in
Twisted River is written
with the historical
authenticity and
emotional authority of
The Cider House Rules and
A Prayer for Owen Meany.
It is also as violent and
disturbing a story as
John Irving's
breakthrough bestseller,
The World According to
Garp. What further
distinguishes Last Night
in Twisted River is the
author's unmistakable
voice - the inimitable
voice of an accomplished
storyteller. Near the end
of this moving novel,
John Irving writes: 'We
don't always have a
choice how we get to know
one another. Sometimes,
people fall into our
lives cleanly - as if out
of the sky, or as if
there were a direct
flight from Heaven to
Earth - the same sudden
way we lose people, who
once seemed they would
always be part of our
lives'.
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Her name was Felicia, a
name Cullen liked. He
wondered as he sipped his
beer, what ancestral
dance had produced such
impish racoon eyes -eyes
she was fond of hiding
behind oversized
sunglasses that only
served to emphasise her
nose, a perfect
minature. And what, he
wondered, might be the
genealogy of that
wickedly sullen mouth?'
Cullen Kinnell,
precariously employed by
a small Catholic college
in Honolulu, commits a
fatal error. He falls for
one of his students
-Felicia Mattos. Cullen
Kinnell is an intelligent
man and old enough to
know better than to play
with fire. Gary Kissick's
witty and richly
expressive first novel
explores how unsuitable
love can cause an
eruption of conflicting
emotions, from which no
one emerges unscathed.
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On the 7th of February
1829 the notorious Irish
mass murderer and
'resurrectionist' William
Hare (of Burke and Hare
infamy) was freed from a
Scottish gaol, put on a
coach to Carlisle, left
on the roadside there and
subsequently disappeared
from human view as if he
had never existed. His
fellow conspirator and
provider of fresh 'meat'
for the Edinburgh
surgeons' operating
tables had earlier been
hanged, but fearing the
mob's vengeance, the
authorities had freed
Hare hoping he would
vanish for ever, little
knowing that his name
along with the nature of
his terrible crimes would
reverberate and live on
even if his subsequent
history did not. Seeking
Mr Hare takes up the
story where our pariah
flees his past through
the Northern English
countryside and finally
across to Ireland.
Joining forces with
Hannah, a young mute
farm-girl, on the way,
the pair travel from one
adventure in survival to
the next, all the while
pursued by Percy Speed,
a retired London enquiry
agent hired by his noble
employer to track down a
life-mask of Hare for his
private cabinet of
curiosities. However when
Lord Beckford loses
interest in the quest,
Speed doggedly carries
on, determined to come
face to face with his
cunning and elusive
quarry, no matter what
the quest costs and where
it leads him.
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'I think of him all the
time, and he thinks of
me not at all...' This is
the story of two
brothers. One is
impassioned and one
reserved. One is destined
to go down in history and
the other to be
forgotten. In Philip
Pullman's hands, this
sacred tale is reborn as
one of the most
enchanting, thrilling
and visionary stories of
recent years.
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Victoria Bradshaw fell in
love with London
playwright Oliver Dobbs
when she was just
eighteen. But he left her
and disappeared from her
life. Now, years later,
he is a widower standing
on her doorstep with his
two-year-old son in his
arms. And Victoria is
foolish enough to want to
take him back. Their
early spring journey to a
castle in Scotland
becomes an odyssey of
emotional discovery...can
they rekindle their love
in the tranquil beauty of
the countryside, or will
Oliver's career dictate
another course?
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Michael, a writer of
pornographic fiction,
creates an ideal world of
sex through his two stock
athletes, Colonel
Grimshaw and Mavis
Carmichael, while he
bungles every phase of
his entanglement with an
older woman who has the
misfortune to fall in
love with him. But his
insensitivity to this
love is in direct
contrast to the
tenderness with which he
attempts to make his
aunt's slow death in
hospital tolerable,
while his employer,
Maloney, failed poet and
comic king of
pornographers, comes
gradually to preside over
this broken world.
Everywhere in this rich
novel is the drama of
opposites, but, above
all, sex and death are
never far from each
other.
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Mick Flynn is Britain's
most highly decorated
frontline serving
soldier. In this
blistering sequel to
Bullet Time, Flynn and
his men go looking for
trigger time and they
find it. With his own
special brand of
relentless ferocity,
Flynn leads his armoured
troop through rocket
strikes, drug busts,
ambushes and full scale
battles. Finding himself
in terrifying situations,
but his priority is
always to get his men out
alive and make the enemy
pay. Now in Zad,
Afghanistan: a small unit
of British soldiers are
besieged on a hilltop,
surrounded by Taliban.
There is no way out but
through ambush country,
on roads full of IEDs. In
any case, the British
have no intention of
running: they have
promised the local
population that they are
here to stay. But every
day the attacks on their
position become more
daring, the shells more
accurate. It is only a
matter of time before
someone gets hurt... This
is the gritty but
life-affirming story of
how Britain's most highly
decorated frontline
soldier led his men
through two tours in
Afghanistan. Through
rocket strikes and IED
attacks, drugs busts,
ambushes and full scale
battles, Mick Flynn's
first priority has always
been to get his men out
alive. But it is an
ambition he can't promise
to live up to.
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'I'm lying sobbing on the
floor, head reeling,
unable to believe that my
husband of just four
weeks has knocked me
flying.' Carly Stanton is
a lucky girl. Newly
married to the man of her
dreams, a beautiful home
with her family close by
and with a job she
adores. But all is not
quite as it seems. Oliver
Stanton may be charming
and utterly gorgeous with
dark good looks and
captivating blue-grey
eyes, as well as being
successful and
financially secure, but
once the ring is on her
finger, Carly discovers
there's a darker side to
his nature. He is
possessive and
controlling, sapping her
confidence so that she
feels as if she is living
on a knife edge, her
nerves in shreds. Carly
knows that she
desperately needs help
before he destroys her.
But who can she turn to?
Not her family who think
he is Mr Wonderful. As
Oliver's cruelty
escalates, can Carly
find a way out of the
marriage trap?
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It's an early autumn day
like any other as Miles
Avery drives his wife,
Jacqueline, to the
station. Nothing
remarkable crops up in
conversation, nor do
either of them appear
anything other than their
normal selves. At the
station, Jacqueline gets
out, takes an overnight
bag from the back seat,
then turns towards the
platforms. This is the
last anyone sees of her.
Three weeks later, Miles
calls the police.
Enquiries are made, but
there is no evidence of
her boarding a train, or
even entering the
station. Very soon the
finger of suspicion
starts to turn towards
Miles, and as dark
secrets from the past
begin to merge with those
of the present, the
great love he has been
trying to protect is not
only revealed but thrown
into terrible jeopardy...
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Shortlisted for the
Arthur C Clarke Award
2014, this is a
Frankenstein tale for our
time from one of the UK's
brightest new literary
talents. Vic returned
from war tormented by his
nightmares. His once
happy marriage to Beth
all but disintegrated. A
machine promised
salvation, purging him
of all memory. Now the
machines are gone,
declared too
controversial, the
side-effects too harmful.
But within Beth's flat is
an ever-whirring black
box. She knows that
memories can be put back
and that she can rebuild
her husband piece by
piece. A Frankenstein
tale for the 21st
century, The Machine is
a story of the
indelibility of memory,
the human cost of science
and the horrors of love.
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Perhaps the best novel
yet about the collapse of
the Berlin Wall, 'at
once cinematic, intimate
and epic' (The Times) -
from Granta Best of
British novelist Philip
Hensher, author of the
bestselling The Mulberry
Empire. 'Pleasured begins
on New Year's Eve, 1988,
when a car breaks down
on a road connecting West
Germany and West Berlin.
Inside the car are an
unlikely trio - Peter
Picker, an Englishman,
and the two strangers to
whom he is giving a lift,
a student who calls
herself Daphne and
Friedrich Kaiser. The
novel tracks their
intertwined fates in the
year that follows. It is,
of course, no ordinary
year, and it is not only
the Berlin Wall which has
collapsed by its
end...Distinctive and
consistently appealing,
Philip Hensher's novels
are full of mysteries to
be uncovered, lies to
collapse, and secrets to
be dramatically
revealed.' Guardian
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New York, 1916. Monroe
Simonov, a song-plugger
from Brooklyn, is in
love with a Ziegfeld
Follies dancer who has
left him for California.
Inez Kennedy, a fashion
model in a department
store, has just one
season remaining to find
a wealthy husband before
she must return to the
Midwest. Ana Denisova, a
glamorous political
exile, gives lectures
and writes letters while
she waits for the Russian
people to overthrow their
Tsar. Then America joins
the war, jazz sweeps the
city's dance floors, the
old order is swept away
by newly minted
millionaires and the
entire nation is gripped
by the Red Scare.
Although the world is
changing faster than they
could ever have imagined,
Monroe, Inez and Ana
discover that they are
still subject to the
tyranny of the heart. In
this richly atmospheric
and deftly plotted novel,
the paths of these three
central figures cross and
re-cross, leaving a
trail of passion,
infidelity and betrayal,
and hurtle towards an
explosive climax.
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Bram Deagan dreams of
bringing his family from
Ireland to join him in
Australia, where he now
runs a successful trading
business. But when a
typhus epidemic strikes
Ireland, it leaves the
Deagan family decimated.
And, with other family
members scattered round
the world, it is left to
Maura Deagan to look
after her orphaned nieces
and nephew. Forced to
abandon her own
ambitions, and unsure
whether she is ready to
become a mother-figure to
three young children,
Maura recognises that
their only hope is to
join Bram in far away
Australia. So they set
sail on the SS Delta,
which will carry them
there via the newly
opened Suez Canal. It is
only when a storm throws
her and fellow passenger
Hugh Beaufort together
that Maura realises this
journey may also give her
a chance to pursue a
dream she set aside long
ago - to have a family of
her own. That is, until
someone from Hugh's past
threatens to jeopardise
everything
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A dazzling tale, told
with mordant wit, of the
last seconds of a man's
life as he leaps from a
nine-storey building.
Matthew Viss just wants
to help. That's all he
ever wanted. So it's
lucky he works at The
Greatest Gift - the
city's premier concierge
service. Whether you need
a limo to the airport, a
name for your dog, or
someone to wait in your
flat for the repairman,
Matthew can help. He'll
run your whole life - and
he'll do it with a smile.
This is the story of his
downfall. A blackly comic
and frequently moving
account of a life going
haywire in the service
industry, Danny Leigh's
debut is set in a world
we often encounter but
seldom notice. Written in
prose that is at once
hugely imaginative and
brilliantly precise, The
Greatest Gift marks the
arrival of a remarkable
new talent.
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The master of alternative
history asks the
question, 'What if the
second world war had
started in 1938?' The
results are thrilling. As
the summer of 1938 ends,
the two sides of the
Spanish civil war are
still locked in a
blood-soaked stalemate;
Stalin's purge of the Red
Army is barely underway.
And Neville Chamberlain
-- sickened by the
arrogance and duplicity
of the Germans who have
brought him to Munich --
does not return to London
waving the piece of paper
that would deliver the
arms factories of
Czechoslovakia to Hitler
and postpone the war
until 1939. On October 1,
German tanks cross the
Czech frontier, touching
off declarations of war
from France, from
England, from the USSR.
Poland, fearing the
Russians more than
Hitler, declares war on
the German side. Soon
Fascist Spain attacks
Gibraltar, the Japanese
army crosses the
Manchurian frontier into
Siberia.. .and the
British Army sets off for
France, which has
launched a pre-emptive
attack on the Rhineland.
The war we know as World
War II has begun -- a
year early, and in an
entirely different way.
Harry Turtledove weaves
fact, fiction and
brilliant speculation
into a war story where
Hitler could win and the
world could be entirely
different from the one we
know.
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A dramatic meditation on
love both fleeting and
everlasting, 'Adverbs'
is a serious work of
fiction by one of today's
most innovative voices.
'Adverbs' marks the
return of Daniel Handler
to adult fiction as he
tackles life's most
complicated and
compelling noun: love. In
a series of intersecting
narratives that explore
variations of that
ineffable feeling,
Handler crafts a moving
and shifting story
exploring the frustrating
glory of this most
troublesome of emotions.
Two friends, one dying
and one lonely; an
adolescent's first
homosexual stirrings for
his sister's boyfriend; a
doomed, enormously
inappropriate tryst
between a taxi driver and
his passenger; a
high-school crush that
falls painfully short of
a movie projected on a
grungy screen. Handler's
characters experience
love in all of its dark,
triumphant, devastating
and sneaky forms. In
'Adverbs', Daniel
Handler reveals to us how
the most universal of
themes is also the most
unknown. 'Love was in the
air, so both of us
walked through love on
our way to the corner. We
breathed it in,
particularly me.'
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