September 1977. Mette Misvaer, a three-year-old girl disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch, suspicions are raised, but Mette is never found.
Almost 25 years later, as the expiry date for the statute of limitations draws near, Mettes mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last, desperate attempt to find out what happened to her daughter. As Veum starts to dig, he uncovers an intricate web of secrets, lies and shocking events that have been methodically concealed. When another brutal incident takes place, a pattern begins to emerge. ..
Chilling, shocking and full of extraordinary twists and turns, Where Roses Never Die reaffirms Gunnar Staalesen as one of the worlds foremost crime writers.
DI Zoe Dolan is tracking a stalker who brutally attacks women in their own homes. With no idea how he gets in, or who hell target next, the case is at a dead end - until a tip-off from a confidential helpline.
But instead of helping, the new information drags Zoe deeper into the darkness. As the psyche of a vicious criminal threatens to drown her, the traumas of the past shes never escaped creep closer and closer.
Now, for Zoe and the other women of the city, nowhere is safe. Particularly their own bedroom in the dead of night.
It’s been a year since Poppy’s husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run.
She’s trying to move on but what happened that day is still haunting her. And now she’s sure she is being followed...
Sleep deprived and secretly self-medicating, Poppy is unable to separate her dreams from reality. She feels like she’s losing her mind. But what if she’s not?
What if she’s actually remembering what really happened? What if her husband wasn’t who he said he was? And what if his killer is still watching her...
Product Information: • ISBN: 9781848457065 • Author: Lisa Unger • Publisher: Harper Collins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 361 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
Take you on a journey into the heart of the English countryside. From the crisp cold of January, through the promise of spring and the heat of summer, and then into damp autumn and the chill winds of winter, we accompany the forest-ranger as he goes about his work.
When Florence meets Jasper, Andrew and Wilf she cant imagine theyd have much in common - with at least five mental health conditions between them, they all have very different reasons for being referred to Manor Lane Therapy Centre.
Its only when their therapist, Howard, goes missing that they find a common purpose. Worried by his disappearance and wanting answers, the four of them decide to track him down.
As they cross the country in a borrowed van, asking each other Ultimate Questions and facing a series of challenges along the way, they start to reveal their true selves - and Florence realises theres more to all of them than just a diagnosis...
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349419640 • Author: Sarah Harris • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 265 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm
When a womans body is found on a lonely patch of scrubland, Detective Lucy Harwin is called to the scene. The victims clothes have been wrenched to expose her, and her feet are bare.
Lucy and her team have only just started investigating who could have wanted local mother Melanie Benson dead, when a young woman is discovered strangled in a dark alley.
As more bodies appear in the run-down seaside town, the small community is gripped by fear, and the pressure to solve the case becomes unbearable. But with each victim dying in a different way, Lucy struggles to find a link between the murders. Are these random killings, or part of the same plan?
Just as she thinks shes getting close, Lucy starts to suspect the killer is watching her. Can she find the murderer before they strike again, or will she be next?
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349132457 • Author: Helen Phifer
• Publisher: Bookouture • Format: Paperback • Pages: 270 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this illustrated paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien.
Looking to have some fun with the Simpsons? Join the club! Membership comes with these exclusive benefits: Get the low down on Homer as he discovers his new calling as the bearer of bad news; Mr. Burns opens a museum dedicated to his life and his legend; Marge gives up her apron for academia; and Bart and Lisa memorize the entire cartoon canon of Itchy & Scratchy to save humanity! All this and even more rewarding perks and privileges await!
The Castle family run the rides and stalls on the sands and struggle to manage without their sons, who have gone off to fight against Hitlers Germany.
Eirlys Ward organises the entertainments intended to encourage locals to stay at home for their holidays, and bringing people from far beyond the town. But beneath her smiles she worries about her marriage.
Delyth, Madge and Vera love the beach and come as Day Trippers whenever they can. But danger lurks behind the tranquillity of the sun-drenched beach and one of them narrowly escapes a lonely death.
Calm returns and the town prepares for another wartime summer ensuring that, amid the tragedies and anxieties, there is time for what St Davids Well does best - fun and laughter.
A novel that talks about belonging and otherness, about insiders and outsiders, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right, about striving for connection and goodness against all the odds.
In the shadows under the Paris Opera House resides Erik the Phantom, mysteriously enduring through the decades as the mastermind behind a strange and secret agency. A revolving door of female agents are charged by wealthy Parisians and the French Government to investigate crimes and misdemeanours they would prefer to keep out of the public eye.
Ciudad de Cielo is the city in the sky, a space station where hundreds of scientists and engineers work in earths orbit, building the colony ship that will one day take humanity to the stars.
When a mutilated body is found on the CdC, the eyes of the world are watching. Top-of the-class investigator, Alice Blake, is sent from Earth to team up with CdCs Freeman - a jaded cop with more reason than most to distrust such planetside interference.
As the death toll climbs and factions aboard the station become more and more fractious, Freeman and Blake will discover clues to a conspiracy that threatens not only their own lives, but the future of humanity itself.
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780356506272 • Author: Chris Brookmyre • Publisher: Orbit • Format: Paperback • Pages: 407 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3cm
On a moonlit road in Hampstead, Walter Hartwright meets a young woman – beautiful, terrified and dressed entirely white – alone on the street.
Compelled to help this woman, he finds himself caught up in a world of secrets, murder and madness, with an impossible mystery to solve.
The odds seem stacked against him, but a sleuthing partnership with the brilliantly clever Marian Halcombe may be just enough to outwit their formidable nemesis – the menacing Count Fosco.
The murder of women priests in Norfolks spooky shrine town of Walsingham draws forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway into a thrilling new adventure. A must-read for all crime fiction fans, especially addicts of Ann Cleeves VERA books and TV series.
When Ruths friend Cathbad sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, in a white gown and blue cloak, in Walsinghams graveyard, he takes it in his stride. Walsingham has strong connections to Mary, and Cathbad is a druid after all; visions come with the job. But when the body of a woman in a blue dressing-gown is found dead the next day in a nearby ditch, it is clear that a horrible crime has been committed, and DCI Nelson and his team are called in for what is now a murder investigation.
Ruth, a devout atheist, has managed to avoid Walsingham during her seventeen years in Norfolk. But then an old university friend asks to meet her in the village, and Ruth is amazed to discover that she is now a priest. She has been receiving vitriolic anonymous letters targeting women priests - letters containing references to local archaeology and a striking phrase about a woman clad in blue, weeping for the world.
Then another woman is murdered - a priest. As Walsingham prepares for its annual Easter re-enactment of the Crucifixion, the race is on to unmask the killer before they strike again...
This paperback book has 368 pages and measures: 19.7 x 13 x 2.4cm
Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past. During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage. Eliza and her parents take him in. But very soon, it's clear he has no intention of leaving. A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every parent's worst nightmare.
William Hoffer - handsome, refined, a little cold perhaps - is an established figure in London society.
But Hoffer has secrets. He is vague about his Midwestern origins. The counsel he offers a Russian billionaire may extend to murkier topics than art investments.
Then there is his Kensington flat, which is only rented, and the broader question of his money, which is running out.
When a ghost from his past in Mexico surfaces, Hoffer is forced to revive brutal instincts for self-preservation...
Product Information: • ISBN: 9781473694187 • Author: Tim Glencross • Publisher: John Murray • Format: Paperback • Pages: 245 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm
After the collapse of Aquazure, his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mothers deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formulate a dazzling new idea: the creation of the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all.
Around them, Rose Tremain weaves the intricate fabric of the lives of two communities: Miriams mother, Leni, clever, beautiful and arrogant. Polish Nadia, tortured by the passions of her sad and guilty past. Gervaise the peasant woman - content with her boisterous German lover and confused husband. And the young tearaway Xavier, in love with the virginal Agnes.
Picked as a `MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018' by Vogue, Sunday Times, Observer, The Times, Sunday Mirror, Daily Express, BBC Arts, Red Magazine, Stylist, The Pool, Emerald Street, Independent, The Herald, Irish Times, Irish Tatler, The Journal and Irish Independent.
When Jennifer Worth became a midwife in the 1950s, she joined an East End where many lives were touched by the shadow of the workhouse. For, although, the institutions were officially abolished in 1930, in reality many did not close until several decades later. In the follow-up to her bestselling Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth tell the true stories of the people she met. There's Peggy and Frank, who were separated in the workhouse when their parents died - until Frank's strength and determination enabled him to make a home for his sister. Jan was a bright, lively child, whose spirit was broken by cruelty, until she found kindness and love later in life. Then there is the matchmaking nun, Sister Julienne and Sister Monica Joan, who ends up in high court...
When Rachel wakes up in a strange room, the morning after a neighbour’s party, she has no memory of what happened the night before.
Why did her husband leave her alone at the party? Did they row? Why are Rachel’s arms so bruised? And why are her neighbours and friends so vague about what really happened?
Little by little, Rachel pieces together the devastating events that took place in a friend’s house, at a party where she should have been safe.
Everyone remembers what happened that night differently, and everyone has something to hide. But someone knows the truth about what happened to Rachel. And she’s determined to find them.
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008214999 • Author: Lisa Hall
• Publisher: Harper Collins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 281 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
As the brains behind wedding site TyingTheKnot.com, Callie sees it all: from the ring to the dress, the smiles...to the tears. Its that last part that keeps her single and not looking.
Getting left at the altar will do that to a girl. But when Callie returns to her old hometown, she finds that her sweet high school crush is sexier than ever. And he makes it hard to remember why shes sworn off love...
Tanner is a deep-sea diver with a wild, adrenaline-junkie past - and now his teenage son is back in his life. How can Tanner be a role model when hes still paying for his own mistakes?
Its hard enough that gorgeous Callie has appeared in town like a beautiful dream, challenging his best-laid plans to keep his heart on lockdown.
Dr Finlays Casebook brings together Adventures of a Black Bag and Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, A. J. Cronins two hugely popular collections featuring his most famous creation, Dr Finlay.
Set in and around the fictional Scottish town of Levenford and village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years, the stories found here are heart-warming, funny and touching, full of fascinating characters and unforgettable encounters.
Made famous by the much-loved adaptations for radio and television, the classic tales of Dr Finlay, his senior colleague Dr Cameron, and their unruffled housekeeper Janet, remain as fresh and entertaining now as they were upon first publication.
Product Information: • ISBN: 9781509818624 • Author: A.J. Cronin • Publisher: Pan Macmillan • Format: Paperback • Pages: 292 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever encountered. And nearly eight years since his death, his status as one of Britain's greatest comedians shows no sign of shrinking. This collection ranges from Cook's first writing to transcripts of his late, great TV appearances.
Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1856 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world.
When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. This title tells the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang onwards.
Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher's job is to make sure it all turns out right - money paid, family safely returned. But Reacher is in the middle of a nasty little war where nothing is simple.
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files.
Approaching 80, frail and alone, a remarkable man makes the journey from his sheltered home in England to Berlin to meet his granddaughter.
He has six days left to live and must relate his life story before he dies...
His life has been rich and full. He has witnessed firsthand the rise of the Nazis, experienced heartrending family tragedy, fought in the German army, been interred in a POW camp in Scotland and faced violent persecution in peacetime Britain. But he has also touched many lives, fallen deeply in love, raised a family and survived triumphantly at the limits of human endurance.
He carries within him an astonishing family secret that he must share before he dies... a story that will mean someone else’s salvation.
Product Information: • ISBN: 9781785300820 • Format: Paperback • Author: Juliet Conlin • Publisher: Black & White • Pages: 440 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.8 x 3.2cm
Amber Green loves her job at Smith’s, the exclusive London boutique frequented by the rich, the famous and the stylish – and with stylist to the stars Mona Armstrong as a customer, there is never a dull moment.
With the Golden Globes approaching and her diva-like behaviour resulting in yet another assistant walking out, Mona needs help, and she needs it fast.
Before she has time to say Rodeo Drive, Amber finds herself agreeing to get on a plane to LA as she is expected to work with the increasingly volatile stylist and dress some of Hollywood’s hottest (and craziest) starlets.
Awards season turns her life upside down as dazzling gowns, shoes and jewels are matched to a steady stream of celebrities who expect to be made red carpet ready.
Captured by an unknown enemy and forced to wage war on his rivals, the Dragon Queen has found herself hated and feared by all the people of this new land.
There is little they can do to hurt her while she has her dragon, but she cannot escape while the magic necklace she is forced to wear remains active - or it will throttle her. And the enemies of her new master are gathering for revenge...
Lost in a body that isnt his own, Berren - the Bloody Judge - continues his search for the man who stole his life. Accompanied by a single Adamantine soldier, they scrabble to survive in a world shaken by the Dragon Queens attack and suspicious of all those who are strangers.
But there is another power inside Berren, one which escapes when he is in danger and has the habit of disintegrating those around him. And that power has its own agenda... one that will lead it to the Dragon Queen, and battle.
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780575100589 • Author: Stephen Deas • Publisher: Orion • Format: Paperback • Pages: 527 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3.5cm
Two years ago, Jane Norton crashed her car on a lonely road, killing her friend David and leaving her with amnesia.
At first, everyone was sympathetic. Then they found Janes note: I wish we were dead together.
From that day the town turned against her. But even now Jane is filled with questions: why were they on that road? Why was she with David? Did she really want to die?
Most of all, she must find out who has just written her an anonymous message... I know what really happened. I know what you dont remember.
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780751557336 • Author: Jeff Abbott • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 374 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma.
After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation.
In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780857209030 • Author: David Grann • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback • Pages: 339 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
Brutus and Cassius, friends and supporters of Julius Caesar, brood and worry over his increasing ambitions. Caesars pursuit of power leads the two men to worry that Caesar will crown himself Emperor, which would ruin Romes Republic of the people.
Behind closed doors, they begin to concoct a scheme that will alter the fate of the Roman empire.
Liverpool 1985. Kathleen, Adam and Jocelyn are three teenage friends who bond over an unconventional nativity play. They all have ambitions, they all have dreams.
Adam wants to be a writer, Jocelyn wants to sing and Kathleen - well, she wants to be an embalmer.
London 2015. Kathleen is a borderline alcoholic, Adam is holding on to a shocking secret and Jocelyn is dead.
Where did it all go wrong? How did having the world at their feet turn into having the weight of it on their shoulders?
Product Information: • ISBN: 9781447298205 • Author: Jonathan Harvey • Publisher: Pan Macmillan • Format: Paperback • Pages: 363 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae.
A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the countrys finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence.
Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows.
Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Arizas impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead.
During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again.
When Ferminas husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love.
But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241968567 • Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 348 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
Wolverines past is full of nasty characters - but few as fiendish as the White Ghost, a murderous mercenary whom Wolverine thought hed left for dead during his spy years!
But this Ghost wont be laid to rest until hes run Wolverine through a gauntlet of Adamantium weapons, killing the mutant maverick with the very metal thats saved his life so many times!
Unwilling to risk his friends, Wolverine stands alone in a story of intrigue, romance and devastation - culminating in a clash between two killers!
Han is given a top-secret undercover mission for the Rebellion: rescuing several informants and spies!
His cover for the assignment? Only the biggest and most infamous starship race in the galaxy, the Dragon Void - a tournament he has dreamt of winning his entire life.
Can Han keep his mind on the mission? Or is failing Leia worse than losing?
There is also the small matter of finding a traitor within the Rebellion and as the Dragon Void heats up, can a certain Wookiee pal lend a hand in the mole hunt?
Place your bets for the ultimate space race!
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780785193210 • Author: Marjorie Liu • Publisher: Dan Buckley • Format: Paperback • Pages: 112 • Dimensions: 26 x 17 x 0.5cm
Witness the experiment that bonded Adamantium to Logans bones and claws, and learn the true story of how he joined the X-Men!
Relive Wolverines first meeting and star-crossed romance with the beautiful Mariko Yashida, his duel of honor with Marikos criminal father Lord Shingen, and the introduction of the wandering ronin Yukio!
Also featuring the first teaming between criminal duo Viper and the Silver Samurai as they clash with Black Widow, Nick Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Amazing Spider-Man!
The final part of the "Armageddon" trilogy. When Rex finds himself back on Earth in the final hours before the nuclear holocaust, things really start to confuse him. Can he save the world before he himself is atomized by the Repo Man who appears most anxious to make his acquaintance?
Always wondered about the best exercises to improve hand-eye co-ordination? Struggling to find a one-handed gaming snack that won't get your console greasy? This book is full of funny fitness and lifestyle tips as well as advice to improve your gaming experience.
Its 1978, and Jack Sheffield begins his second year as headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. There are three letters on his desk - one makes him smile, one makes him sad and one is destined to change his life forever.
This is from nine-year-old Sebastian, suffering from leukaemia in the local hospital, who writes a heartbreaking letter addressed to Mister Teacher. Jack tries to help, and so begins a journey through the seasons of Yorkshire life in which the school is the natural centre of the community.
Theres a colourful cast of characters who accompany Jack through the ups and downs of the school year including Vera, the school secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher and whose greatest ambition is to become President of the Womens Institute; Ruby, the 20-stone caretaker who sings like Julie Andrews; and Dorothy, the coffee shop assistant who is desperate to be Wonder Woman.
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780552176163 • Author: Jack Sheffield • Publisher: Corgi • Format: Paperback • Pages: 363 • Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 2.5cm
In this eagerly awaited sequel to the international bestseller The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, world renowned leadership guru Robin Sharma will teach you how to restore trust, commitment and belief within your organisation, while simultaneously changing the way you live your life in the process.
Clara Morrows husband is missing. When he fails to come home on the first anniversary of their separation, as promised, Clara asks the only person she trusts to try and find him: former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand Gamache.
As Gamache journeys further into the case, he is drawn deeper into the tortured mind of Peter Morrow, a man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist that he would sell his soul. As Gamache gets closer to the truth, he uncovers a deadly trail of jealousy and deceit.
Can Gamache bring Peter, and himself, home safely? Or in searching for answers, has he placed himself, and those closest to him, in terrible danger?
From number one New York Times bestselling author, Louise Penny, comes an evocative, immersive novel brimming with atmosphere and heart-stopping suspense - her most ingenious novel to date.
This paperback book has 440 pages and measures: 19.7 x 12.6 x 3cm.
When archaeologist Neil Watson unearths a long-buried mechanical figure in a Dartmoor field, he is determined to discover the truth behind the bizarre find.
Soon, however, the sleepy village becomes the focus of press attention for another reason when two people with no apparent connection to each other are found shot dead in nearby Manor Field, seemingly victims of an execution-style double murder.
DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate, but the two murders arent his only problem. The daughter of a local MP has gone missing and the pressure is on to find her, especially when its revealed that she has a connection to one of the murder victims.
And Wesleys own life is thrown into turmoil when a woman he helped on a previous investigation finds herself subjected to a campaign of terror...
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349413129 • Author: Kate Ellis • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 375 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
Maria King knows a secret London. Born blind, she knows the city by sound and touch and smell but now that surgery has restored her sight, the world seems a scarier place and she doesn't want to see it.
/> DCI Jonathan Dark also sees a different side to the city. He's in the shadows, haunted by his failure to save a woman from the hands of stalker, and he won't let it happen again. /> Now a killer has set his sights on Maria, and Jonathan must find a way to stop him. But when gathering evidence, you can't choose your source.
Can you save the living by talking to the dead? /> This paperback book has 262 pages and measures: 19.7 x 12.8 x 2cm
The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge.
Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and corruption.
How could such a harrowing story be told by the man she once loved? And why, after so long, has he sent her such a disturbing and personal message...? Originally published as Tony and Susan.
Some time in the near future, energy giant NovusPart has developed technology to transport people from the past to the present day, and they have just moved the lost population of Pompeii to a replica city. Historian Nick Houghton is brought in to study the Romans, but he soon realises that NovusPart are underestimating their captives.
A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road. He does not know where this search will take him.
A detective from Lewis sits aboard a boat, filled with doubt. DS George Gunn knows that a bludgeoned corpse has been discovered on a remote rock twenty miles offshore. He does not know if he has what it takes to uncover how and why.
A teenage girl lies in her Edinburgh bedroom, desperate to discover the truth about her scientist fathers suicide. Two years on, Karen Fleming still cannot accept that he would willfully abandon her. She does not yet know his secret.
Coffin Road follows three perilous journeys towards one shocking truth - and the realisation that ignorance can kill us.
This paperback book has 392 pages and measures: 19.8 x 13 x 2.4cm
The destructive hydrogues continue their war against humans and the fiery entities, the faeros. Cesca Peroni, leader of the Roamers, finds that miners have uncovered a hibernating army of alien Klikiss robots. Once released, these robots trigger another dark and ancient plot, one that could lead to a massacre across all human-inhabited planets.
More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.
These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burtons farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Kellers letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about hearing their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowies response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.
Including letters from:
Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Brontë and many more.
When Alices husband Ben dies suddenly, her world falls apart. They shared twenty years and two daughters and life without him is unimaginable.
Having lost her parents while young, Alice understands her girls pain. At fifteen, Jools is at that awkward age and only Ben could get through to her.
And eleven-year-old Holly looks for the answer to everything in books but this time shes drawing a blank. Alice realizes that for their sakes she must summon up superhuman reserves of strength.
Somehow all three of them come through the dark days. In time, its even possible for Alice to consider marrying again, with the girls blessing. So when Ben turns up after three years, her world is again turned upside-down.
The girls assume that their family can go back to the way they were. Alice is not so sure.
For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isnt a right: its a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, hes forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised - one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.
Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position shes won by combat.
But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her countrys government, Desideria is caught in the crossfire. With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America’s greatest contemporary writers.
Larry Cook’s farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters, is disarmingly uncharacteristic.
Ginny and Rose, the two eldest, are startled yet eager to accept, but Caroline, the youngest daughter, has misgivings. Immediately, her father cuts her out.
In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transposes the King Lear story to the modern day, and in so doing at once illuminates Shakespeare’s original and subtly transforms it. This astonishing novel won both of America’s highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her family.
Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up and from which she long ago escaped. But this is a place full of secrets, where dangerous truths lie buried.
Tom Thorne returns in a chilling mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final page. Time of Death is Mark Billingham's most timely, atmospheric thriller to date.
This paperback book has 538 pages and measures 15.7 x 3.5 x 23.5cm
Nolan Moore and his team of explorers arrive in the remote town of Birchlake, California to investigate the uncanny stone walls that snake the town, built by an unknown hand.
Their arrival is met with suspicion by the townspeople. And when Nolan learns that a teenage girl has recently disappeared without a trace, it becomes clear there is a link between the missing girl and the secret of the stone walls.
But as Nolan and his team are drawn into the search, a thick fog descends on the town.
Soon events take a dark turn, and the line between reality and imagination begins to blur, leaving Nolan and his team questioning their own sanity...
Product Information: • ISBN: 9781785767654 • Author: Michael Rutger • Publisher: Zaffre • Format: Paperback • Pages: 496 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm
For generations, the Stone family have been making wishes on the old willow tree in their garden. And this year they’re wishing harder than ever...
In the small village of Noon Sun, Benedict and Estelle thought they’d found their happy ever after.
But, unable to have the children they’ve longed for, their marriage has hit the rocks and Estelle has moved out. Devastated but unwilling to accept defeat, jeweller Benedict vows to win her back – he just doesn’t know how.
The unexpected – and uninvited – arrival of his estranged sixteen-year-old niece, Gemma, is the last thing he needs.
But when a decades old secret is brought to light, Benedict and Estelle realise they’re not the only ones in need of a second chance. And that maybe the family they wished for has been there all along...
Product Information: • ISBN: 9781848456761 • Author: Phaedra Patrick • Publisher: Harper Collins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 391 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
Don’t just spend your summer holiday with just one pal from Jacqueline Wilson’s world, hang out with a whole bunch of them!
Whether you’re spending the day making sandcastles on the beach, or spending all your pocket money in the seafront arcades, it’s going to be an amazing summer with Jacqueline Wilson!
Product Information: • ISBN: 9780440870982 • Age: 9 to 12 Years • Author: Jacqueline Wilson • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm
Contains the stories that deal with ideas about mutability, improvement and escape into new worlds, and involve characters who constantly fail to understand themselves or others. This title celebrates the small success or fragment of knowledge which can contribute to a person's experience of life.
Denis Hillier is an aging British agent on his last assignment. His old school friend Roper defected to the USSR long ago, to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must persuade, or force, Roper to come back to England or risk losing his retirement fund. However, he hadn't foreseen the obstacles between him and his mark.
In the 1920s and '30s, H P Lovecraft pioneered a new type of fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionised modern horror fiction. This title collects Lovecraft's fictions.
Since she was a young princess, Asha has killed to protect her fathers kingdom. She longs to atone for the terrible deed she committed as a child - one that almost destroyed her city, and left her with a terrible scar.
But no matter how many dragons she kills, her people still think shes wicked.
So now she plans to slay the most powerful dragon of all.
And the only person standing in her way is a defiant slave boy, leading a rebellion she cant possibly be a part of...
Product Information: • ISBN: 9781473218147 • Author: Kristen Ciccarelli • Publisher: Orion • Format: Paperback • Pages: 426 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent. Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. This is a novel in which a design, a mythology, wild and wayward magic and a host of characters combine with storytelling.
Grace hasn't been the same since the death of her best friend Charlie. She is haunted by Charlie's words the last time she saw her, and in a bid for answers, opens an old memory box of Charlie's. It soon becomes clear that there was a lot she didn't know about her best friend. /> When Grace starts a campaign to find Charlie's father, Anna, a girl claiming to be Charlie's sister steps forward. For Grace, finding Anna is like finding a new family and soon Anna has made herself very comfortable in Grace and boyfriend Dan's home.
But something isn't right. Things disappear, Dan's acting strangely and Grace is sure that someone is following her. Is it all in Grace's mind? Or as she gets closer to discovering the truth about both Charlie and Anna, is Grace in terrible danger?
There was nothing she could have done to save Charlie... or was there?
Ideal for anyone who enjoys a psychological thriller.
This paperback book has 346 paes and measures: 20 x 13 x 2cm approx.
An omnibus edition of Alan Dean Foster's "Alien" science-fiction trilogy. While a computer guides their space tug, the crew of seven humans sleep - until scanners pick up a distress call from a remote dead planet. All the technology of the future cannot shield them from the nightmare of today.