Books Contemporary Fiction Books From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing & powerful sequel. Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. But when a young family moves into the apartment below her, Gretel can't help but befriend their little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back painful memories. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between his parents, which threatens to disturb her hard-won peace. For the second time in her life, Gretel is given the chance to save a young boy. To do so would allay her guilt, grief & remorse, but it will also force her to reveal her true identity. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781529176131 •†Author: John Boyne  •†Publisher:†  Penguin •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 384 •†Dimensions:† 12.7 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm ...

Details: A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, & a group of children are spending the last of their half-term
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A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, & a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked & successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello. Everything points to suicide, & Annie is mystified. Why would such a man want to take his own life? Then Annies investigation leads to another shattering discovery, & DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems, where secrets & deceit are the norm, & where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends & family. Nobody is safe. ...

Details: Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory
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Any visitor in Bicho Raro, Colorado, can find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, estranged affections, one or two orphans & a sky full of watchful desert stars.

At the heart of this place you can find the Soria family & the three cousins longing to change the familys future...

.. . Beatriz, Daniel & Joaquin.

All looking for a miracle, they soon realise Bicho Raro miracles are never quite what you expect.

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• ISBN: 9781407164793
• Author: Maggie Stiefvater
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 311
• Dimensions: 21.5 x 15 x 2.5cm















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' The whole world is full of dead things, ' said Esther. ' In every bush there is a bird, a butterfly, a mouse. Someone must be kind & look after them. Someone must make a sacrifice & see that all these things are buried.' ' Who must?' I asked. ' We must, ' she said. Esther was very brave. I was little & scared. ...

Remake of the 1949 feature film based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren
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Sean Penn gives another powerhouse performance in All the King's Men, leading a top notch cast in writer-director Steven Zaillian's underrated adaptation of the Pulitzer prize-winning 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. When you consider that the previous 1949 film version earned well-deserved Academy Awards for director Robert Rossen & actors Broderick Crawford & Mercedes Mc Cambridge, it's no surprise that Zaillian's film was expected to earn similar acclaim; but lukewarm critical reception & disappointing box-office gave it the stigma of a noble failure. & while the film (which moves Warren's story from the Depression-era '30s to the early 1950s) suffers from uneven pacing, partial miscasting, & an occasional lack of dramatic tension, it still qualifies as a first-class production that resonates with the timeless relevance of Warren's piercing political classic. Like Broderick before him, Penn is riveting as Louisiana governor Willie Stark, an upstart political dynamo (freely inspired by controversial real-life Louisiana governor Huey P. Long) whose rise to power is ultimately doomed by corruption & betrayal. Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley) co-stars as political reporter Jack Burden, our first-hand witness to Stark's rise & inevitable fall. His orbit of political insiders

Includes:: a corrupt judge (Anthony Hopkins) with a dark secret to hide; a long-time friend (Mark Ruffalo) & former lover (Kate Winslet) who fall victim to Stark's influence; & political staffers (James Gandolfini, Patricia Clarkson) who remain powerless against Stark's ill-fated populist juggernaut. At Sean Penn's request, former child star Jackie Earle Haley (from the original Bad News Bears) makes a welcome return to movies as Willie Stark's quietly intense bodyguard, Sugar-Boy. Co-produced by Louisiana-born political consultant James Carville, filmed on authentic Louisiana locations & boasting all the stately, luxurious production values of a would-be Oscar contender, All the King's Men clearly benefits from Penn's fiery performance & Zaillian's earnest embrace of Warren's still-potent subject matter. & while the film's shortcomings may have prevented it from achieving unanimous acclaim, this is still a serious, well-crafted drama with much to say about the insidious potential for fascism in America, especially when well-meaning politicians lose their souls to power

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Saul Davids All The Kings Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo.

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl & a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II, from the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr. ...