When the genteely impoverished & rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil scion of a privileged Sinhalese family she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel with their young son Milton from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But this is England in the 1950s & no matter how hard Evelyn wishes that it would England does not take kindly to strangers especially families who are half black & half white. A profound & moving novel this is the story about the search to feel at home in your own skin. ...

Arson & murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin. As Commander Gray Pierce investigates he is soon caught up in a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany
- & to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Pol&. A continent away madness ravages a remote monastery high in Nepal. As Lisa Cummings a young American doctor begins to investigate reported atrocities at the monastery she is suddenly the target of an assassin. Her only ally is Painter Crowe director of SIGMA FORCE now undercover
- & already showing signs of the baffling malady destroying the minds of the monks. Now it is up to Gray Pierce to save both Painter & Lisa
- & a world in jeopardy...


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The Blitz London 1944. As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city Londoners take to the shelters once again & eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead police to a charred dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German & it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. For Russian emigre Detective-Sergeant Troy it is the start of a manhunt which will lead him into a world of military intelligence & corruption in high places; a manhunt in which Troy is both the hunter & the hunted. ...

The frozen body of a woman is found in a fishing ark on the ice near Tornetrask in northern Sweden. She has been brutally tortured but the killing blow was clumsy almost amateur. The body is quickly identified raising hopes of an open-&-shut solution. But when a six-month-old suicide is disinterred Rebecka Martinsson & Anna-Maria Mella find themselves investigating shocking corruption at the heart of one of Swedens most successful mining companies. One that has powerful enemies of its own. ...

Since her family moved to Cornwall Lizzys world has been turned upside down by the discovery that she has a long-lost brother Kes & even more amazingly that their mother is a mermaid. Now Lizzy & her new family must bravely battle the evil sea queen & her terrfying servant for Lizzy has a powerful treasure & the sea queen will stop at nothing to get it. It is exciting & full of dark mystery & suspense ideal for girls of 8-10 who love stories with an edge. ...

EVERY LIGHT CASTS A SHADOW Gavin Guile is the Prism the most powerful man in the world. His strength wit & charm are all that preserve a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last & Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live. When Guile discovers he has a son born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power he must decide how much hes willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart. ...

The ' Black Queen' is what Billy calls his shadowy next-door neighbour. She always wears a black cloak & a wide-brimmed black hat. She lurks about her garden alone except for her black cat. Scarily for Billy the Black Queen befriends him & asks him to look after her cat while she's away. Billy can't resist the opportunity to peek inside her house. There are chessboards scattered everywhere. Who is the Black Queen & what sort of game is she playing? Billy thinks he knows... ...

Black Rabbit Summer" is an intense page-turner from award-winning young adult writer Kevin Brooks. A group of old friends affected by drugs alcohol & memories find themselves in the middle of a crime scene. Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. Long stiflingly hot lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called. It was Nicole. ' Listen Pete.. .you know that funfair up at the recreation ground...I thought we could all meet up.. .you know for old times sake.' But where there are old times there are old tensions. & as secrets bitterness & jealousies resurface five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives..."A masterly writer & this book would put many authors of 'grown up' detective fiction to shame". (" Mail on Sunday"). "A compulsive atmospheric mystery". (" Sunday Times"). " Gripping disturbing.. .brilliant". (" Sunday Express"). Kevin Brooks is the award-winning author of nine gripping teenage novels usually with a thrilling detective twist. His novels " Being" "i Boy" " Killing God" (published as Dawn in the USA) & " Naked" are also available from Penguin. Kevin's brand new novel " The Bunker Diary" will be published in 2013. If you enjoyed " Black Rabbit Summer" & want to get inside more of your favourite books then check out website for exclusive author interviews competitions & much more." ...

Roz Harper is a woman who has lived life on her own terms. She had dearly loved her first husb&. After his death she had thrown herself into raising their boys & then into making a business out of her passion for gardening. Roz likes her life just as it is & it would take a very special man to convince her to take that leap of faith into love again. A man like Dr. Mitchell Carnegie the genealogist she's hired to research the origins of the family ghost known as the Harper Bride. Mitch & Roz are drawn together from the start. But the Harper Bride is enraged by the sight of love & though she may have brought Mitch & Roz together she will stop at nothing to tear them apart. ...

A beautiful young woman a member of the Florentine jet set is found dead
- choked to death
- in her apartment. She has been

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