Jane Logan is a stranger to Berlin & she finds the city alive & echoing with the ghosts of its turbulent past. At six months pregnant shes instructed by her partner Petra to rest & enjoy her new life in Germany. But while Petra is out at work Jane begins to feel uneasy in their chic apartment. Screams reverberate through the walls lights flicker in the derelict building that looms over the yard a shadow passes on the stairs... Jane meets a neighbours daughter a girl whose life she tries to mend but her involvement only further isolates her. Alone & haunted Jane fears the worst...but the worst is yet to come. Louise Welsh the acclaimed author of The Cutting Room delivers another masterful suspense novel. The Girl on the Stairs is a powerful psychological thriller packed with twists & turns to keep you reading well into the night. Read it or be left in the dark. ...

Jane & Petra have been together for six years & after deciding to have a child they move to Petras hometown Berlin. But things do not quite go according to plan. Jane at six months pregnant finds herself increasingly isolated & preoccupied with the monuments & reminders of the Holocaust which echo around the city
- imagining the horrors that happened in the spaces around her. She becomes uneasy in the apartment & conceives a dread of the derelict backhouse across the courtyard. She also begins to suspect their neighbour Alban Mann of sexually assaulting his daughter & places a phone call to the police which holds more significance than she can ever have known.. .
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What happens when a robot designed to be a boys ideal companion develops a will of her own? This is a compulsively readable novel from a hot new talent in YA. Hello David. My name is Rose. Its a pleasure to meet you. We are now entering minute two of our friendship. According to my Intimacy Clock a handshake is now appropriate. David & Charlie are opposites. David has a million friends online & off. Charlie is a soulful outsider off the grid completely. But neither feels close to anybody. When Davids parents present him with a hot Companion bot to encourage healthy bonds & treat dissociative disorder he cant get enough of luscious red-headed Rose
- & he cant get it soon. Companions come with strict intimacy protocols & whenever he tries anything David gets an electric shock. Severed from the boy she was built to love Rose turns to Charlie who finds he can open up knowing Rose isnt real. With Charlies help the ideal companion is about to become her own best friend. In a stunning & hilarious debut John Cusick takes rollicking aim at internet culture & our craving for meaningful connection in an uber-connected world. A strong boy read that girls will love too: sexy hilarious high-tech & full of pop-culture nods to everything from Blade Runner to Buffy.
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An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena & an artists servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights & battles. A woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young ma ...

Wilhelmina Silvers world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse her monkey & her best friend every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold & Will is sent away to boarding school in England the world becomes impossibly difficult. For lions & hyenas are nothing compared to packs of schoolgirls. Where can a girl run to in London? & will she have the courage to survive? ...

Emily feels wicked liberated daring. & bored. But her adventure begins on holiday in La Gomera when a rugged beachcomber removes the leather thong from his neck & binds her hands behind her. Crossing oceans & continents in a nether world of smugglers arms dealers & pirates she becomes the adored but captive jewel of the tough inflexible men who make a living in inhospitable landscapes. On hot afternoons on long days without number she dedicates herself to the pleasures of sex in all its shapes & forms. She learns subservience. She becomes the perfect concubine. The perfect lover. She becomes Chengi
- Girl.
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The history of young women is a history of trouble. Arguments about whether girls have been the victims or the beneficiaries of social change have raged through modern history. This sparkling panoramic social history takes a close look at the anxieties horror stories & moral unease that have accompanied changes in girls' lives since Victorian times. It shows the importance of disentangling panic from progress if we are to understand the true story of twentieth century girls. ...

May 1941 & the island of Crete is invaded by paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight thousands of British & Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping Po Ws sheltered by the Cretan villagers. Sixty years later Lois West & her young son Alex invite feisty Great Aunt Pen to a special eighty-fifth birthday celebration on Crete knowing she has not been back there since the war. Penelope George
- formerly Giorgidiou
- is reluctant to go but is persuaded by the fact it is the 60th anniversary of the Battle. It is time for her to return & make the journey she never thought shed dare to. On the outward voyage from Athens she relives her experiences in the city from her early years as a trainee nurse to those last dark days stranded on the island the last female foreigner. When word spreads of her visit & old Cretan friends & family come to greet her Lois & Alex are caught up in her epic pilgrimage & the journey which leads her to a reunion with the friend she thought she had lost forever
- & the truth behind a secret buried deep in the past...


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May 1941 & the island of Crete is invaded by paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight thousands of British & Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping Po Ws sheltered by the Cretan villagers. Sixty years later Lois West & her young son Alex invite feisty Great Aunt Pen to a special eighty-fifth birthday celebration on Crete knowing she has not been back there since the war. Penelope George
- formerly Giorgidiou
- is reluctant to go but is persuaded by the fact it is the 60th anniversary of the Battle. It is time for her to return & make the journey she never thought she'd dare to. On the outward voyage from Athens she relives her experiences in the city from her early years as a trainee nurse to those last dark days stranded on the island the last female foreigner. When word spreads of her visit & old Cretan friends & family come to greet her Lois & Alex are caught up in her epic pilgrimage & the journey which leads her to a reunion with the friend she thought she had lost forever
- & the truth behind a secret buried deep in the past...


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September is a twelve-year-old girl Somewhat Grown & Somewhat Heartless & she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind & a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland
- well of course she accepts (mightnt you?). When she gets there she finds a land crushed by the iron rule of a villainous Marquess
- she soon discovers that she alone holds the key to restoring order. Having read enough books to know what a girl with a quest must do September sets out to Fix Things. As September forges her way through Fairyland with a book-loving dragon & a boy named Saturday by her side she makes many friends & mistakes losing her shadow her shoes & her way. But she finds adventure courage a rather special Spoon & a lot more besides...

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