There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel... An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he saw the list of stolen & vandalized items
- including a stethoscope some old flannel trousers a box of chocolates a slashed rucksack & a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup
- he congratulated the warden Mrs Hubbard on a 'unique & beautiful problem'. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But reasoned Poirot if this was merely a petty thief at work why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?

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A classic Poirot mystery read by Hugh Fraser. Beautifully re-packaged with stunning new cover illustrations & design that rival ...

Hidato is a pure logic puzzle that is easy to learn difficult to master making it the perfect challenge. Discover magazine featured Hidato about which puzzle master Scott Kim wrote: Now a new number puzzle called Hidato is poised to steal Sudokus spotlight." Hidato 3 presents 200 br&-new Hidato puzzles for hours of summer puzzling." ...

From the Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author comes the poignant & shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour & polite manners hide a terrible past. Tayo arrives at Cathy's with only the clothes he stands up in. He has been brought to her by the police but he is calm polite & very well spoken & not at all like the children she normally fosters. The social worker gives Cathy the forms which should contain Tayo's history but apart from his name & age it is blank. Tayo has no past. Tayo is an 'invisible' child kidnapped from his loving father in Nigeria & brought illegally to the UK by his drink & drugs dependent prostitute mother where he is put to work in a sweat shop in Central London. When he sustains an injury & 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 & manipulates situations to his own advantage & Cathy has to be continually on guard. Tayo's social worker searches all computer databases but there is no record of Tayo
- he has only attended school for 3 terms & has never seen a doctor. He & 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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I'd known it before we saw the fire trucks & the smoke. I'd known all hell had broken loose at the House of Night the moment it had been proven beyond all doubt that Neferet was on the side of Darkness. Only now I had a terrible feeling that outing Neferet would serve more to free her than to force her to pay the consequences for her lies & betrayals. At last Zoey has what she wanted: the truth is out. Neferet's evil has been exposed & the High Council is no longer on her side
- but she's far from done wreaking havoc in the vampyre world. With the seeds of distrust sown & Darkness breeding chaos at the House of Night everyone must band together
- but that's proving to be more difficult than ever before. The twins are barely speaking & the House of Night's former enemy Kalona has now become their warrior pushing their trust to the limits. To top it all off Zoey is pretty darn sure she might be losing her mind
- she saw something when she looked at Neferet's minion Aurox through the Seer Stone that she can hardly explain to herself let alone her friends. Zoey knows that following her instincts might be just what they need to defeat evil...but if she's wrong it could cause the destruction of those closest to her. With the tension at a breaking point & friendships on the line can the nerd herd come together to stop the spread of Darkness before it's too late?


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Aberdeen is rich in history much of it hidden. Now in Hidden Aberdeen Dr Fiona-Jane Brown explores the city through new eyes revealing new stories from the past & bringing the modern city to life. There's the last resting place of Robert Hitchens who was at the wheel of the Titanic when it struck an iceberg; Royal connections including James Ill's night on the town before he was crowned; the brutal murder of a monk by so-called reformers & the strange nineteenth-century animal cruelty case against the city's Jewish community. There's also the city's odd connection with Millwall FC & the place where medieval criminals were hanged. This fascinating book will open your eyes to the hidden the forgotten & the abandoned which lie under your feet as you walk round the city today. ...

The model for this volume is the enormously successful vintage original Distant Voices" (93 000 copies sold to date). It will gather together essays on a range of subjects including Burma Fleet Street East Timor Vietnam today the media & UK politics. " Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s.. . The Truth in his hands is a weapon to be picked up & brandished & used in the struggle against evil & injustice"
- " Guardian"."
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The gripping new psychological thriller featuring Javier Falcon the tortured detective from ' The Silent & the Damned' & ' The Blind Man of Seville.' As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon investigates a faceless corpse unearthed on a municipal dump Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. An apartment block is destroyed & when it's discovered that its basement housed a mosque everybody's terrorist fears are confirmed. Panic sweeps the city more bodies are dragged from rubble the climate of fear infects everyone & terror invades the domestic life of flamboyant judge Calderon & the troubled mind of Consuelo Falcon's one-time lover. With the media & political pressure intensifying Falcon realizes all is not as it appears. But as he comes close to cracking a conspiracy he discovers an even more terrifying plot
- & the race is on to prevent a catastrophe far beyond Spain's borders.
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Worldwide bestseller Camilla Lackberg weaves together another brilliant contemporary psychological thriller with the chilling struggle of a young woman facing the darkest chapter of Europe's past...for fans of Jo Nesbo & Stieg Larsson Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother's possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect she resolves to dig deep into her family's past & finally uncover the reasons why. Her enquiries lead her to the home of a retired history teacher. He was among her mother's circle of friends during the Second World War but her questions are met with bizarre & evasive answers. Two days later he meets a violent death. Detective Patrik Hedstrom Erica's husband is on paternity leave but soon becomes embroiled in the murder investigation. Who would kill so ruthlessly to bury secrets so old? Reluctantly Erica must read her mother's wartime diaries. But within the pages is a painful revelation about Erica's past. Could what little knowledge she has be enough to endanger her husband & newborn baby? The dark past is coming to light & no one will escape the truth of how they came to be... ...

We all hide things some more than others... Mia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home in the village of Little Pelham a happy stable marriage a job she enjoys & three grown up children to whom she's devoted. But appearances are deceiving; the truth is that it's all a precarious balancing act. When the family gather for her son's thirtieth birthday Daisy her youngest daughter drops a bombshell in the way only Daisy can. Once again Mia finds herself cast in the role of peacemaker. It's a role she's tired of particularly since her husband refuses to believe he's responsible for the problems they're facing. Not surprisingly Mia longs for escape. For Owen Fletcher buying the Hidden Cottage was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream & provides the perfect escape for him. When Mia meets him she must decide whether she has the courage to do something for herself for a change. & if she does can she ever go back to the life of compromise she had before? ...