This is the phenomenal international bestseller now in paperback. 'A treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time'
- Isabel Allende. Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning as he is teaching he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then & there
- shocking his students & surprising even himself. His unusual impulsiveness is driven by two chance encounters
- with a mysterious Portuguese woman in a red coat; & with a book he finds hidden in a dusty corner of a second-hand bookshop the journal of an enigmatic Portuguese aristocrat Amadeu de Prado. With the book as his talisman Raimund boards the night train to Lisbon on a journey to find out more about Prado whose words haunt & compel him. Gradually a picture of an extraordinary man emerges: a difficult brilliant charismatic figure a doctor & a poet & a rebel against Salazar's dictatorship. & as Prado's story comes to light so too Gregorius himself begins his life anew. Hurtling through the dark Night Train to Lisbon" is a rich tale wonderfully told propelled by the mystery at its heart."


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Vicky Bliss is the first to admit she doesnt know a thing about Egyptology. But her familiarity with criminality brings an intelligence agency to her office with an offer she cant refuse: they want her as an undercover operative on a luxury Nile cruise because certain information has come their way that a major theft of Egyptian antiquities is in the works. Vicky suspects the man they are seeking is her occasional lover & frequent adversary Sir John Smythe. Then on the first day of her Nile cruise she spots him
- with a beautiful woman clinging to his arm. Stunned & furious Vicky is too preoccupied with her own feelings to concentrate on crime on the cruise
- but then one of the crew is brutally murdered & Vicky finds she must put all her emotions aside & join forces with her duplicitous lover if she wants to solve the case...

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The eruption of Italys Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city & its people their treasures & secrets. Centuries later echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase. Beneath layers of volcanic ash lies the Villa della Notte
- the Night Villa
- once home to the captivating slave girl at the heart of an ancient controversy. & concealed in a subterranean labyrinth rests a cache of antique documents believed lost to the ages: a prize too alluring for Sophie to resist. But whatever shocking events transpired in the face of Vesuviuss fury has led to deeper intrigues
- & Sophie is swiftly sucked into their dark & terrifying vortex.. .


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Moving back through the 1940s through air raids blacked out streets illicit liaisons sexual adventure to end with its beginning in 1941 The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant & compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners
- three women & a young man with a past drawn with absolute truth & intimacy. Kay who drove an ambulance during the war & lived life at full throttle now dresses in mannish clothes & wanders the streets with a restless hunger searching.. . Helen clever sweet much-loved harbours a painful secret.. . Viv glamour girl is stubbornly even foolishly loyal to her soldier lover.. . Duncan an apparent innocent has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives & their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances.. . Tender tragic & beautifully poignant set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic & ordinary here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises & twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.
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Forty-eight hours after New York Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her restaurateur boyfriend Luc Rouget her holiday is cut short when a young woman is found murdered. The only evidence discovered on the body is one of Lucs matchboxes promoting his new restaurant in New York. Before the investigation begins Alex is summoned back home to handle a high profile case. Mohammed Gil-Darsin Head of the World Economic Bureau has been accused of attacking a maid in his hotel. As the scandal unfolds Alex finds her attention torn between preparing the alleged victim to testify & a murder case with ties too close to home. When a second body is found with Lucs matchbox
- this time in Brooklyn
- Alex begins to fear that the two cases may be connected & that uncovering the sordid secrets of the citys most wealthy & powerful could cost her & her loved ones everything they hold dear...

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' Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die & nothing changes'. For a policeman there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except perhaps a serial killer who targets coppers & a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last the flags & barricades are rising... And the question for a policeman an officer of the law a defender of the peace is: Are you with them or are you against them? ...

Walking the streets of Moscow indistinguishable from the rest of its population are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers & capable of entering the Twilight a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The Night Watch first book in the Night Watch Trilogy follows Anton a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets & metro of the city protecting ordinary people from the vampires & magicians of the Dark. When he comes accross Svetlana a young woman under a powerful curse & saves an unfledged Other Egor from vampires he becomes involved in events that threaten the uneasy truce & the whole city... ...

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer teach his younger self how to be a good copper & change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins he's got no wife no child no future...A Discworld Tale of One City with a full chorus of street urchins ladies of negotiable affection rebels secret policemen & other children of the revolution. Truth! Justice! Freedom! & a Hard-boiled Egg! ...

In Secret Vampire Poppy is dying. Her best friend James can offer her eternal life
- as a vampire. One kiss & she sees into his
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In ' Dark Angel' Gillian is about to die. Then he appears
- Angel
- & becomes her secret prtector. She must give him absolute

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