No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home he gets onto a tube train
- & never gets off again. No eyewitnesses. No trace of him on security cameras. Six months later he's still missing. Out of options & desperate for answers Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down. Raker has made a career out of finding the lost. He knows how they think. & in missing person cases the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide. But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined. For as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him someone is watching. Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day. & with Raker in his sights he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself...
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In the late 1930s in New York Marielle Patterson shares her life with her husband Malcolm & their little boy Teddy. But their lives are filled with secrets. Haunted by a past she has kept secret even from her husband Marielle secretly lights a candle each year for a child who died in a tragic accident when he was scarcely more than a baby. Then Marielle runs into her first love American expatriate Charles Delauney. & when her little Teddy is kidnapped Charles is first blamed then arrested as the Pattersons the New York Police & the FBI turn the country upside down looking for Teddy. A terrifying court drama seeks to put Charles Delauney behind bars as a series of revelations begin to unravel the truth about Marielle Charles & Malcolm. Piece by piece the uncovering of their pasts creates a complex mosaic of the motives & passions controlling their lives. Vanished is an intriguing tale of guilt desire & suspense & people one cant easily forget as they are drawn inexorably together seeking the child that...vanished. ...

From Norman Davies the acclaimed author of Europe: A History" comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms selected as a Book of the Year by the " Sunday Times" " Daily Telegraph" " New Statesman" " Independent" " Guardian" & " Financial Times". Europe's history is littered with kingdoms duchies empires & republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great Mediterranean ' Empire of Aragon'? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original & enthralling book peers through the cracks of history to discover the stories of lost realms across the centuries. " Dazzling provocative & brilliant". (Dominic Sandbrook " Sunday Times" Books of the Year). "A luminous account.. .there are few better ways of understanding the multilayered splendours & horrors of Europe's past than through the pages of this wise humane & unfailingly engaging book". (John Adamson " Sunday Telegraph"). "" Vanished Kingdoms" is great history & also great art. It is written with verve passion & profound empathy". (David Marquand " New Statesman" Books of the Year). "A magnificent achievement. Brocaded with scholarship the book is unlikely ever to be equalled". (Ian Thomson " Independent")." ...

A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school & locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme it means relying on his protge to ferret out a master illusionist theyve dubbed the conjurer who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise & the minutes tick down Rhyme & Sachs must move beyond the smoke & mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all. ...

Rupert Everett's first memoir
- Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins
- was an international bestseller & an instant classic on publication

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Twenty years ago one-year-old Lauren disappeared in the most terrifying way imaginable. Snatched from a creche during a momentary blackout Lauren was never seen again & to this day her mother still grieves her loss. When ex-policeman Tom Lomax gets a mysterious offer from Sara Eaton heir to a massive fortune to fly to her private island all expenses paid he cannot help but be intrigued. Sara has received a troubling message & despite all the privileges in her life she now has no one to turn to & doesn't know whom she can trust. In a matter of hours both will be thrown headfirst into a race against time that will challenge everything they've believed in & change both their lives for ever. An action-packed nail-biting thriller with a heart-wrenching story of loss at its core The Vanishing is the brand new novel from acclaimed thriller writer John Connor. ...

This is a story about a snow-covered island you wont find on any map. Its the story of a girl Minou. A year ago her mother walked out into the rain & never came back. Its about a magician & a priest & a dog called No Name. Its about a fathers endless hunt for the truth. Its about a dead boy who listens & Minous search for her mothers voice. Its a story of how even the most isolated places have their own secrets. Its a story you will never forget. ...

THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX is vintage Maggie O' Farrell: a stunning imagining of a life stolen & reclaimed. Edinburgh ...

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew she now has a young daughter a handsome fianc & her own Search & Rescue bloodhound
- which she uses to find missing persons. But as she plans her wedding she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. Then a policeman shows up at her door arresting her father for the kidnap of a little girl. & Delia's past & present fracture into little pieces. VANISHING ACTS is a book about the very nature & power of memory. It explores what happens when the past we have been running from catches up to us & questions who we trust to tell us the story of our lives before we are capable of remembering it ourselves.
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There was a smell in the air of tar & rope & rusted chain a smell of tidal water. Down harbour around the point was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired long sought-for not yet known. Freedom to write to walk to wander freedom to climb hills to pull a boat to be alone.. .I for this & this for me. Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for most of her life. Its rugged coastline wild terrain & tumultuous weather inspired her imagination & many of her works are set there including Rebecca Jamaica Inn & Frenchmans Creek. In Vanishing Cornwall she celebrates the land she loved exploring its legends its history & its people eloquently making a powerful plea for Cornwalls preservation. ...