Fifteen-year-old Demis world is shattered when she is left profoundly deaf by a sudden illness. Everything is different now & Demi must learn to adapt to a new school new friends & even learn a whole new language. Whisper is a coming-of-age tale about discovering who you are & where you fit in life. About friendships & first love & more of all learning to love the person you are. ...

The Crew didn't think things could ever get that bad again. They were seriously wrong. Things have calmed down for the Crew (Billy Ellie Della Jas & Will) & life in the Ghetto is ticking on as usual. But things are about to kick-off all over again. The police have launched Operation Clean-up & dealers are regularly being pulled off the street & into the police station. Someone's got to be grassing them up & soon Nanny & the Crew are getting blamed. Billy is mugged Ellie is picked on in school & Billy's house is being targeted. The Crew need to find out who's pointing the finger before things get really serious. As tough & uncompromising as ever Bali's latest novel won't disappoint his army of fans & will undoubtedly win him many more. A thrilling sequel that also stands alone. ...

To keep quiet about something so important.. .well its almost a lie wouldnt you say? When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at Larkwood he is dismayed to hear her allegation. Herbert Moore had been one of the founding fathers of the Priory revered by all who met him a man whod shaped Anselms own vocation. The idea that someone could look on his grave & speak of a lie is inconceivable. But Anselm soon learns that Herbert did indeed have secrets in his past that he kept hidden all his life. In 1917 during the terrible slaughter of the Passchendaele campaign a soldier faced a court martial for desertion. Herbert charged with a responsibility that would change the course of his life sat upon the panel that judged him. In coming to understand the court martial Anselm discovers its true significance: a secret victory that transformed the young Captain Moore & shone a light upon the horror of war. ...

Six severed arms are discovered buried in a forest clearing. They are arranged in a mysterious circle & appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight & thirteen. But the rest of the bodies are nowhere to be found. Criminologist Goran Gavila is given the case. A dishevelled instinctively rebellious man he is forced to work with young female police officer Mila Vasquez. Lithe boyish answering to no one Mila has a reputation as a specialist in missing children. She also has a tragic history of her own that has left her damaged unable to feel or to relate to others. Theirs is a fiery but strangely affecting working relationship
- & as they uncover more secrets about the dark secrets in the forest their lives are increasingly in each others hands...A gripping literary thriller that has taken Italy by storm The Whisperer has been as sensational a bestseller in Europe as the Stieg Larsson novels. It is that rare creation: a thought-provoking intelligent literary novel that is also utterly unputdownable.
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Orlando Figes' The Whisperers" is a groundbreaking account of daily life in the chaotic & paranoid atmosphere of Stalinist Russia. Exploring the inner life of a Russia where everyone was afraid to talk & society spoke in whispers whether to protect friends & family
- or to betray them
- Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin's Terror. Where a junior worker might inform on their superior to get their job; a husband to get rid of a lover; a neighbour out of petty jealousy. Where living a double life became the norm & yet somehow a few defied the state. Those who shaped the political system became very frequently its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. Drawing on hundreds of family archives from across the whole spectrum of Russian society The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or perversely later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers
- whether to protect themselves their families neighbours or friends
- or to inform on them. " Wonderful.. .an amazing panoramic view.. .I 've rarely read anything like it". (Claire Tomalin). " Awesome.. .one of the most unforgettable books I have ever read. I defy anyone to read it without weeping at its human suffering cruelty & courage". (Simon Sebag Montefiore " Mail on Sunday"). " This is a heart-rending book.. .its importance cannot be overestimated... This book should be made compulsory reading in Russia today". (Antony Beevor author Of " Stalingrad"). "A masterful account of lost & stolen lives". (" Sunday Times"). Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College University of London. He is the author of " Peasant Russia" " Civil War" "A Peoples Tragedy" " Natasha's Dance" & " The Whisperers". He lives in Cambridge & London. His books have been translated into over twenty languages."



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This book features the worldly wise DI Brock & his wry sidekick DS Poole. When Jimmy Spotter Gould is shot dead within seconds of emerging from Londons Stone Mill Prison at the end of an eight-year sentence for armed robbery DCI Brock & DS Poole are faced with yet another baffling crime. As enquiries continue an embezzling solicitors clerk a dodgy undertaker & a dubious motor trader all come into the frame. Added to which a Bosnian doctor & Her Majestys Revenue & Customs also feature in a tale that eventually culminates in the uncovering of a complex smuggling operation & the arrest of the murderers of Spotter Gould & two other players in the scam. ...

A gruesome discovery leads Libertus on a dangerous quest...
- " Wealthy Volus ex-lictor to the Imperial Governor of Gaul
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A short holiday with his mother turns out very differently for Joe than he could have imagined when he left home. Soon he is embroiled in a world of witchcraft a world where the kind & innocent witches of Britain are facing a wicked foe. Can Joe & his young friend Twiggy put an end to the cunning plot or will they like their witchy friends find the baffling mystery too hard to solve? ...

The Whispering Wind is a moving story of two lovers set on the beautiful island of Sardinia where Elise goes on holiday to escape a loveless & violent marriage. Whilst there she meets & falls in love with Beppe a local Sard. Despite religious & cultural complications they embark on a romantic & passionate affair. Beppe shows Elise his island & introduces her to the welcoming culture of the Sardinians & Elise soon falls under the spell of both the island & its people. But after weeks of blissful happiness Elise has to return unexpectedly to England to face all the problems she had been so desperate to leave behind... The Whispering Wind is a work of fiction that will appeal to women who are romantics at heart. ...

Sometimes the past really does come back to haunt you... The old manor house has stood empty for years left to rot since the last master of the Fenton family died. Until Jess Beddows steps inside & feels she has come home. Against her family's wishes she buys the house promising to bring it back to life. Upstairs in an attic room left untouched for a century or more she finds a journal. It holds the heartbreaking tale of Martha & of the cruel entangled lives of the house's servants & masters nearly two hundred years before. As Jess is drawn into their tragedy the whispers begin. Before long everything she loves will be threatened by violent emotion & long-kept secrets. Can she survive the echoes from the past? ...