Millennium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful men behind this lucrative industry. When the journalist & his girlfriend are found murdered in their apartment Lisbeth Salander's fingerprints are found on the weapon left at the scene. Now hunted by the entire Swedish police force & officially branded a danger to society she is forced to go undercover. But how can she prove her innocence? With her computer-hacking skills she is anything but the helpless victim. ...

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered & Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable & vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society
- but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist editor-in-chief of Millennium does not believe the police. Using all his magazine staff & resources to prove Salander's innocence Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past spent in criminally corrupt institutions. Yet Salander is more avenging angel than helpless victim. She may be an expert at staying out of sight
- but she has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies.

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This title is a winner of the Crimefest Sounds of Crime Award 2010. There are no innocents...just different degrees of responsibility. Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists are murdered & Salanders fingerprints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable behaviour makes her the official suspect but no-one can find her. Salander may be an expert at staying out of sight but she also has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the authors work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed. ...

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered & Salanders prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable & vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society
- but no-one can find her anywhere. Meanwhile Mikael Blomkvist editor-in-chief of Millennium will not believe what he hears on the news. Knowing Salander to be fierce when fearful he is desperate to get to her before she is cornered & alone. As he fits the pieces of the puzzle together he comes up against some hardened criminals including the chainsaw-wielding blond giant
- a fearsomely huge thug who can feel no pain. Digging deeper Blomkvist also unearths some heart-wrenching facts about Salanders past life. Committed to psychiatric care aged 12 declared legally incompetent at 18 this is a messed-up young woman who is the product of an unjust & corrupt system. Yet Lisbeth is more avenging angel than helpless victim
- descending on those that have hurt her with a righteous anger terrifying in its intensity & truly wonderful in its outcome.


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An international bestseller with over two million copies sold this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty & the ultimate corruption of innocence. 17th Century Holl&. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft she thinks she knows her role: housework laundry & the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world & his work their growing intimacy spreads tension & deception in the ordered household & as the scandal seeps out into the town beyond. Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence & the price of genius is a contemporary classic perfect for fans of Sarah Dunant & Philippa Gregory. ...

In these stories the author renders the bizarre normal & the absurd hilarious from the eerily real almost holographic evocations of historical figures to overtelevised game-show hosts & late-night comedians. In the title story punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism. ...

A novel to fall in love with
- for anyone who loved the escapism of The Time Travellers Wife" & " The Memory Keepers
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From eccentric Joannas boarding house predatory Baba roams Dublin looking for men to give her a good time
- & dragging with her
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' It all happened so quickly. One minute I was squatting on the bare earth preoccupied with popping pea pods. The next I saw the flash of a black hand & white cloth & before I even had a chance to cry out it had sailed towards my face & completely covered it.. .' In 1954 in a remote South American village a four-year-old girl was abducted & then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman who went on to spend several years alone in the jungle her only family a troop of capuchin monkeys. Using instinct to guide her she copied everything they did & soon learned to fend for herself. At around ten years old a completely feral Marina was returned to civilisation by hunters who sold her to a brothel. After being enslaved & beaten daily she escaped
- to live the perilous existence of a Colombian city street kid. Marina's life as a wild child wasn't over. In some ways it had only just begun. This is her astonishing story.
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