Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. Or so she thought. But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her filled with objects seemingly without meaning
- three feathers an exotic seashell a painting a mirror two prints an address book a map a hat a rucksack & a necklace. & while she's busy playing detective trying to find out who her mother was she finds out more about herself than she ever really wanted to know. Secrets are discovered truths uncovered & Catherine realises that maybe there was something more to her mother something that her familiy has kept from her. How long a shadow can a dead woman cast?
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Alexs beloved grandfather is sick. His memory is failing & Alexs parents want to put him in a home. Alex has promised Grandad that he wont let that happen But Alex has broken promises before. When he was growing up in the Bosnian War he swore that he would protect his brother. It was a promise that he couldnt keep Alex cant fail again. ...

A pulse-pounding race-against-time thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett. Forensic psychiatrist Jo Becketts speciality is the psychological autopsy
- an investigation into a persons life to determine whether a death was natural accidental suicide or homicide. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person
- one with a suspect memory who cant be trusted to participate in his own medical care
- she knows all her skills will be put to the test. Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that Ian Kanan has got anterograde amnesia & cant form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk & talk & yet cant help Jo figure out just what happened to him. Suddenly a string of clues arises something to do with a super deadly biological agent code-named Slick" a kidnapping & a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realises Kanans addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco. With time running out she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city
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The Memory Game is a haunting psychological thriller from the Top Ten bestselling author Nicci French You remember an idyllic childhood. But your memory is deceitful. & possibly deadly... When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden Jane Martello is shocked to learn it's that of her childhood friend Natalie who went missing twenty-five years ago. Encouraged by a therapist to recover lost memories Jane hopes to find out what really took place when she was a child
- & what happened to Natalie. But in learning the truth about hers & Natalie's past is Jane putting her own future at terrible risk? Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk & have written thirteen other bestselling novels all published by Penguin: Complicit What to Do When Someone Dies Until It's Over Losing You Catch Me When I Fall Beneath the Skin The Safe House The Red Room Land of the Living Killing Me Softly Secret Smile & most recently Blue Monday & Tuesday's Gone in the brilliant new Frieda Klein series.
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Lamorna Cove
- a tiny bay in Cornwall picturesque unspoilt. A hundred years ago it was the haunt of a colony of artists. Today
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The multi-million copy bestseller Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter" is a moving & poignant novel about grief family & betrayal. Families have secrets they hide even from themselves... It should have been an ordinary birth the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though David's son is a healthy boy his daughter has Down's syndrome. & in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse. As grief quietly tears apart David's family so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can. " Crafted with language so lovely you have to reread the passages just to be captivated all over again.. .this is simply a beautiful book". (Jodi Picoult). "I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters & beautiful language". (Sue Monk Kidd author of the best-selling " The Secret Life of Bees"). Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collection " The Secrets of the Fire King" which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/ Hemingway Award & has won the Whiting Award & the Nelson Algren Award. Her second novel " The Lake of Dreams" is available from Penguin. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky." ...

Jimmy Magee whose extraordinary memory for sports trivia has led to his being dubbed the Memory Man has the distinction of being the longest-serving sports commentator in the English-speaking world. He started his career in 1956 the year that Ronnie Delany won the 1 500 metres gold medal at Melbourne. He has covered every Olympic Games since 1972 (the London 2012 games were his eleventh!) & every soccer World Cup since 1974. He achieved worldwide notice in Munich in 1972 when he managed to breach security in the Olympic village to cover the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes. This incredible scoop was picked up by CBS in the United States & then by every television station around the world. Jimmy Magee has been present at the most iconic sporting moments in both world & Irish sport & gives his unique insight into these major sporting moments. He tells how he played five-a-side football with Gert Muller how he almost came to blows with Nigel Benn & why he thinks Katie Taylor is Ireland's greatest contemporary sportsperson. But what is perhaps the most striking aspect of such an accomplished career is how Jimmy managed to find the strength to keep up his cheerful persona on air as he endured immeasurable sorrow in his personal life. His beloved wife Marie died unexpectedly in 1989 & his son Paul himself a footballer & sports broadcaster tragically lost his battle with motor neurone disease in 2008 at the early age of fifty-one. Full of anecdotes humour & poignancy Memory Man tells all these things & more. This is a frank open & honest book by one of Ireland's most beloved national treasures. ...

' And it came to pass in those days as it had come before & would come again that the Dark lay heavy on the land & weighed down the hearts of men & the green things failed & hope died.'
- Charal Drianaan te Calamon The Cycle of the Dragon. In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join behind Rand al' Thor or to stop him from his plan to break the seals on the Dark One's prison
- which may be a sign of his madness or the last hope of humankind. Egwene the Amyrlin Seat leans toward the former. In Andor the Trollocs seize Caemlyn. In the wolf dream Perrin Aybara battles Slayer. Approaching Ebou Dar Mat Cauthon plans to visit his wife Tuon now Fortuona Empress of the Seanchan. All humanity is in peril
- & the outcome will be decided in Shayol Ghul itself. The Wheel is turning & the Age is coming to its end. The Last Battle will determine the fate of the world... For twenty years The Wheel of Time has enthralled more than forty million readers in over thirty-two languages. A Memory of Light brings this majestic fantasy creation to its richly satisfying conclusion. Working from notes & partials left by Robert Jordan when he died in 2007 & consulting with Jordan's widow who edited all of Jordan's books established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson has recreated the vision Jordan left behind.


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Freetown Sierra Leone 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later lying in the capital's hospital he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital Kai a gifted young surgeon is desperately trying to forget the pain of a lost love that torments him as much as the mental scars he still bears from the civil war that has left an entire people with terrible secrets to keep. It falls to a British psychologist Adrian Lockheart to help the two survivors but when he too falls in love past & present collide with devastating consequences. The Memory of Love is a heartbreaking story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. ...

The extraordinary story of the richest & most violent gangster in history-his youth his bid for political power his domination of the worlds cocaine trade his campaign against the Colombian state during which thousands died his imprisonment in a luxurious private jail his escape & his eventual capture & shooting-is told in hundreds of photographs gathered by photographer James Mollison in Colombia. Exhaustively researched this visual biography

Includes:: photographs from Escobar family albums pictures by Escobars bodyguards pictures from police files (both shot by the police & taken in raids of Escobars premises) & snapshots by the Federal Drug Administration officer who helped hunt Escobar down. The book contains illuminating interviews with family members other gangsters Colombian police & judges & survivors of Escobars killing sprees. The text is supplemented by contemporary photographs by Mollison of Escobars fleet of planes his private zoo arms caches captured by the police & even Escobars prison jukebox. It is both a compelling picture story & a landmark in visual journalism. This is the original follow-up to James Mollisons James & Other Apes (Chris Boot 2004). Born of British origin in Kenya Mollison now lives in Venice. He works as an advertising & editorial photographer & his work has been widely published throughout the world including in Colors The New York Times the Guardian & Le Monde

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