Quirky original & hugely entertaining this is a debut novel of fantastical proportions from a talented new voice in children's fiction. When intrepid investigators Cass & Max-Ernest set out to discover the history of the mysterious Symphony of Smells they become embroiled in a dastardly experiment involving kidnapped children & the secret of eternal youth. Together they must come up with a plan to rescue their classmate from a hideous fate & escape the eerie pyramid of the Midnight Sun. Colourful characters abound in this utterly inspired journey of discovery guaranteed to delight & enthrall readers. ...

Acclaimed illustrator Paul Rogers (Bob Dylans Forever Young picture book) delivers a collection of 100 movie puzzles in this charming gift book: each film (ranging from classics to pop culture favorites) gets 6 enigmatic illustrations (no movie stars) the reader then has to guess the the film from the clues. Answer key in back an introduction by an noted figure in the film industry. ...

When Tim Harding agrees to do a friend a favour by bidding for an antique ring at an auction on his behalf he is unaware of the secrets tied up with it
- secrets that date back three hundred years. But the ring is stolen before it can be sold & a shocking murder follows. Harding is quickly thrown into a web of conspiracies surrounding the ring's origins. As he draws closer to the heart of the mystery he comes across a young woman he is certain he recognizes even though they have never met. But as he goes in search of her identity his life begins to fall apart. Somewhere a perilous truth awaits him coupled with a terrible realization: those who uncover that truth cannot be allowed to live...
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This title offers a sequence of extraordinary events over the past three-hundred years that provides the links in a chain of intrigue deceit greed & murder. The loss of HMS Association with all hands in 1707. An admiralty clerks secret mission thirty years afterwards. A fatal accident during a dive to the wreck in 1996. & an expatriates reluctant return home ten years later. Its a conspiracy of circumstances that is about to unravel his life. & with it the past. 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. ...

Imagine if you were able to change history. By altering one tiny thing you could start a chain of catastrophic events. Ethan is one of the Named fated to stop this ever happening although the forces of chaos have other ideas & Ethan is finding it more & more difficult to stay one step ahead. He is also a normal schoolboy whose life is rapidly becoming far too confusing. So when Isabel arrives on the scene she is only going to make matters worse.. .or is she? This is history in the making
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' You can't investigate the baby Inspector. It's the law.' Declan Cleary's body has never been found but everyone believes he was killed for informing on a friend over thirty years ago. Now the Commission for Location of Victims' Remains is following a tip-off that he was buried on the small isle of Islandmore in the middle of the River Foyle. Instead the dig uncovers a baby's skeleton & it doesn't look like death by natural causes. But evidence revealed by the Commission's activities cannot lead to prosecution. Inspector Devlin is torn. He has no desire to resurrect the violent divisions of the recent past. Neither can he let a suspected murderer go unpunished. Now the secret is out more deaths follow. Devlin must follow his conscience -- even when that puts those closest to him at terrible risk.. . ...

Compelling.. .strange & wonderful & frightening". (" New Yorker"). De Lillos seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece it concerns a mysterious language cult seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence an American risk analyst is drawn to search for an explanation. We follow his progress on an obsessive journey that begins to take over his life & the lives of those closest to him. In addition to offering a series of precise character studies " The Names" explores the intersection of language & culture the perception of America from both inside & outside its borders & the impact that narration has on the facts of a story. Meditative & probing De Lillo wonders: how does one cope with the fact that the act of articulation is simultaneously capable of defining & circumscriptively restricting access to the self? "A serious & complicated novel which deserves praise.. .an outstandingly well-written & constructed book". (" Guardian")." ...

Novelist Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009 she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland & applied on a whim despite having two young children & a comfortable life in an English cathedral city. The resulting adventure was shaped by Icelands economic collapse which halved the value of her salary by the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull & by a collection of new friends including a poet who saw the only bombs fall on Iceland in 1943 a woman who speaks to elves & a chef who guided Sarahs family around the intricacies of Icelandic cuisine. Sarah was drawn to the strangeness of Icelandic landscape & explored hillsides of boiling mud volcanic craters & fissures & the unsurfaced roads that link remote farms & fishing villages in the far north. She walked the coast path every night after her children were in bed watching the northern lights & the comings & goings of migratory birds. As the weeks & months went by the children settled in local schools & Sarah got to know her students & colleagues she & her family learned new ways to live. ...

The Namesake is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America. When her grandmother learned of Ashimas pregnancy she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the familys first sahib. & so Ashima & Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes... For now the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes & still no letter arrives from India American bureaucracy takes over & demands that baby boy Ganguli be given a name. In a panic his father decides to nickname him Gogol
- after his favourite writer. Brought up as an Indian in suburban America Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. & so he sets off on his own path through life a path strewn with conflicting loyalties love & loss... Spanning three decades & crossing continents Jhumpa Lahiris much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. Elegant subtle & moving The Namesake is for everyone who loved the clarity sympathy & grace of Lahiris Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies.
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