OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award; longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years ... Funny, moving, scary, otherworldly, practical and magical' NEIL GAIMAN The year is 1806. centuries have passed
Harry Potter in 100 Objects presents a host of incredible props, artefacts and set items from the legendary Harry Potter movies. Through colourful photography and insider facts from the creators of all eight films, readers will discover the significance of each object and its unique role in shaping the beloved series. Filled with cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes accounts, concept
Opal is a lot of things - orphan, high-school dropout, full-time cynic. Most of all, she's determined to find a better life for her younger brother. One that gets them both out of Eden, a town renowned for bad luck. So when Opal gets the chance to earn a good wage at Starling House, Eden's very own haunted mansion, she can't resist. Her new workplace is uncanny and full of secret
The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E SchwabOver 4 million copies sold 'Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous' Katherine Rundell 'Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years' Neil Gaiman 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war,
The thirty-second instalment in James Patterson's globally bestselling Alex Cross series. The thirty-second instalment in James Patterson's globally bestselling Alex Cross series. _____________________________________________ It's time to put the guns down, Detective Cross. Even if you knew the way out of this place, we would catch you. A serial killer is taking out America's finest legals minds,
An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband has a secret life - and it might cost them all their lives. Everyone in the small town of Hemingway Grove knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practises family law. When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, he's celebrated as a hero
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Told in the form of a letter to someone Violeta loves above all o
The future of the dark side hangs in the balance in the stunning conclusion to the Darth Bane series.
Twenty years have passed since the Sith and their endless rivalries were eradicated and replaced with the Rule of Two. Darth Bane now reigns alongside his young acolyte, Zannah, who must study and train in the dark side of the Force until the time comes to strike down her master and claim the man
From # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes an enemies-to-lovers romance about an editor, her bestselling author, and one life-changing secret.
What she doesn't know about love could fill a book.
With a successful career as a romance editor, and an engagement to a man who checks off all ninety-nine boxes on her carefully curated list, Lanie's more than good. She's killing it. Th
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From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who
Part adventure tale, part chronicle of an indomitable woman who bows to no man, it is a fascinating novel that explores power, personality, and the places where they overlap.
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive's o
Elizabeth Strout animates the ordinary with an astonishing force, wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prizewinning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strouts magnificent gift for humanizing characters. Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature.
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Friendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi . . . “Mukasonga´s masterpiece” (Julian Lucas, NYRB)
Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded i
An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides sThe Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan s A Visit from the Goon Squad. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start