Marian Keyes, the No. 1 bestselling author of Rachel\'s Holiday, is back with her stunning new novel The Mystery of Mercy Close and the return of the legendary and beloved Walsh sisters.Helen Walsh doesn\'t believe in fear - it\'s just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs - and yet she\'s sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and

When lightning strikes there can only be trouble - as Jessica Mastriani finds out when she and best friend Ruth get caught in a thunderstorm. Not that Jess has ever really avoided trouble before. Instead of cheerleading there are fistfights with the football team and month-long stints in detention - not that detention doesn\'t have its good points - like sitting next to Rob - the cutest senior around!

From the acclaimed author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion: a stunningly beautiful and moving new novel about a boy\'s life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s.

WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Now also shortlisted for the Costa Biography award 2013, this is the story of Gabriele D\'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist.

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This summer lose yourself in a sweeping story of love and family from the bestselling author of The Beekeeper\'s Daughter...Perfect for all fans of Victoria Hislop and The Tea Planter\'s Wife. Their lives were mapped out ahead of them. But love and war will change everything...Castle Deverill, nestled in the rolling Irish hills, is home to three very different women: flame-haired Kitty Deverill, her

He\'s been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw\'s body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it\'s an open-and-shut case. A standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of Widringham women\'s refuge where Katie worked don\'t agree. They say it\'s murder. Will you listen

Bernd Obermann has been living in New York for several years, in the part of the city historically known as Hell\'s Kitchen. He is intimately involved with his surroundings, and so he hardy betakes himself to the fundamental New York to lead us to the undiscovered Harlem, Coney Island, the recently russianized Rockaways, to a new soul food restaurant, to the best pizza parlor in little Italy, to the

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION Addictive, thrilling, exhilarating...You won\'t be able to put it down. Ash Rashid is a former homicide detective who can\'t stand the thought of handling another death investigation. That\'s until his niece\'s body is found in the property of one of the city\'s wealthiest citizens. The coroner calls it an overdose, but the case doesn\'t add up. Against orders,

This is the third novel in Jeffrey Archer\'s compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles. 1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor\'s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search

Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed though by no means inactive whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies.

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don\'t need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab\'s bedroom which is next to mine. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning

At the turn of the century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out.With tireless personal commitment

In gleicher Ausstattung wie die bereits erschienenen Sonderausgaben Das Glasperlenspiel\", \"Unterm Rad\" und \"Siddhartha\" liegt nun auch Hesses einflußreichster Roman \"Der Steppenwolf\" vor. Die Ausgabe enthält in einem Anhang erstmals den kompletten Zyklus der Krisis-Gedichte, einem lyrischen Tagebuch der Jahre 1925 bis 1926, aus dem dieses internationale Kultbuch vieler Generationen hervorgegangen

Rand al\'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, is slowly succumbing to the taint that the Dark One has placed upon the saidin - the male half of the True Source. His Asha\'man followers are also showing signs of the insanity that once devastated the world and brought the Age of Legends to an end. And as Rand falters, the Shadow falls across a stricken land. In the city of Ebou Dar the Seanchan, blind to the folly

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For the last time, the dwarves are going to war - and the outcome will decide the fate of their race. There has been no word from the brave warrior Tungdil since the vicious battle at the Black Abyss. Dragons, magicians, and the malevolent älfar have advanced far into the kingdom of Girdlegard, ruthlessly seizing vast areas of land. The dwarves seem to be facing their next battle with little hope of