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From the Heart
Everyone likes Olive Piper. A happy, open-hearted child growing up in the 1950s, her life is contented. When her passion for reading gets her into university she feels sure the world is waiting for her. But then she makes a mistake – the kind any one of us could make – and faces an impossible
Bridget Jones`s Baby: The Diaries
This is the funniest book of the year. It is the new Bridget Jones novel. 8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking
Smile
Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly`s pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor`s name and
Himalaya: A Human History
`A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history` Financial TimesThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world`s highest mountains.SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 DUFF COOPER PRIZEAn epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world`s highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries
The Line Becomes A River
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard`Stunningly good… The best thing I`ve read for ages` James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd`s LifeFrancisco Cantu was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. In this extraordinary account, he describes his work in the
A Place for Us
** The New York Times bestseller **`To be taken hostage by Fatima Mirza`s heartrending and timely story is a gutting pleasure… She captures your mind and heart with an urgency that defies you to stop reading. I guarantee you will be different when you close the book` Sarah Jessica Parker`I loved this book` Anne Tyler`The
Autumn: (Seasons Quartet 1)
The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter.`Inspiring, surprising… Autumn will warm and enlighten anyone who opens their eyes to it` The TimesAutumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short
Murder for Christmas
This is a classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies…and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in
The Laughing Monsters
โ€In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear.โ€ (Freetown, Sierra Leone). A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment. He must find Michael Adriko – maverick,
New Boy
Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomatโ€s son Osei knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day โ€“ so heโ€s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student canโ€t stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time. A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy of satyagraha, or passive resistance, earned him the admiration of millions. Louis Fischer`s biography is the definitive account of Gandhi`s life; it tells the astonishing story of one man who changed the world forever.
Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic
This is The International Bestseller – As Read On BBC RADIO 4. Why would you kill your neighbour? Based on the best part of a decade embedded with the homicide units of the LAPD, this groundbreaking work of reportage takes us onto the streets, inside the homes and into the lives of a community wracked
An Event in Autumn
Some cases aren`t as cold as you`d think Kurt Wallander`s life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden – the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As police officers comb the property, Wallander attempts
West of Eden
West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim – all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The
Eileen
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016. SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016. SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016. โ€Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven`s wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling.โ€ (Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Times). The Christmas season
The Accordionist
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clรฉment Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartments in question, it seems like an open-and-shut case.Desperate for a chance to prove his innocence, Clรฉment disappears. He seeks refuge with old Marthe, the
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors
`Stunning… Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it – it has all the drama and suspense of a novel` Tracy BormanCrusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle – the Plantagenet queens broke through medieval constraints to exercise power
Fen
A FOYLES Fiction Book of the Year 2016Shortlisted for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2017 Longlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2017 The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand,
Missing
Having moved from the Fens to the Midlands to the Scottish Borders, Jessie Noon finds herself struggling to leave the past behind.Following a family tragedy, Jessie Noon moved from the Fens to the Midlands and now lives in the Scottish Borders with a cat, a dog and – she is convinced – a ghost in
Everything Under
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018`Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction` Lauren Groff`Weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling… Dive in for just a moment and you`ll emerge gasping and haunted` Celeste Ng It`s been sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget her childhood on
