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A complete original . . . she aims straight for the truth and the heart'Hilary MantelPatrick is a loner, an intelligent but unhappy young man struggling to find his place in the world. But, not long after he leaves home to begin a new life in a boarding house in a remote seaside town, he commits an act of violence and must face the awful and chilling consequences. This is How is a compelling and unsettling journey into the dark side of human e...

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Can you trust a man who has secrets he won't share? -" "It's been seven years since the brutal murder of Emma Cardale's best friend, Laura, and Emma's only just managed to pick up the pieces. She has a job she enjoys, and a wonderful man in Jack Scarlet, whose dancing eyes and quicksilver moods make her heart sing. But one day she returns home with bad news from work to find an unwelcome ghost from the past on her doorstep . . .

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A medieval mystery, a backlist title from the author of )The Successor( and )The Siege(. When a daughter is brought home to her mother by a mysterious ghostly rider, it sets off a chain of events that plunges the small Albanian village into fear and mistrust.

A Waterstone's New Voice 2009An Amazon Rising Star 2009Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in her small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she canfly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems tobe asking the right questions, Gwenni decides to conduct her own investigation.Mari Strachan's unforgettable novel was one of the most acclaimed and successful debuts of ...

The brand-new Rafferty and Llewellyn Mystery - Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty has just left his wedding rehearsal when Sergeant Dafyd Llewellyn calls to say that a local man has come home to find his wife dead - strangled - on the kitchen floor. Adrienne Staveley is soon revealed to be a woman with many secrets and several lovers, and there is no shortage of suspects. But to Rafferty's horror, his fiancee Abra's fingerprints are among tho...

Karin Alvtegen was born in J¿nk¿ping, Sweden, in 1965 and had a varied career, including work in set design for film and stage, before she started to write. She won Sweden's most prestigious crime novel award, the Glass Key, in 2000 with her novel, Missing, and further acclaim with her next two novels, Betrayal and Shame. She is the great-neice of Astrid Lindgren (author of the Pippi Longstocking stories), and lives in Stockholm.

Beyond parody and quite brilliant, it's best enjoyed after a three-Martini lunch.'GQ Magazine'The 'Mad Men' of this book were not mad at all. They were clever and articulate proponents of the American Dream. The book evokes a long-lost era of American self-confidence and optimism, and helps explain how America became a cultural icon.'Lord SaatchiIn 1970 Jerry Della Femina wrote this gossip-filled, insider's account of working on Madison Avenue...

Originally published in English: Great Britain: Canongate Books, 2010.

The first authorized biography of Public Enemy, the foremost hip-hop group of all time, offers unprecedented access to the group, just in time for the 20th anniversary of the release of their landmark record "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

In this acutely observed and darkly humorous tale of adolescence, a gifted but unhappy 16-year-old Australian girl trades poverty for suburban suffocation when she takes part in an exchange program in the U.S.

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist and writer. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future (2011) and Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d'Or. July's fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's and The New Yorker. Her collection No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) won the Frank O'Connor Internationa...

Put Moby Dick, Treasure Island and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner into a pot, add a pinch of Dickens, and you will get the flavour of Carol Birch's hugely entertaining novel.' Mail on Sunday

Abridged reading by Martin Jarvis. 4 CDs.

Six of Dickens' most famous works in one exquisitely read collection by Martin Jarvis

2 more volumes in the complete series of Schulz's hugely popular "Peanuts" cartoons, with introductions by John Waters and Mo Willems.

Adam Mansbach's novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the bestselling Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Poets & Writers, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He is the 2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. His daughter, Vivien, was born in 2006.Ricard...

With an introduction by Seamus Heaney