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WHEN ASPIRING WRITER GUINEVERE BECK STRIDES INTO THE BOOKSTORE WHERE JOE WORKS, HE IS INSTANTLY SMITTEN. BUT THERE’S MORE TO JOE THAN BECK REALISES AND MUCH MORE TO BECK THAN HER PERFECT FACADE. AND THE OBSESSIVE RELATIONSHIP QUICKLY SPIRALS INTO A WHIRLWIND OF DEADLY CONSEQUENCES… A CHILLING ACCOUNT OF UNRELENTING, TERRIFYING DECEIT, CAROLINE KEPNES’ YOU IS A THRILLER MORE PERVERSELY CLEVER AND DANGEROUSLY TWISTED THAN ANY YOU HAVE EVER READ.
He Said/She Said
IN THE HUSHED AFTERMATH OF A TOTAL ECLIPSE, LAURA WITNESSES A BRUTAL ATTACK. SHE AND HER BOYFRIEND KIT CALL THE POLICE, AND IN THAT MOMENT, FOUR LIVES CHANGE FOREVER. FIFTEEN YEARS ON, LAURA AND KIT LIVE IN FEAR. AND WHILE LAURA KNOWS SHE WAS RIGHT TO SPEAK OUT, SHE ALSO KNOWS THAT YOU CAN NEVER SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE: SOMETHING IS ALWAYS HIDDEN . . . SOMETHING SHE NEVER COULD HAVE GUESSED. ‘I’M CALLING IT: THIS IS THE BOOK I WISH I’D WRITTEN’ CLARE MACKINTOSH, AUTHOR OF LET ME LIE’IT’S SO GOOD . . . I WAS CARRYING IT AROUND THE HOUSE I WAS SO GRIPPED’ SARAH PERRY, AUTHOR OF THE ESSEX SERPENT
Before The Coffee Gets Cold
IN BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, WE MEET FOUR VISITORS, EACH OF WHOM IS HOPING TO MAKE USE OF THE CAFÉ’S TIME-TRAVELLING OFFER, IN ORDER TO: CONFRONT THE MAN WHO LEFT THEM, RECEIVE A LETTER FROM THEIR HUSBAND WHOSE MEMORY HAS BEEN TAKEN BY EARLY ONSET ALZHEIMER’S, TO SEE THEIR SISTER ONE LAST TIME, AND TO MEET THE DAUGHTER THEY NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO KNOW.
KITE RUNNER
AFGHANISTAN, 1975: TWELVE-YEAR-OLD AMIR IS DESPERATE TO WIN THE LOCAL KITE-FIGHTING TOURNAMENT AND HIS LOYAL FRIEND HASSAN PROMISES TO HELP HIM. BUT NEITHER OF THE BOYS CAN FORESEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HASSAN THAT AFTERNOON, AN EVENT THAT IS TO SHATTER THEIR LIVES. AFTER THE RUSSIANS INVADE AND THE FAMILY IS FORCED TO FLEE TO AMERICA, AMIR REALISES THAT ONE DAY HE MUST RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN UNDER TALIBAN RULE TO FIND THE ONE THING THAT HIS NEW WORLD CANNOT GRANT HIM: REDEMPTION.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
ELEANOR OLIPHANT LEADS A SIMPLE LIFE. SHE WEARS THE SAME CLOTHES TO WORK EVERY DAY, EATS THE SAME MEAL DEAL FOR LUNCH EVERY DAY AND BUYS THE SAME TWO BOTTLES OF VODKA TO DRINK EVERY WEEKEND. ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS HAPPY. NOTHING IS MISSING FROM HER CAREFULLY TIMETABLED LIFE. EXCEPT, SOMETIMES,
Doors: Field Of Blood
IN A GIGANTIC CAVERN THE TEAM COME ACROSS A NUMBER OF STRANGE DOORS, THREE OF THEM MARKED WITH ENIGMATIC SYMBOLS. ANNA-LENA MUST BE BEHIND ONE OF THEM – BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT AND THEY NEED TO CHOOSE, QUICKLY. ANNA-LENA IS NO LONGER THE ONLY PERSON AT RISK. WHO COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT THE PORTAL MARKED WITH ! WOULD TAKE THE RESCUERS INTO A DIFFERENT TIME COMPLETELY: IT IS NOW THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES – AND THEY ARE ABOUT TO FIND THEMSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF A WORLD-CHANGING BATTLE
Doors: Twilight
IN A GIGANTIC CAVERN THE TEAM COME ACROSS A NUMBER OF STRANGE DOORS, THREE OF THEM MARKED WITH ENIGMATIC SYMBOLS. ANNA-LENA MUST BE BEHIND ONE OF THEM – BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT AND THEY NEED TO CHOOSE, QUICKLY. ANNA-LENA IS NO LONGER THE ONLY PERSON AT RISK. THE TEAM KNEW THEIR MISSION WOULD BE PERILOUS – BUT HOW DO YOU DEFEAT YOUR OWN DEMONS? TRAPPED IN THEIR OWN NIGHTMARES, THEIR ONLY HOPE OF ESCAPE IS DOOR X, WHICH LEADS TO A THREATENING VISION OF THE FUTURE . . .
Doors: Colony
WHEN HIS BELOVED ONLY DAUGHTER GOES MISSING, MILLIONAIRE ENTREPRENEUR WALTER VAN DAM CALLS IN A TEAM OF EXPERTS – INCLUDING FREE-CLIMBERS, A GEOLOGIST, A PARAPSYCHOLOGIST, EVEN A MEDIUM – TO FIND HER . . . FOR ANNA-LENA HAS DISAPPEARED SOMEWHERE WITHIN A MYSTERIOUS CAVE SYSTEM UNDER THE OLD HOUSE THE FAMILY ABANDONED YEARS AGO. BUT THE RESCUERS ARE NOT THE ONLY PEOPLE ON HER TRAIL – AND THERE ARE DANGERS IN THE UNDERGROUND LABYRINTH THAT NO ONE COULD EVER HAVE FORESEEN.
Time’s Conver
MARCUS WHITMORE WAS MADE A VAMPIRE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS LATER, HE FINDS HIMSELF IN LOVE WITH PHOEBE TAYLOR, A HUMAN WHO DECIDES TO BECOME A VAMPIRE HERSELF. AND WITH TRADITION ENFORCING SEPARATION FROM MARCUS, PHOEBE’S TRANSFORMATION WILL PROVE AS CHALLENGING NOW AS IT WAS FOR MARCUS WHEN HE FIRST ENCOUNTERED MATTHEW DE CLERMONT, HIS SIRE.
Shadow Of Night
IN A WORLD OF WITCHES, DAEMONS AND VAMPIRES THE FRAGILE BALANCE OF PEACE IS UNRAVELLING. DIANA AND MATTHEW’S FORBIDDEN LOVE HAS BROKEN THE LAWS DIVIDING CREATURES. TO DISCOVER THE MANUSCRIPT WHICH HOLDS THEIR HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, THEY MUST NOW TRAVEL BACK TO THE PAST. WHEN DIANA BISHOP, DESCENDED FROM A LINE OF POWERFUL WITCHES, DISCOVERED A SIGNIFICANT ALCHEMICAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, SHE SPARKED A STRUGGLE IN WHICH SHE BECAME BOUND TO LONG-LIVED VAMPIRE MATTHEW CLAIRMONT. NOW THE COEXISTENCE OF WITCHES, DAEMONS, VAMPIRES AND HUMANS IS DANGEROUSLY THREATENED.
The Four Winds
THE FOUR WINDS IS A DEEPLY MOVING, POWERFUL STORY ABOUT THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF WOMEN AND THE BOND BETWEEN MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, BY THE MULTI-MILLION COPY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHTINGALE. SHE WILL DISCOVER THE BEST OF HERSELF IN THE WORST OF TIMES . . .
The Adventures Of Robin Hood (Puffin Cla
The classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood, champion of the poor and oppressed, stands against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. Taking refuge in the vast Sherwood Forest with his band of men, he remains determined to outwit his enemies.
Tale Of Troy – Puffin Classic
The story of Helen and the judgement of Paris, of the gathering Heroes and the seige of Troy; of Achilles and his vulnerable heel, reared by the Centaur on wild honey and the marrow of lions; of Odysseus
Big Magic
READERS OF ALL AGES AND WALKS OF LIFE HAVE DRAWN INSPIRATION FROM ELIZABETH GILBERT’S BOOKS FOR YEARS. NOW, THIS BELOVED AUTHOR SHARES HER WISDOM AND UNIQUE UNDERSTANDING OF CREATIVITY, SHATTERING THE PERCEPTIONS OF MYSTERY AND SUFFERING THAT SURROUND THE PROCESS – AND SHOWING US ALL JUST HOW EASY IT CAN BE. BY SHARING STORIES FROM HER OWN LIFE, AS WELL AS THOSE FROM HER FRIENDS AND THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE INSPIRED HER, ELIZABETH GILBERT CHALLENGES US TO EMBRACE OUR CURIOSITY, TACKLE WHAT WE MOST LOVE AND FACE DOWN WHAT WE MOST FEAR. WHETHER YOU LONG TO WRITE A BOOK, CREATE ART, COPE WITH CHALLENGES AT WORK, EMBARK ON A LONG-HELD DREAM OR SIMPLY TO MAKE YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE MORE VIVID AND REWARDING, BIG MAGIC WILL TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION FILLED WITH WONDER AND UNEXPECTED JOYS.
Legendary
HOOKED IS BASED ON EYAL’S YEARS OF RESEARCH, CONSULTING, AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE. HE WROTE THE BOOK HE WISHED HAD BEEN AVAILABLE TO HIM AS A START-UP FOUNDER – NOT ABSTRACT THEORY, BUT A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR BUILDING BETTER PRODUCTS. HOOKED IS WRITTEN FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS, DESIGNERS, MARKETERS, START-UP FOUNDERS, AND ANYONE WHO SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND HOW PRODUCTS INFLUENCE OUR BEHAVIOUR.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby’s obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan
Upon A Sleepless Isle
DENSE GREEN FORESTS IN YALA, WHITE-SAND COASTS IN TRINCOMALEE, AZURE WATERS OFF THE SOUTH COAST, ANURADHAPURA’S ANCIENT TEMPLES, AND CRICKET. CIVIL WAR, POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS, INTERNALLY DISPLACED COMMUNITIES, INDUSTRIAL-SCALE CORRUPTION. ALL ARE SRI LANKA. AS ARE SMUG BUREAUCRATS, NOSY NEIGHBOURS, AND STRAY DOGS WITH SERIOUS AXES TO GRIND. THROUGH THE EYES OF ANDREW FIDEL FERNANDO, CRICKET WRITER PAR EXCELLENCE, BOTH A LOCAL AND A TOURIST IN HIS HOME COUNTRY, SRI LANKA COMES ALIVE AS HE HURTLES DOWN HILLS IN KANDY.
Complete Long Stories of Sherlock Holmes
PRESENT IN THIS OMNIBUS EDITION, ARE FOUR UNABRIDGED NOVELS OF BAKER STREETS MOST FAMOUS RESIDENT -SHERLOCK HOLMES AND HIS CONFIDANT AND AIDE, DR. WATSON. THE SAGA OF THEIR ADVENTURES BEGIN RIGHT FROM THE TIME THEY ARE FIRST INTRODUCED TO EACH OTHER BY A CERTAIN “YOUNG STAMFORD” TO SHARE ROOMS IN BAKER STREET, WHERE WATSON CHRONICLED THEIR FIRST ADVENTURE ‘A STUDY IN SCARLET’. ‘THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES’ IS PERHAPS THE MOST POPULAR OF HIS LONG STORIES, FOLLOWED BY ‘THE SIGN OF THE FOUR’ AND ‘THE VALLEY OF FEAR’.
All The Light We Cannot See
When Marie Laure goes blind, aged six, her father builds her a model of their Paris neighbourhood, so she can memorize it with her fingers and then navigate the real streets. But when the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.
Tale Of Two Cities (Puffin Classics)
Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, different in character and in love with the same woman. In the midst of the French Revolution, Darnay, who has fled to London to escape the cruelty of the French nobility, must return to Paris to rescue his servant from death. But he endangers his own life and is captured. Carton may be able to help, but will his resemblance be enough to save Darnay’s life? With an enticing introduction by bestselling author, Roddy Doyle.
Tale of Two Cities (Longman Classics)
The story is set in two cities, London and Paris. It has the French Revolution as its background. The story covers a period of eighteen years. It starts in 1775, fourteen years before the fall of the Bastille and continues until the Reign of Terror (1792-93)
The Girl With The Louding Voice
AT FOURTEEN, ADUNNI DREAMS OF GETTING AN EDUCATION AND GIVING HER FAMILY A MORE COMFORTABLE HOME IN HER SMALL NIGERIAN VILLAGE. INSTEAD, ADUNNI’S FATHER SELLS HER OFF TO BECOME THE THIRD WIFE OF AN OLD MAN. WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES IN HER NEW HOME, ADUNNI FLEES TO THE WEALTHY ENCLAVES OF LAGOS, WHERE SHE BECOMES A HOUSE-GIRL TO THE CRUEL BIG MADAM, AND PREY TO BIG MADAM’S HUSBAND. BUT DESPITE HER SITUATION CONTINUOUSLY GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE, ADUNNI REFUSES TO LET HERSELF BE SILENCED. AND ONE DAY, SOMEONE HEARS HER.
The Witches
The witches have a motto: One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear.The Grand High Witch of All the World is the scariest of the lot, but one boy and the grandmother he adores have a plan to get rid of the witches for good.
Magic Finger
very Saturday morning the Greg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting.
Now it’s made her so angry she’s PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM ALL. And very strange things have begun to happen . .
Matilda
Matilda Wormwood’s father thinks she’s a little scab. Matilda’s mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda’s headmistress Miss Trunchbull? Well, she’s the worst of all. She is a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey. As for Matilda, she’s an extraordinary little girl with a magical mind
Recursion
AT FIRST, IT LOOKS LIKE A DISEASE. AN EPIDEMIC THAT SPREADS THROUGH NO KNOWN MEANS, DRIVING ITS VICTIMS MAD WITH MEMORIES OF A LIFE THEY NEVER LIVED. BUT THE FORCE THAT’S SWEEPING THE WORLD IS NO PATHOGEN. IT’S JUST THE FIRST SHOCKWAVE, UNLEASHED BY A STUNNING DISCOVERY – AND WHAT’S IN JEOPARDY IS NOT JUST OUR MINDS. IN NEW YORK CITY, DETECTIVE BARRY SUTTON IS CLOSING IN ON THE TRUTH – AND IN A REMOTE LABORATORY, NEUROSCIENTIST HELENA SMITH IS UNAWARE THAT SHE ALONE HOLDS THE KEY TO THIS MYSTERY . . . AND THE TOOLS FOR FIGHTING BACK.
Land of Stories 6 Book Boxset
ALEX AND CONNER BAILEY’S WORLD IS ABOUT TO CHANGE. WHEN THE TWINS’ GRANDMOTHER GIVES THEM A TREASURED FAIRY-TALE BOOK, THEY HAVE NO IDEA THEY’RE ABOUT TO ENTER A LAND BEYOND ALL IMAGINING: THE LAND OF STORIES, WHERE FAIRY TALES ARE REAL. BUT AS ALEX AND CONNER SOON DISCOVER, THE STORIES THEY KNOW SO WELL HAVEN’T ENDED IN THIS MAGICAL LAND – GOLDILOCKS IS NOW A WANTED FUGITIVE, RED RIDING HOOD HAS HER OWN KINGDOM, AND QUEEN CINDERELLA IS ABOUT TO BECOME A MOTHER! THE TWINS KNOW THEY MUST GET BACK HOME SOMEHOW. BUT WITH THE LEGENDARY EVIL QUEEN HOT ON THEIR TRAIL, WILL THEY EVER FIND THE WAY? THE LAND OF STORIES: THE WISHING SPELL BRINGS READERS ON A THRILLING QUEST FILLED WITH MAGIC SPELLS, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD HUMOUR AND PAGE-TURNING ADVENTURE.
Eleven Minutes (Paulo Coelho)
ELEVEN MINUTES’ IS THE MASTERPIECE OF BRAZILIAN BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAULO COELHO. THIS NOVEL IS BASED ON A FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF A WOMAN NAMED MARIA WHO LIVES IN RIO, BUT MOVES TO GENEVA. SHE IS POOR AND HAS TO DO MENIAL JOBS TO SURVIVE IN GENEVA. FATE LED HER TO BE A PROSTITUTE. SHE HAS ACCEPTED HER LIFE IN THIS WAY AND KEEPS ON GOING WITH IT DISPLAYING GREAT STRENGTH. IT IS DURING ONE OF HER WALKS DOWN A STREET THAT SHE FEELS A SEXUAL AWAKENING INSIDE HER. THE QUEST FOR PHYSICAL PLEASURE LEADS HER INTO SOME INTERESTING SITUATIONS, WHERE SHE TRIES TO FIND HER OWN BODY AND DESIRES. WHILE SHE IS LIVING A LIFE OF A PROSTITUTE, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HERSELF SEXUALLY,
Queen of Air and Darkness: 3 (The Dark Artifices)
DARK SECRETS AND FORBIDDEN LOVE THREATEN THE VERY SURVIVAL OF THE SHADOW HUNTER IN CASSANDRA CLARE’S QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS, THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING THE DARK ARTIFICES TRILOGY. QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS IS A SHADOW HUNTER NOVEL. WHAT IF DAMNATION IS THE PRICE OF TRUE LOVE? INNOCENT BLOOD HAS BEEN SPILLED ON THE STEPS OF THE COUNCIL HALL, THE SACRED STRONGHOLD OF THE SHADOW HUNTER. IN THE WAKE OF THE TRAGIC DEATH OF LIVIA BLACKTHORN
Lord of Shadows: 2 (The Dark Artifices)
SUNNY LOS ANGELES CAN BE A DARK PLACE INDEED IN CASSANDRA CLARE’S LORD OF SHADOWS, THE SEQUEL TO THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING LADY MIDNIGHT. LORD OF SHADOWS IS A SHADOW HUNTERS NOVEL. EMMA CAR STAIRS HAS FINALLY AVENGED HER PARENTS. SHE THOUGHT SHE’D BE AT PEACE. BUT SHE IS ANYTHING BUT CALM. TORN BETWEEN HER DESIRE FOR HER PARABATAI JULIAN AND HER DESIRE TO PROTECT HIM FROM THE BRUTAL CONSEQUENCES OF PARABATAI RELATIONSHIPS