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Book SynopsisThis volume collects seven of his most challenging cases. It also features the novel, The Hound of the Baskervflles. The stories feature art by Sidney Paget, who illustrated the Sherlock Holmes stories that appeared originally in The Strand.

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Book SynopsisKing''s incredible crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges and introducing Holly Gibney is now released with with a stunning new cover look.Who is going to be the fish in this relationship, and who is going to be the fisherman?BILL HODGESretired cop, tormented by ''the Mercedes massacre'', a case he never solved.BRADY HARTSFIELDperpetrator of that notorious crime, and preparing to kill again.Now each is closing in on the other in a mega-stakes race against time from worldwide bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King.Trade ReviewStephen King might just be America's greatest living novelist . . . THE BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR . . . recommended to crime buffs and King fans alike. * Sunday Express *I challenge you not to read this book in one breathless sitting * Guardian *A thrilling cat-and-mouse game * Irish Mail on Sunday *Enough to say that Mr Mercedes goes out not with one bang, but several - all satisfyingly unexpected. He's back with a novel different from, but as good as, anything he's previously done * The Times *A tightly plotted crime novel that retains that essential, instantly recognisable flavour that has distinguished King's fiction...On one level, Mr Mercedes is an expertly crafted example of the classic race-against-the-clock thriller. On another, it is a novel of depth and character...rich, resonant, exceptionally readable * Washington Post *To be held firmly by the hand, through this tough crime thriller by the assured narrative skill of Stephen King, make the act of reading an event. There should have been a sticker on the cover 'no book mark required' * Shots *When it comes to grabbing an audience by the throat and giving them no choice but to keep reading, King has no equal, and I challenge you not to finish this novel in one breathless sitting . . . King transcends genre, and is too warm and compassionate a writer to settle for jaggedly noir suspense. * Guardian *Expect page-turning suspense, jaw-dropping twists and all the addictive brilliance of a classic Stephen King * FHM *Nobody can do it quite like Stephen King . . . He's a storyteller; one you'd have listened to for hours, as the sun set and the gulls cried on the dockside at Piraeus * Spectator *King aficionados will be riveted from the first explosion of violence to the final, equally seismic climax * Financial Times *Hypnotic and creepy, it deserves to be ranked alongside King's masterpieces * Daily Mail *America's greatest living novelist.The most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature. * Guardian *King's gift of storytelling is unrivalled. His ferocious imagination is unlimited.

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Book SynopsisThe Earl of Lowesdale is found hanging at Wasdale Hall. Two hikers go missing. Both investigations lead DI Kelly Porter to dark secrets at the Lake District's most exclusive estate.

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Book SynopsisDatonga is a science fiction adventure story which explores the creativity of great scientists. Based on time travel round Gödel loops within the known laws of physics. The power source that makes this possible is discovered by Grace O'Malley in 1984 and rediscovered in the Universal world in 3050 by Hu Song.

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Book SynopsisDark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean's reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States. Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale is a snapshot of the political, racial, and sexual undercurrents roiling contemporary life, and each finds a way into the nerves and blood that pulse beneath the question of how to live a decent life. Here you'll find stolen children living life to the fullest on the run and on the road, soldiers guarding empty frontiers, and rugged individualists brought low by an uncaring nature. You'll find prehistoric beasts rubbing talons with hustlers as well as death machines lurking beneath the bucolic countryside. Here you'll find hatred, friendship, and pitch-black humour all seething in the same stew. Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothing marries the sardonic moral and political explorations of a Flannery O'Connor to the surreal, scuzzy wit of a Denis Johnson. It is a brazen State of the Union for a nation on the edge.Trade Review‘McLean writes at times with the hyper-keen vividness of nightmare: not surrealism but a kind of American expressionism, like a darker, gristlier Donald Barthelme – grotesque, comic and unsettling.’ David Hayden, The Guardian ---- '[McLean's] prose moves with muscle and rhythm, the dialogue swift and captivating ... circumstances are rough, even dire, and people are worn out, angry, smart and stubbornly, vigorously alive ... McLean unsentimentally renders their various precipices with incredible energy and humour ... [McLean is] a writer who refuses to unsharpen her vision, whose investment is in the clarity and freshness of the imagery and an honest portrayal of our craven impulses.' Aimee Bender, New York Times Book Review ---- 'Sharp, noirish, thought-provoking stories of lives out of joint.' Kirkus Reviews ---- 'Taking each story in was like watching a film, half drunk, just the events and images really sticking. Then some time later finding the sensations there, the emotional consequences, fully formed and ingrained somehow in my head . . . These stories hit you like life hits you.' Cynan Jones ---- 'I challenge you to point to another writer like McLean. Her vision is brutal, yet hilarious. We will see her everywhere. These tales are so surprisingly original, so strange and moving, so funny, so irreverent, I swallowed them, I ate them whole.' Deb Olin Unferth ---- 'Not since Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son have I read a book of stories that so resonated in my soul. McLean's prose sings with a fierceness that is ornate and sparse, spiritual and secular, peaceful and violent. These are stories that remind of Annie Proulx, Joy Williams, and Flannery O'Connor: surprising in the fundamental weirdness of mundane life pressed inextricably into the borderlands. The best collection of stories I have read in years.' Christian Kiefer ---- 'I loved these brilliant, atmospheric and original stories - Robin McLean is such an exciting writer, and this is her best so far.' Joanna Kavenna ---- 'These stories, they churn and turn with ferocious pace and a brute subject-verb force. McLean is a writer of pure conviction, unafraid of risk, unconcerned with convention, objective but deeply humane, alive to wonder and strangeness. This collection, like her first, is beautiful and harrowing. I'll say it again and again: Nobody writes like Robin McLean.' Chris Bachelder ---- 'Robin McLean has always excelled in narrators who communicate their own self-sufficiency even as they inadvertently reveal the extent to which they're actually barely holding it together. They live in places where a bed frame and box spring are just a dream. They remind us that they're still evolving . . . And yet somehow in the face of all of that, her protagonists summon lift, and generate that tenderness necessary to continue. The results are fictions that unite the personal and the political in ways that we need now more than ever.' Jim Shepard ---- 'No writer casts a sharper light on the feral edges of the human condition than Robin McLean.' John Larison ---- 'Deeply engaged with the rural, with people on their way off the grid, Robin McLean's fiction is at once fantastical and intensely observed. These are stories about human frailty and darkness, shot through with small moments of glory.' Brian Evenson ---- 'Where so many American writers balk at genuine human darkness, Robin McLean steps inside with a poet's eye and an ill-used gavel she swiped from the decaying desk of some corrupt, abusive judge. The results are gripping, chilling, and far too realistic for the term. These ten modern parables lay bare our species' manifold predicaments here in the dimming light of imagined futures. An unforgettable book.' Kyle Beachy ---- 'Robin McLean writes with a kind of tender violence, her sentences aimed like fire hoses at a burning world. I loved this collection, and its cast of extraordinary characters will haunt my dreams.' Dani Shapiro ---- 'These are vivid, raw, shapeshifting stories that take us into the hearts, minds, landscapes and voices of outsiders. McLean's stories travel the length and breadth of North America from Yellowstone to Alaska, Illinois to the Hudson Bay, depicting rural lives punctuated by violence and sex, with just as much animality as agriculture. I loved how the lyric style and a razor-sharp eye steer past the grotesque to an affection for a gallery of desires and failures. Reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor, Annie Proulx, Robert Kroetsch and the work of the Coen Brothers, these are stories dragged through dust, parading everyday lives which can't escape history unscathed.' Will Smith, Sam Reads Grasmere ---- 'This is a wild ride through modern America, bitter and littered with the disillusioned. Robin McLean's writing is glorious, her understated prose pulls no punches when conveying this harsh and unforgiving world but herein she builds a stage for her characters to flourish. Written with a lightness of touch that makes them at once powerful and delicate they come to life in these hostile landscapes, leaping from the page to become real, almost tangible. Like sirens on the rocks, their stories sing and pull you in. I for one can't look away.' Tom Harris, Mr B's Emporium ---- 'Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothing is a series of dispatches straight from the trenches of modern survival, where no one secures the life they were promised yet they fight, flail, and flounder on all the same. Fusing severe wit and our crudest desires into the gritty, tender heart of human tenacity, McLean writes about enduring hope and disillusionment like no one else.' Josie Smith, Greenlight Bookstore

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Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.'At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for his fearsome reputation. On his journey into the unknown Marlow takes a terrifying trip into his own subconscious, overwhelmed by his menacing, perilous and horrifying surroundings.The landscape and the people he meets force him to reflect on human nature and society, and in turn Conrad writes revealingly about the dangers of imperialism.

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Book SynopsisThe first installment in the brilliant Scott Pilgrim' graphic novel series from Bryan Lee O'Malley, writer of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off now a major Netflix series.Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs' and dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrongUnless a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. Will Scott's awesome life get turned upside-down? Will he have to face Ramona's seven evil ex-boyfriends in battle? The short answer is yes. The long answer is unravelled in Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life', the first instalment of Bryan Lee O'Malley's brilliant Scott Pilgrim' graphic novel series.Trade Review‘”Scott Pilgrim” is the best book ever. It is the chronicle of our time. With Kung Fu, so, yeah: perfect.’ Joss Whedon, creator of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ ‘One of the best things to happen to printed comics this millennium.’ Ain't It Cool News ‘A hilarious, idiosyncratic gem.’ Washington Post ‘A great oddball tale that captures the energy of a generation.’ Publishers Weekly ‘An inventive, genre-tweaking tale of young love, platonic bed-sharing and epic battles unlike anything else you will likely pick up. So, go on, pick it up.’ E! Online 'Earlier this week, an English journalist claimed Jonathan Franzen's soon-to-be published “Freedom” as the novel of the century. A ludicrous accolade, not least because it should more rightly go to Korean-Canadian writer Bryan Lee O'Malley's “Scott Pilgrim” comic-book series.' Telegraph ‘Scott Pilgrim is the best 23-year-old ever. Like Proust's Swann, he has a story that takes multiple volumes to unfold, except Pilgrim is even more awesome because he's in a comic book … the series is wildly enjoyable for its absurdist humor, its indelible characters and its growing, inevitable sense of melancholy as Pilgrim becomes that most terrifying of things: 24 years old.’ Glen David Gold, author of ‘Carter Beats the Devil’ and ‘Sunnyside’

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Book SynopsisA heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppressionOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDETHE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure' Michael PalinAbulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior' Alice Walker_____________________________________Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her baby son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, he is snatched from her arms and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever.Mornings in Jenin is a devastating novel of love and loss, war and oppression, heartbreak and hope, spanning five countries and four generations of one of the most intractable conflicts of our lifetime._____________________________________Readers love Mornings in Jenin

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Book Synopsis Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant – and at times very funny – novel from the author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerised the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening – until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.Trade Review‘A beguiling mix of thriller, romantic comedy, and novel of ideas…Crisply written, immaculately plotted, and often very funny, it is that rarity – a literary novel you simply can’t put down.’ The Times ‘Like the blueprint of operatic performance that she has imported, Patchett slides from strutting camp to high tragedy, minute social comedy to sublime romanticism.’ Alex Clark, Guardian ‘Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction. Comparisons are tempting to the unabashed romanticism of Laurie Colwin, the eccentric characters of Anne Tyler, the enchantments of Alice Hoffman. But Patchett is unique; a generous, fearless and startlingly wise young writer.’ New York Times Review of Books

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Book SynopsisThe highly-anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse – a world that Margaret Atwood declared ‘soooo genius’.   In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences. When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers — and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny. Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete standalone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to a dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever dream, Mona Awad. 'We Love You, Bunny returns to the uncanny terrain that made Awad cult-famous [and] burrows further into the fragmented, hallucinatory terrain she began to chart in Bunny. Her commitment to the surreal is gripping, as is her evolving command of structure — the way her stories fold in on themselves, mimicking the mental contortions of her narrator. With its feverish premise, metafiction turns, and a built-in cult following hungry for more, We Love You, Bunny is poised to be the buzziest release of the season.' Women.com 'Most Anticipated Book Releases of Fall 20252' '[Awad’s] command of acerbic wit and satiric plotlines, talent for characterization, and sharp metacriticism of creative writing programs make her story sing in the way only bleeding tongues, broken hearts, and battle axes can… It’s Bookstagram-worthy dark academia that’s alarming, allegorical, and nuanced and unravels Bunny catastrophically and captivatingly. Fans of Atwood, R.F. Kuang, and Marisha Pessl will savor this book, whose heady, unsettling intellectualism builds on Awad’s reputation as one of today’s boldest feminist satirists.' Library Journal (starred) “Mona Awad has returned and her latest will get under your skin just the way her fans have come to expect.” PEOPLE

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Book Synopsis‘What doctor know about our illness? Just give you pills to sick you stomach and a doctor certificate. What they know about a black woman soul?’ In North London, Del and Viv are soul-sick. Del doesn’t want to be at home; staying out late – 3 p.m.-the-next-day late – is more her thing. Viv scours her schoolbooks trying to find a trace of herself between their lines. When Enid takes her daughters to the local obeah woman for some traditional Caribbean soul-healing, secrets are spilled. There’s no turning back for Del, Viv and Enid as they negotiate the frictions between their countries and cultures. Two generations. Three incredible women. Winsome Pinnock's play Leave Taking is an epic story of what we leave behind in order to find home. It premiered in 1987, and was revived at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2018, in a production directed by the Bush’s Artistic Director, Madani Younis. Winsome Pinnock has written numerous plays, including Talking in Tongues, for which she won the George Devine and Pearson Best New Play Awards. ‘The godmother of Black British playwrights’ GuardianTrade Review'A devastatingly powerful story of a British-Caribbean family... why Winsome Pinnock's play isn't on the English Literature syllabus is a mystery to me, given its shocking contemporary relevance... this play warms and devastates' * Time Out *'A beautiful, humourous and often impossibly sad portrayal of the immigrant experience... Pinnock's dialogue is a subtle marvel, offering all the poetry and rhythm of the Jamaican accent, where phrases sing with layers of meaning. It is a brilliantly wrought piece of drama' * WhatsOnStage *'An epic story that spans generations and puts the narratives of four formidable women on the centre stage... Leave Taking is an undeniably important addition to our theatrical landscape' * Broadway World *'There are few plays in British theatre that speak so directly, resonantly and truthfully to the experience of the black woman. Winsome Pinnock's first full-length play does this with such profound eloquence – it is rousing to watch… Leave Taking is timely in its politics, yet timeless in its themes' * The Stage *'Three decades since its debut Winsome Pinnock's pioneering portrayal of the lives of black Britons feels shockingly contemporary... Pinnock was a pioneer and her piece still hits home through its often shocking honesty about the hazards facing black people in Britain' * Guardian *

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Book Synopsis''UTTERLY ENTHRALLING'' Rebecca Yarros, New York Times bestselling author of Fourth WingThe Bachelor meets The Hunger Games. Ten women. A deadly contest. Only one can win the Sun King''s heart.Lor has endured twelve long years of torment under the Aurora King''s rule. Her only desire is to get free and pay him back for every moment of misery she''s endured.When a surprise release finds her in the hands of the Sun King, Lor is thrust into the spotlight as she competes against nine other Tributes for the role of queen. If she wins his heart, she''ll earn her freedom and finally get her revenge.But Lor doesn''t belong in the Sun Queen Trials. Not only does she not understand why she was freed, she isn''t a citizen of the Sun King''s court. The other Tributes resent her presence and will stop at nothing to ensure Lor is wiped off the gameboard, permanently.Now Lor must win, because if she loses, she dies. Or worse, she''ll be sent back into the hands of the Aurora King.This addictive TikTok fantasy romance sensation is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Fourth Wing, Raven Kennedy and Jennifer Armentrout. Trial of the Sun Queen is the first book in a series with an eventual happy ever after.Praise for Trial of the Sun Queen:''Trial of the Sun Queen was truly a breath of fresh air and had me white knuckling the book until the very last page. I''m on pins and needles to see what happens next!'' Hannah Nicole Maehrer, author of Assistant to the Villain''Magical, action-packed, steamy, intricately plotted, laden with heart-wrenching moments and heart-pounding twists -- Trial of the Sun Queen is nothing short of a dark, fantastical thrill ride'' Thea Guanzon, author of The Hurricane Wars''I picked up Trial of the Sun Queen and was hooked from the very first sentence. This world is gripping, the plot exciting, and I loved the main character so much that I was rooting for her from the start. Nisha created a series that is addicting and visceral, with the perfect amount of spicy romance. One of my all time favourite fantasy romance reads'' Raven Kennedy, author of GildTropes include:Enemies-to-loversForced proximityTrial to the deathWho did this to you?Fated matesThe Artefacts of Ouranos series:Trial of the Sun QueenRule of the Aurora KingFate of the Sun KingTale of the Heart Queen

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Book SynopsisOrphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity.Trade Review"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë."--Virginia Woolf

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Book Synopsis''A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience'' Washinton PostWhen Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin''s masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.''In Another Country, Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century'' Colm TóibínTrade ReviewA masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience * Washington Post *Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers * Saturday Review *A delicate and fine-tuned talent... The book reveals Baldwin's immense will and professionalism * The New Yorker *Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land * Sunday Times *In Another Country, Baldwin created the essential American drama of the century -- Colm Tóibín

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Book SynopsisTorn between two nations, she will risk everythingSeventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English father, Sidney Cooper, is captured by the Nazis, her world is shattered. Fearing for her safety, Elise is forced to abandon the only life she has ever known - her beloved grandmother, her brother fighting in the Resistance, and the comfort of her maternal homeland. With the help of Nathan Hawkes, a British soldier, she escapes from Dunkirk on a small boat, seeking sanctuary across the Channel where unknown family ties are her only hope.Yet East London''s Silvertown is far from a refuge, and amid the chaos of war, Elise is plunged into a dangerous new reality when she is recruited as a spy by the Special Operations Executive. With her heart divided between two nations, Elise must summon all her courage to survive.Suspenseful, atmospheric, and deeply moving, The Englishman''s Daughter is a gripping tale of love and resilience in the face of unimaginable odds.Praise for Kay Brellend:''Vividly rendered'' Historical Novel Society''A fantastic cast of characters'' Goodreads''Thoroughly absorbing'' Goodreads

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Book SynopsisBOOK 1 OF THE BELGARIAD, the worldwide bestselling fantasy series by one of the godfathers of the tradition. Discover the epic stories that inspired generations of fantasy writers - from Raymond Feist''s The Riftwar Cycle to George R. R. Martin''s A Game of Thrones.A battle is coming......And in that battle shall be decided the fate of the worldMyths tell of the ancient wars of Gods and men, and a powerful object the Orb that ended the bloodshed. As long as it was held by the line of Riva, it would assure the peace. But a dark force has stolen the Orb, and the prophecies tell of war. Young farm boy Garion knows nothing of myth or fate. But then the mysterious Old Storyteller visits his aunt, and they embark on a sudden journey. Pursued by evil forces, with only a small band of companions they can trust, Garion begins to doubt all he thought he knew...Trade ReviewA classic coming-of-age epic -- Christopher Paolini

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Book SynopsisThe No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's terrifying novella about a town engulfed in a dense, mysterious mist - originally published in the acclaimed short story collection Skeleton Crew and made into a feature film by Frank Darabont - is now available as a stand-alone publication.A man staggered into the market . . . 'Something in the fog!' he screamedFollowing a freak summer storm, David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbour Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies.Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town. Violent forces concealed in the mist are starting to emerge. And there is another shocking threat from within - one group of survivors, led by a religious zealot, is calling for a sacrifice.Now David and his son must try to escape. But what's outside may be even more dangerous.This exhilarating novella explores the horror in both the enemy you know - and the one you can only imagine.Trade ReviewKing's imagination is vast * GUARDIAN *As classic as King's novels are, his shorter fiction is just as gripping * USA TODAY *Popular fiction's most prolific terror-monger's . . . genius remains in the conjuring of evil out of ephemera, of a malevolent universe lurking behind the Walmart shopping trolley banality of everyday, small-town America * THE TIMES *

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Book SynopsisEden Finley is an Amazon bestselling author who writes steamy contemporary romances that are full of snark and light-hearted fluff. She doesn't take anything too seriously and lives to create an escape from real life for her readers. She's also an Australian girl from Queensland and apologises for her Australianisms that sometimes don't make sense to anyone else.Saxon James is a Top 10 International Bestseller from Australia who writes MM romance to make you smile. Whether you love sports romance or small town, college guys or men getting their second shot at love, Saxon has something for everyone.

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Book SynopsisThe classic VIZBIG series is finally available in the UK!

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Book SynopsisA dark coming-of-age tale where slice-of-life slices back.This is Punpun Onodera’s coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. Punpun tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really don’t.Punpun is on his own now. His mom is dead and his dad is useless. When he’s not working crappy part-time jobs, he spends most of his time on the floor of his room. But buck up, Punpun! It’s only for the rest of your life, right?

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Book SynopsisYou go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest.Trade ReviewIngenious * Mail on Sunday *Breathtakingly inventiveThe greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century * Guardian *Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world endsA devastating, wonderfully ingenious parody of all those dreary best-sellers you buy at the airport... It is a "world novel": take it with you next time you plan to travel in an armchair * Observer *

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Book SynopsisThree novels that bring the Dune Chronicles, one of the most influential SF series ever written, to its epic conclusion!

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Book SynopsisWith an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the time as shocking. Whitman's poems are organic and free flowing, fit into no previously defined genre and skilfully combine autobiographical, sociological and religious themes with lyrical sensuality. His verse is a fitting celebration of a new breed of American and includes 'Song of Myself', 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry', the celebratory 'Passage to India', and his fine elegy for the assassinated President Lincoln, 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'.

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Book SynopsisThe poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the greatest writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of the last hundred years.Trade ReviewPRAISE FOR LEONARD COHEN: As strong a poet as he is a musician * * Guardian * *Leonard Cohen was the poet laureate of the lack, the psalmist of the privation, who made imperfection gorgeous * * New York Times * *He is a writer of terrific energy and colour, a Rabelaisian comic and a visualiser * * Observer * *Utterly unique and impossible to imitate no matter how hard we tried -- NICK CAVEAwe-inspiring . . . Cohen emerges as the wry, sensual mystic his champions have always known he was * * Sunday Telegraph * *There is something irresistible about Cohen's charm * * New Yorker * *There are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on -- BONOThe best bring an ironic, world-weary sensibility to bear on themes of ageing, sex, sensuality and spirituality * * Financial Times * *Exceptional. Clear yet steamy, cosmic yet private, both playful and profound. . . as soulful a credo as he has ever put on paper * * New York Times * *Playful, colourful, erotic . . . brilliant and sharp as flint * * The Big Issue * *

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Book SynopsisA story about friendship and family, and coming to terms with life and the challenges it throws at you while finding the courage and resilience to move on' My WeeklyHer life isn't as perfect as you thinkFormer actress Madi needs to escape from her lonely London life. She's started to forget things and has the strongest sense she is being watchedPrue feels suffocated by her claustrophobic village life, especially when she is humiliated in the most public way. Now Prue is desperate for anonymity whatever the cost.Two strangers. Two very different lives. A chance to escapeor is it?Readers are enjoying Be Careful What You Wish For:Well written with intriguing characters I wanted to learn more about a surprise twist I didn't expect' MeredithTwist caught me by surpriseEnjoyable book well worth picking up' DianeI was savoring the book and not wanting it to end despite the unknown' CaraA more gentle thriller than many in this genreI found myself racing towards the end' SusanGood holiday read' Trade Review‘A truly gripping read … which keeps you on the edge of your seat. My Weekly ‘Nail-biting… Vivien carefully constructs this web of intrigue.’ People’s Friend ‘So much invested action and suspense that it's hard to walk away!’ Donna, NetGalley reviewer ‘This had quite the twist … it kept me guessing and reading throughout the night, a real page turner’ Marlene, NetGalley reviewer ‘Loved the author's writing … sucked me into the story big time. Highly recommend and will read more from this author’ Gail, NetGalley reviewer

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Book SynopsisA rich and romantic fantasy loosely inspired by the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Perfect for fans of These Violent Delights and The Shadow Queen.

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Book SynopsisMerging psychological realism and rural terror, Hesket: A Norfolk Haunting is a compelling, uncanny page-turner from debut novelist S. C. Bayat.

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Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. Henry David Thoreau, WaldenTrade Review‘Thoreau was a great writer, philosopher, poet, and withal a most practical man, that is, he taught nothing he was not prepared to practise in himself. … He went to gaol for the sake of his principles and suffering humanity. His essay has, therefore, been sanctified by suffering. Moreover, it is written for all time. Its incisive logic is unanswerable.’ Mohandas Gandhi ‘I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.’ Martin Luther King, Jr

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