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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and BOOK OF THE YEAR'Extraordinary . . . a must-read' Guardian'A masterpiece . . . a classic' The Times'A stunning achievement' Sunday Times'Remarkable . . . every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify' Hilary Mantel'Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary' Ann PatchettEverywhere John looks, he sees Murph.He flinches when cars drive past. His fingers clasp around the rifle he hasn't held for months. Wide-eyed strangers praise him as a hero, but he can feel himself disappearing.Back home after a year in Iraq, memories swarm around him: bodies burning in the crisp morning air. Sunlight falling through branches; bullets kicking up dust; ripples on a pond wavering like plucked strings. The promise he made, to a young man's mother, that her son would be brought home safely.Written with profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on families at home, The Yellow Birds is one of the most haunting, true and powerful novels of our time.A NEW YORK TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TIMES, TLS, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY EXPRESS, GUARDIAN, SCOTSMAN, SUNDAY HERALD, IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW BIRDS ''A cracking mystery''GUARDIAN''Entertaining, intelligent, and effortlessly readable''SUNDAY TIMES''Stunning''NEW YORK TIMES''A kickass mystery from a superb storyteller''DAVID BALDACCI, author of The 6:20 Man''Tense and enthralling''DAILY MAIL''Taut and enjoyable''DAILY TELEGRAPH''One of the best crime novels of the year''IRISH TIMESIt''s an early morning on a beach in Virginia when Arman Bajalan discovers a dead body. Convinced that the murder is connected to his work as an interpreter in Iraq, he knows he''s still not safe.Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her fresh-off-the-beat partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the man''s pocket. But as victims mount around Arman, they find themselves in a deadly race,

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One of the Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2018Following his hugely celebrated debut novel, The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion, and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will survive of us is love.'An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent.' Observer'Gorgeous and devastating' New York Times'Achingly relevant.' Grazia

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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW BIRDS'Entertaining, intelligent, and effortlessly readable' Sunday Times'A stunning novel' New York Times'One of the best crime novels of the year' Irish Times'A cracking mystery' Guardian'Tense and enthralling' Daily Mail'Taut and enjoyable' Daily Telegraph'A kickass mystery from a superb storyteller' David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 Man'A spellbinding and totally original thriller' Philipp Meyer, author of The SonAn early morning on a beach in Virginia. As he is taking his daily swim, Arman Bajalan - formerly an interpreter in Iraq - discovers a dead body. After surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US. Now, sure that the murder is connected to his past, he knows he's still not safe.Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her fresh-off-the-beat partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the man's pocket. It leads them to Sally Ewell, a local journalist as grief-stricken as Arman by the Iraq war, who is investigating a nefarious corporation: one on the cusp of landing a multi-billion-dollar government defence contract.As victims mount around Arman, taking the team down wrong turns and towards startling evidence, they find themselves in a race, committed to unravelling the truth and keeping Arman alive - even if it costs them everything.A Line in the Sand is a sinuous, powerful and white-knuckle thriller, from the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds, shot through with treachery, trauma and the long tentacles of war.

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