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Day of Reckoning (Sean Dillon Series, Book 8)
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The incomparable Jack Higgins returns to the bestseller lists, launching undercover enforcer Sean Dillon into his most spectacular adventure yet – a no-holds-barred battle with a Mafia don. It’s all action and suspense as Sean Dillon and his secret intelligence colleagues seek to help American White House security insider Blake Johnson avenge the death of his ex-wife, a reporter murdered for getting too close to a Mafia story. In London, Beirut and Ireland, the daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they combine to thwart the ever more desperate ambition of Mafia frontman Jack Fox. Here in his eighth adventure, former IRA terrorist turned British Government enforcer Sean Dillon is established as one of the most popular characters in modern fiction, while Jack Higgins has an unrivalled position as the biggest name in thriller writing around the world. Widely hailed as an outstanding return to form, Day of Reckoning raced straight into the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list in hardback
The Household Guide to Dying
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A moving novel, charting a dying woman’s attempts to prepare her family for the future. For fans of Maggie O’Farrell and Audrey Niffenegger. Inspired by her heroine, Isabella Beeton, Delia has made a living writing a series of hugely successful modern household guides. As the book opens, she is not yet forty, but has only a short time to live. Preoccupied with how to prepare herself and her family for death, Delia realizes that what she really needs, more than anything, is a manual. Realising this could be her greatest achievement, she sets to work. But, in the writing, Delia is forced to confront the ghosts of her past. Hugely original, life affirming and humorous, The Household Guide to Dying illuminates love, loss and the place we call home.
Spellbreaker: Book 3 of the Spellwright Trilogy (The Spellwright Trilogy, Book 3
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The long awaited sequel to SPELLBOUND, which was listed by Kirkus Reviews among the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2011. 'Blake Charlton has created one of the few truly original magical systems we've seen in fantasy fiction’ Tad Williams ‘An absorbing read' Robin Hobb Leandra Weal has a bad habit of getting herself in dangerous situations. While hunting neodemons in her role as Warden of Ixos, Leandra obtains a prophetic spell that provides a glimpse one day into her future. She discovers that she is doomed to murder someone she loves, soon, but not who. Leandra’s quest to unravel the mystery of the murder-she-will-commit becomes more urgent when her chronic disease flares up and the Ixonian Archipelago is plagued by natural disasters, demon worshiping cults, and fierce political infighting. Everywhere she turns, Leandra finds herself amid conflict. As chaos spreads across Ixos, Leandra and her troubled family – her misspelling wizard father Nicodemus Weal and dragon-of-a-mother Francesca DeVega – must race to uncover the shocking truth about a prophesied demonic invasion, human language, and their own identities–if they don't kill each other first.
Human Voices
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From the Booker Prizewinning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II, the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC – as elsewhere – some had to fail and some had to die, but where the Nine O’Clock News was always delivered, in impeccable accents, to the waiting nation.
Prime Target (Alistair MacLean’s UNACO)
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A US government official is assassinated, a list of names, all male, all German, is found and two men on the list are already dead. What is the connection? When the mission looks impossible, who do you call? UNACO. A young American government employee is murdered in cold blood on a London street. Her death is only the tip of a conspiracy that threatens the life of Andreas Wolff, the computer genius responsible for the security codes for ICON - the computerized criminal identification network. Malcolm Philpott, the enigmatic and powerful head of UNACO, recognizes the grave threat, and assigns his two best agents to the case. Sabrina Carver and Mike Graham must race from New York to London, Morocco and Berlin in their efforts to crack the lethal intrigue that threatens world security and has its roots in the final days of World War Two and the desperate plans of a dying madman.
The Missing Marriage
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The queen of the black-hearted soap opera is back! Welcome to the upwardly mobile Prendergast Road… On Prendergast Road, deep in Nappy Valley, among olive trees in terracotta, lower fuel emissions, Lithuanian prostitutes, teenage drug dealers, stalkers and soaring house prices, five desperate women wait… The progeny of the IVF generation is ready to start school and only one of them is destined to get a place in Nappy Valley's most oversubscribed cradle of learning. How far will these women go to get that place? Follow Kate Hunter into the depths of her impeccably honed life, as she struggles to maintain the fa?ade of perfection. When exactly did life become a life class? Is happiness overrated? Is it just possible that beneath the flawless sheen of her friends' and neighbours' amazingly trouble-free lives, beneath the freshly-ironed shirts and home-grown veg, lie the same half-truths, the same uncertainties and the same desperation to keep up with the Joneses…? Sarah May is an intimate observer of society (AKA curtain-twitcher of the highest order) and her novel is an hilariously dark-hearted soap opera of our everyday lives. In a society that always strives to be more organic, less carbon-polluting, more virtuous than any other, 'The Rise and Fall of the Domestic Diva' is a breath of fresh air (imported from the mountains of Nepal and filtered organically for purity, of course).
An Experiment in Love
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Following ‘A Change in Climate’, this brilliant novel from the double Man Booker prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ is a coming-of-age tale set in Seventies London. It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel’s world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.
Dancing Backwards
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The long-awaited new novel from Salley Vickers, bestselling and much-loved author of Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship, and abandoning her career as a poet, for the safety of marriage and domesticity. Despite her natural reserve, she meets a rich variety of passengers travelling with her, who affect her understanding of her own past. Most significantly, she meets Dino, the dance host, whose motives in befriending Vi are shady, but who teaches her to ballroom dance - and inadvertently helps her to recover from her past. Moving between the late sixties and the present day, Dancing Backwards is written with the lightness of touch and psychological insight which characterise Salley Vickers' acclaimed work. This bittersweet novel is subtle, poignant and wonderfully entertaining.
The Virgin’s Lover
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A sumptuous historical novel set in the court of Elizabeth I, from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Now I can be the queen that my mother intended me to be . . . the queen I was born to be. 1558. After years of waiting, Princess Elizabeth accedes to the throne of England. But the country is divided, the restoration of the Protestant faith ignites opposition from the church and beyond, and court remains a treacherous place. Many believe that Elizabeth must marry if she is to survive. For Robert Dudley, Elizabeth’s ascension is a glorious new dawn, and he quickly positions himself as the young queen’s favourite. Dudley is a man of powerful lineage; his father had been a kingmaker at the court of Henry VIII. But Dudley has many enemies, amongst them William Cecil, the queen’s most trusted advisor. As powerful families vie for stakes in the emerging kingdom, Elizabeth must secure her own future.
People of the Book
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A novel from the author of ‘March’ and ‘Year of Wonders’ takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure. When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manu* which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of wartorn Sarajevo, she knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. A renowned book conservator, she must now make her way to Bosnia to start work on restoring The Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish prayer book – to discover its secrets and piece together the story of its miraculous survival. But the trip will also set in motion a series of events that threaten to rock Hannah’s orderly life, including her encounter with Ozren Karamen, the young librarian who risked his life to save the book. As meticulously researched as all of Brooks’s previous work, ‘People of the Book’ is a gripping and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.
The Witch of Portobello
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From one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho, comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed ‘the Witch of Portobello’. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all – parents, colleagues, teachers, friends, acquaintances, her ex-husband. The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs… Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure. Like The Alchemist, The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love, passion, joy and sacrifice.
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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A timeless classic dealing with the complexity and hardships of relationships, addiction and faith. Judith Hearne, a Catholic middle-aged spinster, moves into yet another bed-sit in Belfast. A socially isolated woman of modest means, she teaches piano to a handful of students to pass the day. Her only social activity is tea with the O'Neill family, who secretly dread her weekly visits. Judith soon meets wealthy James Madden and fantasises about marrying this lively, debonair man. But Madden sees her in an entirely different light, as a potential investor in a business proposal. On realising that her feelings are not reciprocated, she turns to an old addiction – alcohol. Having confessed her problems to an indifferent priest, she soon loses her faith and binges further. She wonders what place there is for her in a world that so values family ties and faith, both of which she is without.
The Unlimited Dream Company
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From the author of The Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights the story of suburban London transformed into an exotic dreamworld. When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is surreally transformed. Vultures invade the rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man’s urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations towards an apocalyptic climax. In this characteristically inventive novel Ballard displays to devastating effect the extraordinary imagination that established him as one of Britain’s most highly acclaimed writers. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ned Beauman, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.
Consumed
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The debut novel by the iconic film director. Stylish and tech-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors – nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Naomi sets off on the trail of Aristide, who has fled the country. But the truth behind the murder is disturbing and deadly. Nathan, meanwhile, has contracted a rare STD called Roiphe’s. He travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behaviour masks a devastating secret. These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. ‘Consumed’ is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors.
T?n?rul Sherlock Holmes. Lipitoarea ro?ie
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La o conferin?? de la Institutul Francez de pe bulevardul Dacia, Mirona face cuno?tin?? cu ?un b?rbat impun?tor, greoi, cu p?rul ca z?pada“, care, c?nd afl? c? scrie literatur?, o invit? la cenaclu s? citeasc? ceva. ?Maestrul“ e, desigur, E. Lovinescu, surprins dintr-o singur? tr?s?tur? de condei, cu spiritul s?u curios ?i generozitatea fa?? de ?ncep?tori, dar ?i cu mania – nevinovat? – de a-i ?boteza“ cu pseudonime conving?toare: ?Mirona? repet? maestrul mirat. E ingenios, dar prea c?utat, neverosimil... S? vii s?-mi cite?ti ceva. Las? c?-?i g?sesc eu un alt pseudonim. ?i, potrivindu-?i ochelarii, ca un profesor care nu se decide s?-?i pun? o not? de trecere: Vino duminic? la cenaclu, domni?oar? Mirona...“?La cap?tul lecturii acestui roman, scris cu verv? ?i cu sensibilitate feminin?, cititorul va r?m?ne cu imaginea unei epoci istorice tulburate de mari prefaceri, ?n care o fat? idealist? ??i caut? drumul, crez?nd cu ?nc?p???nare ?n destinul ei de scriitoare. Narator ?i personaj ?n acela?i timp, ea tr?ie?te deopotriv? ?n realitatea Bucure?tiului ?i a Parisului din anii celui de-al Doilea R?zboi Mondial, c?t ?i ?n fic?iune, al?turi de fascinanta ?i misterioasa bunic? Fana.“ – Elena Zaharia-Filipa?
Night School
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Ion Minulescu a fost cel care a mpmntenit la noi un mod de via simbolist – sintez ntre boem i dandism. Adic acea voit difereniere de lumea comun, prin ceea ce s-a numit atunci spiritul decadent. [...] Ce aducea nou Ion Minulescu n poezie n primul rnd, o alt lume, o alt surs de inspiraie; nu satul, ci oraul, nu un univers cantonat n vechime, ci unul modern.Frumuseea liricii lui Ion Minulescu a constat n faptul c poetul a intit i a izbutit s rmn el nsui, cu tot ce a adus nou i personal n literatura romn. Iar atunci cnd i-a extins aria inspiraiei, s-a pstrat n matca proprie. A cutat s-o lrgeasc, iar apele s-au dus la vale i mai zglobii, i mai nepstoare. Chiar dac unii cu care a pornit la drum l-au ntrecut, chiar dac dintre cei care-au venit dup el civa au aflat ci mai adnci de expresie, Ion Minulescu nu i-a pierdut identitatea.“ – Valeriu Rpeanu
Avantajul. De ce s?n?tatea organiza?ional? este cel mai important atu ?n afaceri
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Nu exist? niciun roman care s? fi fost la fel de prost citit ca Rusoaica lui Gib Mih?escu. Inclusiv de c?tre critica literar? a anilor ‘30 din secolul trecut. Despre critica de dup? r?zboi e greu de vorbit. Tip?rit ?n 1933, romanul n-a fost reeditat niciodat? ?n timpul comunismului. Nici m?car ?n edi?iile critice. Motivul este ?n primul r?nd titlul. Cu toat? ?desp?r?irea“ politic? a regimului de la Bucure?ti de Uniunea Sovietic? din aprilie 1964, liderii comuni?ti rom?ni au continuat s? menajeze p?n? la sf?r?it ?marea ?ar? prieten?“, era formula obi?nuit?, de la R?s?rit, interzic?nd orice referire direct?. Rusoaica e un roman captivant, care se cite?te cu pl?cere, dincolo de toate sofisticatele considera?ii ale criticilor. E un roman de aventuri ?i de iubire, despre un t?n?r care ??i ia dorin?ele drept vise ?i iluziile drept idealuri. Cu to?ii, la o anumit? v?rst?, p??im acest lucru. ?i p?n? s? ne fie ru?ine de p??ania proprie, ne desf?t?m cu nemaipomenitele p??anii sentimentale ale locotenentului Ragaiac.
Ro?u de rubin. Culorile dragostei
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Anglia, 1520. Henric al VIII-lea doreste sa anuleze casatoria cu Caterina de Aragon si sa o ia de sotie pe Anne Boleyn. Poporul si Europa catolica se opun. Un singur om indrazneste sa-si puna in joc viata pentru a castiga bunavointa regelui: Thomas Cromwell, un personaj original, deopotriva fermecator si ticalos, idealist si oportunist, fin cunoscator al caracterului uman si cu o energie fara seaman. Politician desavarsit, intarit de pierderea familiei, de neclintit in ambitia sa, Cromwell isi croieste cu abilitate drum intr-o lume in care ?omul este lup pentru om“. Opunandu-se parlamentului, politicii de stat si papalitatii, Cromwell este pregatit sa redefineasca Anglia conform vointei lui Henric si propriilor sale dorinte. Dar Henric este schimbator: binevoitor intr-o zi, gata sa ucida in alta.Cu un stil inimitabil, Hilary Mantel infatiseaza tabloul unei societati in prag de schimbare, in care indivizii lupta cu propriul destin sau il accepta cu pasiune si curaj. Romanul recreeaza o perioada in care succesul ofera puteri nelimitate, dar o singura greseala aduce moartea.
Crescendo
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Mitul de erou legendar pe care imaginatia populara l-a creat despre Stefan cel Mare s-a perpetuat prin graiul viu al traditiilor noastre si a fost inviorat necontenit, de-a lungul vremurilor, de creatii folclorice care l-au ridicat pe voievodul moldovean la inaltimea unui simbol national. Cum a reusit Stefan cel Mare sa-si castige acest nimb de glorie? Faptele sale marete sunt dovezile cele mai graitoare. Domn abil si intelept iubit de popor, pretuit de prieteni si apreciat pana si de dusmanii sai, el a cautat sa-si asigure mai intai linistea interna si apoi sa obtina cu orice pret neatarnarea tarii. Pentru infaptuirea acestor deziderate, domnitorul a inteles ca poporul este puterea bratului sau si a cautat sa se apropie de popor si sa se sprijine pe el. Astfel, ducand o politica echilibrata intre cele doua clase ale societatii feudale – boierime si taranime –, el a reusit sa stapaneasca si chiar sa limiteze tendintele marilor boieri, ridicand in acelasi timp o parte dintre tarani la starea de razesi, rasplatindu-si vitejii din lupte cu sate si pamanturi.
Febra oaselor
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Londra, 1826. Gabriel Swift studiaz? cu Edwin Poll, cel mai mare anatomist londonez. Atras ?n jocurile lui Lucan, adversarul maestrului s?u un temut profanator de morminte, st?p?nul absolut al comer?ului cu cadavre, t?n?rul decade ?i ajunge s? cunoasc? violen?a ?i depravarea lumii interlope, ?n care – va descoperi – a lua via?a cuiva este incredibil de u?or.Dup? zece ani, un cu totul alt om pred? lec?ii de desen ?n colonia australian? de de?inu?i New South Wales ?i, ?n timpul liber, picteaz? p?s?ri. C?nd se ?ndr?goste?te de una dintre elevele sale, ?n?elege c? nimeni nu poate sc?pa de trecut ?i c?, adesea, cele mai ?ngrozitoare temni?e sunt cele ?n care ne zidim singuri.Un thriller gotic captivant, o evocare a atmosferei ?nc?rcate de mister din Londra victorian? ?i totodat? povestea emo?ionant? a unui destin marcat de brutalitatea unei lumi ?n care totul este de v?nzare. Dickens s-ar fi sim?it aici ca acas?.??mbin? atmosfera sumbr? ?i fascinant? a genului horror cu medita?ia profund? asupra unor teme metafizice.“ – Sydney Morning Herald
The Invisible Crowd
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Featured in the Guardian’s Readers’ Books of the Year ‘A fierce, big-hearted novel.’ Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air ‘Pushes us to find our kinder selves.’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You 'A deeply felt novel' Tim Finch,author of The House of Jounalists 2nd March 1975 In Asmara, Eritrea, Yonas Kelati is born into a world of turmoil. At the same time, on the same day, Jude Munroe takes her first breath in London, England. Thirty Years Later Blacklisted in his war-ravaged country, Yonas has no option but to flee his home. After a terrible journey, he arrives on a bleak English coast. By a twist of fate, Yonas’ asylum case lands on Jude’s desk. Opening the file, she finds a patchwork of witness statements from those who met Yonas along his journey: a lifetime the same length of hers, reduced to a few scraps of paper. Soon, Jude will stand up in court and tell Yonas’ story. How she tells it will change his life forever. Fearless, uplifting and compelling, The Invisible Crowd is a powerful debut novel about loyalty, kindness – and the brief moments which define our lives.
