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Into Darkness is the fifth episode – a blockbusting 688 pages – in Terry Goodkind’s irresistibly intense new serial novel, The Children of D’Hara. ’I want to introduce everyone to THE CHILDREN OF D’HARA, a new series that continues the story of the lives of Richard and Kahlan. This…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: naturkunskap Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Richard Dawkins explores the wonder of flight. A book about flying – from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the British Airways pilots of today.
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
’Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always colourful’ The Times.
The epic, harrowing and world-changing story – in words and colourized images – of…
The fall and rebirth of an empire. With a cast of hundreds and a world unlike any you have seen before, The Grace of Kings is epic fantasy for the 21st Century.
Emperor Mapidéré was the first to unite the island kingdoms of Dara under a single banner. But now the emperor is on his deathbed, his people are exhausted by…
Angela Constantine is a girl born broken.
The daughter of a meth addict, Angela is convinced she was born a monster. Haunted by an abusive childhood, she was forced to become a woman far too soon. And in the process, she became more.
Angela Constantine has a secret.
Living in a secluded mountain cabin and juggling…
’A fast paced, all-too-real thriller with a villain right out of James Patterson and Criminal Minds’ ANDREW GROSS.
They say you should face your fears. Hello.
OLD ENEMIES… Francis Ackerman Jr. is one of America’s most prolic serial killers. Having kept a low prole for the past year, he…
Against impossible odds, the last survivors of the human race have created a new home on a planet far from Earth. But everything is not as it seems – and they will end up facing their greatest challenge yet. The conclusion to the Long Winter trilogy.
Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is now eighty-four and keen to retire. But who can take up her mantle? Enter Tyler Patchett, our new kind of heroine and Ruth’s grandson. He’s an ultra-confident, twenty-three-year-old man: beautiful, resentful and unemployed. Tyler won’t be satisfied until he…
Kitty Montrose isn’t sure she believes in true love anymore. When she was a little girl, she had dreamed of finding her soulmate. Someone to laugh with, cry with, and to share her twilight years. But it never happened. She has her gorgeous children and grandchildren, but her marriage was never the…
’Paris, passion and a penguin called Pepe. 5 festive stars!’ Nicola May, bestselling author of The Cornershop in Cockleberry Bay’Brilliantly funny, heartfelt and impossibly festive’ Portia MacIntosh, author of The Great Ex-scapeUnited in grief. Pushed apart by tragedy.
Keeley Andrews…
Seven unsettling works from one of our greatest literary imaginations.
A precocious eleven-year-old, in thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, unforgettable, fate.
A university student becomes obsessed with the murder of a female classmate as…
In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father.
When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
The Time Traveller’s Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, here is over a century’s worth of literary travels into past and the future. The anthology…
Kategorier: Medicin och omvårdnad
Seamus O’Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be ’conquered’ ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals.
He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending…
Hetty Heinrich is a perfect German child. Her father is an SS officer, her brother in the Luftwaffe, herself a member of the BDM. She believes resolutely in her country, and the man who runs it. Until Walter changes everything. Blond-haired, blue-eyed, perfect in every way Walter. The boy who saved her life. A…
A new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life.
Everybody knows about Sherlock Holmes, the unique literary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has remained popular over the decades and is more appreciated than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor back in the 1880s, into such a great success? This…
The Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1816: the Year without Summer. As Byron, Polidori, and Mr and Mrs Shelley shelter from the unexpected weather, old ghost stories are read and new ghost stories imagined. Born by the twin brains of the Shelleys is Frankenstein, one of the most influential tales of horror…
As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she’s outgrown her demons, until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns and forces her to confront the dark secrets from…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: rysare och spökhistorier
Fog rolls into Tulsa, and with it comes Darkness.
Zoey knows that the darkness brings with it an old enemy. The more Zoey uncovers the more she’s faced with the certainty that Neferet has returned.
Once again the Nerd Herd are going to have to dig deep to save this world.
When Other Neferet arrives in…
You have to know when to say no. That’s one of the first things they tell you. But from the day I arrived in Los Angeles, I’ve said yes.
Jessica is a struggling young Hollywood reporter, so when she’s asked to profile movie star Clark Conrad, she’s thrilled. But as she inserts herself deep into…
Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died. Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged.
And so…
He looks the same. He looks like a stranger. Super recognisers are born with the ability to remember a face forever, even from a single glance.
Kate was one of them. She worked for the police, using her gift to spot criminals and save lives. Then came the accident.
Deprived of her abilities after a…
A novel which rejects the idea of a universal Black experience. It is the story of three women with completely different but equally important stories: Kemi, Brittany-Rae, Muna.
A timely and arresting debut novel about what it means to be a Black woman in the world. Perfect for fans of Queenie and Americanah.
Kemi is…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
The untold story of Winston Churchill’s precarious finances – and the most original and surprising book about Churchill to emerge for many years. The popular image of Churchill – grandson of a duke, drinking champagne and smoking a cigar – conjures up a man of wealth and substance. The reality…
Michael North, assassin and spy-for-hire, is very good at killing bad guys. But what happens when his shadowy bosses at the dark heart of the British government order him to kill a good woman instead?
Rising political star, Honor Jones, MP, has started asking dangerous questions about the men running her country. The…
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR. Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who struggled with opioid addiction, a stranger approaches Nick with a job.
The woman is a member of the Kimball family, whose…
Nicci has gone by many names and faced many challenges, but now she faces her greatest test yet on a perlious journey into uncharted lands.
’And the Sorceress must save the world’.
Guided by the witch-woman Red’s mysterious prophecy, Nicci and her companions Nathan and Bannon make their way south of…
This significant title story ’The Comic Destiny’ forms the centrepiece of this collection, complemented by thirteen magical stokus. In his new introduction Ben Okri describes it as a talisman, an alchemic instigator for much of his later work. The stoku is a blend of story and haiku. And thirteen,…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap