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A propulsive new thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur from the author of the No 1 bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. A murderer hides in plain sight – in the police.
DS Cassie Fitzgerald has a secret – but it’s one she’s deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she…
’Kimberly Lemming is doing god’s work, I swear. Finally, well written, funny, steamy (the sex scenes, whoa) fantasy romance with heroines who look like me. Finally!’ Amazon review
Anyone else ever thrown a drink at someone’s head, only to miss entirely and hit a stranger behind them? Then have…
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO RETURNS
The iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide.
”Even more gripping and astonishing than the first” Sunday Times
Lisbeth Salander can be viciously violent. Mikael Blomkvist knows it – and owes his life to it.
When a criminologist and a…
Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion.
When Samson Kolechko’s father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre. Deprived of his right ear instead…
Following the extraordinary international success of NORWEGIAN WOOD, the bestselling manual for chopping, stacking and drying wood the Scandinavian way, THE NORWEGIAN WOOD ACTIVITY BOOK offers something for all the family, including: * Top Trunks * Spot the difference * Dot-to-dot and mazes * Cut out and colour the…
On the Baltic Sea, no one can hear you scream.
Tonight, twelve hundred expectant passengers have joined the booze-cruise between Sweden and Finland. The creaking old ship travels this same route, back and forth, every day of the year.
But this trip is going to be different.
In the middle of the night the ferry is…
A REPORTER WITH NO FEAR
1979. Jaded Edinburgh journalist Neil Bannerman is sent to Europe, intent on digging up dirt. Yet it is danger he discovers, when two British men are found murdered.
A CHILD WITH NO FATHER
One victim is a journalist, the other a Cabinet Minister: the double-assassination witnessed by the…
A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping – packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift. Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Moeller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees’ natural order and…
Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when Covid rears its ugly head. But can they find the killer despite lockdown?
Ruth is in London clearing out her mother’s belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Her mother…
The perfect love story awaits… if Amy can figure out which man she kissed last night!
”Set to be one of the best books of 2023” GQ Magazine
”Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic” MUSA OKWONGA
”An impressive and highly original work, brimming over with energy” TLS
WHERE IS ADA?
In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again,…
The next gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths.
’Recalls the best of Agatha Christie’ Sunday Express
Brighton, 1966.
Max, now divorced and living in London, is on the way to visit Ruby and her new-born daughter when he is hailed by an old magician friend Ted…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Karriär och framgång Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Is it your dream to make it as a creative? Imagine for one moment that there are no employers, no firms to send your CV to, no interviews to be had. How would you forge your own path? The most ingenious and driven designers have found ways of making opportunities for themselves across the creative disciplines –…
’No one does real life like Lucy Diamond’ Veronica HenryThere’s nowhere quite like Paris, as journalist and single mum Jess Bright knows all too well. She’s never forgotten the love, friendship and freedom she enjoyed there in her twenties. So when she’s offered a writing job in the city…
Chopping and stacking wood is a pastime where the world makes sense once more. Because our relationship to fire is so ancient, so universal, it seems that in learning about wood, you can also learn about life. And who better to impart this wisdom than an expert from Scandinavia, where the extreme climate has obliged…
What was it about Hjoggbole, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots – and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing in his family – honest, hardworking people. Not a trace of poetry. And yet he…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Daniel Radcliffe, Galileo Galilei, Nelson Mandela, Louis Armstrong, Grayson Perry, Louis Braille, Lionel Messi, King George VI, Jamie Oliver… all dared to be different. ’This book can save lives. This book can change lives. This book can help…
The sixth in the Millennium series featuring THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – more than 100 million copies sold worldwide.
”What are you going to do now?”
”I will be the hunter and not the hunted.”
Lisbeth Salander’s mentor and protector Holger Palmgren is dead, and she has been…
From the internationally bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series: Eoin Colfer’s first adult fantasy novel is a hilarious, high-octane adventure about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who’s been hiding out from the world – and potential torch-carrying mobs – in a Louisiana bayou…
”Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again.”-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower MoonOne of the New York Times’ ”20 most…
A contemporary gothic debut with a feminist edge, for fans of Naomi Alderman and Madeline Miller
For 150 years, Caldonbrae Hall has loomed high above the Scottish cliffs as a beacon of excellence in the ancestral castle of Lord William Hope. A boarding school for girls, it promises that its pupils will emerge…
’Spellbinding’ JODI PICOULT
’Bewitching’ REBECCA ROSS
’Exquisite’ STEPHANIE GARBER
’Captivating’ SUE LYNN TAN
From the New York Times bestselling author comes an evocative, compelling novel of ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true…
In Hidden Strengths, Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel and Claire LaZebnik explore how the strengths of children and young adults diagnosed with ASD are commonly overlooked or misjudged, even by trained professionals. The authors examine how outdated attitudes, a lack of sufficient training and an overreliance on standardised…
Kategorier: Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
’Williams never ceases to surprise and delight!’ ROBINNE LEE’Punchy and poignant, sweeping and yet so intimate’ KENNEDY RYAN’Reads like the best kind of love song: tender, smart and sexy’ LEAH JOHNSON
One florist. One pianist. One love story . . . One hundred years in the making.
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A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition.
Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will only trust one person:…
Dr Ruth Galloway is flattered when she receives a letter from Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli, asking for her help. He’s discovered a group of bones in a tiny hilltop village near Rome but doesn’t know what to make of them. It’s years since Ruth has had a holiday, and even a working holiday to…
For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter’s kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police’s…
Kategorier: Deckare Polisromaner Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Nominerad till »Årets bästa översatta deckare« av Svenska Deckarakademien!
»Jo Spain lyckas foga in ett nattsvart kapitel i Irlands historia i en medryckande kriminalhistoria.« Lotta Olsson väljer Förlåt oss våra synder till Årets bästa deckare i DN.
»En av årets bästa översatta deckare.« Gunilla Wedding, Skånska…
A SILENT VOW
Spain, 2020. When expat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman.
A SILENT LIFE
Cristina’s aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life:…
The great Norse Myths are among the most dramatic and unforgettable stories in all human history. These fascinating, fantastical tales have inspired centuries of art, culture and literature, including the storytelling of Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, Wagner’s Ring Cycle and…
Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, one of the most popular crime series in Britain, with this beautiful special edition.
START THE JOURNEY HERE AND YOU WILL BE HOOKED
Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child’s bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are…
’Every page bursts with heart’ Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See
For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last.
A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He’s turning into a great white shark, and has less than a year left to live as a…