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For identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect – they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and…
In the breakaway Lakota Nation, in the heart of a land blistered beneath an ozone hole the size of the Great Plains of North America, a lone anthropologist wanders the deadlands, recording observations that threaten to bring the world’s powers to their knees. Revolvo: In the fictitious country of Canada, the arts…
When Jean Sasson’s book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller. It sold to 43 countries and spent 13 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Now, in this long-awaited, compelling new book, Sasson and the Princess ’Sultana’…
Förortshäxor, trotsiga gamla damer, åldrande monster, självmordsbenägna lotterivinnare, vargmän, delfinkvinnor och medelålders tillverkare av läderkläder – i dessa tjugotvå noveller av författaren till bl a Kärlekens dårar och En doft av apelsin går det mirakulösa hand i hand med det jordiska, det beska med det…
From the bestselling author of Sirens, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man. A body has been found on the fourth floor of Manchester’s vast and empty Palace Hotel. The man is dead. And he is smiling. The tags have been removed from his clothes. His teeth have been replaced.…
Friends forever is a difficult promise to keep… Meet Lana, Judith and Catrin. Best friends since primary school when they swore an oath on a Curly Wurly wrapper that they would always be there for each other, come what may.
After the trip of a lifetime, the three girls are closer than ever. But an unexpected turn…
What happens to the Zoe Nolans of the world?’ In the early hours of Saturday, December 17th, 2011, Zoe Nolan, a 19-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months.
’Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It’s the other way around.’Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the royal crown, both missing. Witches don’t have…
’Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life’ BBC History
From Genghis Khan’s domination on earth to Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, discover the 100 moments that defined humanity and shaped our world forever.
Neil Oliver takes us on a whistle-stop tour around the…
Love can be a truly terrible thing.
Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead.
Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right;…
From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection
’The world’s greatest storyteller’ Guardian’One of the finest crime writers of any generation’ Daily Mail’Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting’ Mick…
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected.
It’s the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text…
Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages. As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom’s home world even death was not always fatal. Why, then, in an age when…
A frosty December night in Stockholm. Inside the City Hall, over a thousand guests attend the prestigious Nobel Prizewinners’ dinner. With a lavish meal laid on to the backdrop of a full orchestra, this is one of the city’s most glamorous events of the year. But things are different tonight. Two shots are…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The quantum computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers – which, like Schrodinger’s…
In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. It was the summer that saw the…
From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god arose in human evolution, was gradually personalized, endowed with human traits and emotions, and eventually transformed into a single Divine Personality: the God…
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she…
Vinnare av The John Creasy Dagger för »Bästa kriminaldebut«.
»En unikt begåvad, realistisk och rasande deckare.« | LOTTA OLSSON, DN
»En fullständigt omskakande kriminaldebut, omöjlig att lägga ifrån sig.« | NEW YORK TIMES
Maureen O’ Donnell har haft ett problemfyllt liv: sexuella övergrepp, inlagd på…
Kategorier: Informationsteknik
An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.
Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions – in healthcare, transport, finance, security, what…
THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE RUMOUR’A plot packed with surprises, and it has an ending that won’t disappoint.’ Daily MailCome on. You’ll be fine. It’s only a game.
’This time it’s different. She’s gone too far now. She really…
A feminist reversal of dating classics like The Rules and He’s Just Not That Into You, this provocative book empowers women to tackle the pitfalls of modern dating and helps them to successfully navigate unsatisfactory relationships with a man. The debut hardback from Instagram sensation @lalalaletmexplain, the…
From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection ’The world’s greatest storyteller’ THE GUARDIAN’One of the finest crime writers of any generation’ DAILY MAIL
On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards…
’Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.’
Imprisoned in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is offered a choice: to be executed or to accept a job as the city’s Postmaster General.
It’s a tough decision, but he’s already survived one hanging and isn’t…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol.
Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long…
’Fresh, witty, and utterly romantic, this is the deliciously offbeat modern reimagining of When Harry Met Sally I never knew I needed’ Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis
Ari, a free-spirited struggling comedian, likes to keep things casual, and never sleeps over after hooking up. Josh,…
Madonna is the biggest female pop star in the world yet there is no serious biography of her, and no biography at all by a woman. Existing books are either gossipy style manuals or rehashes of press cuttings and they all end in 2001 with Madonna’s marriage to Guy Ritchie. Yet her story hardly ends there, as…
In the eleventh Discworld novel, Death is missing – presumed . . . er . . . gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There’s a harvest…
It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will…
In the western sky the bright emerald banner of the Visitor descends like a portent of annihilation. On the continent of Jacuruku, the Thaumaturgs have mounted another expedition in a bid to tame the neighbouring wild jungle. Yet this is no normal wilderness. It is called Himatan, and it is said to be half of the…
Soon to be a major film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and its amazing ’White City’ was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the…
Jacob Underwood is not like other people. He has Cotard’s Syndrome. He believes he is dead. Which makes his job as a hired assassin neutralising ’problems’ for DBG, a massive multinational corporation, very simple. He carries out the task – and feels nothing. Now DBG has such a problem. A key…