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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 –…
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…
Brighton, winter 1951. Pantomime season is in full swing on the pier with Max Mephisto starring in Aladdin, but Max’s headlines have been stolen by the disappearance –of two local children. When they are found dead in the snow, surrounded by sweets, it’s not long before the press nickname them…
Ruth’s friend Cathbad is house-sitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary. One night, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the graveyard beside the cottage: a young woman dressed in blue. Cathbad thinks that he may have seen the Madonna herself but, the next…
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…
Kategorier: Konst
Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue.
Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone’s house. …
’The book we all need – full of escapism, romance, hope and kindness’ Milly Johnson’Gloriously romantic’ Sun’I couldn’t put it down’ Jill MansellYour big secret is out. What next?For Lara and her daughter Eliza, it has always been just the two of them. But when Eliza…
Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood-drinkers, is smart and beautiful – and very dangerous. Domingo…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. ’I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor’s obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.’
Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from…
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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THE CHINESE ”LORD OF THE RINGS” – NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.
THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES – 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD..ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY NOVELS OF ALL TIME.
”Jin Yong’s work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a…
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas – the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol – was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.
In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg…
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:…
In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains – bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime.
No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo…
At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead, but they are mistaken.
Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor.
Though crippled, Oskar finds the strength to go on living and working. The Rock Blaster charts his long…
Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another killer. A devastating new case for our favourite forensic archaeologist in this acclaimed and bestselling crime series.
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The Story of the World’s Greatest Fashion Bible, Vogue magazine.
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Discover the ancient wisdom of the Chinese zodiac to get lucky in life, work and love.
Are you a charismatic tiger, a lucky rabbit or perhaps a witty monkey? Whatever your zodiac animal, this essential beginner’s guide to Chinese astrology will help you to understand yourself more deeply and make better decisions…
’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…
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.
Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son’s well-being, Balder…
From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the progression of a life through the elements of musicIn this collection of all new poems, Whitney Hanson explores the progression of a life through the lens of music. We each begin with a simple note, but as life progresses, we’re…
Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of her new bestseller she can barely pretend to smile. Her life has spiralled into deceit and if the…
The fully annotated, fully filthy, fully hilarious book from the Number 1 podcast sensation My Dad Wrote a Porno Belinda blinked, it wasn’t a dream, the job interviewer had just asked her to remove her jacket and silk blouse… So begins Belinda Blinked, Rocky Flintstone’s now-legendary porno (sorry,…
June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire to his house and departs the southern state. And thereafter, the entire African-American population leave with him.
The…
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Crazy Rich Asians actress/comedian Awkwafina as Constance Verity: the girl who’s been saving the world since she was seven.
”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,…
Kategorier: Konst
This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial contexts in which this relationship has developed.In this…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs – yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face,…
”Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic” MUSA OKWONGA”A time-travelling wonder of a read” PATERSON JOSEPH
”A work of fierce imagination” NII AYIKWEI PARKES
WHERE IS ADA?
In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again, and again the baby…
In an overcrowded Stockholm underground station a father and his two boys are late for their train. Joel, the youngest, is howling in his pushchair and his seven-year-old brother, Kristoffer, refuses to take the lift. A woman approaches and offers to lead Kristoffer up the stairs. Reluctantly his father agrees, but…
Little Walsingham has always been famous for religious visions, so when Ruth’s druid friend Cathbad, now living with police officer Judy, sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, no one is too shocked. But then a woman dressed in a blue cloak is found dead, and people begin to see the apparition in a different light.…
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…