The Sunday Times bestselling, twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by Andrea Camilleri.

When Inspector Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call it proves to be the start of a very trying day. For the caller expects Montalbano to arrive imminently at a rendezvous with some friends. But before he can reply the caller announces himself as someone called Riccardino and hangs up. Later that day news comes in of a brutal slaying in broad daylight by an unknown assassin who makes his getaway on a motorbike. And when the Inspector learns of the victim's identity - a man called Riccardino - his troubles are only just beginning.

For soon he must contend with the involvement of a local bishop and a fortune teller who reports some strange goings-on in her neighbourhood. All roads soon lead to a local salt mine but the case proves stubbornly intractable until Montalbano receives another unexpected call.

Wanneer Wynand Senekal op Piet Ludeke se plaas aankom om 'n onlangs aankoop van 'n groot hoeveelheid ammunisie te ondersoek, voel dit of hy teruggereis het in tyd. Ses ossewaens, bebaarde perderuiters in kakie en ferweel en gewere en bandeliers kan net een ding beteken: dat daar veel meer hier aan die broei is as wat die Suid-Afrikaanse Geheime Diens vaagweg sou kon raai.

Wanneer Frodo Baalens sy oom Bilbo se towerring tydens dié se een-en-elftigste verjaarsdagpartytjie erf, is dit die begin van onvoorsiene avonture.

Eers verdwyn Bilbo spoorloos en dan daag die towenaar Ghandalf op met die nuus dat Frodo in lewensgevaar verkeer: wie ook al in besit is van die Ring, vertel Ghandalf, sal uiteindelik deur die korrupterende mag daarvan verwoes word. Daar is net een uitweg: om die Skeure van Verdoemenis in die dieptes van die Vuurberg te vind, die Ring daarin te gooi en dit só vir ewig buite die bereik van die Vyand te plaas.

Saam met sy kamerade Sam, Mannetjies en Pippin val Frodo in die pad met die hoop om die donker mag van Sauron vir altyd te verslaan.

Antwerpen 1582: Die veertienjarige dief en inbreker Gitte Niemandsdogter word deur 'n stadswagter gearresteer, en sy word ter dood veroordeel. Sy ontsnap net-net aan die galg deur die onderbalju daarvan te oortuig dat haar pa 'n Spaanse hertog is. Hy is boonop die raadgewer van koning Filips die Tweede. Die Nederlande is in oorlog met Spanje, en in ruil vir haar lewe moet Gitte spioeneer vir die Nederlandse prins van Oranje. Sy gaan na Sevilla en sal al haar lis en vernuf moet aanwend om die hertog se strategiese seekaarte te steel. Maar hoe langer Gitte in Sevilla is, hoe meer hou sy van die stad en van die hertog. Wanneer sy die elegante don Domingo ontmoet, raak sy dolverlief. Sy probeer alles in haar vermoe om van haar opdrag ontslae te raak...

The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month Expertly researched and visionary in scale, international number one bestseller Ken Follett's Never is more than a thriller. It imagines a scenario we all hope never comes true, one which will keep you transfixed until the final page . . . 'Stunning . . . one of the most compelling reads of the year' - Daily Express A stolen US army drone. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert. A secret stash of deadly chemicals. Each is a threat to global stability. Each can be overcome with only the highest levels of diplomacy. But when those in charge disagree and refuse to back down, an international chain reaction kicks off with potentially catastrophic consequences: a world edging closer to war . . . Now three people must work with the utmost skill to stop that from happening: A spy working undercover with jihadis. A brilliant Chinese spymaster. A US president beleaguered by a populist rival for the next election. The only question is - in a game of brinksmanship, can the inevitable ever be stopped? 'Bold in scale and meticulously researched' - Sunday Times 'Probably his best yet' - Stephen King Urgent and fiercely compelling' - The Washington Post More than 175 million copies sold worldwide. Published in over eighty territories and thirty-seven languages. The international no.1 bestselling phenomenon returns.

Nick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he's very, very wrong.

Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a devil's bargain. In exchange for his own safety - a life for a life - Stone is charged with locating someone who doesn't want to be found, currently hiding out in the one of the remotest corners of the UK. And for the first time in a long time, he's not operating alone. But Stone and his team don't find just anyone. They find a world-class hacker, so good that her work might threaten the stability of the western world as we know it. These are dangerous waters and Stone is quickly in over his head. Before he finally knows which way to turn, the choice is ripped out of his hands.

Most people might think of home as safety but Nick Stone isn't most people. For him and his team, it's just another place to get caught in the line of fire...

From the publishers of The Girl on the Train and The Sanatorium comes the biggest debut thriller of the year. An unputdownable beach about the dark side of paradise.

Welcome to paradise. We hope you survive your stay...

Scuba diving instructor Cass leads her students out for their first dive off the beautiful coast of Koh Sang, Thailand's world-famous party island. It's supposed to be a life-changing experience, but things quickly spiral out of control...

By the time she gets back to the shore, one of her students is dead, another badly injured, and she knows that her idyllic life is about to be smashed to pieces on the rocks.

Because someone is making sure that backpackers never leave paradise - one murder at a time. And Cass has a feeling she might be next...

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE TERMINAL LIST, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT. 1978, Rhode Island: A freshman senator is gunned down, sending shockwaves through Washington that are still reverberating over four decades later. Now: In a world on the brink of war facing rampant inflation, political division, and shocking assassinations, a secret cabal of global elites are ready to assume control. And with the world's most dangerous man locked in solitary confinement, the conspirators believe the final obstacle to complete domination has been eliminated. They're wrong. From the firms of Wall Street to the corridors of power in Washington, DC and Moscow, secrets from the past have the uncanny ability to rise to the surface and with the odds stacked against him, James Reece is on a deadly mission that is generations in the making. But for a man on the warpath, odds are not important in this intoxicating and timely thriller from 'a rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight' (Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author).

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of 'great works of literature,' but instead mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies, living off her parents' generous allowance, and discussing the 'underside of life' with her best friend, Naima. Anisa's mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, only adds to her growing sense of inadequacy with his savant-level aptitude for languages, successfully leveraging his expansive knowledge into an enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu with native fluency practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. Adam begrudgingly tells Anisa about The Centre, an elite, invite-only program that guarantees near-instant fluency in any language. Skeptical but intrigued, Anisa enrolls-stripped of her belongings, contact with the outside world, and bodily autonomy-and emerges ten days later fluent in German. As Anisa enmeshes herself further within The Centre, seduced by all that it's made possible, she soon realizes the true cost of its services. By turns dark, funny, and surreal, and with twists page-turning and shocking, The Centre takes the reader on a journey through Karachi, London, and New Delhi, interrogating the sticky politics of language, translation, and appropriation with biting specificity, and ultimately asking: what is success really worth?

Struggling with integrating back into society after escaping her captor after five years of torture, sexual abuse as well as prostitution, Minenhle finds herself turning against the people who love her the most.

Haunted by dreams and memories of her torture and torment she turns to illegal substances in order to try and deal with the pain.

Ramon skommel die tarotkaarte. Dit voel of dit lewend word. Hy vryf met sy duim oor die onderste kaart en iets skerps steek hom. ’n Druppel bloed val op die tafel. Hy ruk terug en draai die kaart om. Dis die doodskaart. Ramon Fraser is al sy hele lewe lank ’n uitgeworpene. Sy ma vlug met hom vandat hy kan onthou. Sy is ’n fortuinverteller, maar weier om sy toekoms te lees. Tot op die verskriklike dag toe die mantelman hulle inhaal … Ramon moet weer vlug en beland op ’n plaas met wuiwende grasvelde, Boesmangrotte en poue wat se angsgille die dood nader roep; die poue met die sterte wat bestaan uit duisende oe wat na hom kyk. Iewers in daardie oe sien hy die mantelman wat die niemandsland tussen hemel en hel oppas en verlore siele vir ewig daar opsluit. Hy wink Ramon om deel te word van sy donkerte, moord en waansin. En so begin die stryd tussen die mantelman en die seun wat die Sielsmokkelaar genoem word. Hy wat siele tussen die hede en ewigheid vervoer, en wie se eie siel as losprys gebruik word om die donker ryk te oorwin. Hierdie is ’n verwerkte uitgawe van Van Nierop se roman Die Sielsmokkelaar wat in 1996 verskyn het.