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*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 'The new king of the
spy thriller' Mail on Sunday From the Intelligence Service
purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to
see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to
Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie
Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and
bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in
the day. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the
here and now. On Dickie's phone Lamb finds the last message he ever
left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in
the Intelligence Service's back-yard. Once a spook, always a spook,
and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets. Dickie
Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of
no-hopers are about to go live. 'Mick Herron is an incredible
writer' Mark Billingham 'The spycraft of le Carre refracted through
the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial
Times
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The Lonely Ones
(Hardcover)
Hakan Nesser; Translated by Sarah Death
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'One of the best Nordic Noir writers' Guardian A trip behind the
Iron Curtain would change their lives forever . . . It begins in
1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala, Sweden. Different
circumstances push the three young couples together and, over the
course of a few years, they become friends. But a summer trip
through Eastern Europe changes everything, and when their time at
Uppsala University is over it also signals the end of something
else. Years later, a lecturer at Lund University is found dead at
the bottom of a cliff in the woods close to Kymlinge. And
chillingly, it is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala
students died thirty-five years before. Detective Inspector Gunnar
Barbarotti takes on this ominous case of history repeating itself,
and is forced to confront an increasingly grave reality. The Lonely
Ones is the fourth novel of Hakan Nesser's quintet about Inspector
Gunnar Barbarotti.
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Widow of Bath
(Paperback)
Margot Bennett; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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Hellburner
(Paperback)
Mike Maden; Created by Clive Cussler
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R245
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THE WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A RICHARD
& JUDY BOOKCLUB SELECTION NOW A NUMBER ONE NETFLIX SERIES
'Timely and compelling' Shari Lapena 'Impressive' The Times
'Gripping' Observer 'Sensational' Clare Mackintosh A high-profile
marriage thrust into the spotlight. A prosecutor who believes
justice has been a long time coming. A scandal that will rock
Westminster. And the women caught at the heart of it. Praise for
Anatomy of a Scandal: 'Magnificent' Marian Keyes 'Intelligent,
subtle and thought-provoking' Louise Candlish 'The definition of a
page-turner' Elizabeth Day 'Almost impossible to put down' Louise
O'Neill 'Once the trial of MP James Whitehouse starts, you could
not have prised the book from hands for love or money' Jake
Kerridge, Sunday Express 'An absolute masterpiece - prepare to be
very impressed' heat 'A lot of reviews claim that a novel has them
'hooked from the start' - but with this story, it's painfully true'
Grazia 'A timely thriller about marriage, but also about power, who
wields it, and how that affects who we believe' Stylist
'Well-written, pacy and full of twists and turns' Independent 'New
Netflix series lays bare the toxic privilege of those in power...
Friend's performance is eerily plausible. His Whitehouse is
charismatic and smoothly persuasive, his eloquence barely
concealing his arrogance... Equally strong is Miller as Sophie, who
is forced for the first time to examine her own cosseted way of
life and the principles she has sacrificed to preserve it'
Financial Times 'This drama will immediately entire fans of House
of Cards, Apple Tree Yard and The Undoing.... Miller is excellent
as the elegant, brittle Sophie, who is forced to watch her
beautifully organised house fall out of order, the heart of a drama
that manages to feel both aesthetically glossy and morally gritty'
Sunday Times Culture 'Feels like it could have been ripped from the
headlines' Evening Standard 'A cautionary tale for our times' Daily
Telegraph **OUT NOW: REPUTATION, THE THRILLING AND TIMELY NEW NOVEL
FROM SARAH VAUGHAN**
Spanning from present day until the near future, this novel tells the story of three men facing the rapid unravelling of their world, due to cataclysmic climate collapse.
Luthando’s environmental activism leads to a clash with the government. His life partner, Viwe, becomes embroiled in religious end-of-days fanaticism. And their friend Malcolm worries that his work in biotech augmentation will be used for sinister purposes.
A story about resilience and our capacity for love in the face of fear.
Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems.
Minutes later Reacher is heading into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. Next to him is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent, who is trying to find her twin brother. He might have got mixed up with some dangerous people. And Reacher might just need to pay them a visit.
Their leader has burrowed his influence deep into the town. Just to get in and meet the mysterious Dendoncker, Reacher is going to have to achieve the impossible.
To get answers will be even harder. There are people in this hostile, empty place who would rather die than reveal their secrets.
But then, if Reacher is coming after you, you might be better off dead.
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Burner
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Mark Greaney
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Court Gentry is caught between the Russian mafia and the CIA in the new novel from the new king of the electrifying non-stop action thriller.
When you kick over a rock, you never know what's going to crawl out. Alex Velesky is about to discover that the hard way. He's stolen records from the Swiss bank that employs him, thinking that he'll uncover a criminal conspiracy. But he soon finds that he's tapped into the mother lode of corruption. Before he knows it, he's being hunted by everyone from the Russian mafia to the CIA.
Court Gentry and his erstwhile lover, Zoya Zakharova, find themselves on opposites poles when it comes to Velesky. They both want him but for different reasons.
That's a problem for tomorrow. Today they need to keep him and themselves alive. Right now, it's not looking good.
Exciting, funny, moving - and featuring joyous and authentic
disabled representation - Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star is the
middle-grade debut of 2023. Cosima Unfortunate has spent all her
life at the Home for Unfortunate Girls - a school where any
disabled children, or children deemed different, are sent, whether
their families want it or not. It is there that she meets her
friends - Pearl, Mary and Diya - and they start to practise mini
heists involving the theft of cakes, biscuits and other sweet
goodies. But when Cos finds out that Lord Francis Fitzroy, the
explorer behind the Empire Exhibition, is planning to adopt them,
she and her friends plot the biggest heist of their life. Instead
of fondant fancies, they're going to steal Fitzroy's prized tiara,
containing the legendary Star Diamond of India! But, as they start
preparing for the day, Cosima finds herself drawing ever closer to
discovering the one secret she's always wanted to know - the truth
about her parents...
Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest
short stories of 2021. There is no finer form for a crime than the
short story. WIthin a few pages, a clue can be discovered, divulged
and its significance determined; all else is mere embellishment.
The classic mystery tale will be familiar to aficionados and casual
readers alike: it was invented by Edgar Allen Poe, popularised by
Arthur Conan Doyle, and perfected by Agatha Christie. But mystery
fiction has changed a great deal over the years - as have all
things - and the writers within these pages present far more than a
simple case of crime and resolution. Far from predictable, these
stories provide fertile grounds of aberrant circumstances and the
poor choices they lead to. You will find diverse methods and
motivations, original perspectives and perils. Above all, you will
find tales of the extremes of human psychology caused by despair,
hate, greed, fear, envy, insanity or love. Featuring stories by:
Doug Allyn, Jim Allyn, Ambrose Bierce, Michael Bracken, James Lee
Burke, Martin Edwards, John Floyd, Jacqueline Freimor, Alison
Gaylin, Sue Grafton, Paul Kemprecos, Stephen King, Janice Law,
Dennis McFadden, David Marcum, Tom Mead, David Morrell, Joyce Carol
Oates, Sara Paretsky, Joseph Walker, Andrew Welsh-Huggins.
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Wool
(Paperback)
Hugh Howey
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Total Power
(Paperback)
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
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