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William Warwick and Ross Hogan return, for one last time, in a gripping and unputdownable finale.
London, 2012. The eyes of the world are on Britain as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games.
But the glare of the spotlight makes London a target for some of the most dangerous people on earth. And the moment the bid is won, an international conspiracy is set in motion to unleash a devastating attack that will leave the world in chaos.
One man stands between triumph and disaster: Commander William Warwick, heading up Scotland Yard's elite team. But as he pursues the shadowy organisation, he sets off a deadly game of cat and mouse which will take him from the bustling streets of London to the hidden corridors of power. Can Warwick stop the assassin before the greatest show on earth becomes a catastrophe …
Eben Etzebeth is the most-capped player in South African rugby history.
A towering lock, his intelligence, energy and aggression on the pitch
is feared, respected, often imitated but never matched.
He is the heart and soul of a historically successful Springbok team
and a key part of their astonishingly successful run that encompasses
two consecutive World Cups and a current two-year-stint at the top of
the world rankings. In this frank and disarming account, Eben uncovers
the key factors in his extraordinary success, and how he keeps
focussed, both on and off the pitch. From his humble beginnings in
Goodwood, a Cape Town suburb where nothing came easy, through his early
club career and on to his hard-won place within the South African
squad, UNLOCKED reveals the personal side of an astonishing
professional career.
This is an inspiring story of a man who has led from the front, and
played against the best in the world.
Eben Etzebeth is tans die speler wat al die meeste toetswedstryde in
die Suid-Afrikaanse rugbygeskiedenis gespeel het. Op die veld word
hierdie ellelange slot se intelligensie, energie en aggressie gevrees,
gerespekteer en dikwels nageboots – maar hy bly ongeëwenaard.
Hy is lid van die Springbokke se senior leierskapsgroep, en speel ’n
deurslaggewende rol in ’n ongelooflik suksesverhaal wat twee
agtereenvolgende Wêreldbekers insluit, asook die span se posisie boaan
die wêreldranglys die afgelope twee jaar.
In hierdie eerlike en onderhoudende vertelling beskryf Eben van die
vernaamste faktore vir sy buitengewone sukses, en hoe hy gefokus bly –
op en van die veld af. Van sy beskeie kinderjare in Goodwood – ’n
voorstad van Kaapstad waar niks maklik kom nie – regdeur sy vroeë
klubloopbaan, tot by sy swaar verdiende plek in die Suid-Afrikaanse
nasionale span, vertel Ten slotte die verhaal van ’n merkwaardige
sportloopbaan.
Academy Award-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins delves into his
illustrious film and theatre career, difficult childhood and path to
sobriety in his honest, moving and long-awaited memoir.
Born and raised in Port Talbot – a small Welsh steelworks town – amid
war and depression, Sir Anthony Hopkins grew up around men who were
tough, to say the least, and eschewed all forms of emotional
vulnerability in favor of alcoholism and brutality. A struggling
student in school, he was deemed by his peers, his parents and other
adults as a failure with no future ahead of him. But, on a fateful
Saturday night, the disregarded Welsh boy watched the 1948 adaptation
of Hamlet, sparking a passion for acting that would lead him on a path
that no one could have predicted.
With candour and a voice that is both arresting and vulnerable, Sir
Anthony recounts his various career milestones and provides a
once-in-a-lifetime look into the brilliance behind some of his most
iconic roles. His performance as Iago gets him admitted into the
prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and places him under the wing
of Laurence Olivier. He meets Richard Burton by chance as a young boy
in his art teacher’s apartment, and later, backstage before a
performance of Equus as an established actor meeting his hero. His
iconic portrayal of Hannibal Lecter was informed by the creepy
performance of Bela Lugosi in Dracula and the razor-sharp precision of
his acting teacher. He pulls raw emotion from the stoicism of his
father and grandfather for an unforgettable performance in King Lear.
Sir Anthony also takes a deeply honest look at the low points in his
personal life. His addiction cost him his first marriage, his
relationship with his only child, and nearly his life – the latter
ultimately propelling him toward sobriety, a commitment he has
maintained for nearly half a century. He constantly battles against the
desire to move through life alone and avoid connection for fear of
getting hurt – much like the men in his family – and as the years go
by, he deals with questions of mortality, getting ready to discover
what his father called The Big Secret.
Featuring a special collection of personal photographs throughout, We
Did OK, Kid is a raw and passionate memoir from a complex, iconic man
who has inspired audiences with remarkable performances for over sixty
years.
When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his
best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently
discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated
for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his
beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation—that she can see spirits
who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their
family—sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than
what reason can explain. But when he takes up residence at a historic
bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman
named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical
and controlled world.
Tate and Wren find themselves forging an immediate connection, one that
neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that
below the surface of Wren’s idyllic small-town life, hatred, jealousy,
and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as
it begins to blossom. Tate realizes that in order to free Wren from an
increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about
her past before time runs out . . . a quest that will make him doubt
whether we can ever believe the stories we tell about ourselves, and
the laws that govern our existence. Love—while transformative—can
sometimes be frightening.
A story about the power of transcendent emotion, Remain asks us all:
Can love set us free not only from our greatest sorrows, but even from
the boundaries of life and death?
In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer
who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love)
and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.
In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best
friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth
was finally laid bare: the two were in love. They were also a pair of
addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.
What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest
nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your
self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you
disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most
devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?
All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with
anyone who has ever been captive to love - or to any other passion,
substance or craving - and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.
A dead husband. A missing wife. Will they find her in time?
Romy Kaplan has vanished from her home.
Or has she?
When Romy begins posting on her social media accounts asking everyone
to stop looking for her, the police are certain she is safe. But Romy's
nearest and dearest are far from convinced.
Her husband died in the bath under inconclusive circumstances six weeks
ago. And Romy would never disappear without telling someone where she
is going.
As true crime podcast host, Cristy Ward, picks up Romy's case… she has
the whole world asking…
Where is Romy now?
'What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war
is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no
one left for you to save'
Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner — of war
and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been
brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew
destroyed.
In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt
guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile, undead creatures
helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive.
According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance
within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the
months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she
truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding
some vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit?
To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to
the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in
this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—to
protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of
her former self—is just beginning.
For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets
Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.
Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on
a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt – it reveals a
skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior.
Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who’d been poking his nose into
the murky politics of the Scottish independence referendum, had become
the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his girlfriend when he
vanished. Now he’s reappeared, buried under the motorway.
It’s the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police
Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit. What was Nimmo investigating that was
worth killing over? Or was it revenge for murdering his girlfriend?
Meanwhile, an allegation of murder has surfaced over the supposedly
accidental death of a hotel manager. It may have links to another
accident on a remote Highland road. It’s a series of puzzles that tests
Karen and her team to their limits. And possibly beyond . . .
A darkly propulsive thriller of secrets hidden at the core of a
Scottish Highlands town, Silent Bones reaffirms Val McDermid as a crime
writer of inimitable power.
This book tells the story of how Julius Malema used his growing
political clout to bankroll his party and amass a
personal fortune. It reveals astounding new details about Malema’s
old, seemingly forgotten scandals in Limpopo and how loot
from the VBS Bank found its way to Malema and Shivambu. It shows
the insidious ways in which money courses through South African
politics and how some leaders exploit valid grievances about
inequality to steal from the very people they claim to fight for.
A thrilling and long-awaited new novel from globally bestselling author
Dan Brown
Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she’s
been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon’s world spirals out of
control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far
from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits
against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves.
But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and
mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed
back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has
gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a
spectre from that dark past. He must use all of his arcane knowledge to
decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of
treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine.
Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards
buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must
navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has
successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily
deliver them. This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously
experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for
the future of humanity itself.
The Secret Of Secrets is Dan Brown’s first novel for over eight years
and sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon,
this time pitting his wits against a conspiracy which will test even
his considerable brainpower and take him to the edge of losing all that
he holds dear…
When Demi-Leigh Tebow surrendered her insecurities, she found her
confidence in what truly mattered: who God said she was. In Knowing Who
You Are Because of Who God Is, the former Miss Universe and Miss South
Africa brings you a powerful 100-day devotional to strengthen your
faith and trust in God and help you find confidence in what truly
matters: knowing who you are because of who He is.
Through personal stories, biblical teachings, and daily prayer, Demi
encourages you to turn to God for your confidence and security rather
than relying on external factors like appearance, success, or the
opinions of others. As Demi says, "true self-worth comes from
recognizing who God says you are."
This devotional will help you let go of insecurities and build
resilient faith. With Demi's guidance, you'll cultivate unbreakable
confidence in God's love and His plan for your life. "Blessed is the
one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him" (Jeremiah 17:7).
The book version of the thrilling and innovative second Skulduggery
Pleasant podcast
In 1962, three sorcerers converged to do battle in a hidden chamber
near a disused platform in the London Underground. Prophecy foretold
that the victor would hold the very fate of humanity in their hands.
Since then… nothing.
Now, the people who are trying to find out exactly what happened all
those years ago are being murdered – there is a killer coming after
them, a killer with a plan – and their only hope for survival lies with
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain.
Because when the end of the world comes knocking, our first line of
defence must always be sarcasm.
Unstoppable, withering sarcasm.
In early 1985, Michael J. Fox was one of the biggest stars on
television. His world was about to get even bigger, but only if he
could survive the kind of double duty unheard of in Hollywood. Fox's
days were already dedicated to rehearsing and taping the hit sitcom
Family Ties, but then the chance of a lifetime came his way. Soon, he
committed his nights to a new time-travel adventure film being directed
by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg, Back to the
Future. Sitcom during the day, movie at night - day after day, for
months.
Fox's nightly commute from a soundstage at Paramount to the back lot at
Universal Studios, from one dream job to another, would become his own
space-time continuum. It was in this time portal that Alex P. Keaton
handed the baton to Marty McFly while Michael J. Fox tried to catch a
few minutes of sleep. Alex's bravado, Marty's flair, and Fox's comedic
virtuosity all swirled together to create something truly special.
In Future Boy, Fox tells the remarkable story of playing two landmark
roles at the same time - a slice of entertainment history that's never
been told. Using new interviews with the cast and crew of both
projects, the result is a vividly drawn and eye-opening story of
creative achievement by a beloved icon.
OF ALL THE CREATURES IN THE WORLD, ONLY HUMANS HAVE THE CAPACITY FOR
EVIL…
Small animals – a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel – have been turning up
throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in the
same bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home
alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a
disturbing call. Now, it seems, the perp is upping the ante. This find
is larger. Could the remains be human?
Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog.
Someone’s pet. As someone who has always found animal cruelty deeply
abhorrent, she vows to help apprehend the person responsible for the
killings. With her layered knowledge of animal behaviour, Ruthie
becomes a valuable ally in the hunt for answers, as does semi-retired
homicide detective Erskine ‘Skinny’ Slidell, who is equally outraged
and committed.
Needing a better understanding of possible motives, Tempe and Skinny
seek input from a forensic psychologist, who has no definitive answer
but offers several possibilities. The escalating pattern of aggression
suggests even more macabre discoveries – and that the perp’s focus may
soon shift to humans.
And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner
that mimics the earlier killings. As Tempe and Slidell follow the
horrifying clues to a shocking conclusion, they find themselves force
to confront an increasingly terrifying question.
What is pure evil?
She needs a lawyer. He needs a payday.
Simon Latch is a small-town lawyer struggling with debt, gambling
issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an
85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his
luck has finally changed: she claims she's sitting on a $20 million
fortune and no one else knows about it.
She could be the ticket to his fortune.
Once he's hooked the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly
to keep her wealth under the radar, even from his own assistant. But
there are complications: other lawyers are circling his client like
vultures.
But when she is hospitalised after a car accident, Eleanor's story
begins to crack. Simon realises that nothing is as it seems. And as
events spiral out of control, he finds himself on trial for a crime he
swears he didn't commit: murder.
Greg Heffley verpes verrassings – veral op sy verjaardag. Maar hy sou
hom nooit die skokkende planne kon verbeel wat sy gesin hierdie jaar
vir hom in gedagte het nie.
Wanneer Greg se partytjieplanne begin uitrafel, hoop hy nog sy
verjaardagwens word waar – ’n gesogte ruilkaart wat ’n fortuin werd is.
Die probleem is dat hy nie alleen is wat daarvan droom nie. Die kanse
is skraal dat hy dit gaan opraap.
Gaan Greg se verjaardagdrome waar word? Of gaan hy leer om versigtig te
wees waarvoor hy wens?
Daughter. Prisoner. Survivor. Warrior.
Nobody’s Girl ... This is Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s last word.
In 2011, Virginia Roberts Giuffre hit the headlines as Jeffrey Epstein
and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision
to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison and whose
photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace. But first
and foremost, she became known as a voice of courage and resilience for
women everywhere. This is her story, in her own words. A story that has
never been told in full before now. It demonstrates with extraordinary
power that victims are made, not born. And that once you come to truly
understand the horrifying impact of abuse, you will never again
question why a victim stays, or returns over and over again.
In April 2025, Giuffre took her own life. She left behind a memoir
written in the years preceding her death and stated unequivocally that
she wanted it published. This is the powerful story of an ordinary girl
who would grow up to confront adversity and trauma of the darkest form,
yet found the strength to move forwards, reclaim her voice and shine a
light on evil – advocating for others and fighting for a safer, fairer
world.
Nobody’s Girl is a remarkable recounting of one woman’s fortitude in
the face of depravity and despair, and the legacy she leaves behind.
The long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman’s
bestselling The Book of Dust sequence . . .
‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the
opening to the world of the roses?’
‘Defend it,’ Lyra said. ‘Die defending it.’
When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the
ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her – part of
himself – in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost.
Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her
dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards
the Silk Roads in search of Lyra . . .
In The Rose Field, their quests converge in the most dangerous,
breathtaking and world-changing ways. They must take help from spies
and thieves, gryphons and witches, old friends and new, learning all
the while the depth and surprising truths of the alethiometer. All
around them, the world is aflame – made terrifying by fear, power and
greed.
As they move East, towards the red building that will reunite them and
give them answers – on Dust, on the special roses, on imagination – so
too does the Magisterium, at war against all that Lyra holds dear.
Marking thirty years since the world was first introduced to Pullman’s
remarkable heroine Lyra Belacqua in Northern Lights, The Rose Field is
the culmination of the cultural phenomenon of The Book of Dust and His
Dark Materials.
Wat skuil agter die Sheldon-fortuin?
Zabeth Meyer beland op Kronkelrivier om navorsing vir die krimiskrywer
Wilbur Sheldon te doen. In sy skatryk familie se Victoriaanse herehuis,
Sheldon Manor, kom sy al hul vreemde tragedies en intriges teë: Eers
verdrink die oudste Sheldonkleinkind, en ’n paar jaar later sterf sewe
Sheldons op een dag.
Net een erfgenaam van die Sheldon-fortuin bly oor: Die onbekwame Keith.
En Ethel, die familiematriarg, is al in haar tagtigs.
Kort ná Zabeth se aankoms gebeur daar nog ’n ongeluk by Sheldon Manor
en skielik lyk gebeure van vyf en twintig jaar gelede heel anders ...
Tussen Zabeth, Wilbur en die aantreklike Liam Sheldon moet hulle die
dinastie se donker geheime en hul elkeen se eie verlede ontrafel
voordat nog iemand seerkry.
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Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned
for.
First – a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door.
Black coffee, two refills, no messing about. A minor interruption from
two of the customers, but nothing he can’t deal with. As he leaves, a
young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher
checks his pocket. There's no problem. Nothing is missing.
Second – a store to buy a coat. Nothing fancy. Something he can ditch
when he heads to warmer climes. Large enough to fit a man the size of a
bank vault. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his
pocket. A handwritten note. A desperate plea for help.
Third – wherever this bend in the road takes him. Impressed by the
guy's technique and intrigued by the message, Reacher makes it his
mission to find out more . . .
Behind the façade of South Africa lies a brutal shadow-world ruled by
mafias, cartels, and crime syndicates locked in a ruthless war over
South Africa’s riches.
There’s the tobacco mafia. The water tanker mafia. The taxi mafia. The
hospital mafia. The construction mafia. The kidnapping mafia.
Each one feeds off a vast web of patronage and extraction that
stretches from street level to the highest echelons of government.
Their bloodsucking tentacles reach deep into municipalities,
state-owned enterprises, political parties, the police, and even the
National Prosecuting Authority. Those who resist them are silenced in
cold blood.
This is not a criminal underworld lurking in the shadows. It is part of
the system itself. Where does organised crime end and the state begin?
Are the two so intertwined that it has become near impossible to
distinguish the one from the other? Has South Africa become a mafia
state?
Multi-award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Cowan sets out to
answer these and other questions, revealing the dark underbelly of a
country where the thin blue line has all but disappeared.
Mafia Land is the hair-raising tale of twelve of South Africa’s most
dangerous cartels, and how they will stop at nothing in their deadly,
devastating plunder of our country.
Sorcha O’Donovan dreams of an exciting life beyond the West Cork
coastline where she has grown up. When she encounters the town’s
strikingly handsome outcast, struggling musician Con Daly, her days
will never be the same.
When Con strikes gold with rock band The Fishermen in London, he and
Sorcha look set for a rosy future. But their lives change beyond
recognition as the dark side of fame rears its head. Death threats
follow Con around, and devastating secrets from the past threaten to
destroy everything he has worked for.
Twenty years later, The Fishermen agree to re-form for the massive
Music for Life charity concert at Wembley Stadium. But Con Daly,
heartthrob and spokesman for a generation, has been missing for over a
decade.
There’s only one person who can find out what happened, who has access
to the lives, loves and careers of all concerned as The Fishermen rose
to worldwide fame. Only one person who knows how vital it is to uncover
the truth, because should Con Daly reappear before the facts emerge,
then history could repeat itself with even more tragic consequences.
You’re Invited – RSVP for Fun!
Over the years, Greg Heffley has chronicled his mishaps and
misadventures in a series of diaries – make that journals – but book 20
of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Partypooper, really takes the cake!
Expect gobs of fun and over-the-top antics as Greg throws an epic
birthday party for none other than himself. So come celebrate and laugh
alongside Greg, his family, and the entire world of Wimpy Kid fans.
Naomi Cranston's five years in jail for something she didn't do were
the worst of her life. Now the former NOPD cop is being targeted again
by the people who framed her for stealing evidence. If she doesn't
comply with their demands to deliver drugs, they'll hurt her teenage
son, Everett.
When she arrives at the Burke Broussard Investigation Agency asking for
help, Burke is reluctant to assist a convicted cop. But her story and
her courage in standing up to the criminals touch him to the core. Even
if taking on the case puts him and the rest of his team in grave danger.
As they try to work out who is responsible for framing Naomi, they must
do all they can to keep their families safe. There might be something
far more sinister at play than a drugs enterprise - and someone would
do anything to stop Burke and the team finding out what. And there's
one question they all need to grapple with: why was Naomi targeted in
the first place?
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