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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 …
Their chemistry is criminal . . .
Raised by con artists, Phoebe Graves only knew a life of swindling the rich – until she and her best friend, Hailey Tinrock, decided to leave their life of crime behind, starting over in a wealthy college town in Connecticut. They're determined to live honest lives. But you know what they say about good intentions . . .
While Phoebe is fake-dating the son of an uber-wealthy and influential family, she’s actually falling deeper in love with Brayden 'Rocky' Tinrock, Hailey's older brother. To make matters more complicated, Phoebe’s mother shows up out of the blue with conniving matchmaking plans of her own.
Her mother’s arrival threatens everything Phoebe has planned. To keep her love, her friends and her newfound happiness, Phoebe will have to return to her old games . . . and win.
Sometimes the only way to recover a stolen masterpiece is to steal it
back …
Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most
important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a
mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he
finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by
Leonardo da Vinci.
The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young girl, has been gathering
dust in a storeroom at the Vatican Museums for more than a century,
misattributed and hidden beneath a worthless picture by an unknown
artist. Because no one knows that the Leonardo is there, no one notices
when it disappears one night during a suspicious power outage. No one
but the ruthless mobsters and moneymen behind the theft – and the
mysterious woman whom Gabriel found in a watery grave in Venice. A
woman without a name. A woman without a face.
You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the policeman on the doorstep. What he says traps you in a nightmare that starts with the words, 'I'm afraid ...'
Sally Lambert is also afraid, and desperate enough to consider the unthinkable. Is it really, definitely, impossible to escape from this horror? Maybe not. There's always something you can do, right?
Of course, no one would ever do this particular something -- except the Lamberts, who might have to.
No one has ever gone this far. Until Sally decides that the Lamberts will...
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Whistle
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Linwood Barclay
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Celebrated children’s author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her husband was killed in a tragic accident, then one of her children’s books ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her young son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal.
But Annie’s year is about to get worse.
Bored and lonely in their isolated new surroundings, Charlie is thrilled when he finds a forgotten train set in a locked shed in the grounds of their new house. While Annie is pleased to see Charlie happy, there’s something unsettling about his new toy. Strange sounds wake Annie in the night – she’s sure she can hear a train in the middle of the night, although there isn’t an active line for miles. And then bizarre things start happening in the neighbourhood. But even stranger, Annie can’t seem to stop drawing a disturbing new character that has no place in a children’s book…
Grief plays tricks on the mind, but Annie is beginning to think she’s walked out of one nightmare straight into another, only this one is far more terrifying…
Sunday Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay enters new territory with a fiendishly twisted supernatural chiller.
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All Fours
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Miranda July
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A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.
Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom.
Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic and domestic life of a 45-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectations while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.
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Mirage
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Camilla Lackberg, Henrik Fexeus
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The epic conclusion to Camilla Läckberg and Henrik Fexeus' pulse-raising Swedish crime thriller trilogy.
It is December in Stockholm and Sweden's Minister of Justice is under threat. An anonymous note has told him he has four days left to live. At the same time, a human skeleton is found in the Stockholm subway, belonging to a high-ranking financier.
Police inspector Mina Dabiri's team, still recovering from the traumatic incident last summer that ended in the death of a colleague, calls in mentalist Vincent Walder to help with the case. For Vincent, it feels as if the world is increasingly closing in on him.
When another pile of bones is found underground, the group is once again put to the test – what is going on in the tunnels deep under Stockholm? And who taunting the minister?
Maggie Flynn isn't your typical 1960s mum. She's a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London's streets in myriad disguises.
Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and purpose in her profession – providing a connection to her late husband, whose own covert past only surfaced after his death.
But Maggie's world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband. And what's worse, the agent suspects someone on home soil betrayed him.
As Maggie searches for answers, she'll question everyone – and everything – she thought she could trust. In the murky and perilous world of espionage, can she outsmart those determined to keep her silenced?
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…
Four thirty-something girlfriends navigate the complexities of love and
life in upmarket Johannesburg.
Nomzamo yearns to have her own child, but her husband keeps
postpo-ning. Is he truly too busy or is something else going on? Kioni
is in seventh heaven when Michael finally wants to commit. But does he
really? Or is he just trying to get back into her bed? Single mom
Jazmine has sworn off love – until a charming new doctor arrives at her
hospital, testing her resolve. And Asanda, fiercely independent and at
the top of her game, is determined to find the perfect man to match her
perfect life.
As their lives twist and tangle in unexpected ways, these four women
will discover that love is never simple – but always worth it.
A witty, heartwarming, and deeply relatable South African novel about
friendship, romance, and the messy, beautiful journey of figuring it
all out.
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned
Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she
could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan…until it
wasn’t.
Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her
medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her
nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by
a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele
demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion.
Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and
cutting-edge technology, one of the world’s most mysterious men
requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the
few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie
enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the
agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under
her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself – or she will be the
next one who is…
Hell of a Country is a creative reimagining of a true crime story
from early-1970s South Africa. The novel tells the story of teenager
Lorraine van Niekerk who despises the fact that her boss and lover,
middle-aged André Bekker, won’t leave his wife Sunette and marry her
instead. When Lorraine’s life fatefully intersects that of Alfie
Geemooi, a recent amputee, she comes up with a hell of a plan. Is
murder an adequate price to pay for love?
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
dćmon. 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.
Hierdie splinternuwe versameling van Nataniël bevat 31 stories — 5 in
Engels, 26 in Afrikaans. Verskeie van die stukke is uit
Nataniël-produksies oor ’n periode van twee jaar: Ring Van Vuur,
Nineveh Song, Cake Topper en Duif.
Op die vooraand van speurder Arrie Dogh se aftrede beland ’n
oënskynlik doodgewone inbraaksaak op sy lessenaar. En wanneer hy begin
ondersoek instel na die inbrekers op Louis Jooste se perdeplaas neffens
Wildernis, besef hy daar skuil ’n slinkse slang in die gras.
Waar begin die storie wat Arrie eindelik oorvertel? By die Turkse
perdekopers? By Jooste se ponzi wat Bertie en vriend Diek se neseiers
ingesluk het? Of begin als by die miljoene wat uit ’n rusbank op Jooste
se stoetplaas verdwyn het?
A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer
heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is
there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Rite, and to find Neen, the
girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offers Seft an escape
from his brutish father and brothers, within their herder community.
A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE
Joia, Neen's sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched
ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony,
enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the
biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and
woodlands of the Great Plain.
A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILISATION
Joia's vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes
of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life's work. But as
drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers
and woodlanders - and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare .
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Waarheen sal die donker spoor hom lei?
Hulle kry haar lyk in ’n veld. ’n Tienermeisie – verkrag, gemartel,
vermoor. En sy’s nie die eerste een nie.
Adjudant-offisier Jan Magson moet die reeksmoordenaar vang. Hy moet die
slagoffers se ma’s en pa’s in die oë kyk en hul vrae beantwoord, maar
hy kan nie. Hy kan nie eens sy eie vrae beantwoord nie. Want agter hom
lę daar ook ’n donker spoor ...
Kort voor lank haal die moorde hoofopskrifte en die gemeenskap eis
antwoorde:
Hoekom trek die polisie nie die boosaard vas nie? Toe ’n ma ’n brief
vir die koerant skryf en ’n pa ’n beloning uitloof, word dinge op ’n
mespunt gedryf. Bevind Magson hom op nóg ’n dwaalspoor of is hy
uiteindelik op die donker spoor wat hom na die ware antwoorde sal lei?
Donker spoor was blitsverkoperskrywer Martin Steyn se bekroonde
debuutroman.
In dié splinternuwe heruitgawe met ’n treffende nuwe omslag kan lesers
weer saam met Jan Magson in die duistere psige van die moordenaar delf.
The world’s most celebrated thriller writer returns with his most stunning novel yet—a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do.
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief.
But a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, and Katherine suddenly disappears along with her manuscript. Langdon finds himself targeted by a powerful organization and hunted by a chilling assailant sprung from Prague’s most ancient mythology. As the plot expands into London and New York, Langdon desperately searches for Katherine . . . and for answers.
In a thrilling race through the dual worlds of futuristic science and mystical lore, he uncovers a shocking truth about a secret project that will forever change the way we think about the human mind.
'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.
Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.
In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn't much a girl wouldn't
do for a glass of water.
Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one
knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has
been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs
for as long as she can remember.
But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come
undone.
When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently
reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice
and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of
nightmares...but it turns out they're real, and Saeris has landed
herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might
just get her killed.
The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a
thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a
handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own.
He will use her Alchemist's magic to protect his people, no matter what
it costs him . . . or her.
Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky.
His attitude stinks. And he's the only way Saeris is going to make it
home.
Be careful of the deals you make, dear child. The devil is in the
details . . .
The Nazis may have lost the battle. But the war is just beginning...
Summer, 2025. A US senator is burned to death in his Washington
townhouse. Masked gunmen massacre supporters during a football match in
Berlin. And an old man is murdered while he sleeps in the dementia ward
of a German hospital. Three apparently unconnected events, three steps
on the countdown to apocalypse.
When journalist and podcaster Georg Miller starts joining the dots
between them, he finds himself the target of professional killers. His
investigation soon reveals that his would-be assassins are from an
organisation known as the Odessa, a menacing and powerful Nazi group
intent on regaining power.
The Odessa has spread its poison from a covert compound in the Bavarian
countryside all the way to the halls of the American Capitol. And now,
as their campaign to destabilise the Western political system
accelerates, Georg must stop the next attack, before it changes the
course of history…
Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life—and
her heart—to be one of them…
Meryn Cooper has never dreamed of being one of the Bonded, the King’s
elite warriors who form mental links with massive, vicious direwolves.
She’s made peace with her life scraping by in poverty in the shadows of
the castle. But then her younger sister Saela is kidnapped, stolen
across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent
centuries fighting.
And Meryn’s world falls apart.
Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the
army—only to discover that there are Bonding Trials this year, where
all soldiers are forced to risk their lives in an attempt to connect
with a direwolf. It’s too late to turn back; Meryn is thrown into the
deadly competition against her will.
Now, she’ll need to survive the next four months of training at the
castle if she wants a chance of finding Saela. Everything here is a
test, from the brutal classes where one mistake means death, to the
glittering court parties where every smile hides a knife.
To make things worse, Meryn is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to
communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood.
And her gorgeous instructor, Stark Therion, is as malicious as the
wolves himself.
Everyone is out to get her—everyone but the dangerously handsome crown
prince, Killian Valtiere. But if she loses her heart to him, she may
also lose her life.
And the castle is hiding dark secrets…
Some secrets can’t be burnt away. Cops are being murdered all over the
city, each falling victim to a designer poison that causes them to
bleed out. Unable to make a breakthrough in the case and with the
bodies piling up, detectives Ruben and Zander recruit counsellor
Melissa to help them. Hoping that her unique insights into the human
psyche might help trigger a discovery, they’re expecting to hunt down
some kind of deranged lunatic. The real murderer, however, is a
devilishly intelligent professor of human physiology, an academic icon
standing on the brink of a groundbreaking discovery. Why is he killing
them? How many more will fall victim to his brilliance? And who’s next?
In a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past,
present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where
we are going.
2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For
generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet
been found.
2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those
who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.
Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of
Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early
twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of
human life at its zenith.
When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem,
revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his
assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.
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Caught Up
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Navessa Allen
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I want this woman, and I'm a man who
always gets what he wants.
Nico 'Junior' Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. Men like him
don't get to have women like her. It's why he pushed her away in high
school and still keeps his distance. But Junior follows Lauren online,
and now that the shy, bookish girl he remembers is gone, he can't stop
obsessing over the strikingly beautiful woman who has taken her place.
He's ruthless; a walking red flag. Good thing red is my favorite color.
Lauren 'Lo' Marchetti knows Junior is dangerous. He broke her heart
once and she won't let him do it again. But as their flirtatious
encounters escalate, Lauren starts to remember why she fell for the
brooding antihero all those years ago.
As old obstacles resurface, Junior and Lauren are forced to face their
true feelings for each other and decide just how far they're willing to
go for a second chance at love.
Caught Up is a fast-paced dark romance
with a morally grey male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing
to readers. Please check the content warning at the beginning of the
book.
18+ mature content. Not suitable for
younger readers.
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