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A brand new series.
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And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of
investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines:
the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he
comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is
daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private
security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or
routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous
author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job . . .
Then a dead body, a bag of money and a killer with their sights on Amy
have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race
around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a
deadly enemy?
The new novel from the worldwide Number One bestselling author behind
the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO series Big Little Lies and
recent smash hit bestseller Apples Never Fall.
We’re all so busy, caught up in life's moments, big and small . . .
The flight attendant working a shift on her birthday.
The mother struggling alone with two young children.
The newlyweds excited about their tropical honeymoon .
The overworked father missing his kid’s big show.
The young man returning from his best friend’s funeral.
The ER nurse wondering what retirement will bring.
All strangers. All unsuspecting. Each with a life heading in a
particular direction – or so they imagine.
Because an elderly woman is about to step into each of their paths. In
just a few words, she will make a prediction, tying herself to all of
them. And, in being bound to her, these disparate strangers will all
face similar existential dilemmas. .
Who is this woman? Is she a genuine clairvoyant? A charlatan? The
answer to prayers, or a harbinger of nightmares?
What she will prove to be is an agent of chaos, fraying relationships,
putting entire futures into doubt and causing the most ordered of lives
to unravel in the most unexpected of ways . . .
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Triangle
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Danielle Steel
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Triangle is a breathtaking, suspenseful story about a woman determined
to stay true to her principles, from billion-copy bestselling author
Danielle Steel.
As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate beauty
Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in
Paris. With the companionship of her dog, Lulu, and her friend and
co-owner of the gallery, fun-loving bachelor Pascal Leblanc, Amanda
lives well, but so far the love of her life has eluded her.
Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a handsome, enigmatic publisher. At
the same time, she reconnects with Tom Quinlan, an old boyfriend from
her university days, who has come to Paris to devote himself to writing
a thriller. Amanda’s attraction to Olivier is instant, but she soon
learns he is married, leaving her torn between her head and her heart.
Amanda’s situation is further complicated by the unpleasant feeling
that she’s being watched. When she begins to receive threatening phone
calls late at night, and someone breaks into her apartment on the Left
Bank, it’s all too clear she is in real danger.
But from whom? An old love, a new love, or a stranger? As love enters
her life, so does terror. . .
Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont.
The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old
graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from
school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors
are left unlocked.
But this morning all of that will change.
Because Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs.
Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a
local farmer.
How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly,
familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.
Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.
And one innocent question could be deadly.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem
to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and
apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s
medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships
with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and
Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always
seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib
elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets
Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and
their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new
interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to
find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking
A Welsh princess. A Roman general. Their love story lost to time…
The land of the Silures, 382 AD
Elen is a princess promised to a general of Rome. Macsen came to Wales
seeking an alliance that would advance his quest for power.
Despite warnings her marriage is destined for heartache, Elen is
determined to honour her vows.
But this union will change her destiny forever…
Camp Meadow, 2024
Cadi is a writer who has discovered Elen’s lost story. As she puts pen
to paper, she hears the sound of ghostly marching feet.
Opening the gate to the ancient meadow behind her cottage, could the
secret behind Elen’s fate lie closer than she thinks?
But someone is desperate to keep the past buried, plotting to destroy
the meadow…
Can Cadi uncover Elen’s story before it’s lost to time?
Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based
out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard
living, rough talking, loner.
And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber
Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox,
who have acted and looked very different since they returned from
spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells
Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers
and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were.
They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to
them.
To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and
once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in
a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark
and Fox had spent the summer with Belle—but can this unworldly teenager
really be responsible for Lark and Fox's new personas?
Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are
playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a
"better place", not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the
process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole
generation of young people?
Nothing is certain in Lisa Jewell's gripping and most imaginative novel
yet.
Dirk Aruseb was sewentien toe Abraham Morris hom uit die Pella-weeshuis
kom haal het om by die Bondelswarts aan te sluit. By Schansvlakte begin
die eerste van Dirk se lewenslesse: wees nederig, geduldig, en genadig.
Vind jou eland, tem jou janfiskaal.
Rooisand speel af in Namaland – van Duits-Suidwes-Afrika tot
die Kaapkolonie – vanaf 1904 tot 1922. Dit is ’n epiese oorlogsroman
wat strek van Tsumeb tot Upington, van Windhuk se interneringskampe tot
die droë rivierlope van die Visrivier.
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The Hidden Girl
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Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
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Sw eeping across tw o generations, from the ghettos of Europe during the Second
World War to the enclaves of New York's Fifth Avenue, The Hidden Girl traces the life of
Leah Thompson, w ho rises from humble beginnings in rural Yorkshire to take the
modelling w orld by storm.
But her fateful association w ith the Delancey family dominates her life. The secrets
they hide from one another start to explode into nightmares of thw arted ambition,
forbidden love, revenge and murder . . . culminating in a fatal, forgotten prophecy
from the past.
This title was previously published as Hidden Beauty by Lucinda Edmonds, and
has been rewritten and reimagined by her son, Harry Whittaker, for Lucinda Riley
fans the world over.
Funny, feelgood, heartlifting story about the power of
intergenerational friendship and finding love in unexpected places -
perfect for fans of The One Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Through
the Window and The Rosie Project
Eddie Winston is ninety years old. He has lived and he has loved, but
he has never been kissed.
A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days
volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of
the living and the dead, preserving letters and tokens of love along
the way. It is here that he meets Bella, a troubled young woman who,
aged twenty-four, has just lost the love of her life.
When Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she
resolves to help him finally find love, sparking an adventure that will
take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie to the
moment he has waited for all his life.
As Bella helps Eddie and Eddie helps, well, everyone, a soul-stirring
story of friendship and kindness unfolds as we see how those we love
are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again.
An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband has a secret life – and it might cost them all their lives.
Everyone in the small town of Hemingway Grove knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practises family law.
When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, he’s celebrated as a hero and his daring actions are broadcast on every news outlet.
For most people, newfound fame is a lifeline. For David, it’s a death sentence. For Marcie, it’s a test.
A wife knows the difference between a loving family man and a cold-blooded assassin, right?
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Precipice
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Robert Harris
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Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.
In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored,
reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H.
Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively,
sharing the most sensitive matters of state.
As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young
intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret
documents – and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of
national security that will alter the course of political history.
Seamlessly weaving fact and fiction in a way that no writer does
better, Precipice is the thrilling new novel from Robert Harris.
Jane Smith is running out of time . . .
Her repeat client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No
sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than
a second family is gunned down.
He says he's being set up – again. Despite the odds, Jane believes him.
Now she must mount the most complex investigation of her career. But
she’s facing her own battle too. A terminal medical condition.
The defence may never rest.
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world--from the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen.
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she'd have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can't imagine how she'll ever make a living. She's still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor--and while the affair is brief, it isn't brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone's advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naivet� and a yearning for something bigger.
Now, at twenty, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. She needs a cash infusion--fast. When her estranged father, Jinx, shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Then Margo begins to form a plan: she'll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinx's advice from the world of wrestling. Like how to craft a compelling character and make your audience fall in love with you. Before she knows it, she's turned it into a runaway success. Could this be the answer to all of Margo's problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
Blisteringly funny and filled with sharp insight, Margo's Got Money Troubles is a tender tale starring an endearing young heroine who's struggling to wrest money and power from a world that has little interest in giving it to her. It's a playful and honest examination of the art of storytelling and controlling your own narrative, and an empowering portrait of coming into your own, both online and off.
A LOCAL MYTH. A DEADLY THREAT.
Vera Stanhope, star of ITV’s Vera, returns in the eleventh novel in
Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller Ann Cleeves’ acclaimed series.
A body is found by an early morning dog walker on the common outside
Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The victim is Josh, a staff
member, who never showed up to work.
DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. Her only clue is the
disappearance of fourteen-year-old resident Chloe. Vera can’t bring
herself to believe that a teenager is responsible for the murder, but
even she can’t dismiss the possibility.
Vera, Joe and new team member Rosie are soon embroiled in the case, but
when a second body is found near the Three Dark Wives standing stones
in the wilds of the Northumbrian countryside, folklore and fact begin
to collide.
Vera knows she has to find Chloe to get to the truth, but it seems that
the dark secrets in their community may be far more dangerous than she
could ever have believed. . .
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Joy
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Danielle Steel
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In this deeply moving novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a determined young woman must survive a series of abandonments to find a love that is worthy of her.
When she is only six years old, Allegra Dixon’s party-loving mother leaves without so much as a goodbye. Her father, an emotionally distant military officer, is also unable—or unwilling—to care for her. Sent to live like a ghost in her grandparents’ joyless home, Allegra finds her only solace through an escape into books.
Attending boarding school, life finally takes a turn when she meets a dashing young West Point cadet named Shep Williams. Soon their friendship blossoms into something more, and they fall deeply in love.
After college, Allegra has established herself as a book editor and Shep is rising through the ranks of the military. But then Shep suddenly receives a posting to Afghanistan, and they decide to marry before he goes. Between his deployments, they cling to their brief and fraught stolen moments together. Each time he leaves, Shep promises the separations will soon come to an end.
But soon Allegra realizes that the horrors of war have begun to change her husband into a man she no longer recognizes. The trauma he has experienced proves to be too harrowing, and Allegra will find herself feeling utterly alone again just when she thought she’d finally found happiness.
In her new novel,Danielle Steel tells the unforgettable story of a woman who refuses to give up until she finds the joy she deserves.
It’s never easy working fire scenes.
Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysterious arson
attack, Tempe quickly finds her misgivings justified. The fire site is
in Foggy Bottom, a neighbourhood with a colourful history, and as the
pieces start falling into place, the property’s ownership becomes more
and more suspicious.
Sensing a good story, Tempe teams up with a new ally, telejournalist
Ivy Doyle. Delving into the past, the duo learns that back in the
Thirties and Forties the home was the hangout of a group of bootleggers
and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting, this
fact seems irrelevant – until the son of one of the gang members is
shot dead at his farm in Virginia.
When another Foggy Bottom Gang-linked property burns to the ground,
claiming one more victim, what might have been coincidence starts to
look more like targeted attacks. As she and Ivy dig deeper, Tempe’s
instincts point towards the obvious: somehow, her every move since
coming to Washington has been anticipated in advance. And every path
forward brings with it a lethal threat.
Ella Neser en Lou Pepler werk weer saam as private ondersoekers. Maar
die dag voor Ella op pad is Brugge toe, daag ’n familielid van Lou se
eks op en smeek hulle om hulp. Liesbet se broer en sy neef is wynboere
wat in Hongarye op ’n wynlandgoed naby Boedapest werk. Maar nou het
hulle verdwyn. Lou moet tog dringend die twee jong boere in een stuk
terugbring.
So vertrek Ella na België, en Lou na Boedapest. Maar iewers duskant die
Donau regeer daar ’n mafioso met die mag van ’n keiser.
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that
on the other side is your child...
Lisette is in hospital with her baby boy. The doctors tell her to go
home and get some rest, that he’ll be fine.
When she awakes, everything has changed. Because overnight, on 13
August 1961, the border between East and West Berlin has closed,
slicing the city - and the world - in two.
Lisette is trapped in the east, while her newborn baby is unreachable
in the west. With the streets in chaos and armed guards ordered to
shoot anyone who tries to cross, her situation is desperate.
Lisette's teenage daughter, Elly, has always struggled to understand
the distance between herself and her mother. Both have lived for music,
but while Elly hears notes surrounding every person she meets, for her
mother - once a talented pianist - the music has gone silent.
Perhaps Elly can do something to bridge the gap between them. What
begins as the flicker of an idea turns into a daring plan to escape
East Berlin, find her baby brother, and bring him home....
Based on true stories, The Silence in Between is a page-turning,
emotional epic that will stay with you long after you finish reading.
Dazzling stories of love, magic and betrayal . . .
A sensational collection from internationally bestselling author Olivie
Blake.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, the spirit tethered to a
magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout – and craves her freedom.
Elsewhere, Congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to
un-waste your youth. We also follow a banished fairy, as she answers a
Craigslist ad. And we meet a Victorian orphan, who gains literacy for
her occult situationship. In another time and place, a multiverse
assassin contemplates the one who got away.
Escape the slow trudge of mortality with these magical ruminations on
life, death and the love (or revenge) that outlasts both. This
collection also features modified fairy tales, contemporary heists,
absurdist poetry and at least one set of actual wedding vows.
Januaries is collection of new and existing short stories from the
internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake.
Dirk Aruseb was seventeen years old when Abraham Morris fetched him from the Pella orphanage to join the Bondelswarts. Dirk couldn’t wait to conquer the accursed Schutztruppe alongside legendary Kaptein Jakob Marengo, successor to Hendrik Witbooi and Jonker Afrikaner. But when he arrived at Schansvlakte deep in Namaland, Dirk was warned that he first had to master many life skills before he could join the war: be humble, be patient, be merciful. Find your eland, tame your butcherbird.
But for Dirk war was an adventure – as long as he could kill the German enemy, he was content. It didn’t matter what commander Nana Kruiper, or Klara Morris, her second in command, tried to teach him: that the liberation struggle of the Bondelswarts meant more than protecting Namaland – their promised land – at all costs.
Crimson Sands is set in Namaland – from German-South-West Africa to the Cape Colony – from 1904 to 1922, when thousands of Bondelswarts were shot down by Jan Smuts’s fighter planes. It is an epic, panoramic war novel, traversing southern Africa from Tsumeb to Upington, from internment camps in Windhuk to the dry riverbeds of the Fish River Canyon. Jeremy Vearey conjures a mesmerising tale across an arid landscape of sand, shrub and dune, evoking voices and stories long gone.
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Daydream
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Hannah Grace
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The new novel from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Icebreaker
and Wildfire...
As a chronic procrastinator, Henry Turner always knew his junior year
in college wasn’t going to be easy. That was before he made ice hockey
captain as well as landing himself in a difficult class with his least
favourite professor.
Thankfully, it’s then that Henry meets Halle, a fellow junior who he
immediately befriends. Academic pressure has never been a struggle for
Halle, but as an introverted people pleaser with a tendency to
overcommit herself, she can’t help but offer to help Henry pass his
class. In turn he offers to help make college life a little more
inspiring – just the thing she needs as an aspiring novelist…
Failure isn’t an option for either of them but that doesn’t mean there
isn’t a little room for distraction…
18+ content
Wanneer die bejaarde maar onstuitbare Hans besluit om te trou, laat sy
aanstaande bruid se ryk familie die troureëlings aan ’n befaamde
troubeplanner, Alexander Fokkens, oor. Maar Hans wil keer dat die troue
in ’n spektakel ontaard. En gou besef Fokkens dat Hans van Kraaienburg
hom nie laat hiet en gebied nie. Toe vriend Vasie boonop ondeurdagte
planne beraam om geld te maak uit die onthaal, voel Hans aan sy broek
se pype dat die bruilof op ’n ramp afstuur.
The thrilling sequel to the instant Sunday Times bestseller and number one global phenomenon, Fourth Wing!
She survived her first year at Basgiath War College . . . but the danger is only beginning.
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's the new vice commandant, who's made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves.
Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still has her wits, and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.
But a determination to survive won't be enough this year.
Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College - and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
What if the greatest writer of all time isn’t who we think he is? What if he isn’t even a he? Step back four hundred years and discover the female author who hid behind the mask of the man we know as William Shakespeare . . .
In 1581, Emilia Bassano is allowed no voice of her own. But as the Lord Chamberlain’s mistress she has access to the theatre, and finds a way to bring her work to the stage secretly. And yet, creating some of the world’s greatest dramatic masterpieces comes at a great cost: by paying a man for the use of his name, she will write her own out of history. His name? William Shakespeare . . .
In modern day New York, playwright Melina Green is determined to see one of her shows make the stage. After years of struggle to be recognised she has finally written again, inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor — Emilia Bassano, England’s first published female poet. Although the challenges are different for her, four hundred years later, a woman’s voice is still not heard like a man’s. But what lengths will she be willing to go to in order to achieve her dreams?
Moving between Elizabethan England and modern day Manhattan, By Any Other Name is a beautifully written, compelling novel that explores the theme of identity and the ways in which two women, centuries apart—one of whom might just be the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—are both forced to hide behind another name to make their voices heard.
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