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Sometimes it’s a simple as meeting the boy next door. Â
Jini lives alone with her cat Oscar – yes, she’s single
but, after breaking up with her boyfriend, she’s more than
content to be living alone. Sometimes she worries she might be
playing things too safe, but she’s had enough of taking risks.
 Ben is a firefighter and, if he’s honest, he’s finding
life hard. The arrival of a small tabby cat, who Ben decides to
call Fred, helps him feel less isolated. But then, one day, Fred
appears with a note tied to his collar from someone called Jeanie,
accusing Ben of stealing her cat! Â As the two near
neighbours start corresponding via the cat, their notes to each
other reveal the truths they are hiding from even their closest
friends, and themselves. Â Inspired by a true story, The Cat
Share is a heartwarming and uplifting rom com – the perfect book
for fans of Sarra Manning, Beth O'Leary and Laura Jane
Williams
When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after
trying to reach the storm-shrouded island of Akinah, Navani Kholin
must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn’t fallen
into enemy hands. Knights who fly too near find their magic
suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. Years ago,
shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the
companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a stormlight-ingesting larkin, a
species once thought extinct. Now Rysn’s pet is ill, and any hope
for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral
home of the larkin: Akinah. With the help of Lopen, the formerly
one-armed windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani’s quest and sail
into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. If
the crew cannot uncover the secrets of the hidden island city
before the wrath of its ancient guardians falls upon them, the fate
of Roshar and the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.
'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and
questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' -
Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet In seventh-century Ireland, a
priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind.
Taking two monks with him – young Trian and old Cormac – he
travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to
found a new place of worship. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the
three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens
of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. But in such a place,
far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? ‘Haven is a
beautiful, bold blaze of a book’ Rachel Joyce, author of The
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ‘Beautiful and timely’ -
Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater ‘Sinister, heart-wrenching and
beautifully written’ The Times ‘Combines pressure-cooker
intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect’ Margaret
Atwood via Twitter ‘Book of the Year’ pick in The Irish Times,
The Guardian, The Irish Post, RTÉ and The Times.
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Praise
(Paperback)
Sara Cate
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The latest saga in the New York Times bestselling world of Osten
Ard concludes in the fourth and final Last King of Osten Ard novel.
The Hayholt is besieged by the Norns. Once the home of their
immortal brethren, the Sithi, now capital of the kingdom of men,
the fabled castle is under attack. And as the world is distracted
by this strike against humankind, the Norns' deathless witch-queen
Utuk'ku turns towards the mysterious fateful valley called
Tanakirú - the Vale of Mists. Meanwhile, Queen Miriamele hurries
to save the Hayholt and capture the treacherous noble Pasevalles,
but arrives to discover the traitor has escaped. And inside
Tanakirú, Vale of Mists, the bond between Prince Morgan and
Nezeru, a renegade Norn, has become something deeper and stranger
than either of them could have anticipated. They journey ever
deeper to the heart of the valley's mystery, encountering wonder
and horror, and come face to face at last with the ancient secret
that has kindled the Norn Queen's war - a secret that will destroy
immortals and humans alike.
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The Break
(Paperback)
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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The Break explodes into the gangland world of 90s Soho, by snooker
world champion and national superstar, Ronnie O'Sullivan.
With a veritable army at his command, Jinwoo is now ready to take
on the Demon’s Castle-but he’s got a meeting with Jinah’s
teacher to deal with first! When asked to talk down a high school
student from a life of being a hunter, Jinwoo figures the fastest
way would be to show them the realities of a raid. Little does he
know that there’s more to this particular gate than meets the
eye...
In The Road to Walden North, New England author Sheila Post offers
timely insights for a new age still grappling with issues raised by
Thoreau over 150 years ago. An elegiac Walden revisited, this
resplendent novel invites readers to accompany the transcendental
journey of Harvard Professor Dr. Kate Brown—from talking the talk
of theory to walking the walk of experience along the less traveled
road of Thoreauvian simplicity . While deftly engaging with the
motifs of Thoreau's classic, chapter by chapter, The Road to Walden
North also transcends its literary context, through its richly
nuanced chronicle of the life-altering interactions among four
individuals whose worlds converge and collide on the campus of
Harvard University. The narrative depicts both the desperate and
deliberate lives of its main characters as they consider roads
taken and not: Heather Channing, a back-to-the-lander student
adrift in the elite world of Harvard; William Channing, her organic
grower, Buddhist, Ph.D. father, a cultural exile in the north woods
of Vermont; Blake Prentiss, a Boston Brahmin with
multi-generational family ties to Harvard, and Kate Brown, a newly
hired Assistant Professor, whose life revolves around her academic
work, until forced to grapple with the implications of the themes
she teaches in her freshmen seminar on Walden . A luminous tapestry
of dreams lost and found, The Road to Walden North will continue to
rewild the lives and souls of its readers long after arriving in
Walden North.
In hierdie omnibus, wat nog drie gewilde Trompie-stories bevat,
word die sproetgesig Grootkaptein en die Boksombende se avonture
voortgesit. Trompie wil 'n seun se krieketkolf leen, maar hy moet
mooi met die suinige ryk seun onderhandel om sy kolf vir hom te
leen sodat Kwaggaberg se seuns kan gaan krieket speel.
After the horrors she suffered in Wales, Dr Sara Jones has returned
to London and found a way to use her fledgling psychic abilities
for good, belying the grim predictions of her former mentor, serial
killer Eldon Carson. But when events cause Sara to doubt the
trustworthiness of her visions, she is thrown into uncertainty.
This happens just as Sara’s partner, ex-police Inspector Jamie
Harding, accepts work from her late brother’s firm Thorndike
Aerospace. It’s not just the dark morality of the arms trade that
troubles Sara – it’s also her unsettling visions of Jamie’s
new boss. But how can she trust what she’s seen? Is Jamie in as
much danger as she fears?
Rio de Janeiro, the 1970s. One hot Brazilian summer, Camilo meets
Cosme and the two teenage boys discover a new kind of tenderness.
But an act of violence will shatter their intimate world, and
change the trajectory of their young lives. At once an incisive
exploration of Brazilian society and a moving account of first
love, first grief and revenge, The Love of Singular Men is a
powerful and exhilarating novel, which sparkles with wit and
playful ingenuity throughout.
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