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EVERY LIFE HAS ITS PRICE
She’s known as the Wolf: an assassin working through a kill list with
cool efficiency.
Then someone gets in her way: Evan Smoak.
First, he refuses to conveniently die.
Then he stops her killing others.
Evan has the Wolf’s measure. He met plenty like her in a former life.
But not since he's had so much to lose.
And the powers behind her are bigger than he could possibly imagine.
The Wolf's got Evan in her sights.
She won’t stop. It’s kill – or be killed. Cat and mouse.
And Evan has one fatal weakness.
His humanity . . .
Dishonestly Yours is the hotly-anticipated new gritty romance from
TikTok sensations and authors of the Addicted series Krista and Becca
Ritchie.
Living honestly isn’t in his DNA. Just like it’s never been in mine . .
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The Graves and Tinrock families live life from one con to the next.
Phoebe Graves has grown up in a world where stealing and seducing are
as natural as breathing.
When a job goes horribly wrong, though, she and her best friend, Hailey
Tinrock, decide to leave their life of crime behind. They head to a
small college town in Connecticut to start anew. But Hailey’s older
brother, Rocky, catches wind of their plans and refuses to let them do
this alone.
Phoebe's past with Rocky is downright messy: he’s everything she wants,
but nothing she can have. And the longer she stays in town, the more
Phoebe has to lose . . . can love survive a web of lies?
Three very different sisters are inspired by a father who has done everything he can to give them the life he never had. But when tragedy strikes, can they come together to overcome the bad times and succeed as their father’s daughters?
Kate, Gemma and Caroline Tucker have grown up to be three very different women but with a bond that only sisters experience. What they all have in common is an unfailing admiration for their father, Jimmy, who through sheer ambition and hard work brought them from Texas when their mother left under mysterious circumstances, and raised them to enjoy a good life on the now successful ranch in California’s beautiful Santa Ynez Valley. Above all, he taught them to follow their dreams.
Kate, as a talented horsewoman was born to take over the ranch while Gemma escaped the Valley for a new life in Hollywood and is now the star of a major long-running TV drama. Caroline left for university to study law and is now married to a wealthy businessman in Marin County and has two children.
When tragedy strikes, family secrets are revealed, and the three girls separately have to face some tough and heart-breaking decisions. But they face the crises together and discover that sometimes you have to go through the clouds to find the sun.
'On the shield, one of seven forged in the timeless past to hold back the dark, fell a single drop of blood. So the shield weakened, and the dark, spider-patient, waited as the decades passed, and the wound spread under the grass and ground.'
The brilliant conclusion to the Chronicles of the One trilogy - an epic story of love, war, family and magic.
Fallon Swift has spent all her life preparing for this moment. No longer can she stand by whilst her fellow Magicks are hunted by the fanatical Purity Warriors or rounded up and experimented on by the government.
Fallon must follow her destiny to restore the magical shield that once protected them all. But she can't do it alone. It is time to build her army, to take on her nemesis and take down the enemy.
She has learned to fight, now she must restore the light and banish the dark forever. The final battle has begun...
From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author comes the latest instalment in the epic multimillion-selling series, The Seven Sisters. This is the book that fans around the world have been waiting for.
The six D’Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister? They only have one clue – an image of a star-shaped emerald ring. The search to find the missing sister will take them across the globe – from New Zealand to Canada, England, France and Ireland – uniting them all in their mission to complete their family at last.
In doing so, they will slowly unearth a story of love, strength and sacrifice that began almost one hundred years ago, as other brave young women risk everything to change the world around them.
Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental spy, is back in the shadows.
Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler, Faith Green, he has
returned to a life of secrets and subterfuge. Dax is sent to Guatemala
under the guise of covering a tinderbox presidential election, where
the ruthless decisions of the Mafia provoke pitch-black warfare in
collusion with the CIA.
As political turmoil erupts, Gabriel's reluctant involvement deepens.
His escape plan leads him to West Berlin, where he uncovers a chilling
realisation: there is a plot to assassinate magnetic young President
John F. Kennedy. In a race against time, Gabriel must navigate deceit
and danger, knowing that the stakes have never been higher . . .
In The Predicament, the second novel starring accidental spy Gabriel
Dax, William Boyd weaves yet another masterful tale of suspense,
loyalty, love and the dark temptations of spy craft.
A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by
Kate Mosse is the sequel to the number one bestselling The Ghost Ship.
'Mosse is a master storyteller' – Madeleine Miller, bestselling author
of Circe
Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows
from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be
heard whispering through the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a
Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, arrives in search of her cousin
– the notorious she-captain and pirate commander Louise Reydon-Joubert
– who landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years before,
then disappeared without a trace . . .
Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years
after Suzanne’s perilous journey, another intrepid woman of the Joubert
family – Isabelle Lepard – has journeyed to the small frontier town
once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations.
Intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books,
she quickly discovers that the tragedies and crimes of the past are far
from over. Isabelle faces a race against time if she is not only going
to discover the truth, but also escape with her life . . .
Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map of Bones is the
fourth – and final – novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following
the bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears and The Ghost
Ship.
A married couple joins a week-long wilderness expedition to help them reconnect in this heartfelt companion novel to the viral TikTok sensation Out on a Limb.
High school sweethearts Sarah and Caleb Linwood have always been a sure thing. For the past seventeen years, they have had each other’s backs through all of life’s ups and downs. But Sarah has begun to wonder... who is she without her other half?
When she decides to take on a fundraiser in memory of her late mother, Sarah wants nothing more than to prove that she doesn’t need Caleb’s help to succeed. But the event fails and Caleb uninvitedly steps in to save the day.
The rift that follows unearths a decade of grievances and doubts. Are they truly the same people they were when they got married at nineteen? Are they supposed to be?
Desperate to save what they know they once had, Sarah and Caleb join a grueling, week-long hiking trip intended to guide couples through rough patches. Can they fight their way out of the woods in order to find their way back to their roots?
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Black Cake
(Paperback)
Charmaine Wilkerson
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R355
R328
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2022's most unforgettable debut, soon to be a major Hulu series produced by Oprah Winfrey.
Crossing continents and juggling lives, Black Cake is a powerful story of love and loss, kinship and separation, heartache and hope, spanning sixty years in the life of one family.
Eleanor Bennett won't let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children - Byron and Benny - reunite for her funeral in California, they discover a puzzling inheritance.
First, a voice recording in which everything Byron and Benny ever knew about their family is upended. Their mother narrates a tumultuous story about a headstrong young woman who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder, a story which cuts right to the heart of the rift that's separated Byron and Benny. Second, a traditional Caribbean black cake made from a family recipe with a long history that Eleanor hopes will heal the wounds of the past.
Can Byron and Benny fulfil their mother's final request to 'share the black cake when the time is right'? Will Eleanor's revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?
From the author of the bestselling TikTok sensation You’ve Reached Sam
comes When Haru Was Here by Dustin Thao, a magical exploration of
loneliness, complicated friendships, and what it means to let go.
Perfect for fans of the heart-wrenching Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
What does it mean to let go . . . ?
After the death of his best friend, Eric Ly creates imaginary scenarios
in his head to deal with his grief. Until one of them becomes real, and
a boy he met last summer – Haru Tanaka – walks into the coffee shop and
sits down next to him. The only thing is, nobody else can see him.
Eric suddenly has someone to connect with, making him feel less alone
in the world. But as they spend more time together, he begins to
question what is real. Soon Eric is losing control of the very thing
that is holding him together, and must confront his reality. Even if it
means losing Haru forever.
Based on a true story.
The Girdlestone’s yacht is stolen by desperate thieves in Cape Town, and sailed off to… who knew where? A worldwide search by Nelson and Maureen leads to a miraculous discovery halfway across the globe.
Fetching the yacht and then, taking advantage of circumstances, Nelson and Maureen start enjoying a nomadic cruising life in the magical Caribbean and Mediterranean waters before returning home and setting up operations in a newly established V&A.
International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand
new tale set in 1950s London.
London, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of World War II,
London has is coming alive again, with jazz clubs and flickering cinema
awnings lighting up the night sky.
But for widowed Helen ‘Dexie’ Dexter, she’s still a woman in a man’s
world. She longs to prove herself as an officer in the London
Metropolitan Police, yet she’s stuck intervening in domestics and
making tea for her male colleagues.
Then Harri Schroder arrives, seconded from Hamburg to the Met. Haunted
by the loss of his wife and child, Harri is unlike any man Dexie has
ever known. Compassionate and sharp-witted, he sees her not as a
threat, but as an intelligent, canny officer full of potential.
And when Harri is tasked with hunting down a Nazi war
criminal-turned-respected-businessman, with connections to the upper
echelons of British society, it’s Dexie he turns to for help.
But as their bond deepens, a deadly fog engulfs London. Dexie and Harri
must expose the fugitive before he vanishes, risking everything for
justice – and each other…
The new gripping and heart-wrenching historical fiction novel from
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and Kristin Hannah.
The Sky on Fire is a daring new fantasy heist adventure from Jenn Lyons
that will thrill fans of Temeraire, Fourth Wing and Dragonriders of
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From the acclaimed author of the Chorus of Dragons series, this soaring
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high-stakes intrigue and a little bit of heat.
I’ve always been the golden boy. A genius law student, the heir to my
family’s empire, and a dutiful son.
Or, at least, that's what everything thinks. Inside, I want to set the
world on fire.
So I let myself indulge in the mayhem for one night. Which was enough
to get caught by a villain.
A villain who just so happens to be my new professor: Kayden Lockwood.
A criminal teaching criminal law.
I can't expose what Kayden has done without unmasking my secret life.
But I can force him to taste his own poison.
In a clash of titans, Kayden and I soon break and crumble.
Until we’re stuck in a dangerous game where there will be no winners. .
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Loyalties are tested in this slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy
following an assassin and a healer forced to work together to cure a
fatal disease, all while resisting the urge to kill each other—or,
worse, fall in love.
When Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, falls ill,
he realizes he needs the expertise of a very specific healer. As fate
would have it, that healer belongs to an enemy faction, the Haelan
Order.
Aurienne Fairhrim and her fellow Haelan are inundated by sick children
suffering from an outbreak of a long-forgotten Pox. Unable to get the
funding needed to launch an immunization program, the Haelan Order is
desperate for money – so desperate that when Osric breaks into their
headquarters to bribe Aurienne to heal him, she is forced to accept.
As Osric and Aurienne work together to solve not only his illness but
the mysterious reoccurrence of the Pox, they find themselves ardently
denying their attraction which only fuels the tension between them.
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Odyssey
(Paperback)
Stephen Fry
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R295
R255
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Wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, has won Troy for the Greeks – after a
decade of brutal, bloody warfare. But now this warrior remembers he is
a husband and father – and his gaze turns longingly towards home.
Setting sail with a small fleet, Odysseus dreams of soon lying in the
arms of his beloved wife Penelope, and of teaching his son Telemachus
the ways of a warrior. However, the gods laugh at the foolish hopes of
mortals.
And, angered by this upstart, Poseidon – God of the ocean realms –
curses our hero to wander the seas for ten long years.
Encountering one-eyed giants, six-headed monsters, terrible storms,
titanic whirlpools, hypnotic sirens, seductive witches and jealous
goddesses, Odysseus is tempted and tormented beyond any man’s endurance.
Yet he is no mere mortal – and the lure of his wife and son draws him,
step by step, stroke by stroke, ever closer to home and his ultimate
destiny . . .
A tale of love and longing, return and redemption, home and hope,
Stephen Fry’s Odyssey sees the author and national treasure weave the
final threads of the fabulous story begun in the worldwide bestseller,
Mythos, into an astonishing and mesmerising tapestry for the ages.
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.
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 Fair, and to find Neen, the
girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer 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 CIVILIZATION
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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Truly ambitious in scope, Circle of Days invites you to join master
storyteller Ken Follett in exploring one of the greatest mysteries of
our age: Stonehenge.
FOR MORTALS TO RISE THE GODS MUST FALL.
In Ancient Greece, the Twelve Gods demand the ultimate tribute – food,
treasure, even human sacrifice.
There are some mortals who cling to a desperate prophecy – telling of
one to come who’ll set them free. But few truly believe it.
Until Danae, a fisherman's daughter, eats a mysterious golden apple.
And suddenly, her life unravels and a strange and dangerous path
unfolds before her.
Chased from her home, she neither understands nor fully controls her
future. One which will find Danae walking the winding roads of heroes.
There, she encounters and befriends the mighty demi-god, Heracles.
Together, they will seek out monsters to battle.
But Danae’s destiny is not to fight beasts.
She will hunt the Gods.
She will drag them screaming from Olympus . . .
TWO VILLAINS, ONE GIRL, AND A DEADLY BATTLE FOR HAPPILY EVER AFTER . . .
Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy
ending, and it seems as if she finally has it. She's married to a
handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle.
But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she paid for this
fairy tale. She doesn't know what she has lost, and her husband is
determined to make sure she never finds out . . . but first he must
kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts.
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…
NOT EVERY LOVE IS MEANT TO BE . . .
After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears
she'll never trust him again. Now that she's discovered her own magic,
Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily
ever after that Jacks stole away.
But when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself
entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again.
Except this time, the rules have changed. Jacks isn't the only force
she needs to be wary of. In fact, he might be the only one she can
trust, despite her desire to despise him.
Instead of a love spell wreaking havoc on Evangeline's life, a
murderous spell has been cast. To break it, Evangeline and Jacks will
have to do battle with old friends, new foes, and a magic that plays
with heads and hearts. Evangeline has always trusted her heart, but
this time she's not so sure . . .
Dragons, war and Hunger Games-esque trials. Fourth Wing is a high-stakes, enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J Maas and dark academia.
Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last . . .
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away . . . because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them.
With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.
Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.
Alliances will be forged. Lives will be lost. Traitors will become allies . . . or even lovers. But sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.
WELCOME TO CARAVAL, WHERE NOTHING IS QUITE WHAT IT SEEMS . . .
Scarlett has never left the tiny isle of Trisda, pining from afar for
the wonder of Caraval, a once-a-year week-long performance where the
audience participates in the show.
Caraval is Magic. Mystery. Adventure. And for Scarlett and her beloved
sister, Tella, it represents freedom and an escape from their ruthless,
abusive father. When the sisters' long-awaited invitations to Caraval
finally arrive, it seems their dreams have come true. But no sooner
have they arrived than Tella vanishes, kidnapped by the show's
mastermind organiser, Legend.
Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is
only an elaborate performance. But nonetheless she quickly becomes
enmeshed in a dangerous game of love, magic, and heartbreak. And real
or not, she must find Tella before the game is over, and her sister
disappears forever.
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in happily
ever after. Until she learns that the love of her life is about to
marry another, and her dreams are shattered.
Desperate to stop the wedding, and heal her wounded heart, Evangeline
strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts. In
exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the
time and place of his choosing.
But after Evangeline's first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining
with an immortal is a dangerous game - and that the Prince of Hearts
wants far more from her than she pledged. He has plans for Evangeline,
plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after, or the
most exquisite tragedy . . .
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