Hans van Kraaienburg is mos nie onder ’n kalkoen uitgebroei nie, en hy ken geldsake. Hý sal hom nie met ’n piramideskema laat vang nie . . . of hoe?

Toe Huis Madeliefie se mense onder ’n gladdebek-skelm deurloop en hul kosbare geldjies soos mis voor die son sien verdwyn, trek Hans sy kuite styf. Dié swendelaar se akker gaan nie ongekraak bly nie, besluit hy. Toe die polisie ’n beloning uitloof aan enigeen wat hulle na die skurk kan lei, neem Hans die handskoen met mening op. Met behulp van ’n mankolieke bussie en karavaan, mannemoed en vrouedaadkrag gaan Hans en trawante op die oorlogspad, Weskus toe. Javel Davel sál hul geld teruggee, of Hans laat los Nella en haar magtige bloomers op hom . . . Maar twee geslepe broers, Hans se paranoïese dogter en ’n venynige Valke-kaptein belemmer Hans se Sherlock-speurtog telkens.

In die mees avontuurlike Hans-verhaal nóg vorder ons geliefde ouetehuiskommando tot by Paternoster se Panty Bar, en anderkant uit. Maar gaan hul beursies maer bly?

Once on the fringes of horror, the "zombie apocalypse," has become one of the most buzzworthy genres in popular culture. Now, in Day by Day Armageddon, J.L. Bourne delivers an intelligent, gripping thriller that will leave both new and die-hard zombie fans breathless--perfect for fans of The Walking Dead. Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain.This is the handwritten journal depicting one man's struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter if you will into his world. The world of the undead.

Chris Bean is a well-known Cornish fisherman participating daily in catching, marketing and industry issues for more than four decades. His passions are oil painting, geology and fitness. He has had the good fortune to serve as a fisheries consultant in many countries of the developing world. The fictional work of Dahab draws on his rich and varied experiences while working overseas with grass-roots people combined with the knowledge retained from his original profession as a mine geologist. Friends have described him as a hopeless romantic.

The summer season theatre scene in Great Yarmouth and Brokencliff on Sea continues in this fourth novel by Tony Gareth Smith. Meet the stars that made the seaside come alive in the summer and the landladies that provided accommodation. The year is 1972 a c A galvanised bucket was found at the scene of the crime a " just who did survive the Golden Sands fire? a c Will the landladies of GAGGA be persuaded to use wholesaler a Murdell and Pococka ? a c Cupid has been busy firing arrows, but just who was in the firing line? a c Meet interior designer Sandie Cross as she does her best to dress up the outdated dA (c)cor of The Beach Croft Hotel a c Can the Sparrows Nest, Lowestoft be sure of a star line up for their summer season? a c Freda finds another perfume that should carry a health warning! a c Will the plays at The Little Playhouse help resurrect repertory at Brokencliff on Sea? a c Lady Samantha of Owlerton Hall plans some much needed restoration work on the crumbling building, with or without the support of Sir Harold a c Lilly Brockett plays a dangerous game a c Reverend George makes a life changing decision All of this and more can be found within the pages of a Backstagea , a trip back in time to gentler times when mobile meant being able to walk about. Also by the same author: Twice Nightly, To Catch a Falling Star and Curtains. All available on line from The Great British Bookshop (https://thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk), Amazon, Waterstones and all good on-line book retailers. Visit Tonya s website: www.twicenightly.net

A young girl elopes to Manchester from an unhappy home in the Midlands. Pruella Fielding is transformed by a subterfuge, into a spectacularly mysterious journalist beyond her wildest dreams. But she is in danger from the step family she absconded from, who are intent on getting their hands on her deceased father's fortune in the only way possible - murder. Three men form part of her life. One her editor, the man behind her pseudonym 'Ella Child', her childhood sweetheart and a Yank from Boston. She is torn between remaining the quiet country girl with no pretentions, or the famous writer attracting all the media hype and a notoriety, which she fears will destroy her.

Readers of "The Quilter's Apprentice" and "Round Robin" have been enchanted by "Elm Creek Quilt Camp, " where women gather each year for quilting, friendship, and fun. The third in the Elm Creek Quilts series introduces the "Cross-Country Quilters, " a group of far-flung friends who pledge to complete a "challenge quilt" -- symbolic of each woman's personal goals -- in one year's time.
These five women arrive at Elm Creek Manor hoping to find in their quilt lessons an escape from the problems they left at home. Julia, an aging starlet, has pinned her hopes to a plum role in a historical epic whose director is under the mistaken impression that Julia already knows how to quilt. Megan is a successful engineer who has won prizes for her miniature quilt designs. The one challenge she has yet to master is single motherhood. Donna, a mother of two, must hasten to teach her daughter independence and self-esteem -- lessons she, too, must take to heart. Grace is a renowned curator of antique quilts, whose creative flair is waning for reasons she is unwilling to reveal -- even to her closest friends. Vinnie, the senior member of the group, is a sunny soul with a tragic past. Her overwhelming desire is to bring happiness into the lives of those she loves.
Although the Cross-Country Quilters share a common creative goal, as the year goes by their bonds are tested by the demands of daily life. But despite differences in age, race, and background, the friends' love for quilting and affection for one another unite them in a patchwork of caring and acceptance. The quilt they make reminds them of an everlasting truth -- friends may be separated by great distance, yet the strength of their bond can transcend any obstacle.

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.

In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.

Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?

Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.

The year is 1999. The location is Reading, England. Cleo Howard is almost seventeen years old. Her primary concerns are sex, clothes, music, going to the pub and bosom growth. She's studying for her A Levels and is getting to grips with Sociology. She is regretting Biology. Despite this, it's going to be an exciting year. By the end of it she'll have seen Metallica, Ministry, Marilyn Manson, Venomous Lizzard, Napalm Death and Type O Negative. She'll have had sex in the same room as other people. She will have fought the feminist cause while on a field trip. A new shopping centre will open in her home town but she will prefer Camden. Luckily Cleo will have her boyfriend Barry and her constant companions Ian and Jenni to help her weather the storms of the end of the millennium.

Cats. Our oldest companions. They have befriended us, consoled us and given us many memories. No cat lover can doubt there is nothing quite as satisfying as the loyalty of a feline friend. But sometimes, it can go a little too far. Something that Dr Richard Cooper, recently widowed, is about to find out. The hard way. On a reminiscent fly fishing trip, Mr Gregory Rose is hunting the rainbow trout. But out on the loneliness of the lake, he discovers, to his dismay, that there is more than just fish that lurk in the depths. Sometimes ita s our own past that we cana t help but bring up to the surface.

Childhood friends, Liwa Nile and Noel Glass grow up in Port Alfred bound by hope and pure love for each other. But their deep dark desires bring in sinister trails of lust, murder and unclassified sexual escapades to the heart of Melrose Arch.

When Liwa loses her beloved father, hear dear friend Noel comes to the rescue. As they grow their architecture business, it emerges that Noel is no ordinary painter. Her love for darkness quickly turns Liwa's wet bed into a nightmare.

With every break of dawn, a soul falls. More bodies are soon disappearing and their business is thriving.

Tyson Manson seeks sexual pleasure. So when a love affair boils over, he discovers more than expected. As he digs deeper into their past, more worms fill in the missing pieces. Will his findings destroy the bondages of a long-standing friendship?

THEY'RE BAAAAACK.

Their first caper, "The Spellman Files," was a "New York Times" bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators, return in a sidesplittingly funny story of suspicion, surveillance, and surprise.

When Izzy Spellman, PI, is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as a job hazard. She's been (obsessively) keeping surveillance on a suspicious next door neighbor (suspect's name: John Brown), convinced he's up to no good -- even if her parents (the management at Spellman Investigations) are not.

When the (displeased) management refuses to bail Izzy out, it is Morty, Izzy's octogenarian lawyer, who comes to her rescue. But before he can build a defense, he has to know the facts. Over weak coffee and diner sandwiches, Izzy unveils the whole truth and nothing but the truth -- as only she, a thirty-year-old licensed professional, can.

When not compiling Suspicious Behavior Reports on all her family members, staking out her neighbor, or trying to keep her sister, Rae, from stalking her "best friend," Inspector Henry Stone, Izzy has been busy attempting to apprehend the copycat vandal whose attacks on Mrs. Chandler's holiday lawn tableaux perfectly and eerily match a series of crimes from 1991A--92, when Izzy and her best friend, Petra, happened to be at their most rebellious and delinquent. As "Curse of the Spellmans" unfolds, it's clear that Morty may be on retainer, but Izzy is still very much on the case...er, cases -- her own and that of every other Spellman family member.

(Re)meet the Spellmans, a family in which eavesdropping is a mandatory skill, locks are meant to be picked, past missteps are never forgotten, and blackmail is the preferred form of negotiation -- all in the name of unconditional love.

Eviscerated Panda - So Far, So Good, So Panda is the fifth book in the Eviscerated Panda series. It follows the band and those close to them while they try to gain musical success and not get jaded and faded by life's many demands. There are gigs aplenty for the Pandas; in Coventry with Over-revved Engine, in their native Reading with Dick Trouble, Deep Red Mistress and Nightshade Milkshake, and in Camden with Horror Frog. Gigs take place against a backdrop of personal issues; Ian and Gav meet their estranged Mum, Suzy reluctantly celebrates her thirtieth birthday, Victor, the singer of Deep Red Mistress, irritates Phil. Paul plays at the swanky golf club with covers band the Bandits of Party City. Nick and Jenni move in together. Paul and Angie celebrate their wedding anniversary and daughter Rose's first birthday. Jez and Cleo visit a castle. The Pandas record their second album. They play in Bognor with Horror Frog and at a bike rally. Paul becomes the drummer for the Bandits of Party City as well as the Pandas. Phil outlines his Pandas on tour plan and buys a van then kicks a stressful aspect of his life to the kerb. Paul decides to leave the Pandas. They advertise for a new drummer. Cleo has doubts about Jez. Suzy is not pleased to see men in uniform. Gav and Cleo move back to Reading and a promising new drummer excites Phil. Eviscerated Panda has claws and potential, they aren't going to give up yet.

For dreamer Clare, a chance encounter with old family acquaintance Marcus brings up haunting memories of a childhood holiday, as they try to come to terms with the events and magic that have shaped their lives. They meet by chance in a department store, having not seen one another since a long-ago summer in Guernsey that was marred by tragedy. He lost his son, Tom, in inexplicable circumstances; she was Tom's friend and the last person to see him alive. The novel flits backwards and forwards in time, from the present-day affair fuelled by grief and loneliness, to the summer when Tom went missing - a time filled with sunshine and enchantment, moving inexorably towards heartbreak. The Magic Places is a spellbinding tale of the power of stories and imagination.

Jim just demobbed from the army and seeking employment, inadvertently finds himself working for a black marketeer.He descends into the grimy twilight world of his employer and is soon engaged in the same criminal pursuits. Then, upon meeting a respectable girl, he resolves to leave the clutches of his ruthless employer and make a fresh start.But that has its difficulties and his subsequent actions and that of his employer, result in a totally unexpected conclusion. Bob Chapman's gritty look at a post World War II Britain is both riveting and disturbing, based on the truth, it is not for the prudish or faint hearted.

This book continues and brings to a conclusion the story of Christina, a former nun, who left her convent after 30 years and started a business on the internet with a man she met on a computer dating site. All proceeds from the sale will be donated to a homeless charity.

Lily the Tiller is a nomadic gardener on the permanent lam from a bleak, abusive past. Scouring the lanes of South West England looking for temporary work, she pitches up at Motthoe, a now dilapidated, but once grand, country estate, where Dreamer Harry - Motthoe's reluctant owner via recent inheritance - falls for her with only the slimmest hopes of reciprocation. In Lily's care, a walled garden at Motthoe begins to blossom and the greening magic of this new life touches each of Motthoe's cast of idiosyncratic inhabitants. But, even in the midst of this community blossoming, dark hints and ill-omens suggest Lily's grim history can be run from no longer.

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.

New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.

Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.

Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America’s greatest stud sire, Horse is a gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The god touches his finger to the arrow's fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air - as if to send dandelions flying, to push toy boats over water. And the arrow flies, straight and silent, in a curving, downward arc towards Achilles' back. Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, the boys develop a tender friendship, a bond which blossoms into something deeper as they grow into young men. But when Helen of Sparta is kidnapped, Achilles is dispatched to distant Troy to fulfil his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.

In this fourth book, the eagerly awaited sequel to When Twilight Ends, the anti-hero Adam Collins - now Aiden Carter - is in his new role as Head of Security (Asia) for a major US investment group and resident in Tokyo. Suddenly, after four years, 'the Office' - the Secret Intelligence Service aka M16 - has reappeared in his life with a proposition. He was to find this 'favour' involved a kidnapped teenage girl, the daughter of a media mogul in Tokyo. The brief: locate and extract - alive if possible. With his female partner, on loan from Japanese intelligence, Adam must revert to his previous life to negotiate a dangerous path through the clans of the Yakusa - the Japanese mafia - with an unknown 'mole' attempting to block them at every turn, including rendering them 'inoperable'. In a race against time, they must travel the length of Japan, with their lives in increasing danger at every turn. The author is noted for the depth of information and accurate detail in his writing, taking the reader on a rollercoaster ride into the world of international intelligence and the Japanese underworld. Although this book is classified as fiction, the author leaves it to the reader to identify the facts from the fiction.