Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas, the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world. Claimed as war loot from Bohemia in 1648, it's been kept in Stockholm for nearly 400 years. Along the way it also acquired another more mysterious moniker: The Devil's Bible.

Now the Czech Republic wants the codex back, and Sweden has agreed to return it, but forces are at work to stop that deal from happening. The likely instigator? Russia. Who is also top of the list for possible kidnappers. It's up to Cotton and Cassiopeia Vitt to locate the king's sister, secure the codex, and thwart the Russians. Yet nothing is as it seems.

Trusted allies become hostile enemies. Long-standing enemies suddenly shift into partners. Making matters worse an array of conflicting personalities re-emerge from Cotton's past, transforming an already chaotic international situation into something far more personal and deadly.

From the cobbled streets of Stockholm with its placid waterways and picturesque islands, to the hostile skies over the Baltic Sea, and finally onto a fabled 16th century Swedish warship, Cotton and Cassiopeia come face-to-face with the unthinkable - changing both of their lives forever.

Juanita Goosen erf haar ouers se gastehuis in ’n kusdorpie en vind vrede in eenvoud. Viljoen Kleynhans, ryk en gerekend, ervaar die wreedste verraad en vlug blindelings. Hy laat alles agter en kom uiteindelik by Juanita se gastehuis uit. In haar wêreld vind hy betowering wat geld nie kan koop nie, terwyl sy ’n hunkering na meer as oorlewing ontdek.

Twee vreemdelinge, een dorpie, en ’n passie wat hulle uitdaag om reëls te breek.

Soms is die lewe wat jy nooit beplan het nie die moeite werd.

Ná haar musikantpa se dood en 'n liefdesteleurstelling, leef Elara Hartwell vir haar werk as ouditeur. Toe sy gevra word om liedjies te skryf vir Marko Roos, verander alles.

Marko, 'n gebore swerwer, vind in Elara iets wat hom laat twyfel aan die lewe wat hy ken - en vir die eerste keer vra hy homself af of konstante beweging regtig vryheid beteken.

Maar kan 'n man wat gewoond is aan vlug, regtig stilstaan? En kan Elara waag om weer lief te hê?

Ná ’n mislukte huwelik en jare in die buiteland, besluit Trix om haar lewenskoers te verander. Sy word ’n grimeerkunstenaar op die Wes-Kaapse platteland.

Haar eerste kliënt, ’n teësinnige bruid, veroorsaak konflik met die bruid se ouboet, Ray. Ray is toevallig Trix se nuwe buurman en eienaar van Landauer Distilleerders. Hy wil Trix se plasie hê en begin ’n romanse met haar.

Toe dinge versuur, maak Trix uit weerwraak ’n mampoer-proelokaal langs sy distilleerdery oop. Kan maanskyn en brandewyn versoen?

Zivah werk op Ezra se plaas in Galilea waar sy geurige olies leer meng en parfuum maak. Sy dra swaar aan ’n verlore liefde en is ’n gevangene van ’n donker geheim uit haar verlede, maar hoop dat haar stukkende emosies heel sal word terwyl sy haar passie uitleef.

Barabbas met sy charismatiese persoonlikheid, onwrikbare avonturiersgees en vreeslose najaag van sy ideaal om die Jode van Romeinse heerskappy te bevry, vergestalt vir haar die vryheid en geluk waarna sy verlang. Maar sy obsessie om die Jode van Romeinse onderdrukking te bevry dryf hom al dieper die verderf in en verder van Zivah af weg.

Ezra ontferm hom al hoe meer oor Zivah, maar sy is vasgevang in haar pyn en hoop vir ’n tweede kans met Barabbas toe Pontius Pilatus hom vrylaat in plaas van die misterieuse Messias-man wie sy ontmoet het ... Maar dit verander steeds nie Barabbas se verterende haat, wraaksug en begeerte om vir sy mense ’n held te wees nie. In ’n wêreld verskeur deur bloedvergieting, verlies en onvervulde hoop soek Zivah en Barabbas elkeen na heling, liefde en ’n tweede kans. Hul paaie kruis telkens in liefde en pyn, maar net God se belofte van herstel – om weer te dans – kan hulle ware vryheid bring.

Sal Sy liefde genoeg wees om twee gebroke siele te heel en hul verledes in hoop te omskep?

Chrisanne Alberts het haar hele lewe gewerk om die bitterheid van die verlede en verwerping agter haar te los. As ’n grootwithaainavorser is sy gewoond aan die wêreld van wetenskap, maar sy dra swaar aan die verlies van haar ouers, haar broer, en die skuld wat daarmee saamgaan.

Nadat sy as voog van haar broerskind aangestel is, bevind sy haar op ’n nuwe lewenspad wat haar terugneem na die afgeleë dorp, Albatroshoek.

Hiér het sy en haar kleintydvriendinne, Reinet en Essie, saam grootgeword en trauma beleef. Wanneer ’n moordwalvis sy weg na Albatroshoek vind, bring hy verandering saam, en alles wat Chrisanne geglo het oor die balans van die see en haar eie lewe, word op die proef gestel.

Die kluisenaar van Atlaseiland, Ben Benade, lei haar op ’n reis van onthullings, en saam baklei hulle teen die uitbuiting van seebronne. Maar Chrisanne moet al hoe meer gewigtige keuses maak ... Wat gebeur met ’n vrou wat nie net haar mense verloor het nie, maar ook haar plek in die wêreld, en haar eie geloof betwyfel?

Soos ’n sluier wat stadig gelig word, ontsluit haar verhouding met die eilandkluisenaar al hoe meer van haarself. Saam soek sy en haar vriendinne oplossings vir hul kleintydtrauma terwyl die geheime van die dorp ontrafel.

En die vraag bly: Is jy die som van jou verlede en jou pyn, of is jy wie God sê jy is? Geroep, gesalf, geliefd.

A revelatory exposé of a devastating terror attack in one of the world’s most remote places―and the global greed that allowed it to happen.

On March 24, 2021, in the remote north of Mozambique, 500 ISIS militants attacked the small, paradise beach town of Palma - strategically unimportant but for vast offshore gas fields that had attracted $50 billion in foreign investment, including over £1 billion from the British government.

As the Islamists surged through town beheading civilians, a group of men, women and children - including 80 gas plant construction workers - barricaded themselves inside a hotel to await rescue. An oil and gas compound defended by attack helicopters and 1,000 soldiers was just minutes away. But help never came. Five years on, Alex Perry's spell-binding, meticulous reconstruction unearths a hidden and unprecedented fiasco. Woven into his account is a search for the truth about how energy companies really make their vast profits.

His investigation takes him around the world, from Europe to the US, and back to Africa again, as he tracks down the roughnecks, mercenaries, billionaires, and corporate spooks who can shed light on our most essential industry. As the revelations build and the lies multiply, Perry finds himself drawn into a legal drama, and an exploding political scandal.

Propulsive, prophetic, and arriving at a time when energy companies imperil the planet, Blood Will Flow delivers a morality tale for the global economy, and an inspiring quest for justice.

“You give a girl a taste of fresh air and then you take it away—she’ll grow fierce and wild to get it back.”

Oxford, Mississippi, 1933.

Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one.

Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she’s been one of the 'unadoptable' girls at the town’s orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her spirit unbowed.

When she meets Birdie, a young woman who has come to Oxford determined to remind her socialite sister of the impoverished family she left behind, for the first time in a long while it seems someone else might care about Meg’s future.

But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie begins to suspect her sister’s charmed life may be founded on a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman haunted by loss who has been pushed to the brink with nothing left to lose.

Drawn together by circumstance, they find unexpected kinship among a disreputable, determined band of women.

But in a town steeped in hypocrisy, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences …

He had been here, that was clear from the marks in the dust. And he had been alone.

In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his twenty-first birthday.

Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out.

Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam’s disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts.

But Ro still wants answers. Only a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town, does it lie among them?

A tense military thriller from the world's bestselling thriller writer and a retired US army sergeant, perfect for fans of Lee Child and Tom Clancy.

He's trained to fight America’s enemies overseas. Now the battle has come home.

When a presidential candidate is assassinated during a summer retreat on Nantucket Island, the country is thrown into turmoil.

Enter Rocket’s Red Glare – a covert unit so classified it doesn’t officially exist. Led by former Special Forces operative Nat Phillips, this team is built to respond when national security collapses. But what begins as a manhunt for a killer soon unravels into a global conspiracy stretching from Washington to foreign capitals.

To save his country, Phillips must face the unthinkable – because the next war has already begun.

More than 100 delicious, nutritionally balanced recipes to help you live your longest, healthiest life.

From the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers How Not To Die and How Not to Diet, comes The How Not To Age Cookbook – a beautifully illustrated cookbook of tasty recipes based on the groundbreaking nutritional science of How Not to Age.

In How Not To Age, Dr Michael Greger revealed that a healthy diet is one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging. His Anti-Aging Eight streamlined evidence-based research into simple, accessible steps for ensuring physical and mental longevity.

Filled with more than 100 plant-based recipes to help you live well for longer, The How Not To Age Cookbook brings together decades of scientific research.

From Lentil-Walnut Burgers to Mocha Chia Pudding, these simple, nutrition-packed dishes make use of ingredients that have been proven to promote a healthy lifespan and inspiration from the places around the world where people traditionally live the longest. Grounded in the latest nutrition science, The How Not to Age Cookbook is packed full of delicious meals, snacks and drinks that will keep the body both nourished and youthful.

Rose Talisman is pinning it all on a fresh start.

Five years after her career as a therapist ended in one catastrophic instant, she is opening a retreat in Corfu. The understated, luxurious Villa Artemis is surrounded by wild pines and sea views.

Just six guests. One week. Time for Rose to help them face their secrets – and move forwards.

But Rose has staked everything on the retreat. It has to work – or she loses it all. And people’s secrets have a way of revealing themselves in ways no one expected.

Nobody’s past is staying hidden for long…

A sweet, small-town slow-burn romance set in a charming matcha cafe, perfect for readers who love Laurie Gilmore, B.K. Borison and the gentle magic of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

At Matcha Moments, owner Sasha Lee is a star matchmaker, helping customers find love over a smooth cup of matcha. You’d think that as the master she’d be living her fairytale ending, but Sasha is allergic to commitment.

With a growing reputation, her successes are challenged when the ‘unmatchable’ Ben walks in - a man who believes he’s too boring for love. As Sasha tries to match him, she slowly finds herself drawn to his quiet charm.

As their daily banter becomes the highlight of her day, Sasha must confront the possibility that her own love story might be brewing. Will she embrace the unexpected romance, or let her past fears keep her from true love?

Chasing the Internet, a revised version of Life Lessons: How to Fail and Win, chronicles Alan Knott-Craig’s relentless pursuit to bridge South Africa’s digital divide, taking readers from his early entrepreneurial struggles to building one of the country’s most innovative connectivity companies.

This isn’t just another startup story – it’s a blueprint for purpose-driven entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

Learn powerful lessons about partnerships, leadership transitions, and knowing when to bring in new talent to scale. Find out why tackling ‘hard things’ like township connectivity creates unbeatable competitive advantages. Be inspired by fibertime’s remarkable turnaround story. See that purpose and innovative thinking can transform both businesses and communities.

This is the story of chasing an impossible dream and actually catching it.

A mother they will always remember. A legacy they will treasure forever.

Grieving the sudden loss of their beloved mother, five sisters each receive a mysterious letter exactly one month after her death. Felicia Morgan Weston’s message to her daughters reveals an astonishing secret, upending everything they thought they knew.

Widowed at a young age, Felicia devoted herself to raising her young daughters alone. But, unbeknownst to the world and even her own family, she also harbored a breathtaking secret: under the alias Morgan Reed, she became a bestselling thriller writer, whose novels topped the bestseller charts and captivated millions.

As Felicia’s daughters grapple with the startling truth of their mother’s double life, they rediscover the depth and resilience of the love that shaped their lives.

Can their mother's hidden past help them to forge a new path for the future?

The swoon-worthy new fake dating rom com featuring forced proximity and second chances, from the international bestselling author of The Catch, perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey and Carley Fortune.

Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she’s the no-nonsense personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada’s wife. By night, she slips out of her heels and writes romance novels under a top-secret pen name. But when her steamiest book, The Prime Minister & Me becomes a bestseller, rumours of a real-life affair between her and the PM start swirling out of control.

Enter Nolan Crosby, the PM’s new close protection officer and Andi’s failed one-night stand from three years ago. Nolan might be in town to look after his mother, but when the scandal erupts, Andi enlists him to help take care of her own dilemma.

To save their bosses’ reputations they’ll pretend to date for the summer. But as sparks fly, can they keep their romance strictly fictional?

The Isle of Ormer: population 500, soon to be 501.

Charlie Jones has landed on the island to embark on her brand new life. As the manager at Ormer's only farm shop, this job will be her perfect next chapter. Good riddance to the mainland, this is it - fresh air, and a clean slate.

Except there is one small issue . . .

Charlie Jones has also just arrived on the Isle of Ormer, to embark on his brand new life. His job at the farm shop feels like fate, and could not have come at a better moment. On Ormer, Charlie has promised himself he'll escape old friends, bad habits and heartbreak.

This second chance is the best thing that could have happened to Charlie . . . and Charlie. That is, until they are introduced . . .

The Name Game is the brand new love story from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Flatshare and Swept Away, about second chances, new beginnings and about love finding us in the most secluded of places.

Every summer tells a story...

1957: The summer of innocence. Amongst the lemon trees, Rafaella Parisi impatiently waits for the summer visitors to arrive in her small fishing village on the coast of Puglia. She may be dating Fon Gianelli, but there is one person she longs to see: Cosimo - son of the wealthy Franchetti family.

1958: The summer everything changed. After a devastating accident at the lavish Franchetti villa, Rafa makes a vow that changes the course of all their futures…

1961: The summer they met again. And when Rafa and Cosi’s lives collide, Rafa must decide if she’s willing to risk the life she has built for the future she might have had…

An enthralling sapphic retelling of Swan Lake, for fans of Allison Saft and V.E Schwab by the New York Times bestselling author of Where the Dark Stands Still.

Magic has long been outlawed in Auréal. Odile has always known she’d be the one to restore it.

Raised by a sorcerer, Odile has spent years preparing for the heist of a lifetime. It’s relatively simple. Impersonate a princess, infiltrate the palace, steal the great sceptre and restore magic to the kingdom. But when the King is unexpectedly murdered, she’s forced to recruit the help of Marie, the real princess, and the two begin to unravel a web of lies and deceit that leaves Odile uncertain of who to trust.

Soon though Odile must decide – her mission or the girl she’s falling for?

The fate of the Kingdom depends on her making the right choice. . .

A tour de force crime novel from one of the international masters of the form, where a simple murder case questions the simple notions of good and evil, guilt and redemption.

A body has been found on a Central Tokyo riverbank, and Homicide Detective Godai of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is assigned to investigate. The victim is identified as a lawyer, Kensuke Shiraishi, and Godai's investigations lead him to one Tatsuro Kuraki, who ends up confessing to not only to the lawyer's murder, but also another one from thirty years ago - for which another man was arrested and died in custody before trial. Kuraki's confession neatly resolves two cases, but there is just one problem: Detective Godai doesn't believe him.

What's more, there are two other people who can't accept Kuraki's confession. One is the son of Kuraki, the professed murderer; the other is the daughter of Shiraishi, the victim.

As they get closer to the truth it becomes clear that the link between the two murders is murkier and more complicated than they could possibly have imagined - and so is the line between innocence and guilt.

Venice. The perfect setting for romance, and for secrets to be shared.

Fen can't believe her luck. A luxury holiday with her beloved grandmother Disa - what could be more delightful? It doesn't cross her mind that she might fall in love. Or that love can bring complications . . .

Jamie can't help it that women always fall for him, rather than for his kind-hearted friend Leon. Nor that only one of them got the looks (that would be Jamie). But how will he feel if the girl he's drawn to only has eyes for Leon?

Disa has a secret. A few weeks ago, an old letter in a file revealed a shocking truth about her late husband. She's come to Venice to find out more.

There's news on the way that will reverberate through all their lives, as Jill Mansell's joyful, heartbreaking new novel takes readers on a roller coaster ride of emotion - and makes us believe in love again.

At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with cancer.

When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance.

In this lyrical and strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. She captures what it is like as a child and a young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.

Dadbot is back in this wacky graphic novel series, in a riot of colour!

The summer holidays are over and it's time for Josh and Daisy to go back to school - which means Dadbot has to stay at home without them. But then an AI home assistant called HONEY is mysteriously left on their doorstep, and Dadbot is delighted to have company. Even better, it's the company of another robot!

Josh and Daisy, however, aren't too sure about Dadbot's new friend. Her voice keeps changing and it feels like she's watching them. Worse yet, Dadbot prefers spending time with HONEY than with them! When a massive power cut affects the whole town, Josh and Daisy realise something is really wrong. HONEY's interest in Dadbot isn't just creepy - it's dangerous! But who is behind it all and what do they want? Josh and Daisy need to act fast to save Dadbot . . . and their entire town!

Full of robots, puns and dastardly dad-napping, this hilarious series is perfect for fans of BUNNY VS MONKEY and DOG MAN!

A timeless tale of travel, treachery and trust, for fans of Katherine Rundell and Emma Carroll, bringing Jules Verne's classic Around the World in Eighty Days to life for young readers.

It is 1872 and, when Maggie Appleton's beloved mother dies, she is left with nothing but a letter for a mysterious stranger called Passepartout. With nowhere else to turn, Maggie seeks out Passepartout and, in doing so, is drawn into an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. Together with Passepartout's employer, the enigmatic Mr Phileas Fogg, Maggie journeys to Italy, India, Hong Kong, Japan and America, in a daring race against time to win the wager Mr Fogg has accepted.

But with a bank robber on the loose, an angry Inspector on their tail and unread secrets in her mother's letter, Maggie soon discovers that there is much more at stake than keeping on schedule to win the bet. Who can she really trust - and will she ever find out where she truly belongs?

Ná ‘n geheimsinnige operasie in Simonstad word ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse akademikus in België opdrag gegee om betrokke te raak by ‘n joernalis uit Belarus. Sy is mooi, briljant, en waarskynlik ‘n spioen.

By die Europese Parlement kruis Lex de Lange se pad ook met dié van Alina, ‘n tolk uit Oekraïne. Hulle raak verstrengel in ‘n dodelike spel van geheime, verraad en begeerte. Met oorlogswolke wat saampak en toenemende konflik tussen Rusland en NAVO, is die wêreldorde op ‘n mespunt gebalanseer.

Moeilike keuses oor lojaliteit, liefde en die lewe moet gemaak word.

Voor dit te laat is.