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From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal, now a major
Netflix series... Reputation: it takes a lifetime to build and just
one moment to destroy. 'Sarah Vaughan has done it again. Superb'
Shari Lapena Emma Webster is a respectable MP. Emma Webster is a
devoted mother. Emma Webster is innocent of the murder of a tabloid
journalist. Emma Webster is a liar. #Reputation: The story you tell
about yourself. And the lies others choose to believe... 'Uncannily
timely... As dark and gripping as you'd expect from the author of
Anatomy of a Scandal' Observer Your favourite authors love
Reputation: 'A terrifically entertaining legal drama and an
unsettling cautionary tale for any woman considering entering
politics' Louise Candlish 'Perceptive, elegant, thrilling and
addictive' Chris Whitaker 'Tense. Gripping. And bang up to date.
This is a rollercoaster of a book' Imran Mahmood 'Wonderfully
written, tense, taut and timely. I loved it!' Claire Douglas 'A
stylish, challenging thriller. Do yourself a favour and read this
book' Fiona Cummins 'Sarah Vaughan has distilled the zeitgeist into
a pulse-racing thriller. Gripping all the way' Erin Kelly 'I read
Reputation in one sitting, which is my highest possible praise'
Bella Mackie 'Sarah Vaughan has another smash hit on her hands.
Reputation is nuanced, complex, and thought-provoking, while still
being a gripping, fast-paced read' Louise O'Neill 'Sarah Vaughan
does it again. Another taut, gripping thriller that also shines a
light on some of the most important issues of the day' Bryony
Gordon
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Medea
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Rosie Hewlett
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A dark and epic feminist retelling that boldly reclaims the myth of the most formidable and feared witch in Ancient Greece.
Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All because of a unique and dangerous gift: witchcraft.
But when a dashing young hero, Jason, arrives to claim the famed Golden Fleece that her father protects, Medea sees her opportunity to escape. Her offer to help Jason overcome the trials set by her father sets in motion a journey that will test every ounce of her strength, magic and loyalty; a journey that will see her battle monsters, dethrone kings and fall in love.
But when faced with the ultimate betrayal, Medea is driven to an act of desperation so brutal it rips apart the lives of everyone involved...
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON PRIME VIDEO The Wheel of Time Box Set 3
includes volumes seven, eight and nine of Robert Jordan's
internationally bestselling Wheel of Time series, one of the most
influential and popular fantasy epics ever published - now a major
TV series on Prime video. In this Age of myth and legend, the Wheel
of Time turns. What was, what may be, and what is, may yet fall
under the Shadow. 'EPIC IN EVERY SENSE' Sunday Times This box set
contains: Book 7: A Crown of Swords Book 8: The Path of Daggers
Book 9: Winter's Heart Collect all the Wheel of Time box sets in
this series: The Wheel of Time Box Set 1: Books 1-3 (The Eye of the
World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn) The Wheel of Time Box Set
2: Books 4-6 (The Shadow Rising, Fires of Heaven and Lord of Chaos)
The Wheel of Time Box Set 3: Books 7-9 (A Crown of Swords, The Path
of Daggers, Winter's Heart) The Wheel of Time Box Set 4: Books
10-12 (Crossroads of Twilight, Knife of Dreams, The Gathering
Storm) The Wheel of Time Box Set 5: Books 13, 14 & prequel
(Towers of Midnight, A Memory of Light, New Spring) 'WITH THE WHEEL
OF TIME, JORDAN HAS COME TO DOMINATE THE WORLD THAT TOLKIEN BEGAN
TO REVEAL' New York Times '[THE] AMBITIOUS WHEEL OF TIME SERIES
HELPED REDEFINE THE GENRE' George R. R. Martin 'A FANTASY
PHENOMENON' SFX The Wheel of Time series: Book 1: The Eye of the
World Book 2: The Great Hunt Book 3: The Dragon Reborn Book 4: The
Shadow Rising Book 5: The Fires of Heaven Book 6: Lord of Chaos
Book 7: A Crown of Swords Book 8: The Path of Daggers Book 9:
Winter's Heart Book 10: Crossroads of Twilight Book 11: Knife of
Dreams Book 12: The Gathering Storm Book 13: Towers of Midnight
Book 14: A Memory of Light Prequel: New Spring Look out for the
companion book: The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
A ragtag group of elite Roman soldiers are sent on a suicide
mission in this epic historical thriller from Sunday Times
bestseller and leading Ancient Rome expert, Harry Sidebottom.
____________________ No man who enters the Castle of Silence ever
walks out alive. A remote fortress prison set high in the
mountains, escape is impossible - and to break someone out,
unthinkable. But this is exactly what Roman officer Marcus Aelius
Valens must do. Tasked with rescuing the young Prince Sasan, Valens
leads a small, elite squad of soldiers across Mesopotamia and into
the mountains south of the Caspian Sea. As they journey deeper into
enemy territory, the ten begin to die or disappear, one by one. And
with the rescue fast becoming a suicide mission, Valens must
marshal this disparate group of men - or suffer the same fate as
all those who have made the journey before him... From the
bestselling author of The Last Hour, The Lost Ten is a breathless
historical thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat -
for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane, Simon Scarrow and Conn
Iggulden. ____________________ Praise for Harry Sidebottom
'Relentless, brutal, brilliant, this is Jack Reacher in ancient
Rome' - Ben Kane 'A cracking tale. More twists and turns than the
Tiber itself' - Rory Clements 'Absorbing, rich in detail and
brilliant' - THE TIMES 'Grabbed me from the start. I loved it' -
Donna Leon
Brandon Sanderson, widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert
Jordan's Wheel of Time saga, begins a grand cycle of his own, with
The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of
incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that
they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in
shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the
soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers
shelter.
It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders
known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate
remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary
men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for
Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.
One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered
Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a
spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery.
In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately
against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom
the leaders who consider them expendable.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like
his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text
called "The Way of Kings." Troubled by over-powering visions of
ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his
own sanity.
Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to
train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's
niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's
motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her
research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the
true cause of the war.
The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and
world-building, "The Way of Kings" is but the opening movement of
the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.
Speak again the ancient oaths,
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
and return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
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Moby Dick
(Hardcover)
Herman Melville; Introduction by Christopher McBride
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In landlocked Gainesville, Florida, in the hot, fraught summer
of 1999, a college dropout named David sleepwalks through his
life--a dull haze of office work and Internet porn--until a run-in
with a lost friend jolts him from his torpor. He is drawn into the
vibrant but grimy world of Fishgut, a rundown house where a loose
collective of anarchists, burnouts, and libertines practice utopia
outside society and the law. Some even see their lifestyle as a
spiritual calling. They watch for the return of a mysterious hobo
who will--they hope--transform their punk oasis into the Bethlehem
of a zealous, strange new creed.
In his dark and mesmerizing debut novel, Justin Taylor ("a
master of the modern snapshot"--Los Angeles Times) explores the
borders between religion and politics, faith and fanaticism, desire
and need--and what happens when those borders are breached.
What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population
manifested superpowers called Quirks at age four? Heroes and
villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would
mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study?
The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one
of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Getting into U.A. High
School was difficult enough, but it was only the beginning of
Izuku's long road toward becoming a superhero. The new students all
have some amazing powers, and although Izuku has inherited All
Might's abilities, he can barely control them. Then the first-year
students are told they will have to compete just to avoid being
expelled!
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Satantango
(Paperback)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai; Translated by George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet
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In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate
Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz,
spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the
barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias -
long-thought dead - returns, the villagers fall under his spell.
Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that
might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their
existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the
fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events
unfold.
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of
Innocence depicts with masterful irony and nostalgic detail a
vanished world-the glittering, elite society of "Gilded Age" New
York-at the height of its power and on the brink of its demise.
When Newland Archer's comfortable future is thrown into uncertainty
by the arrival of the brazenly unconventional Ellen Olenska, subtle
consequences unfold as Wharton's characters navigate conflicts of
passion and propriety, demonstrating the genius of a great American
novelist "at the top of her game" (Ta-Nehisi Coates).
The Dartford Crossing: a vital transport hub connecting Kent and
Essex, the busiest river crossing in Europe, and the site of some
of the most vicious organised crime today... For the last decade,
there has been a intense turf war in the south-east of England
between two sets of criminal gangs: On one side, there's the
'Establishment' - the old-school firms that have operated for
decades and weaved their way into all areas of their communities.
On the other, 'The New Kids on the Bloc' - mainly Eastern European
gangs who have muscled in, boasting they'll crush anyone in their
way and dominate the British underworld. The Dartford Crossing, due
to its location between London and the ports of the south-east, has
become the epicentre of these battles. Since Brexit began, the war
has become even bloodier as both gangs try to claim new territory
before the borders close. In an already terrifying and volatile
world of drug smuggling, people trafficking, prostitution and money
laundering, all rules are out and the body count is rising... With
research and interviews from both sides conducted by one of true
crime's most established names, The Crossing is a ground-breaking
and fascinating look inside the UK's newest crime phenomenon.
145BC - CALABRIA, ANCIENT ROME. After many years of spilling blood
for Rome, Gaius Furius Paullus has returned home to spend his
remaining days working quietly on the family farm. But it seems
death has followed Paullus from the battlefield. Just days after
his arrival, bodies start appearing - murdered and mutilated. And
as the killings continue, and panic spreads, the war hero becomes
the prime suspect. After all, Paullus has butchered countless
enemies on the battlefield - could he have brought his habit home
with him? With the psychological effects of combat clouding every
thought, Paullus must use all his soldier's instincts to hunt the
real killer. Because if they are not brought to justice soon, he
may become the next victim.
In the middle of a snowfield, as a desperate battle rages all
around them, Goblin Slayer and the goblin paladin engage in single
combat. As if taking down this imposing foe armed with a blade that
can pierce through armor with ease wasn't enough of a challenge,
the party is sure to be overrun once the bulk of the goblin
paladin's forces catch up with them. But Goblin Slayer always has a
trick up his vambrace, and once he unleashes his unthinkable plan,
the only real question is whether he and his friends can survive
its consequences...
An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an
assassin and a telepath! Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when
it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the
betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate
assignment-to get married and have a kid-he may finally be in over
his head! Twilight must infiltrate the prestigious Eden Academy to
get close to his target Donovan Desmond, but has he ruined his
daughter Anya's chances with his outburst during the admissions
interview? Perhaps the truly impossible mission this time is making
sure Anya both becomes an exemplary student and befriends Donovan's
arrogant son Damian!
Her quest to repair what's been broken leads to imminent
danger--and soon it's more than her own life on the line. After
accidentally destroying the intricately carved chalice her people
have treasured for over a hundred years, Charlotte Durand sets out
in search of a skilled artisan who can repair the damage. What she
expected to be a two-day trek becomes much more daunting when a
treacherous snowstorm sets in. Searching for solitude and respite
from his troubling past, the last thing Damien Levette needs in the
middle of a mountain blizzard is to tend to another person, but he
can't leave behind the mysterious woman he finds half frozen at the
edge of a mountain lake. As they battle both the elements and their
distrust of each other, Charlotte and Damien must work together to
survive the peril of the mountains--or it could be the downfall of
them both. Praise for Misty M. Beller "Beller has provided a
splendid escape for us."--Fresh Fiction on Hope's Highest Mountain
"A romantic mountain saga."--Publishers Weekly on Faith's Mountain
Home "I've long been a Misty Beller fan and her books don't
disappoint."--Tracie Peterson, bestselling author
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