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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'A
dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian 'There is
magic in this place ... You just have to sit and breathe and wait
and it will find you' Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day
Idaho. The future, and humanity's last hope. Across time and space,
five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together,
they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of
resilience, and of hope against all odds. The Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a
heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love
letter to storytelling itself. 'Wonderment and despair, love and
destruction and hope - all find their place in its sumptuously
plotted pages' Observer 'Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing'
Financial Times 'This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a
must-read' Daily Mirror
The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the
Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker
Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize
for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 'Mantel has
taken us to the dark heart of history...and what a show' The Times
'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?'
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of
a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are
bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors.
The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's
bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his
formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness
with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell is a man with only his
wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private
army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the
threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point,
Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of
the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a
skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do,
the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you,
as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The
Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close
the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She
traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who
climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of
predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past,
between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation
making itself through conflict, passion and courage. A Guardian
Book of the Year * A Times Book of the Year * A Daily Telegraph
Book of the Year * A Sunday Times Book of the Year * A New
Statesman Book of the Year * A Spectator Book of the Year Sunday
Times Bestseller (08/03/2020)
When 12 year-old Jared Johnson's little sister dies, just hours
after his mother breathes her last after wasting away so her
children could eat, he knows he is on own. Desperate to avoid the
workhouse, he does everything he can to survive the inhospitable
streets of Birmingham. Jared is blessed with the gift of the gab
and soon attracts the attention of the King of the Tatters, Toby
McGuire. Recognising a kindred spirit, Toby soon has Jared out on a
cart hustling for rags. Jared loves driving his horse Bess,
shouting 'any old rags' as loud as he can, and it's not long before
he's thriving. But being successful can bring you enemies as well
as friends. Toby knows that Jared is destined for bigger things -
provided his big mouth doesn't get him hurt first... The top 10
best-seller is back with an unforgettable story about an
unforgettable boy. Heart-breaking and heart-warming, fans of Katie
Flynn, Val Wood and Lyn Andrews will fall in love with this latest
page-turner from Lindsey Hutchinson. What readers are saying about
Lindsey Hutchinson: 'Couldn't put this book down. Brilliant story
with many sad bits, but lovely happy ending. I would thoroughly
recommend this book.' 'What a fabulous book from Lindsey again. She
never disappoints. Read in 2 days it really is unputdownable! Can't
wait for the next one as I know it will be another cracker.' 'It's
a while since I didn't want a book to end. I absolutely loved this
story as I have all of this author's books. She can't write fast
enough for me, every book has been as lovely as the last and as
usual I can't wait for the next.' 'Oh my goodness, I fell in love
with each and everyone of the characters, except Edith, am glad to
say she got her just rewards. Lindsey, you make them so loveable
and real. Read it in 2 days. Brilliant!!!'
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a
shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast.
The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and
selfishness-a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we
strive to fill them. Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells
the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the
cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As
they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland
for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and
Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful
mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide
the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas,
with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their
personal history bought and sold. A profoundly moving work about a
family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've
lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's
most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.
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