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THE INSTANTLY ICONIC NO. 1 BESTSELLER 'Devotees of Midsomer Murders
and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories will feel most at home
here' Guardian 'I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old
ladies, murder and sausage dogs... et voila!' Dawn French 'Cosy
crime with a cutting edge' Telegraph 'Whodunnit fans can give
praise and rejoice' Ian Rankin 'Charming and funny' Observer Even
better than I knew it would be' India Knight 'Quintessentially
English' Sunday Express 'An absolute joy' Adam Kay ''Wry, tongue-in
cheek and whimsical' Daily Mail 'Glorious' Robert Webb 'Beautifully
written, charming, funny, intelligent and mordant too' Sunday Times
'Pitch perfect' Philip Pullman 'A cunning whodunnit' Daily Express
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives
alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless,
ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo
and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in
the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as
lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to
destroying the apparent calm of the village. And then Anthony
Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is
found dead at the back of the church. As the police moves in and
the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and
keep his community together... and catch a killer.
The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero"
("People") who inspired the hit film "Jack Reacher. "
Skilled, stealthy, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is the perfect man
for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United
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The assassins have planned well. But they never planned on Jack
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION
'Extraordinary... A devastating but essential read.' Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds
'Gripping, darkly humorous...profound.' Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and give them a proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realises he has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive – first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path.
An extraordinary achievement, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humour the surreal reality of a city at war.
* Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Longlist 2022 * 'A stunning
achievement' TLS 'Unforgettable' Nguyen Phan Que Mai, author of The
Mountains Sing As the Korean independence movement gathers pace,
two children meet on the streets of Seoul. Fate will bind them
through decades of love and war. They just don't know it yet. It is
1917, and Korea is under Japanese occupation. With the threat of
famine looming, ten-year-old Jade is sold by her desperate family
to Miss Silver's courtesan school in the bustling city of
Pyongyang. As the Japanese army tears through the country, she is
forced to flee to the southern city of Seoul. Soon, her path
crosses with that of an orphan named JungHo, a chance encounter
that will lead to a life-changing friendship. But when JungHo is
pulled into the revolutionary fight for independence, Jade must
decide between following her own ambitions and risking everything
for the one she loves. Sweeping through five decades of Korean
history, Juhea Kim's sparkling debut is an intricately woven tale
of love stretched to breaking point, and two people who refuse to
let go.
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High Ground is a fictional account of the legal, political, and
moral conflict that would eventually turn American against
American. Garrett Fitzwilliam sacrificed the woman he loved to
preserve the Union, but how does he defend the United States of
America when America's survival depends upon an army sabotaged by
its own incompetence? Or was America lost when the president, who
swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution,
imprisoned his political foes?
From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.
1946, Manhattan. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station.
Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home, their fates a mystery. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose daring mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal.
Vividly rendered and inspired by true events, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shines a light on the incredible heroics of the brave women of the war and weaves a mesmerizing tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances.
Carol Shields has called this 'a remarkable and brave 1924 novel
about being a house husband.' Preface by Karen Knox.
The Great Depression tore countless American lives, families, and
dreams apart. As the country struggled to survive against
unimaginable domestic challenges, tensions across the sea would
soon draw the world into a war beyond imagination. The stories of
bravery and sacrifice made by those who fought in that world war
are familiar to us, but it is often in the smaller stories that
aren't told that a new perspective can be found. The Quinn family
of Illinois has suffered alongside their neighbors during the Great
Depression, but unlike many, they have never lost sight of the
promise of better times ahead. The Depression is showing signs of
lifting, and the family risks it all for their own dream. Together
for whatever the future might bring, the family moves into a
primitive farmhouse on their newly acquired land, hoping for
salvation and independence. Life is bleak in those first years, as
no amount of hard work can create a profit from the unyielding
land. Over his wife's objections, Milburn Quinn makes a bold
decision to present his children with a gift. Although it is
intended to keep them grounded and entertained, this gift comes
with dire consequences for all. Set in a time when the world's
norms are being turned upside down like the sod behind a plow, Fate
Rode the Wind tells a story of one family's undying patriotism,
unending trials, and unconditional love.
"Jannaway's Mutiny" is a novel of love and tragedy that reveals the
secret causes of the British Navy's most catastrophic mutiny.
In September 1931, the sailors of the Royal Navy's Atlantic
Fleet staged a mass mutiny at Invergordon, Scotland. In this
historical fiction account, Charles Gidley Wheeler tells the life
story of Frank Jannaway, a British sailor who finds himself at the
focus of the mutiny.
Sent into the Navy against his will, Frank experiences the
hardship and injustice of life on the lower deck aboard a
coal-burning cruiser on the China Station. After serving with
distinction at the Battle of Jutland, Frank reunites with Anita
Yarrow, whom he has known since his youth, and who has been sent to
Malta in disgrace. Anita helps Frank, her childhood hero, to gain
promotion to officer rank. Years later, when Anita's brother, Roddy
Yarrow, is bullying his officers aboard a cruiser of the Atlantic
Fleet, Frank Jannaway is appointed to his ship. The result is
tragedy.
Encompassing an era from the Edwardian Golden Age to wartime
Britain in the blitz, "Jannaway's Mutiny" paints a vivid picture of
love, ambition, self-sacrifice and heroism--and of the part that
captains and admirals of the Royal Navy played in ringing down the
final curtain on the British Empire.
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