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*pre-order this delightful christmas adventure now!* ‘jo sweeps you away to a better place with every book, which are always filled with warmth, love and a big spoonful of happiness’ veronica henry ———————————– chloe can’t wait for christmas . . . to be over! her son ruben is staying with his dad this year and chloe is planning to ignore the holidays all together. her only nod to the season is the advent calendar ruben left her, to help count down the days till he’s home again. but then an heir hunter gets in touch, telling her there’s a plot of land in canada she may be entitled to. surely, it’s a scam. or could it be just the escape she needs right now? they’re offering to pay for her flights . . . and ruben’s latest note in the advent calendar tells her to ‘say yes!’ suddenly, chloe’s new countdown to christmas involves a log cabin in the middle of a snowy forest, a community that’s worried for its future, a gruff lumberjack who gives her butterflies and a lot of pancakes with maple syrup . . . this christmas is full of surprises!

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for england – a ‘castle that was to cross the sea’. at mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly ‘cat’s table’ with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, cassius and ramadhin. as the ship makes its way across the indian ocean, through the suez canal, into the mediterranean, the boys become involved in the worlds and stories of the adults around them, tumbling from one adventure and delicious discovery to another, ‘bursting all over the place like freed mercury’. and at night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner – his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. as the narrative moves from the decks and holds of the ship and the boy’s adult years, it tells a spellbinding story about the difference between the magical openness of childhood and the burdens of earned understanding – about a life-long journey that began unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage, when all on board were ‘free of the realities of the earth’. with the ocean liner a brilliant microcosm for the floating dream of childhood, the cat’s table is a vivid, poignant and thrilling book, full of ondaatje’s trademark set-pieces and breathtaking images: a story told with a child’s sense of wonder by a novelist at the very height of his powers.

There was an eighth son of an eighth son. he was, quite naturally, a wizard. and there it should have ended. however (for reasons we’d better not go into), he had seven sons. and then he had an eighth son… a wizard squared… a source of magic… a sourcerer. sourcery sees the return of rincewind and the luggage as the discworld faces its greatest – and funniest – challenge yet.

Once it seemed being immortal was a gift to ever bloom – now it’s a curse. and she’s a danger to herself. ever has been dabbling in magyck – seeking to explore her own powers, hoping to find a future for her relationship with damen. but she’s not in control – in fact, the magyck has bound her eternally to her immortal enemy, roman. whenever he’s near, she feels his heartbeat, his breath, his blood racing in her veins. ever is in deep – and the one person who might be able to help her must never find out what she’s done . . .

First novel in jean m. auel’s magnificent epic of life 35,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, neanderthal and cro-magnon, shared the earth.