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Pi lives in pondicherry, india, where his father owns the city’s zoo. the family decides to emigrate to canada, but tragedy strikes at sea. in the lifeboat are five survivors: pi, a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan & a 450-pound royal bengal tiger.

The chilling sunday times bestseller perfect for fans of knives out. a richard & judy book club pick. ‘in this fast-paced, twisted family saga, shari lapena keeps you guessing until the very last page…’ paula hawkins the new unputdownable thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of the couple next door. in this family, everyone is keeping secrets – even the dead. in the quiet, wealthy enclave of brecken hill, an older couple is brutally murdered hours after a tense easter dinner with their three adult children. who, of course, are devastated. or are they? they each stand to inherit millions. they were never a happy family, thanks to their vindictive father and neglectful mother, but perhaps one of them is more disturbed than anyone knew. did someone snap after that dreadful evening? or did another person appear later that night with the worst of intentions? that must be what happened. after all, if one of the family were capable of something as gruesome as this, you’d know. wouldn’t you? ‘nobody does a vicious family circle like shari lapena. highly recommended’ cara hunter ‘queen of the modern crime novel, shari lapena, is back with another tale of murder… shari will keep you guessing until the very end’ sunday express ‘a cross between big little lies and miss marple’ woman’s weekly ‘[a] dramatic, tense and satisfying murder mystery’ my weekly shari lapena, number 1 sunday times bestseller, april 2024

The ballad of songbirds and snakeswill revisit the worldof panem sixty-four years before the events of the hunger games,starting on the morning of the reaping of the tenth hunger games.

In a land ruled by prophecy and the whims of gods, a young man finds himself at the heart of a war he barely understands, wielding powers he may never be able to control isak is a white-eye, feared and despised in equal measure. trapped in a life of poverty, hated and abused by his father, isak dreams of escape, but when his chance comes, it isn’t to a place in the army as he’d expected. instead, the gods have marked him out as heir-elect to the brooding lord bahl, the lord of the fahlan. lord bahl is also a white-eye, a genetic rarity that produces men stronger, more savage and more charismatic than their normal counterparts. their magnetic charm and brute strength both inspires and oppresses others. now is the time for revenge, and the forging of empires. with mounting envy and malice, the men who would themselves be kings watch isak, chosen by gods as flawed as the humans who serve them, as he is shaped and moulded to fulfil the prophecies that are encircling him like scavenger birds. the various factions jostle for the upper hand, and that means violence, but the gods have been silent too long and that violence is about to spill over and paint the world the colour of spilled blood and guts and pain and anguish …

The kingdom of childhood is the story of a boy and a woman: sixteen-year-old zach patterson, uprooted and struggling to reconcile his knowledge of his mother’s extramarital affair, and judy mcfarland, a kindergarten teacher watching her family unravel before her eyes. thrown together to organize a fundraiser for their failing private school and bonded by loneliness, they begin an affair that at first thrills, then corrupts each of them. judy sees in zach the elements of a young man she loved as a child, but what zach does not realize is that their relationship is – for judy – only the latest in a lifetime of disturbing secrets. an emotionally tense, increasingly chilling work of fiction set in the controversial waldorf school community, the kingdom of childhood is equal parts enchanting and unsettling and is sure to be a much-discussed and much-debated novel.

The eagle of the ninth is one of the most celebrated children’s books of the twentieth century and is now the subject of a major film. this new edition, with its movie tie-in cover, is being published to coincide with the film’s release.

Autumn 1940. the nazis seal 400,000 jews inside a small area of the polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. erik cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, is forced to move into a tiny apartment with his niece and his beloved nine-year-old nephew, adam. one bitterly cold winter’s day, adam goes missing!

Assaf has reluctantly taken a dull summer job working for the city sanitation department. but the long days take a strange turn when he is ordered to find out who owns a distressed stray dog and ask them to pay a fee.