Showing 753–768 of 2309 resultsSorted by popularity
-
The Invisible Guardian
“a police inspector [reluctantly returns] to her hometown in basque country–a place engulfed in mythology and superstition–to solve a series of eerie murders”–amazon. com.
-
The Magicians’ Guild
Each year the magicians of imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can oppose them. but their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe. sonea, angry, frustrated and outraged by the treatment of her family and friends, hurls a stone at the shield, putting all her rage behind it. to the amazement of all who bear witness, the stone passes unhindered through the barrier and renders a magician unconscious. the guild’s worst fear has been realised … there is an untrained magician loose on the streets. she must be found before her uncontrolled powers unleash forces that will destroy both her, and the city that is her home.
-
The Land Of Painted Caves
The land of painted caves concludes the story of ayla, her mate jondalar, and their little daughter, jonayla, taking readers on a journey of discovery and adventure as ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a zelandoni – one of the ninth cave community’s spiritual leaders and healers. once again, jean auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago, rendering the terrain, dwelling places, longings, beliefs, creativity and daily lives of ice age europeans as real to the reader as today’s news.
-
Looking For Alaska
The unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of the fault in our stars.
-
Wolf Brother
6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father–to travel to the mountain of the world spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
-
Sheltering Rain
From the sunday times bestselling author of me before you and the new 2023 novel someone else’s shoes. when twenty-one year old joy meets handsome naval officer edward at an ex-pat party in 1950s hong kong, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. quickly wedded, she leaves to travel the world with her new husband. but she soon discovers that married life isn’t all that it seems . . . in 1980, joy’s young daughter kate mysteriously flees the family home. fifteen years later, kate’s own daughter sabine leaves london in search of grandparents she has never known. when the family is finally reunited, hidden tensions come to the surface, uncovering a dark secret which has been deeply buried for years . . .
-
Catching Fire
The second book in the ground-breaking hunger games trilogy. after winning the brutal hunger games, katniss and peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. but their victory has caused rebellion to break out … and the capitol has decided that someone must pay. as katniss and peeta are forced to visit the districts on the capitol’s victory tour, the stakes are higher than ever. unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. then comes the cruellest twist: the contestants for the next hunger games are announced, and katniss and peeta are forced into the arena once more.
-
The Magician
Fifteen-year-old twins sophie and josh newman continue their magical training in paris with nicholas flamel, scatty, and the comte de sant germaine, pursued by doctor dee and the immortal niccolo machiavelli.
-
Thief’s Magic
International no.1 bestselling author trudi canavan returns with her most powerful and thrilling adventure yet. in a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called vella. once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster tyen’s world faces. elsewhere, in a land ruled by the priests, rielle the dyer’s daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the angels. yet she knows she has a talent for it, and that there is a corrupter in the city willing to teach her how to use it – should she dare to risk the angels’ wrath. but not everything is as tyen and rielle have been raised to believe. not the nature of magic, nor the laws of their lands. not even the people they trust.
-
A Storm Of Swords
The third volume in george r. r. martin’s superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy a song of ice and fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since the lord of the rings.
-
Sorrow And Bliss
Shortlisted for the women’s prize for fiction the book everyone is talking about ‘just read it. it’s unforgettable’ india knight, the sunday times ‘it is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. it is also impossible not to laugh out loud… extraordinary’ guardian ‘full of snappy one-liners but, at the same time, remarkably poignant’ craig brown ‘probably the best book you’ll read this year’ mail on sunday ‘completely brilliant. i think every girl and woman should read it’ gillian anderson ‘exactly the book to read right now, when you need a laugh, but want to cry’ observer ‘the most wonderful, heartbreakingly gorgeous novel of the year’ elizabeth day, author of magpie ‘a raucously funny, beautifully written, emotion-bashing book’ the times ‘i was making a list of all the people i wanted to send it to, until i realised that i wanted to send it to everyone i know’ ann patchett, author of the dutch house ‘one of those “read it in one sitting and tell all your friends” kind of books’ evening standard ‘patrick melrose meets fleabag. brilliant’ clare chambers, author of small pleasures everyone tells martha friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband patrick. a gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. so why is everything broken? why is martha – on the edge of 40 – friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? and why did patrick decide to leave? maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. or maybe – as she has long believed – there is something wrong with her. something that broke when a little bomb went off in her brain, at 17, and left her changed in a way that no doctor or therapist has ever been able to explain. forced to return to her childhood home to live with her dysfunctional, bohemian parents (but without the help of her devoted, foul-mouthed sister ingrid), martha has one last chance to find out whether a life is ever too broken to fix – or whether, maybe, by starting over, she will get to write a better ending for herself. the book of the year an instant sunday times bestseller and a book of the year for the times and sunday times, guardian, observer, independent, mail on sunday, evening standard, spectator, daily express, irish times, irish examiner, irish daily mail, metro, critic, sydney morning herald, los angeles times, stylist, red and good housekeeping
-
Seed
Trust us’ the kindreds tell pearl and so she does. a thrilling story of life in a cult. fifteen-year-old pearl has lived her whole life protected within the small community at seed, where they worship nature and idolise their leader, papa s. when some outsiders arrive, everything changes. pearl experiences feelings that she never knew existed and begins to realise that there is darkness at the heart of seed. a darkness from which she must escape, before it’s too late. a chilling and heartbreaking coming-of-age story of life within a cult, seed was shortlisted for the waterstones’ children’s book prize in 2016. fans of jennifer niven’s all the bright places and lisa williamson’s the art of being normal will love lisa’s haunting debut. ‘we are obsessed with seed’ – ya loves magazine ‘compelling and exciting … i would give it 5 stars’ – guardian children’s books look out for lisa’s heartbreaking new title, paper butterflies. lisa heathfield launched her writing career with seed, her stunning ya debut about a cult. before becoming a mum to her three sons, she was a secondary school english teacher and loved inspiring teenagers to read. paper butterflies is her beautiful and heart-breaking second novel. lisa lives in brighton.
-
Asylum
For 16-year-old dan crawford, a summer program for gifted students is more than a gift – it’s a lifeline. no one else at his high school gets his weird academic fixations, but at the new hampshire college prep program, such quirks are practically required. dan arrives to find that the usual housing has been quarantined, forcing students to stay in the crumbling brookline dorm, formerly a psychiatric hospital. as dan and his new friends abby and jordan start exploring brookline’s twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on here.
