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Johnny Be Good
The sunday times bestselling author escape to the summer and feel the warmth of paige toon’s storytelling if your boss was the hottest rock star on the planet, would you mix business with pleasure? celebrity pa to wild boy of rock johnny jefferson, meg stiles’s glam new life in sun-drenched la is a whirlwind of showbiz parties and backstage passes. cool, calm christian, in town to write his famous friend’s biography, helps keep meg’s feet firmly on the ground. but with johnny’s piercing green eyes and a body brad pitt would kill for, how long will it be before she’s swept right off them again? the one we fell in love with was selected for the zoella book club and paige toon’s novels have been published across the world. praise for paige toon’s novels: ‘you’ll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted’ marian keyes ‘i blubbed, i laughed and i fell in love… utterly heart-wrenching’ giovanna fletcher ‘devoured this in one sitting’ cosmopolitan ‘an absorbing and emotional read’ heat
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The Brethren
#1 “new york times “bestseller they call themselves the brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a florida federal prison. one was sent up for tax evasion. another, for skimming bingo profits. the third for a career-ending drunken joyride. meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. or they can use their time in prison to get very rich–very fast. and so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam–while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. a bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. for the brethren, the timing couldn’t be better. because they’ve just found the perfect victim.
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The Hundred-year-old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared
The global bestseller sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, allan karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn’t want to begin. his one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. the mayor will be there. the press will be there. but, as it turns out, allan will not . . . escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, allan makes his getaway. and so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. as his escapades unfold, allan’s earlier life is revealed. a life in which – remarkably – he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century. translated by roy bradbury.
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Time Of Contempt
The adventures of geralt the witcher continue in this second novel in the bestselling witcher series that inspired the netflix show and video games. the kings and armies are manoeuvring for position, each fearing invasion from across the river, each fearing their neighbours more. intrigue, dissent and rebellion fester on all sides. after decades of oppression, the elves and other races are fighting each other and attacking the humans – and with growing numbers preparing for battle, the threat of all-out war looms ever greater. against this backdrop of fear, geralt and yennefer must protect ciri, the orphaned heir who is sought by all sides. for the child of prophecy has the power to change the world – if she lives to use it. translated by david french.
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Fates And Furies
Amazon. com’s 2015 best book of the year new york times bestseller barack obama’s book of the year a finalist for the 2015 national book award shortlisted for the 2015 national book critics circle award every story has two sides. every relationship has two perspectives. and sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. at age twenty-two, lotto and mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. a decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.
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Into The Crooked Place
From the author of to kill a kingdom comes the first in a spectacular fantasy duology, in a world thriving with black magic.
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The Confession
When elise morceau meets the writer constance holden, she quickly falls under her spell. connie is sophisticated, bold and alluring – everything elise feels she is not. she follows connie to la, but in this city of strange dreams and razzle dazzle, elise feels even more out of her depth and makes an impulsive decision that will change her life forever. three decades later, rose simmons is trying to uncover the story of her mother, who disappeared when she was a baby. having learned that the last person to see her was a now reclusive novelist, rose finds herself at the door of constance holden’s house in search of a confession.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
The acclaimed international bestseller set around the tudor court during the years when henry viii traded his mistress mary boleyn for courtship of her sister anne – and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed. when henry viii tires of pretty young mary boleyn, her powerful family instructs her to promote her sister, anne, as a replacement. but anne boleyn, newly returned from the french court, intelligent and spirited, doesn’t agree to be henry’s mistress – only his wife. pitting the king’s desperation for an heir against his powerful advisors – wolsey, cromwell and dukes of norfolk and suffolk – what anne brings about will change the course of a country’s history. told with all of philippa gregory’s characteristic perceptiveness, backed by meticulous historical research and superb storytelling skills, the other boleyn girl brings a legendary court, its politics, personalities and scheming vividly to life.
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The Fallen And Leviathan
On his eighteenth birthday, aaron begins to hear strange voices and is convinced he is going insane. but having moved from foster home to foster home, aaron doesn’t know whom he can trust. he wants to confide in the cute girl from class, but he’s afraid she’ll confirm he’s crazy. then a mysterious man begins following aaron. he knows about aaron’s troubled past and his new powers. and he has a message for aaron: as the son of a mortal and an angel, aaron has been chosen to redeem the fallen. aaron tries to dismiss the news and resists his supernatural abilities. but he must accept his newfound heritage – and quickly. for the dark powers are gaining strength, and are hell-bent on destroying him…
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The Virgin’s Lover
Pre-order boleyn traitor now – philippa gregory’s landmark return to the tudor court, coming autumn 2025 … a sumptuous historical novel set in the court of elizabeth i, from sunday times no.1 bestseller philippa gregory, the author of the other boleyn girl. now i can be the queen that my mother intended me to be . . . the queen i was born to be. 1558. after years of waiting, princess elizabeth accedes to the throne of england. but the country is divided, the restoration of the protestant faith ignites opposition from the church and beyond, and court remains a treacherous place. many believe that elizabeth must marry if she is to survive. for robert dudley, elizabeth’s ascension is a glorious new dawn, and he quickly positions himself as the young queen’s favourite. dudley is a man of powerful lineage; his father had been a kingmaker at the court of henry viii. but dudley has many enemies, amongst them william cecil, the queen’s most trusted advisor. as powerful families vie for stakes in the emerging kingdom, elizabeth must secure her own future.
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The White Queen
Internationally bestselling author philippa gregory brings the tumult and intrigue of the wars of the roses to vivid life through the women of the house of lancaster and the house of york, beginning with the story of elizabeth woodville, the white queen. a woman who won the love of a king and ascended to royalty by virtue of her beauty, elizabeth fought tenaciously for the success of her family — her daughter who would one day unite the warring dynasties, and her two sons whose eventual fate has confounded historians for centuries: the princes in the tower. an active player in the power struggles that surrounded her, she made hard and courageous choices, always trying to protect those whom she loved. informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills, philippa gregory gives an unforgettable voice to an extraordinary woman at the heart of a devastating conflict.
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Winchelsea
In eighteenth-century sussex, a young girl seeks revenge for the death of her father – an intoxicating historical novel from the acclaimed author of in love and war
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I Am Malala
*winner of the 2014 nobel peace prize* in 2009 malala yousafzai began writing a blog on bbc urdu about life in the swat valley as the taliban gained control, at times banning girls from attending school. when her identity was discovered, malala began to appear in both pakistani and international media, advocating the freedom to pursue education for all. in october 2012, gunmen boarded malala’s school bus and shot her in the face, a bullet passing through her head and into her shoulder. remarkably, malala survived the shooting. at a very young age, malala yousafzai has become a worldwide symbol of courage and hope. her shooting has sparked a wave of solidarity across pakistan, not to mention globally, for the right to education, freedom from terror and female emancipation.
