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Seventy years since anne began her diary . . . ’12th june, 1942- i hope i will be able to confide everything to you, as i have never been able to confide in anyone, and i hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.’ in the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the nazi occupation, anne frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an amsterdam warehouse. aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, being cut off from the outside world, petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners. an intimate record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak, this is the definitive edition of the diary of anne frank. ‘a modern classic.’ the times’rings down the decades as the most moving testament to the persecution of innocence.’ daily mail’astonishing and excruciating. its gnaws at us still.’ new york times book review’a monument to the human spirit.’ mail on sunday

No wonder she’s been crowned queen of cosy crime’ mail on sunday the 26th outing for the highland’s most famous pc: hamish macbeth in the south of scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. but in the isolated villages in the very north of scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, pete ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. pete is always able to find work in the scottish highlands, until one day when police constable hamish macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager’s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. the entire town of lochdubh is certain pete is the culprit, but hamish doesn’t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. then pete’s body is found on the scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. once again, it’s up to hamish to discover who’s responsible for the dirty deed – and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes. praise for the hamish macbeth series: ‘[a] beguiling blend of wry humour and sharp observations about rural life’ good book guide ‘it’s always a special treat to return to lochdubh’ new york times book review ‘the detective novels of m c beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status’ – anne robinson, the times

‘the most bone-chilling story featuring on-going characters rizzoli and isles.’ daily mail he watches something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of kingdom come, wyoming. twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. the people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. he waits maura isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. they stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. but their nightmare has only just begun. they disappear days later, jane rizzoli flies to wyoming to search for her missing friend. a crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. can one of the corpses be maura’s? jane’s hunt for the truth leads her to kingdom come. where the person who was watching maura now lies waiting for her …

This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old susie salmon, who is already in heaven. through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family’s grief a hopeful and joyful story.