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Max carver’s father – a watchmaker and inventor – decides to move his family to a small town on the coast, to an old house that once belonged to a prestigious surgeon, dr richard fleischmann. but the house holds many secrets and stories of its own. behind it is an overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star. when he goes to investigate, max finds that the statues seem to consist of a kind of circus troop with the large statue of a clown at its centre. max has the curious sensation that the statue is beckoning to him. as the family settles in they grow increasingly uneasy: they discover a box of old films belonging to the fleischmanns; his sister has disturbing dreams and his other sister hears voices whispering to her from an old wardrobe. they also discover the wreck of a boat that sank many years ago in a terrible storm. everyone on board perished except for one man – an engineer who built the lighthouse at the end of the beach. during the dive, max sees something that leaves him cold – on the old mast floats a tattered flag with the symbol of the six-pointed star. as they learn more about the wreck, the chilling story of the prince of the mists begins to emerge.

The instant sunday times number one hardback bestseller! fall under the spell of diana and matthew in the epic third instalment in the runaway number one sunday times bestselling all souls series. ‘my favourite book of all time’ reader review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘this book was pure perfection’ reader review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘absolutely phenomenal . . . it was completely spellbinding’ reader review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ___ a world of witches, daemons and vampires. a manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. diana and matthew – the forbidden love at the heart of it. after travelling through time in shadow of night, the second book in deborah harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch diana bishop and vampire scientist matthew clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. at matthew’s ancestral home in france they reunite with their families – with one heart-breaking exception. but the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency. using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the palaces of venice and beyond, diana and matthew will finally learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago. ___ five reasons to read a discovery of witches and the all souls series: ‘haunting in every way. a story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only harkness can conjure. you will be enchanted’ leigh bardugo ‘harkness’s lush prose makes a fantastical world real enough to touch’ jodi picoult ‘rich, thrilling . . . a captivating and romantic ripping yarn’ e l james ‘intelligent and off-the-wall . . . irresistible to twilight fans’ sunday times ‘a bubbling cauldron of illicit desire . . . an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy’ daily mail

Neverwhere is the stunningly original first novel from neil gaiman, the bestselling and prizewinning author of the ocean at the end of the lane and american gods. wired called it ‘the sort of book terry pratchett might produce if he spent a month locked in a cellar with frank kafka’. this is a must-read for all those who loved susanna clarke’s jonathan strange and mr norrell or the magical world of j. k. rowling. under the streets of london there’s a world most people could never even dream of. a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. richard mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other london. a single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre. there’s a girl named door, an angel called islington, an earl who holds court on the carriage of a tube train, a beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining . . . and richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city. includes extra material exclusive to this headline review edition.

Neverwhere is the stunningly original first novel from neil gaiman, the bestselling and prizewinning author of the ocean at the end of the lane and american gods. wired called it ‘the sort of book terry pratchett might produce if he spent a month locked in a cellar with frank kafka’. this is a must-read for all those who loved susanna clarke’s jonathan strange and mr norrell or the magical world of j. k. rowling. under the streets of london there’s a world most people could never even dream of. a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. richard mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other london. a single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre. there’s a girl named door, an angel called islington, an earl who holds court on the carriage of a tube train, a beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining . . . and richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city. includes extra material exclusive to this headline review edition.

Vol.3: the trials are over. but something has happened that no one at wickedhas foreseen: thomas has remembered more than they think. andthe truth is more dangerous than anyone could have imagined … [payot. ch]

Miss amelia benbridge and the earl of ware are the most anticipated match of the season. but amelia’s love will always belong to her childhood sweetheart, the gypsy colin – who tragically died. she knows she’ll never feel such passion again. but when a brooding stranger at a masquerade offers a single, sensual kiss passions rise and she is determined to unmask her phantom admirer. and though deception lies in this stranger’s heart, her body cannot hold her back . . .