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Sarah winman’s bestselling, critically-acclaimed debut novel when god was a rabbit continues to captivate and enchant readers. the sunday times bestseller this is a book about a brother and sister. it’s a book about childhood and growing up, friendships and families, triumph and tragedy and everything in between. more than anything, it’s a book about love in all its forms.

Assassin’s creed: brotherhood is the thrilling novelisation by oliver bowden based on the game series. ‘i will journey to the black heart of a corrupt empire to root out my foes. but rome wasn’t built in a day and it won’t be restored by a lone assassin. i am ezio auditore da firenze. this is my brotherhood.’ rome, once mighty, lies in ruins. the city swarms with suffering and degradation, her citizens living in the shadow of the ruthless borgia family. only one man can free the people from the borgia tyranny – ezio auditore, the master assassin. ezio’s quest will test him to his limits. cesare borgia, a man more villainous and dangerous than his father the pope, will not rest until he has conquered italy. and in such treacherous times, conspiracy is everywhere, even within the ranks of the brotherhood itself… assassin’s creed: brotherhood is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. fans of the game will love these stories. other titles in the series include assassin’s creed: renaissance, assassin’s creed: forsaken, assassin’s creed: the secret crusade, and assassin’s creed: revelations. oliver bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist.

For readers of the tattooist of auschwitz and the choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world – and the most dangerous. ‘it wasn’t an extensive library. in fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. but they were books. in this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when words rang out more loudly than machine guns…’ fourteen-year-old dita is one of the many imprisoned by the nazis at auschwitz. taken, along with her mother and father, from the terezín ghetto in prague, dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. when jewish leader freddy hirsch asks dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. and so dita becomes the secret librarian of auschwitz, responsible for the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the ‘living books’ – prisoners of auschwitz who know certain books so well, they too can be ‘borrowed’ to educate the children in the camp. but books are extremely dangerous. they make people think. and nowhere are they more dangerous than in block 31 of auschwitz, the children’s block, where the slightest transgression can result in execution, no matter how young the transgressor… the sunday times bestseller for readers of the boy in the striped pyjamas, the tattooist of auschwitz and the choice. based on the incredible and moving true story of dita kraus, holocaust survivor and secret librarian for the children’s block in auschwitz.