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The Couple At The Table
₱99.00**the top ten sunday times bestseller** ‘completely ingenious, entirely satisfying – a delight from start to finish’ alex michaelides ‘by far sophie hannah’s best one yet. relatable, funny, high concept and so satisfying i watched in awe as the pieces fell into place’ gillian mcallister ‘you’ll love this brain-melting thriller!’ fabulous ‘a wise and witty portrait of modern marriage and murder’ the times ‘one of the best crime writers current working’ the scotsman six couples. one luxury resort. the perfect murder . . . a dream honeymoon… you’ve madly in love, newly married and at an exclusive resort. a nightmare dinner … you receive a note warning you to ‘beware of the couple at the table nearest to yours.’ there are five other couples. any of them might have murder in mind. a crime that seems impossible… who tried to warn you? who is out to get you? and will you make it home alive? sophie hannah is the queen of the unguessable mystery!
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Cape Storm
₱150.00Weather warden joanne baldwin was supposed to be enjoying her honeymoon, not running from a malevolent hurricane. joined by an army of wardens and djinn on board a hijacked luxury liner, joanne has lured the storm into furious pursuit. only one problem: even their combined magic might not be enough to stop it.
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The Library Of Lost Love
₱140.00Joan has spent too long alone with her memories of the man she walked away from one manhattan evening years ago. in need of company, she advertises for a lodger. jess knows it’s time to move on from her best friend’s couch, where she’s been crashing since her boyfriend emptied out her heart, and all her savings. but when she responds to an advert for a lodger in a quiet notting hill street, jess has no idea how life’s about to change. when jess meets joan, she recognises someone needing a way back into the world, and she suggests a switch: if joan will agree to go on-line, she will go off-line. and when jess discovers joan’s library of lost love, she decides to follow the trail, little realising that in joan’s story lies her own unexpected new beginning.
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Viva La Madness
₱170.00Hiding out in the carribean until the heat dies down from his last job, x is thinking it’s time to ditch the resort life and calls up his old friend morty to plot his return to london. but he’s hardly stepped off the plane when his associates, sonny king and roy ‘twitchy’ burns, get on the wrong side of a feuding venezuelan drug cartel on the hunt for a sensitive package. suddenly he’s thrown into a stand-off between rival mobs and with so many players in the game it’s tough going making out who wants to cut him a deal and who’s trying to kill him. darkly comic, fast-paced and full of twists viva la madness is packed with sex, scams, drugs and enough dirty money to fill a few offshore bank accounts.
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The End Of Mr. Y
₱200.00Ariel manto has a fascination with 19th-century scientists–especially thomas lumas and “the end of mr. y,” a book no one alive has read. when she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between.
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Mrs England
₱180.00From the bestselling author of the familiars and the foundling comes stacey halls’ most compelling and ambitious novel to date.
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Bright Young Dead
₱75.00‘all the blissful escapism of a sunday-night period drama in a book’ the pool on the mitford murders as the glamour of the bright young things crashes into the world of the mitford sisters, their maid louisa cannon finds herself at the scene of a gripping murder mystery. meet the bright young things, the rabble-rousing hedonists of the 1920s whose treasure hunts were a media obsession. one such game takes place at the 18th birthday party of pamela mitford, but ends in tragedy as cruel, charismatic adrian curtis is pushed to his death from the church neighbouring the mitford home. the police quickly identify the killer as a maid, dulcie. but louisa cannon, chaperone to the mitford girls and a former criminal herself, believes dulcie to be innocent, and sets out to clear the girl’s name . . . all while the real killer may only be steps away. praise for the mitford murders series ‘an extraordinary meld of fact and fiction’ graham norton ‘a lively, entertaining, well-written whodunit’ the times (crime book of the month) ‘true and glorious indulgence. a dazzling example of a golden age mystery’ daisy goodwin ‘exactly the sort of book you might enjoy with the fire blazing, the snow falling. the solution is neat and the writing always enjoyable’ anthony horowitz (crime novels of the year) ‘oh how delicious! this terrific start to what promises to be a must-read series is exactly what we all need in these gloomy times. inventive, glittering, clever, ingenious. i devoured the mitford murders… so will you. give it to absolutely everyone for christmas, then pre-order the next one’ susan hill ‘all the blissful escapism of a sunday-night period drama in a book’ the pool ‘keeps the reader guessing to the very end. an accomplished crime debut and huge fun to read’ evening standard ‘this story is drenched in detail and feels both authentic and fun. curl up in your favourite reading spot and enjoy’ heat ‘the plan is that each book will focus on a different mitford sister. on the strength of this initial entry, success is assured’ financial times ‘elegant, whipsmart and brilliantly twisty-turny, this downton-style mystery had me hooked from the first page’ viv groskop ‘full of period pleasure’ woman & home ‘an audacious and glorious foray into the golden age of mystery fiction. breathtaking’ alex gray ‘a real murder, a real family and a brand new crime fiction heroine are woven together to make a fascinating, and highly enjoyable, read. i loved it’ julian fellowes ‘jessica fellowes’ deliciously immersive, effortlessly easy novel has a strong feel for period and a rollicking plot’ metro ‘what a captivating crime novel and heroine jessica has created in the mitford murders. the instant reassurance of being in the hands of a true storyteller with a feel for period detail makes this a real treat’ amanda craig ‘this is a chocolate soufflé of a novel: as the enthralling mystery heats up, so the addictive deliciousness of the story rises. the sort of book you never want to end’ juliet nicolson
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Emily Windsnap
₱120.00Emily and aaron are sent on a top secret mission by king neptune. the king has been having nightmares he doesn’t understand and he knows only that emily and aaron must go to the land of the midnight sun to avoid catastrophe. but when the friends arrive in this icy world of mountains and glaciers, they uncover a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined. with the help of her best friends and a brave heart can emily survive and fulfil her mission? a magical adventure about the power of friendship.
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Viva La Revolucion
₱80.00Eric hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that latin america was the only region of the world outside europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. he claimed this was because it was the only part of the third world whose two principal languages, spanish and portuguese, were within his reach. but he was also, of course, attracted by the potential for social revolution in latin america. after the triumph of fidel castro in cuba in january 1959, and even more after the defeat of the american attempt to overthrow him at the bay of pigs in april 1961, ‘there was not an intellectual in europe or the usa’, he wrote, ‘who was not under the spell of latin america, a continent apparently bubbling with the lava of social revolutions’. ‘the third world brought the hope of revolution back to the first in the 1960s’. the two great international inspirations were cuba and vietnam, ‘triumphs not only of revolution, but of davids against goliaths, of the weak against the all-powerful’.
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Vampire Academy
₱170.00Dimitri gave rose the ultimate choice. and she made the wrong one… after a long and heartbreaking journey to dimitri’s birthplace in siberia, rose hathaway has finally returned to st. vladimir’s academy – and to her best friend, lissa. but rose’s heart still aches for dimitri, and she knows he’s out there, somewhere. she failed to kill him when she had the chance. and now her worst fears are about to come true- dimitri has tasted her blood, and now he is hunting her. only this time, he won’t rest until rose joins him… forever.
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Down To Earth
₱80.00When michaela anderson signs up for a parachute jump she gets more than a case of vertigo. suffering last-minute panic, michaela’s three colleagues go first. but just as she takes her leap of faith, an almighty gale blows up from nowhere. when she returns to the ground, the airfield is deserted.
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The Starman And Me
₱150.00Twelve-year-old kofi first spots the prehistoric human on a supermarket roundabout. he is small and dark and curled into a tight ball. his name is rorty thrutch and he has zero memory of how he ended up in the unexceptional village of bradborough, or why he’s being hunted … kofi soon finds out that rorty can do amazing things. he can copy, paste and delete objects, using only the power of his mind. this is the discovery of the century and mad, greedy scientists will stop at nothing to track him down. kofi and best friend janie are on a mission. not only must they protect rorty, but they have to find his missing girlfriend pogsy blue, too. our prehistoric ancestors have crashed headlong into the 21st century and time is running out to save them …
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The Penguin Book Of Baby Names
₱150.00Of all the decisions a new parent makes, choosing that special name is the most significant and the most rewarding. suitable for prospective parents, this easy-to-use a-z guide gives you suggestions for picking the perfect name for your new arrival.
