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An isolated house deep in the Cotswolds. A writer’s den, as dusty and gloomy as the cell of a medieval monk. Two people sit opposite each other, one of them talking, the other typing. But why, in such already sombre surroundings, does one of them wear thick dark glasses? And what, above all, has caused an unearthly shadow to fall across these two interwoven destinies?

Author: Gilbert Adair

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St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with two disturbing new patients: Anna Petrovna, the troubled society beauty with whom he is inappropriately falling in love, and Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master, who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann must rely on his wits if he wants to save those he loves and escape from a Zugzwang of passion and politics.

Author: Ronan Bennett

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THE COMPLETE JACK REACHER SHORT STORY COLLECTION, INCLUDING A BRAND-NEW ADVENTURE - Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex-military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero of our age. A new Reacher novella, Too Much Time, is included, as are those previously only published in e-book form: Second Son, Deep Down, High Heat, Not a Drill and Small Wars. Read together, they shed new light on how Reacher developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world.

Author: Lee Child

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Amelia Bradlow has a glamorous career, a handsome husband, and a beautiful home, but lacks the one thing she wants most: a baby. While her husband, Ed, is affectionate, he is completely uninterested in fatherhood, preferring his orderly, predictable life. Turning 37, Amelia faces a sharp crossroads: stay in a comfortable but incomplete marriage, or risk single life for the chance to start a family.

Author: Maggie Alderson

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Jersey's favorite bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back, and this time the stakes are higher than ever. Tracking a missing visa absconder takes her from the familiar Jersey Turnpike straight to the neon lights of the Las Vegas strip. Can she find her target before a group of ruthless killers find her first?

Author: Janet Evanovich

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Step into a brilliant, lighthearted world of golden-age espionage and classic drawing-room mysteries with this delightful collection of linked short stories. Legendary crime writer Agatha Christie follows the iconic, bickering married detective duo Tommy and Tuppence Beresford as they take over the run-down Blunt’s International Detective Agency. Operating under deep cover, the energetic pair tackle a series of bizarre, unrelated cases while brilliantly parodying the famous fictional sleuths of Christie's era, including Sherlock Holmes and her own Hercule Poirot.

Author: Agatha Christie

Collectible November 1971 vintage Fontana paperback edition (Third Impression)

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Set against the harsh, mesmerizing landscape of the last Ice Age, The Land of Painted Caves brings a magnificent conclusion to Jean M. Auel's epic Earth's Children series. The story continues to follow Ayla, a remarkable woman—a huntress, healer, and rule-breaker who was separated from her own people as a child and has spent her life fighting for survival and belonging. Now faced with an overwhelming sense of destiny that pulls against the needs of her heart, Ayla’s hunger for knowledge and experience of the prehistoric world will lead her to discoveries that change her life forever. 

Author: Jean M. Auel

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So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I have loved and been let down. I've been stalked and assaulted. I am a success and a failure. I've been broken and full of hope. I am all these things and more. I'm telling my truth because when women share their stories, loudly and clearly and honestly, things begin to change for the better.

Author: Lily Allen

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Set against the vibrant, turbulent backdrop of 1960s Indonesia, this extraordinary historical drama follows two orphaned brothers torn apart by destiny. While Johan is raised in the luxury of Kuala Lumpur by a wealthy Malaysian couple, his younger brother, Adam, grows up in a simple Indonesian coastal town, adopted by a gentle Dutch painter named Karl. As political unrest ignites and post-colonial hostility sweeps the nation, Karl is abruptly arrested by military soldiers. Armed with determination and haunted by memories of his estranged brother, sixteen-year-old Adam embarks on a desperate, high-stakes quest to find his father. 

Author: Tash Aw

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Read the international bestselling novel that inspired the hit Netflix series. A sweeping historical epic set in 14th-century Barcelona following Arnau's journey from serf to nobleman.

This is a rare 2007 uncorrected proof copy!

Author: Ildefonso Falcones

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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is a gripping, darkly comic masterpiece that exposes the raw underbelly of modern India. Written as a series of letters from Balram Halwai—a poor village boy turned successful Bangalore entrepreneur—this novel charts his thrilling, unconventional rise to the top. To escape the "Rooster Coop" of poverty and servitude, Balram must navigate a corrupt system and make a desperate, shocking choice.

Author: Aravind Adiga

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It is 1940, and as the bombs begin to fall on London, the women of Lavender Road find themselves struggling to carry on with their lives in the midst of the Blitz. Shy Katy Parsons enrolls as a nurse but finds the rigours of hospital life, and the pressures of a secret love, almost impossible to bear. Away on tour with ENSA, Jen Carter finds herself unexpectedly homesick—while her mother prefers to face the terror of the burning streets than suffer her husband's brutality at home. And as Pam Nelson longs for a baby to breathe life into her flagging marriage, eighteen-year-old Louise Rutherford faces pregnancy with an illegitimate child.

Author: Helen Carey

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