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Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a k...
Nemesis (#4 Harry Hole)
Jo Nesbo's The Snowman is soon to be a major motion picture, starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, and J.K. Simmons. "Nesb 's storytelling abilities are incomparable. Nemesis is crime novel as art form and great entertainment."--USA Today The #1 international bestseller from one of the most cel...
Kiss Kiss: Short Stories (Adult)
What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband? In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister ...
Hollow City (#2 Miss Peregrine's Children)
Read the sequel to the New York Times #1 best-selling book. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, staring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samual L. Jackson, and Judi Dench.Like its predecessor, this...
The Edge of the World - How the North Sea Made Us Who We are
Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015 Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea. 'An utterly beguiling journey into the dar...
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell
In the Trenches of Hell On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austra...
There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp...
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land
'Concise, evocative... Dear Zealotsis not just a brilliantbook of thoughts and ideas - it is a depiction of the struggle of one man who, for decades, has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness' David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker Int...
Friday Barnes 6: Danger Ahead: The bestselling detective series
School camp . . . what could possibly go wrong? Friday Barnes is forced to face her biggest fear - her own emotions! She must wave goodbye to Ian as he takes off to join his father in the Cayman Islands. But when your dad is a white-collar criminal, family reunions never go to plan. Ian is kidnapped en ...
The History of Western Art in Comics Part One: From Prehistory to the Renaissance
Learning about art through the ages has never been as interesting or fun as in this humorous and very informative graphic novel.As two kids give their grandpa a tour of Paris, he starts an interesting conversation with them--about where all the art they see in their lives--from the movie house to the st...
Puberty Blues
I don't recall reading Puberty Blues so much as devouring it. I was about thirteen, alone in my bedroom with the door firmly shut. I was fascinated. Kylie MinogueA revolutionary and timeless book.'By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night - in the back of cars, under the bowling alley,...
Hip Hop and Hymns
A memoir of loving hard, falling apart and fighting back, set to an unrivalled playlist.'Hip hop and hymns- the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.'Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going A...
Misrule - Book Two of the Malice Duology
Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of "Sleeping Beauty" reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice."Fans of reimagined fairy tales and LGBTQ+ themes will be delighted with the conclusion of this fantasy duology."--Booklist (starred review) The Dark Grace is dead. Feared and d...
I Look Forward to Hearing from You
A funny, biting, satirical, madcap and moving rollercoaster ride through the crap side of Hollywood showbiz as seen through one man's descent into grief and madness. It's 2002. Hector Singh is an eccentric, moderately talented yet extremely confident aspiring TV writer hell bent on 'making it' in LA. H...
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