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  • The Happiness Hypothesis EN
    Jonathan Haidt The Happiness Hypothesis EN

    Every culture rests on a bedrock of folk wisdom handed down through generations. The pronouncements of philosophers are homespun by our grandmothers, and find their way into our common sense: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Happiness comes from within. But are these 'truths' really true? Today we all seem to prefer to cling to the notion that a little bit…

  • The House at the Edge of Night EN
    Catherine Banner The House at the Edge of Night EN

    On a tiny island off the coast of Italy, Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, thinks he has found a place where, finally, he can belong. Intrigued by a building the locals believe to be cursed, Amedeo restores the crumbling walls, replaces sagging doors and sweeps floors before proudly opening the bar he names the ‘House at the Edge of Night’. Surrounded by the sound of the sea and the scent of bougainvillea,…

  • The House by the Lake
    Thomas Harding The House by the Lake

    Revealing the story of Germany through the inhabitants of one small wooden building: a nobleman farmer, a Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, a widow and her children, a Stasi informant, this book moves from...

  • The House Next Door
    James Patterson, Susan DiLallo, Max DiLallo, Brendan DuBois The House Next Door

    Three chilling stories from the world's bestselling thriller writer: The House Next Door, The Killer's Wife, The Witnesses...

  • The Innocent Killer
    Michael Griesbach The Innocent Killer

    Tells the story of one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit...

  • The Lunar Cats
    Lynne Truss The Lunar Cats

    When you are an inoffensive retired librarian with bitter personal experience of Evil Talking Cats, do you rescue a kitten from the cold on a December night? Do you follow up news items about cats digging in graveyards...

  • The Man Who Wasn't There
    Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt The Man Who Wasn't There

    On the side of a mountain in Sweden, six bodies have been found. Skeletons, more precisely. These bodies were buried a long time ago. And for Sebastian Bergman that just makes the investigation into who they are, who killed them, and why, even more complex. Because Bergman has, of course, found himself on the investigating team. At first it was a chance to escape his ex-girlfriend and spend some time with his…

  • The Man Who Watched Women
    Hjorth Michael, Rosenfeldt Hans The Man Who Watched Women

    As a heatwave blazes in Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere. The murders bear all the hallmarks of Edward Hinde, the serial killer jailed by psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman fifteen years earlier. Sebastian desperately needs some order in his chaotic life. The revelation that he has a daughter, Vanja, could provide this longed…

  • The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever
    James Patterson The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever

    Everybody's favourite kid comic, Jamie Grimm, is out to conquer the world - with laughter, of course! Comedian Jamie Grimm can't help feeling like he's reached the top - he has his own smash hit TV show and he's won...

  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake EN
    Aimee Bender The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake EN

    On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal. Rose's gift forces her to confront the truth behind…

  • The Passion of Mademoiselle S. EN
    Jean-Yves Berthault The Passion of Mademoiselle S. EN

    Mademoiselle S., identified here only as Simone, was a well-educated and cultured lady living in Paris at the height of the glamorous roaring twenties. Simone's letters to her married lover Charles express her desires, fears, anxieties and fantasies, and through them we become intimately acquainted with an extraordinary woman whose sexual appetite knew no bounds, and with an obsessive and destructive love that was…

  • The Plagiarist in the Kitchen EN
    Jonathan Meades The Plagiarist in the Kitchen EN

    The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is an anti-cookbook. Best known as a provocative novelist, journalist and film-maker, Jonathan Meades has also been called ‘the best amateur chef in the world’ by Marco Pierre White. His contention here is that anyone who claims to have invented a dish is delusional, dishonestly contributing to the myth of culinary originality. Meades delivers a polemical but highly usable collection of…

  • The Slaughter Man EN
    Tony Parsons The Slaughter Man EN

    A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag. On New Year's Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon - a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered -…

  • The Spy EN
    Paulo Coelho The Spy EN

    When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city. A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences; a confidant and courtesan who bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari’s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. Until, in 1917 she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees and accused of…

  • The Street Lawyer
    John Grisham The Street Lawyer

    Michael Brock is a man in a hurry. He's in the fast lane at Drake & Sweeney, a giant Washington law firm. He's a rising star, with no time to waste, no time to toss a few coins into the hands of beggars. No time for a conscience. But a chance violent encounter with a homeless man stops him cold. The fallout propels him onto a trail of corruption and illegality which leads straight back to Drake & Sweeney. To get to…

  • The Sure Thing
    Nick Townsend The Sure Thing

    The bookies always win. But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades. In the summer of 1975 Barney Curley, a fearless and renowned gambler, masterminded one of the most spectacular gambles of all time with a...

  • The Temptation of Forgiveness
    Donna Leon The Temptation of Forgiveness

    A suspicious accident draws Brunetti into Venice's underworld - with unintended, disturbing consequences... When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of...

  • The Three Day Rule
    Emlyn Rees, Josie Lloyd The Three Day Rule

    When the Thorne family gather for the annual Christmas festivities, they think they've only got to endure each other for three days. But then the snows come, along with the 90-mile-an-hour winds...

  • The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club
    Marlena Biasi The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club

    Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four Italian rural women gather in a derelict stone house in the hills above Italy's Orvieto. There - along with their friend, the author sit down to a beautiful supper...

  • The Verdict EN
    James Patterson The Verdict EN

    James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. A woman violently attacked in her bed. A billionaire businessman on trial at The Old Bailey. As the world's press gather outside London's luxurious Tribeca hotel, can Jon Roscoe protect his own family from the terrifying consequences of the verdict?

  • The Waters of Eternal Youth
    Donna Leon The Waters of Eternal Youth

    Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui. Fifteen years ago the Contessa's teenage granddaughter, Manuela, was found drowning in a canal...

  • The Why Axis EN
    Uri Gneezy, John List The Why Axis EN

    Based on groundbreaking original research, The Why Axis is a colourful examination of why people do what they do – and how effective incentives can spur people to change their behaviour and achieve more.Uri Gneezy and John List are a little like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying people in their native environments. But rather than acting as impartial observers, these two intrepid economists…

  • The Woman in Black EN
    Martyn Waites The Woman in Black EN

    The fully authorised chilling sequel to Susan Hill's bestselling ghost-story, The Woman in Black, released in 2012 as a film featuring Daniel Radcliffe. This is the book the follow-up film starring Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Phoebe Fox is based on. Autumn 1940, World War Two. Bombs are raining down, destroying the cities of Britain. The evacuations begin, and soon children are being taken to the country for…

  • The Word is Murder EN
    Anthony Horowitz The Word is Murder EN

    A wealthy woman strangled six hours after she's arranged her own funeral. A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own. A reluctant author drawn into a story he can't control. What do they have in common? Unexpected death, an unsolved mystery and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's page-turning new thriller. Spread the Word. The Word is Murder.