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Mark Crilley Miki Falls 1 Spring ENFirst of an exciting new graphic-novel quartet for teenagers by renowned comic book artist Mark Crilley. Miki is intrigued by handsome Hiro, a quiet and secretive boy who has just arrived at her rural school. But Hiro is even more mysterious than Miki realises: as she overcomes his reluctance and slowly gets him to open up, she is drawn into an amazing new world. Hiro is a 'deliverer', a real-life cupid who keeps…
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Mark Crilley Miki Falls 2 Summer ENIt's summer, and Miki's relationship with Hiro is hotting up! As Miki is drawn further into Hiro's world, she starts to learn the reality of his delivering job. When Hiro takes the flame of love from a couple at school she doesn't particularly like, and gives it to a new pair, Miki is fascinated. But when he starts following her friend Yumi around, and Yumi's boyfriend starts hanging around with a new girl, Miki…
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Kiersten White Mind Games ENTwo sisters, bound by impossible choices, are determined to protect each other - no matter the cost. James's frozen face melts into a smile. Do you want to know the trick to getting in trouble under the watchful eye of a psychic? I think of the nailed-shut windows. I think of Clarice. I think of the two, the two, the two who are now zero. Tap tap. Yes, I absolutely do. Don't plan it. Don't even think about it. The…
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Agatha Christie Miss Marple and Mystery ENA brand new omnibus of 55 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as ' the typical old maid of fiction', Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature — and used it to devasting effect. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering, the ex…
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Agatha Christie Miss Marple's Final Case ENA collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories. First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound then, the riddle of a dead man’s buried treasure the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident the corpse and a tape-measure the girl framed for theft… and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger. Six gripping cases with one thing in common – the…
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Miranda Emmerson Miss Treadway andthe Field of Stars ENHow do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone's playing a role? A mystery, a love-story and a darkly beguiling tale of secrets and reinvention set in 1960s London. 'Fabulous!' Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Soho, 1965. In a tiny two-bed flat above a Turkish cafe on Neal Street lives Anna Treadway, a young dresser at the Galaxy Theatre. When the American actress Iolanthe Green…
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Greg Iles Mississippi BloodA father on trial for murder. A son whose world is falling apart. The No.1 New York Times bestselling final volume of the ground-breaking Natchez Burning Trilogy by Greg Iles. He’ll risk everything for the darkest secrets in history....
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Garth Nix Mister Monday ENThe first in an ambitious seven-book sequence, Mister Monday is surely the publication that will prove that Garth Nix is one of the best fantasy writers at work today. In turn, imaginative, spellbinding and hugely original, this award-winning author from Australia begins an expansive multi-volume work that is sure to stand the test of time if this first episode is anything to go by. Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to…
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Herman Melville Moby Dick ENThe young sailor Ishmael befriends a tattooed Polynesian harpooner named Queequeg, and finds himself aboard the Pequod, which is captained by the obsessive Captain Ahab. Not long after the voyage has begun, Ahab tells the crew about his secret plot to hunt down the whale that crippled him on a previous voyage, Moby Dick. The crew of the Pequod are also after as much sperm oil as their ship can carry, and the…
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Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders ENBorn into the seedy world of Newgate Prison and abandoned as a baby at six months old, Moll Flanders soon learns that she can only rely on herself. Her story is an unapologetic one of bigamy, prostitution and theft told in her own indomitable and alluring way. Scurrilous and incorrigible, the reader is left wondering whether Moll is merely a brazen criminal, or a victim or her own circumstance. Defoe's witty romp…
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Miloš Ruppeldt Molly's GameThe true story of `Hollywood's Poker Princess' who gambled everything, won big, then lost it all When Molly Bloom was a little girl in a small Colorado town, she dreamed of a life without rules and limits, a life where she didn't have to measure up to anyone or anything - where she could become whatever she wanted. She ultimately got more than she ever could have bargained for. In Molly's Game, she takes you through…
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David O'Connell Monster and Chips ENMeet the amazing monster customers and sample the foul-food served up daily at Fuzzby's diner - the brilliant setting for this innovative series from debut author and illustrator, David O'Connell.Somewhere in suburbia, or maybe smack-bang in the middle of your city, there is a very special diner. What's so special about it? Well it does the best chips Anywhere but also its customers are a little bit 'unusual'...…
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Julie Holland Moody Bitches ENOverworked? Exhausted? Powering between career, family and friends and frazzled and libido-less as a result? No wonder you're moody! But as New York psychiatrist Julie Holland explains in her radical and eye-opening new book, the first step to overcoming the lows is to accept that being testy is in our nature - we were made to be Moody Bitches. Being a successful modern woman is hard, and for so many of us the…
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J. Meade Falkner Moonfleet ENFirst published in 1898, Moonfleet is a riveting adventure story full of drama, mystery, revenge, pursuit, smuggling, pirates and romance, with a place in the literary canon alongside Treasure Island and Kidnapped. The tiny village of Moonfleet nestles on the English coast, and every one of its inhabitants lives off the sea in one way or another. When local young man John Trenchard accidentally stumbles upon…
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Hugh Matheson, Christopher Dodd More PowerArguably the greatest coach in British sporting history. Jurgen Grobler’s Olympic coaching career is one of legend, yet the man himself has remained resolutely out of the spotlight. Over the last twenty years he has masterminded British Rowing’s ...
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway ENHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf's characters in Mrs Dalloway. Centred around one day in June where…
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Agatha Christie Mrs McGinty's Dead ENAn old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage... 'Mrs McGinty's dead!' 'How did she die?' 'Down on one knee, just like I!' The old children's game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen. Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas -…
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William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing ENThou and I are too wise to woo peaceably. One of Shakespeare’s most witty and enjoyable comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a play that explores courtship, romance and marriage through a number of relationships. Most famously, that of the irrepressible Beatrice and Benedick as they trade their wits against one another, criticising the notion of marriage, yet slowly falling in love with one another as they do so.
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Eloisa James Much Ado About YouA racy Regency romance from the New York Times bestselling author, Eloisa James. Never marry for love, it's the worst reason of all... Finding herself under the unlikely guardianship of the kind but shambolic Duke of Holbrook,..
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Philip MacDonald Murder Gone Mad ENThe first Golden Age detective novel to feature a serial killer with no rational motive - and surely impossible for Scotland Yard to solve? A long knife with a brilliant but perverted brain directing it is terrorising Holmdale – innocent people are being done to death under the very eyes of the law. After every murder a business-like letter arrives announcing that another ‘removal has been carried out', and…
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Agatha Christie Murder in Mesopotamia ENIt was clear to Amy that something sinister was going on at the Hassaneih dig; something associated with the presence of Lovely Louise, wife of archaeologist, Dr Leidner. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, Poirot might just be too late.
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Agatha Christie Murder in the Mews ENInspector Japp remarked to Hercule Poirot as they walked home from a dinner on Guy Fawkes Night. 'Nobody would hear a shot, for instance, on a night like this.' And indeed the next morning the two men are called to 14 Bardsley Gardens Mews to investigate a mysterious case of murder disguised as suicide.
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Agatha Christie Murder Is Easy ENA new 'signature edition' of Agatha Christie's thriller, featuring the return of Superintendent Battle. Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood — or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was…
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Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express ENNeed it be said — the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end. Times Literary Supplement A brilliantly ingenious story. Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald Ingenuity at its height ! the idea is utterly novel, the setting a model of realism, and the characters a versatile, attractive crew. Woman's…