Can everyone’s favourite insurance mathematician, Henri, combine the increasingly dangerous world of adventure parks with the unpredictability of blended-family life? He’s about to find out in the final instalment of the hilarious, nail-biting Rabbit Factor Trilogy.
A master criminal and a master detective are locked in battle. Who will win?
They call her the 'Dark Angel'. Queen of Tokyo's underworld, Mme Midorikawa is famed for her beauty, her jewels and the tattoo of a black lizard on her arm. Crime is so easy for her that she warns her victims in advance. When a wealthy jewel merchant receives letters saying his precious daughter Sanae is about to be kidnapped, he entrusts the renowned detective Akechi Kogoro to protect her. But he may have met his deadliest adversary yet…
The groundbreaking new crime novel by multi-award-nominated author Thomas Mullen, for fans of The Last by Hanna Jameson, The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, The Last Policeman by Ben Winters and Minority Report
A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous.
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes an utterly beautiful and charming novel full of mystery and secrets waiting to be uncovered…
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal.
Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill...or be killed.
As the cold case turns white hot, Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), while Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim chase down clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?
A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth.
The Pole-Star's voyage comes to a halt after becoming trapped in the arctic ice, threatening the lives of its crew. Superstition soon takes hold as the frightened men claim to hear ghosts in the darkness, but it's the captain's increasingly strange behaviour that concerns the doctor most.
â€~The Queen of Christmas feelgood novels’ The Independent Dive into the gorgeous new Christmas novel from Sunday Times bestseller, Sue Moorcroft – the perfect companion for a cold winter’s night! * * *
This is a ground-breaking new interpretation of the collapse of Nationalist China, an event which fundamentally changed the course of twentieth-century history. Using newly available archival sources, Parks Coble reveals why, despite the financial backing of the US, Chiang Kai-shek's government lost the civil war against the communists in 1949.