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Effie's world comes to life with a magical GLOW-IN-THE-DARK cover'Some people think opening a book is a simple thing. It's not.Most people don't realise that you can get truly lost in a book. You can.Especially you.'AFTER THE WORLDQUAKE, MAGIC IS SEEPING INTO OUR WORLD Effie Truelove is a new pupil at the Tusitala School for the Gifted, Troubled and Strange, with its twisted grey spires and an English teacher so frightening she gives the class nightmares.When her beloved grandfather is brutally attacked, Effie promises to look after his magical books. But then shady book-collector Leonard Levar gets his hands on them and Effie has to embark on the most dangerous adventure of her life . . .Effie must travel to the mysterious Otherworld, unlock the hidden meaning of an old book called Dragon's Green, and brave the terrifying Diberi, a secret organisation with plans that could destroy the entire universe.But Effie can't face the Diberi alone. Can her new school-friends Maximilian, Wolf, Lexy and Raven combine their gifts and discover their true powers in time?

IF YOU HAD SECRET MAGICAL POWERS, HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?After the Worldquake, Effie knows about magic - time in her grandfather's library has made sure of that. But there's still much she has to learn. About the Otherworld. And about the Diberi, a secret organisation with plans to destroy the entire universe.Effie and her school-friends are the only ones who can stop them . . . and time is running out.

When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of "The End of Mr Y" in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorious, and rarest, book. It is also believed to hold a curse. Anyone who's ever read it, including Lumas, has disappeared without trace.With "Mr Y" under her arm, Ariel is thrust into an adventure of faith, physics, love, death, and everything in between.Part gothic mystery, part time-travelling love story, "The End of Mr Y" lies somewhere between "Shadow of the Wind" and "Dr Who". Scarlett Thomas sends us on a wild and irresistible quest into our deepest selves and our biggest questions.

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN EVENING STANDARD and METRO When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. While she spends her time with the other girls at the lake and the stables, a hand-picked few are invited to join the Headmaster at his house for extra lessons. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and quickly the routines of her dorm-mates seem darker and more alien than ever before. Oligarchy is the fierce new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y.

Alice Butlerová dostáva záhadné správy – všetky anonymné, zašifrované. Sú od niekoho z PopCo, ziskuchtivej spoločnosti, v ktorej pracuje? Alebo od Alicinho otca, ktorý pred mnohými rokmi zmizol? Sleduje ju niekto iný? Vyriešiť túto záhadu jej pomôže mimoriadna zručnosť v dešifrovaní kódov, ktorú získala od starých rodičov, a kľúč, čo nosí okolo krku od svojich desiatich rokov. PopCo je napínavý román pre dospelých o rodinných tajomstvách, hádankách a sile čísel.

Alice Butlerová dostáva záhadné správy – všetky anonymné, zašifrované. Sú od niekoho z PopCo, ziskuchtivej spoločnosti, v ktorej pracuje? Alebo od Alicinho otca, ktorý pred mnohými rokmi zmizol? Sleduje ju niekto iný? Vyriešiť túto záhadu jej pomôže mimoriadna zručnosť v dešifrovaní kódov, ktorú získala od starých rodičov, a kľúč, čo nosí okolo krku od svojich desiatich rokov. PopCo je napínavý román pre dospelých o rodinných tajomstvách, hádankách a sile čísel.