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It''s two a.m. You think you''re alone. You think you''re safe. Think again. Neurosurgeon Noah Archer''s Enlightenment Project opens it doors to dark spirits once again, in the third spine-chilling installment of the critically acclaimed supernatural thriller series.Lola Strickler is three months pregnant, with a longed-for baby. She should feel happy. She should feel safe. But she''s keeping a secret from her husband.Something has started watching her. Something malevolent. He-it-stands in the street each night, and stares up at her bedroom window. And Lola might not know it yet, but he''s already found his way in.Neurosurgeon Noah Archer''s work with exorcist priest Father Perry has taught him to believe in the darkness. When Lola calls him for help, he knows she''s not going mad-she''s being haunted. But it''s not just Lola keeping secrets. There are dangerous things her family has been keeping from her. Soon, Noah and his team are racing against time to defeat an unimaginable evil . . . and not everyone is going to come out of it alive.Fans of Stephen King, Riley Sager, CJ Tudor, Robin Cook , Alex North, The X-Files, and The Exorcist won''t want to miss this chilling series inspired by cutting-edge scientific and medical research, which blends supernatural suspense with horror.

Fans of Steven F. Havill''s Posadas County and Lisa Regan''s Josie Quinn series will enjoy this fascinating and complex story set in small-town Missouri. "Balances well-developed characters and dry humor with a solid police procedural" - Library Journal Starred Review of Dangerous ConsequencesWhen a hiker stumbles from the woods raving about a dead man, Sheriff Hank Worth launches a search. Near the infamous landmark of Murder Rocks - a Civil War-era hideout for ambushers who robbed and killed passing travelers - they unearth two bodies and a skeleton.Local legend says there''s caches of stolen gold buried in the area. And - thanks to some recent nationwide publicity - the Ozark backwoods are now swarming with out-of-town treasure hunters, who have little concern for Hank''s murder investigation. With the clock ticking, Hank must identify the victims . . . and the killer. But could the new pursuit of long-lost plunder really have led to multiple deaths?Meanwhile, secrets uncovered in Hank''s personal life are taking a toll. He and his wife are trying to bridge the painful gap that''s widening daily. As it threatens to split them apart, Hank doesn''t know what''s tougher, murder or marriage. With both taking everything he has, all he does know is that old sins throw long shadows . . .

A group of physicists achieve something remarkable - a communication link to aliens that possess a groundbreaking enigma with the potential to transform life on Earth.A team of scientists working on a secret NASA-funded project involving quantum theory bring in accountant Darren Costa to deal with some complex federal paperwork. But when the group reveal that they have accidentally established a communication link across space and time to four aliens, Darren suddenly finds himself becoming far more involved in their work than he expected.In the scientists'' glass cage, Darren connects to the aliens and their planet through a series of dream-like visions. Is it possible that an incomplete mathematical formula shared by the aliens is the key to unlocking secrets that could prevent Earth''s future extinction and ensure humanity''s survival? One thing''s for certain, with both humans and aliens facing enemies determined to stop them at any cost, solving the puzzle is now a matter of life and death . . .A race against time to solve an enigma that could alter the course of humanity''s existence with a thrilling alien twist, perfect for fans of Quantum Radio by A. G. Riddle and any epic science fiction from Adrian Tchaikovsky.

'Darcey writes with a raw, forensic transcendence' NICK CAVE'It's a blessing to live while Darcey is writing' MAGGIE NELSONIn This Is the Door, acclaimed author Darcey Steinke explores the agony and ecstasy of pain in its many forms. She takes readers through the archives and across oceans; she walks the tightrope between suffering and rapture, explores her own pain and that of a multitude of creatives characters from Frida Kahlo to Kurt Cobain. Her journey reveals a series of questions. Does pain educate? Is pain always a physical experience of negation? How does pain push us to another level of creativity? What can we learn from wounding, from winnowing, from the stillness, the de-creation that intense pain brings? Whether it is the physical pain of an injury or illness, or the mental pain of heartache or loneliness, pain is an experience shared by all of us. This Is the Door is a celebration of what the body can endure, and what it can achieve.

'Powerful' FINANCIAL TIMES'Thought-provoking' NEW SCIENTIST'Fascinating' DAILY MAILWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZEA FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARWhat makes us who we are? Through the stories of seven of his patients, acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us how our brains create, change and can even restore our identity. Husain introduces us to a man who ran out of words, a woman who lost all inhibitions and another who believed she was having an affair with the man who was really her husband. These compelling human dramas reveal how our identities are created by different functions within the brain. It will ignite new ideas about who we really are - and why we act in the ways we do.

'Heart-wrenching . . . A book to read in a sitting' LUCY CALDWELL'A gut-punch of a novel' EMMA DONOGHUE'Cathartic, bold and ultimately hopeful' JESSIE BURTON 'Masterfully written . . . Envelops you' JODIE MATTHEWS 'Powerful' CATHY RENTZENBRINKWhen her life is unexpectedly upended, Anna escapes London - and her husband - for a remote cottage in the wetlands of rural England. She hopes the solitude might unblock the novel she can't bring herself to write. Out in the marshes, the locals discover something shocking, risen to the surface after many years buried in the silty earth. Anna is drawn to the site, fascinated and shaken by what she finds there. And as researchers descend, her curiosity gives way to obsession . . . An unsettling, propulsive and fiercely tender novel about buried loss and renewal, Our Numbered Bones explores how we must unearth the past in order to make peace with what we've lost.

An explosive modern novel from the award-winning writer of The People's Act of Love Mr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown-up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police. He is to meet Raf, a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul's cathedral - and a man once intimately connected with the Burman family. Have the police laid a trap? Compelling and compassionate, this novel follows Mr Burman's journey towards the mystery of a radical act and into the true nature of his own family. It asks what a person leaves behind when they've gone, and how much of the past we can carry with us into the future.

'Suspenseful, vivid and impossible to put down' TOM HOLLAND'Laced with thrills' EVIE WYLD'Utterly gripping' ADAM RUTHERFORDOn the Greek island of Vidos the past lingers like salt in the air. The inhabitants - former members of MI6 - are sent here to be forgotten. Exiled. Either too damaged or too compromised to be allowed to live freely. For years, residents make the best of their fate - old enemies reconcile, long-lost friends swim together in the warm sea and estranged lovers share a bed once more. But secrets bind tightly. And when one of their own washes up dead, alliances fracture and a tide of suspicion begins to rise. A vivid reimagining of a real, hidden slice of the British Intelligence Service's history, A Stranger in Corfu is an exquisitely tense and masterfully spun novel about shadowy morality, unravelled secrets and the futility of trying to outrun the past.

An explosive modern novel from the award-winning writer of The People's Act of Love Mr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown-up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police. He is to meet Raf, a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul's cathedral - and a man once intimately connected with the Burman family. Have the police laid a trap? Compelling and compassionate, this novel follows Mr Burman's journey towards the mystery of a radical act and into the true nature of his own family. It asks what a person leaves behind when they've gone, and how much of the past we can carry with us into the future.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker' Omar El Akkad'Her most ambitious and dazzling book yet' Brian Eno'Perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times' Michael MorpurgoDear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer? Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excluded is growing. In the decade since she left her own home, Ece Temelkuran has been a political Cassandra, warning those convinced it couldn't happen in their country that fascism is coming. Now, as oppression spreads and temperatures rise - as we face competing crises and learn, again and again, that no institution is so concrete it can't turn to dust, and no home is too strong to be destroyed - she has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another. Politically attuned and deeply personal, this extraordinary, heartening correspondence is a gift to treasure in uncertain times. As poetic as it is precise, it is a book for anyone who feels alienated by an ever-more monstrous world. It shows how, as we all become strangers, our home will depend on the strength we find with one another.

What if our mental health struggles aren't signs that we're broken, but proof that we're responding normally to a world in crisi? ne in two of us will be diagnosed with a mental health condition by the age of 40. Rather than viewing this as individual failure, clinical professor and psychiatrist Joanna Cheek argues that our symptoms are often brilliant alarms - our defence systems working exactly as they should in response to threatening circumstances. It's Not You, It's the World is the essential guide for anyone feeling depressed, anxious, enraged or overwhelmed by adapting to a chaotic world. Drawing on extensive cross-cultural research, years of clinical experience, and her own journey as a patient, Dr Cheek demonstrates how self-improvement alone neglects the source of our suffering. To truly heal, we must address the imbalances in our wider systems that keep making us all sick. With a foreword by Gabor Maté, this survival guide offers practical mental health tools to care for both ourselves and our communities.

'Marvellous fun' THE TIMES'Glorious ' LUCY COOKE'Colourful' GUARDIANAt a time when people are testing the boundaries of just about everything related to sex and gender, The Sexual Evolution shows that diverse sexual behaviour is not a new development, or even a human one. It's the product of billions of years of experimentation throughout the animal kingdom. Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents takes readers on a journey from silent crickets to lesbian albatrosses to bonobos who kiss, revealing what this incredible array of sexual diversity can teach us. Amusing, enlightening and meticulously researched, this is a book that will demolish biases held by even the most open-minded among us.

A retired gentleman with a complicated past. A missing priceless treasure. A young woman in trouble. The first in the brand-new Redacted Man mystery series set in NYC introduces a Sherlock Holmes-worthy sleuth, and is a great choice for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Robert Galbraith, and Ann Cleeves.Michael A- lives a quiet, comfortable life since his retirement from the intelligence services. Practically a recluse, he spends his days imagining the lives of the anonymous people he watches in the park beneath the window of his elegant New York townhouse-number 221-his every need tended to by his housekeeper, Mrs. Baker.For weeks, a girl has sat in the park every morning at dawn. Always alone. Always watchful. And when the sun rises, she vanishes, as if she was never there.But one day her routine changes-and Michael realizes that she faces terrible danger. He makes an uncharacteristic decision to abandon his solitude and help her. Soon, Michael finds himself plunged into the New York underworld, and he''ll have to use all the tricks of his former trade if he''s to keep not just himself, but his new friend, alive.A Study in Secrets is the first in a new amateur sleuth mystery series from Jeffrey Siger, author of the critically acclaimed Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis Mysteries set in Greece.

It's hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for no-questions-asked cash is at an all-time high, and business is booming. When Rilke hears his old acquaintance Les is fresh out of prison, his inclination is to stay well out of his way. Letting sleeping dogs lie is one thing - but when one of Bowery's customers winds up dead on their tarmac, Rilke needs a bit of help from his friends to tidy things up. If only his friends didn't have such a habit of making things worse.

It's hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for no-questions-asked cash is at an all-time high, and business is booming. When Rilke hears his old acquaintance Les is fresh out of prison, his inclination is to stay well out of his way. Letting sleeping dogs lie is one thing - but when one of Bowery's customers winds up dead on their tarmac, Rilke needs a bit of help from his friends to tidy things up. If only his friends didn't have such a habit of making things worse.

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS DEBUT BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEHIGHLY COMMENDED BY THE SOPHIE COE PRIZE FOR FOOD WRITINGA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A true inspiration on every level' ANGELA HARTNETT OBE'As morally urgent as it is beautifully written' JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER'Vital and marvellous' JEREMY LEEWhen world-class chef Pam first opened Inver, her restaurant on the shores of Loch Fyne, she set out to discover what makes 'modern Scottish food' - or if it even existed. Between Two Waters traces Pam's journey to answer that question. From the soil to the kitchen, she interrogates the unconscious influences on what we eat and captures with real heart all that the dinner table has to offer us: sustenance, both physical and imaginative, challenges and adventure and, most importantly, communion with others. This is a blisteringly original work from one of the world's most innovative thinkers about food, sustainability and landscape.