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At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, A Big Storm Knocked It Over stands as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction''s most original and beloved voices.In her late thirties, book designer Jane Louise Parker has just married a man whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune. After the wedding, she returns to work at a small publishing house whose finances are in disarray. But Jane Louise still has difficulty thinking of herself as a grown-up. Alongside her best friend, Edie, Jane Louise patiently waits to become pregnant, wondering if a baby will provide a sense of rootedness that still seems to elude her. And when that longed-for child arrives, it transforms the Parkers'' lives in a way that is as unexpected as it is rapturous.A novel about trying to find a place in the world from the ultimate chronicler of the human heart, A Big Storm Knocked it Over offers a comic love story for overthinkers.A W&N Essential

A brand new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS****Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before.It will not be her last.Her first murder case is a young woman - sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an eight-hundred year old book: Dante''s Divine Comedy.So begins an investigation that will haunt her for the rest of her life, and lead Rachel on a descent into obsession that upends everything she thought she knew about justice.As the killings unfold over the decades, Rachel''s obsession will drive her from small-town America through the streets of NYC, to a revelation that will cost her everything.Because every case she thought she solved was a lie.And the truth is more dangerous than she could have imagined.****PRAISE FOR R.J. ELLORY''Beautiful and haunting... A tour de force'' MICHAEL CONNELLY''Beautifully written novels that are also great mysteries'' JAMES PATTERSON''A uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer'' ALAN FURST''In the top flight of crime writing'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH''The master of the genre'' CLIVE CUSSLER

The long-awaited memoir from England, Chelsea and West Ham legend, Joe Cole ''I want to tell you about how football - English football - felt different for me. For much of my life it felt like I was in the wrong place, trying to play a different tune.''One of the best players of his era, Joe Cole was the teenage prodigy in a West Ham team that challenged at the top of the Premier League and also had a scrap at the bottom. He was a star in Roman Abramovich''s Chelsea that changed football forever as well as England''s so-called Golden Generation.He grew up playing football in the parks and cages of North London''s estates, and Joe''s ability, grit and hard work, took him to the very top. But Joe was often mistrusted by managers and out of step with the style of English football in the 2000s. The game was still suspicious of creative footballers it considered luxury players - the kind it could regard as an indulgence. With honesty and an eye for the absurdities of football, Joe takes us inside the dressing room to reveal it all. From his days at the prestigious Lilleshall School of Excellence and rising through the ranks at West Ham, to signing for Chelsea and winning it all under José Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti, before being discarded by his boyhood club after a remarkable 7-year spell.He offers an insider account of a fascinating era in modern football, playing alongside the likes of Lampard and Drogba, Beckham and Rooney, Gerrard and Di Canio. He talks about his experiences playing for England, his extraordinary goal against Sweden at the 2006 World Cup, and the reality of being managed by Sven-Göran Eriksson and Fabio Capello.It was a remarkable career. Then came the tumultuous end, as Joe battled severe injuries and his family suffered loss. He takes us on the journey of a great player coming to terms with his waning powers as his body began to fail him and football moved on. Football had given him everything. But then, it was over. Beyond football, Joe writes movingly of his family, his father''s brushes with the law, and how an inner-city working class family adjusted to the fame of their son.Candid, raw and unforgettable, this is Joe Cole in his own words for the very first time, a must-read for any football fan.

A frozen island.A monastery turned political prison.A cipher inked in blood.When anarchist poet Katya Efremova is transferred to the prison colony on Solovetsky Island, she finds an enigma among her returned possessions - a blood-stained book containing a cipher left by her murdered mother, written on the day she died.Following her mother''s clues, Katya begins to unravel a centuries-old mystery woven into the history of Solovetsky Island. Finding the island''s legendary power might be the key to overthrowing the Bolshevik regime, but Katya wasn''t sent to Solovetsky by chance. The head of the government''s spy network is watching, and there will be no hope of a free Russia if he takes hold of the magic hidden beneath the White Sea snow.

TWO CHOSEN ONES WITH ONE CHOICE: THE WORLD OR EACH OTHERA Fate So Cold is the first of a new blockbuster duology from the New York Times bestselling authors of All of Us Villains, Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman.For most of the year, Summer reigns peacefully over Alderland. Then, for six brutal weeks, Winter rages, obliterating towns and wreaking casualties. Magicians bond with powerful wands of Summer to defend the nation, a duty that costs many their lives.Domenic Barrow never wanted such responsibility-but destiny hasn''t granted him a choice. The greatest Summer wand has awakened for the first time in a century, warning that an icy cataclysm looms on the horizon. And despite his reputation as the least suited of his classmates, the wand Chooses Domenic to wield it.Ellery Caldwell spent years striving to be a perfect Summer magician-and burying her fears of her own power. But her worst suspicions are proven true when she accidentally creates the first ever Winter wand.Now, as the unprecedented Chosen Two, Domenic and Ellery must thwart the oncoming cataclysm together. And in trying to fulfill their destinies, they wonder if they were brought together for a second fate: to fall in love.Until they discover the unthinkable truth. The Chosen Two aren''t fated allies, but eternal rivals, and the only way to save their home is for one of them to slay the other.This is no love story. It''s a tragedy.

Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel'' Martina ColeLisa lives too close for comfort to Westy Lane. Too many women have been murdered on that road, each left with a tiny blue flower on their bodies. She can''t help but wonder if her mother might be next. After all, people don''t care if women like her mother go missing. There''s no one to protect them.And then everything changes...One night, Benny arrives in Lisa''s life. He''s tall, dark, and the most gorgeous man she''s ever seen. But he is not all as he seems. While Lisa savours true love, Benny wants more from her than she will ever know...

Within these fourteen hilarious and insightful tales of urban life, you''ll meet:Raiford Phelps, an ornithologist who discovers new patterns of animal behavior when he meets Mary Leibnitz.Benno Morna, a temporary bachelor, free to indulge in TV, junk food, and Greenie Frenzel when his wholesome wife is out of town.Vincent Cadworthy and Guido Morris, whose elegant friendship is suddenly disrupted by Misty Berkowitz.Elizabeth Bayard, whose passion for order and civility does constant battle with her unruly loves.They are buffeted by the pressures of their jobs, imposed upon by their families and their surroundings, and remain ever hopeful of making sense of their lives. With compassion and biting wit, Laurie Colwin has created a new sort of comedy of manners.A W&N Essential

''Seven beneficiaries. Seven people who stood to gain a huge amount of money, for a reason none of them yet understood.''Seven strangers receive a mysterious note informing them of their impending inheritance of billionaire Logan Quick''s fortune. They each receive a token and soon embark on a doomed cruise where they will have to conquer their own demons, and each other, for a chance at the money.But someone on this boat has something to hide. Can the survivors work out the truth...or are they too doomed to drown?

When Sam Bax, that charming daredevil of a Boston lawyer, sails his boat into a storm off the coast of Maine, Elizabeth ''Olly'' Bax, his wife and ardent sidekick, becomes a widow at the edge of twenty-seven. With no pretense of ''courage'', Olly grieves, coping with the warmth and awkwardness of family ties and trying to rethink her own life. Realizing that her risks are as daring as any of Sam''s - while he chanced life and limb, Olly risks her heart - she finds that love can take some surprising turns.Laurie Colwin depicts Olly''s recovery with humour, compassion, and a decided lack of sentimentally, creating a real heroine who remains true to her heart and still manages to keep her head.A W&N Essential

Connect with the power of the past and embark on a timeless journey of self-discovery and community.Modern witch Frankie Castanea, the author of Spells for Change, shows you how to explore your ancestral practices and traditions in an authentic, socially conscious way. Through exploring reconnection with communities and cultures, uncovering oral traditions and working with plant and spirit allies, Frankie demonstrates how your own practice can be enhanced by understanding and respecting the history it comes from.In this inclusive guide, Frankie helps you to discover the abundant energy that flows from tapping into the magic of folklore and tradition, and to build a deeper relationship with your own craft, ultimately becoming a better ancestor to future generations.

''A skilful and lasting achievement, with all the elements of a perfect Christmas tale'' THE TIMESHidden in the corner of a dusty old bookshop, Joachim discovers a handmade advent calendar and begs his father to let him take it home. The next morning, when he opens the calendar''s first door, out falls a tightly folded piece of paper: the first instalment of a magical story about a young girl named Elisabet. Little by little these pieces tell the girl''s story, and as we learn what happened to her, another story is revealed - that of the strange old man who made the calendar.From beloved Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder, this enchanting Christmas classic weaves together magic and miracles.

'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES'ONE OF THE GREAT THRILLER WRITERS OF OUR AGE' DAILY EXPRESS'THE KING OF EUROPEAN NOIR' LA REPUBBLICA, ITALY'IT'S NO WONDER THAT GUILLAUME MUSSO IS ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST LOVED, BESTSELLING AUTHORS' HARLAN COBENEVEN ANGELS HAVE THEIR DEMONS . . . PARIS, CHRISTMAS. Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl reveals herself to be a volunteer who has come to play the cello for patients. When she finds out Mathias is a cop, she asks him to take charge of a very special case. Mathias agrees to help her, sending them both headfirst into a deadly chain of events. And at the centre of it all, a woman named Angelique, whose intentions may not be all they seem . . . Feverous, surprising and uplifting, Musso's newest novel is a labyrinth of emotions where nothing is certain from one page to the next.

China''s rise and Russian aggression have upended the global balance of power. The US has proven an unstable partner. Illiberalism is gaining ground. It''s time to admit that Europe is once again central to Britain''s future. The Continent houses our allies and friends. We still trade more with the EU than with anyone else. Like a court order in a divorce, the Brexit deal contains our bare legal obligations. Yet as dangerous forces gather and global technologies stoke animosity, we have a wider duty. If Britain and Europe can''t work together, what chance do democracy and the rule of law have? Labour aims for a ''reset''. Barrister and mediator Marina Wheeler proposes something more radical: a roadmap towards a meaningful rapprochement. In A More Perfect Union, she tackles the political anxieties and identity crises on both sides of the Channel, and makes the case that transforming this relationship is now critical if our fundamental political liberties are to survive another generation. Concise, forensic, devastating, it is essential reading no matter which side you were on.The bitterness of the past decade is receding. It''s time to build a union that honours the 40 years we were together.

A superb new noir/science fiction fusion from the ''mastersinger of space opera'' (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe, strap in for a gripping murder mystery.Yuri Gagarin is a private investigator, who picks up small cases from his local community, runs into trouble with the local police, and generally ekes out a living as best he can. He''s aboard the Halcyon - a starship, hurtling through space, carrying thousands of passengers with thousands more sleeping the journey away.Only his usual investigative work - catching cheating spouses, and small time con artists - is about to take a turn. He''s hired by a mysterious woman called Ruby Red to look into a death in one of Halcyon''s most elite families . . . and then warned off the case again by a second mysterious woman called Ruby Blue. Caught between the two, he''s about to be embroiled in a murder mystery in which - at any moment - he could be the latest victim.Gripping, fast-paced fun this is a classic noir mystery with a science fiction twist, which will keep you guessing, and on the edge of your seat, to the end.A fresh new masterpiece, from the master of science fiction.

''I look. I can''t stop looking. That''s the deal, isn''t it? We all know that''s how it works. If someone wants to be seen - and oh, how they want to be seen - then someone has to watch.''Ruth is alone, unnoticed and at a loss: her marriage has ended, her daughter is leaving home and her job is leading nowhere.But luckily Sookie is back in her life - vivid, self-assured Sookie, who never spared the time for Ruth when they were teenagers, but who now seems to want to be friends. What could possibly go wrong? As Ruth is caught up in Sookie''s life, she sees that everything is not as simple and Instagrammable as Sookie would have you believe. But what has that got to do with Ruth, and what can she do about it?Unputdownable, funny, spiky and subtle, Other People''s Fun is a novel about modern life and the lies we tell our neighbours, friends, families and selves through the hall of mirrors that is social media. Filled with Harriet Lane''s trademark creeping unease and forensic observation, this marks the long-awaited return of the mistress of literary suspense.

FROM BOOKTOK SENSATION AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR CATHARINA MAURA COMES A DARK ROMANTASY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST RETELLING...****A CURSED EMPERORPrincess Arabella of Althea is left no choice when Felix Osiris, the fearsome Shadow Emperor known for his deadly powers and his thirst for conquest, threatens to overthrow her home unless she agrees to marry him.A PRINCESS WITH FORBIDDEN MAGIC When she learns that he and his empire are plagued by ice and a monstrous darkness and she''s been prophesized to set them free, they come to an agreement: help him minimize the curse''s effect on his people, and he''ll let her go.A MARRIAGE THAT COULD SAVE THEM ALL...As Felix teaches Arabella how to control her forbidden and volatile magic, her feelings for him turn from hatred to passion... and she realizes that she must break the curse or she''ll forever lose him and everyone they love to the ice and shadows.****READERS LOVE A CURSE OF SHADOWS AND ICE ''I totally loved this book... I couldn''t put the book down it''s so well written. Loved it!''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Beautiful, heartfelt, dark and dangerous at times, these two (Arabella and Felix) had a fiery passion and electric chemistry''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Best book I have read in a while, totally engrossing''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐