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It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent... In the Welsh seaside town of Llareggub, night is moving in the streets. Its inhabitants are lost in the land of dreams: old Captain Cat catches up with his drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards the draper is consumed by mad love for Miss Price the dressmaker, and Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard whips the ghosts of her two late husbands into shape. As the sun rises, the 'dismays and rainbows' of each character are played out within the cycle of one day, intertwining voices and lives, dreams and reality. By turns tender, hilarious and beautifully lyrical, Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices' is his most beloved work and a landmark of Welsh literature.

A MUST-READ RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK The ultimate, compulsively twisty psychological thriller you won't be able to put down - perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Anthony Horowitz and The Traitors. The rules of the game are simple: find the killer before they find you. The Host After years hiding in the shadows, legendary crime author J. R. Alastor has sent out six invitations to an exclusive murder mystery retreat on his private island. The Players The six bestselling thriller writers accept their invitations without question - it's an opportunity any author would kill for. The Game Things take a sinister turn when one guest is found dead, and the others find themselves in the midst of a nightmare drawn from Alastor's dark imagination. They may have written thrillers - but now they must survive one...

A DELICIOUSLY SCANDALOUS STORY OF LOVE, LUST AND LUXURY IN THE WORLD'S MOST EXCLUSIVE SKI RESORT Lose yourself in a world of glittering secrets, dangerous desire and Alpine decadence. Welcome to Kristalldorf…where the world's richest residents hold the sexiest secrets. Emmeline Everly is Kristalldorf's latest resident. She might be living in the world's most exclusive ski resort. But she's firmly downstairs. Where Emme sees all the dirty laundry behind the glossy exterior. Emme vows not to get involved, that is until Tristan du Kok. When Kristalldorf's notorious bachelor turns his eye on her she's heading down a slippery slope. Should Emme say yes to steaming up a gondola and bare herself to the man everyone says not to touch with a ski poll? Or will the ride be just too wild... Perfect for fans of RIVALS, BRIDGET JONES and Danielle Steel, Victoria Prince is an exciting new voice in romance!

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT THE ONE YOU LOVE? Cleo is a college student: rebellious and provocative, with no interest in playing by the rules. Kat is her mother and her opposite: a happily married corporate lawyer - the essence of perfection. But when Cleo arrives home to find dinner burning, a bloody shoe under the sofa and no sign of Kat, it becomes clear that the one thing both mother and daughter have in common is keeping secrets. Who is Kat really? And if her lies were meant to protect them, how dangerous is the truth?

This revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean. Our odyssey begins in the little-known Sufi lodges in Cyprus, where Muslims arrived in 647AD. From there, we travel through the continent – visiting places such as Sicily, Malta, Portugal and Spain – encountering red-haired European Sultans and Arabic-speaking Christian Kings. We meet forgotten Muslim pioneers, such as Abbas Ibn Firnas who gave us flight and Ibn Sina who gave us modern medicine. We see the Islam-inspired mudejar art of fourteenth-century Christians in Spain, and how such cross fertilisation birthed Europe’s ‘Renaissance’. We discover the long-forgotten tombs of European Muslims who knew the Prophet Muhammad, and the author – award-winning writer Tharik Hussain – becomes the first Muslim in over 900 years to pray inside the remains of a nameless Sicilian Mosque. To remedy Europe’s Islamic amnesia, this ambitious history reveals that Islam is no side show to Western culture – but rather has been integral to its development over 1,400 years.

The second book in the Sunday Times bestselling celestial Heavenly Bodies series from TikTok romantasy phenomenon Imani Erriu Never make a bargain with a god. Elara is vengeful. Enzo is trapped between the realms of life and death and her enemy has vanished, taking her love’s only connection to the waking world with him. But there is a darker force at play, one that even Ariete, King of the Stars, is afraid of. On the run with enemies at every turn, Elara must enlist friends, old and new, and learn to control her almighty powers if she has any hope of saving her soulmate. Whatever happens, there is one thing she is certain of... STARS WILL FALL.

A FIENDISHLY FUNNY, FESTIVE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR My name is Ernest Cunningham. I’m not a detective. I just happen to have a knack for what makes mysteries tick. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong. So here I am, backstage at the Christmas show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. From the magician’s assistant to the hypnotist, my suspects are all professional tricksters. Masters in the art of misdirection. Solving the murder is the only gift I want this year. But can I catch a killer, and make it home for Christmas alive?

A HAIR-larious rhyming celebration of the iconic hairstyle. Let's spend a while on Mullet Isle! Everyone there has SPECIAL hair! From the illustrator of the multi-million-copy bestselling You Choose series, and creator of the bestselling Shark in the Park series, Mullets is brought to life in Nick Sharratt's vibrant illustration style. With its bold characters and surprise twist at the end, this brilliantly fun picture book is sure to delight readers of any age, from 0-100+!

He’s the Man of the Year. But is he really a monster? When Natalie saw her best friend, Cara, leaving a nightclub with a handsome stranger, she never expected that the next time she saw her would be lying unconscious in a hospital bed. What happened that night? Only Cara knows – and until she recovers from her coma, she won’t be able to tell her side of the story. Natalie is desperate for answers, so she can’t believe her luck when she comes across a photo of the stranger her friend left with. Except he’s on the cover of a magazine, being heralded as ‘Man of the Year’. Geoffrey Rosenberg appears untouchable. He’s a millionaire. He’s famous. But Natalie suspects he’s dangerous. To prove it, she takes up a job as the housekeeper at Geoffrey’s mansion. Her plan is simple. Get close to him, gather the evidence, and make him pay.

Before the Rebellion, the Empire reigns, in book one of a trilogy told through the eyes of Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Saw Gerrera - for fans of Andor. "In order to ensure the security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire! For a safe and secure society!" With one speech, and thunderous applause, Chancellor Palpatine brought the era of the Republic crashing down. In its place rose the Galactic Empire. Across the galaxy, people rejoiced and celebrated the end to war-and the promises of tomorrow. But that tomorrow was a lie. Instead the galaxy became twisted by the cruelty and fear of the Emperor's rule. During that terrifying first year of tyranny, Mon Mothma, Saw Gerrera, and Bail Organa face the encroaching darkness. One day, they will be three architects of the Rebel Alliance. But first, each must find purpose and direction in a changing galaxy, while harboring their own secrets, fears, and hopes for a future that may never come, unless they act.

A raucous, behind-the-scenes account of the year Blur got back together 'There is nothing that can touch the sound made by a close-knit group of people who have been playing together for years and years and years, playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years, all our lives did, and actually, I'd suddenly realised, they did still.' One winter's night, Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was, he and his bandmates hadn't spoken to - or even shouted at - each other for years. And he now had five children, an out-of-control menagerie of cats, and a sprawling farm to run. This is the story of what happened next. Taking us behind the scenes of a raucous, rollercoaster year, Alex describes how the band made a surprise - and emotional - return, recording an acclaimed album and playing sold-out shows around the world, from Colchester to Colombia and beyond. Plus: how he went on a crash diet to fit back into his 'Britpop Trousers,' somehow organised an entire festival of his own, and tried to perfect the recipe for a giant Frazzle. Over the Rainbow is a heartfelt and hilarious account of what it feels like to be catapulted back into the limelight with one of the world's biggest bands. It is a love letter to Blur, to friendship and to music. And it shows us all that, however old - or hungover - we might feel, nothing's ever truly over: it's always just the start of the next thing.

A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian -- while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

When twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa loses her grandmother, enigmatic proprietor of the Hwawoldang, she decides to respect her wishes by keeping the store going for at least a month, between the hours of 10pm and midnight. She has never learnt to make the traditional desserts herself, and hopes to learn more about her grandmother. On her very first day at work, she is soon interrupted by one of her grandmother’s most regular visitors, who hints that Hwawoldang is no ordinary pastry shop, and its customers not entirely alive… With each new customer at the store, Yeon-hwa is taken into their memories – but will this bring her the closure she craves, and continue her grandmother’s legacy of aiding those left in the land of the living?

A powerful new anthology that redefines our understanding of existentialism and argues for its contemporary relevance. 'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café 'Existentialist thought [...] is an effort to reconcile the objective and the subjective, the absolute and the relative, the timeless and the historical.' Simone de Beauvoir In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectuals gathered to discuss urgent questions of existence, commitment, racism, colonialism, and feminism. Their ideas would continue to shape those debates throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. his major new anthology gathers the key texts of existentialism, and their major intellectual influences, along with other works previously neglected in overviews and anthologies of the movement. Incorporating the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon, alongside selections from Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Martin Heidegger, it significantly expands and redefines our understanding of what existentialism means, and why it matters. Edited with an Introduction by Jonathan Webber

The sixth book in a dark mafia romance series from New York Times and international bestselling author, RuNyx. Dark, dangerous, delicious. The sixth book in a dark mafia romance series from New York Times and international bestselling author, RuNyx. It ends where it begins. . . Years ago, four dangerous men and a mysterious negotiator gathered in the shadows to broker a deal that would shape the future of the Tenebrae Outfit forever. Now, the criminal world they created is far darker – far more dangerous – than anyone could have ever imagined. To survive, four couples – tied to one another in ways none of them understand – must work together to uncover the mob’s deadliest secrets and break free from the darkness that made them. If they succeed? A new generation is born. The Dark Verse: The Predator - She'll never escape him. The Reaper - He'll follow her to the ends of the world. The Emperor - She was always his destiny. The Finisher - His love could destroy her. The Annihilator - He'll burn the world for her. The Syndicator - It ends where it begins.

If you loved Problematic Summer Romance and Wild Card, you'll LOVE Daddy Issues - this sweet and spicy age-gap single dad romance is bound to be your next obsession! Sam doesn't take much interest in Nick, a surprisingly cute single dad, when he first moves in next door. After all, she's 26, working a dead-end waitressing job, navigating a situationship that's both toxic and intoxicating, and living in her mom's condo. She's too preoccupied with figuring out her life to seriously commit to anyone, let alone an ultra-dependable guy pushing forty. With just one thin wall separating their bedrooms, Sam finds that she can't stay away from Nick. Maybe it's how endearingly nerdy he is, his love of Star Trek the perfect complement to Sam's comic book obsession. Or maybe it's how practical he is, fixing shelves and leaking faucets with those distractingly large hands… But as Sam starts falling for Nick, she can't ignore how different their lives are. His world is stable, settled, and his daughter is right at the centre of it, while Sam still feels like everything is up in the air. She's so busy dealing with her quarter-life crisis - is she really ready to throw daddy issues into the mix, too?