Nelson
Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic
figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to
record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his
entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight
into his remarkable life. A singular international publishing event,
Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela's personal archive of
never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the private world
of an incomparable world leader.
The old mansion where Antonio lives holds secrets, but it's no school
for wizards; and the mysterious presence in one of the apartments is not
an ogre, but a quiet old man, who is seldom seen or heard. Antonio's
imagination stirs when he learns that the recluse was a famous stage
actor, and he feels compelled to win the old man's attention and
approval.
It
is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer
at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes
it to the end of the year.The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on
the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole
connection to the rest of civilisation.
Major new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide
detective Carson Ryder, hero of the bestsellers The Hundredth Man and
The Death Collectors. It looked like an abattoir when they found the
mutilated body of the young journalist inside her car. And if Carson
Ryder and his partner had known what they were getting into, they would
never have taken the case. Too late, what looks like the work of a lone
madman spreads tentacles that wrap themselves round all sorts of strange
areas.
When Billy Pickles' dad leaves home to live in New York, he gives Billy a
moneybox. Billy's not sure where to put in the money, and not sure why
his dad has left. Then Billy goes to New York to visit his father and
his Italian grandmother, and discovers the secret of his magic moneybox
at last.
A murder in the silent
after-hours halls of the Louvre reveals a sinister plot to uncover a
secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days
of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society
who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at
the scene that only his daughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and
Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle.
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has only a few close friends, which
isn't surprising - not many people can appreciate Sookie's abilities as a
mind reader. When she sees her brother Jason's eyes start to change,
Sookie knows he's about to turn into a werepanther for the first time.
But her concern for her brother becomes cold fear when a sniper targets
the local changeling population - and Jason's new panther brethren
suspect he may be the shooter.
After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but
deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she's angry. Just
about the only bright spot in her life is the love she thinks she feels
for vampire Eric Northman. But he's under scrutiny by the new Vampire
King because of their relationship. And as the political implications
of the Shifters coming out are beginning to be felt, Sookie's connection
to the Shreveport pack draws her into the debate.
Sookie doesn't have that many relations, so she hated to lose one - but
of all the people to go, she didn't expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a
consort of New Orleans' vampire queen - after all, Hadley was
technically already dead.
Kerry Shale could read the phone book with expression – so imagine what
he does when let loose of Jeffrey Deaver’s collection of short stories,
MORE TWISTED which includes a Lincoln Rhyme, Locard’s Principle,
previously
unpublished over here. Totally yummy twisted tales, covering almost every aspect of the downside of human nature'
Jeffery Deaver loves writing short stories. 'All bets are off,' he says.
'Short stories are like a sniper's bullet. Fast and shocking. I can
make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem
good.