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To those who think they know her, Eliza Curran has it all: two healthy children, a stunning home and a wealthy, adoring husband. No one would guess the reality of her life: trapped in an unhappy marriage to a controlling man, she longs for a way out • When she takes on a new tenant, her life changes unexpectedly. Dan Jones is charming and perceptive, and quickly becomes a close friend to the whole family • But Dan's arrival threatens to tip Eliza's fragile world out of balance. And when someone has as many secrets as Eliza does, the smallest slip could destroy everything

This story begins with a letter • From a housewife • to the gentle curator • Of an extraordinary museum • Where lies peacefully • An ancient exhibit • That holds the key • To Everything • We are • Meet Me at the Museum tells of a connection made across oceans and against all the odds. Through intimate stories of joy, despair, and discovery, two people are drawn inexorably towards the other, until a shattering revelation pushes their friendship to the very edge • This deeply affecting debut novel by seventy-three year-old Anne Youngson won the Paul Torday Memorial Prize and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall • If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career • A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell; whether or not he should is another matter • Once Maurice has made his name, he finds himself in need of a fresh idea. He doesn’t care where he finds it, as long as it helps him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous, but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse • This is a novel about ambition

Лекси очнулась в больнице после ужасающей аварии, уверенная, что сейчас 2004-й год, и она двадцатипятилетняя девушка с кривыми зубами и неудавшейся личной жизнью • Но, вопреки ее внутренним убеждениям, на самом деле сейчас 2007-й — и ей 28 лет, у нее весьма крепкие и здоровые зубы, и она босс собственного департамента — и она замужем! За обаятельным миллионером! Каким же волшебным образом ей удалось воплотить свою мечту в жизнь?! • Ей сложно поверить в свою фантастическую удачу — тем более, когда она видит свой шикарный новый дом. Она уверена, что ее ждет идеальный брак, как только она заново узнает своего мужа. Он составил для нее «руководство по браку», которое должно будет в этом помочь • Но по мере того, как она узнает больше о себе новой, в ее идеальной жизни начинают появляться пробелы

Эмоционально насыщенный, остроумный роман автора бестселлера номер один Софи Кинселлы о любви и выживании в длительных отношениях — и о том, как те, кого, как нам кажется, мы знаем лучше всех, порой нас больше всего удивляют… • Прожив вместе десять лет, Сильвия и Дэн обзавелись уютным домом, хорошей работой, красивыми девочками-близняшками и общаются так непринужденно, что заканчивают предложения друг за друга. У них счастливый брак, и они верят, что знают друг о друге все, что только можно знать. Пока в разговоре с ними случайно не упоминается, что они могли бы быть вместе еще шестьдесят восемь лет... и начинается паника • Они быстро решают преподносить друг другу маленькие сюрпризы, чтобы их отношения оставались свежими и веселыми. Но в процессе реализации проекта «Удиви меня» — от неожиданных подарков до свиданий в ресторане и фотосессий — возникают проблемы, которые приводят к катастрофическим и комичным последствиям

Двадцать лет назад Билл Брайсон отправился в путешествие по Британии, чтобы отдать дань уважения этому зеленому и приветливому остров, который стал его домом. Его путевые заметки были собраны в книгу Notes from a Small Island, которая быстро стала бестселлером; согласно результатам опроса BBC, читатели считают ее лучшей книгой о Британии. И вот спустя два десятилетия Билл Брайсон отправляется в новое путешествие, чтобы увидеть, как изменилась Британия • Следуя по маршруту, так называемой «Линии Брайсона», которая протянулась с юга на север острова через места, где многие люди вообще никогда не бывали, Брайсон вновь отправляется в путешествие по великолепной, эксцентричной и абсолютно уникальной стране, которая успела измениться до неузнаваемости

A fascinating and revelatory journey along the Danube to appeal to fans of Michael Palin's New Europe • The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames' journey along its length brings us face to face with the Continent's bloodiest history and its most pressing issues of race and identity • As he travels - by bicycle, horse, boat and on foot - Eames finds himself seeking a bed for the night with minor royalty, hitching a ride on a Serbian barge captained by a man called Attila and getting up close and personal with a bull in rural Romania. He meets would-be kings and walks with gypsies, and finally rows his way beyond the borders of Europe entirely

Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster • In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, and examining what her life and work has taught her • Do we expect a book about death to be sad? Macabre? Sue's book is neither. There is tragedy, but there is also humour in stories as gripping as the best crime novel • Part memoir, part science, part meditation on death, her book is compassionate, surprisingly funny, and it will make you think about death in a new light

To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in harsh environments. From death-row prisoners trading in institutions where money is banned to flourishing entrepreneurs in the world's largest refugee camp, from the unrealised potential of cities like Kinshasa to the hyper-modern economy of Estonia, every life in this book has been hit by a seismic shock, violently broken or changed in some way • In his quest for a purer view of how economies succeed and fail, Richard Davies takes the reader off the beaten path to places where part of the economy has been repressed, removed, destroyed or turbocharged. He tells the personal stories of humans living in these extreme situations, and of the financial infrastructure they create

Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city’s congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate and to have known him for over a thousand years • Other letters follow, taking Wang back in time: to a spirit-bride in the Tang Dynasty; to young slaves during the Mongol invasion; to concubines plotting to kill the emperor; to a kidnapping in the Opium War; and to Red Guards during the Cultural revolution • And with each letter, Wang feels the watcher in the shadows growing closer …

The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone • Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using, never mind enjoying, alone time • Rising to the challenge, travel writer Stephanie Rosenbloom explores the joys and benefits of being alone in four mouth-watering journeys to the cities of Paris, Istanbul, Florence and New York, in four seasons • This is a book about the pleasures and benefits of savouring the moment, examining things closely, using all your senses to take in your surroundings, whether travelling to faraway places or walking the streets of your own city. Through on-the-ground observations and anecdotes, and drawing on the thinking of artists, writers and innovators who have cherished solitude, Alone Time illuminates the psychological arguments for alone time and lays bare the magic of going solo

Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. Up until now, Guy and Merrion have enjoyed a blissfully, uncomplicated relationship in stolen moments in Merrion's flat, and to the rest of the world, Guy has played the part of model husband, father and grandfather • But now the time has come for things to change. Guy has become conscious of wasted years and he wants to share his relationship with Merrion with the world • He wants, dammit, to marry her. Yet he is quite unprepared for the storm that will follow