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Four strangers are missing. Left at their last-known locations are birthday cards that read • Your gift is the game • Dare to play? • The police aren't worried - it's just a game. But the families are frantic. As psychologist and private detective Dr Augusta Bloom delves into the lives of the missing people, she finds something that binds them all • And that something makes them very dangerous indeed • As more disappearances are reported and new birthday cards uncovered, Dr Bloom races to unravel the mystery and find the missing people • But what if, this time, they are the ones she should fear?

At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes, refused to make connections between her weight and health issues and told herself that she was fat and happy. She was certainly fat. But the happy part was an Oscar-worthy performance. In private she lived with a growing sense of fear and misery that her weight would probably kill her before she made it to seventy • Interwoven with the science, social history and psychology of weight management, Fat Cow, Fat Chance is a refreshingly honest account of what it's like to be fat when society dictates that skinny is the norm. It asks why we overeat and why, when the weight is finally lost through dieting, do we simply pile the pounds back on again? How do we help young people become comfortable with the way they look? What are the consequences of the obesity epidemic for an already overstretched NHS? And, whilst fat shaming is so often called out, why is it that shouting 'fat cow' at a woman in the street hasn't been included in the list of hate crimes? • Fusing politics, science and personal pain, this is a powerful exploration of our battle with obesity

Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives • Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak • Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover • And Ada, who has never received an official letter about her son's death, and is still waiting for him to come home • As the mystery that binds them begins to unravel, far away, in the fields of France, the Unknown Soldier embarks on his journey home. The mood of the nation is turning towards the future - but can these three women ever let go of the past?

This was how I heard the most important story of my life, the thing that decided me, the story that determined who I was in the end • As snow begins to fall outside, two strangers meet by chance in a bar. She is trying to make sense of a life shaken by heartbreak and ruined dreams. He is on a desperate quest to find something he lost in his youth • From the blustery cliffs of Dover to the confines of a nuclear bunker; from the courtroom witness box to the West End stage, he flits from one life to another, never able to stand still • Extraordinary though his story is, the secret she is keeping is even more surprising, and will take them to a place neither of them - or you - expected • From the bestselling author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain comes this captivating novel about love, abandonment, and the power of stories to help us find our way in the world

Farouk's country has been torn apart by war • Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe • John's past torments him as he nears his end • The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways

'I wanted someone to know, you see. To know my truth, now that I am gone. How everything and none of it happened.' • Everyone knew bestselling novelist Cassandra Tipp had twice got away with murder • Even her family were convinced of her guilt • So when she disappears, leaving only a long letter behind, they can but suspect that her conscience finally killed her • But the letter is not what anyone expected. It tells two chilling, darkly disturbing stories. One is a story of bloody nights and magical gifts, of children lost to the woods, of husbands made from twigs and leaves and feathers and bones • The other is the story of a little girl who was cruelly treated and grew up crooked in the shadows • But which story is true? And where is Cassie now?

Ben Elton's earth-shattering debut novel • Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying • Deep in Western Australia where the Aboriginals used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot is taking shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent: a pommie poseur; a brain-fried Vietnam vet; Aboriginals who have lost their land...not much against a conspiracy that controls society. But EcoAction isn't in society: it just lives in the same place, along with the cockroaches • If you're facing the richest and most disgusting scheme in history, you have to do more than stick up two fingers and say 'peace'

Билл Брайсон сворачивает с автострад и проселочных дорог Средней Америки ради быстрой, волнующей поездки по маршруту американского языка и популярной культуры • В книге Made In America. An Informal History of American Брайсон рассказывает историю возникновения американского варианта английского языка и попутно развенчивает мифы о своей родине – объясняет, как пыльная деревушка в пустыне превратилась в Голливуд, как Дикий Запад не был завоеван, как американцы ели нездоровую пищу задолго до того, как появилось такое понятие и многое другое • Книга на английском языке • Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture

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

Meet Felix Pink. The most unlikely murderer you'll ever have the good fortune to spend time with • When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he's there to perform an act of charity: to keep a dying man company as he takes his final breath • But just fifteen minutes later Felix is on the run from the police - after making the biggest mistake of his life • Now his world is turned upside down as he must find out if he's really to blame, or if something much more sinister is at play. All while staying one shaky step ahead of the law