Black Swan Shop Girl. A Memoir Portas Mary

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy • And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough • Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar • Now they'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the train

Если бы у тебя вдруг появился призрачный друг, которого только ты могла бы видеть или слышать, что бы ты сделала? • Ты могла бы беспокоиться о том, что напряженная жизнь довела тебя до крайности, и ты потеряли интерес к ее сюжету... Могла бы спрятаться под одеялом, надеясь, что призрак уйдет... Или… • Ты могла бы повеселиться. Ты могла бы заставить своего бывшего парня принять тебя обратно. Ты могла бы разгадать тайну ожерелья со стрекозой, много раз выставить себя на посмешище, поставить свой бизнес на ноги... Ты могла бы потанцевать с великолепным мужчиной, который просто не сможет перед тобой устоять • И ты могла бы просто обрести лучшую подругу, которая у тебя когда-либо была • Книга Софи Кинселлы «Девушка и призрак» — остроумный роман, отличный подарок любителям легких теплых и оптимистичных историй

Are you ready to be your best self at work? • Packed with advice, tips and decades of business experience from Mary Portas, this is a book for every one of us: whatever level you are, wherever you work • It's about calling time on alpha culture and helping every one of us to be happier, more productive and collaborative • It's time to #WorkLikeAWoman

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

Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She can’t tell her father yet because he’s a good man and this could break him. She’s trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming – larger by the day – while the past won’t let her go. What she did to Breedie Flynn all those years ago still haunts her • It’s a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a young Traveller woman, and she knows more about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody’s life

1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need • Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann • Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with her pea-green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to re-open and a past he will never leave behind

The addictive new psychological thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train, the runaway Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller and global phenomenon. In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn't pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind. But Jules is afraid. So afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of knowing that Nel would never have jumped. And most of all she's afraid of the water, and the place they call the Drowning Pool... With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, satisfying read that hinges on the stories we tell about our pasts and their power to destroy the lives we live now

An early memoir from the world's most famous atheist, and scientist • Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the world? • In An Appetite for Wonder we join him on a personal journey from an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa, through the eccentricities of boarding school in England, to his studies at the University of Oxford’s dynamic Zoology Department, which sparked his radical new vision of Darwinism, The Selfish Gene. Through Dawkins’s honest self-reflection, touching reminiscences and witty anecdotes, we are finally able to understand the private influences that shaped the public man who, more than anyone else in his generation, explained our own origins

An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its young men the art of hurling; the driver of a car which crashed, killing a teenage girl, forges a connection with the girl’s mother; a squad of broken friends assemble to take revenge on a rapist; a young man sets off on his morning run, reflecting on the ruins of his relationship, but all is not as it seems • Donal Ryan’s short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with the human cost of loneliness, isolation and displacement. Sometimes this is present in the ordinary, the mundane; sometimes it is triggered by a fateful encounter or a tragic decision

"Персики для месье кюре" - третья часть "шоколадной тетралогии" Джоанн Харрис • Это история ярких героев, старых и новых друзей Вианн Роше: красивых мужчин, загадочных женщин, милых малышей и колоритных чудаков-стариков. Это магия - домашняя и вкусная, как персиковое варенье • Вианн страстно помогает людям, столкнувшимся с несправедливостью, отчуждением и откровенной жестокостью. Такой у нее характер. Накал страстей в финале невероятный • Книга на английском языке • It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead • When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she allows the wind to blow her back to the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But Lansquenet is different now: women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea, and, on the bank of the river Tannes, facing the church: a minaret

It is the hottest August in living memory • A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her in, his world will never be the same again • She will tell him about her family, and their strange life in the show home of an abandoned housing estate. The long, blistering days spent sunbathing; the airless nights filled with inexplicable noises; the words that appear on the windows, written in dust • Why are members of her family disappearing, one by one? Is she telling the truth? Is he? • In a world where reality is beginning to blur, how can we know what to believe?

Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl’s schooling. How one of them is leaving the other for a younger model • Best friends don’t tell lies. They don’t take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don’t call lawyers. They don’t make you choose sides • Best friends don’t keep secrets about their past. They don't put you in danger • Best friends don’t always stay best friends