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Welcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession… and occult murder • The curious death of an estate agent is being investigated by detective David Vaynor who, before joining the police, studied the famous 18th century poet William Wordsworth. As Vaynor is discovering, the dark paganism that changed Wordsworth’s life still lingers on the banks of the River Wye today – and there are some killings even the police can’t approach… • Enter Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum, and diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Called away from her local hauntings, Merrily finds herself confronting the riverside ghosts who, as Wordsworth puts it, ‘promote ill purposes and flatter foul desires’. In the ancient heart of the Wye Valley, a buried grudge is about to come to light

На дворе 1560 год, Элизабет Тюдор на троне уже год. Доктор Джон Ди, уже в 32 признанный по всей Европе – ее астролог и консультант по тайным искусствам… спорное назначение в дни суеверия и религиозной борьбы • Теперь тихий, оторванный от реальности Ди отправляется в Гластонбури, чтобы найти останки Короля Артура, чье наследие всегда было важным для семьи Тюдор. С ним, едва ли безопасный компаньон, его друг друг и бывший студент Роберт Дудли, любящий рисковать оторва и, возможно, тайный любовник Королевы • Известный мистический город все еще оплакивает казнь своего Настоятеля церкви, Ричарда Уайтинга. Но почему в действительности убили Настоятеля? Что за секрет хранят монахи с тех пор, как Настоятеля нашел Джозеф из Аматеи, дядя Христа и защитник Священной Граали? • Миссия отправляет Ди в запутанные корни Английской магии, в неожиданную жестокость, темную некроманию, волнующую бездыханную первую любовь… и холодное сердце сюжета против Элизабет

Добро пожаловать в Музей нарушенных обещаний, место удивления, печали... и надежды • Внутри находится целая сокровищница предметов – детская туфелька, свадебная фата, железнодорожный билет, – и все они рассказывают о моментах утраты и предательства. Это место, куда люди приходят поговорить с призраками прошлого. Владелица, Лора, тоже одна из них • Молодой женщиной в 1980-х годах Лора сбежала в Прагу, где ее жизнь изменилась навсегда. Теперь, годы спустя, она должна разобраться в истоках своей душераздирающей выставки: любовная связь с музыкантом-диссидентом, тайная жизнь за железным занавесом и нарушенное обещание, которое она никогда не забудет • Потрясающий новый роман Элизабет Бьюкен, автора бестселлера. "Музей нарушенных обещаний" - прекрасная, вызывающая воспоминания история любви и душераздирающее путешествие в давно похороненное прошлое

Рим, 58 год нашей эры. Рим снова на пороге кризиса. Император Нерон присмотрел себе новую жену, но чтобы она могла занять подобающее ей положение, он должен убить Клавдию Октавию, свою императрицу. Веспасиан не может действовать опрометчиво: Поппея Саббина, новая любовница Нерона, ему не подруга, и её головокружительный взлёт представляет для него немалую опасность • Ну а тем временем достигшая доселе невиданных высот расточительность Нерона может ввергнуть Британию в финансовый кризис. Веспасиану поручают спасти положение, но после прибытия в Лондиний его застаёт кровопролитное восстание, которое может опустошить Британию и дестабилизировать империю • Седьмая книга цикла исторических бестселлеров Роберта Фаббри «Веспасиан» • Книга на английском языке

An emotional, atmospheric summer read about family secrets and loyalty from the author of Kindle bestseller A Bookshop Christmas • The secrets of Summer House are about to come out at last • 1976. Rushing out of the University Library, undergraduate Alice Kenzie bumps straight into PhD student Tristan Somers. There begins a whirlwind romance, and Alice falls pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. Then Tristan is killed in a car accident. Unable to cope, Alice takes her baby to Summer House, Tristan's family home in Suffolk, leaves her there and disappears • 2018. Olivia Somers has always been told that her mother died in the same accident as her father. But when she finds a bundle of old letters in Summer House, everything she ever believed about her mother is called into question

Celebratory tenth anniversary edition, with black and white illustrations, two new short stories - Cinderella, A Version and The Rat King, the latter introducing the Crooked Man who is central to the world of The Book of Lost Things - and an afterword from the author • 'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother . . .' • As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves and monsters in his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things

Meet the 'Keeper of Lost Things' • Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before • Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil his legacy and reunite the thousands of objects with their rightful owners • But the final wishes of the 'Keeper of Lost Things' have unforeseen repercussions which trigger a most serendipitous series of encounters

Welcome to the Shop of Impossible Ice Creams! Step inside to discover a delicious world of magical adventure, from bestselling author Shane Hegarty. First in a comic, heart-warming illustrated series, for 7+ fans of The Nothing to See Here Hotel and Charlie Changes into a Chicken • Limpet's mum is opening an ice-cream shop, full of her favourite new flavours: mushroom and tuna ice cream, anyone? Roast parsnip and gravy? • Limpet's not sure about this. He likes a nice, safe life. His favourite ice-cream flavour is vanilla • But when wicked Mr Fluffy arrives with his Mega Emporium of Amazing and Spectacular Ice Creams, Limpet knows he's got to fight back. And there are magic ingredients on his doorstep which can solve all his worries, if only he can get the recipe just right

Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His dry-cleaning shop lies at the heart of a lively community, a fixed point in a changing world. And, as he explains to his successor, young East Londoner Akeel, it is also the resting place for the contents of his customers pockets - and for their secrets and lies • As he helps Akeel to make a new life out of his old one, Robert also hands on all he knows of his world: the dirty dip of the Thames; the parks, rare green oases in a desert of high-rises and decaying mansion blocks; and the varied lives that converge at the junction. Humming with life, packed tight with detail, The Room of Lost Things is a hymn of love to a great and overflowing city, and a profoundly human story that holds us in its grip from the first sentence until the last

‘That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no sense . . .’ • This is the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. Like the City itself, however, it is a journey that is doomed, and so all that is left is Anna’s unwritten account of what happened • Paul Auster takes us to an unspecified and devastated world in which the self disappears amidst the horrors that surround us. But this is not just an imaginary, futuristic world: like the settings of Kafka stories, it is one that echoes our own, and in doing so addresses some of our darker legacies • In the Country of Last Things is a tense, psychological take on the dystopian novel

Sensible, serious Norbert Norris knows all the important things: dinosaurs, planets, shapes and sums • But when the Museum of Marvellous Things is in trouble, Norbert doesn't know what to do. Only magic can save it - and he knows nothing about magic! • Norbert must learn to believe, because when you imagine incredible things, almost anything can happen

Lindy Morris is stuck. She lives in rural Ireland, banished to a lonely bungalow by her Granda Morris, with only her Auntie Bell and the TV for company • But one day Lindy realises that life is not quite what she thought it was: her mother's disappearance and her own lost years need to be brought out into the light. Suddenly Lindy is awake, uncovering the very secrets that will release her from her past • Told with devastating wit and poignancy, The Saint of Lost Things is the triumphant story of an unlikely heroine as she makes her bid for freedom