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25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences • When time stops dead for Maria Petrakis and her sister, Anna, two families splinter apart and, for the people of Plaka, the closure of Spinalonga is forever coloured with tragedy • In the aftermath, the question of how to resume life looms large. Stigma and scandal need to be confronted and somehow, for those impacted, a future built from the ruins of the past • Number one bestselling author Victoria Hislop returns to the world and characters she created in The Island - the award-winning novel that remains one of the biggest selling reading group novels of the century. It is finally time to be reunited with Anna, Maria, Manolis and Andreas in the weeks leading up to the evacuation of the island

Germany has conquered Poland. The world is praying for peace. At home, the Nazi Party's hold on power is absolute • One freezing night, an SS doctor and his wife cheerfully return home from an evening out. By sunrise, the doctor will be lifeless in a pool of blood • There is pressure to record the incident as a suicide, but the first evidence uncovered by Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke points to a chillingly staged murder. The investigation is swiftly blocked by Schenke's superiors, but he can't let it go. When he uncovers links to the mysterious death of a child, a terrifying secret begins to emerge • In times of war, under a ruthless regime, there are places no man should ever enter. And Schenke fears he may not return alive

Venice, 1943: Under the Nazi occupation, life is increasingly perilous for Italian Jews. Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive - to leave her beloved parents and hide in the countryside, posing as the bride of a man she has only just met • Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to return home to run his family's farm. A moral and just man, he refuses to remain a bystander to Nazi and fascist atrocities. The only way to keep Nina safe - and protect secrets of his own - is to convince prying eyes that their sudden marriage is a love match • But farm life is not easy for a cultured city girl who dreams of becoming a doctor like her father, and Nico's provincial neighbours are wary of this soft, educated stranger

When Hattie is made redundant and evicted from her flat in one horrible week, she needs time to rethink. Her Uncle Albert left her and her father each half of Fisherman's Rest, his home in the Cornish town of Port Medden, so this seems the perfect place to escape to until she can figure things out • As Hattie stays in the cottage, clearing it out, tidying it up and getting it ready to sell, she starts to find her feet in Port Medden and making a new home here begins to feel right. If only her dad didn't need a quick sale and things weren't complicated by her unwelcoming neighbour Marcus

It is 1910 and a warehouse fire on the banks of the Thames has left one criminal dead and another charged with his murder. Convinced of his innocence, Jessie Beale begs barrister Daniel Pitt to defend the accused. It’s a hopeless case – unless Daniel can find an expert witness, whose testimony on fire damage is so utterly convincing that any jury would believe him • Daniel’s friend Miriam fford Croft was taught by formidable forensic scientist Sir Barnabas Saltram, who has built his reputation on giving evidence of this kind. But when Saltram agrees to testify, thus saving an innocent man from the gallows, Daniel unwittingly starts a chain of events that has devastating consequences for all of them…

The seedy resort of Boleta Bay has seen better days, especially since the unexplained disappearances began • Now a group of teenagers decide to fight back and clear the town of undesirables. As they grow more daring and vicious, they are drawn to the abandoned Funhouse and the real source of the mystery

Как далеко можно зайти ради лучшей подруги? Восхитительно увлекательный роман Адель Паркс, автора бестселлеров из списка Sunday Times • Стеф и Пип - лучшие подруги. Их дружбе уже тридцать лет, и они вместе прошли огонь, воду и медные трубы. Ради друг друга они готовы на всё... аккурат до одного судьбоносного разговора. Ответственная, верная и обычно заслуживающая доверия Стеф умоляет свою подругу солгать полиции, чтобы скрыть сразу два зазорных секрета, угрожающих благополучию её семьи. Пип, привыкшей к роли вспыльчивой и безалаберной сумасбродки, от этого несладко, ведь обычно именно она вынуждена просить о помощи, когда на неё сваливаются проблемы. И она не знает, по силам ли ей такой шаг. Что же будет дальше? На что она готова пойти ради своей лучшей подруги? • Книга на английском языке

В мире ведьм, демонов и вампиров хрупкое равновесие нарушается. Запретная любовь Дианы и Мэтью нарушила законы, разделяющие живых существ. Чтобы найти рукопись, которая дает им надежду на будущее, они должны отправиться в прошлое • Когда Диана Бишоп, происходившая из рода могущественных ведьм, обнаружила в Бодлеанской библиотеке важный алхимический манускрипт, она спровоцировала борьбу, в ходе которой оказалась связанной с вампиром-долгожителем Мэтью Клермонтом • Теперь сосуществование ведьм, демонов, вампиров и людей находится под серьезной угрозой. В поисках безопасности Диана и Мэтью отправляются в прошлое, в Лондон, в 1590 год. Но вскоре они понимают, что прошлое не может стать для них убежищем • Вернув себе прежнюю репутацию поэта и шпиона королевы Елизаветы, вампир снова вступает в группу радикалов, известную как «Школа ночи»

В мире ведьм, демонов и вампиров хрупкое равновесие нарушается. Запретная любовь Дианы и Мэтью нарушила законы, разделяющие живых существ. Чтобы найти рукопись, которая дает им надежду на будущее, они должны отправиться в прошлое • Когда Диана Бишоп, происходившая из рода могущественных ведьм, обнаружила в Бодлеанской библиотеке важный алхимический манускрипт, она спровоцировала борьбу, в ходе которой оказалась связанной с вампиром-долгожителем Мэтью Клермонтом • Теперь сосуществование ведьм, демонов, вампиров и людей находится под серьезной угрозой. В поисках безопасности Диана и Мэтью отправляются в прошлое, в Лондон, в 1590 год. Но вскоре они понимают, что прошлое не может стать для них убежищем • Вернув себе прежнюю репутацию поэта и шпиона королевы Елизаветы, вампир снова вступает в группу радикалов, известную как «Школа ночи»

From the top-ten bestselling author of Beneath a Frosty Moon, Rita Bradshaw, comes One Snowy Night, a sweeping family saga set between the two world wars in the north-east of England • It's 1922 and the Depression is just beginning to rear its head in Britain, but Ruby Morgan is about to marry her childhood sweetheart and nothing can mar her happiness. Or so she thinks. An unimaginable betrayal by those she loves causes her to flee her home and family one snowy night • Crushed and heartbroken, Ruby vows that despite the odds stacked against her she will not only survive, but one day will show the ones she left behind that she's succeeded in making something of herself. Brave words, but the reality is far from easy • Dangers Ruby could never have foreseen and more tragedy threaten her new life, and love always seems just out of reach

Join in the fun with Percy the park keeper and his animal friends in this entertaining activity book based on the international bestseller One Snowy Night! • Come and join the winter fun with Percy the park keeper and his animal friends! Make marshmallow snowmen and pine-cone reindeer, decode Percy’s letter to Santa – and much, much more! • Including craft projects, baking and drawing activities to keep young nature lovers busy at Christmas time, plus over one hundred stickers! • Bursting with indoor and outdoor fun for all the family!

Loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, One Moonlit Night tells the captivating story of a husband and wife separated by secrets as well as by war • Forced to leave their family home in London after it is bombed in the Blitz, Maddie and her two young daughters take refuge at Knyghton, the beautiful country house in Norfolk where Maddie’s husband Philip spent the summers of his childhood • But Philip is gone, believed to have been killed in action in northern France. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Maddie refuses to give up hope that she and Philip will some day be reunited • Arriving at Knyghton, Maddie feels closer to her missing husband, but she soon realises that there’s a reason Philip has never spoken to her about his past. Something happened at Knyghton one summer years before