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The Scorching New Thriller From The Bestselling Author Of The Girl On The Train And Into The Water • 'This twisted story with its cast of damaged characters builds to a brilliant conclusion.' • Shari Lapena • 'Here are characters who are real and likeable, even when they are complicated and flawed. Paula Hawkins is a genius' • Lisa Jewell • Three women, connected by one brutal crime • Three women, determined to right the wrongs done to them • Three women, with everything to hide • When it comes to revenge, even good people are capable of terrible things • But only one person killed Daniel Sutherland • How long can their secrets smoulder, before they explode into flame?

'What is wrong with you?' • Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous • Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a horrific murder with blood on her clothes, that doesn't mean she's a killer. Bitter experience has taught her how easy it is to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time • Carla is reeling from the brutal murder of her nephew. She trusts no one: good people are capable of terrible deeds. But how far will she go to find peace? • Innocent or guilty, everyone is damaged. Some are damaged enough to kill • Look what you started

It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts – and none of them ready to fight. The second volume in Sartre’s wartime Roads to Freedom trilogy, The Reprieve cuts between locations and characters to build an impressionistic collage of the hopes, fears and self-deception of an entire continent as it blinkers itself against the imminent threat of war

'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - Greta Thunberg • For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing from the frontline of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next • Here is Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of 'perpetual now', to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of 'climate barbarism,' this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink

A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War • 'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down' • Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, and the arrival of their rations, a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in hospital is all they can hope for • Based directly on Henri Barbusse's experiences of the trenches, Under Fire is the most famous French novel of the First World War, starkly evoking the mud, stench and monotony of an eternal battlefield. It is also a powerful critique of inequality between ranks, the incomprehension of those who have not experienced battle, and of war itself

Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon • 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' • A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themselves and with his own anxieties and terrors about the extremity of what they were trying to achieve. Mailer is both admiring and appalled and the result is a book which is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant depiction of the now-forgotten technical issues and uncertainties around the mission. A Fire on the Moon is also a matchless portrait of an America caught in a morass of introspection and misery, torn apart by the war in Vietnam. But for one, extraordinary week in the summer of 1969 all eyes were on the fates of three men in a rocket, travelling a quarter of a million miles away from Earth

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' • James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice

"The Girl on the Train", a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text

Новый роман от автора мирового бестселлера «Девушка в поезде»! • Не так давно Нел оставила своей сестре Джулс странное сообщение, но та не ответила. Теперь Нел мертва, а Джулс вынуждена приехать в родной городок, чтобы забрать осиротевшую племянницу. Она возвращается в то место, где прошла ее юность, — юность, о которой хотела бы забыть навсегда • Ее преследуют воспоминания о том, что произошло много лет назад. Ее пугает уверенность в том, что сестра не покончила с собой, а была убита. Но сильнее всего она опасается заводи, прозванной Смертельной, — заводи, в чьих обманчиво спокойных водах погибло слишком много женщин. И возможно, она боится не зря… Кто знает, что кроется в тихом омуте?

Когда в плавучем доме находят тело молодого художника Дэниела, у полиции есть все основания предполагать, что это жестокое убийство совершила женщина • Но кто она? • Лора, его симпатичная подружка, подверженная вспышкам ярости? • Карла, тетя Дэниела, много лет считающая его мать виновной в гибели своего сына? • Или Мириам, живущая на соседней барже? И кажется, ей явно есть, что скрывать… • Три женщины, так или иначе связанные с убитым • Три женщины, в душе которых горит желание исправить причиненное им зло • Но как далеко могла зайти каждая из них, чтобы обрести покой? И как долго могут тлеть секреты, прежде чем они превратятся в настоящий огонь?

Just days before her sister plunged to her death, Jules ignored her call • Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules must return to her sister's house to care for her daughter, and to face the mystery of Nel's death • But Jules is afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of this small town that is drowning in secrecy • And of knowing that Nel would never have jumped