Penguin Last Seen Alive Дуглас Клэр

Could your dream home be your worst nightmare? • After what happened in London, Kirsty needs a fresh start with her family. And running a guesthouse in the Welsh mountains sounds idyllic • But then their first guest arrives • Selena is the last person Kirsty wants to see. It's 17 years since she tore everything apart • Why has she chosen now to walk back into Kirsty's life? • Is Selena running from something too? • Or is there an even darker reason for her visit? • Because Kirsty knows that once you invite trouble into your home, getting rid of it can be murder

Twenty years ago • 21-year-old Sophie Collier vanishes one night • She leaves nothing behind but a trainer on the old pier - • and a hole in the heart of her best friend Francesca • Now • A body's been found • And Francesca's drawn back to the seaside town she's tried to forget • Perhaps the truth of what happened to Sophie will finally come out • Yet Francesca is beginning to wish she hadn't returned • Everywhere she turns, ghosts from her past appear. The same old faces that always haunted her. But if someone knows what really happened to Sophie that night, then now's the time to find out . . . Isn't it? • Except sometimes discovering the truth can cost you everything you hold dear - your family, your sanity and even your life

Last Sacrifice is the sixth book in the international Number 1 bestselling Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead • Higher Learning. Higher Stakes • Murder, love, jealousy. and the ultimate sacrifice • The Queen is dead and the Moroi world will never be the same • Rose Hathaway is awaiting wrongful execution and there exists only one man who can stall this terrible fate • Rose must look to both Dimitri and Adrian, the two great loves of her life, to find him • With her best friend, Lissa, in a deadly struggle for the royal throne, the girls find themselves forced to rely upon enemies and questioning those they thought they could trust • But what if true freedom means sacrificing the most important thing of all?

Three Girls Missing • Twenty years ago: One rainy night, Olivia Rutherford is driving three friends home when a figure in the road causes her to swerve and crash. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself alone in the car - her friends have vanished • They Are Never Seen Again • Now: Journalist Jenna Halliday visits the close-knit community of Stafferbury to persuade Olivia to talk and solve the mystery of the girls' disappearance. But Olivia won't speak • What happened? • Is Olivia hiding something? • Why are the people of Stafferbury so frightened? • How many secrets can one small town hide?

It was the house of their dreams. Now it's their worst nightmare • Bodies Found under Patio • When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering a body. Two bodies, in fact • Police Investigate • Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years, which leads the police to question the cottage's former owner - Saffy's grandmother, Rose • Owner Questioned • Rose's Alzheimer's means her memory is increasingly confused. She can't help the police - but it is clear she remembers something • A Killer at Large? • As Rose's fragmented memories resurface, and the police dig ever deeper, Saffy fears she and the cottage are being watched

In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music. These gorgeous stories - the last that Trevor wrote before his death - affirm his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers

Lentils, free love, radical politics and family truths . . . Various Pets Alive and Dead is the wonderfully funny fourth novel from Marina Lewycka, author of the bestselling A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian • For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn't. What they did do was give their children a terror of radicalism, dirt, cooking rotas and poverty. Their daughter Clara wants nothing less conformist than her own, clean bathroom. Their son Serge hides the awkward fact that he's a banker earning loadsamoney. So when Doro and Marcus spring a surprise on their kids - just as the world is rocked in ways they always wished for - the family is forced to confront some thorny truths about themselves

*Carer/Companion wanted for elderly lady* • *Young female preferred * Competitive salary* • *Room and board included* • Una Richardson is devastated after the death of her mother. Hoping for a fresh start, she responds to an advertisement and steps into the rich, comforting world of elderly Mrs Elspeth McKenzie • But Elspeth's home is not as safe as it seems • Kathryn, her cold and bitter daughter, resents Una's presence. More disturbing is the evidence suggesting two girls lived here before • What happened to the girls? • Why will the McKenzies not talk about them? • As the walls close in around her, Una fears she'll end up just like the other girls

It's 1975 and Francis McNulty, ageing poet, retired, is living in his childhood home in Cleaver Square with his daughter Gilly. Haunted by memories of the Spanish Civil War, in which he drove an ambulance, he sees awful visions of his old nemesis, General Franco, and is powerfully reminded of a terrible act of betrayal he committed in Spain. When Gilly announces her upcoming marriage, Francis is forced to confront his past, once and for all

What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. With remarkable care and empathy, Alexievich gives voice to those whose stories are lost in the official narratives, uncovering a powerful, hidden history of one of the most important events of the twentieth century. Published to great acclaim in the USSR in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war and an extraordinary chronicle of the Russian soul

"Когда мы встречались в последний раз" - молодежный роман Эмили Хоутон • Одно обещание • В возрасте тринадцати лет лучшие друья Элеонора и Фин неразлучны. Убежденные, что так будет всегда, они заключают соглашение - вместе поступить в университет, всегда жить рядом друг с другом, и если в 35 лет они оба останутся одинокими, то поженятся • Два десятилетия • Элеонора и Фин не разговаривали пятнадцать лет. Жизнь ускользнула от них, и они оба далеки от того места, где мечтали оказаться все эти годы назад • Смогут ли они все еще сдержать свое слово? • Нужны трагические обстоятельства, чтобы Фин вернулся в жизнь Элеоноры, но все изменилось с тех пор, как они виделись в последний раз. Уже слишком поздно налаживать их дружбу? Или есть шанс, что они смогут сдержать некоторые из данных обещаний? • Книга на английском языке