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He wanted to end it. But it can never be over • Evan Smoak - former government assassin, 'Orphan-X', turned white knight of last resort - is hanging up his gun • When he gets one last call • A man, left a package by a murdered cousin, has an assassin on his trail. Easy work for Evan • Except behind the assassin is someone worse. And behind them something darker still • How long can Evan keep standing? • How many times can a man step into the fire?

In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself • 'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' • At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the world of the theatre lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that seems poised on the brink of racial war. In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself

What if your parents had been lying to you since the day you were born? • Sophia's parents lived quiet, ordinary lives. At least she thought so, until she came home to discover her worst nightmare • No matter what the police say, Sophia is certain her mother didn't try to kill her father - but clearing her name will draw Sophia deep into a past she never imagined • A past that hides a dark and twisted secret • Because if everything you've been told is lies, then how dangerous is the truth?

The promise at Nepenthe is simple: they will erase the memories you cannot live with • After the procedure, psychologist Noor will assess you for two things: your mental wellbeing, and the successful erasure of the memory. But there is no assessment if you choose to delete the memory of the Nepenthe procedure itself. If you do that, you're on your own • And what if one day, out of the blue, your memory is offered back to you - would you want to remember what you've chosen to forget?

Is she your best friend, or your worst enemy? • Best friends Holly and Roz tell each other everything • So when Holly gets a shot at her dream job she assumes Roz will be waiting to pop the champagne • But is she just imagining things or is Roz not quite as happy as she should be? • And now she thinks about it, a few things don't quite add up • Perhaps it was a mistake to tell Roz all her secrets • Because it takes two to tango. But only one to start a war

What if you could erase your most painful memory? Would you still, be you? • Across the world, thousands of people are shocked to receive an email telling them that they once chose to have a traumatic memory removed. Now they are being given the chance to get that memory back • For Mei, William, Oscar and Finn there is a piece missing, but they're not sure what. And each of them must decide if the truth is worth the pain, or better left unknown • For Noor, who works at the memory clinic Nepenthe, the process of reinstating their patients' memories begins to shake the moral foundations of her world. As she delves deeper into the programme, she will have to risk everything to uncover the true human cost of this miraculous technology • An exploration of secrets, grief, identity and belonging - of the stories we tell ourselves, and come to rely on, Tell Me An Ending is a sharp, dark and devastating novel about the power and danger of memory

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Ronald Wilks, and an introduction by J. Douglas Clayton • These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career include - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor - 'Ward No. 6', a savage indictment of the medical profession set in a mental hospital; 'The Black Monk', portraying an academic who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity; 'Murder', in which religious fervour leads to violence; while in 'The Student', Chekhov's favourite story, a young man recounts a tale from the gospels and undergoes a spiritual epiphany

The latest novel in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series • Alex Cross ventures into the rugged Montana wilderness - where he will be the prey • He's not on the job, but on a personal mission • Until he's attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his family for years • Darkness falls. The river churns into rapids. Shots ring out through the forest • No backup. No way out. Fear no evil

A biting science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism • It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just heard the news: a mysterious doctor has discovered a strange process that can turn black skin white - a new way to 'solve the American race problem'. Max, who is tired of being rejected and abused because of his dark skin, leaps at the opportunity. After receiving the 'Black-No-More' procedure, he becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man who is able to attain everything he has ever wanted: money, power and a beautiful wife. But it soon becomes apparent that America, whiter than ever, is becoming more and more dangerous • An extraordinary, cutting satire, Black No More is an utterly unique work of science fiction, and one of the first works of Black speculative fiction

Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not part of the landscape. ... What really counted was the lock, the hooting of the tugs, the stone crusher, the barges and the cranes, the two pilots' bars and especially the tall house where he could make out Ducrau's red chair framed by a window • Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as The Lock at Charenton

It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr Junius Crookman has discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach their skin white - a new way to 'solve the American race problem'. Max, who is tired of being rejected by women because of his dark skin, leaps at the opportunity. After a brief stay at the Crookman Sanitarium, where he receives the Black-No-More procedure, he becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man who is able to attain everything he has ever wanted: money, power, a beautiful wife and good liquor. But as America becomes whiter and whiter, it gets more and more dangerous

How do you stop the most powerful man on Earth? • Evan Smoak, code-named Orphan-X, was raised in a secret government programme • He left it behind long ago but now someone has been killing off the orphans - and all evidence of the programme • Only one person would and could do this. The man who created it • He'll do anything - anything - to save himself • But what can one man - even an Orphan - do alone? • Against the President of the United States