Penguin Your Closest Friend Perry Karen

Keep your friends close. And your enemies closer. Cara shouldn't have survived the attack. But at the last moment, a stranger snatched her to safety. In the hours that followed, she told her Good Samaritan secrets she'd never told a soul. Not even her husband. Especially not her husband. In the aftermath, Cara is home, healed and safe. Which is when the anonymous threats begin. Someone knows things about her that they shouldn't. Cara's Good Samaritan offers to help - to save her all over again. That night, Cara made a friend for life. But what if she isn't a friend at all?

Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range • 'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills... Up in this high air you breathed easily... you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.' • From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm, and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs • Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman, and of a way of life that has vanished for ever

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in 1931 and it was there that she wrote this classic account of her experiences. A poignant farewell to her beloved farm, Out of Africa describes her strong friendships with the people of her area, her affection for the landscape and animals, and great love for the adventurer Denys Finch-Hatton • Written with astonishing clarity and an unsentimental intelligence, Out of Africa portrays a way of life that has disappeared for ever

Friend. Neighbour. Killer? • Leah's new to Wyndham Park. Lonely and suffering from insomnia, she befriends her upstairs neighbour Anton • Anton has only recently returned to the street and is lonely too • He's been gone for nineteen years - but he hasn't told Leah the reason why • That nineteen years ago he was imprisoned for killing his wife. A wife who looked a bit like Leah • Was he wrongly convicted? • Or is Leah befriending a killer intent on luring her closer and closer?

The victim was your friend • It was just a silly game to start with. Paul never really believed in it • He never dreamed Charlie would take it so far • So was the murderer • For twenty years, Paul's tried to put his past behind him, but now his mother is dying, and he can't run any longer • But home isn't just full of bad memories. It's also the last place anyone saw Charlie alive • And Paul starts to wonder if Charlie might come back to finish what he started

If it had happened to you, you would have run away too • Twenty-five years ago, Paul's friend Charlie Crabtree brutally killed their classmate - and then vanished without a trace • Paul's never forgiven himself for his part in what happened. He's never gone back home • Until his elderly mother has a fall. It's finally time to stop running • It's not long before things start to go wrong. His mother claims there's someone in the house. Paul realises someone is following him. And, in a town many miles away, a copycat killer has struck • Which makes him wonder - what really happened to Charlie the day of the murder? • And can anyone stop it happening again?

Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's voyage of discovery in search of our origins • Have you ever wondered why our bodies look and work and fail the way they do? • One of the world's leading experts in evolutionary history, Neil Shubin reveals the secrets of our biology: why if we want to understand our limbs we should take a close look at Tiktaalik, the first fish capable of doing a push-up; why if we want to know why we hiccup, the answer is in the way fish breathe; and why it is that fish teeth are surprisingly similar to human breasts • 'This would be Darwin's book of the year' • Sunday Telegraph • 'An intelligent, exhilarating, and compelling scientific adventure story' • Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • 'Delightful

Surviving the weekend depends on whether you can keep a secret • Lindsey hasn't spoken to Rachel in twenty years, not since her brother's eighteenth birthday party at their parents' remote country house • A night that shattered so many friendships - and left Rachel's father dead • Now Thornbury Hall is up for sale, and the old gang are back there, together again • A weekend to say goodbye to the old place, to talk about the past • But twenty years of secrets aren't given up lightly. Some won't speak about what happened that night • While others want to ensure that no one ever does

'I think you might be my father . . .' • Zoe Barry walks into Professor David Connelly's office and tentatively says these words • The lives of his family - particularly his wife Caroline - are turned upside down by the arrival of this stranger • A cuckoo in their nest • Zoe soon entangles herself in their world but her stories aren't quite adding up and Caroline isn't sure she can be trusted • Is Zoe who she claims she is, or someone with a far darker agenda? • A daughter, a sister, a stranger • By letting Zoe in, David and Caroline aren't the only ones who are vulnerable • They're risking the lives of the most precious thing in the world - the lives of their children • a killer?

Every family has secrets. But now someone knows yours • Abi's daughters couldn't be more different • She's always felt close to Eva - her confident, older child. It's troubled young Beth that she worries about • So when foreign exchange student Corinne comes to stay, it's a relief that Beth finally has someone to talk to • But soon after Corinne's arrival, Abi notices changes creeping in • Beth starts to misbehave. Eva becomes distant. And everywhere she looks, Abi sees Corinne watching - and listening • Can Abi trust Corinne? Because if not, she might already know enough to tear this family apart

Первое издание романа Чарльза Диккенса "Наш общий друг" (1864-1865) сопровождалось прикрепленным к началу тома листочком, уведомлявшим, что проницательный читатель поймет смысл названия, когда дойдет до девятой главы. Эта "детективная" выдумка, обещающая игру в сюжетные тайны, продолжается и в самой книге: история лондонского "мусорщика-миллионера" Гармона, разбогатевшего на муниципальных подрядах, его наследника Джона, объявленного погибшим, и капризной красавицы Беллы Уилфер, девушки из бедной семьи, мечтающей о выгодном браке, строится на подменах личности, маскарадных переоблачениях и внезапных разоблачениях, содержит эпизоды шантажа и попыток убийства и другие приметы криминального повествования. Последний завершенный роман Диккенса, "Наш общий друг" развивает темы двойственности человеческой натуры, поиска подлинного "я" и свободы жизненного выбора

Prosecutor Ava Knight always plays by the rules • Until she meets fifteen-year-old Lily Hawthorne, accused of stabbing hotel magnate Michael Osborne in cold blood • It should be an open-and-shut case. But Ava suspects something everyone else does not • Michael Osborne is lying • Because eighteen years ago, Ava was brutally assaulted. The case went to trial. Her attacker was acquitted • His name? Michael Osborne • Now, court is in session • And Ava must decide how far she's willing to go to uncover the truth