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The only gift Charlie wants for his 80th birthday is his family all together again • Ever since his wife Daphne passed away, and the children grew up into their own busy lives, it's felt like they've drifted apart • So he's invited them all on a family holiday - their first in years • And by some miracle, everyone has said yes • Ten days all together in the Cotswolds . . . how hard can it be?

Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind • Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors • Lucy's story continues in Oh William! and Lucy by the Sea, available to read now!

Taryn Cornick barely remembers the family library. Since her sister was murdered, she's forgotten so much • Now it's all coming back. The fire. The thief. The scroll box. People are asking questions about the library. Questions that might relate to her sister's murder • And something called The Absolute Book • A book in which secrets are written - and which everyone believes only she can find. They insist Taryn be the hunter. But she knows the truth • She is the hunted • The Absolute Book is a tale of sisters, ancient blood, a forgotten library, murder, revenge and a book that might just have the answer to everything

The queen's goddaughter • Her most trusted maid • Adultress • Enemy of the state • Who is the real Penelope Devereux? • Penelope Devereux is a legendary beauty in the court of Elizabeth I, with a smile that would light up the shadows of hell. But it's not just her looks which have won her favour with the Queen wing; her canny instinct for being in the right place at the right time, and her skilled political manoeuvrings under the guise of diplomacy, have rendered her a formidable adversary to anyone who stands in her path. Including Elizabeth • For Penelope must secure the future of the Devereux dynasty at whatever cost. Even treason. And the Queen, a woman she holds responsible for the death of her father, the exile of her mother and her failure to marry the one man she ever truly loved, is just one more pawn in a deadly game

A marriage. A murder. One of them will hang for it • Autumn, 1615 • Frances Carr is imprisoned in a cold, lightless room • She is accused of murder • In a cell nearby is her co-accused - her husband Robert • Kept apart, Frances can only tell her side of the story • How did she come to be here? • Can she somehow prove her innocence? • And what lengths will she go to to save herself?

Elizabeth Noble, the No. 1 bestselling author of Things I Want My Daughters to Know and The Reading Group, takes a look at relationships within families in her heartbreaking novel Between a Mother and her Child • For Maggie and Bill it was love at first sight • One impulsive wedding later and with the arrival of three perfect children, Jake, Aly and Stan, the Barrett family seem to have it all. Until the day their world stops turning • When Jake dies suddenly, they're swept away on a tide of grief that fractures Maggie and Bill's marriage. She and the children are left clinging to the wreckage of their family. And they need help, because in her grief Maggie is in danger of losing Aly and Stan too • Enter Kate, housekeeper, companion and shoulder to cry on

The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. At the centre is Tuli, the restaurant's charismatic proprietor and resident Robin Hood, who promises to help anyone in need. Nineteen-year-old Nia, haunted by her troubled past, is running from her family. Shan, having fled the Sri Lankan civil war, is desperate to find his. But when Tuli's guidance leads them all into dangerous territory, and the extent of his mysterious operation unravels, each is faced with an impossible moral choice. In a world where the law is against you, how far would you be willing to lie for a chance to live?

'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.' • Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the Black Sea, he receives only suspicion and hostility from the locals. His one intimacy is a growing, wary relationship with his Russian secretary Sonia, who he watches silently in her room opposite his apartment. But this is Stalin's world before the war, and nothing is as it seems. Georges Simenon's most starkly political work, The People Opposite is a tour de force of slow-burn tension

The charges: explosive • Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law - until now. Charged with killing in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops • The evidence: shocking • Cross knows it was self-defense. But, as the case against him builds, even those closest to him begin to doubt his innocence • The People vs. Alex Cross: the trial of the century • With his whole life and career on the line, if Cross can't convince his own family that he didn't pull the trigger with intent to kill, how can he hope to persuade a jury?

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times. It continues with subsequent travels throughout Africa, where natives rub shoulders with eccentric expatriates, settlers with Arab traders and dignitaries with monks. Interspersed with these colourful tales are three 'nightmares' which describe the vexations of travel, including returning home

Did you ever have a secret you knew would change everything? • Tess's happy childhood memories are mostly of the grandmother who helped raise her. And now she has a secret to tell Iris - one which will turn so many lives upside down • But how can you confide your future in someone who barely remembers her past? • Tess knows everything is about to change. What she doesn't know is that chance will lead her into the lives of two strangers - and uncover her grandmother's secret from the past • A secret which will illuminate her own future • An uplifting, unforgettable story about keeping secrets, taking chances and finding happiness where you least expect it

Соскучились по фирменной "бакмановской прозе", необычной, изящной и трогательной? Ловите "Тревожных людей" - напоминание о том, что у каждого из нас за плечами свой мешочек боли, который мы всюду таскаем за собой и не знаем, куда пристроить • В маленьком шведском городке накануне Нового года вооруженный пистолетом человек в маске после неудачной попытки ограбить банк захватывает восемь заложников во время показа покупателям выставленной на продажу квартиры. У подъезда тут же собирается толпа жадных до сенсаций репортеров, полиция блокирует все подступы к дому и готовится штурмовать квартиру... атмосфера накаляется. Не выдерживая нарастающего напряжения, заложники делятся друг с другом своими самыми сокровенными тайнами... Вскоре грабитель начинает склоняться к тому, что, возможно, лучше добровольно отдать себя в руки полиции, чем продолжать оставаться в замкнутом пространстве со всеми этими невыносимыми людьми