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What tips someone over the edge to commit a crime? That is the question master storyteller Stephen King explores in this unique collection of four novellas, with a bonus short story • For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point comes when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead in '1922' • In 'Big Driver', a mystery writer who has been assaulted by a stranger plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself • In 'A Fair Extension', Dave Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness - if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival • 'A Good Marriage' sees the trust of long marriage dissolve when Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets. And now he's heading home

King's classic story, adapted into the movie Stand By Me, now available for the first time from Hodder in standalone form, as part of their exciting Stephen King reissue programme for 2021

Странствие Роланда Дискейна и его друзей продолжается… И теперь на пути их лежит маленький городок Калья Брин Стерджис, жители которого раз в поколение платят страшную дань посланникам Тьмы - Волкам Кальи! • Читайте пятую книгу легендарного цикла Стивена Кинга: "Волки Кальи. Темная Башня"! • Книга на английском языке • The fifth novel in King's bestselling epic fantasy series • The farming community in the fertile lands of the East has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers • Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journey through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower

You must know that your fate and my own are inextricably intertwined • Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander's dark and deadly past ... a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day • Yet Todd doesn't want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power - and the seductive lure of evil • A classic story from Stephen King Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception and horror as the boy and old man hold each other in a mutual deathgrip. Each knows something the other wants kept secret

The dark net is an online shadowland for criminals to operate anonymously, but when a demonic force begins to hack the minds of its users there is nowhere left to hide • Twelve-year-old Hannah has been fitted with a high-tech prosthetic that restores her sight, but can't understand why she can now see shadows surrounding certain people • Lela, an emotionally shut-off, technophobic journalist stumbles onto a story nobody wants her to uncover. A story someone will kill to keep hidden • A former evangelist, Mike, suffers demons - figurative and literal - and keeps an arsenal of weapons stored in the basement of the homeless shelter he runs • And Derek is a hacker who believes himself a soldier, part of a cyber army dedicated to changing the world for the better

A natural storyteller with a vision of his own. THE DARK LADY, Akala's debut novel for teens, will enthuse and entertain teenagers and young adults, showing that reading is a true super-power • A Pickpocket with an Exceptional Gift • A Prisoner of Extraordinary Value • An Orphan Haunted by Dreams of the Mysterious Dark Lady • Henry is an orphan, an outsider, a thief. He is also a fifteen-year-old invested with magical powers • This brilliant, at times brutal, first novel from the amazing imagination that is Akala, will glue you to your seat as you are hurled into a time when London stank and boys like Henry were forced to find their own route through the tangled streets and out the other side

King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy • When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction • Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented - an amazing sense of wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster • With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, to keep it from them

'A resonant novella set in one of King's signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine' Washington Post • The small town of Castle Rock, Maine, has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told...until now • There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson takes the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside • One day, while Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground and the chink of an aluminium bat hitting a baseball, a stranger calls out to her • On a bench in the shade sits a man in a small, neat black hat

"Дикая природа" - захватывающее приключение с животными от Пирса Тордея • Двенадцатилетний Кестер думал, что обнаружил последних диких животных на земле. Он думал, что его приключение закончилось. Он был неправ • Под сверкающим городом Премиум, глубоко под землей, остается темная дикая природа: животные, которые верят, что настало время восстать против своих врагов-людей • И вскоре Кестер понимает: он единственный, кто может остановить их • Кестер Джейнс спас животных. Сможет ли он спасти и людей тоже? • Книга на английском языке • A thrilling animal adventure for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Katherine Rundell • Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong

Yorkshire, 1845, and dark rumours are spreading across the moors. Everything indicates that Mrs Elizabeth Chester of Chester Grange has been brutally murdered in her home - but nobody can find her body • As the dark murmurs reach Emily, Anne and Charlotte Bronte, the sisters are horrified, yet intrigued. Before they know it, the siblings become embroiled in the quest to find the vanished bride, sparking their imaginations but placing their lives at great peril

Merdyn is the greatest wizard of the Dark Ages. Obviously • Rose is his 21st-century descendent. Lucky her • And Vanheldon the vandal warrior is FURIOUS! After all, last time they met, Merdyn turned his army to stone • Seeking revenge, Vanheldon comes up with a way to kidnap Rose and transport her back to Dark Ages Transylvania, set on luring Merdyn into a terrible trap. Except - whoops! - his magical minion kidnaps Rose's teenage brother Kris instead • Rose, Merdyn and Bubbles the guinea pig must team up to save the day. But can they rescue Kris without creating historical mayhem? Will Rose's wizard ancestor even remember her? (And want to help them?) And will Bubbles ever stop pooing?

Hidden deep in the wilderness are the cloisters of two dozen monks - men of prayer and music, famous the world over for their glorious voices. But a brutal death throws the monastery doors open to the world. And through them walks the only man who can shine light upon the dark deeds within: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache • Who among the brothers has become an angel of death? As the peace of the monastery crumbles around him, Gamache finds clues in the divine, the human . . . and the cracks in between