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Nothing Ventured is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer • This is not a detective story, this is a story about a detective • William Warwick is eight when he decides to join the police force. Resolute in the face of his prominent QC father's objections, William graduates in Art History from university and immediately enrols as a constable in the Metropolitan Police • Gaining insight from his first mentor, an experienced, world-weary constable, his keen mind quickly takes him into a role in Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques unit and his first case: the recovery of a Rembrandt stolen from the Fitzmolean Museum • It will take skill and tenacity for William to solve the crime, and along the way he will encounter many who will change his life, from Miles Faulkner, a crooked art collector, and his influential lawyer - who bends the law to the point of breaking - to research assistant Beth Rainsford, a woman with secrets who he falls hopelessly in love with

Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again • Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life forever. Follow the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s, and another young woman who thumbs a lift and has an encounter of a lifetime • From the master of the short story, the refreshingly original stories in Tell Tale prove why Archer has been described by the Mail on Sunday as ‘probably the greatest storyteller of our age’

"Будь осторожен в своих желаниях", четвертая часть "Хроник Клифтона" Джеффри Арчера начинается с того, что Гарри Клифтон и его жена Эмма спешат в больницу, чтобы узнать судьбу своего сына Себастьяна, который попал в автомобильную аварию со смертельным исходом. Но кто умер, Себастьян или его лучший друг Бруно? • Когда Росс Бьюкенен вынужден уйти с поста председателя судоходной компании "Баррингтон Шиппинг Компани", Эмма Клифтон хочет заменить его. Но дон Педро Мартинес намерен поставить на место свою марионетку, вопиющего майора Алекса Фишера, чтобы уничтожить семейную фирму Баррингтонов как раз в тот момент, когда компания планирует построить свой новый роскошный лайнер MV Букингем • Книга на английском языке • Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident

В романе "Закрыть глаза", третьей части серии "Жизнь детектива Уильяма Уорвика", автор международного бестселлера Джеффри Арчер вновь демонстрирует свое мастерство в искусстве рассказывания историй • Детективу-инспектору Уильяму Уорвику поручена новое опасное дело - работать под прикрытием и разоблачать коррупцию в самом сердце столичной полиции • Его команда сосредоточена на детективе-сержанте Джерри Саммерсе, молодом офицере, ведущем экстравагантный образ жизни. Но у Саммерса завязываются личные отношения с констеблем из команды Уильяма, и расследование висит на волоске • По мере того, как его офицеры под прикрытием связывают нити воедино, Уильям понимает, что уровень коррупции может оказаться намного выше, чем он предполагал изначально, и что больше его коллег, чем он думал, готовы закрыть на это глаза… • Книга на английском языке

Июнь, 1781 год. На причале в Дептфорде обнаружен труп мужчины с клеймом раба, подвешенный на крюк • Несколько дней спустя к капитану Гарри Коршэму — герою войны, начинающему перспективную карьеру в Парламенте — приходит сестра старого друга • Ее брат, страстный аболиционист Тэд Арчер, собирался обнародовать правду, которая могла бы нанести непоправимый ущерб британской рабовладельческой индустрии. Он говорил, что люди пытались убить его, а теперь пропал • Чтобы узнать, что случилось с Тэдом, Гарри вынужден подхватить расследование своего друга и проникнуть в самое сердце заговора, который раскрыл Тэд • Это расследование поставит под угрозу будущее Гарри в политике и счастье его семьи и заставит считаться со своим прошлым, в котором таятся секреты, способные уничтожить его

For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Girl Who Reads on the Metro is the French phenomenon by Christine Feret-Fleury, ready to charm book-lovers everywhere • When Juliette takes the metro to her loathed office job each morning, her only escape is in books - she avidly reads on her journey and imagines what her fellow commuters' choices might say about them • Then she meets Soliman - the mysterious owner of the most enchanting bookshop Juliette has ever seen - and things will never be the same again. For Soliman believes in the power of books to change the course of a life, and he's about to change Juliette's forever

March 1978 saw the first ever transmission of Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4; the beginning of a cult phenomenon • March 2020 marks the 42nd anniversary of that first transmission - 42 being the answer, of course, to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. To mark the occasion, Pan Macmillan are bringing back into print The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts with an introduction from Simon Jones • The collection also includes the previously "lost" Hitchhiker script from the 25th anniversary edition, "Sheila's Ear" and the original introductions by producer Geoffrey Perkins and Douglas Adams • This collection, which is a faithful reproduction of the text as it was first published in 1985, features all twelve original radio scripts - Hitchhiker as it was written and exactly as it was broadcast for the very first time

In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mary is the middle of the five Bennet girls and the plainest of them all, so what hope does she have? Prim and pious, with no redeeming features, she is unloved and seemingly unlovable • The Other Bennet Sister, though, shows another side to Mary. An introvert in a family of extroverts; a constant disappointment to her mother who values beauty above all else; fearful of her father's sharp tongue; with little in common with her siblings - is it any wonder she turns to books for both company and guidance? And, if she finds her life lonely or lacking, that she determines to try harder at the one thing she can be: right • One by one, her sisters marry - Jane and Lizzy for love; Lydia for some semblance of respectability - but Mary, it seems, is destined to remain single and live out her life at Longbourn, at least until her father dies and the house is bequeathed to the reviled Mr Collins

Scandal and intrigue among the rich and famous, Players is the glamorous debut novel from the bestselling author of The Paris Secret, Karen Swan • Harry Hunter is the new golden boy of the literary scene. With his books selling by the millions, the paparazzi on his tail, and a supermodel on each arm, he seems to have the world at his feet. Women all over the globe adore him but few suspect that his angelic looks hide a darker side, a side that conceals a lifetime of lies and deceit • Tor, Cress and Kate have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Through all the challenges of marriage, raising children and maintaining their high-flying careers, they have stuck together as a powerful and loyal force to be reckoned with - living proof that twenty-first-century women can have it all, and do

Return to Woodbury by Jay Bonansinga is the eighth novel in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead spin-off series, is based on the award-winning comic books and blockbuster television show • She has weathered over four years of the apocalypse. She has done things that she would not have dreamt of doing in her darkest nightmares. But she has survived. And now, she has staked a claim in the plague-ravaged city of Atlanta. It is a safe haven for her people, rising high above the walker-ridden streets • But for Lilly Caul, something is missing • She still dreams of her former home, the little village known as Woodbury - a place of heartache as well as hope. For Lilly, Woodbury has become a symbol of the future, of family, of a return to normal life amidst this hell on earth

The Collectors by bestselling sensation David Baldacci is the exciting second instalment of a breathtaking series • Oliver Stone - the leader of four highly skilled misfits who call themselves the Camel Club. Their mission - to hold America's political elite to account • Washington DC. The Speaker of the House of Representatives is assassinated in broad daylight. Then the head of the Rare Books Division at the Library of Congress is found dead amongst his cherished collection • While chaos engulfs the city, only the Camel Club can make the connection that exists between the two murders • Joining forces with a beautiful con artist, Stone and his team need all the help they can get as they enter a world of espionage that threatens to bring America to its knees

The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale • Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service but for a good cause. The last story, The Grass is Always Greener, is possibly the best piece Archer has written, and will haunt you for the rest of your life