In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance.
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIMESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ROBERT DE NIRO**‘A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice’ JON KRAKAUER‘A fiercely
HEROES AND UNICORNS AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE. The first book in the major new hit fantasy adventure series for children age 9+, and fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Eragon and Amari and the Night Brothers. WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'Steadman has a vast imagination, her world-building is a joy, the battle scenes are thrilling and her characters charm.
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.
The final book in the Plated Prisoner Series - the 70M view TikTok dark fantasy phenomenon'Find me in another life. Find me in all of them'It all ends now. Discover the heart-stopping finale to the international and Amazon bestselling fantasy phenomenon
To hell with love, this goddess has other plans...Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: how Persephone was a pawn in the politics of other gods. How Hades kidnapped Persephone to be his bride. How her mother, Demeter, was so distraught she caused the Earth to start dying.The real story is much more interesting.Persephone wasn't taken to hell: she jumped.
Explore the enchanting world of Polynesian folklore in this beautiful illustrated collection. A woman falls in love with the king of the sharks. Two powerful sorcerers compete in a battle of magical wits.The king of Maui's fastest messenger races to bring a young woman back from the dead. In these traditional stories, the borders blur between life and death, reality and magic, and land and sea.
WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman'Sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate . .. it is wonderful to have this closeup picture of the writer's working life.
'An impossibly fun romance with an all-too relatable message, Lovestruck is the perfect escapist treat from one of the best romance writers out there' Lindsey KelkThis isn't one love story. It's two. Becca Calloway is calling it: she's ready for Mr Right, and she's ready now.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Uproarious memoir packed with anecdotes about the Harry Potter films' Daily Mail'Very funny and fascinating' Mail on Sunday'Brave and brilliant' Cosmopolitan'Highly readable' The TimesThey called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard.
From the bestselling author of MALIBU RISING, DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO'It made me cry twice, and when I finished reading, I had to sit for a minute with the hole it left in my chest . . .just order it' EMILY HENRY'A crowd-pleaser.
Nestled into the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains, Camp Carl Cove provides the exact escape recently divorced Garland Moore always dreamed of, until she runs into Mason - the man she had a premonition about after one brief meeting years ago. No matter how she tries to run, the universe appears determined to bring love back into Garland's life.
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this collection of three chilling stories that will haunt even the bravest player... Have you ever had something stuck in your head?
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACKTRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' RedPSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Je obyčajný štvrtok a život beží v zabehnutých koľajach. No známej partii zo Štvrtkového klubu detektívov pokojné dni rozhodne nehrozia. Elizabeth s priateľmi čoskoro natrafí na ďalší nevyriešený prípad: vraždu, ktorá súvisí s miestnou novinárskou legendou - samozrejme, bez jedinej stopy po mŕtvole či páchateľovi. A nielen to!
'Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting . . .A preternaturally attentive reporter at work' - The Observer'A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours . . .
It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird. Swifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve-week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition of summer.They may nest in our homes but much about their lives passes over our heads. No birds are more wreathed in mystery.
Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nell Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belong. Passing is a disturbing story about the unravelling lives of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past and marries a white racist.
Newly translated according to a scheme of staggering ambition, an anthology unlike any now availableComposed between the early-agricultural 'song culture' of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the time of Imperial Rome, the corpus of Greek and Latin lyric poetry is as densely rich in formal interrelation and allusion as anything we know
Collector's slipcased edition of the first ever standalone presentation of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts.