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One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison. Less than a year before,...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Truly fascinating. (Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2). Have you ever forgotten the name of someone you ve met dozens of times - Or discovered that your memory of an important event was completely different from everyone else s...

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! A BLISTERING NEW THRILLER FROM THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN AND POLICE. THERE S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS...A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that...

I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the...

It starts with just one body tortured, mummified and then discarded.Its discovery reveals a nightmare world of hidden lives. Of lost identities, secret rituals and brutal exploitation, where nobody can be trusted.This is the darkest, most complex...

In a remote corner of Norway - a mountain town so far north the sun never sets - a man is running for his life in the thrilling sequel to number one bestseller Jo Nesbos Blood on Snow Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo s biggest crime lord:...

HARRY IS OUT OF HIS DEPTH. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. HES NOT SUPPOSED TO GET...

Tea-Bag is a young Nigerian refugee looking for a new life. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape the horrors of human trafficking. Leila has come with her family from Iran. All of them face challenges in their new home....

INVENTING THE ENEMY covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel, The Prague Cemetery - every country needs an enemy, and if...

A man is making a crude leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a death mask, once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves. He has revenge in mind. Meanwhile, with Detective Erlendur absent, his...

Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future Nobel Prize candidates. But their lives took divergent paths, as did their scientific views. Whenever Oskar comes to visit from...

Psychiatrist Martin Kirsch little knows that this will be his last case. Searching for the truth about his celebrated patient, he finds professional fascination turning to love. His investigations lead him to a remote corner of Serbia via a...

Dwadzieścia opowiadań napisanych w okresie 1929-1977, wypełnionych jest żywymi postaciami- od polującego na nimfy chórzysty do matki próbującej pozbyć się niechcianego kandydata do ręki...

I have played variations on the phonetic near-equivalence of deaf and death -- writes David Lodge and it seems that this is the main thrust of his latest book. The main character, Desmond Bates, who is a retired professor of linguistics is battling...

On one level, both a whodunit and a thriller - ingeniously plotted. Extremely hard to put down...

A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakamis masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters: Yuri, a...

Spectator Her life, and her murder, were so much like one of the stories she would have told herself Viv Groskop, Observer `by turns depressing and...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a...

On the heels of his bestselling debut novel, The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl returns with an addictively page-turning historical thriller that revolves around the bizarre events surrounding the death of Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore in...