The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the "ridiculously fun and large-hearted" (NPR) near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. Praise for Ready Player One "Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix."- USA Today "An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart."- CNN "Delightful . . . the grown-up's Harry Potter."- HuffPost "As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates."- Entertainment Weekly "Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, [and] spectacularly successful."- Daily Mail (UK) "A smart, funny thriller that both celebrates and critiques online culture."- San Francisco Chronicle "A geek fantasia, '80s culture memoir and commentary on the future of online behavior all at once."- Austin American-Statesman
With more than seventy million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the worldwide number 1 bestselling author of numerous thrillers, including Don''t Let Go , Home, and Fool Me Once , as well as the multi-award-winning Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in forty-three languages around the globe and are bestsellers in more than a dozen countries. Coben is also the creator and executive producer of many television shows, including the forthcoming Netflix Original drama Harlan Coben''s The Stranger starring Richard Armitage, Stephen Rea and Jennifer Saunders and the critically acclaimed Netflix Original drama Harlan Coben''s Safe starring Michael C. Hall. Coben is currently developing 14 projects, including Run Away , with Netflix in the US and internationally. He lives in New Jersey.
When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a cold blooded murder. All too soon former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton - home for Thanksgiving after a long absence - finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight - he lies dead in his cell, the words 'Not me' scrawled across the walls...
David and Cheryl Baskin are living the dream - married, a beautiful new house in the suburbs, a three-year-old son named Matthew - when tragedy strikes in the worst way possible. David awakes to find himself covered in blood... but not his own, his son''s. While David is sure he did not murder his son, the overwhelming evidence against him puts him behind bars indefinitely. Then, five years following his imprisonment, his wife''s sisterbrings David a photograph of Matthew looking very much alive, accompanied by an unknown figure. Can David escape prison, find Matthew and bring him home? The consequences are dire, but prospect of being reunited with his son is way too tempting to resist. Soon David is on the run. But it soon transpires that he knows way too much, and that there are people out there who will do anything to silence him. For ever ...
When Tiro, the secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a stranger on a cold morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which propels his master into one of the famous courtroom dramas in history. The senator is Cicero, a brilliant young lawyer and spellbinding orator, determined to attain imperium - supreme power in the state.
''Laws are silent in times of war.'' Cicero There was a time when Cicero held Caesar''s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero''s life is in ruins. Exiled, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, his life constantly in danger, Cicero is tormented by the knowledge that he has sacrificed power for the sake of his principles. His comeback requires wit, skill and courage - and for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome. But politics is never static and no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others. Riveting and tumultuous, DICTATOR encompasses some of the most epic events in human history yet is also an intimate portrait of a brilliant, flawed, frequently fearful yet ultimately brave man - a hero for his time and for ours. This is an unforgettable tour de force from a master storyteller.
The Family Upstairs has gripped audiences around the world, becoming a smash hit with readers everywhere. In 2022 #1 bestselling author Lisa Jewell will publish a sequel. **Pre-order now to be one of the first to read it.** '' Enthralling '' RUTH WARE '' Gripping '' OLIVIA COLMAN '' Engrossing '' IAN RANKIN '' Twisty '' CLARE MACKINTOSH '' Excellent '' GUARDIAN '' Stupendous '' RUTH JONES '' Brilliant '' SARAH PINBOROUGH '' Unputdownable '' C.L. TAYLOR
The Sunday Times bestseller, and set to be a major TV drama ________________________ ''You can''t help feeling that Jane would have approved.'' OBSERVER ''So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it.'' CLAIRE TOMALIN ________________________ A wonderfully original, emotionally complex novel that delves into why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane Austen - an act of destruction that has troubled academics for centuries. 1840 : twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family''s friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she is desperate should not be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane''s history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane''s reputation? Or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity ... Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen. ________________________ ''The perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark night'' STYLIST ''Without romanticising its period setting or underplaying the precariousness of any woman''s position in this society, it celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty'' SUNDAY TIMES ''This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.'' KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of The Jane Austen Bookclub ''Hornby is at her best describing the complex bonds between the ''excellent women'' of her story. She describes the horrors, but also the pleasures, of spinsterhood'' THE TIMES ''It won''t surprise me if this is one of the books of the year. It''s a delight, one of those that you don''t want to end.'' RTE ''A charming novel... capturing the spirit of the brilliant sardonic Jane, and reminding the reader of how brutal life was for women in Austen''s era, it''s an ingenious and affecting embroidery on the fact of the author''s life.'' SUNDAY MIRROR '' Miss Austen is ingenious ... With flashbacks and wonderful domestic detail, Hornby brings to life the Austen family, using the known to speculate on what might have been.'' THE TIMES Audio Book of the Week ''Extraordinary and heart-wrenching, Miss Austen transported me from page one. A remarkable novel that is wholly original, deeply moving, and emotionally complex. A gift to all Austen lovers.'' LARA PRESCOTT, author of The Secrets We Kept ''Gill Hornby ingeniously imagines what Cassandra Austen''s own life might have been like, both before and after Jane''s untimely death, casting a different light on the familiar biographical picture without in any way distorting it.'' DEIRDRE LE FAYE, editor of Jane Austen''s Letters ''Tender and touching ... Hornby deftly describes the psychological toll that such uncertainly took on Jane, and movingly celebrates the fortitude of Cassandra whose greatest love was her sister'' DAILY MAIL ''Utterly absorbing. The lives of the Austen sisters are recreated with a brilliant sureness of touch that can only be achieved by deep study of the period.'' ARTEMIS COOPER
Gill Hornby is the author of the novels The Hive and All Together Now , as well as The Story of Jane Austen , a biography of Austen for young readers. She lives in Kintbury, Berkshire, with her husband and their four children.>
Romance, friendship, joy and the possibility of happy endings: the heartwarming new novel by number one bestseller, Katie Fforde. Lizzie has just arrived in London, determined to make the best of her new life. Her mother may be keen that she should have a nice wedding in the country to a Suitable Man chosen by her. And Lizzie may be going to cookery school to help her become a Good Wife. But she definitely wants to have some fun first. It is 1963 and London is beginning to swing as Lizzie cuts her hair, buys a new dress with a fashionably short hemline, and moves in with two of her best friends, one of whom lives in a grand but rundown house in Belgravia which has plenty of room for a lodger. Soon Lizzie''s life is so exciting that she has forgotten all about her mother''s marriage plans for her. All she can think about is that the young man she is falling in love with appears to be engaged to someone else ...
The riveting inside story of the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, from the Queen''s tightening grip to the defection of Harry and Meghan - by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Diana Chronicles. _________________________________ ''Never again'', became Queen Elizabeth II''s mantra shortly after Diana''s death. More specifically, there could never be ''another Diana'' - a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana''s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. Tina Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey that shows the Queen''s stoic resolve as she coped with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother and her partner for seven decades, Prince Philip, and triumphed in her Jubilee years even as the family dramas raged around her. She explores Prince Charles''s determination to make Camilla his queen, the tension between William and Harry who are on ''different paths'', the ascendance of the resolute Kate Middleton, the disturbing allegations surrounding Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, and Harry and Meghan''s stunning decision to ''step back'' as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchy''s best efforts, ''never again'' seems fast approaching. Full of powerful revelations, nuanced details, and searing insight, The Palace Papers will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family. Praise for The Diana Chronicles : ''Unputdownable. . . extraordinary. . . allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet.'' Helen Mirren ''A blockbuster: a rollicking, page-turning, fast-quipping, gripping romp of a read. It is the work of a seasoned, serious journalist.'' The Times
''ANOTHER INSTANT COBEN BOLITAR CLASSIC'' Michael J Fox For ten long years two boys have been missing. Now you think you''ve seen one of them. He''s a young man. And he''s in trouble. Do you approach him? Ask him to come home with you? And how can you be sure it''s really him? You thought your search for the truth was over. It''s only just begun.
THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ___________________________ A body is found in the hills - but the truth still lies buried... In a small town in the Deep South, Flora Dane is part of a task force committed to hunting down every last trace of notorious serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. As his last victim, imprisoned by Ness in a small box for over a year, she knew him better than most. Even after his death, his evil still lingers. But this is the kind of town that doesn''t take kindly to strangers asking questions. The kind of town where dark secrets lurk just beneath the surface. The kind of town she might not leave alive. ___________________________ Featuring Detective D.D. Warren and FBI Special Agent Kimberley Quincy ___________________________ ''A string of murders, a crack FBI team and a voiceless girl desperate for revenge - this twist-a-minute thriller has it all.'' KARIN SLAUGHTER ''A twisty-turny psycho-thriller with a plot and characters that won''t let you go. Lisa Gardner is at the top of her game!'' KATHY REICHS '' When You See Me is another rocket-fuel-propelled thriller from Lisa Gardner. This culmination of her great talents . . . starts out chillingly intimate and explodes into a sky-high denouement that will leave you breathless.'' GREGG HURWITZ ___________________________ Readers love WHEN YOU SEE ME: ''I haven''t read a Lisa Gardner book in a while, I will go searching to see what I have missed. What a book! I was totally gripped and read it in one go.'' '' A fantastic nail biting read'' ''When it comes to writing a tense, fast paced, gripping and unputdownable thrillers, Lisa Gardner has few rivals .'' '' Psychological twists and turns abound making this a taut thriller to read'' ''A wonderfully realised psycho-thriller of the highest order .'' '' Unmissable and unputdownable - When You See Me demands to be read in one sitting.'' ''This story had me experiencing a whole spectrum of emotions from shock and horror to breathless anticipation .'' ''I just swallowed this whole.'' ''The suspense and thrill throughout the book was absolutely stunning! The twists and turns kept me awake all night'' ''The first book I have read in the series but it is perfect as a standalone, though it does make me want to read the previous books in the series .'' ''A fast-paced, page-turning thriller'' ''A fast paced read with chilling moments that will give you goosebumps and keep you on the edge of your seat for many moments.'' '' I honestly cannot recommend this book enough .'' '' Riveting and thrilling at times , this was a grippingly good read.'' ''This is my first read of Lisa Gardner and what a great read. I can see that I have been missing out so will have to put that right '' ''Incredible penmanship with a tendency to keep a reader hooked. So excited for people to read this! '' ''I loved this!'' ''I will certainly be going back and reading the books in the series.'' ''This is an excellent novel and I highly recommend this to other readers'' ''It starts well and finishes even better!'' ''There was barely time to pause for breath reading this!'' ''This author is unrivalled in the genre in my opinion.''
When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out.
Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder and kidnapping hit too close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). Take care of the decedent''s body. Determine the manner of death. Notify the next of kin. These are all things Clay Edison must keep in mind on the job. But there are other things on his mind, like his family, especially his brother, Luke, recently released from prison and struggling to stay on the straight and narrow. But when a wealthy couple is murdered and Clay discovers his brother''s car in their garage, he finds himself struggling to differentiate between his suspicions, resentments, and instincts, all of which begin to get the better of him when he can''t find Luke. Clay''s torturous struggle between his family and the truth might just lead him down the wrong path. Could his brother be capable of murder? Or could he be the victim in all of this, too? This is Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman at their most affecting and page-turning. Clay will be pushed the brink and back, as he discovers that even the most harrowing or grisly cases don''t hold a candle to the ones that strike the heart of your own family.
The electrifying new Alex Delaware thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. At 5am in the upscale neighbourhood of Westwood Village, two removal men are making a routine pick-up when they make a fatal hit. It''s a man - who appeared from nowhere - naked and with no means of identification. Not long after, a woman is found dead in a house nearby, which neighbours suspect to be a brothel. Could the man have come from there? When LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware is called to the scene, the case gets even more complicated. Delaware has met the woman before. She''s a psychologist too. Are the two deaths linked? Or is there a darker force at work?
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow the rules. But some don't. These are the dangerous ones.
Lisa Gardner started her writing career aged seventeen. Having caught her hair on fire while working in food service, crafting a novel seemed a safer bet. A mere ten years later she became an overnight success with the publication of her first thriller, The Perfect Husband . Now an internationally bestselling author and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for best suspense novel, Lisa lives in the mountains of New Hampshire with her family. When not glued to her computer, she can be found hiking the mountains with her dogs and/or researching new and interesting ways to get away with murder.
Lisa Gardner started her writing career aged seventeen. Having caught her hair on fire while working in food service, crafting a novel seemed a safer bet. A mere ten years later she became an overnight success with the publication of her first thriller, The Perfect Husband . Now an internationally bestselling author and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for best suspense novel, Lisa lives in the mountains of New Hampshire with her family. When not glued to her computer, she can be found hiking the mountains with her dogs and/or researching new and interesting ways to get away with murder.
Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and is a true country girl at heart. Each of her books explores a different profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to life. She''s been a porter in an auction house, tried her hand at pottery, refurbished furniture, delved behind the scenes of a dating website, and she''s even been on a Ray Mears survival course. She loves being a writer; to her there isn''t a more satisfying and pleasing thing to do. She particularly enjoys writing love stories. She believes falling in love is the best thing in the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories. To find out more about Katie Fforde step into her world at www.katiefforde.com, visit her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @KatieFforde.>
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER We all have an ikigai . It''s the Japanese word for ''a reason to live'' or ''a reason to jump out of bed in the morning''. It''s the place where your needs, desires, ambitions, and satisfaction meet. A place of balance. Small wonder that finding your ikigai is closely linked to living longer. Finding your ikigai is easier than you might think. This book will help you work out what your own ikigai really is, and equip you to change your life. You have a purpose in this world: your skills, your interests, your desires and your history have made you the perfect candidate for something. All you have to do is find it. Do that, and you can make every single day of your life joyful and meaningful. ______________________________ ''I read it and it''s bewitched me ever since. I''m spellbound.'' Chris Evans ''A refreshingly simple recipe for happiness.'' Stylist ''Ikigai gently unlocks simple secrets we can all use to live long, meaningful, happy lives. Warm, patient, and kind, this book pulls you gently along your own journey rather than pushing you from behind.'' Neil Pasricha, bestselling author of The Happiness Equation
_________________ ''Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel good romance.'' AJ PEARCE _________________ A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape . It''s the season of new beginnings for Helena and Gilly. Gilly runs her own B&B business from her much-loved family home, which she doesn''t want to part with - at any price. But that''s before she meets handsome estate agent Leo, and soon she begins to wonder whether selling up might not be such a bad idea after all. Meanwhile Gilly''s daughter Helena has a budding romance of her own. A talented weaver, she''s becoming very close to her new landlord, Jago, who''s offered to help her at an upcoming craft fair. It''s what friends do, and they are just friends. Aren''t they? With spring in full bloom, Helena and Gilly begin to ask themselves the same question: Might their new loves lead to happily ever after? _________________ ''Modern-day Austen'' WOMAN AND HOME ''Katie''s writing is life-enhancing and, like the love affairs, delicious. I enjoyed every minute!'' ELIZABETH BUCHAN
