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You've been held captive in one room. You've been mentally and physically abused every day since you were sixteen years old. Then, one night, you realise your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked. For the first time in eight years you're free. This book is about what happens next.

In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant - even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods and worse.

Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ... As Coupland writes, `Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones'. Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit, surprise and delight.

To the world he is Sri Ramakrishna - godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To Rani Rashmoni, he is the Brahmin fated to defy tradition. But to Hriday, his nephew and long-time caretaker, he is just Uncle. Rather than puzzling the shards of history and legend together, the author shatters the mirror again and rearranges the pieces.

In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia's Colchis - as Medea flees her home and father with Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece.

Sunday MirrorWhen Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. Told in Mata Hari's voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and paid the price.

'Policing is like this everywhere but not everywhere is Scilly'Meet Sergeant Colin Taylor, he has been a valuable member of the police force for over 20 years, 5 of which have been spent policing the 'quiet' Isles of Scilly, a group of islands off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula.

Jack Witney served twenty-five years in prison although he shot no one and was released on appeal, only to be murdered in his Bristol flat a few years later. But Harry Roberts, by his own admission the instigator of the crime and the most notorious, was released from prison after forty-eight years in 2015 making national front page news.

The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing .Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since his return to Earth.

The spellbinding new Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal uncover the clues that will bring them face-to-face with a world-shaking truth that has remained buried - until now.

A wealthy woman strangled six hours after she's arranged her own funeral. A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own. A reluctant author drawn into a story he can't control. What do they have in common?

You can take Michael Bennett out of New York City, but you can't take the cop out of Michael Bennett. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community.

Setting out one day to photograph the world around him a little differently, the author takes us on a globe-trotting tour as he makes the familiar world his playground, taking the sites we know and love and injecting a bit of fun into the everyday.

After a few early glitches in their relationship, Sammy and his 'bro-bot' E are now best friends. And when Sammy's inventor mom becomes distracted by a top-secret project, the robots soon begin to fall into disrepair.

Using a powerful combination of mindfulness, hypnosis and relaxation techniques, this book shows you how to: use your mind and body together to stay focused and in control; draw on visualisation and breathing techniques to help birth progress; feel positive and empowered, before, during and after you give birth.

Could a superstar singer also be a cold-hearted killer? It's a trial that has electrified the world. Not only because the defendant is Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs have captured hearts across the globe. And not only because the victim is Will Shepherd, the internationally admired athlete.

Disappointment is temporary; regret is forever. Love with all your heart were just some of the lessons that the author's dad, Bob Hoskins, taught her. In the years following his death, they are words that she keeps close to her heart. Remembering the times they shared together and featuring interviews with those who knew and worked with her dad.

Of the 200,000 years homo sapiens has been wandering this planet, this has to be the most absurd and challenging time to be a man... How can you hunt and gather in an open-plan office? is an inspiring rallying call for men and `good masculinity' which cannot be ignored - that will leave you rethinking much about life's big questions.

'I ain't always going to be poor, I made me mind up to that.'Dismissed from her position as housemaid under a cloud of misunderstanding, Tilly True is forced to return home. But when she falls for the dangerous charms of Barnaby Palgrave, Tilly soon finds that her troubles have only just begun ...

Book three in the stunning Neyler family saga. It is 1931, and once again Europe is heading towards disaster.

Will she find love in her wartime home? 1939 All over Britain children are being evacuated, and Eve Armstrong is headed for Devon. She's looking forward to a change of scene. It's a different world that invites fresh starts, and so when Eve runs into the boy from the station, Johnny Durrell, they call a truce and soon become firm friends.

Imagine a perfect world where everything is known, where everything is open, where there can be no doubt, no hatred, no poverty, no greed. Imagine a System which both nurtures and protects. A Community which nourishes and sustains. An infinite world. A world without sickness, without death. A world without God. Could you be happy there?

Years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she 'the people's princess', who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? This title offers insight into the royals and the Queen herself.

THE FIRST SAGA IN EVIE GRACE'S MAIDS OF KENT TRILOGY. 'An intriguing tale of family relationships and of finding love a second time around .

Her boys aren't boys anymore, they're becoming men - men she's not sure she recognises, men she's not sure she can trust. So when one of her son's classmates is killed in suspicious circumstances, people start asking questions.

A woman is driving through the desert wasteland. Is her vision a premonition, a message that she and her daughter are in danger? Soon she must confront her past, and untangle a web of secrets that will reveal the truths of her own nightmare...`Thoroughly enjoyable' Crime Review

It's not easy being a good detective - when your brother's a serial killer.Except she's now been banished to the outback town of Last Chance Valley (population 75), where a diary found on the roadside outlines a shocking plan - the massacre of the entire town.Meanwhile, back in Sydney, a young woman holds the key to crack Sam's case wide open.

Married, but obstinately set in their separate ways, Hugh and Kristy Foster know nothing of Al-Bustan, a far-flung island in the Indian Ocean. Too late they discover how it seethes with unrest and intrigue. Yet now when they need each other, the sullen, muttering forest seems only to intensify their differences.

Helen Bradshaw, 26, has a lot to get over. Her flatmate Luke has the tact of a traffic warden with toothache, her friend Tina is in love with her new man, her landlord Marcus is in love with himself, and, after the tequila incident, it looks as though Tom the vet will be sticking to Alsatians.

As her background gradually reveals itself, Saira finds that the battles she faces - over love, belonging and fulfilment - have faced others before, and comes to realise that her many-layered inheritance is a thing to be treasured.