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PI John Craine has come to Hale Island to get away from it all - the memories and the guilt, and a past that just won't let go. Or - in his already tormented state - did Craine imagine it in the first place?Determined to get at the truth, Craine starts asking questions.

His mission: Kidnap the head of the vicious La Frontera drugs cartel and get him back to the UK to face trial for murder. All that's standing in his way is the cartel's four thousand trained soldiers, a corrupt army and police force and a former South African special forces colonel who has been paid to track him down.

When city girl Molly Bonner arrives in the village of Lufferton Boney, she creates quite a stir. For Molly is a girl on a mission: to discover the truth behind Lufferton Boney's most notorious resident, the giant (and slightly obscene) Gnome etched into the face of Pound Hill.

When news of the death of his former apprentice reaches Jedi Master Mander Zuma, he is immediately suspicious.

Life is beautiful for Claudia and Jeremy. They are a bohemian couple whose work in both the film and music world is finally paying off. Claudia's first film is in the can and Jeremy and his band are going places. Now seems like the perfect time to settle down and buy a house. But this is summer 2008, and the credit crunch is round the corner.

July 2012: The Games have arrived in London.When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London Olympic organising committee, is found decapitated in his garden, Peter Knight, head of Private London, is called to the scene.

From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, Lucia Santa - wife, widow and mother of two families - steer them through the Depression and the early years of war as they adapt to life in a strange land. She cannot prevent the conflict between Italian and American values - nor the violence and bloodshed which surely follow...

AN ASTOUNDING STORY OF CORRUPTION AND BETRAYAL. Hardened by the brutality and desceration of three long years of war, Walter Mosca returns to America a changed man. Mosca now faces a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision - between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death...

In a quiet field in Buckinghamshire, a huge crack has appeared in the earth's surface. But if he's right, and they can't find a way to destroy the creature roaming the countryside, then it's not just Buckinghamshire that could be in danger, but the whole world.

He is raising the poker again and Anna bites her lower lip so hard she chokes a little in the blood that runs down her throat... On a cold, wet night recently widowed psychology lecturer John Pritchard visits spiritualist Aida Golding with his son.

The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly anti-gay classes. Desperate to save him from the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian.

In a tale ofretribution and survival set before the events of The Phantom Menace, Darth Plagueisand Darth Sidious dispatch Sith apprentice Darth Maul on a secret mission to infiltrate acriminal empire operating from inside Cog Hive Seven--a hidden prison teeming with thegalaxy's most savage criminals.

A remote solar systemA fragile galactic allianceAn interstellar war is on the brink of eruption...When the Lightship Impulse is attacked without provocation, Lt. Peter Cochrane, son of the Grand Admiral, is sent to investigate.His first deep space mission, this isn't what Peter has spent three years in training for. Surrounded by strangers and following secret orders, is he willing to do what it takes to keep the alliance together? Even mutiny?Book one in The Lightship Chronicles, a groundbreaking new action-adventure space opera from Dave Bara

The final instalment of the Bel Dame Apocrypha trilogy from Hugo-award winner Kameron HurleyNyx is back, alongside the bel dame sisterhood of assassins.Although the centuries-long war is over, civil unrest is rife, and the fate of one kidnapped politician could be the catalyst for a bloody regime change.With aliens in the sky and a hint of revolution in the air, Nyx and her team of mutant shape-shifters, torturers and bio-tech magicians have a new mission: save a life to save a country.*****Make sure you've read the rest of the series:1. God's War2. Infidel3. Rapture

The sensational new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep . . She's obsessed by a stranger. She's a devoted mother. She's prepared to lose everything. She knows what she's doing. She's guilty as sin. She's living two lives. She might lose both . .

Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget: a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato.

Orphan Mabel Court's dreams come true when she enters the Booth Street Poor Law Infirmary as a probationer nurse.

Whilst Kate grows up knowing only poverty and servitude, Josie's world is one of privilege and luxury. Until a chance meeting forces Kate and Josie to confront the truth of that night nearly twenty years before - a truth that turns both worlds upside down and threatens to destroy their friendship forever...

Number 2 is an unstoppable criminal who's slowly been amassing an underground army of alien henchmen to enslave Earth's population - all in preparation for the arrival of Number 1, the most powerful alien in the universe, and Daniel's arch-nemesis.

_____________________________Even for Private Investigations, the world's top detective agency, it's tough to find a man who doesn't exist . Meanwhile, a routine background check becomes a frantic race to find a stolen baby and catch a brutal killer - a killer Private may well have sent straight to the victim's door .

Darren Walsh, the UK's first Pun Champion (TM) and the comedy circuit's Tallest Comedian (TM), debuts his first and greatest joke book encompassing four misspent years of scribbling and doodling.

Desiree White was walking through the fields of winter wheat and oilseed rape when she saw it. As years go by and everyone else moves on with their lives, Desiree feels stuck, unable to forget what she saw that day.

No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. This title presents the story of the Tower of London as an ancient structure and as a living symbol of the nation.

A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, Claire finds herself under pressure from outraged family members and in collision with hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself.

Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel. They fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theatres of war which established them as two of the greatest captains of their age. This title tracks and compares their military talents and personalities in battle.

Presents the life of a man who became a legend in his own lifetime, whose idealistic vigour and determination were matched only by his political realism and supreme organisational abilities. This book provides an insight on Michael Collins life and work.

When Dana and Caitlin meet by chance on the ferry from Ireland, they tell each other that they are simply going to search for work, but they soon realise they have more than that in common.They are both in search of new lives in Liverpool, leaving their secrets behind in Ireland.

Here, Mimi Beardsley finally tells the true story of her affair with President John F. Kennedy. It is a story that has been kept secret for 40 years. It tells how their affair continued for 18 months and the fact that it was ended only by his assassination.

The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, the author sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground - overground - passing every station on the way. This title celebrates the sights, sounds and soul of the greatest city on earth.