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A desperate sawmill owners attempt to save his business spirals into crime, chaos and unintended consequences in a hilarious dark, nailbiting thriller by the international bestselling author of The Man Who Died. **Shortlisted for Best Finnish Crime Novel of the Year*** The king of the humorous crime caperAbir MukherjeeIt may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we havent been looking in FinlandTelegraph________Heikki Nevalainen is the proud owner of a once successful sawmill, a mountain of debt and very few options to deal with either of them. An unexpected solution arrives in the form of local gangster Ismo Sippo. Dispose of Sippos dead wife, and the sawmill can keep running. Refuse, and Heikki loses everything. Horrified but desperate, Heikki agrees, loads Annaleena into his car and heads for the mill.But Annaleena proves to be not quite as dead as expected.As a Belgian buyer arrives to inspect the mills timber, Heikki scrambles to keep up appearances. But the situation is splintering fast, and even his own workers seem to be hatching plans of their ownDeadlines loom, tempers fray and misunderstandings multiply, and as the interminable situation grows ever worse, Heikki discovers that keeping a sawmill running is hard enough without a half-dead body and potentially fatal complicationsBlending deadpan humour, escalating danger and absolute chaos, The Fresh Cut is Antti Tuomainen at his most audacious, as good intentions, bad decisions and a small Finnish town collide with explosive results.___________

When Mekkins brother-in-law is found murdered in a society built to prevent violence, her investigation spirals into danger and secrecy, drawing her family into the centre of a crime that should not exist An utterly gripping standalone speculative mystery from the bestselling author of Cold as Hell**Shortlisted for Icelandic Crime Book of the Year**Icelandic crime-writing at its finestShari LapenaIcelandic crime queen Lilja Sigurardottir goes from strength to strengthFinancial Times________Reykjavik, 2052. Europe is peaceful, prosperous and almost crime-free, governed by lfa, the artificial intelligence that manages infrastructure, safety and daily life. Mekkin works at the Ministry, close to the core of the system that keeps society running. She lives with her partner, Sabina, an artist.When Sabinas brother Birkir, a committed dissident who lives beyond the reach of lfa, is found brutally murdered, that fragile sense of order begins to fracture. Violent crime has effectively been eliminated, and Birkirs death is not just shocking, but inexplicable. What was he involved in, and who would dare to commit murder in a world designed to prevent it?As the investigation unfolds, Sabina is drawn ever deeper into the case. Mekkins position at the Ministry brings scrutiny she cannot escape, their relationship begins to fracture, and their teenage sons recent integration into the system places him uncomfortably close to the forces now circling the family. As Sabina pieces together Birkirs final days, the answers begin to point far closer to home than either of them ever expected, forcing her to decide what she is prepared to sacrifice to uncover the truth__________

An account of the poet authors love affair with Dutch art, and the consolations and ecstasies of the objects we gather on our way through life. We begin standing in the Met in front of a painting by Jan Davidsz de Heem: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon. Looking almost more closely than we can bear at this image from the 17th century, Doty attempts to tell us everything it holds, from pigments to forms, and above all, meaning.This confrontation with beauty is one of many that shapes his life, from the pinwheel peppermints that emerge from his grandmas purse in his Tennessee childhood to the cracked china platter that graces the mantelpiece in the home he shares with his dying husband. But it is Dutch still-life painting that seems to have the most to tell him. This book is his record of years spent looking closely at bunched asparagus, translucent wine glasses, curling lemon peel and the bloom on grapes.In a brief, lucid, powerfully concentrated narrative, which tells the story of a life of self-discovery and an avid gaze, Mark Doty writes with poetic specificity and painterly clarity. In his loving description of reality, we begin to see that simply looking can be the most tender reverence.

In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since she left for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures, which double as a manifesto for her own, notoriously difficult work, to packed audiences at universities, galleries, members clubs and public spaces up and down the country. The lectures are vital and provocative works which articulate the legendary writers thoughts on the effect of modernism on literary form, the relationship between narrative and history, and between a writer, their work and its audience. In her trademark style she meditates on the creative possibilities of repetition, as well as her ambivalence toward her own literary fame and the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life. Listen to Me brings Steins sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected and introduced by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.

Newly appointed detective DI Bolam is making a fresh start in the east-coast hometown of his deceased, estranged wife, getting to know a family he has never learned how to like.In this new setting, Bolam struggles to make connections, finding it easier to focus on the one thing he does better than almost anyone else: seeing those connections in the lives of others, and specifically in the lives of people affected by major crime.

A sweeping novel tracing the fate of a family divided by migration, memory, and the violent reshaping of their homelandZacharias is a fisherman in a coastal village in southern Cameroon. His communityshaped for generations by the rivers rhythms and the meeting of forest and oceanis upended by the arrival of logging companies, industrial trawlers, and predatory economic interests that exploit both land and people. Violence and irreversible change tear apart Zachariass family. Decades later, his grandson Zack has fled Douala for Pariss 18th arrondissement. Isolated and adrift, Zack is haunted by a grandfather he never knew and a country whose wounds he carries in his body. Sweeping and emotionally resonant, The Fishermans Dream braids together the destinies of grandfather and grandson, each carrying the weight of a world transformed by globalization, displacement, and the delicate inheritance of love. A work of rare lyricism and political force exploring the rupture of traditional worlds, and a moving multi-generational family story.

French poet, essayist, art critic and translator Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new era in world literature - indeed, he coined the term modernity. This fresh translation of his best poetry, by eminent translator, poet, and novelist Philip Terry, lays bare the richness and the long afterlife of Baudelaires verse, and brings out all the originality of his ideas.Here, in lushly visual and sonorous verse, we find themes that still preoccupy us today. Baudelaire captured life in the city like no one else, drawing a portrait of Paris as the ultimate glittering seductress - and also as a fragmented landscape peopled by isolated individuals. As much as an urban eyewitness, he was an incisive personal poet, vividly evoking the ebb and flow of desire: the joy of fulfilling it, the agony of feeling, and even worse, not feeling it. Terrys bold, contemporary translation style makes clear why Baudelaire, a century and a half after his death, is still the painter of modern life.

Its the most wonderful time of the year in Penmenna...Teaching assistant Alice has sworn off men, which is fine because with Christmas coming, shes super busy organising the school Nativity. This should be a blast with the help of close friend and village vicar, Dan - if she can ignore those more-than-just-a-friend feelings shes developed for him...Dan is happy to help Alice - his secret crush - but not only is his beloved Granny Annie about to be made homeless, the church choir has disintegrated and hes battling some dark demons from his past.With meddling grannies and PTA wars thrown in the mix, can Alice and Dan overcome their past hurts to move forward? Will they be spending Christmas together as friends... or something more?A festive feel-good romance perfect for fans of Tilly Tennant and Holly Martin.

These old Cardiff stories were told before they were written down. Told, remembered and passed on. And there have been people living in Cardiff for over 6,000 years, so who knows how old some of these stories might be? From the Celtic Silurian tribe who fought the Romans, to the working people who dug, carried and shipped the coal that made Cardiff great, to all the people who came from around the world to make Cardiff their home, these old stories are rooted in the land and the lives and imaginations of countless generations of Cardiffians.Heard the one about the headless ghost on the road from Canton to Leckwith? Or the son of the king of the underworld who became a saint and gave his name to Llanederyn? Or the most famous resident of Victoria Park, Billy the Seal? Read them, remember them and pass the stories on!

Deep in the folklore of Tallinor lies a dark legend: the story of a powerful sentient who almost destroyed the entire land.Now, centuries later, any sentient who is discovered is executed. But in a village far from the royal city, a young scribe, Torkyn Gynt, blazes with undetected power and healing abilities. To fulfil his destiny, Tor must leave his home and his love, Alyssa to become apprentice to the royal physic.Guided by a falcon and a mysterious woman who appears to him in his dreams, Tor embarks on a journey that will test his courage and his heart.A journey that can only end in triumph or betrayal.

Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubinstein family, it could go either way.When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible.With This Is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman whose prior collection was heralded as "one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life" (The Boston Globe) returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This Is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters a big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations.

Jane has everything under control. Though her ex-husband has moved an hour away, totally disrupting her daughters routines, and her mother has died, her publisher has dropped her and her literary agent no longer wants to represent her. Shes even organised enough to be able to stand in for an ill friend and teach a residential writing course at a days notice.But the last student to arrive, in a flurry of drama and noise, is the person who will bring everything crashing down: Lucy, the woman who Janes husband left her for, his second wife. How can the two possibly spend a week together?But this course could mean a serious boost to the writing career of one of them. How can they not?

A delightful blend of humour and high tension - Our Man in Havana for the twenty-first century Mick HerronTwisty, topical, and often darkly comedic, Pariah is Fesperman at his best David McCloskey, author of Damascus StationAn adrenaline-fueled thriller about a disgraced comedian-turned-politician who takes on the role of a lifetime: infiltrating a corrupt Eastern European country to spy on their brutal dictator.After a humiliating on-set incident, Hal Knight movie star, comedian and former congressman retreats to a Caribbean island to drown his career and pride. But when CIA operatives approach him with a wild proposition to exploit the admiration of Bolrovias despot, Nikolai Horvatz Hal seizes the chance for redemption.As Horvatzs guest of honour, Hal faces his greatest acting challenge yet. What begins as simple espionage becomes a deadly battle of wits, with consequences stretching from the palace to Washington.With Pariah, Dan Fesperman delivers a razor-sharp story of espionage, celebrity and one mans search for meaning amid power, deception and danger.

What is a folk tale, but a tangled woodland of words, where anything could happen? Ever since the last ice melted, trees have been our constant companions. Trees have transformed us, protected us, inspired us and created bridges for us. They will continue to shape our lives as we walk into an uncertain future.The islands of Britain and Ireland hold a rich heritage of folk tales, history, knowledge and song about trees. It is a living heritage, changing all the time through the circling year as oak and rowan are joined by spruce and plane, and as old stories are reworked and new ones created.Following the wheel of the year, storyteller and ecologist Lisa Schneidau brings our trees alive through their stories and songs, whether they are rooted in rural magic or modern myth. Take a fresh look at the tree-folk you share your life with, and discover their stories.

In a Parisian apartment window, a woman and her husband can be seen battling an intruder. Under the eyes of the crowd below a fatal shot is fired. The police rush to the scene, but the murderer has vanished into thin air. Six more locked-room crimes follow, and the authorities are baffled. But private detective Andre Brunel is on the case: these seemingly insoluble mysteries are connected, and its up to him to piece the puzzle together...

Christophe Bourdin was certain he would be the author of a single book. Diagnosed HIV-positive at the height of the epidemic in Paris, he began writing the exquisitely beautiful, painfully intense pages that would become The Thread.It begins with the hypochondriac days: days of obsessive hygiene, of microscopic attention to contamination, of seeing dangers everywhere. In serpentine sentences that capture the frenzied paranoia of the time, Bourdin recreates the consciousness of a young gay man whose world has suddenly become charged with threat. With his illness becoming manifest, the man writes a diary to record the passing of his final days. Beginning with searing intensity, the entries gradually become mixed with currents of fantasy and visions of an alternative future.First published in 1994, The Thread is appearing in English for the first time in a stunning translation by the prize-winning Jeffrey Zuckerman. Lucid and moving, it is an essential lost classic of AIDS literature.

Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and BoyChange will divide a country. Murder will destroy a family. Detective Constable Ian Wheedon has been running away from himself since he was a boy. He worked in Merseyside covering serious crime, but now lives in a remote police house working as a local cop. His brother, Stephen, is on the front lines of the miners strike in Stoke. The force is already stretched to breaking point when Ian is called in to investigate the brutal murder of their childhood friend. The case brings Ian face-to-face with his past, his family, and with the life he left behind. As tensions erupt and tempers fray, the community fractures. But when Stephens son Christopher goes missing, it becomes a race against time to solve the case. Ian and his family must fight for the answers they need and the future they want, before its too late.

You havent seen Oma in years. Your mum and dad have kept her away, scared of something that happened when you were too young to remember. But then, they changed their minds. Once a month, they say, you can visit her once a month. And now, here she is: Oma. A stranger. Your grandmother. And she has a story to tell - are you ready?After years of estrangement, a teenager goes to stay with their grandmother. Thus begins a remarkable journey of rediscovery, as each month the grandmother tells the child a new story, linked to the mysteries hidden in their past. As the months pass and the seasons change, the two build a bond that will transform both their lives forever.

A dramatic political, cultural and social historical narrative of the period 60-40 BCE in Egypt and Rome, and the three sister queens each seeking power for themselves during this time: Cleopatra, Berenike (executed by their father) and Arsinoe (murdered at sister Cleopatras request).Fatal Monsters approaches the three sister queens equally, rather than simply privileging Cleopatra, and examines them in the correct historical and archaeological context, not just through Roman eyes but also Greek and Egyptian ones. This story, the story of three sister queens and the sibling rivalry that brought down a 300-year-old dynasty, has yet to be told.

Gabriel Reece should be starting university, but new super powers and dark family mysteries stand in the way of higher education. Hes taking a gap year to keep his spooky boyfriend from killing his super-powerful brother, watch out for his unpowered best friend, and hunt down the puppet masters who wont leave any of them alone.