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THE TWISTY AND INGENIOUS THIRD INSTALLEMENT IN THE BIZARRE HOUSE MYSTERIESThe famed mystery writer Miyagaki Ytar lives a life of seclusion in the remote Labyrinth House. When Ytar invites four young crime authors to his home for a birthday party, they are honoured to accept. But no sooner have they arrived than they are confronted with a shocking death, then lured into a bizarre, deadly competition...As the twisted contest gathers pace, murder follows murder. The ingenious sleuth Shimada Kiyoshi investigates, but can he solve the mystery of the house before all those trapped in its labyrinth are dead? And can you guess the solution before he does?

Relive the history of Edinburgh through the eyes of those who witnessed it. From one of the earliest mentions of its name in the sixth century to the Covid lockdowns of the twenty-first, this is a magnificent portrait of one of the worlds great cities in its many iterations, from Edinburgh, the sink of abomination to the Athens of the North and everything including the home of the Enlightenment, the Festival City, the Aids Capital of Europe and a Mecca for tourists seeking tartan tat in between. As the nations capital it has been critical to its progress and a witness to epochal events, such the tumultuous reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, the Reformation, the Forty-Five rebellion, the Disruption of the Church of Scotland and the reconvening of the Scottish Parliament. All of these and more feature. But this is not simply a book about the great and good, the famous and infamous. There is testimony aplenty from ordinary folk who may not have made their mark on history but who have contributed to Edinburghs ever-expanding tapestry. There are stories of body snatching and murder, drunkenness and drug-taking, sex and shopping, as well rants against inclement weather and the city council.

The classic Glasgow Memoir with a new introduction by Tom Morton This is Clifford Hanleys vibrant, unsentimental and hilarious account of growing up in the 1920s and 30s, and his later working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist. His razor-sharp observations and anecdotes cover many topics, from family life, art and showbiz to politics, sex, TB and what it was like to be a conscientious objector during the Second World War. But even the most bittersweet stories are leavened with humour, and the irrepressible Glasgow spirit always shines through. Hanley writes with consistent relish for his native city . . . captures Glasgow and its people nonchalantly and unfussily Ian Jack, The Guardian Like a portal into a vanished Glasgow, but one where the city, its people their foibles, hopes, humour and warmth are instantly familiar Norry Wilson, Lost Glasgow

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE TIMES BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025A rare combination of experience and talent Mick HerronHis best yet ... Superb, addictively suspenseful, its politics and tradecraft coolly accurate, scary, intricate and complex ... The newmaestro of espionage thrillersSimon Sebag MontefioreThe Seventh Floor is a truly creative, riveting page turner that will cement McCloskeys reputation as the best contemporary spy novelist General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIAThis enthralling read cements McCloskeys place in the first division of spy writersFinancial TimesTHE THIRD NOVEL FROM FORMER CIA OFFICER, THE REST IS CLASSIFIED PODCAST CO-HOST AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ***THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR***DAMASCUS STATION (One of the best spy thrillers in yearsTHE TIMES) AND ***SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*** MOSCOW XFOURTH NOVEL THE PERSIAN AVAILABLE NOW TO PRE-ORDERALL YOUR LIFE YOURE CIA. THEN YOURE NOT.A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat and run out of the service. Traded back in a spy swap, Sam appears at Procters central Florida doorstep months later with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole hidden deep within the upper reaches of CIA.As Procter and Sam investigate, they arrive at a shortlist of suspects made up of both Procters closest friends and fiercest enemies. The hunt soon requires Procter to dredge up her own checkered past in service of CIA, placing her and Sam into the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscows mole in Langley at all costs, even if it means wreaking bloody havoc across the United States.Bouncing between the corridors of Langley and the Kremlin, the thrilling new novel by David McCloskey explores the nature of friendship in a faithless business, and what it means to love a place that does not love you back.

The Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (170144) was arguably the worlds first true Earth scientist. In Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees, Ian Hembrow reveals what his extraordinary, but tragically short, life and career can teach us about our today and humanitys tomorrow.Our modern understanding of many of the Earths most awe-inspiring phenomena owes much to a modest and quietly spoken, eighteenth-century Swedish astronomer, who died of tuberculosis aged just 42. From the Northern Lights, air pressure and magnetism to the shape of the planet, sea levels and early studies of climate change, Celsius unravelled some of the greatest mysteries of his time.Best known for inventing the 100-point centi-grade scale, Celsius name also now frames humanitys future in the international targets to limit average global temperature increases to no more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. As our world faces this life-or-death struggle, theres much we can learn from Celsius if we will listen.

In September 1913, Mieczysaw Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitzs Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior? Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the nearby highlands reach the men, a sense of dread builds. Someone or something seems to be watching them and attempting to infiltrate their world. Little does Mieczysaw realize, as he attempts to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.

THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLERAN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYA BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE GUARDIAN, TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LONDON STANDARD, INDEPENDENT, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, iNEWS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE SKINNY, CITY AM, DAILY MAIL, AND THE CONVERSATIONIntermezzo is perfect ... Is there a better novelist at work right now?ObserverHer most mature and moving book to date ... I read it in a state of rapture.Sunday TimesIf a perfect Sally Rooney novel exists, this might just be it ... Her best novel yet.Evening StandardRooney has discovered her full literary prowess.IndependentFrom the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fathers death, hes medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.Readers love Intermezzo: An intimate and emotional read . I put the book down feeling that I am richer for having read it.Megan A beautifully written book with characters that capture the heart of the reader.Sinead Im envious of anyone yet to read this, youre in for a treat. Anon The characters are brilliant; complex, heartful, raw and impactful. S. Payne Shows dazzling skill but also heart-wrenching compassion and humanity. TomSally Rooneys book Intermezzo was a bestseller w/c 30/09/2024

Mohand-Said Ait-Taleb is an enigma. Living in France but ravaged by memories of the war in Algeria, he has withdrawn into his own world, away from his wife and children. When his son Xavier discovers articles by Albert Camus describing the appalling conditions his father grew up in, he starts to piece together the story of his life.Xavier retraces the steps of this dignified, illiterate and strong-willed man: from Kabylia - where starving children, like Mohand-Said, fought with dogs for scraps - to the metal factory in Normandy, where his father would spend the rest of his days, consumed with providing for his family. It is there that Xavier discovers his love of books. When he breaks with conservative family traditions and confesses his attraction to men, Xavier will find which doors slam closed and which will open.A Man With No Title is a beautiful and moving tribute to a father, to the immigrants condemned to undertake the hardest work for meagre reward, and to the power of literature to transcend class.

Annie Jackson and her brother Lewis return to investigate the disappearance of a family friend, leading them to spellbinding mystery that digs deep into a past that should, perhaps, remain undisturbed A chilling gothic thriller from the critically acclaimed author of The Murmurs`Annie and her brother, Lewis find themselves uncovering a world of black magic and murder. A creepy tale with the terrifying legend of the baobhan sith at its core Observer`Malone is the master of twists, turns and the unexpected Herald Scotland_______Annie surged forward, but she was too slow, too late.A hand came over and down, and she felt a sharp pain at the back of her neck.Then all became smoke, and silence.Hiding from the world in her little white cottage on the shores of a loch, Annie Jackson is fighting to come to terms with the world of the murmurs, a curse that has haunted female members of her family for centuries.While she is within the ancient, heavy stone of the old dwelling, the voices merely buzz, but the moment she steps outside the door they clamour to torment her all over again, bringing with them shocking visions of imminent deaths.Into this oasis comes her adoptive mother, Mandy McEvoy, begging for Annies help. Mandys nephew Damien has gone missing, after dropping off his four-year old son at his mothers home.Unable to refuse, but terrified to leave her sanctuary, Annie, with the help of her brother Lewis, is drawn in to a secretive, seductive world that will have her question everything she holds dear, while Lewis life may be changed foreverThe second book in the critically acclaimed Annie Jackson Mysteries series, The Torments is both a contemporary gothic thriller and a spellbinding mystery that deeps deep into a past that should, perhaps, remain undisturbed_______Praise for Michael J. Malone`A tense, creepy page-turner Ian Rankin, New Statesman`One of the best books Ive read Dark, tender, human, haunting, compassionate, gripping and rooted in Scotland and its history. A triumph S.E. Lynes`His biggest smash hit yet an assured paranormal thriller in which the paranormal isnt even the scariest part Herald Scotland`A fine, atmospheric chiller Douglas Skelton`Mesmeric and suspenseful Marion Todd`One of the best books Ive read Dark, tender, human, haunting, compassionate, gripping and rooted in Scotland and its history. A triumph S.E. Lynes`Poetic and beautifully crafted Caro Ramsay`A beautifully written tale, original, engrossing and scary a dark joy The Times`A deeply satisfying read Sunday Times`A fine, page-turning thriller Daily Mail`Brilliantly creepy a spine-tingling treat Daily Record`Prepare to have your marrow well and truly chilled by this deeply creepy Scottish horror A complex and multi-layered story Sunday Mirror`Unsettling, multi-layered and expertly paced CultureFly`Disturbing but compulsive I loved itMartina ColeBoth thought-provoking and heartbreaking Foreword Reviews

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Today-bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep.Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesnt need a reminder shes getting older, or that shes feeling indifferent about her own life. Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getawaynot with him, but with Sloanes longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance of issues shed rather not confront, like her husbands repeated infidelity. But when they arrive at their rental cottage, it becomes clear Naomi has something else in mind. She wants Sloane to stop letting things happen to her, for Sloane to really live. So Naomi orchestrates a wild night out with a group of mysterious strangers, only for it to take a horrifying turn that changes Sloanes and Naomis lives literally forever. The friends are forced to come to terms with some pretty eternal consequences in this bloody, seductive novel about how its never too late to find satisfaction, even though it might taste different than expected.

Far from being yesterdays fading, forgotten format, vinyl records have survived and flourished as the music medium of choice for not only baby-boomers, but all ages. Every record a collector acquires comes with a story of its own, and the recent Covid-19 lockdowns prompted many vinylholics, including Graham Sharpe, to look more closely at their reasons for collecting, take stock of existing collections and rediscover old favourites.Vinyl Countdown followed Sharpes journey to over a hundred record shops across the globe, from Amsterdam and Angus, to Bedfordshire and Budapest, Tennessee and Wellington. Now, ON THE RECORDs: Notes from the Vinyl Revival explores the impact of recent global events on the record industry and considers the reasons why vinyl remains a beloved - and booming - format. It includes interviews and contributions from voices across the industry - shop owners, record company insiders, online/postal sellers, auction organisers, market traders of vinyl, amateur collectors - who share their stories with candour, warmth and humour.A mesmerising blend of memoir, travel, music and social history that will appeal to anyone who vividly recalls the first LP they bought and any music fan who derives pleasure from the capacity that records have for transporting you back in time.

Vivien Leigh was one of the greatest film and theatrical stars of the twentieth century. Her Oscar-winning performances in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire have cemented her status as an icon of classic Hollywood.Her meteoric rise to fame launched her into the gaze of fellow rising star Laurence Olivier. A tempestuous relationship ensued that would last for twenty years and captured the imagination of people around the world.Behind the scenes, however, Leighs personal life was marred by bipolar disorder, which remained undiagnosed until 1953. Largely misunderstood and subjected to barbaric mistreatment at the hands of her doctors, she also suffered the heartbreak of Oliviers infidelity. Contributing to her image as a tragic heroine, she died at the age of 53.Where Madness Lies begins in 1953, when Leigh suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalised. The woeful story unfolds as she tries to rebuild her life, salvage her career and save her marriage.Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, including private correspondence, bestselling author Lyndsy Spence reveals the woman behind the legendary image: a woman who remained strong in the face of adversity

Underpinned by rigorous academic research, (Martin Cawthorne) has crafted a highly readable narrative which brings to life the characters, events, the dilemmas facing the authorities and the enduring resilience of the Royal Hospitals Pensioners. General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, KCB, OBE, DL, Governor, Royal Hospital ChelseaIn May 1938 a confidential meeting was held between Officers of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and government departments responsible for civil defence planning. All participants agreed that, should war come, the 500 Chelsea In-Pensioners residing at the Royal Hospital should be evacuated to a place of safety outside London. However, toxic politics and complex logistics meant that, on the outbreak of war in September 1939, only fifty were evacuated, to a country house in Herefordshire. The remainder, many carrying physical and psychological scars from the First World War, sought sanctuary in hastily constructed air-raid shelters and awaited their fate.Using recently uncovered archive material, some stored for decades in an attic at the Royal Hospital, Martin Cawthorne chronicles the story of Chelseas old soldiers, once more in the line of fire as they faced the horrors of the London Blitz.

AS COMPELLING AS ANY OF DU MAURIERS OWN WORKSSUNDAY TIMESShe wrote her stories in his shadow. Now Daphnes past is catching up with her... In a beautiful house in the wilds of Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Tangled in a self-destructive love affair that threatens to unravel her marriage, she is also distracted by worry for the family friend whose shadow looms over her childhood: J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Daphne tries to escape into writing her new book, but the line between fiction and reality blurs dangerously when her own characters start manifesting before her eyes - in particular a woman called Rebecca who looks suspiciously like her husbands alluring ex-girlfriend. Daphne must confront the dark truth that lurks beneath the fantasy of Peter Pan and the secret life that has plagued her since she found fame. Unless she can solve these mysteries and reckon with who she truly is as an artist, her next great work may be lost to history . . .Fascinating Elizabeth BuchanElegant and immersive Essie FoxGlorious Jane Johnson

My hair is a statement and always will be, even when I no longer have any.The social revolution of the Swinging Sixties led to a renaissance of unchecked hair growth, and long hair, especially on men, was worn as a political or countercultural symbol of protest and as an expression of masculinity.No-one who was affected by one of a turbulent decades loudest controversies - or anyone who ever wondered what all the fuss was about - will fail to be interested in this personal account of when the us and them divide between youth and elders was most profound.

A gut-wrenching page-turner about rebellion and trans rage following a teen who survives attempted murder and the ghosts who seek vengeance in the Appalachian mountains.On the night Miles Abernathysixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginiancomes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the countys Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called "accident" that injured his dad, killed others, and crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him.The feud began a hundred years ago when Miless great-great-grandfather, Saint Abernathy, incited a miners rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement. Now, Miles becomes the feuds latest victim as the sheriffs son and his friends sniff out the evidence, follow him through the woods, and beat him nearly to death.In the hospital, the ghost of a soot-covered man hovers over Miless bedside while Sheriff Davies threatens Miles into silence. But when Miles accidently kills one of the boys who hurt him, he learns of other folks in Twist Creek who want out from under the sheriffs heel. To free their families from this cycle of cruelty, theyre willing to put everything on the lineis Miles?

While travelling through the Great Alfold, the vast plain in south-eastern Hungary, Esther Kinsky stops in a small town near the Romanian border. Like many other things, the cinema, mozi in Hungarian, has long since closed. Entranced by the decaying mozi, she soon embarks on the colossal task of reviving it, compelled by the irresistible magic of the cinema, a site rooted in ritual that is steadily disappearing. Beautifully translated by Caroline Schmidt, Seeing Further is a powerfully eloquent declaration of love to the cinema and the collective experience of watching by Esther Kinsky, one of Germanys most important contemporary writers.

In 2007, Simonetta and her husband made the quixotic decision to open a restaurant.Without any relevant experience IT engineer Avi and novelist Simonetta put aside their careers to throw themselves (and their three young children) into their dream.This is the story of Ida, a tiny resilient restaurant situated on an unlovely arterial road between Kilburn and Kensal Rise, a barren thoroughfare with few shops and zero passing trade.This is a book for anyone who has ever fantasised about painting a name over a door and creating a refuge of delight for their neighbourhood. And its for anyone who sees the beauty in serving the food you have prepared with love for the people you love as well as the beauty in eating it.

Memorable... One of [Chinas] most astute and sensitive foreign observersFinancial TimesCompassionate... full of warmthGuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to Chinas first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hesslers twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local primary school. Through reconnecting with his previous students now in their forties - members of Chinas "Reform generation" - and teaching his current undergraduates, Hessler is able to tell an intimately unique story about Chinas incredible transformation over the past quarter-century.In the late 1990s, almost all of Hesslers students were the first of their families to enrol in higher education, sons and daughters of subsistence farmers who could offer little guidance as their children entered a brand-new world. By 2019, when Hessler arrived at Sichuan University, he found a very different China and a new kind of student - an only child whose schooling was the object of intense focus from a much more ambitious and sophisticated cohort of parents. Hesslers new students have a sense of irony about the regime but mostly navigate its restrictions with equanimity, and embrace the astonishing new opportunities Chinas boom affords. But the pressures of this system of extreme meritocracy at scale can be gruesome, even for much younger children, including his own daughters, who give him a first-hand view of raising a child in China.In Peter Hesslers hands, Chinas education system is the perfect vehicle for examining whats happened to the country, where its going, and what we can learn from it. At a time when relations between the UK and China fracture, Other Rivers is a tremendous, indeed an essential gift, a work of enormous human empathy that rejects cheap stereotypes and shows us China from the inside out and the bottom up, using as a measuring stick this most universally relatable set of experiences. As both a window onto China and a distant mirror onto our own education system, Other Rivers is a classic, a book of tremendous value and compelling human interest.

Elegant, erudite, ambitious, inventive - a remarkable blend of research, imagination and first-hand experience. Rory StewartA sweeping and superbly written epicWall Street Journal A work of great ambition... an account that is informed, filled with insights and a cracking read too.Peter FrankopanIraq is where civilisation was born, where East and West have mixed and clashed since long before Alexander, and it was here by the waters of Babylon where Judaism was born and the Sunni-Shia schism took its bloody shape. Inspired by extensive reporting from the region and a decade delving deep into its history, Land Between the Rivers chronicles Iraqs uniquely central role on the global stage throughout the past five millennia.We begin the story with ancient Sumer and Gilgamesh building the walls of Uruk (Iraq) to make a great name for himself at the edge of historical time. We end it in 1958, as the last royal family of Iraq is slaughtered on the steps of a small palace in Baghdad, the most effervescent, free and promising capital in the Middle East.Bartle Bulls remarkable, sweeping achievement reminds us that the region defined by the land between the rivers has, throughout history, played host to the contest pitting humanism against the machinations of power and fate.Conceptual originality and laudable ambition... Inspired by firsthand experience of the region.New York TimesA sweeping and superbly written epic... He is a more compassionate, and much better informed, heir to Gertrude Bell... Throughout his account, Mr. Bull highlights the human, and humanist, threads in the political tapestry.Wall Street JournalDazzling erudition and narrative flair come together in this superb history of Iraq... essential readingJustin Marozzi, author of Islamic EmpiresPanoptic, fearless and beautifully writtenChristopher de Bellaigue, author of The Lion House and The Islamic Enlightenment