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A speculative literary thriller spanning past and future, exploring identity, climate change, and the mystery of a lost poem.

A collection of previously unpublished poems and lyrics by Johnny Cash, revealing his reflections on love, pain, fame, and mortality. Includes facsimile reproductions of handwritten pages and comment

The unforgettable debut novel that became an instant global sensation, The Names asks how a name can shape the course of a life and explores the single what-if moments that can overturn a person's fateA MAJOR SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIt is 1987, and in the wake of a great storm, Cora sets out with her young daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband expects her to follow tradition and call the baby after him - but is it right for her child to inherit his name from generations of domineering men? Her choice will shape the course of their lives.Seven years later, her son is Bear, a name chosen by his sister, hoping he will grow up to be brave and big-hearted. Or he is Julian, the name his mother set her heart on, keen for him to become his own person. Or he is Gordon, named after his father and raised in his cruel image - but is there still a chance to break the mould?Powerfully moving and full of hope, this is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark.

A young man and an elderly widow form a life-changing bond in a small Connecticut town, exploring grief and chosen family.

A supernatural love story by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan, exploring grief, mystery, and human connection.

The next book in the KINGS OF SIN series by No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Ana Huang She's his greatest rival . . . and his greatest weakness.

Julia Z must use her hacking skills to rescue a kidnapped dream artist in this sci-fi thriller exploring identity and technology.

Raskolnikov an impoverished student determines to kill a pawnbroker whom he detests He does and much plot ensues The first book that Dostoevsky wrote after his exile in Siberia and widely considered one of the greatest novels of all time in all of world literature

I hope you haven t forgotten me Shall we play Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind She s the lynchpin of a top secret project Red Queen created to work across borders to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes those that are beyond the skills of the regular police But the Red Queen project is under attack on all fronts Across Europe its agents are murdering each other and long resolved cases from the past are rearing their deadly heads again At the centre of it all is the mysterious and dangerous Mr White Jon Gutierrez Antonia s protector and the only person she trusts has been kidnapped With Jon s life at stake Mr White gives Antonia a seemingly innocuous challenge solve three crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice The only way to keep Jon alive is to play Mr White s game but can Antonia win when she can only see part of the board The thrilling conclusion to Juan Gomez Jurado s internationally bestselling Antonia Scott trilogy Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia Praise for Juan Gomez Jurado What impresses is the brainy brio of Gomez Jurado s storytelling as well as his striking depiction of Madrid as two cities an elegant baroque facade concealing a gothic underworld The Sunday Times Fizzes with e

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

This deluxe collectible edition of the first book in the #1 bestselling series has an illustrated slipcase and hardcover, illustrated endpapers, limited edition stenciled edges, and the long-awaited fairytale of the Ballad of the Archer and the Fox!For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings . . . until she learns that the love of her life will marry another.Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing.But after Evangeline's first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game and that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she'd pledged. He has plans for Evangeline, plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after, or the most exquisite tragedy.

Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent young children transform their nursery into a lethal trap. Here are the Martian stories, tales that vividly animate the red planet with its brittle cities and double-mooned sky. Here are stories which speak of a special nostalgia for Green Town, Illinois, the perfect setting for a seemingly cloudless childhood - except for the unknown terror lurking in the ravine. Here are the Irish stories and the Mexican stories, linked across their separate geographies by Bradbury's astonishing inventiveness. Here, too, are thrilling, terrifying stories such as 'The Fog Horn' - perfect for reading under the covers. Read for the first time, these stories are a feast for the imagination; read again - and again - they reveal new, dazzling facets of a master storyteller's extraordinary art.

''What''s your road, man? holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It''s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.''Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac''s exhilarating novel defined the new ''Beat'' generation and became the bible of the counter culture.

A Times and New York Times bestsellerThe addictive mystery taking the world by storm, from the author of Strange PicturesEleven strange buildings. One terrible secret.A lonely hut in the woods.A hidden chamber.A mysterious shrine.A home in flames.A nightmarish prison...Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle.Look closely... and you'll see that everything is connected.All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won't want to believe it.Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsu's dark mysteries.Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, so far.

Short stories to astonish and delight' Financial TimesIn The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Tóibín delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves.A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man goes to Dublin from Enniscorthy to implore the Minister for Health for a special favour. A young woman is pregnant during the Spanish Civil War. An undocumented worker finds himself living an illegal life and must leave San Francisco, and his child, after thirty years in America. Three sisters who have been living in Argentina decide to return to Catalonia.'Toibin is the consummate cartographer of the private self, summoning with restrained acuity (and a delicious streak of sly humour) the thoughts his characters struggle to find words for' Clare Clark, Guardian