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<b>*** THE MOST EAGERLY AWAITED NOVEL OF 2023 ***</b><br/><b><i><br/>Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue </i>. . .</b><br/><br/>Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world.<br/> But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard.<br/><br/> Now an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, and to journey - to a land coloured by the memories of Ceres's childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father, to a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; to a land where old enemies are watching, and waiting.<br/><br/> To the Land of Lost Things.<br/><br/><b>For anyone who loved <i>THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS</i> and for all readers who enjoy </b><b>dark, beautifully written fables that explore the heart of the human condition: love, loyalty and sacrifice.</b>

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you spend hours in the chatroom. You don't understand why some of your online friends don't use their real names.<br/><br/>It's not long before you discover porn. You don't know what you're watching, but you do know that you shouldn't tell anybody. Later, older, your first kiss is captured on camera and shared with everyone in your year. It feels like betrayal, but soon it feels normal. Part of the incessant cycle of posting, sharing and liking.<br/><br/>Now, you can't remember a time when you didn't feel hollow inside. Now, you know that something has to change.<br/><br/>Chilling, potent and intensely intimate, <i>This is How You Remember It</i> is at once a cautionary tale, a call to arms and a tender love story. It is about a life lived online, and about finding another way, when it's all you've ever known.

<strong>Would you want to know what your colleagues say behind your back? </strong> <br/><br/> <strong>'Darkly funny with a brilliant premise' Emma Gannon</strong> <br/><br/> <strong>For readers who loved <em>The Office US</em> and <em>Really Good, Actually</em> comes the awkward heroine you're about to fall in love with</strong> <br/><br/>Jolene certainly doesn't. <br/><br/>She's riddled with anxiety, depressed, and hates her coworkers. The less she knows about them, the better. <br/><br/>So when a catastrophic IT f*ck up grants her access to all of their emails and private messages, she's initially horrified. The last thing she wants is to be privy to their sad discussions about dying desk plants and marital troubles. <br/><br/>That's until with job cuts looming, she realises the power this new-found knowledge gives her. <br/><br/>But as she digs deeper and deeper into the private lives of her colleagues, Jolene uncovers a lot more than she bargained for... And the walls she'd so carefully built start crumbling down.

At this high school, instead of jocks and nerds, the students are divided into predators and prey. At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, friendships maintain the fragile peace. Who among them will become a Beastar-a hero destined to lead in a society naturally rife with mistrust? Guess who's coming to dinner? Every rabbit parent wants their daughter to date a wolf, right? Beastar horse Yahya hires gray wolf Legoshi to help him apprehend a mixed-species felon, but Legoshi is a sucker for a sob story.<br/><br/>At college, red deer Louis's status has fallen from the most popular student to the limping one with the dark past. The temptation to reclaim his status as leader of the Shishi-gumi lion gang is strong...especially when he meets the beast who replaced him. Plus, more about the tragic life of Legoshi's mother.

In the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments. If not to recognise what it was, not yet.<br/><br/>Not that the object turned out to be a planet, or the 'ninth' of anything. Briefly thought to be a black hole, it suddenly changes, expands and sends a message. There is something waiting on its service. Something not quite human.<br/><br/>As the ramifications of this event spread across the fracturing elements of humanity, it is clear that the small crew on the spot are at the centre of the most dramatic discovery in history. But theirs is not the only inexplicable event happening - impossibly, at exactly the same moment, a quasar appeared twenty-five thousand light years away, and now is heating up the solar system.<br/><br/>If the enigma of the creation node is not solved quickly, there may be no one left to investigate it . . .

<b>Evil has a one track mind</b> <br/><br/>Celebrated childrens author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her husband was killed in a tragic accident, then one of her childrens books ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her young son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal.<br/><br/>But Annies year is about to get worse.<br/><br/>Bored and lonely in their isolated new surroundings, Charlie is thrilled when he finds a forgotten train set in a locked shed in the grounds of their new house. While Annie is pleased to see Charlie happy, theres something unsettling about his new toy. Strange sounds wake Annie in the night shes sure she can hear a train in the middle of the night, although there isnt an active line for miles. And then bizarre things start happening in the neighbourhood. But even stranger, Annie cant seem to stop drawing a disturbing new character that has no place in a childrens book<br/><br/>Grief plays tricks on the mind, but Annie is beginning to think shes walked out of one nightmare straight into another, only this one is far more terrifying <br/><br/><b><i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author Linwood Barclay enters new territory with a fiendishly twisted supernatural chiller.</b> <br/><br/> <br/><br/>**** <br/><br/><b>PRAISE FOR LINWOOD BARCLAY:</b><br/><br/>Linwood Barclay has crafted another perfect page-turner <b><i>The Times</i></b><br/><br/>Pacy and tense, its a triumph from a master thriller writer. Every page makes your heart beat that little bit faster <b><i>The Sun</i></b><br/><br/>Youll be left speed-reading towards the end to discover answers expertly posed by the bestselling Toronto-based crime writer<b><i> The Independent</i></b><br/><br/>Totally absorbing brilliant stuff <b>Neil Lancaster</b><br/><br/>A superior thriller <b><i>Sunday Times</i></b><br/><br/>A suspense master <b>Stephen King</b>

Just because that car sees you doesn't mean it's safe to cross...From the international bestseller Linwood Barclay comes a new, action-packed, utterly gripping crime thriller!<br/><br/>They think as one. They act as one. They kill as one. 'Look Both Ways is devilishly good - exciting, thrilling - Barclay at his best!' SHARI LAPENA, No. 1 internationally bestselling author<br/><br/>The residents of Garrett Island are part of a visionary experiment. Their cars have been sent to the mainland and for one month, they've got self-driving vehicles called Arrivals. With just a voice command, an Arrival will take you where you want to go, and as the cars are all aware of each other, road accidents should be a thing of the past.<br/><br/>As the world's press arrives for a glimpse of this driverless future, islander and single mom Sandra Montrose preps for the huge media event. She's ready for this new world. Her husband died when he fell asleep at the wheel, and she's relieved her two teens, Archie and Katie, may never need driver's licenses.<br/><br/>But as the day gets underway, there are signs all is not well. A member of the press has vanished. There are rumours of industrial sabotage. Before long, the sleek driverless cars are no longer taking orders. They're starting to organize. They're starting to hunt. And they've got the residents of Garrett Island in their sights. From the international bestseller Linwood Barclay comes a breakneck new thriller.