Chevette rides as a courier, banging her paper laminate-framed bike through the streets of a future 'Frisco - she lives for it. On an impulse, she's risked everything; stolen a pair of sunglasses from some jerk. No ordinary shades, either: loaded with super-sensitive data, they could decide the destiny of the entire city.
Rydell is working for Mr Warbaby, who has been hired to recover the glasses. But Rydell is none too sure that he likes his new employment opportunity; with SFPD Homicide involved, an abandoned bridge populated by freaks and misfits, and some weirdness involving the Republic of Desire and a 'Death Star', it's turning out to be a very strange and dangerous scene indeed ...
William Gibson, author of the classic Neuromancer and creator of cyberpunk, here turns his hyper-acute imagination on the near future - to supercharged, nerve-shredding effect.
Discover the exciting stand-alone twisty courtroom drama from the world’s bestselling thriller writer, perfect for fans of John Grisham.
‘Simply put: nobody does it better.' Jeffery Deaver
'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' Lee Child
'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin
'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' Patricia Cornwell
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He’s never lost a case. But can he outwit a killer?
Stafford Lee Penney is the best defence lawyer in Mississippi - he's never lost a case. Until now.
Hot on the heels of his latest courtroom victory, his wife is brutally murdered. Devastated, Stafford Lee spirals into a losing streak that forces him to abandon his once brilliant career.
But his wife's killer is still on the loose and they seem determined to frame Stafford Lee for their crimes. Rising from rock bottom, he makes a bold return to court - to defend himself in the biggest murder trial this town has ever seen.
Stafford Lee must crack the toughest case of his career. And this time, it's personal.
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Readers can’t get enough of The No. 1 Lawyer…
***** ‘Like any other James Patterson book, this one is filled with great characters and a fast-paced story along with suspense that will leave you guessing until the end.’
***** ‘You just can’t go wrong with James Patterson … His books are super-fast paced filled with very short cliff hanging chapters, suspense, action, and twists!’
***** ‘I’ve been a James Patterson fan for years and this has to go in my top ten of favourites ever! A startling new set of characters and a storyline that kept me thinking even what I wasn’t reading. I turned the pages so fast it was crazy!
***** ‘Another winner … From start to finish, I was completely absorbed in this story. A legal thriller set in Biloxi, say no more!!’
Bestselling global thriller author, Circana BookScan, November 2024
Shocking, seductive, sexy and scandalous' Chris Whitaker 'Dark, twisty and deliciously sexy' Kia Abdullah ‘Utterly compulsive and the ultimate “what if”' Sabine Durrant A Sunday Times Style Hot Read for 2024 and one of Cosmopolitan's Best Books for 2024. _________________________ Whose life do you want? Elena and her partner Adam are house-sitting in Wimbledon and find themselves instantly seduced by their upscale surroundings and their enigmatic new neighbours Sophia and Finn. When Sophia proposes a wicked game to Elena whereby they will swap partners in secret, it's not long before Elena starts to experience a sexual awakening that blossoms into an illicit love affair. But Sophia's plans are far more complex and dangerous than Elena could ever have imagined… How far will she go to fulfil her desires? ____________________________ Praise for The Switch: ‘Shocking, seductive, sexy and scandalous. The Switch is a page-turning thriller, a clever mystery, and a wicked look at love and loyalty’ Chris Whitaker ‘I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough to see how this dark and seductive game played out. Perfectly paced, with a shocking ending to boot!’ Sandie Jones ‘A page-turner, gripping with a bit of the unexpected. Keeps you guessing until the very last page’ Lola Jaye ‘Sinister and seductive, an enthralling psychological thriller … you’ll be swept away by this riveting and twisty read’ Woman and Home 'Simmering with sexual tension and obsession' Heat 'We've never read anything like this before. Gripping!' Bella Magazine ‘The Switch is a razor-sharp thriller that simmers with a sense of menace. Dark, twisty and deliciously sexy, it takes complex themes and weaves them into a gripping premise. Money, class, power and deception are all explored with skill’ Kia Abdullah 'A hugely original debut from a writer of genuine talent. The Switch twists and turns like a rollercoaster, where it is impossible to see what's coming next' Robert Gold 'Darkly disturbing, dangerously seductive, The Switch pulls you in and hangs onto you with white knuckles so you race to the end. What a ride!' Tami Hoag ‘Utterly compulsive and the ultimate “what if”. I loved the relationship between the two women and the way something quite ordinary and relatable quickly spins so dangerously out of control’ Sabine Durrant ‘A sexy, seductive thriller…the suburbs have never known such excitement’ Sunday Times Style ‘A dark, twisty plot and a truly malevolent villain. Samson’s sinister domestic thriller will suck you right in’ Laura Griffin ‘Fast-paced and gripping … Samson offers twist and twist’ Daily Mirror '[A] nicely written tale, which succeeds thanks to Samson’s finely rendered characterizations and twists that are believable yet impossible to predict…' New York Journal of Books 'With immersive writing and a pulse-pounding pace, Samson skillfully lures you into her twisted world of sexy suburban noir, a world populated by deliciously dark, morally ambiguous characters' K.T. Nguyen, author of You Know What You Did ‘Like nothing we have ever read before - we couldn’t put it down!’ That's Life! ‘Obsessively dark and a little steamy … The Switch will heat up your summer’ Chat
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two half sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time, while Momoko, their father's first child - haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final, disturbing days together - seeks comfort in a series of unhealthy romances. And both sisters find themselves unable to outrun the legacies of their late mothers. A thoughtful, probing novel about the enduring traumas of war, the unbreakable bonds of family and the inescapability of the past, The Rainbow is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan's greatest writers.
READ THE HEARTBREAKING SEQUEL TO THE TIKTOK SENSATION A THOUSAND BOY KISSES . . .
A beautiful and life-affirming novel about grief, love and friendship from the international bestselling phenomenon Tillie Cole
CAN TWO BROKEN HEARTS MAKE A WHOLE . . .
After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her sister left behind. Seventeen-year-old Cael Woods is angry.
One year after losing his older brother his life has spiralled. Once the most promising hockey player in the junior league, Cael can no longer step onto the ice. When his parents sign him up for a trip abroad no part of him wants to go.
As Cael and Savannah embark on a journey they begin to find solace in each other. As they start to heal piece by broken piece, could this be the start of a love they never thought they'd feel again?
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Readers love A Thousand Broken Pieces ‘I didn’t want to finish because I knew what was coming and the tears were really starting to form’
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Reader Reviews‘I am always amazed that a person can provoke so much emotion with just words typed on paper but Tillie Cole did not just provoke emotion-she crushed my heart’
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Reader Reviews‘Heartbreaking in so many ways. If you need an ugly cry, this will do it!’
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Reader Reviews‘I absolutely cannot wait to fall back into a book hangover after reading this’
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On the other side of town are five brothers. . . Macon is the oldest. I've never seen him smile. Army is a single dad with beautiful green eyes. Iron will be in prison soon. Dallas is the one I hate. Trace used to be mine. I need to go home. Away from the swamps and these men. I’ll leave tomorrow. Tonight I'll crash on the couch tonight. Everyone is asleep. Except for one. He sees me crying. I let him wrap his arms around my body and hold me. I don’t think it was Trace. Which means it was another brother. I don’t know who, but I can’t help but want him to hold me again. . .
In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to the deaths Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Exploring the visceral reality of life in the American South as well as Baldwin’s impressions of London, Paris and Hamburg, No Name in the Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless, candid prose.
Timeless, tender and profound, Baldwin’s searing narrative contains the multiplicities of what it means to be Black in America and, indeed, around the world.
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators.
This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read.
Certainly, the funniest.
Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a few lucky bastards ending up on top. Some of these bastards were quite strange, but they were in charge, so we quite literally lived, and often still live, by their rules.
It's a great story. And it's our story. If you want to know who we are in modern Britain, you need to read this book.
From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems...
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life
In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him.
With clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharp social observation, Kate Atkinson conjures a feast for the imagination, a constantly changing multiverse in which nothing is quite as it seems.
‘What really binds these stories is their underlying theme, which has perhaps always been Atkinson’s true subject: the nature of storytelling itself’ Times Literary Supplement
‘Life in all of its surreal, tragic and comic glory is perfectly captured within these pages’ Red
‘Sublime’ Good Housekeeping
‘Dazzling’ Reader's Digest
An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.
It's not you, it's the food.
We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive. But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies?
Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. Find out why exercise and willpower can't save us, and what UPF is really doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint: nothing good).
For too long we've been told we just need to make different choices, when really we're living in a food environment that makes it nigh-on impossible. So this is a book about our rights. The right to know what we eat and what it does to our bodies and the right to good, affordable food.
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling off her jewellery on eBay, he's busy building an apocalypse-proof bunker in the woods. Meanwhile their teenage daughter is veering off the rails, in thrall to a toxic friendship, and her little brother is falling into the black hole of the internet...
Where did it all go wrong? The present is in crisis but the causes lie deep in the past. How long can this unhappy family wait before they have to face the truth? And if the story has already been written, is there still time to find a happy ending?
There are two sides to every story. Husband and wife Archie and Francine Hughes are heroes in their hometown of Philadelphia. Archie is a football star, while Francine is a Grammy-winning singer.
So everyone is in a state of shock when news breaks about the seemingly perfect couple. One spouse is murdered. The other is Suspect Number One.
Even before the case hits the courtroom, it's the hottest ticket in town. For the defence: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to the stars. For the prosecution: Veena Lion, an attorney so bright she's got to wear shades.
Between them, they know every secret in the Hughes household. Together, they prove how two wrongs can make a right.
PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer ...
Simply put: nobody does it better.' JEFFERY DEAVER'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL'Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried ...
there's no stopping his imagination' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Patterson is in a class by himself' GUARDIAN
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVELLONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024Dancing is the one thing that can solve Stephen's problems. At Church with his family, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise. With his band, making music speaking not just to their hardships, but their joys.
Grooving with his best friend, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known. His youth, shame and sacrifice.
Stephen has only ever known himself in song. But what becomes of him when the music fades?Set over the course of three summers, from South London to Ghana and back again, SMALL WORLDS is a novel about the worlds we build for ourselves. The worlds we live, dance and love within.
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'Caleb Azumah Nelson's stunning second novel confirms his status as a literary star' Observer'Beautiful, unforgettable and all-consuming' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie'SMALL WORLDS is a book for everyone . . .
an uplifting symphony of a summer read' Times
'The most addictive book I've read in ages - so slick and disquieting and clever. Just brilliant.'
LISA JEWELL
'I was obsessed with Everyone Here is Lying . . . Fast paced, tightly-plotted and with twists so well executed they floored me. Loved every word!'
CLAIRE DOUGLAS
The gripping new thriller from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR
Welcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood. A place for families.
William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter Avery unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.
Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing.
Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so safe. And William isn't the only one on his street who's hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery's neighbours become increasingly unhinged.
Who took Avery Wooler?
Nothing will prepare you for the truth.
From international bestseller Karen M. McManus comes the explosive conclusion to the acclaimed One of Us Is Lying trilogy - now available in a bold new cover look complete with a inky black background and matching sprayed edges. Life hasn't been easy for the teenagers of Bayview.
First they had to prove they weren't killers. Then outwit a vengeful copycat. Now, it's beginning again.
At first the mysterious billboard seems like a bad joke:Time for a new game, Bayview. . .
But when a student disappears, it's clear this 'game' has deadly consequences - and no-one knows the rules. Simon was right about secrets - they all come out in the end. Praise for One of Us Is Lying:'Tightly plotted and brilliantly written, with sharp, believable characters, this whodunit is utterly irresistible' - HEAT'A fantastic murder mystery, packed with cryptic clues and countless plot twists.
I could not put this book down' - THE SUN'Twisty plotting, breakneck pacing and intriguing characterisation add up to an exciting single-sitting thrillerish treat' -THE GUARDIAN'Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club' - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLYPraise for One of Us Is Next:'Given that her high-school-based murder mysteries read like bingeworthy Netflix dramas, it's easy to see why queen of teen crime Karen McManus is a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic.' - THE OBSERVER'McManus keeps the juicy subplots ticking over and drip-feeds reveals as clinically as an IV tube.' - THE GUARDIANAre you obsessed with Karen M. McManus? You won't be able to resist Such Charming Liars - OUT NOW IN HARDBACK WITH STUNNING PINK SPRAYED EDGES!
1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.
For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build an egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of stricture and oppression. Separating them is the ever-wider chasm of the party line; over them loom the twin spectres of opportunity and fear, and the shadow of their defector brother Konrad. In prose as bold as a scarlet paint stroke, Brigitte Reimann battles with the clash of idealism and suppression, familial loyalty and desire. This fervid, ground-breaking novel, written when Reimann was only twenty-seven, remains one of the cult classics of East German literature.
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'Searing, hilarious and poignant' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER 'Smart and clever' GUARDIAN 'A killer debut about class, love and money' GRAZIA 'Marvellous - clever, funny and brilliantly well observed' INDIA KNIGHT Meet the Stockton women of Brooklyn Heights: Darley, who was born with money; Sasha, who married into it; and Georgiana, who wants to give it all away. Among glittering parties, weekend homes and hungover brunches, the three will have to grapple with the burden of parental expectations, the hardships and bewilderment of growing up, and the miles between the haves and have-nots. Pineapple Street is a witty and wicked novel about New York’s one percenters: their first loves, family feuds and the complexities of being human – even when you have everything. 'Wise, emotionally honest fun' HELEN FIELDING 'Deliciously fun' KEVIN KWAN 'Lovely, absorbing, acutely observed' NICK HORNBY Instant New York Times bestseller, March 2023
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