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Because, for years, Libby has lived with a secret. Just when Libby is starting to relax, Ethan steps into an elevator on his own, and the doors close before Libby can stop them.

Holy texts were seen as fluid and adaptable, rather than a set of binding archaic rules or a 'truth' that has to be 'believed'.Armstrong argues that only by rediscovering an open engagement with their holy texts will the world's religions be able to curtail arrogance, intolerance and violence.

Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that will be full of drama, transformation, passionate and painful devotion to art and to one another.

'A sensual and intellectual pleasure from start to finish' Deborah LevyWe are all dressed. Ranging freely through literature, art, film and philosophy, Dressed tracks the hidden power of clothes in our culture and our daily lives.

Shortlisted for the Cricket Writers' Club Book of the Year Award. 'A red-blooded memoir told with unexpected sensitivity', GuardianRobin Smith was one of England's most popular cricketers of the 1990s.

To make identification swift, he has taped his last credit card to the inside of his shoe.What Michael hasn't factored in is a twelve-minute delay, which risks him missing his connection, and making new ones.

They're leaving together and they're taking Anna's two daughters with them.Left alone in the big, dark house, Anna can't think, she can't take it in.

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children.

An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons, in the finest tradition of American storytelling. The year is 1966 and a young man named Vollie Frade, almost on a whim, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam.

She also spends months in fourth-floor 1950s apartments, watching television with her hosts, her new friends bent over devices and moaning about Ukraine.At a time of deteriorating relations between Russia and the West, Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news - a Russia of humanity and daily struggles.

How do we trust each other?Alexa is a young police community support officer whose world feels unstable.

it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, some of which are still with us today - more than forty years after the death of Mao.In this new history, Julia Lovell re-evaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and an international force, linking its evolution in China with its global legacy.

But in doing so, he unwittingly unleashes a Pandora's Box of age-old resentments and long-buried memories. Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a razor-sharp, darkly funny family saga from a sparkling new talent.

This translation simultaneously published as "The sakura obsession: the incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japan's cherry blossoms" in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf, New York.

From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the beginning of the twentieth century - nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her person - Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts.

He is on the brink of the next step - very close to achieving intellectual credibility and some serious celebrity.However, Henry has - unwittingly - become an important part of the life of recently-divorced Kristin: someone who is also on the brink.

There's just one he can't crack: the secret of happinessIn the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra doesn't see his life flash before his eyes, but his life's work. He doesn't know it yet, but Professor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime.