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A literary debut about a very modern American family. Intelligent, funny and wildly inventive,Shine, Shine, Shineis a captivating love story

A novel about love, loyalty and science, from a fresh new British voice, out now in paperback.

Paris, June 1995. In a luxury restaurant, a waiter is violently attacked by a guest. No one moves. Neither the Russian couple, nor the wife of the aggressor, nor the two young traders come to celebrate their first jobs on the floor. This book questions the responsibility of each of us and shows that to do nothing is also an action.

In the intense August heat, three local kids, Matthew, Andy and Josh, spend their time exploring the woods and secret places of Deloume Road and ignoring the ghostly boy Miles Ford, who's almost invisible anyway.

On VE night, 1945, the then teenage princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, were allowed to leave the palace incognito and join the parties and festivities with their subjects. The Palace was forced to issue a statement that the episode was without incident; but what if...' Peter Bradshaw takes this nugget ...

From the Man Booker–short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation—Bangladesh—are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrifice In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly Bengali family in eastern Pakistan. ...

Tells the story of Enoch O'Reilly, the great flood that afflicts his small town, and rash of mysterious suicides that accompany it. Charlatan, Presleyite and local radiovangelist, O'Reilly is a man haunted by the childhood ghosts of his father's sinister radio set ...a false prophet destined for a terrible consummation with that old, evil river.

Beverley Cotterell has a dream life, but this life is torn apart when her young baby is kidnapped. Two decades later, Beverley starts to believe that she has finally pieced her life together - until a young man starts to appear wherever she goes. One dark evening the stalker calls through her letterbox. He tells her that he is Malakay, her son.

Guardians of Light, Book 5. Verdeen can't believe her first assignment as a newly minted elven warrior. King Loren wants her to journey to the Isle of Ice as bodyguard to a human riever. Daq Aryk. Barbarian. Prince of thieves. Aryk dreams of uniting six fractious clans into a peaceful nation. Failure ...

When you're confronted with the ultimate betrayal, how far would you go for revenge?

A comet hangs over the ocean like an omen and music-mad Finn hears strange sounds in his head that draw him to the sea. Disaster hits Laggandall Bay and Finn is hurled into battle with the forces that threaten to break him and his town.

We are creatures of the night and we use each other's ignorance and muddy each other's waters; assumptions, guesses, certainties are all one to us, because everything is in a state of flux, and the pieces are continually being moved. Add to this the differences in intelligence, nerve, greed and willingness ...

Where is Paradise? How can a man get there? A life of virtue might suffice, but who wants to wait for death to claim life's rewards? Thomas Deerham, wandering war-torn Europe, has no thought of going anywhere but home. But when he falls in with a friar and a pilgrim, his plans change. The three men, ...

Set in a fictional time that somewhat resembles the turn of the last century, this is a dark, burlesque fantasy of Siamese twins. But these are Siamese twins with a difference, in that they are male and female; a scientific impossibility. Outcasts of society, Earl and Betty have scraped a living in an ...

In this carefully researched historical novel, E. R. Eastman tells the story of the pioneers who settled "Genesee Country" of frontier New York in the early nineteenth century.

Anna Larssen drifted for years in the wake of one man and the dream of another and awoke to find herself clinging to wreckage. Her illusions shattered, she leaves her home in France and travels to an island at the northern rim of the world, to a place called A. There, beneath the peaks of Norway's Lofoten ...

When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfil his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis. Enter a universe where love is cruel, men are destroyed by the gods, and treachery is paid for in blood.