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The silent, snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of Christmas tranquility. But over the tolling of bells for the last Sunday of Advent, a black notes sounds. A boy’s body washes up near the city’s Aker Bridge. His corpse is bloated by the water, almost unrecognisable. Nobody has even bothered to report him missing.
This title provides a collection of traditional, humourous, and urbane fatherly advice for young women and girls. From Internet dating (‘Never trust a profile pic’) to the practical (‘The right friends will appreciate a well timed burp. Your grandmother will not.’) to aiming high (‘There’s more to life than Being a passenger.’ Amelia Earhart), this endearing book of rules and quotations is the quintessential instruction manual for becoming a confident and industrious young woman.
This work is a collection of traditional, humourous, and urbane fatherly advice for boys. From the sartorial (‘Men should not wear sandals. Ever’) to the practical (‘Keep a copy of your letters. It makes it easier for your biographer’) to even a couple of sure-fire hangover cures (‘There is no better remedy than a dip in the ocean’), the book of rules, photos and accompanying quotations is the quintessential instruction manual for becoming a Good Man – industrious, thoughtful, charming, and of course, well-dressed. Hip and witty with a decidedly traditionalist flavour, this book is meant to evoke simpler times when Father knew best and a suitable answer to ‘Why?’ was ‘Because I said so.’
The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture ‘Nocturnal Animals’, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge. Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and corruption. How could such a harrowing story be told by the man she once loved? And why, after so long, has he sent her such a disturbing and personal message?
Biographer and novelist A.N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous critical and commercial success, turns his clear eye to our own Queen, Elizabeth II, as she turns 90. In this unusual and vibrant examination of the life and times of Britain’s most iconic living figure, Wilson considers the history of the monarchy, drawing a line between Victoria, the murder of the Romanovs, and the bloody history of Europe in the 20th century, examining how and why the Royal Family has survived. He paints a vivid portrait of ‘Lilibet’ the woman, and of her reign, throughout which she has remained stalwart, unmoving, a trait some regard as dullness, but which Wilson argues is the key to her survival.
Offering a sane, highly engaging and informed guide for parents of daughters, Lisa Damour draws on decades of experience and the latest research to reveal the seven distinct – and absolutely normal – developmental transitions that turn girls into grown-ups, including parting with childhood, contending with adult authority, entering the romantic world, and caring for herself. Providing realistic scenarios and welcome advice on how to engage daughters in smart, constructive ways, she gives parents a broad framework for understanding their daughters while addressing their most common questions.
A serial killer is on the loose in Norway – a killer of the worst kind. He is abducting children and murdering them – in an undetectable way that confounds the police. He then returns the child’s body to the mother with a desperately cruel note. Police Superintendent Adam Stubo is the unlucky man in charge of finding the killer.
A long-serving beat cop in the Met and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in London’s East End. Left alive on the roof are a five year old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths. Within hours, Lizzie Griffiths has disappeared, and DPS officer Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth around the grisly deaths, in an investigation which takes her into the dark heart of policing in London.
At 2am on the morning of her 40th birthday, Sophie wakes in the darkness of her bedroom – and finds a stranger watching her from the foot of her bed. The intruder hands her a letter and issues an ultimatum: the message is to be opened before her forthcoming party, in front of gathered family and friends, at exactly 8pm. Any failure to comply will not end well. Sophie can only think of one person who hates her enough to have hired a professional to menace her like this: her fiancé’s ex-wife. But what can the letter possibly contain? And why must it be read in front of everyone she loves best?
When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters she continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy.
This title tells the story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was incarcerated.
A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love, however, when Peter and Katharina finally meet passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves facing the terrible consequences of being ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt.
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