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Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing, and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "seven dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance.

Building on the tradition of Little Bee, Chris Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. Gold is the story of Zoe and Kate, world-class athletes who have been friends and rivals since their first day of Elite training. They've loved, fought, betrayed, forgiven, consoled, gloried, and grown up together. Now on the eve of London 2012, their last Olympics, both women will be tested to their physical and emotional limits.

Katherine Mansfield is remembered as one of the great modernist short-story writers, who managed to pack a huge amount of creative work into her 34 years before she died of TB in 1923. This impressive collection includes brand-new full-cast BBC dramatisations of 'Bliss', 'Something Childish but Very Natural', 'Marriage a la Mode', 'Daughters of the Late Colonel', 'The Garden Party', 'Life of Ma Parker and Her First Ball', plus many more readings brought to life by a wealth of narrators.

How does it feel to morph into a manta ray or slide into the body of a snake? This is what happens to Miranda, Semi, and Arnie, who survive a plane crash. They end up on a tropical island, but become candidates in Dr Franklin's sinister experiments.

The second book in Jeffrey Archer’s highly acclaimed The Clifton Chronicles, The Sins of the Father takes the reader on a breath-taking journey from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan.The book opens in New York, 1939. Harry Clifton, under the new identity of Tom Bradshaw, finds himself arrested for first degree murder.

Since opening her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh - now Elisabeth Teerlinc - can finally stop running. She's got the paycheck, lifestyle, and wardrobe she always dreamed of, not to mention the interest of a Russian billionaire. But when a chance encounter in Ibiza leads to a corpse that is, for once, not her own doing, she finds her life is back on the line - and she's more alone than ever. It seems Judith's become involved with more than just one stolen painting, and there is someone else willing to kill for what's theirs.

Eva Curtis is a pathological perfectionist whose attention to detail means she never makes mistakes – until one slip-up leads to the death of a patient and the end of her career.

„Nu riști, nu câștigi" este crezul investitorilor înger. Ei au puterea financiară pe care orice afacerist ambițios vrea s-o atragă în dezvoltarea proiectului său. Ce condiții trebuie să îndeplinească un start-up ca să merite atenția unui investitor înger? Cum trebuie să se comporte un investitor înger la întâlnirile cu fondatorii? Care sunt întrebările la care trebuie să găsească răspuns investitorul înger înainte să investească într-o afacere? Ce este mai important: ca ideea să fie una extraordinară sau ca fondatorul să fie unul de succes?

The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, ‘I was told that my father was killed in the war’. But it will be another twenty years before Harry discovers how his father really died, which will only lead him to question: who was his father?

'The Rape of the Lock' was one of Alexander Pope's most popular poems. It was a satirical attempt to reconcile the real-life warring of two Catholic families whose feud had started with the supposed nicking of a lock of hair from the undeniably beautiful head of Arabella Fermor by her admirer, Lord Petre.

There were dozens of us on the ship, all ages, boys and girls, and we were all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye, I thought they were waving good-bye. None of us spoke. It was a grey day with drizzle in the air, the great sad cranes bowing to the ship from the docks as we steamed past. That is all I remember of England…

Die neue Reihe von TIKTOK-Star Elsie Silver. Ford Grant, "World's hottest Billionaire" laut der Forbes und erfolgreicher Musikproduzent, staunt nicht schlecht, als ein fremdes Mädchen vor seiner Tür steht, das behauptet, seine Tochter zu sein. Völlig überfordert von der neuen Rolle als Vater und dem Umbau seines Tonstudios auf Rose Hill, nimmt er die Hilfe von Rosie Belmont an - auch wenn er weiß, dass dies keine gute Idee ist. Denn Ford ist schon immer in Rosie verliebt, obwohl sie als kleine Schwester seines besten Freundes absolut tabu ist ...

Odată ca niciodată, Lana și fratele ei, Harrison, se jucau împreună cu orele. Până într-o bună zi, când băiatul și-a dat seama că e prea mare pentru jocuri. Lanei îi e tare dor de fratele ei, dar ce să vezi? În apropierea casei lor apare, peste noapte, un supermarket magic care schimbă regulile jocului… Printre rafturi se află, ascuns, un portal către o lume a basmelor, dar nu a celor în care toți trăiesc fericiți până la adânci bătrâneți. Aici e vorba despre povești adevărate și periculoase, pe care pot să le citească numai copiii foarte îndrăzneți.

Was weißt du über den Elite Kings Club? Als Madison Montgomery nach einem schrecklichen Schicksalsschlag in die Hamptons zieht, will sie nur eins: unsichtbar bleiben und keine Aufmerksamkeit erregen. Doch bereits am ersten Tag gerät sie ins Visier des Elite Kings Club - einer Gruppe gefährlicher Bad Boys. Bishop Vincent Hayes, der Anführer, zieht sie wie magisch in seinen Bann aus verbotenen Gefühlen, Macht und Geheimnissen. Geheimnisse, die mit den Elite Kings anfangen und enden und die Madisons Welt für immer aus den Angeln heben.

Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Wall. A mysterious, tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the very foundations of human relations; and the merry contestants in a reality TV show may actually be...somewhere very hellish, indeed. Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.

Twenty years ago 21-year-old Sophie Collier vanished one night. She left nothing behind but a trainer on the old pier - and a hole in the heart of her best friend, Francesca. Now a body's been found. And Francesca's drawn back to the seaside town she's tried to forget. Perhaps the truth of what happened to Sophie will finally come out. Yet Francesca is beginning to wish she hadn't returned. Everywhere she turns are ghosts from her past. The same old faces and familiar haunts of her youth.

Als Madison herausfindet, dass sie all die Jahre belogen wurde und niemandem vertrauen kann, will sie nichts wie weg: weg vom Elite Kings Club und weg von Bishop. Sie flieht bis ans andere Ende der Welt, und hofft, dass niemand sie finden wird. Doch so sehr sie versucht, ihre Spuren zu verwischen, Bishop hat sie längst aufgespürt. Denn der Elite Kings Club gibt nichts wieder her, was einmal ihm gehört hat.

Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gilbrandsen, is less fortunate - shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building. Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and vows to discover the real reason for Mr Gilbrandsen's visit.

When Alice Salmon died last year, the ripples were felt in the news, on the Internet, and in the hearts of those who knew her best. But the person who knows her most intimately isn't family or a friend. Professor Jeremy Cooke is an academic whose life has become about piecing together Alice's existence in all its flawed and truthful reality. For Cooke, faithfully recreating Alice's life - through her diaries, emails and anything using her voice - is all-consuming.

School teacher Ben is driving on the motorway, on his usual commute to work. A day like any other.... Except for one man who, in a final despairing act, jumps in front of Ben's car, turning the teacher's world upside down in a single horrifying instant.... Wracked with guilt and desperate to clear his conscience, he develops a friendship with Alice, the dead man's wife, and her seven-year-old son Max.