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Classic adventure from the million copy bestseller Jack HigginsIn the end all roads lead to hell.It’s 1944 and Germany is facing its final defeat. Five thousand miles across the Allied dominated Atlantic, twenty-two men and five nuns aboard the Barquentine Deutschland are battling home to Kiel.Among them are a U-boat ace captured in a raid on Falmouth. A female American doctor caught in the nightm…
A tense, claustrophobic and gripping science fiction thriller from the author of The Testimony. When journalist Cormac Easton is selected to document the first manned mission into deep space, he dreams of securing his place in history as one of humanity’s great explorers. But in space, nothing goes according to plan. The crew wake from hypersleep to discover their captain dead in his allegedly fai…
From Michael Chabon, the bestselling author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; his first novel in 5 years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. One street in Oakland, California. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are hanging in there, co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen and Aviva, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-lege…
Julia Laing is a winner – beautiful, vivacious, publicity director of London’s top hotel. Robert Brand is charismatic, handsome – with his vast fortune he can work magic. Together they make a golden couple, the world at their feet.Together they can almost forget Robert’s unhappy marriage to Grace, a union bound by secrets a generation old … until, suddenly, Julia’s world is shattered by tragedy, a…
Her story could blow apart the secrets they’d both agreed to keep.Alison Fairmont Villard wakes in a hospital bed with a face she doesn’t recognise and a husband she doesn’t know. Andrew Villard, a self-made millionaire, has a bright future but a shadowy past. When he tells Alison the details of their life together, she has no choice but to believe him – and to accept the shocking proposal he offe…
Greed and vengeance disrupt the quiet stillness of the Adirondack mountainsTexas Ranger Jack Galway knows his wife Susanna loves him, so when their marriage hits a rough patch, he supports her decision to take their two teenaged daughters to Boston for a break. But when a few weeks turns into several months, Jack heads to Boston to get his family back.Packing up the girls and her grandmother, Susa…
In Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, a terrible secret is about to be uncovered by a woman whose daughter vanished seven years ago without a trace…And now a new clue has surfaced…a doll that is the spitting image of Claire Doucett's missing child, right down to the tiny birthmark on the girl's left arm. A chance sighting of the eerily lifelike doll in a French Quarter collectibles shop leaves Claire s…
Twenty years ago Katherine Neville's groundbreaking thriller THE EIGHT was a global bestseller – a thriller in the style of THE DA VINCI CODE way before Dan Brown ever got there…In this long-awaited sequel, Alexandra Solarin, a chess-wizard and the only daughter of Cat Velis, the heroine of THE EIGHT, arrives at her mother's Colorado lodge, only to discover that her mother has disappeared. Finding…
Луиза Мюльбах (псевдоним Клары Мундт, в девичестве Мюллер; 1814–1873) – немецкая романистка. Была замужем за известным писателем, критиком и литературоведом Теодором Мундтом. Поселившись в Берлине, она сблизилась с представителями «Молодой Германии» и приобрела известность радикальными воззрениями на женскую эмансипацию. Как писательница, Мюльбах была чрезвычайно плодовита (ею издано свыше 100 кни…
Роберт Нельсон Стивенс (1867–1906) – американский писатель, автор приключенческих и исторических книг. В начале своего литературного пути ориентировался на творчество английского романиста Стенли Джона Веймана, которого в ту пору именовали «Принцем романа». Но со временем выработал свою манеру изложения, отличительной чертой которой, наряду с захватывающими приключениями, являлись красивые описани…
Оскар Гекёр (годы жизни не установлены) – немецкий беллетрист, автор нескольких исторических произведений. Роман «Ганзейцы», публикуемый в данном томе, рассказывает об одной из малоизвестных страниц средневековой истории. Его герои, оклеветанные и незаслуженно исключенные из Ганзейского союза, борются за восстановление своих прав и доброго имени.
Сельма Оттилия Ловиса Лагерлёф (1858–1940) – самая знаменитая писательница Швеции, лауреат Нобелевской премии, член Шведской академии, почетный доктор Упсальского университета. Создав двадцать четыре крупных произведения, она на склоне лет написала трилогию о Лёвеншёльдах, ставшую классикой шведской и мировой литературы, так же как и свои самые замечательные произведения, написанные в расцвете сил…
Now a major BBC TV show starring John Simm. Taut, menacing, sinister, gripping, intelligent, action-packed – everything you could want from a thriller.When ex-LAPD patrol cop Jack Whalen’s wife goes missing on a routine business trip to Seattle, his world is shaken.Meanwhile, a ten-year-old girl vanishes from a beach in Oregon after an encounter with a sinister stranger – but it gradually becomes …
Conspiracy thrillers don’t come any bigger or better than THE KEY – from the author of the bestselling thriller debut of 2011, SANCTUS: ‘Plenty of action, plenty of intrigue and wonderfully imaginative. The sort of novel to devour in one sitting' Kate Mosse.Hounded. Haunted. Hunted. She is the most important person in the world. She is The Key.In the ancient Turkish city of Ruin, American journali…
The ultimate moneymaking plan—buy the ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination.Toni Fraser and her friends will put on reenactments combining fact and fiction, local history, murder and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall. Just as someone arrives, claiming to actually be Laird MacNiall—a tall, dark, formidable Scot somehow familiar to Toni—the bodies of young wo…