(2019) When my palate is jaded I turn to Meera Sodha. She can take a packet of noodles, some peanut butter and a hunk of tofu and work magic. East is the vegetable book for people who arent vegetarian.
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(2019) They’re gorgeous, fiercely famous and the beating heart of the most glorious royal court in the world.
But behind the glittering ballrooms, elegant gowns, and seemingly perfect public personas lie forbidden romances and scandalous secrets. Together four young women will navigate gossip, drama, and the eyes of the world upon them.
There’s everything to play for – but there can only be one queen
(2005) Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets. Secrets from her mother: 1.I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben Hur. …From her boyfriend: 2. I’m a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor thinks. 3. I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. …From her colleagues: 4. When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day) 5. It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times. …Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: 6. My G string is hurting me. 7. I faked my Maths GCSE grade on my CV. 8. I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is… …until she spills them all to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger…
(2021) Everything gets easier in your thirties, right?
Though she has plenty to celebrate – successful career, new home, loving friends and family – for Nina Dean, her thirties have not exactly been the liberating experience she was sold. From fading friendships to exes popping the question, everyone is moving on (or worse, to the suburbs). And as her dad slowly loses his memories, her mum seems dead set on making new ones.
Then she meets Max, who tells her on date one that he’s going to marry her. But what seems like an exciting new development will ensure this year is Nina’s strangest yet . . .
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it’s too late?
(2021) From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, to preventing nuclear war (or so she believed) by stealing the science of atomic weaponry from Britain to give to Moscow, Ursula Kuczynski Burton conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century.
Born to a German Jewish family, as Ursula grew, so did the Nazis’ power. A fanatical opponent of the fascism that ravaged her homeland, she was drawn to communism as a young woman, motivated by the promise of a fair and peaceful society. She eventually became a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent.
In Agent Sonya, Britain’s most acclaimed historian vividly reveals the fascinating tale of a life that would change the course of history. Classic Ben Macintyre – a gripping ride, based on meticulous research, that reads like a novel – this is the greatest spy story never told.
(2019) The police tell her that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing.
When Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of her daughter’s funeral.
What really happened that day at the river?
Where is Maggie’s husband?
And why can’t she shake the suspicion that somewhere, somehow…
her daughter is still alive?
An emotional page-turner with amazing characters from the Top Ten bestselling author of My Sister’s Bones, this thriller is perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh’s I Let You Go and Lisa Jewell’s Watching You.WHAT AUTHORS AND READERS ARE SAYING:
‘Makes you question everything you thought you knew’ EMMA KAVANAGH
‘Wow! What a fantastic book that completely sucked me in. 5 stars’ ***** Amazon reviewer
‘A stunning book. Compelling, unsettling and powerful this is a book that will stay with me for a long time’ C. L. Taylor
‘This story absolutely blew me away’ ***** Amazon reviewer
‘A clever, twisty plot that takes psychological mind games to a new level. Nuala Ellwood has done it again!’ Jane Corry
‘A masterpiece’ ***** Amazon reviewer
‘Rivals The Girl on the Train (and beats it for style)’ The Guardian
‘This clever, multi- layered novel is simply stunning’ Dinah Jefferies
‘A gripping rollercoaster ride of a thriller. Keeps you in there right to the last page’ Christobel Kent
‘A twisty psychological thriller. I raced through it in one sitting!’ Lucy Atkins
‘A dark, intense, multi-layered thriller that twists and turns until the last page’ Tammy Cohen
‘Twisty and unpredictable. Kept me guessing until the end’ Karen Cleveland
‘An accomplished and page-turning thriller…it’s impossible to guess where it’s going next’ Nicholas Searle
‘A raw, shocking, and serpentine mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end’ Nicolas Obregon, author of Blue Light Yokohama
Milan Kundera’s lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author’s fictional works to have been written in French.
Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer’s night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era’s desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about “dancers” possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is just merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.
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2014 **Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award**
Though Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was never content with being just a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become ‘the everything store’, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To achieve that end, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that’s never been cracked. Until now…
Jeff Bezos stands out for his relentless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way that Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing. Amazon placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet. Nothing would ever be the same again.