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Even for a con artist, Liz is about to take things way, way too far . . .Liz has a knack for getting wealthy people to trust her - everyone thinks she's an instant friend. She's made a life for herself as a serial con artist, but Liz's many identities and crimes are starting to snap at her heels. So she leaps at the chance to escape to the Mexican coast to decorate a socialite's new villa, planning to behave herself for once.But when Liz is mistaken for her absent employer, she just can't help herself. Drawn into the dazzling seafront community, things take an unexpected turn, until Liz wonders exactly why her doppelganger hasn't come to claim her glittering life . . .Spoiler: it's going to be carnage.

Jack Ryan returns in a blockbuster new novel of action, thrills and intrigue in the world created by master storytelling Tom Clancy.__________PRAISE FOR TOM CLANCY'Constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale'NEW YORK TIMES'Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict'SUNDAY TIMES'A brilliantly constructed thriller that packs a punch'DAILY MAIL'Heart-stopping action . . . entertaining and eminently topical'WASHINGTON POST

Germany 1945. The War's end. Year Zero. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie is there to see his country's ambassador to the Third Reich leave by the back door. For the Allies there are no rewards for neutrality. But Stefan's work isn't over. There are Irishmen in Germany that Ireland doesn't want back. If the Allies have them, they can expect no help. Still, the Irish government needs to know enough about them to deny knowing anything about them. And British Intelligence will cooperate if there's some quid pro quo. It's the usual, dirty business. Unexpectedly, Stefan finds himself in a town he knew as a child when visiting his German cousins. And his family is still there - the ones who survived the War. Maybe it's just a fond memory of the first girl he loved that makes him help Else Friesack search for her missing daughter. Maybe he just wants to do something that's clean. But the past is a dangerous place to return to. Darkness still hangs over Germany. And Stefan Gillespie is walking right into it.

From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of ageing that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinised, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a 'woman of a certain age'. And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she's changing the narrative about women and ageing. This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live - when we get to write our own stories. With remarkable candour, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing her own life experiences with humour and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias. By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanising, Brooke's honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife.

Rachel and her sister Claire grew up in a stately, country home, Butley Priory in Suffolk, as baronesses and the daughters of aristocrat Count De Lengham, who was descended from a long and ancient line of the von Gaisbergs dynasty. They had their own coat of arms and led a seemingly privileged existence that many would have been jealous of. But behind the closed doors of their mansion house, Rachel and her siblings were subjected to extreme levels of neglect, often spending periods of time in care. As they grew older they were trained to be every inch the Baroness and were called upon by their father to be his companion for elite parties and events where they would mingle with royalty and fellow aristocrats. As time passed and the sisters grew up, their relationship with their family became increasingly strained. However, when Count De Lenghham became ill and the family were told he would die very soon, Rachel was there for father and it was at that moment he revealed a mind-blowing deathbed confession...

In the thrilling conclusion to the Egyptian-inspired Scorched Throne duology, a fugitive queen may be the key to restoring her lost kingdom of Jasad, but it could cost her everything and everyone she loves. Held deep in a mountain refuge, Sylvia has been captured by the Urabi, who believe she can return their homeland to its former power. But after years of denying her legacy and a forbidden alliance with Jasad's greatest enemy, Sylvia must win the group's trust while struggling to keep control of both her magic and her mind. In the rival kingdom, Arin is caught between his father's desire to put down the brewing rebellion and the sacred edicts he's sworn to uphold. Arin must find Sylvia before his father's army, but his search will call into question the very core of Arin's beliefs about his family and the destruction of Jasad. War is inevitable and Sylvia cannot abandon her people again. The Urabi plan to raise the Jasadi fortress, and it will either kill Sylvia or destroy the humanity she's fought so hard to protect. For the first time in her life Sylvia doesn't just want to survive. She wants to win.The fugitive queen is ready to come home.

The latest Tom Thorne story is one of master author Billingham's finest novels of his whole career - and one of the most shocking.

A slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy featuring a scholarly healer and a gentleman assassin, set in an exquisite fantasy world, perfect for fans of The Love Hypothesis and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, is in dire need of healing. Naturally - such is the grim comedy of fate - the only healer who can help is Aurienne Fairhrim, preeminent scientist, bastion of moral good, and member of an enemy Order. Aurienne is desperate for funding to heal the sick - so desperate that, when Osric bribes her to help him, she accepts, even if she detests him and everything he stands for. A forced collaboration ensues: the brilliant Woman in STEM is coerced into working with the PhD in Murders, much to Aurienne's disgust. As Osric and Aurienne work together to heal his illness and investigate the mysterious reoccurrence of a deadly pox, they find themselves ardently denying their attraction, which only fuels the heat between them.Tropes include:Enemies-to-loversHigh interaction slow burnHypercompetent idiotsHe falls first and harderSlaughter as a love language

The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time - a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women Izumi needs to get a job. Haruka needs to stop talking about how she once had cancer. Kat¿ needs to get through a shift at the convenience store without being harassed. Mito needs to break up with her boyfriend - or marry him. Sumie just needs somewhere to live. In this classic Japanese bestseller, published in English twenty-five years after it took Japan by storm, the lives of five ordinary women are depicted with irresistible humour and searing emotional insight.

THE BIGGEST CRIME DEBUT OF 2025Dark humour, dirty deeds, marriages and murder . . . it's the fantastically twisty first novel you won't be able to put down.Pam and her friends, Nancy and Shalisa have had enough. Enough of scraping by and enough of their bothersome husbands. Husbands who lost their life savings to a dodgy investment but also happen to have hefty life insurance policies.Their new retirement plan? Why murder, of course.But they don't know that their husbands have a new retirement plan of their own.And now someone is going to be killed . . . but who?Three wives wanting a new life, three husbands in their way . . .

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of  Horse.Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz - just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy - collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends at Lambert's Cove. But all of this came to an abrupt end when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf.Three years later, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on a pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony's death.A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

'Heartwood is a true wilderness thriller: a missing person quest rendered in agile, extraordinary prose by a novelist at the height of her powers. I found it nearly impossible to put down' Jennifer EganValerie Gillis, a 42-year-old nurse, is hiking the Appalachian Trail, a legendarily challenging route that runs from Georgia to Maine, taking in fourteen states. She has almost reached the end when she vanishes.Beverly Miller, the first female game warden ever hired in the state of Maine, has a near-perfect record of finding lost people. She is leading a search and rescue mission through the impenetrable woods.Meanwhile, Lena follows the case online from her retirement home, believing she might hold the key to the case.Heartwood is a love letter to mothers, daughters, nurses, first responders, loners, and lovers of nature, and to anyone who's been lost along the way.

Two facts: 1) in the 1970s, the Pacific Northwest had the highest percentage of serial killers anywhere; 2) the area had for the previous century been a hub of unregulated industry that ravaged nature and residents alike. Murder: A Memoir is a blend of true crime, memoir, and history, a comprehensive reckoning with the past. It will do something that's never been done before: connect actual murders to huge, slow, environmental crimes. It's not a memoir of one person's life - either Ted Bundy's or Caroline's - so much as a memoir of a vicious time and a deadly place. It will offer a highly specific portrait of an era when life was cheap, and industry, operating without restrictions, trumped all.

'Vivid and precise, deliciously cool-eyed, immensely readable' Jonathan Franzen'Evokes the narrative power of classic Anne Tyler' Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano TeacherJoan Liang's life is a series of surprising developments: she never thought she would leave Taiwan (and for all places, California), nor did she expect her first marriage to implode - especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Through all this she asks herself the question familiar to so many of us: what are we living for? And are we ever truly satisfied? Vivid, comic and intensely moving, The Satisfaction Café is a novel about all of the joy, sorrow, betrayal and beauty that come with marriage and family - and above all, about life's endless capacity to surprise us.