The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. & then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei`s estranged parents live in Kobe. Should he contact them? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm. ` When he gets angry, he causes earthquakes, ` says Frog. ` And right now he is very, very angry.` This new collection of stories, from one of the world`s greatest living writers, dissects the violence beneath the surface of modern Japan. ...

In August 1947 the British ended the ` Raj` & left India. Some stayed on; others who had grown up in India shortly returned there. Over the next sixty years they adapted to modern India while always being conscious of their legacy, the inheritance of the Raj. This is the story of the very last of the stayers-on. Through their eyes we see how the legacy has withered over the years but, with their help, also how it has evolved in a new millennium: from post-imperial hangover to heritage industry; from the singing of Victorian hymns in neo-Gothic churches to a new Christian evangelism; from Shakespeare wallahs to multimedia English language teaching & call centres. Tea planter, missionary, tiger hunter turned conservationist, club manager, `box-wallah`, antiques dealer, single mother in the ghost town of Mc Cluskiegunge
- they all have remarkable stories to tell. & now there are fewer than a dozen of the stayers-on left. Hugh Purcell`s After the Raj is the haunting, uplifting, unexpected story of the very last remnants of British India.
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After the Silence is the utterly compelling crime debut from Jake Woodhouse. A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam`s old town, a mobile phone forced into the victim`s mouth. In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the ashes of a burnt-down house. But the couple who died in the fire had no children of their own. Did a little girl escape the blaze? &, if so, who is she & where is she now? Inspector Jaap Rykel knows that he`s hunting a clever & brutal murderer. Still grieving from the violent death of his last partner, Rykel must work alongside a junior out-of-town detective with her own demons to face, if he has any hope of stopping the killer from striking again. Their investigation reveals two dark truths: everybody in this city harbours secrets
- & hearing those secrets comes at a terrible price... After the Silence introduces Inspector Jaap Rykel in a gripping debut police procedural from Jake Woodhouse, which is sure to appeal to fans of Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson & Stuart Mac Bride. This is the first novel in The Amsterdam Quartet series. Jake Woodhouse has worked as a musician, winemaker & entrepreneur. He now lives in London with his wife & their young gundog. After the Silence is the first book in his Amsterdam Quartet.
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Perfect for fans of The Killing or The Bridge, After the Silence is an utterly compelling crime debut set in Amsterdam. A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam`s old town, a mobile phone forced into the victim`s mouth. In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the ashes of a burnt-down house. But the couple who died in the fire had no children of their own. Did a little girl escape the blaze? &, if so, who is she & where is she now? Inspector Jaap Rykel knows that he`s hunting a clever & brutal murderer. Still grieving from the violent death of his last partner, Rykel must work alongside a junior out-of-town detective with her own demons to face, if he has any hope of stopping the killer from striking again. Their investigation reveals two dark truths: everybody in this city harbours secrets
- & hearing those secrets comes at a terrible price... After the Silence introduces Inspector Jaap Rykel in a gripping debut police procedural from Jake Woodhouse, which is sure to appeal to fans of Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson & Stuart Mac Bride. This is the first novel in The Amsterdam Quartet series. Praise For Jake Woodhouse: ” This gripping detective novel will thrill fans of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo & bears comparison to Fatherl&... Utterly unputdownable.” (The Sun). ” Utterly enthralling...looks set to be one of the key sequences in modern crime fiction.” (Barry Forshaw, Crimetime). ” Jake Woodhouse`s taut, twisty plots are expertly woven & beautifully written. They are peopled with complex characters that will have you turning the pages to see what becomes of them. He has created a flawed gem in Inspector Jaap Rykel, a cop with an assured literary future.” (Craig Robertson, author of Witness the Dead & The Last Refuge). ” After the Silence is as dark & twisty as the Amsterdam it navigates & Rykel a fascinating & original protagonist. A promising start to what could be a great series.” (Stav Sherez, author of A Dark Redemption). ” Complex...intriguing...keeps the reader hooked.” (Eurocrime).
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Vince Cable`s bestselling book, The Storm, explored & explained the causes of the 2008 world economic crisis & how Britain should respond to the great challenges it brought. In After the Storm, Cable, who was Business Secretary in the 2010-2015 coalition government, provides a unique perspective on the state of the global financial markets & how the British economy has fared since 2008. This timely book will provide a previously unreported inside view of the coalition, & offers a carefully considered perspective on how the British economy should be managed over the next decade & beyond. What was sadly missing from the 2015 election campaign, Cable argues, was debate around the economic future of Britain, of how to make improvements in productivity to raise living standards, & above all how Britain can rebalance its economy & earn its keep in an increasingly uncertain global market. Cable addresses these issues from his vantage point as someone who has spent the last five years at the heart of government. After the Storm is a fascinating & urgent intervention from one of the key figures in British politics of the past two decades ...

A shy young Mexican woman moves to Paris to study literature. Cecilia has few friends, & a morbid fascination with watching the funerals taking place in the cemetery outside her apartment. She suddenly strikes up a close platonic relationship with her neighbour, a sickly young man who shares her interest in death & believes we can communicate with the dead. After coming to entirely depend on him for company & routine, Cecilia is left devastated by his decision to go to Sicily for his health, & is left alone in an unfriendly city once more. Claudio, meanwhile, lives in New York with the submissive, quiet, but very wealthy Ruth. She makes few demands of him, whilst acquiescing to all his desires & indulging his obsessive, misogynistic nature. He meets Cecilia by chance whilst visiting a friend in Paris & these two very different stories collide with transformative consequences. Translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey ...

In After They Killed Our Father, Loung Ung picks up where the bestselling First They Killed My Father left off, with the author escaping a devastated Cambodia in 1980 at the age of ten & flying to the US as a refugee. She & her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, & her book is alternately heart-wrenching & heart-warming, as it follows the parallel lives of Loung & her closest sister, Chou, during the 15 years it took for them to be reunited. Their two worlds could not have been more different, & Loung's depiction of the contrast between her life in the affluent West & that of her sister, who navigated her way through landmine-strewn fields & survived raids by the Khmer Rouge, is laced with the guilt she feels about being the lucky one. This powerful story helps us to understand what happens when a family is torn apart by politics, adversity & war. It is also the compelling & inspirational tale of a remarkable woman. ...

***THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING NOVEL THAT IS LOVED AROUND THE WORLD, & IS NOW A FILM STARRING EMILIA CLARKE & SAM CLAFLIN*** ` Matches Me Before You. Funny, sad & wise, you`ll be using a hankie as a bookmark` Mail on Sunday ` Moyes totally delivers. With its twisty plot, characters you fall in love with, weepy bits & witty bits, this is pretty much perfect` Glamour Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she`s ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she`s owned for a year still doesn`t feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago. & will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for
- or just more questions? Close the door & life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it & she risks everything. But Lou once made a promise to live. & if she`s going to keep it, she has to invite them in.. .` This beautiful story is perfect. Will have you brimming with tears & grinning in equal measure. L-O-V-E` Closer ` Wonderfully warm. Moyes manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love. Unputdownable` Sunday Express ` Classic Jojo
- fans will love it` Heat ` Satisfyingly brilliant` Sun `I read this in one sitting. It is impossible not to root for Lou` Stylist

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After you with the Pistol
- the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp.
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AFTER YOU`D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O` Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE & I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love & grief.A distraught young woman boards a train at King`s Cross to return to her family in Scotl&. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London.AFTER YOU`D GONE follows Alice`s mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, & of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family`s heart. ...