She is the girl with the dragon tattoo. Lisbeth Salander. An uncompromising misfit whose burning sense of injustice & talent for investigation will never respect boundaries of state or status. He is a campaigning journalist. Mikael Blomkvist. A lone wolf whose integrity & championing of the truth bring him time & again to the brink of unemployment
- & prosecution. The call comes in late at night: a superhacker has gained access to critical, top secret U.S. intelligence. Blomkvist knows only one person who could crack the best security systems in the world. This case has all the hallmarks of Salander. She is accused of acting without reason, taking risks just because she can, but though they have lost touch, Blomkvist knows Lisbeth better than that. There must be something deeper at the heart of this
- maybe even the scoop that Millennium magazine so desperately needs for its survival. A tangled web of truth that someone is prepared to kill to protect.

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Lisbeth Salander & Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son`s well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story
- & it is a terrifying one. More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder`s world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker. It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters
- & a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, & to Blomkvist & Salander themselves.

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” It is as if Henry VIII, Mary & Elizabeth were combined into one character, & unleashed for the first time: so much more fun than another Boleyn book”. (” Independent”). ” Compelling, exotic & fast-paced: a wonderful story of love & death that transports you into a forgotten world”. (Vanora Bennett). ” Speedy, gripping, historical fiction”. (Marie Claire). ” Clothier has a good story, a vigorous style & well-turned phrase”. (” Times Literary Supplement”). ...

The dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell. When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long buried crime of passion begins. & a group of friends, who played together as children, begin to question their past. ` For Woody, anger was cold. Cold & slow. But once it had started it mounted gradually & he could think of nothing else. He knew he couldn`t stay alive while those two were alive. Instead of sleeping, he lay awake in the dark & saw those hands. Anita`s narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man`s brown hand equally shapely, the fingers slightly splayed.` Beneath the green meadows of Loughton, Essex, a dark network of tunnels has been dug. A group of children discover them. They play there. It becomes their place. Seventy years on, the world has changed. Developers have altered the rural landscape. Friends from a half-remembered world have married, died, grown sick, moved
- or disappeared. Work on a new house called Warlock uncovers a long buried grisly secret. & a weary detective, more concerned with current crimes, must investigate a case of murder. In all her novels, Ruth Rendell digs deep beneath the surface to investigate the secrets of the human psyche. The interconnecting tunnels of Loughton in THE GIRL NEXT DOOR lead to no single destination. But the relationships formed there, & the incidents that occurred, exert a profound influence
- not only on the survivors but in unearthing the true nature of the mysterious past.

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One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti & Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti`s wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, & he sees a small foot
- together he & Vianello lift a dead girl from the water. But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, & for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children
- be they innocent or guilty. From the canals & palazzi of Venice to a gypsy encampment on the mainl&, Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice & entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

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Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She`s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ` Jess & Jason`, she calls them. Their life
- as she sees it
- is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. & then she sees something shocking. It`s only a minute until the train moves on, but it`s enough. Now everything`s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she`s only watched from afar. Now they`ll see; she`s much more than just the girl on the train.

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This is the Number One Bestseller. You Dont Know Her. But She Knows You. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional & startling psychological thriller ” Gripping, enthralling
- a top-notch thriller & a compulsive read.” (S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep). Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She`s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ` Jess & Jason`, she calls them. Their life
- as she sees it
- is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. & then she sees something shocking. It`s only a minute until the train moves on, but it`s enough. Now everything`s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she`s only watched from afar. Now they`ll see; she`s much more than just the girl on the train...


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A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love & Your Face for the World to See Rome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold & hungry, obliged to seek work at Mamma Pulcini`s house on the Via Flaminia. Their lives come together in what should be a simple exchange, a temporary arrangement without love or complication. But in a city broken by war, its people defeated, nothing is simple. Based on Alfred Hayes`own experiences of wartime Italy, this spare, searing novel exposes the dark complexities of the relationship between men & women, victor & vanquished.` Hayes has done for bruised men what Jean Rhys does for bruised women, & they both write heartbreakingly beautiful sentences` Paul Bailey, Guardian ...

An adventurous best mate in book form, The Girl Outdoors is a rip-roaring guide to the wider, wilder world. Whether you`re going on a physically demanding expedition or making cordial from foraged berries, this beautiful book is packed with inspiring & attainable ideas & advice. Follow Sian`s guide to getting active outdoors, from mountain biking to climbing, surfing, kayaking & more. Planning a wild adventure? You`ll find chapters on everything from wild camping & cycle touring to holding mini festivals & scrumptious campfire recipes. Then we`re off round the world with trip-planning advice, essential kit lists & tips on long-term backpacking & working abroad. Scattered throughout are enticing ideas for global adventures, from swimming on Scottish islands to canoe camping in Canada. The Girl Outdoors warmly welcomes you to a wilder way of life & ensures you`ll never again have to experience FOMA (Fear Of Missing Adventures). ...

In August 2014, Farida, like any ordinary teenage girl, was enjoying the summer holidays before her last year at school. But Farida lived in the mountains of northern Iraq
- & what happened next was unimaginable. Her village was an ISIS target. ISIS jihadists murdered the men & boys, including her father & brother, before taking Farida & the other women prisoner. This is the story of what happened to Farida after she was captured: the beatings, the rapes, the markets where ISIS sold women like cattle, & Farida`s realisation that the more resistant she became, the harder it was for her captors to continue their atrocities against her. So she struggled, she bit, she kicked, she accused her captors of going against their religion, until, one day, the door to her room was left unlocked. She took her chance &, with five younger girls in her charge, fled into the Syrian desert. Farida showed incredible courage in the face of the unthinkable, & now with The Girl Who Beat ISIS she bravely relives her story to bear witness. Searing & immediate, this is the first memoir by a young woman that shows first-hand what life is like for innocents caught up in the maelstrom of day-to-day life with ISIS.
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