As delightfully wry & witty as his bestselling debut, ` The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window & Disappeared`, this is a tale of how one young woman`s attempt to change her future ended up changing everything. On 14th June 2007, the King of Sweden disappears. In 1994 South Africa dismantles six missiles, developed during its brief nuclear weapons programme. In 1961 Nombeko Mayeki is born in a Soweto shack. Seemingly destined for a life nasty, brutish & short, her path takes an entirely unpredictable turn. Because really this story is all about the seventh South African missile
- the one that was never supposed to have existed. The one that Nombeko knows far too much about. So now she`s on the run & running into twins who are officially one person, a Vietnam vet & a potato-loving Baroness. But the fate of the King of Sweden, & indeed the world, will remain on her shoulders alone.
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Two girls, from very different places, are brought together in a tale of loss, courage & family. Abela has lost everything, & now she must leave her home in Tanzania & flee to Britain. Rosa`s struggling to cope with her mum`s wish to adopt a child. When they are brought together, will Abela & Rosa ever be able to love one another like sisters? From the Carnegie Medal-winning author Berlie Doherty, The Girl Who Saw Lions is a powerful & moving story, inspired by the author`s visit to Africa. ...

Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother & father began to speak in whispers, when neighbours began to disappear, & when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she & her fifteen-year-old sister, Clare, fled the Rwandan massacre & spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries, searching for safety-perpetually hungry, imprisoned & abused, enduring & escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. When Clemantine was twelve, she & her sister were granted refugee status in the United States, where she embarked on another journey, ultimately graduating from Yale. Yet the years of being treated as less than human, of going hungry & seeing death, could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old & one hundred years old. In The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of `victim` & recognize the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries & aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful, & bracingly original, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to constructing a life on her own terms. ...

The girl with the dragon tattoo is not given to forgiveness. Lisbeth Salander has been forged by a brutal childhood & horrific abuse. & repeated attempts on her life. The ink embedded in her skin is a constant reminder of her pledge to fight against the injustice she finds on every side. Confinement to the secure unit of a women`s prison is intended as a punishment. Instead, Lisbeth finds herself in relative safety. Flodberga is a failing prison, effectively controlled by the inmates, & for a computer hacker of her exceptional gifts there are no boundaries. Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week
- & receives a lead to follow for his pains, one that could provide an important expose for Millennium: Salander tells him to check out Leo Mannheimer, a seemingly reputable stockbroker from Stockholm, somehow connected to the long-ago death of a child psychologist
- & to the psychiatric unit where Lisbeth was an involuntary patient as a child. Lisbeth knows she is coming closer to solving the mysteries of her early life; & even within the confines of the prison, she feels the deadly influence exerted by her twin sister. She cannot stand by as racial & religious conflicts run unchecked amongst the community around her, manipulated by criminal forces far beyond the prison walls. Salander will stand up for what she believes in. She will find out the truth. Whatever the cost... The tension, power & unstoppable force of The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye are inspired by Stieg Larsson`s Millennium trilogy, as Salander & Blomkvist continue the fight for justice that has thrilled millions of readers across the world. Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON. Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force: Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women`s prison for saving a young boy`s life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind. Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week
- & receives a lead to follow for his pains. For him, it looks to be an important expose for Millennium. For her, it could unlock the facts of her childhood. Even from a corrupt prison system run largely by the inmates, Salander will stand up for what she believes in, whatever the cost. & she will seek the truth that is somehow connected with her childhood memory, of a woman with a blazing birthmark on her neck
- that looked as if it had been burned by a dragon`s fire... The tension, power & unstoppable force of The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye are inspired by Stieg Larsson`s Millennium trilogy, as Salander & Blomkvist continue the fight for justice that has thrilled millions of readers across the world. Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding Review: Lagercrantz`s compassion for the underdog adds genuine emotion to his baroque plotting. There is much to admire in the way he has grasped a tricky assignment
- to continue one of the big-gest hits of recent years. Roll on the next ”girl” -- James Kidd * South China Morning Post * Lagercrantz`s excellent second contribution to Stieg Larsson`s Millennium series... twisting plot lines tie together in this complicated, fascinating mystery. As a bonus, readers learn the meaning of the dragon tattoo on Lisbeth`s back. * Publishers Weekly * Lagercrantz doesn`t falter in the mayhem department... Larsson fans certainly won`t be disappointed. * Kirkus Reviews * Lagercrantz`s latest Salander novel, is even bolder
- if somewhat more fantastical... Larsson had grand ambitions for his Millennium series, projecting a total of 10 novels. In Lagercrantz`s hands, the series is realizing grand ambitions of another sort... The Girl Who Takes an Eye for An Eye intensifies the mythic elements of Larsson`s vision. -- Maureen Corrigan * Washington Post * Expertly told, the plot crackles with life -- Geoffrey Wansell * Daily Mail * Some fictional characters prove too popular to die... Such is the case with Lisbeth Salander... Lagercrantz is doing a wonderful job. It would be hard to imagine a sequel more faithful to its work of origin than this one, which emulates the spirit & the style of the original trilogy. -- Tom Nolan * Wall Street Journal * Author Biography: David Lagercrantz was born in 1962, & is an acclaimed author & journalist. In 2015 The Girl in the Spider`s Web, his continuation of Stieg Larsson`s Millennium Trilogy, became a worldwide bestseller, & it was announced that Lagercrantz would write two further novels in the series. He is also the author of the acclaimed & bestselling I am Zlatan Ibramhimovic, & Fall of Man in Wilmslow, a novel about Alan Turing.



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' It all happened so quickly. One minute I was squatting on the bare earth, preoccupied with popping pea pods. The next, I saw the flash of a black hand & white cloth, & before I even had a chance to cry out it had sailed towards my face, & completely covered it.. .' In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted & then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went on to spend several years alone in the jungle, her only family a troop of capuchin monkeys. Using instinct to guide her, she copied everything they did & soon learned to fend for herself. At around ten years old, a completely feral Marina was returned to civilisation by hunters, who sold her to a brothel. After being enslaved & beaten daily, she escaped
- to live the perilous existence of a Colombian city street kid. Marina's life as a wild child wasn't over. In some ways, it had only just begun. This is her astonishing story.
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An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world`s most ruthless & secretive dictatorships
- & the story of one woman`s
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An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world`s most ruthless & secretive dictatorships
- & the story of one woman`s
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New paperback edition published to coincide with the major motion picture. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned & inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder
- & that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist & the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark & appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, & Blomkvist & Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is volume one in Swedish author Stieg Larsson`s Millennium Trilogy. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned & inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder
- & that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist & the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet`s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark & appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, & Blomkvist & Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
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