An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world`s most ruthless & secretive dictatorships
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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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A hauntingly romantic & utterly irresistible weepy from the author of the international bestsellers Me Before You & After You. What happened to the girl you left behind? France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions. & from the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie`s portrait
- painted by Edouard
- a dangerous obsession is born, which will lead Sophie to make a dark & terrible decision. Almost a century later, & Sophie`s portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston, a wedding gift from her young husband before he died. A chance encounter reveals the painting`s true worth, & its troubled history. A history that is about to resurface & turn Liv`s life upside down all over again... In The Girl You Left Behind two young women, separated by a century, are united in their determination to fight for what they love most
- whatever the cost. Praise for The Girl You Left Behind:` Moyes is the queen of the classy weepy & this won`t disappoint. A masterclass in storytelling that fans of Me Before You will adore` Elle` Another heart-stoppingly brilliant novel from Jojo Moyes` Closer` Wonderfully well-written & completely engrossing, with exquisitely drawn characters in a brilliantly plotted narrative. It will make you think long after you turn the final page` Daily Mail


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Dark secrets, a devastating mystery & the games people play: the gripping new novel from the best-selling author of The House We Grew Up In & The Third Wife. You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in & out of other people`s houses. You`ve known your neighbours for years & you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? & who is responsible? Utterly believable characters, a gripping story & a dark secret buried at its core: this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best. ...

California. The summer of 1969. In the dying days of a floundering counter-culture a young girl is unwittingly caught up in unthinkable violence, & a decision made at this moment, on the cusp of adulthood, will shape her life...” This book will break your heart & blow your mind.” (Lena Dunham) Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air & the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair, long & uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles. The girls. & at the centre, Russell. Russell & the ranch, down a long dirt track & deep in the hills. Incense & clumsily strummed chords. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways. Was there a warning, a sign of things to come? Or is Evie already too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be changed forever? ...

This is longlisted for the 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize. It is a fiercely beautiful novel about friendship & the ties that bind us. Mia & Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia & untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at fifteen, & younger brothers she loves but can`t quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friend`s life. Until a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart, & then fall apart further
- & there is nothing Mia can do to help. & as good, kind, brave Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is & what that question means about them both. A staggeringly arresting, honest novel of love, motherhood, loyalty, & the myth of the perfect friendship that moves us to ask ourselves just how well we know those we love, what we owe our children, & who we are without our friends.
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This is beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark`s best loved novels, ” The Girls of Slender Means”. ` Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions`. In the May of Teck Club
- a London hostel `three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit`
- the young lady residents do their best to act as if the war never happened. They practice elocution, & jostle one another over suitors & a single Schiaparelli gown. But behind the girls` giddy literary & amorous peregrinations they hide some tragically painful secrets & wounds. ` You girls are my vocation...I am dedicated to you in my prime`. ” Reading the novel as a young woman was a random gift; rereading it today is to encounter the rarest of fiction & to appreciate the early & enduring genius of Muriel Spark”. (Carol Shields, ” Guardian”). ” One of Spark`s most evocative novels”. (Anne Taylor). Muriel Spark was born & educated in Edinburgh. She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950, when she won a short-story writing competition in the ” Observer”, & her many subsequent novels include ” Memento Mori” (1959), ” The Ballad of Peckham Rye” (1960), ” The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1961), ” The Girls of Slender Means” (1963) & ” Aiding & Abetting” (2000). She also wrote plays, poems, children`s books & biographies. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993, & died in 2006.

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London, 1945. The girls of slender means are the residents of the May of Teck Club, a genteel yet rather shabby boarding house established for the `social protection of ladies of slender means below the age of thirty years`. The novel concerns their everyday affairs over a period of a few weeks before a shocking event transforms their lives. This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 & September 2018. ...

With The Girls` Back to School Book, girls can say goodbye to those end-of-holiday blues, & discover that school is cool. Packed with brain-boosting puzzles, quizzes, games & things to do, this book is sure to send girls to the top of the class. Girls can find out their school-work style, carry out cool science experiments, create artistic masterpieces, crack fiendish number puzzles, learn new playground games & much more. ...