There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.. . On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear & present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways.. . Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all. Does the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? & will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall? Beautiful, intoxicating & filled with heart-pounding suspense, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love & obsession, betrayal & retribution, appearance & truth. ...

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed... On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear & present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways... Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all. Does the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? & will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall? Beautiful, intoxicating & filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton`s magnificent debut novel The Miniaturist is a story of love & obsession, betrayal & retribution, appearance & truth. ...

For Arthur Rowe the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past & a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, & from that moment on he`s a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run & struggling to remember & to find the truth. ...

What happens when you move to Iran, heartland of the ` Axis of Evil`, with your family in tow?
- asks Hooman Majd, author of
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Tanja Lucic teaches at the University of Amsterdam & lives on the edge of the city`s red light district. She & her pupils, fleeing the violent break-up of their homeland Yugoslavia, have found temporary refuge in the Department of Slavonic Languages. Desperate to make ends meet, many of the students find work at the ` Ministry`, a fetish-wear factory in North Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Tanja & her student Igor form a dangerously close relationship that threatens to unleash all the tensions of life in exile. With her sharp & melancholy observations, Dubravka Ugresic illuminates with savage compassion our shared human homelessness. ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1 BESTSELLER & THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER` Magnificent
- unlike anything I`ve read in years. An absolutely
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 & THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017`A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable` Guardian, Book of the Year * `A dazzling return to form` Independent THE SUNDAY TIMES 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS` An astonishing intimate epic. This is the novel one hoped Arundhati Roy would write about India` Daily Telegraph` At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard & drift across the city like smoke... ` So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy`s incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guesthouse in an Old Delhi graveyard & gathers around her the lost, the broken & the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who, although she is loved by three men, lives in a `country of her own skin`. When Tilo claims an abandoned baby as her own, her destiny & that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years & a teeming continent takes flight... ` Glorious, colourful & compelling. Roy`s second novel proves as remarkable as her first` Financial Times` The book filled me with awe. Propulsive, playful, gorgeous` New York Times Book Review` The unmissable literary read of the summer. With its insights into human nature, its memorable characters & its luscious prose, Ministry is well worth the wait` Time` Staggeringly beautiful
- a fierce, fabulously disobedient novel. Roy is writing at the height of her powers. Urgent, intimate ecstatic` Boston Globe`A searing portrait of modern India` Tatler` This vast novel will leave you awed by the heat of its anger & the depth of its compassion` Washington Post
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As Botswana awaits the familiar blessing of the rains & the resumption of the eternal cycle, seismic upheaval is taking place at the No. 1 Ladies` Detective Agency. Not only is Mr J. L. B. Matekoni attempting to reform himself into a modern husb&, but after her marriage to Phuti Radiphuti, Mma Ramotswe`s challenging but irreplaceable associate Mma Makutsi has joyful news. With the arrival of an heir to the Double Comfort furniture empire & Mma Makutsi busy with motherhood, Mma Ramotswe must tackle tea-making & detective work alone. Well-known troublemaker violet Sephotho may or not be behind a smear campaign against the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, & a dispute over the will of a local dignitary points to a shocking family secret. But the No. 1 Ladies` Detective Agency is resilient & adaptable, & change brings salutary lessons: that our enemies are not always obvious, that a snake under the bed may be an ally, & that a mother`s love conquers all. ...

A love story for the VICE generation Ed & Taylor, both aspiring young writers, fall in love during a summer of aimless drinking & partying in their university town of Missoula, Montana. Lonely & looking for love, they connect despite their profound differences: Ed is brooding, ambitious & self-destructive, living in denial of a mysterious tumour spreading from his limbs to his brain. Beautiful Taylor is a pure soul, positive, full of hope & emotional generosity. Their difficult relationship is intense, exciting yet doomed from the start, complicated further when Taylor falls pregnant. As Ed resists the harmony she brings to his life, Taylor`s need to protect herself & their child also grows, until a dramatic finale. Ted Mc Dermott`s stark writing speaks truthfully & with a touch of dark humour for & to today`s generation of young people trying to find hope in what feels to many like an existential void. The Minor Outsider will be read as the young literary voice of our dark times. ...

When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year`s Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, even his notoriously robust stomach is turned. A young girl
- & suspected spy
- who arrived by train from France just days before, has been found dead in her hotel room, the flesh torn from her cheek by her assailant`s teeth. Ill at ease with the increasingly open integration of S.S., Gestapo & police, Mock is partially relieved to be assigned to liaise with officers in Lvov, Pol&, where a series of similar crimes
- as yet unsolved
- cast a long shadow over the town.



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