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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A runaway best-seller in France, But You Did Not Come Back is the deeply moving memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust. 'I was quite a cheerful person, you know, in spite of what happened to us.' In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. When they arrived, they were forcibly separated. Though he managed to smuggle a last note to her via an electrician, she never spoke to him again. But You Did Not Come Back is Marceline's letter to the father she would never know as an adult, to the man whose death has enveloped her life. With poignant honesty, she tells him of the events that have continued to haunt her, of the collapse of their family, and of her efforts to find a place in a changing world. This is a breathtaking memoir by an extraordinary woman, and an intimate and deeply moving message from a daughter to her father. Features Summary In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland... Author Marceline Loridan-Ivens (Author), Sandra Smith (Translator) Publisher Faber and Faber Release date 20160121 Pages 100 ISBN 0-571-32801-6 ISBN 13 978-0-571-32801-7

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Before You Go is powerful story of love and loss, by debut author Clare Swatman. When Zoe's husband Ed dies, her world caves in. But what if Zoe can get Ed back? You find your soulmate...Some people stare love in the face for years before they find it. Zoe and Ed fumbled their way into adulthood, both on different paths - but always in the same direction. Years later, having navigated dead-end jobs and chaotic house shares, romance finally blossoms. Their future together looks set...Then the unthinkable happens. One morning, on his way to work, Ed is knocked off his bike and dies. Now Zoe must find a way to survive. But she's not ready to let go of the memories. How can she forget all of the happy times, their first kiss, everything they'd built together? Zoe decides she has to tell Ed all the things she never said. Now it's too late. Or is it? Features Summary Before You Go is powerful story of love and loss, by debut author Clare Swatman. When Zoe's husband Ed dies, her world caves in. But what if Zoe can get Ed back? Author Clare Swatman Publisher Macmillan Release date 20170128 Pages 352 ISBN 1-5098-2480-4 ISBN 13 978-1-5098-2480-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Ottoline is back in Ottoline and the Purple Fox, a brand new adventure from Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell. Ottoline and Mr Munroe love puzzles, clues and mysteries. One day, they meet an enigmatic purple fox, who offers to take them on a night-time urban safari. The fox shows them all the hidden animals of the city and Ottoline makes notes on them in her field notebook. Mr Munroe is making notes too - on the anonymous poems he finds stuck to lampposts on their journey. Who is the secretive poet, and how can he and Ottoline help them mend their broken heart? Includes a free fold-up-and-keep fortune teller! Features Summary Ottoline is back in Ottoline and the Purple Fox, a brand new adventure from Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell. Ottoline and Mr Munroe love puzzles, clues and mysteries... Author Chris Riddell Publisher Macmillan Children's Books Release date 20160922 Pages 177 ISBN 1-4472-7792-9 ISBN 13 978-1-4472-7792-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Linny has been living life in black and white since her sister Grace ran away, and she's scared that Grace might never come back. When Linny witnesses the return to Miami of a cult movie star long presumed dead, she is certain it's a sign. Surely Alvaro Herrera, of all people, can tell her why people come back - and how to bring her sister home? Sebastian has come to Miami seeking his father, a man whose name he's only just learned. An aspiring astrophysicist, he can tell Linny how many galaxies there are, how much plutonium weighs and how likely she is to be struck by a meteorite. But none of the theories he knows are enough to answer his own questions about why his father abandoned him, and why it left him in pieces. As Sebastian and Linny converge around the mystery of Alvaro's disappearance - and return - their planets start to collide. Linny's life is about to become technicolor, but finding the answers to her questions might mean losing everything that matters. Features Summary Linny has been living life in black and white since her sister Grace ran away, and she's scared that Grace might never come back. When Linny witnesses the return to Miami of a cult movie star long presumed dead... Author Carlie Sorosiak Publisher Macmillan Children's Books Release date 20170727 Pages 352 ISBN 1-5098-3586-5 ISBN 13 978-1-5098-3586-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days 'Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars...' Gilbert Parker Love can truly make you feel out of this world. This delightful book, packed with heartfelt quotations from romantics old and new, is the perfect way to say, `I love you to the moon and back.' Features Summary 'Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars...' Gilbert Parker Love can truly make you feel out of this world. This delightful book... Publisher Summersdale Publishers Release date 20140106 Pages 160 ISBN 1-84953-525-6 ISBN 13 978-1-84953-525-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap. Lewis Carroll's magnificent nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark features an unlikely cast of characters drawn from the Jabberwocky in Through the Looking Glass. This irresistible version is illustrated, and has an introduction by, Chris Riddell. This is a luxury edition with both black and white and colour artwork, ribbon marker and metallic blue sprayed edges. It was first published by Macmillan in 1876. Features Summary They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap... Author Chris Riddell (Author), Lewis Carroll (Author), Chris Riddell (Introduction by), Chris Riddell (Illustrator) Publisher Macmillan Children's Books Release date 20160727 Pages 96 ISBN 1-5098-1433-7 ISBN 13 978-1-5098-1433-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hidden Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico, heralded on tours across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her rather unusual appearance. Yet few can see past the thick hair that covers her: she is both the fascinating toast of a Governor's ball and the shunned, revolting, unnatural beast, to be hidden from children and pregnant women. But what is her wonderful and terrible link to Rose, collector of lost treasures in an attic room in present-day South London? In this haunting tale of identity, love and independence, these two lives connect in unforgettable ways. Features Summary The dazzling new novel, evoking the strange and thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie Author Carol Birch Publisher Canongate Books Ltd Release date 20160827 Pages 384 ISBN 1-78211-654-0 ISBN 13 978-1-78211-654-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days People call me Fish Boy. My skin goes up and down like the waves. My mind goes in and out like the sea. They say I've always got my mouth open, that I ask too many questions. But what's wrong with that? Billy is a lonely boy. He's obsessed with swimming in the sea, which is where he goes to wash his problems far, far away. Thanks to his mum's mystery illness, his dad has been forced to work extra hours to make ends meet, so Billy locks himself away with David Attenborough films, and ponders the magic of nature. Meanwhile at school, bullies mercilessly seize on Billy's 'otherness' and make his life as miserable as possible - but then new boy Patrick Green, with "fingers like steel, strength of a bear" joins Billy's class. And when a mackerel swims up to Billy's face, blows bubbles into his Vista Clear Mask goggles and says: Fish Boy - Billy's whole world changes. Accompanied by gorgeous illustrations by Richard Jones. Features Summary Billy is a lonely boy. He's obsessed with swimming in the sea, which is where he goes to wash his problems far, far away. Thanks to his mum's mystery illness... Author Chloe Daykin (Author), Richard Jones (Illustrator) Publisher Faber and Faber Release date 20170214 Pages 304 ISBN 0-571-32822-9 ISBN 13 978-0-571-32822-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Infinity Engine is the third and final novel in the Transformation series, by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher, following Dark Intelligence and War Factory. A man battles for his life, two AIs vie for supremacy and a civilization hangs in the balance...Several forces now pursue rogue artificial intelligence Penny Royal, hungry for revenge or redemption. And the Brockle is the most dangerous of all. This criminal swarm-robot AI has escaped its confinement and is upgrading itself, becoming ever more powerful in anticipation of a deadly showdown. Events also escalate aboard the damaged war factory station where Penny Royal was constructed. Here Thorvald Spear, alien prador, and an assassin drone struggle to stay alive, battling insane AIs and technology gone wild. Then the Weaver arrives - last of the Atheter, resurrected from a race that suicided two million years ago. But what could it contribute to Penny Royal's tortuous plans? And beyond the war factory a black hole conceals a tantalizing secret which could destroy the Polity. As AIs, humans and prador clash at its boundary, will anything survive their explosive final confrontation? Features Summary Infinity Engine is the third and final novel in the Transformation series, by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher, following Dark Intelligence and War Factory... Author Neal Asher Publisher Tor Books Release date 20170311 Pages 576 ISBN 0-230-75075-3 ISBN 13 978-0-230-75075-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Ten-year-old Joan was born with a rare gift: she can remember every single day of her life in perfect detail. She can tell you how many times her mother has uttered the phrase `it never fails' in the last six months (twenty-seven), or what she was wearing when her grandfather took her fishing on a particular Sunday in June years ago (fox socks). But Joan doesn't want to be the girl who remembers everything - she wants to be the girl that no one can forget. When her father's old bandmate Gavin comes to stay, reeling from the sudden loss of his partner Sydney, Joan is keen to enlist his help in making her name. Even if it means using her extraordinary memory to help him solve the mystery of Sydney's final months... Told in the alternating voices of two unforgettable characters, The Reminders is a funny, heart-wrenching and uplifting story of friendship, grief, memory and hope. Features Summary Ten-year-old Joan was born with a rare gift: she can remember every single day of her life in perfect detail. She can tell you how many times her mother has uttered the phrase `it never fails' in the last six months (twenty-seven)... Author Val Emmich Publisher Picador Release date 20170729 Pages 224 ISBN 1-5098-2942-3 ISBN 13 978-1-5098-2942-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days A Nest of Vipers is the twenty-first novel in Andrea Camilleri's irresistible Inspector Montalbano series. Quite a family, you had to admit! A nest of vipers might be a better description... On what should be a quiet Sunday morning, Inspector Montalbano is called to a murder scene on the Sicilian coast. A man has discovered his father dead in his Vigatan beach house: his body slumped on the dining room floor, his morning coffee spilt across the table, and a single gunshot wound at the base of his skull. First appearances point to the son having the most to gain from his father's untimely death, a notion his sister can't help but reinforce. But when Montalbano delves deeper into the case, and learns of the dishonourable life the victim led, it soon becomes clear half of Vigata has a motive for his murder and this won't be as simple as the Inspector had once hoped... Features Summary A Nest of Vipers is the twenty-first novel in Andrea Camilleri's irresistible Inspector Montalbano series. Quite a family, you had to admit! A nest of vipers might be a better description... Author Andrea Camilleri (Author), Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) Publisher Mantle Release date 20170725 Pages 288 ISBN 1-4472-6598-X ISBN 13 978-1-4472-6598-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Chapter by chapter, the rotating narratives evolve into an elaborate dance of inner worlds enfolded within the outer forces of history as, one by one, the intimate plot of each Ferguson's story rushes on across the tumultuous and fractured terrain of mid twentieth-century America. A boy grows up-again and again and again.As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written 4 3 2 1 is an unforgettable tour de force, the crowning work of this masterful writer's extraordinary career. Features Summary LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson... Author Paul Auster Publisher Faber and Faber Release date 20170128 Pages 866 ISBN 0-571-32462-2 ISBN 13 978-0-571-32462-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Charlatans is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Noah Rothauser is the new super chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital. Housing state-of-the-art medical facilities, it's always been Noah's dream to work for such an esteemed institution. But the pressures of the role become all too clear when a seemingly routine operation results in the tragic death of an otherwise healthy man. With potential malpractice suspected it falls to the newly appointed surgical doctor to investigate what happened. Questioning those involved uncovers bitter feuds within the hospital's surgical staff when Dr. William Mason, the egotistical, world-class surgeon who performed the operation, is quick to blame staff anaeshtetist Dr. Ava London for the disastrous outcome. However Dr. London, along with the nursing staff, point the finger at the surgeon. When two more anaesthesia-related deaths occur, Noah is forced to look closer at the impressively competent, charming, yet mysterious Dr. London, and he quickly realizes there's far more to her than meets the eye. With his own job and integrity coming into jeopardy, Noah must decide which doctor is at fault and who he can believe - before any more lives are lost... Features Summary A gripping medical thriller set in a pioneering Boston hospital where a series of unexpected deaths leads to a terrifying revelation. Author Robin Cook Publisher Macmillan Release date 20171212 Pages 448 ISBN 1-4472-9854-3 ISBN 13 978-1-4472-9854-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days To mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from `the last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful and thought-provoking elegy to that most beloved inhabitant of the British countryside, the common hedgehog. Pam Ayres' spiky and wonderful creation reminds us that unless we take steps to prevent it, they will soon be far from `common' indeed: beautifully illustrated by Alice Tait, the poem sees our hero tell of all the terrible ends his family come to at our own hands - and exactly what we can still do to keep them alive, and see them thrive once more. Features Summary A special edition illustrated poem from the beloved Pam Ayres to celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week. Author Pam Ayres Publisher Picador Release date 20180414 Pages 48 ISBN 1-5098-8126-3 ISBN 13 978-1-5098-8126-0