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Set in 18th Century London, this historical thriller captures all the rawness of life in the grimy city. A young girl, Cat, who was orphaned at birth, is taken under the wing of a kind benefactor, Mr Sheridan, who found her abandoned on the steps of his theatre. The Diamond of Drury Lane
by Julia Golding (hard cover)
| Weight | 0,2 kg |
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| Dimensions | 10 × 5 × 2 cm |
Georg Polger, a struggling translator, finds his fortunes miraculously transformed. Commissioned to translate military plans, he also finds love with Françoise, the secretary of his taskmaster, Mr Bulnakov. In his sleepy village in the South of France, life couldn’t be better…
… except the mysterious death of the previous translator has left nagging doubts in his mind. Doubts which are only confirmed when he catches Françoise copying his plans. After Georg confronts Bulnakov, mysterious people begin tailing him, and Françoise disappears from their home.
Desperate to find out who Françoise really was, but with only a painting to show she ever existed, Georg sets out to track her down. But can he survive the machinations of Mr Bulnakov, or the realisation he may have been a pawn in a far larger game?
Moving from Cold War Europe to a KGB-infiltrated New York, The Gordian Knot combines Schlink’s thought-provoking take on history with a plot that confirms his reputation as a thriller writer of the highest rate.
Early one morning, on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when a twenty-foot apparition of the goddess Kali appears, and strikes one of their members dead.
The goddess disappears without a trace, and soon news of the crime has all India agog. For the victim is celebrated sceptic and rationalist Dr Suresh Jha, enemy of all gurus and mystics, and he has been silenced in a manner calculated to unnerve even his most loyal supporters.
As the media go into a frenzy, it becomes clear that the case goes to the heart of the battle between superstition and rationality in modern India. But the fact remains that a murder has been committed. And as it becomes clear that powerful forces are at play, one man is perfectly placed to investigate: the portly detective Vish Puri.
In fact, the idea that he could resist getting involved in such a tantalising murder is preposterous. There is as much chance of him going without his lunch.
Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully.
But when the plane she’s on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she has, but the life she was forced to abandon fifteen years ago, when she left behind a career in Egyptology, and a man she loved.
Against the odds, she survives, and the airline offers her a ticket to wherever she needs to get to – but the answer to that question suddenly seems uncertain.
As the path of her life forks in two very different directions, Dawn must confront questions she’s never truly asked: what does a well-lived life look like? What do we leave behind when we go? And do we make our choices, or do our choices make us?
“I want you to find out who in the family murdered Harriet, and who since then has spent almost forty years trying to drive me insane”
The Industrialist
Henrik Vanger, head of the dynastic Vanger Corporation, is tormented by the loss of a child decades earlier and convicted that a member of his family has committed murder.
The Journalist
Mikael Blomkvist delves deep into the Vangers’ past to uncover the truth behind the unsolved mystery. But someone else wants the past to remain a secret and will go to any lengths to keep it that way.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lisbeth Salander, the enigmatic, delinquent and dangerous security specialist, assists in the investigation. A genius computer hacker, she tolerates no restrictions placed upon her by individuals, society or the law.
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Millennium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry.
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