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Sunny hears from a stranger that her mother Margaret has just died. Then she discovers that her informant, Fletcher, is the son of the man who died alongside Margaret, and that the pair, unbeknownst to their offspring, were engaged to be married.

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death N...

Towards the end of November 2002, Billy Tyler, an ordinary police constable, spends a long and thoughtful night in the mortuary of a hospital in Suffolk guarding the body of one of Britain's most notorious child-killers.

Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears, and finds a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking.

Lewis Patchett is a new kind of 'heroine'. He's an ultra-confident, 20-something man. But he won't be satisfied with his life until he can transition into the ultimate symbol of power and status: a woman.

In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel's everyday cares - lost grocery money, the whims of his parents' moods, their neighbours' squabbling, his endless daydreaming - are soon ...

SS Obersturmf.ư̐uhrer Paulk Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front. After being badly wounded he is fit only for administrative duty and his first and most pressing task is to improve flagging camp morale. He sets up a chess club which thrives, as the officers and enlisted men are a...

Red-haired, jade-eyed Deirdre is determined to marry for love - nothing else will do. So the fact her father's candidate for her hand, Lord Harry Desire, is well bred and good looking, interests her not a jot! But the feelings he arouses in her are truly distracting.

'The Deposition of Father McGreevy' tells of the tragedy of a village where all the women mysteriously die. Father McGreevy struggles to preserve what remains of his parish, battling against the rough elements and the grief of his people.

All his life orphan Tom Falconer has slaved for the repulsive Slopes. Imagine his surprise when a rich stranger arrives to whisk him away to a new life in Elizabethan London. This is an atmospheric adventure story, drawing on real people and events.