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Film tie-in to Crichton's latest film. Deep in the heart of the Congo an eight-person expedition is killed mysteriously and rather brutally. Back in San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot is stunned when Amy, the gorilla he has been working with, draws a painting of the lost city the expedition was looking for. A new team is sent back to the Congo...>Congo< was first published in 1980.

What is great culture made of? How do you get more of it, or turn around a group that needs improving? In The Culture Playbook, Daniel Coyle delivers a simple, clear, field-tested guide for building a strong, cohesive, high-performing group.Coyle, author of the New York Times bestselling The Culture Code, has spent the last six years studying and consulting with some of the most successful groups on the planet - including IDEO, Pixar, the San ...

THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NOW YOU SEE HER_______________________Grace's best friend Anna is missing. She would never leave her husband and son by choice and Grace is beside herself with worry. As Grace searches desperately for answers, everyone seems to have a different version of the truth. Why won't Anna's husband call the police? What secrets are the other mothers at the school gate hiding? With each day that ...

COMING JULY 2021 - the brand new thriller from Lisa JewellIt's nearly midnight and you're home alone with only your baby grandson for company. Your daughter and her boyfriend have gone out to a party, the first time they've been out since their son was born. And now you are waiting for them to come home. But they don't.The next morning, frantic, you ring your daughter's friends, and you're told that she was last seen heading to a party in an i...

Fourteen days togetherWhen Abbie met Oz they were young, idealistic students from different backgrounds, but their connection was unmistakable. Then Oz went home to Istanbul and life moved on.Fifteen years apartNow Abbie is with the man she thinks she's going to spend the rest of her life with, until she meets Oz again. They find themselves drawn to each other once more, but too much time has passed - hasn't it?Will love go the distance?Abbie ...

Harkin's characters are drawn with wit and economy, and watching their stories dovetail is pure pleasure' THE TIMES'A narrative that is as page-turning as a thriller, and as thought-provoking as an inquiry into the human mind should be' i PAPER'Beautifully drawn, sympathetic and with complex characters. I stayed up all night - I literally couldn't put it down' CARYS BRAY'An extraordinary novel . . . Tell Me an Ending is gripping, inventive, an...

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels. 'Dazzling, smouldering .

Simple. Speedy. Delicious. Stuffed with quick, simple and mouth-watering recipes, Easy is the only cookbook you'll need to make every meal count without stressing in the kitchen. Whether it's having a crowd of mates over for a weeknight dinner, recreating your favourite takeaway or rustling up a delicious brunch to start the weekend right, Chris has a dish for every occasion. Packed with straightforward recipes - from Spicy Prawn Tostadas and ...

Fast paced and incredibly compelling' Shari Lapena___________________________________By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands.In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a weekend getaway.Their husbands will be joining them in the morning. Or so they think.But when they get to Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note that claims one of their husbands has been murdered. Their ph...

Curfew law keeps men at home after 7pm. It keeps women safe after dark. It changed things for the better... until now.SARAHSarah rebuilt her life after her husband was sent to prison. Now he's about to be released, and Sarah isn't expecting a happy reunion given she's the reason he was sent there...CASSSeventeen-year-old Cass disagrees with Curfew. She believes men and women should be equal. And she's determined to prove she's right - whatever...

A book so full of steel and compassion that it stands glitteringly apart' Rachel CuskMilena is a Red Princess living in a Soviet Satellite state in the 1980s.

** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature **'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready'The TimesSpanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight.Beautifully observed a...

She digs deep into the inner workings of each bad apple, exploring their motivations and insecurities, and offers clever strategies for stopping each type of jerk in their tracks. Know a Jerk at Work?

more recent luminaries include Brecht, Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Dylan Thomas, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Anne Stevenson, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, John Burnside and Ian McMillan.

Max finally meets her hero, Albert Einstein, as she dashes across glaciers, visits the Great Barrier Reef, and flies a solar-powered jet in a race to stop global warming - before it's too late for planet earth.So far, Max and her team of genius friends have solved problems that no one else could, including: bringing solar energy to remote locations, producing clean drinking water across the globe, and ending world hunger. No easy task, even fo...

An inside account of the multi-billion pound world of private equity and a masterclass on the art of deal-making.The Dealmaker is a frank and honest account of how a severely dyslexic child who struggled at school went on to graduate from Oxford and become a serial entrepreneur. It describes Guy Hand's career in private equity, first at Nomura and then as head of his own company, Terra Firma. It looks in detail at the huge deals that Terra Fir...

When is food addictive, and under what circumstances? And what can be done to cope with or, in the case of kids, avoid food addictions?As American-style processed foods transform the culture and habits of eating all over the world, Michael Moss explores food addiction and the obesity epidemic.

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott. In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris monastery to watch two men fight a duel to the death.

Fossil fuels may be keeping the world running, but they're also destroying the planet. What viable alternatives do we have, and what technological breakthroughs are on the horizon? In this brilliantly wide-ranging, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Nicole Kobie outlines the environmental threats we face through our reliance on carbon-based energy, and considers whether and when sustainable energy can take its place. She looks at the major techno...

Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'Offers a path to finding hope even in these dark times' The New York Times A rediscovered masterpiece by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man¿s Search For MeaningJust months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl delivered a series of talks revealing the foundations of his...