'Explores truth and memory with a compelling subtlety' - Jason GoodwinThe fictional memoir of Katrina Klain.How true are the family histories that tell us who we are and where we come from? Who knows how much all the beautiful liars have embargoed or embellished the truth?During a long flight from Europe to Sydney to bury her mother, Australian expat Katrina Klain reviews the fading narrative of her family and her long quest to understand her true origins. This has already taken her to Vienna, where she met her Uncle Harald who embezzled the Austrian government out of millions, as well as Carl Sokorny, the godson of one of Hitler's most notorious generals, and then on to Geneva and Madrid. Not only were her family caught up with the Nazis, they also turn out to have been involved with the Stasi in post-war East Germany.It's a lot to come to terms with, but there are more revelations in store. After the funeral, she finds letters that reveal a dramatic twist which means her own identity must take a radical shift. Will these discoveries enable her to complete the puzzle of her family's past?Inspired by her own life story, Sylvia Petter's richly imaginative debut novel, set between the new world and the old, is a powerful tale about making peace with the past and finding closure for the future.
From the author of the BESTSELLING Cockleberry Bay trilogy. Meet old and new characters in the Bay for Christmas fun and frolics.
Being a winner is easy. It's being a failure that's hard. The tale of a rock'n'roll underdog
A comedy about the rediscovery of the body of England's ancient patron saint, St Edmund, and a misguided attempt by an ambitious politician to exploit the find for her own ends
A hair-raising Himalayan hike: a promise, a penguin, a plucky girl and the magic heart of Tibet
Galina was born into a world of horrors. So why does she mourn its passing? From her childhood in the siege of Leningrad to her old age amid the glitz of modern St Petersburg, The Girl from the Hermitage is a portrait of the evolution from the Soviet Union to present-day Russia told seen through one woman's eyes
Isaac Newton ends up in the 21st century by accident, in the easiest, most enjoyable introduction to quantum physics ever devised.
The final part in the bestselling trilogy of romantic comedies set in the Devon village of Cockleberry Bay
A series of treks around Lake Turkana in the Great Rift Valley of northern Kenya, where the local inhabitants are as hostile as the terrain and every day is a battle for survival
Brigitte Sharpe is back, and this time she's taking on ransomware, cryptocurrency, Russian hackers and the dread of turning thirty
The controversial new novel from the winner of the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award
A journey into Sudan told through the eyes of Islamic converts, people intimately familiar with the western world but who have chosen Sudan and a new way of life over their former existence.
The true story of how a courageous band of media warriors assisted a broken nation in finding a voice through the radio. Waseem Mahmood lost almost everything when his brother broke a confidence and filed a story in the world's highest circulating tabloid newspaper, the News of the World. He feared he would never work in broadcast media again, and history intervened with the events of 9/11, the attack on Afghanistan, and the fall of the Taliban. Headed by Mahmood, a group of local and foreign journalists responded to the events by producing a radio program based in Kabul to disseminate much-needed and, for the first time, uncensored information to the country's people. What they end up providing is hope for a devastated land and a voice for a people long smothered by oppression. Told with searing honesty, this is a story of struggle, cruelty, and courage populated by ordinary people who risk their lives for freedom.
Alex Hickman goes in search of adventure as a news correspondent in the Balkans. He finds himself surrounded by key political figures, watching on as corruption and scandal take over the country.
Faith Frankel buys a sweet but dilapidated bungalow in the hope of a peaceful life. When a policeman knows on the door, she discovers that the history of her new home is anything but tranquil. A madcap comedy from one of America's most acclaimed novelists.
The contents of a discarded high-school yearbook take on a new urgency in this light-as-a-feather comedy
Every mother deserves a holiday. The third in the bestselling comedy series where Why Mummy Drinks meets Bridget Jones
A heart-warming, feel good romantic comedy and #1 Kindle bestseller - perfect for Bridget Jones fans
Contains sketches of history and beliefs, insights, trivia and details about many of the world's largest, smallest, oldest and strangest beliefs, faiths and religions.
A journey through Cambodia with the simple and romantic ambition to find the folkloric spirit trees, the powerful connecting force between man and nature, Ken Finn's travels turned out to be anything but simple. Back-wearing motos, immobilizing gastric assaults, unexpected road blocks, and monkish processions all contributed to the journey, but most dramatically, instead of enriching forests, destruction was found: the black market timber trade. A new voice was found as Ken followed the trees on their journey to the furniture factories of Vietnam and subsequently a house somewhere on the North Circular, London. The book chronicles his trip not just through Southeast Asia but the inner transition from traveler to activist. It charts the unlocking of a conscience and the discovery of a new sensitivity and passion showing that it is not a major shift in behavior to save the destruction and corruption of the planet and that it is important to care.
Christmas. A time for family. But what if your family is a total mess? The fourth in the bestselling comedy series, in which Why Mummy Drinks meets Bridget Jones
For James Salisbury the only thing worse than being found guilty...is being found not guiltyWhen James Salisbury, the owner of a British car manufacturer, ploughs his 'self-drive' car into a young family, the consequences are deadly. Will the car's 'black box' reveal what really happened or will the industry, poised to launch these products to an eager public, close ranks to cover things up?James himself faces a personal dilemma. If it is proved that he was driving the car he may go to prison. But if he is found innocent, and the autonomous car is to blame, the business he has spent most of his life building, and his dream of safer transport for all, may collapse.Lawyers Judith Burton and Constance Lamb team up once again, this time to defend a man who may not want to go free, in a case that asks difficult questions about the speed at which technology is taking over our lives.'It is Abi Silver's imaginative touches as well as her thorough legal knowledge that make her courtroom thrillers stand out' Jake Kerridge
The sequel to Nicola May's number one bestselling romantic comedy, The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay, set in a seaside village in Devon
A powerful historical novel telling the story of the orphaned son of a Maori chief who ends up exhibited as a curiosity in Victorian London. Loosely based on a true story.
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