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| "I'm Too Fond of My Fur! (Geronimo Stilton) : 4" |
| "Geronimo is determined to prove that he's a true friend even if it means climbing Mouse Everest! Professor Paws von Volt needs him and that's good enough for Geronimo Guided by Sherpas and with 'help' from his family he sets out on an epic rescue mission But what is that looming shadow following him? And why is Geronimo the only mouse to see it?"
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| "Four Mice Deep in the Jungle (Geronimo Stilton) : 5" |
| "Geronimo is determined to prove that he's a true friend even if it means climbing Mouse Everest! Professor Paws von Volt needs him and that's good enough for Geronimo Guided by Sherpas and with 'help' from his family he sets out on an epic rescue mission But what is that looming shadow following him? And why is Geronimo the only mouse to see it?"
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| "Paws off, Cheddarface! (Geronimo Stilton) : 6" |
| "Geronimo's got company and not in a good way With two Geronimos on the loose in New Mouse City things quickly get VERY confusing Geronimo has to find this imposter and soon! But who is he? And what does he want with The Rodent's Gazette? Geronimo needs answers before it's too late for his beloved newspaper and his reputation!"
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| "Fangs and Feasts in Transratania (Geronimo Stilton) : 7" |
| "After a mysterious phone call from his cousin Trap Geronimo sets off for Ratoff in spooky Transratania The garlic-fuelled town holds many mysteries not least the residents of Ratoff Castle Maybe it's the way they sleep during the day maybe it's the blood-red drink they have with every meal but there's something not quite right about them Who are these mice? And will Geronimo manage to survive the night?"
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| "Attack of the Pirate Cats (Geronimo Stilton)" |
| "Geronimo's reputation is in ruins! Never fear his cousin Trap has a scheme to save him All they have to do is fly a rickety old hot air balloon across the ocean find a mysterious floating silver island and come home again Simple right? But when pirate cats come into the picture Geronimo and his family must use all their wits to come up with a rescue plan Will they escape before they become the main event at a roast mouse party?"
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| "A Fabumouse Holiday for Geronimo (Geronimo Stilton) : 9" |
| "Summer is here! New Mouse City is hotter than ever and Geronimo can't wait to get out of the office and relax all by himself Just Geronimo's luck the only option left is a run-down hotel with a menu of peanut butter and beetle sandwiches When his annoying assistant Pinky Pick turns up surely things can't get any worse! When will Geronimo see that friends really do have the best ideas?"
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| "Hang onto Your Whiskers! (Geronimo Stilton) : 10" |
| "Love is in the air! Geronimo has met the mouse of his dreams but he just can't play it cool He needs to do something amazing something incredible something wonderful to catch her eye! What better way than travelling to discover the Eighth Wonder of the World the mysterious Valley of the Cheeselets? Will he return home a legend? And will it all be worth it in the end?"
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| "The Journal of Curious Letters : 13th Reality : 1" |
| "What if every choice you made created an alternate reality? Atticus Higginbottom aka Tick is an average thirteen-year-old boy until the day he receives a strange letter informing him that dangerous - perhaps even deadly - events have been set in motion that could result in the destruction of reality itself Tick will be sent twelve riddles that when solved will reveal the time and place of an extraordinary happening Will Tick have the courage to follow the twelve clues and discover the life he was meant to live?"
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| "The Hunting Gun" |
| "By the author of the acclaimed novella BullfightA tragedy in three letters the masterpiece of one of Japan's greatest writersA lover her daughter and the abandoned wife three letters by three women tell the story of a love affair's tragic consequences First Shoko who finds out about the infidelity through reading her mother's diary; then Midori the wife who has always known but never told; and finally the beautiful Saiko the woman who has betrayed her best friendYasushi Inoue's poised unsentimental novella is a powerful tale with universal resonance Written from three different points of view the story explores the impact of forbidden passion Love death truth and loneliness are all intertwined in this masterpiece from one of Japan's greatest writersBorn in 1907 Yasushi Inoue worked as a journalist and literary editor for many years only beginning his prolific career as an author in 1949 with Bullfight He went on to publish 50 novels and 150 short stories both historical and contemporary his work making him one of Japan's major literary figures In 1976 Inoue was presented with the Order of Culture the highest honour granted for artistic merit in Japan He died in 1991"
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| "A Chess Story" |
| "An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form Stefan ZweigChess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires Dull-witted in all but chess he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game before beating each of them and taking their money But there is another passenger with a passion for chess Dr B previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his imagination But in agreeing to take on Czentovic what price will Dr B ultimately pay? A moving portrait of one man's madness A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do'The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year's refinding of the long-lost Stoner by John Williams and which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity' Simon Winchester Telegraph'Perhaps the best chess story ever written perhaps the best about any game Never mind that you may have never moved a pawn to King four; the story will grip you' Economist'His great achievement in short form'The Times A staunch pacifist after his time in the Ministry of War during the First World War Stefan Zweig was at his peak one of the bestselling and most widely acclaimed authors in the world Following Hitler's rise to power he and his second wife fled Austria; first to England then to America and finally in 1940 they travelled together to Brazil where the couple took an overdose and died Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press"
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| "Shooting Stars : 10 Historical Miniatures" |
| "Ten turning points in history vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig Such dramatically concentrated such fateful hours in which a timeless decision hangs on a single date a single hour even just a single minute rarely occur in everyday life and only rarely in the course of history One of the twentieth century's great humanists and a hugely popular fiction writer Stefan Zweig's historical works bring the past to life in brilliant Technicolor This collection contains ten typically breathless and erudite dramatizations of some of the most tense and important episodes in human history From General Grouchy's failure to intervene at Waterloo to the miraculous resurrection of George Frideric Handel this Stefan Zweig's selection of historical turning points newly translated by Anthea Bell is idiosyncratic fascinating and as always hugely readableThe perfect stocking-filler for the Europhile in your life' Philosophy Football 'Shooting Stars forms part of an ambitious project by Pushkin Press to bring Zweig's work to the attention of the English-reading public an enterprise that has been entirely successful Zweigmania seems to break out with the publication of each book with readers discovering his work by word-of-mouth and by accident' Guardian'Zweig's impassioned pursuit of personal freedom seems more relevant than ever' NewsweekAbout the Author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator then as a biographer Zweig travelled widely living in Salzburg between the wars and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok and Fear In 1934 with the rise of Nazism he moved to London where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity He later moved on to Bath taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York before settling in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press About the AuthorStefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator then as a biographer Zweig travelled widely living in Salzburg between the wars and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok and Fear In 1934 with the rise of Nazism he moved to London where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity He later moved on to Bath taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York before settling in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press"
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| "The Lives of Others : A Screenplay" |
| "With a foreword by John le Carre1984 East Germany Captain Gerd Wiesler a loyal member of the secret police is assigned to spy on the playwright Georg Dreyman The flat is bugged and Wiesler begins to listen in to the daily - and nightly -activities of the playwright and his actress-girlfriend But when he discovers that the surveillance has been instigated by the Minister of Culture's desire for Dreyman's girlfriend rather than the playwright's political views Wiesler begins to question his own loyalties As he continues to listen in he finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed in the couple's lives and the gap between his professional duty and personal integrity starts to widenThis hugely influential film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck whose screenplay is published in English for the first time is as relevant - or even more so - now in the wake of Edward Snowden and the WikiLeaks revelations as it was when it won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language FilmFurther contentsIntroduction by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; 'Appassionata The Idea for the Film' by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck'; an essay by Sebastian Koch ('Georg Dreyman'); an interview with Ulrich Muhe by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; 'Wiesler's Change of Heart' an essay by Manfred Wilke; full film cast and crew creditsFlorian Henckel von Donnersmarck the writer and director of The Lives of Others was born in Cologne in 1973 and grew up in New York City Brussels Frankfurt and West Berlin He studied Russian Literature in Leningrad before obtaining an MA from Oxford and a Diploma in Film Direction from the University of Film and Television in Munich"
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| "Beauty is a Wound" |
| "A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia filled with vivid sex and violence from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author'A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie'New York Review of Books'A howling masterpiece' Chigoze Obioma author of The FishermanOne stormswept afternoon after twenty-one years of being dead the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rise from her grave to avenge a curse placed on her family Amidst the orange groves and starfruit trees her children and grandchildren have been living out lives of violence incest murder madness and heartbreak They are creatures of breathtaking beauty - all but one of them whose ugliness in unparalleled And Beauty is her nameSet in the mythical Indonesian town of Halimunda Beauty is a Wound is a bawdy epic take of fearsome women and weak-willed men communist ghosts and vengeful spirits chaste princesses and ruthless bandits It is also a satirical portrait of Indonesia's painful past journeying through almost a century of brutality from Dutch colonialism and Japanese occupation to revolution independence and dictatorship Weaving together history with local legend Eka Kurniawan spins a fantastical masterpiece in which darkness and light dance hand in hand"
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| "Spring Garden" |
| "Winner of the Akutagawa Prize a sharp photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hopeDivorced and cut off from his family Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block a block that is to be torn down as soon as the remaining tenants leave Since the death of his father Taro keeps to himself but is soon drawn into an unusual relationship with the woman upstairs Nishi as she passes on the strange tale of the sky-blue house next doorFirst discovered by Nishi in the little-known photo-book 'Spring Garden' the sky-blue house soon becomes a focus for both Nishi and Taro of what is lost of what has been destroyed and of what hope may yet lie in the future for both of them if only they can seize it"
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| "Waking Lions" |
| "'Gripping twists and turns like a thriller' Sunday Times 'Brave and startling' Financial Times 'Classy suspenseful' The Times 'I loved everything about it' Daily Mail 'Exhilarating' Guardian Dr Eitan Green is a good man He saves lives Then speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift he hits someone Seeing that the man an African migrant is beyond help he flees the scene It is a decision that changes everything Because the dead man's wife knows what happened And her price is not money It is something else entirely A gripping suspenseful and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival shame and desire It looks at the darkness inside all of us to ask what would we do? What are any of us capable of?"
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| "The Evenings" |
| "'I work in an office I take cards out of a file Once I have taken them out I put them back in again That is it'Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker daydreamer teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable He lives with his parents who drive him mad He has terrible disturbing dreams of death and destruction Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December as he drinks smokes sees friends aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets and tries to make sense of the minutes hours and days that stretch before himDarkly funny and mesmerising The Evenings takes the tiny quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty"
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| "A Woman's Walks" |
| "I hum to myself as I stand looking up at the sky filled to overflowing with the joy of libertyA Woman's Walks is part of 'Found on the Shelves' published with The London Library The books in this series have been chosen to give a fascinating insight into the treasures that can be found while browsing in The London Library Now celebrating its 175th anniversary with over 17 miles of shelving and more than a million books The London Library has become an unrivalled archive of the modes manners and thoughts of each generation which has helped to form it"
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| "Ms Ice Sandwich" |
| "A quixotic and funny tale about first love - from the Akutagawa Prize-winning authorMs Ice Sandwich seems to lack social graces but our young narrator is totally smitten with her He is in awe of her aloofness her skill at slipping sandwiches into bags and most electric of all her ice-blue eyelids Every day he is drawn to the supermarket just to watch her in action But life has a way of interfering - there is his mother forever distracted who can tell the fortunes of women; his grandmother silently dying who listens to his heart; and his classmate Tutti no stranger to pain who shares her private thrilling world with himTender warm yet unsentimental Ms Ice Sandwich is a story about new starts parents who have departed and the importance of saying goodbye"
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| "Fraulein Else" |
| "'A tour de force' - Evening StandardFraulein Else's stay with her aunt at a fashionable spa resort is interrupted by the arrival of an express letter The letter is for Fraulein Else an end to innocence Into Else's nineteen-year-old romantic capricious thoughts enter new upsetting realities and a new unwelcome power comes to exert itself over herSchnitzler's novella is an extraordinary exercise in character as compelling as it is psychologically acute A piercing story of power and sexuality Fraulein Else shows how brittle decency can be how venal life"
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| "In Search of Lost Books : The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes" |
| "This is a journey in search of the traces of eight legendary lost books The clues are fragile the hope of finding these pages scarce Yet maybe somewhere they still existThey exist as a rumour or a fading memory They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace lost to fire censorship theft war or deliberate destruction yet those who seek them are convinced they will find themThis is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost booksTaking us from Florence to Regency London the Russian Steppe to British Columbia Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy and tragedy glimmers of hope and bitter twists of fate There are among others the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare du Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become realityAs gripping as a detective novel as moving as an elegy this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible of the things that slip away from us but which sometimes live again in the stories we tell"
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| "The Beauties : Essential Stories" |
| "Without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity Chekhov's short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales of his early years to some of the most achingly profound stories ever composed and this variety of tone and temper is collected in this essential new collection Chekhov wrote stories throughout his writing career and this selection has been chosen from amongst his life's work including many of his greatest works alongside unfamiliar discoveries all newly translated From the masterpiece of minimalism 'The Beauties' to the beloved classic 'The Lady with the Little Dog' and from 'A Man in a Box' to the bitterly funny 'A Blunder' the stories collected here are the essential collection of Chekhov's greatest tales"
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| "Land of Smoke" |
| "Dazzling hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of Garcia MarquezAn old man wakes up one morning to find that his beloved garden the envy of all his neighbours is floating away - with him on board; a bored young woman decides to start a new double life in Buenos Aires - with the useful prop of a spare head she keeps in her closet; a meek German missionary leaves Paraguay for the Pampas completely unprepared for what he will encounter there at nightLand of Smoke is the first English translation of this recently rediscovered major Argentinian writer Dazzling and hallucinatory the stories collected here recall the masters of magical realism - but with Gallardo's distinctive idiosyncratic slant"
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| "The Katie Morag Treasury" |
| "Join Katie Morag McColl and her family on the Isle of Struay in this beautiful gift collection of classic stories There are many adventures to be had on the Isle of Struay There's her mum and dad's Shop and Post Office Grannie Island's house across the bay the dancing classes at the hall - and just wait till the mischevious Big Boy Cousins come to visit - they're lots of fun! Also included in this new collection are six folk tales as featured in the popular CBeebies series specially illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick for the show and exclusively printed in this collection So grab your jumper don your wellies and discover the delights of Struay!Katie Morag lives the life that country dreams are made of Independent"
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| "Tiny Beautiful Things : Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There" |
| "Life can be hard your lover cheats on you you lose a family member you can't pay the bills But it can be pretty great too you've had the hottest sex of your life you get that plum job you muster the courage to write your novel Everyday across the world people go through the full and glorious gamut of life - but sometimes a little advice is needed For several years thousands turned to Cheryl Strayed a then-anonymous internet Agony Aunt But unlike most Agony Aunts this one's advice was spun from genuine compassion and informed by a wealth of personal experience - experience that was sometimes tragic and sometimes tender often hilarious and often heartbreaking Having successfully battled her own demons while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed sat down to answer the letters of the frightened the anxious the confused; and with each gem-like correspondence - of which the best are collected in this volume - she proved to be the perfect guide for those who had got a little lost in life"
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| "Crazy Rich Asians" |
| "The acclaimed international bestseller soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu Henry Golding Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan!When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend Nicholas Young she envisions a humble family home and time with the man she might one day marry What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace that she'll ride in more private planes than cars and that she is about to encounter the strangest craziest group of people in existence Uproarious addictive and filled with jaw-dropping opulence Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian jet set; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money - and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young in love and gloriously crazily rich"
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| "Moral Tribes : Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them" |
| "Our brains were designed for tribal life for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them) But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared space creating conflicts of interest and clashes of values along with unprecedented opportunities As the world shrinks the moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming and we wonder where if at all we can find our common groundA grand synthesis of neuroscience psychology and philosophy Moral Tribes reveals the underlying causes of modern conflict and lights a way forward Our emotions make us social animals turning Me into Us But they also make us tribal animals turning Us against Them Our tribal emotions make us fight sometimes with bombs sometimes with words and often with life-and-death stakes Drawing inspiration from moral philosophy and cutting-edge science Moral Tribes shows when we should trust our instincts when we should reason and how the right kind of reasoning can move us forwardJoshua Greene is the director of Harvard University's Moral Cognition Lab a pioneering scientist a philosopher and an acclaimed teacher The great challenge of Moral Tribes is this How can we get along with Them when what they want feels so wrong? Finally Greene offers a surprisingly simple set of maxims for navigating the modern moral terrain a practical road map for solving problems and living better lives"
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| "The Power and the Story : The Global Battle for News and Information" |
| "In this sweeping global survey one of Britain's most distinguished journalists and media commentators analyses for the first time the state of journalism worldwide as it enters the post-truth ageIn this sweeping global survey one of Britain's most distinguished journalists and media commentators analyses for the first time the state of journalism worldwide as it enters the post-truth ageFrom the decline of the newspaper in the West and the simultaneous threats posed by fake news and President Trump to the part that Facebook and Twitter played in the Arab revolts and the radical openness stimulated by WikiLeaks and from the vast political power of Rupert Murdoch's News International and the merger of television and politics in Italy to the booming raucous and sometimes corrupt Indian media and the growing self-confidence of African journalism John Lloyd examines the technological shifts the political changes and the market transformations through which journalism is currently passingThe Power and the Story offers a fascinating insight into a trade that has claimed the right to hold power to account and the duty to make the significant interesting - while making both the first draft of history and a profit"
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| "Veni, Vidi, Vici : Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask" |
| "The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us - from our calendar and coins to our language and laws - but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of Veni Vidi Vici which tells the remarkable and often surprising story of the Romans and the most enduring empire in historyFusing a lively and entertaining narrative with rigorous research Veni Vidi Vici breaks down each major period into a series of concise nuggets that provide a fascinating commentary on every aspect of the Roman world - from plebs to personalities sauces to sexuality games to gladiators poets to punishments mosaics to medicine and Catullus to ChristianityThrough the twists and turns of his 1250-year itinerary Jones is a friendly and clear-thinking guide In this book he has produced a beguiling and entertaining introduction to the Romans one that vividly brings to life the people who helped create the world we live in today"
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| "Happiness : A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill" |
| "Although we are materially better off than ever before surveys show that we are depressed and listless In his revolutionary book Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard shows that happiness is not just an emotion but a skill that can be developed Free of jargon Happiness contains simple exercises that will train the mind to recognize and pursue happiness by concentrating on the fundamental things in life and in doing so change the way we view the world"
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| "You Sent Me a Letter : A Fast Paced, Gripping Psychological Thriller" |
| "At 2 am on the morning of her fortieth birthday Sophie wakes to find an intruder in her bedroom The stranger hands Sophie a letter and issues an threat open the letter at her party that evening in front of family and friends at exactly 8 pm or those she loves will be in grave dangerWhat can the letter possibly contain? This will be no ordinary party; Sophie is not the only person keeping a secret about the evening ahead When the clock strikes eight the course of several people's lives will be altered for ever"
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