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A FREE SAMPLER OF HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW MASTERPIECE This sampler contains the first two chapters of Haruki Murakami's magnum opus, 1Q84, introducing the reader to the hero and heroine of the story, Tengo and Aomame. The full ebook of Books One and Two will be available in one volume on 18th O...
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From Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, comes The Myth of the Garage ... and other minor surprises, a collection of the authors' best columns for Fast Company magazine. There are 16 pieces in all, plus a previously unpublished piece entitled 'The Future Fails Ag...
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Figure in a Photograph: A Short Story from 'Where Have You Been?
Joseph O'Connor
- Random house digital
- 27 September 2012
- 9781448162024
'Everyone should try childcare with a hangover. Once.' Sean Hyland's wife has left him in Dublin for the weekend, home alone with their infant daughter and teenage son. He has never felt more middle aged... Figure in a Photograph is a tender, funny and quietly poignant story that takes us to the hea...
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Stories for Christmas: Free heart-warming festive tasters from three b
Debbie Macomber Dilly Court Katie Flynn
- Random house digital
- 13 December 2012
- 9781448166183
FREE HEART-WARMING FESTIVE TASTERS FROM THREE BESTSELLING AUTHORS. A Sixpenny Christmas by Katie FlynnTwo women struggle to bring up their children in the aftermath of World War II. Angels at the Table by Debbie MacomberA heart-warming Christmas story of love and miracles by the international bestse...
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A free sampler of Ross Kemp's Raiders: six true stories of the most daring British operations of World War Two. This sampler contains the story of Operation Judgement; believed to be one of the most incredible raids of World War Two. The full ebook and hardback will be available on 25t...
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Available exclusively as an ebook, a Cedar Cove short story from international bestseller Debbie Macomber, author of The Inn at Rose Harbor and Rose Harbor in Bloom. From the moment Jo Marie sits next to Paul inside the Seattle Seahawks' stadium, she feels a spark. Paul's striking blue eyes a...
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Provocative and chillingly insightful, this short story examines the acceptable face of racism. 'This Is The Educated Classes Talking' is taken from Joseph Smith's forthcoming collection, Finally My Ambulance. ...
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Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie
Frances Leech
- Random house digital
- 4 March 2013
- 9781448181636
At 5.37 a.m. my alarm goes off for the first time. By 6.09 a.m. I will be waiting on the metro platform. By 6.27 a.m. I pull open the swing door and duck under the pink curtain of the pâtisserie. I am probably last. In our tiny bakery on the other side of Paris, our cakes are made in the early morni...
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Raghu Karnad's "Everybody's Friend" is a poignant pilgrimage to the military grave of a great-uncle, fallen defending the obsolescent Raj against the oncoming army of imperial Japan. The most brutal fighting unfolded on the unforgiving northeast Indian border with Burma, and Karnad takes himself and...
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Jimmy Rabbitte hates jazz, always has. But his wife Aiofe loves it, and Jimmy loves Aiofe. So when, in attempt to convert him, she buys him two tickets for a Keith Jarrett concert he decides to take Outspan, former member of Jimmy's band The Commitments, who has come back into his life after a chanc...
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A short prequel to Dorothy Koomson's new bestselling novel That Girl From Nowhere In That Girl From Nowhere, Clemency Smittson leaves behind her old life in Leeds to move to Brighton in search of answers to her past, and to escape from the sadness of her present. Clemency's mother, Heather Smittson...
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Over the centuries eiderdown has been coveted by the Vikings, Russian tsars and medieval tax collectors who accepted it as revenue. The plumage of a fat sea duck, eiderdown - treasured for its extraordinary lightness and insulation - now joins cocaine as an instrument of globalisation and commodity ...
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Helter Skelter: Part One of the Shocking Manson Murders
Bugliosi Vincent
- Random house digital
- 15 January 2015
- 9781473519787
Part One: The Shocking Story of the Manson Murders. On August 9th 1969, seven people were found shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles at two different locations. Among them was Sharon Tate Polanski: Roman Polanski's heavily pregnant wife who was found with multiple wounds of the ch...
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'Mushroom Season' is a ramble through magic mushrooms, mountains and metaphysics. After heavy sanctions relegated their use to a spell in the stoner wilderness, are psilocybin mushrooms about to help reframe important social and philosophical debates about our minds, and ourselves?Where do they grow...
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What is it like to have someone die in your arms? Can we return from the dead? And why has nobody heard of therapeutic hypothermia? Forced to come to terms with doctors pronouncing her husband 'clinically dead', Alexandra Zelman-Doring embarks on an exploration of what death means to us and how we ...
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It isn't nice but you're an animal, so you can do it, dressed in green and brown and black waiting to be attacked and smiling because you had bullets for teeth. Adnan Sarwar, a Pakistani boy from Burnley, joined the British Army - the White Man's Army. Why did he do it? To prove he was as white as ...
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A closely fought race, treachery in a back alley, a visit to the shrine of an Egyptian Goddess. A Roman centurion discovers that Fate will always hold him in her power. The German frontier, spring 6 BC. When Lucius Cominius Tullus, a recently promoted centurion, gambles on a foot race betwee...
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An exclusive straight-to-digital short story from bestselling author, Cathy Woodman.Nicci has finally achieved her dream of qualifying for one of the most prestigious horse trials, with her horse, Dark Star.But it seems that nothing ever comes easy. Star is struggling with the intense training regim...
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Little Girl Lost: A Nightingales Christmas Story
Donna Douglas
- Random house digital
- 1 October 2015
- 9781473536869
A Christmas short story, available only in ebook, from the author of The Nightingale Girls, Nightingales On Call and Nightingales at WarIt's Christmas time at The Nightingale Hospital and the children on Parry Ward are waiting eagerly for Father Christmas to arrive. But an unexpected arrival beats h...
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With this e-short you can immerse yourself in a week of 'recipes to restore and revive'. With a wholesome recipe for every day of the week, this is a reboot for your body and your mind (minus faddy dieting) which will leave you feel amazing.This free eshort is released to celebrate Georgina Hayden's...
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RUNNER-UP OF THE 2017 BODLEY HEAD & FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZECuba is on the brink of seismic change - but in the age of post-Fidel, post-Obama and post-truth, the country's future hangs in the balance as it finds itself facing a decisive endgame moment with the new US president. In this lucid refl...
