'A wonderfully compelling portrait of a family haunted by secrets and lies ... pitch perfect on the chilling, devastating consequences of guilt ' - Sally Brampton
Dr. Jeremy Cramer is a young doctor on the verge of a cutting-edge medical discovery. But his research is derailed when Cramer's son is infected with a rare fatal disease. Now as he races against time to save his child's life, Cramer will make a decision that could shatter his career.Informed Consent is a pulse-pounding medical thriller that complements the current popularity of hospital dramas. With non-stop suspense, snappy dialogue, and witty humor, author Sandra Glahn takes a look at some of today's hot-button issues through this provocative story.
The work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom - necessary, provoking, urgent, rich, complex and rare.'Golding is quite simply the best living writer of the short novel in the English Language.' - The Times
The Haj is a historical saga that follows a Palestinian Arab boy named Ishmael through the birth of Israel and the subsequent displacement and turmoil.
The novel takes readers from Cambridge to the desolate Suffolk coast, where Penrose uncovers a connection between the victims that dates back twenty-five years. As the body count rises and the stakes get higher, both Penrose and Tey must race to stop the killer before another person is attacked.
The memoir is written by Mary Ellin Barrett, the oldest daughter of the famed songwriter Irving Berlin.
It covers her experience of growing up with the legendary composer of American classics such as "White Christmas" and "God Bless America".
Barrett recounts her parents' high-profile and controversial marriage—a Jewish composer and a wealthy Irish-American Catholic socialite.
The book provides a glimpse into a world of privilege and fame in the 1930s and 1940s but also reveals the personal struggles within the family, including the tragic death of an infant son and her father's bouts of depression.
Golden Soak is a 1973 adventure and thriller novel by British author Hammond Innes, known for his well-researched adventure stories set in hostile and remote locations. The book follows a disgraced mining engineer to the arid expanses of Western Australia, where he becomes entangled in a dangerous web of greed, family secrets, and a long-lost mineral strike
 When two new murders occur in Halifax, the investigation draws Taggart and Welles to Lunenburg. They discover a connection to a brutal, unsolved murder that took place 30 years prior and uncover a dark secret within the seemingly picturesque town.Â
The story is set in contemporary Mumbai and explores the complex relationship between two women from different social classes: Sera Dubash, a Parsi housewife, and Bhima, her domestic servant
A Year of Life in China. The book is a memoir based on the year the South African writer Robert Berold spent teaching at a university in Hangzhou, China. It includes contributions from the author's students and touches on China's developing economy, its everyday life, and its respect for ancient texts
The story follows seven-year-old Luke Chandler in rural Arkansas in 1952, as he and his family hire migrant workers to help with the cotton harvest. The book, inspired by Grisham's own childhood, chronicles Luke's journey from innocence to experience as he witnesses events that threaten his family and change their lives forever.Â
It all starts with a body in the library. When Lord Montford is discovered shot, sprawled on the floor of his newly completed library, his faithful hound dead at his feet, a mystery is uncovered, the answer to which has its origins thirty years in the past. Nathaniel Hopson, journeyman for Thomas Chippendale, the famous English furniture designer, and the man who built Montford's sumptuous library, is the first on the scene. Within hours another body is discovered, that of Nathaniel's closest friend John Partridge, his hands badly mutilated. How is it that a Lord of the realm and a cabinetmaker's assistant should both be found dead on the same night, both in suspicious circumstances? Nathaniel is set on a course as the reluctant detective, driven to discover the truth of his friend's mysterious death and his connection with the murder of Lord Montford. In The Grenadillo Box Janet Gleeson has produced a detective story as intricately crafted as a Chippendale cabinet, a gripping story which brings to dramatic life the world of the Eighteenth century.
This Book tells the story of Maurice Hannigan, an 84-year-old Irish man who sits in a hotel bar and, over the course of one evening, raises five toasts to the five people who have meant the most to him in his lifetime. Through his stories, which reveal unspoken joy, regret, and tragedy, the life of this one man is powerfully revealed
After her husband's death, Leonora Galloway and her daughter, Penelope, travel to France. Their journey leads them to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, where they uncover a family secret that spans three generations
Looking down from the Eiffel Tower, Alan Greenmor stands on the edge, determined to end it all. As he prepare to jump, his thoughts are interrupted by a cough. To his right is a mysterious stranger in a dark suit, smoking a cigar. This is Yves Dubreuil. The person who will change Alan's life.
A happily married photographer named Callie Perry has her life turned upside down when a new, mysterious family moves in across the street. As Callie grows close to her new neighbor, the sophisticated and seemingly perfect Liddy, she is drawn into a world of wealth and secrets. But as she gets deeper into Liddy's life, Callie discovers that the glamorous exterior hides a darker truth.
A party of gilded youth of both sexes meet at a London railway station to travel by boat-train to the south of France, where a house party awaits them, the whole thing to be paid for by the wealthy and much courted Max...
This is about a passage through a continent filled with the most confusing contrasts: the ageing Soviet jets, on their way to strafe Unita positions against a backdrop of palms and an azure sea; the boy in the Angolan town Viana whose leg had been blown off by a landmine but whose hope and trust seemed to deny the agony of a land torn by bloody warfare; the almost serene stillness of the Tete valley in Mozambique, chilling for its nightmare scenery of burnt-out trucks and its forlorn landscape. Through it, Wender travels deeper into perhaps one of the most inexplicable events and places of this century. Rwanda.
The book is a cycle of love poems, which McKuen numbered rather than giving them individual titles. The author believed this gave them a more subjective, personal feel.Â
