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Meet Meredith Gentry. She's half human, half faerie. She's a private eye, and heir to a throne. And she had turned her back on court and crown, choosing exile in the human world with her beloved ones beside her. But now someone is killing the fey, the LAPD are baffled and Merry cannot stand by an...

Captain Jack Aubrey finds himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best armed frigate in the Navy, but whilst enroute to England with his friend Stephen, the war of 1812 breaks out. Stephen's past as a spy returns to haunt him.

The Matarese dynasty are the Corsican brotherhood. Their power binds the world in potential chaos and destruction. Their fever must spread no further.

In a blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful story of love and betrayal, hope and forgiveness. She chronicles one woman's courageous journey from vulnerability to strength, from victim to survivor.

Captain Jack Aubrey's friend Stephen arrives with secret orders to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore's pennant. But he finds difficulty in carrying out his orders because of Lord Clonfert and Captain Corbett, his own Captains.

In The Nutmeg of Consolation Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin start out stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but are soon caught up in a night chase in angry waters.

Two long short stories first published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters' and 'Seymour, An Introduction' are each narrated by writer Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of the author himself.

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of the story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the 30s.

When Adina and her family are forced to flee Cologne to escape Nazism in 1938, leaving their luxurious lifestyle is painful. Harder still is finding herself a refugee in a foreign country. But Adina is a compassionate and determined girl and as they settle into a new life in the Midlands she find...

A game. A husband-and-wife game. 'Gerald's Game'. But this time Jessie didn't want to play. Now he was dead on the floor. Leaving Jessie alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. No-one to hear her screams.