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<p>John Irving, one of the world&apos;s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years &mdash; a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren&apos;t the first or the last ghosts he sees. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time &mdash; among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.</p>

<p><b>Marnie is stuck.<br/></b>Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by.<br/><br/><b>Michael is coming undone.<br/></b>Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells.<br/><br/>When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship.<br/><br/><b>But can it survive the journey?<br/></b><br/>A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, <i>You Are Here</i> is a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.</p>

<p>'<i>You like it darker? Fine, so do I</i>', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind', and in <i>You Like it Darker</i>, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.<br/><br/>'Two Talented Bastids' explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to <i>Cujo,</i> a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. In 'The Dreamers', a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.<br/><br/>King's ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.<br/><br/>'As classic as King's novels are, his shorter fiction has been just as gripping over the years' - <i>USA Today</i><br/><br/>'One of the great storytellers of our time' - <i>Guardian</i></p>

<p><b>From the No. 1 international bestselling author, film producer and Wattpad platform icon Anna Todd - the continuation of her bestselling love story AFTER in Volume Two of After: The Graphic Novel.</b><br/><br/><b>Fall in love all over again in volume two of the graphic novel adaptation of the global phenomenon AFTER! Uncover </b><b>Tessa and Hardin's love story as you've never seen it before . . .</b><br/><br/><b>There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there's everything AFTER . . .</b><br/><br/>As good girl Tessa Young embarks on her first year of college at Washington Central University, she has direction, ambition and a new circle of friends who are always trying to push her beyond her comfort zone. Chief among them is fellow student, campus bad boy - and son of the University's Chancellor - Hardin Scott, who has simultaneously enraged and seduced her. Tessa can hardly abide Hardin's antics and ex-girlfriends yet, despite their differences, Tessa and Hardin are undeniably, passionately drawn to one other, and willing to risk a bumpy ride for a romance that will consume and change them both.<br/><br/><b>Anna Todd's original story comes to life with breathtaking illustrations by Pablo Andres. Featuring twelve pages of behind-the-scenes and character profile bonus content, Volume Two of After: The Graphic Novel is the ultimate collector's item for fans everywhere!</b></p>

<p>Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker&apos;s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim &quot;Opportunity is Love.&quot; Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe&apos;s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe&apos;s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create - and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness. It&apos;s the Summer of &apos;62, baby. Freddy O.&apos;s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. The Rolling Stones proclaim it best: We&apos;re just a shout away. The Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative, profanely hilarious, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama. It is an unparalleled thrill ride. It is resoundingly the great American crime novel.</p>

<p><b>'Shelley Read's lyrical voice is a force of nature. Tragic, uplifting and completely unforgettable' </b>BONNIE GARMUS, author of <i>LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY</i><br/><br/><b>'A lush, beautiful, strong book. It took me on such a transformative life journey. I could not put it down' </b>CLOVER STROUD<br/><b>____________________<br/><i>I've come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary like the deep and mysterious world beneath the sea</i></b><br/><br/>On a cool autumn morning, Torie Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season peaches. As she nears an intersection, a mysterious drifter with grimy thumbs and smudged cheeks and eyes as dark as a raven's wing stops to ask her the way.<br/><br/>She could turn left or cross over. But she does not. Her heart skips a beat as he whispers, 'Go as a river.'<br/><br/>So begins a mezmerising story that unfolds over a tumultuous lifetime as Torie begins to absorb and follow his words.<br/><br/>Soon, she will gather all the pieces of her small and extraordinary life, spin through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, and arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.<br/><br/><b>Completely spellbinding, vivid, and luminous' </b>JANE GREEN<br/><br/><b>'<i>Go As a River </i>delivers so very much: the tenderness and curiosity of young love, the eternal pangs of loss, the brutality of racism, the sustaining power of nature and the miracle of a mother's love. Suffused with wisdom and compassion, this shattering testimony to life must be savored, treasured, shared' </b>MEG WAITE CLAYTON, author of <i>The Postmistress of Paris</i></p>