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Be first with exclusive extracts from top authors' latest titles - before they're available to buy. Here's a sneak preview of what's coming in March 2005 |
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Last Witness
Jilliane Hoffman
Two years ago Cupid, a brutal serial killer, terrorized Miami, torturing and killing eleven young women. Sociopath William Bantling was arrested by police and Assistant State Attorney CJ Townsend put him on Florida's death row, where he waits to pay for the crimes with his life.
But now a new terror stalks Miami Beach. Three cops are dead - savagely mutilated while out on patrol. The killer's apparently motiveless attacks horrify the public and leave law enforcement officials shaken. And when it becomes clear that all three dead cops worked on the Cupid investigation, it seems the killer has an even more terrifying agenda.
CJ Townsend is worse than shaken. She shares a secret with three colleagues that may go right to the heart of this and the Cupid case - a secret that her colleagues have just taken to the grave. CJ knows that she must keep that secret from the law and her friends, from all scrutiny. But she also knows that to do so means she will be its only living witness - and perhaps the next to die.
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The Other Side Of The Story
Marian Keyes
The agent: Jojo, a highflying literary agent on the up, has just made a very bad career move: she's jumped into bed with her married boss Mark...
The bestseller: Jojo's sweet-natured client Lily's first novel is a roaring success. She and lover Anton celebrate by spending the advance for her second book. Then she gets writer's block...
The unknown: Gemma used to be Lily's best friend - until Lily 'stole' Anton. Now she's writing her own story - painfully and hilariously - when supershark agent Jojo stumbles across it...
When their fortunes become entangled, it seems too much to hope that they'll all find a happy ending. But maybe they'll each discover that there's more than one side to every story...
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
Brian Greene
'The reality we experience is but a glimmer of the reality that is …'
What are the limits of space and time? How many dimensions really exist? Why is the past different from the future? What is the true nature of reality? Is it finally possible to solve the eternal mysteries of the universe and arrive at a long-searched for 'Theory of Everything'?
The Fabric of the Cosmos is a dazzling, path-breaking book that will forever alter our most fundamental assumptions about the world. In The Elegant Universe Brian Greene told the story of our search for a unified theory - the Theory of Everything that eluded even Einstein. Now, he takes us even further by casting the spotlight on the most mysterious of all entities: space and time.
At once lucid, articulate and entertaining, The Fabric of the Cosmos will inspire wonder, stimulate the mind and radically alter our concept of reality - challenging ideas about space and time so basic they had seemed beyond questioning.
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The Great Stink
Clare Clark
William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the London sewers. There, in the darkness of the stinking tunnels beneath the rising towers of Victorian London May discovers another side of the city and remembers a disturbing, violent past.
The corruption of the growing city soon begins to overwhelm him and a violent murder is committed. Will the sewers reveal all and show that the world above ground is even darker and more threatening than the tunnels beneath?
Beautifully written, evocative and compelling and with a fantastically vivid cast of characters, Clare Clarke's first book is a rich and suspenseful novel that draws the reader right into Victorian London and into the worlds of its characters desperately attempting to swim the tides of change.
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The Middle Mind
Curtis White
'On the whole, our entertainment - movies, TV, music - is a testament to our ability and willingness to endure boredom… and pay for it.'
The Middle Mind is the dominant force shaping our culture today. Seeping into politics, literature and art, it's all about pre-packaged, easily digestible media that requires no thought. And it's creating an increasing inability to properly consider the development of our society, or to initiate change. But while this sounds (and is) deadly serious, it's not only about the lack of intelligent discussion of the war in Iraq or the Kyoto agreement - it's about the music we listen to, the films we watch and the books we read, from Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey to Harry Potter and The Hours.
Scathingly humorous, irreverent and far-reaching, this book is for anyone who's ever been riled by current political debate, dismayed by critical theory, or bemused by the prominence of Celine Dion in the charts, in a society which promises culture but can only manage TV.
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One Last Look
Susanna Moore
Told through the engaging voice of Eleanor, One Last Look takes the reader to the heart of nineteenth-century India.
In January 1836, two sisters, Eleanor and Harriet, set sail for India, leaving their home in England to accompany their brother, Henry, on his posting as Governor-General. Surrounded by a constant entourage of servants and aides, overwhelmed by the suffocating heat and her own physical vulnerability, Elenanor begins to realize that nothing is as it seems. Will her brother's political ambitions lead them inexorably to disaster? Is her sister's sanity under threat?
As fragile boundaries begin to dissolve, and desire and horror overcome her, it is clear that Eleanor's vision of this land and herself will be irrevocably transformed.
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