Carlo Rovelli is an internationally acclaimed writer whose books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, Helgoland and White Holes, have been number one bestsellers around the world and translated into over forty languages. As a theoretical physicist, he has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time and he is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France.

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Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) was born in the Philippines under US colonial occupation. He emigrated to the US at the start of the Great Depression and from 1930-56 developed into a leading Filipino writer committed to social justice.

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Carlo Ancelotti has won football's ultimate prize, the Champions League, a record seven times - twice as a player and five times as a manager. Born in Reggiolo, Italy, he was a midfielder for AS Roma and AC Milan, and played for Italy at the 1990 World Cup. 
 
He has coached clubs including Parma, Juventus, AC Milan, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid and Chelsea, winning titles in every country in which he has managed. His players have included Andrea Pirlo, Rui Costa, Filippo Inzaghi, Andrey Shevchenko, John Terry, Frank Lampard, David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo. Ancelotti is the new manager of the Brazilian national side.

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Carlos Magdalena is Botanical Horticulturist in the Tropical Nursery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an international lecturer, and Chairman of the International Waterlily &amp; Water Gardens Society. He is renowned for his unique skills as a plant propagator who is saving the world's rarest plants.

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlo M. Cipolla (1922 - 2000) was an Italian economic historian, Fulbright Fellow and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Cipolla was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1989 and awarded the International Balzan Prize for Economic History in 1995. He also held honorary degrees in Italy and Switzerland. 
 
His classic treatise The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity has sold more than half a million copies worldwide in over ten languages.

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Andy Day is one of the best-known stars of preschool television. Andy is the star of multiple children's programmes, most notably his Andy's Adventures, which span from dinosaurs, safari, aquatic, and global, and he is excited to be currently filming brand new adventures, which are going to be dinoriffic! Alongside this he is also the star of 'Andy and the Band' which features Andy's real-life pop band Andy and the Odd Socks, who have played hundreds of live shows, and released over three albums. Andy won a BAFTA for his performance in ‘As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe’. Andy is also the author of the bestselling Dino Dad young fiction series, illustrated by Steven Lenton, and his first picture book, Dylan the Dino Boy Saves Christmas, illustrated by Alex Patrick, will be published in October 2025. Instagram: @andyday81 | X: @AndyDayTV

Andy Day

Andy Webb worked as a reporter for BBC Television for more than 15 years, appearing daily as a front-of-camera reporter, first on BBC News then as a reporter and presenter on primetime shows including the BBC’sWatchdog, before embarking on a career as an award-winning director of documentary films. It was his journalism over a 15-year period which first revealed the truth behind the infamous BBC Panorama interview with Princess Diana and so exposed the greatest scandal in the history of the BBC. Since breaking the story in 2020, Andy Webb has been invited to write on the story for a range of leading publications, including the Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph, and has also been interviewed many times on television, radio and podcasts both in the UK and overseas. Andy is married, with four children, and lives in West London.

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Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.

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Andy Watt, a graduate of Warwickshire School of Art has spent the last two decades illustrating columns, articles, and editorial pieces for The Guardian, The Times and The Independent. His work has featured in many other magazines in the U.K and USA. He has illustrated several books, worked on advertising campaigns, and created character designs animated on television. 
 
Andy has an irrational fear of restaurants, but has twice eaten in Jamie Oliver's restaurant ‘Fifteen' in Cornwall which he describes as 'very nice’. Thank you Jamie, please don't take offence at my silly drawing.

Andy Watt

Andy Lane

ANDY HALL grew up in the shadow of Denali. He is the former editor and publisher of Alaska magazine. He lives in Chugiak, Alaska.

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Andy King is a Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton. Among his many historical interests are the studies of castles, military culture and Anglo-Scottish relations in the late medieval period.

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Ivo Andric was born in 1892 in Travnik, Bosnia of Croat parents and grew up alongside Orthodox Christians, Moslems and Roman Catholics in Višegrad, the town on the banks of the Drina where his book is set. Until 1941 he served as a Yugoslav diplomat, then, placed under house arrest in Belgrade by the occupying Germans, Andric turned to writing. In 1961 he was awarded the Noble prize for literature. He died in 1975.

Ivo Andric

LJ Andrews is a USA Today bestselling author of fantasy romance. She mystically brings to life worlds of dark Nordic and Viking myths bound by conflicts that bring together impassioned heroes and heroines. In her non-author moments, she is courageously corralling her four children to the myriad of life activities that involves, along with spending time with her favorite hero, her husband. Add two high maintenance dogs and a sassy conure to the mix and that sums it up. She thrives spending time in the Rocky Mountains where she lives in Utah.

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James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. 
 
What is her husband's secret? 
 
Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must run for help alone as his cryptic parting words echo in her head: 'Be careful who you trust.'

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This Hollywood director committed an unspeakable crime... or did he? 
 
Famous film director Wayne Tennet stands accused by his stepdaughter of crossing the line. Falsely, he swears. Now his life and career hang in the balance. But why would she lie? 
 
The darkest thriller of the year has an only-in-Hollywood twist you'll never see coming.

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I will avenge my husband and children. 
 
Former Marine Corps colonel Amanda Collins and her lethal team have vowed to avenge her family's murder. 
 
And they have nothing left to lose....

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Can a little black dress change everything in her life? 
 
Magazine editor Jane Avery spends her nights alone with Netflix and Oreos – until the Dress turns her loose. Suddenly she's surrendering to dark desires, and New York City has become her erotic playground. But what began as a fantasy will go too far... and her next conquest could be her last.

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The McCullagh Inn is hosting the event of the century. 
 
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‘I’m not on trial. San Francisco is.’ 
 
Detective Lindsay Boxer has finally managed to capture the drug cartel boss who has been tormenting her for months. And now he’s about to go on trial for his life. 
 
But after threatening to unleash violence on everyone involved in the case, the whole city is paralysed, and Lindsay and the Women’s Murder Club are caught in the eye of the storm.

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William Shakespeare has fallen in love with the beautiful Marietta DiSonna. Her fiery heart has inspired his sonnets and her steady gaze, his plays. But what Shakespeare doesn't know is that all the men and women are merely players in a grand production, and even Marietta is acting a role. Unless Shakespeare can seduce her in return...

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He’s worth millions, but he’s worthless without her. 
 
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Three thieves have planned the perfect diamond heist. They’ve monitored the Hatton Garden jeweller for months and are ready to make the hit. But they were not expecting a rival crew to show up at exactly the same time. 
 
After a bloody fight, the three thieves come away with the diamonds and set off to meet their buyer in Amsterdam. But now it’s not only the police who are chasing them, and not only the diamonds that are at stake.

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An exile can never return... 
 
Finn O'Grady, working the night shift as a security guard in London, receives a phone call at dawn. Bridie, a woman he once loved before he left his hometown of Kilmeaden in the west of Ireland, believes she's in terrible danger and needs his help. 
 
Finn has made a new life for himself and can’t go back to the pain and tragedy he left behind in Ireland. But when Bridie's brother is found brutally murdered, Finn has no choice but to return to a life he'd tried to forget.

The Exile

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When former SAS captain David Shelley goes looking for an old comrade who has taken to a life on the streets, he finds his friend is dead. An MI5 agent contacts Shelley and arranges a meeting. All the signs point to murder, and the agent believes this is part of something much bigger. 
 
The only way Shelley can discover the truth is to put himself on the streets, and into the same danger that got his friend killed. 
 
Read the full-length sequel, REVENGE, available now.

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One point away from winning the French Open, tennis star Kirsten Keller breaks down and flees the court in tears. 
 
Keller has been receiving death threats. Terrified and desperate, she hires former Metropolitan police officer Chris Foster to protect her at Wimbledon. 
 
As the championship progresses, Keller’s tormentor gets ever closer. And the threats become horrifyingly real.

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Eat, drink and be murdered. 
 
Someone is poisoning diners in New Orleans' best restaurants. Now it's up to chef and homicide cop Caleb Rooney to catch a killer set on revenge – a dish best served cold.

Killer Chef

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Professor Monroe, did you kill your wife? 
 
Professor Robert Monroe's wife has vanished from their 5-star hotel in Gstaad, and no one saw a thing. Was she kidnapped? Or did she run off with the handsome Italian she and Robert partied with the night before?

Avalanche

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This New York ad agency is ruled by sex, drugs... and murder. 
 
Everyone who knows Tim says he's a good guy. But the popular advertising exec has a problem: a lot of the people who know him are getting murdered. And by the time he figures out why, Tim won't feel so good anymore.

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Harry Posehn is the best dad, the best husband... well, maybe not. 
 
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$10,000,000 Marriage Proposal

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Accused of murdering five small children, Thomas Scott is released on bail. He faces devastated parents plotting revenge and a fiery detective taking the law into his own hands. But did he do it? The truth will blow you away.

Scott Free

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I can kill a man with a kiss. 
 
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A beautiful young woman is found murdered on a river bank, and Detective Harriet Blue is convinced she's the next victim of the worst serial killer Sydney has seen in decades. 
 
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She never wanted to love a cowboy... 
 
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Two bodies arrived at the morgue. One was still breathing. 
 
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The most dangerous kind of love 
 
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I now pronounce you husband and wife... for the weekend. 
 
When Megan Rooney gets fired from her job, her life is turned upside down. But then her sexy neighbor, Nick Walker, tells her that he needs a wife for a weekend trip to Tuscany, and she's the perfect candidate. She surprises herself when she agrees to go – but what if the lie turns out to be exactly what she's always wanted?

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Make believe I love you… 
 
Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin don’t believe in love at first sight and certainly not on a first date. But from the instant they lock eyes, life becomes a sexy, romantic dream come true. That is, until they start playing a strangely intense game of make-believe – a game that’s about to go too far.

Let’s Play Make-Believe

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She’s a starving artist and he’s a billionaire playboy… 
 
Siobhan came to New York with a purpose: she wants to become a successful artist. To pay her bills in the meantime, she’s the hostess at The Stone Room, a bar for the beautiful and the billionaires. She was fine with being on her own – until tech billionaire Derick takes her breath away.

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More than just the birds and the bees... 
 
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The Mating Season

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A major terrorist cell sets a devastating plan in motion. Their target? One of the world's busiest airports – London Churchill International Airport. 
 
Retired SAS captain Matt Bates and ex-Delta Force officer Chaz Shoeman find themselves caught up in the attack. And they are London’s only hope at stopping an atrocity that could kill thousands.

Airport - Code Red

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Elvis is in the bedroom. 
 
Journalist Leslie Stern never wanted to write entertainment stories. So when she interviews Patton King, a rising country singer who claims to be Elvis's grandson, she decides to uncover the truth and write a scathing review. But there's more to Patton than meets the eye, and Leslie can't help falling for "The Next Elvis."

Love Me Tender

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It’s the day of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and excitement is at fever pitch. 
 
But a key athlete has gone missing and Detective Rafael Carvalho, on the brink of retirement, is assigned the case. 
 
When the athlete suddenly appears at the ceremony, it seems the case is solved. But Carvalho soon discovers that he has returned with the deadliest of intentions.

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From the bestselling novel I'm Travelling Alone, two dynamic characters are born. 
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