Don DeLillo completed <i>The Silence</i> just weeks before the devastating advent of Covid-19. This timely and compelling novel is the story of a different catastrophic event.
According to the G20 there are two banks that are so enormous they cannot be allowed to collapse - to do so would cause global, systemic meltdown. One of those banks is HSBC. Too Big to Jail examines how HSBC became the Mexican drug cartel's bank of choice and how, when caught, they avoided prosecution.
Civil war rages. Democracy is dead. Hunger grips the people. Families are left with a choice: to stay or to run. Bea's trying to live a normal life but every day destruction looms nearer. Determined to leave the suburb she's trapped in, and reeling from her mum's escape, Bea knows she can't keep calm and carry on. A graphic novel shining a light on the plight of people desperate to find a new home
An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways
Mankind has spread to the stars. Captain Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. She lives only for the next paycheck until she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. Fumiko Nakajima, the great scientist who built the bird-like Stations, has been searching for one such as he for a thousand years. Together, they must protect the boy from the interstellar corporations hunting him across decades and light years.
The thrilling novel from the No.1 Internationally bestselling author Ken Follett. An epic, addictive historical masterpiece that begins in 997 CE and is set against the background of the medieval church and one man's ambition to make his abbey a centre of learning.
<b><i>Wolfsong </i>is a passionate fantasy from bestselling author TJ Klune, and the first book in the Green Creek series. Ox is sixteen when the energetic Bennett pack moves next door, harbouring a secret that will change him forever. But bonds will be tested to their utmost when a terrible tragedy splits the pack - and tears Ox's heart in two.</b>