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Blockbuster bestseller Rebecca Ross returns to the world of international sensation <em>Divine Rivals</em> with her most epic story yet. <br/><br/>Featuring full-colour endpapers with print-exclusive character artwork by @palinlineart <br/><br/> <strong>Before Iris sat at her typewriter and before Enva sang her song, a young goddess wandered dreams...</strong> <br/><br/>Born to the firelit domain of the underworld, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a land where gods kill each other for magic, Matilda must come of age sooner than most. She may be known to carry letters through the realms, but she also carries secrets of her own: one of them deadly, the other a mortal boy who dreams of her, despite the fact they have never met... <br/><br/>Ten years ago, Vincent of Beckett wrote to Matilda on the darkest night of his life - begging the goddess he befriended in dreams for aid. But his prayer went unanswered, forever hardening his heart against the gods. That is until the same goddess comes tumbling through his window, bearing a letter to change both their destinies. For Matilda and Vincent are tangled together by threads of fate and the promise of a future beyond dreams, one that might rewrite the dark, blood-soaked ways of the gods...or end them.

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<strong>THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO <em>WILD SWANS</em>, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION</strong> <br/><br/>Jung Chang's <em>Wild Swans</em> was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens with her grandmother's birth - and foot binding - in 1909, when China was under the last emperor, through Mao Zedong's rule and the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subject to unbelievable ordeals. It finishes in 1978 when the Mao era officially ended, and Deng Xiaoping started the post-Mao 'Reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. <br/><br/>Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a world power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences in those years were rich and complex - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned. <br/><br/><em>Fly, Wild Swans</em> is the follow-up to <em>Wild Swans </em>and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution, but they are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future. <br/><br/>China is now at another watershed moment: Chairman Xi Jinping is seeking to turn the country back towards the old Maoist days and build a Communist state with capitalist features. This new Xi era is greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Through the arc of their respective lives, she gives an immersive, deeply moving and unforgettable account of what it is like to live in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order. It is family history at its best.

Brand-new revised and expanded hardback edition of this best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>. <br/><br/>Fully painted in colour, it contains a carefully abridged version of Tolkien's tale of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who is whisked off by the wizard Gandalf on an adventure to recover stolen treasure. <br/><br/>First published in 1990, David Wenzel's comic book adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's <em>The Hobbit</em> was an immediate success and has become one of the best-loved graphic novels of the last 25 years. <br/><br/><em>The Hobbit</em> is the story of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented hobbit whose life is turned upside down when he joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on their quest to reclaim their stolen treasure. It is a journey fraught with danger - and in the end it is Bilbo alone who must face the guardian of this treasure, the most-dreaded dragon, Smaug. <br/><br/>Illustrated and hand painted in full colour throughout, and accompanied by the carefully abridged text of the original novel, this handsome authorised edition will introduce new generations to a magical masterpiece - and be treasured by Hobbit fans of all ages, everywhere. <br/><br/>This new edition includes exclusive extra content from David Wenzel revisiting the process of creating the original edition of the graphic novel and the story of its evolution to this revised and expanded version.

<b>'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational... engrossing, entertaining and distinctly unsettling' Sarah Waters<br/><br/>'Shiversomely eerie... so impressive in its research and remarkable in all it uncovers' Tom Holland</b><br/><br/><i>Late one evening the telephone rings, and on the line is a stranger. They tell you that your nine-year-old son gave them your number. Your heart stops. You tell them that your son has been dead for almost 20 years. They know this, they say. He wants you to come and see him.</i><br/><br/>What do you do when reality begins to fray around you? Where do you go when science cannot explain your experiences? The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 to tackle these very questions and to shine light on the shadowy world of the supernatural. Distinguished members have included prime ministers and Nobel Prize-winning scientists.<br/><br/>But the most prolific of all the SPR's paranormal investigators was a young British naval officer named Tony Cornell. A rationalist and a sceptic he became haunted by a wartime encounter in India that changed everything . Between 1950 and 2010 he became perhaps the world's most prolific investigator of psychic phenomena and paranormal events. Alongside his colleague, the psychologist Alan Gauld, they combined the roles of detectives, exorcists and psychiatrists, returning time and again to the unsettling spaces that exist on the very periphery of our tidy, rational lives: Ghosts. Poltergeists. Psychic powers.<br/><br/>Drawing on a previously untapped archive of Cornell's case files, which survive as a unique repository of encounters reported by ordinary people, Chasing the Dark is the compelling story of our relationship with the supernatural. What do these atmospheric and often chilling cases teach us about who we are, and the anxieties that consume us? And why do the dead still find ways to make themselves known?

<b>'Hannah Whitten is my new favourite obsession' </b>Jodi Picoult, <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author<br/><br/><b><i>The Nightshade Crown</i> is in the hands of a ruthless god and Lore will stop at nothing to defeat him in the final instalment of this lush, romantic, <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling fantasy series from breakout star Hannah Whitten.</b><br/><br/>Lore has failed. She couldn't save King Bastian from the rotten god speaking voices in his mind. She couldn't save her friends from being scattered across the continent. She couldn't save her beautiful, corrupt city from the dark power beneath the catacombs. And she couldn't save herself.<br/><br/>Banished to the Burnt Isles, Lore must use every skill she earned on the streets of Dellaire to survive the desolate prison colony and figure out a way to defeat the power that's captured everything and everyone she holds dear. But as Lore gets closer to her goal, her magic grows stronger . . . and to a woman who's always had to fight for survival, that kind of power may be hard to give up.<br/><br/>Praise for the series:<br/><br/><b>'Sinister, deadly and so seductive you won't be able to tear yourself away from this dark gem of a book'</b> Stephanie Garber, <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author<br/><b><br/>'Beautifully written, lushly cinematic, unsettling, mysterious - an unputdownable story'</b> Ali Hazelwood, <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of <i>The Love Hypothesis</i><br/><br/><b>'Darkly sumptuous and beautifully dangerous, The Foxglove King wraps you up in a velvet gown and then holds a knife to your throat' </b>Ava Reid, <i>Sunday Times</i>-bestselling author of <i>A study in Drowning</i><br/><br/><b>'I am obsessed with this book! Hannah Whitten just keeps getting better and better'</b> Katee Robert, <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author