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The brilliant, heart-warming debut novel from the Sunday Times best-selling author of Dummy and Man vs Toddler Frank is a miserable old curmudgeon. An agoraphobic recluse and widower whose only company is the 'ghost' of his wife, Marcie. He is estranged from friends and family and is entirely...

Thirty-six years have elapsed since Jemma Stone's murder, an unsolved case consigned to history...or is it? Leap back to 1979 in this fast-paced, humorous whodunnit. A clandestine organization requires a Change Agent to alter the past and ensure certain future events are averted. Frank Stone, a...

Most people look forward to the harvest, but some just want to watch it burn. With the final evacuation over, the Atlantic survivors hoped they’d found peace, but the war has followed them west. While searching for his lost vault, General Denning has laid waste to Washington State. Farms have been burned, bridges mined, and cities filled with the undead, all in pursuit of a forgotten weapons vault everyone else thinks is a myth. Everyone except Maggs who found proof of it shortly after she arrived in the west.

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It’s been six years since Pete Guinn last saw his sister, Corrie. He always hoped to see her again, but feared she was dead. When an elusive billionaire reveals Corrie is living under an assumed name in the Australian outback, Pete unquestioningly jumps at the chance of a reunion...Together with a bush pilot, a flying doctor, and an outback cop, the struggle to maintain civilisation begins. Supplies run low. Looting is rampant. Laws are forgotten, especially by the cartel who haven’t abandoned their search for Corrie and their quest for revenge. miraculous.

Frank and Stan are back for another hilarious adventure, and this time they've really bitten off more than they can chew!The idea of maverick racer Dave Quirk winning a TT was about as likely as a seaside donkey winning the Grand National. But that wouldn't stop him from trying.An unlikely...

Two best friends. One bucket list. And absolutely no intention of growing old gracefully.Frank has just received the sort of news from the doctor that no one wants to hear. Then he discovers that his wife’s fitness instructor has been providing her with more than just an exercise plan.With...

Fourteen-year-old Frank Brown has a respectable home, a secure future waiting in his father's long-established firm, and a family who expect him to take the safe road. But Frank's heart is elsewhere. A restless longing for ships, salt wind and far horizons has taken hold of him, and no argument...

Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now 68, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam and has thrived - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford - and Bascombe.

Falling in love was never part of the plan. But magic has a way of complicating even the simplest ingredients, and the heart rarely follows a recipe.Rebecca Sawyer has always dismissed the rumors that there's something magical about her bakery-that her pies can spark romance or mend broken...

This is the Marathi translation of The Diary of a Young Girl - a compilation of diary writings of Anne Frank, a girl who had to resort to hiding along with her family because of the Nazi occupation. This book has received widespread publicity and is one of the most famous literatures of the Nazi era. This book has been translated in more than 60 languages and has received critical acclamation. Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp and her diary was successfully retrieved by Miep Gies, who handed it to Anne’s father, the lone survivor from the family.

Frank and Stan are back for another hilarious adventure, proving that you're never too old to have the time of your life!Frank’s too busy enjoying life just now to worry about dying...Bucket list item 1 for Frank and his oldest friend, Stan, was the TT Races. They did it, and loved it so much...

My Name is Mitzi is a mostly true biographical novella from the point of view of a small mixed breed dog named Mitzi. Her story was interpreted, then translated and written into English by her human, Frank J. Kopet. It covers some of the highlights of her first two years starting with her birth...

A heartwarming and hilarious new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of FRANK AND RED 'This might just be my feel-good read of the year . . . prepare to be transported back to the early 1980s and to lose your heart several times on the way back ' JANICE HALLETT 'Matt Coyne is a genius...

As a new nation is born, a second apocalypse looms. Water, shelter, food. Those three words have come to consume Kim Wright’s life as she takes charge of for the returning evacuees. Three simple words that encompass so much. Fields have to be cleared, houses repaired, a hospital established, a school opened, fishing boats built, electricity restored, and so much more.

Being a professional clown was a great way to keep reality at arm's length, but now Frank Dean is heading rapidly and controversially towards the end of his life. On a turbulent filght to Switzerland, sitting between a glamorous stranger and a priest, Frank finds himself getting thrown in at the...

This is the legend of Saint Frank, and the great deeds he what did to earn that Sainthood, not born a Saint, in the beginning he was just, Frank, but not long after some stuff that took long, he became Sir. Frank. Sir. Frank may or may not have slayed a Dragon, if he did then this is the Tale of how Sir. Frank became Saint Frank, and if he did not then this is the story of nearly a Saint Frank and a triumphant Dragon.

Three months after escaping from London, Bill discovers the true extent of the global war that followed the outbreak. Most of the world has been destroyed, but though ruined farmland and abandoned cities are filled with zombies, there are other survivors and there is a safe haven - so he is told - in a small village on the Irish coast.

There are no reported outbreaks in the UK or Ireland. That's what the government broadcasted. Nilda didn't believe it. Not trusting the authorities, she, and her son, Jay, stay behind when Penrith is evacuated. After weeks of rationing, there is little food left in the small town and many other survivors competing for it. Choosing diplomacy over violence, she attempts to forge a community out of a disparate group. As zombies gather outside their walls, she realizes that they will have to seek sanctuary elsewhere.

After returning to 1979, when he changed history and prevented the murder of his wife, Frank Stone thought he was done with time travel. He thought wrong. A British time travel murder mystery – a witty whodunnit, back in the 1970s. Thirty-six years have elapsed since Frank saved his ex-wife. A...