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A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to their home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family and her world before they are lost to her for good.

Here is a tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries - many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today. Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history.

Sophie is stuck. Trapped in the make believe world of film sets and call sheets, nothing in her life feels real. When she receives a call out of blue informing she’s entitled her portion of inheritance from a recently deceased French ancestor (newsflash – she has French ancestors?), she immediately packs her bags. Arriving in Provence, she’s hoping for sun, wine, and maybe – if she’s lucky ­– some French saucisson. Immediately, Sophie falls under the spell of the crumbling Chateau Lavande, and she feels herself more than falling for Thibault, the impossibly sexy vineyard manager.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FORTNUM & MASON'S DEBUT FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 AN ECONOMIST, DAILY MAIL, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Chosen by the...

The Book of Proverbs could be titled ''Wise Up and Live". Beyond simply obeying laws, this book focuses on leading an aggressively dynamic life, giving examples of proper and improper attitudes, conduct, and characteristics in succinct, penetrating ways.

A dead body. A missing daughter. A silver blade. All the clues point to one person: Me. My name is Evangeline, and I’m a retired assassin who wants nothing to do with the underworld. But an edict from a Demonic Lord forces me to return to the man and the life I left behind. I have seven days to prove my innocence. Whoever set me up is going to die.

Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series. There’s no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash...

In 1971, two years after the launch of Monty Python’s Flying Circus made his comedy troupe global superstars - and made all their lives a little more complicated - Eric Idle decided to buy a ramshackle property in the south of France. In search of a simpler, quieter life, what followed was a...

From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible...

A young frog, Hendrix, meets his match when he attempts to rob a professor, Marshall, who talks the thug out of robbing him and into taking a quest to find three noble truths. Hendrix accepts the professor's challenge, intrigued by the old frog's courage and insight. But the challenge winds up taking both frogs on a wild, life-changing journey.

Hip-hop history gets told two ways. Either it's a fan retrospective trading on nostalgia, or it's an insider interview show where the guest tells their own version of events. Provenance is neither. It's a researched, sourced, single-narrator documentary podcast that treats hip-hop's history with the same rigor a music historian would bring to jazz or rock and roll.No guests. No opinions. No beef-baiting. Every episode traces a chain of custody, who actually built what, on top of whose idea, backed by documented sources, not just the version of the story that happened to stick. That includes ...

Winter, 1890. A deep freeze has fallen upon London, and its citizens remain huddled indoors. But the cogs of the criminal underworld never stop turning, and Holmes and Watson find themselves embroiled in a crime that rocks the art world.

Un cadavere, una ragazza scomparsa e una lama d'argento. Tutti gli indizi portano a una sola persona: me. Mi chiamo Evangeline e sono un ex-assassina che non vuole avere più niente a che fare con la malavita. Un editto di un Signore Demoniaco mi costringe però a tornare dall'uomo e dalla vita che ho lasciato. Ho solo sette giorni per dimostrare la mia innocenza. La mia unica certezza è che chiunque mi abbia incastrato morirà.

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, June 2023. 'There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could' John Scalzi The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful new...

Carol Award - Finalist 2022 (print)!! From two-time RITA Award–winning author Carla Laureano comes a story of romance, transformation, and the beauty of belonging. Los Angeles interior designer and former foster kid Kendall Green is in high demand, both for her impeccable eye and for her...

Pushed to the limits of his sanity by an ominous apparition, Almon Plum-Kilmer forsakes the safety of his home, venturing to the untamed Dragonbreath mountain. Ignited by a deep-seated obsession to uncover the truth behind his family's torment, it is here, at the pinnacle of the world, that Almon encounters the enigmatic Supreme Historian.

When Bree Warren goes out for a night on the town with her best friend, she never expects to run into the man she's dreamt of for the past 10 years. The nightmare has haunted her sleep for so long. The startled look of recognition in the stranger's eyes is even more unexpected. What happens next will throw these two people together in ways they never imagined.

Based on a true love story, this adult romance introduces us to Emma Sorensen, an American woman and art curator, and Luc Stronheim, a Frenchman and industrialist, who fell deeply in love as teenagers in 1960 and were then inexplicably separated by their parents. When they meet again in Paris in 1982, they realize a happy future together will be impossible, until they solve the mystery surrounding a Rembrandt that links his father’s questionable Nazi past and her grandfather’s death in Auschwitz.

I'll begin with the war, when everything changed for us. In 1943, our comfortable family life came to an abrupt end, thanks to Hitler. During the Nazi occupation of Athens, Daphne, a young Greek Jewish artist, finds her life suddenly under threat. She's in love with her Austrian art teacher, and...

When a student at the University of Cambridge takes possession of a mysterious manuscript, he closes the door on his old life and opens up a dangerous secret that threatens to consume him. Armed with only his knowledge of Renaissance art, he embarks on a cat and mouse chase that takes him from the deserted precincts of his ancient university to the dim subterranean vaults beneath the Louvre.