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The stylish mystery from acclaimed bestseller William Boyd takes you deep into a shadow-drenched world where loyalty blurs, motives darken and every step could be fatal. COLD WAR MOSCOW IS A PLACE SMOLDERING WITH SECRETS . . . Gabriel Dax is on route to Russia, tasked with delivering a...

Hong Kong, 1941... To the residents and defence forces of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, the war in Europe remains remote. Even the massive build-up of Japanese forces on the Chinese border cannot dent their carefree optimism. Yet one man suspects the truth. Lieutenant-Commander Esmond Brooke, captain of HMS Serpent and a veteran of the cruel Atlantic, sees all too clearly the folly and incompetence of Hong Kong’s colonial administration. To Brooke, attack by Japan seems inevitable.

“William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun.”—Mick Herron “One of my favorite authors—he never disappoints.”—Kate Atkinson From the internationally bestselling author, the third literary thriller starring beloved...

When the sun goes down, the secrets come out... After the death of her parents, Aria Jones is sent to live with her reclusive starlet aunt at the Chateau Marmont, the notorious hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Left alone to wander its halls, Aria sees everything - the deals, the desires, the price...

Epic Love. Tragic Loss. Beautiful Friendship. The entrancing story of an orphan who grows up surrounded by the beautiful and the broken in the world's most infamous hotel. After her parents' deaths, Aria Jones is sent to live with her reclusive starlet aunt at the Chateau Marmont, the hotel on...

Winters are long on the windswept coast of Connemara, where Tara Doherty has come to live after the death of her husband. The isolation is all but unbearable until a tenant moves into the house at the bottom of the hill. James Dunford has come from America, but he won’t say why. He spends his days fixing up the cottage and walking the beach with a stray dog. As the weeks pass, Tara tries to get to know James, but he resists her at every turn. And it's not until a local villager recognizes him from the news that she realizes his visit might be about more than just a vacation.

A sheltered young woman living at the Chateau Marmont falls under the spell of a scandalous, secretive man as all of Hollywood’s glamour swirls around her—a stunning feminist reimagining of Jane Eyre from the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress. “A clever, compelling...