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Acclaimed author Stephen King s #1 bestselling time-travel novel soon to be a limited series on Hulu! In Stephen King s most ambitious and accomplished (NPR) and extraordinary ("USA TODAY") #1 "New York Times "bestselling novel, time travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying. Dallas, 11/22/63: Three shots ring out. President John F. Kennedy is dead. Life can turn on a dime or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful."

James Pattersons BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.I know who killed my son.Molly Rourkes son has been murdered and she knows whos responsible. Now shes taking the law into her own hands. Never underestimate a mothers love.

From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilised world ushered in the first Dark Ages

The Women's Murder Club is Patterson's biggest-selling series after Alex Cross 10th Anniversary, 9th Judgement, 8th Confession and 7th Heaven were all Sunday Times number one bestsellers 10th Anniversary has sold over 47,000 copies in hardback The Women's Murder Club Nintendo DSi game was launched in November 2009 with a high-profile TV campaign and co-promotion with the books...

Shakespeare makes it on to the list but there is no place for Austen, Dickens or - thankfully - the Da Vinci Code. Melvyn Bragg is to host a new TV series, 12 Books That Changed The World, about the

Joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists visionaries and code breakers Observer How is artificial intelligence changing the way we live and love Now with a new chapter this is the eye opening new book from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about AI Jeanette Winterson looks to history religion myth literature politics and of course computer science to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now With wit compassion and curiosity Winterson tackles AI s most interesting talking points from the weirdness of backing up your brain and the connections between humans and non human helpers to whether it s time to leave planet Earth Very funny A kind of comparative mythology where the hype and ideology of cutting edge tech is read through the lens of far older stories Spectator Refreshingly optimistic Guardian A Books of 2021 Pick in the Guardian Financial Times Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard

As a paragon of hindsight, this dystopian novel focuses its attention on the US and current affairs. It is a warning statement crafted by the sick sensibility of what we want or need, assuming that conversation is as valuable as understanding the Dejavudoo of our brains on drugs. Some report lucid moral atrophy, while others argue whether sex trafficking is a sport or a form of...

A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel. This disturbing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter clashed over him. This new translation brings Sade's provocative novel into Penguin Classics for the first time, and will reignite the debate around this most controversial of writers.

A snowbound mountain pass, a derailed train, a locked, shuttered and heavily guarded carriage, an apocalyptic storm, an ancient hotel, old betrayals, murder and state secrets: this is the Corvus launch of one of Scandinavia's hottest crime writers. 1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens of iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains with night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and decamp to a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe from the storm here, but as dawn breaks one of them will be found dead, murdered. With the storm showing no sign of abating, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate. But Hanne has no wish to get involved. She has learned the hard way that truth comes at a price and sometimes that price just isn't worth paying. Her pursuit of truth and justice has cost her the love of her life, her career in the Oslo Police Department and her mobility: she is paralysed from the waist down by a bullet lodged in her spine. Trapped in a wheelchair, trapped by the killer within, trapped by the deadly storm outside, Hanne's growing unease is shared by everyone in the hotel...