Glass Woman

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems...

From the worldwide number one bestselling author of The Nightingale comes Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss. Goodreads Historical Novel of the Year. A woman has to be tough as steel up here. You can't count on anyone to save you and your children. You have to be willing to save yourselves. Thirteen-year-old Leni is coming of age in a tumultuous time. Caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, she dares to hope that Alaska will lead to a better future for her family, and a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown. As Leni grows up in the shadow of her parents' increasingly volatile marriage, she meets M...

The gripping and unforgettable new novel from Caroline Lea, based on one of history's most shocking but largely untold scandals 'A highly original and inventive writer' Sunday Times Toronto, Canada, 1926 Best friends Lily di Marco and Mae Thebault were once inseparable. They lived under the same roof and cared for each other's children. But with mouths to feeds and demanding husbands to keep happy, both women are forced into terrible decisions as the Great Depression tightens its grip. When lawyer Charles Vance Miller's will promises a handsome sum of money to the woman who can produce the most babies in the next ten years, it is initially dismissed as a vanity project. But as the Great Depression worsens, and times get increasingly tough across the world, for the most desperate in society...

Surowa, mroźna i bezlitosna Islandia nigdy nie była tak blisko… Trzymająca w napięciu powieść o poświęceniu z miłości, obezwładniającym lęku i sekretach, których nikt nie chce wyjawić. 1686 rok, niewielka osada w przeszywającej chłodem Islandii. Rósa po nagłej śmierci ojca, miejscowego biskupa, musi znaleźć sposób, by zdobyć pieniądze, które pomogą przetrwać zimę jej i jej chorej matce. Mimo że serce kobiety zaczyna bić mocniej w towarzystwie przyjaciela z dzieciństwa, podejmuje decyzję o wyjściu za mąż za bogatego i starszego od niej Jóna Eiríkssona, który ma zapewnić jej godny byt. Jak będzie wyglądać nowe życie Rósy w odległym i nieprzystępnym Stykkishólmur? Dlaczego pierwsza żona Jóna Eiríkssona nie żyje? Co kryje się w zamkniętym...