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<b>'Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating'</b><br/><br/>Tim Peake, British ESA astronaut<br/><br/><b>They looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . . .</b><br/><br/><b>An utterly gripping story of first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning <i>Children of Time</i>.</b><br/><br/><b>New for this paperback edition:</b> Includes the short story 'Sins of the Children', the fascinating prequel to <i>Shroud</i>.<br/><br/>An expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation.<br/><br/>They name the moon Shroud. But they never mean to go there . . . until a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to crash-land on its inhospitable surface in a barely adequate escape vehicle. Alone, and fighting to survive, the two women embark on a gruelling journey in search of salvation. But Juna and Mai's tenuous existence is threatened by Shroud's extraordinary alien species. If they can escape, they'll have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible . . .<br/><br/><b>* * *<br/><br/>Praise for <i>Shroud</i><br/><br/>'Clever, vivid and terrifying . . . No one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky' - Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's <i>The Life Scientific</i><br/><br/>'Crunchy, conceptual SF at its best' - Richard Morgan, author of <i>Altered Carbon</i><br/><br/>'This is hard-edged science fiction that never loses its soul' - Sue Burke, author of <i>Semiosis</i><br/><br/>'Makes Andy Weir's vision of Mars in The Martian look like a Caribbean beach resort' - <i>The Fantasy Hive</i></b>

'<b>Powerful</b>' <i>Financial Times</i><br/>'<b>More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller</b>' <i>Spectator</i><br/>'<b>A story we all need to hear</b>' <i>New Statesman</i><br/>'<b>Gripping</b>... Araujo's accretion of detail has a <b>powerful </b>effect' <i>New York Times</i><br/><b>'</b><b>Excellent' </b>Kirkus Reviews<br/><br/>Deep in the heart of the Amazon, an entire region has lived under the control of one notorious land baron: Joselio de Barros. Joselio cut a grisly path to success: having arrived in the jungle with a shady past, he quickly made a name for himself as an invincible thug who grabbed massive tracts of public land, burned down the jungle and executed or enslaved anyone trying to stop him.<br/><br/>Enter Dezinho, the leader of a small but robust farm workers' union fighting against land grabs, ecological destruction, and blatant human rights abuses. When Dezinho was killed in a shocking assassination, the local community held its breath. Would Joselio, whom everyone knew had ordered the hit, finally be brought to account? Or would authorities look the other way, as they had hundreds of times before?<br/><br/>Dezinho's widow, Dona Joelma, was not about to let that happen. After his murder, she stepped into the spotlight, orchestrating a huge push to bring national media attention to the injustices in the Amazon.<br/><br/>Set against the backdrop of Bolsonaro's devastating cuts to environmental protections, Brazil's rapidly changing place in the geopolitical spectrum, and the Amazon's crucial role in climate change, <i>Masters of the Lost Land</i> is both a gripping epic into one of the last wild places on Earth and an urgent illustration of how people are fighting for - and winning - justice for their futures and the environment.

'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian cafe for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from her loveless marriage into the dive bars of Berlin. Father and son Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over each other's homosexuality. And Vladimir Nabokov lovingly places a fresh-caught butterfly at the end of Vera's bed. Little do they all know, the book burning will soon begin. Love in a Time of Hate skilfully interweaves some of the greatest love stories of the 1930s with the darkening backdrop of fascism in Europe, in an irresistible journey into the past that brings history and its actors to vivid life.

<b>Based on the 1974 Original Motion Picture with a foreword by Lynne Griffin, the actress who plays Clare Harrison. If this novel doesn't make your skin crawl... it's on too tight!</b><br/><br/>Silent Night, Evil Night<br/><br/>As winter break starts,<br/>a group of sorority sisters<br/>begin receiving chilling,<br/>anonymous phone calls.<br/><br/>When one of the sisters<br/>goes missing, and the<br/>news reports that a local<br/>adolescent girl has been<br/>murdered, the joyous<br/>holiday season takes a<br/>grim turn when it becomes<br/>obvious that a serial killer<br/>is on the loose.<br/><br/>As the women work with<br/>the police to trace the<br/>number the stranger is<br/>calling from, no one<br/>realizes just how close<br/>he already is.

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Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.

The Satanic Bible [Bok / Pocket]