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THE SEQUEL TO THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MURDER BEFORE EVENSONGCANON DANIEL CLEMENT IS BACK...'Champton joins St Mary Mead and Midsomer in the great atlas of fictional English villages where the crimes are as dastardly as the residents delightful' DAMIAN BARRIt's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. But church politics soon become the least of Daniel's problems. His mother - headstrong, fearless Audrey - is obviously up to something, something she is determined to keep from him. And she is not the only one. And then all hell breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing...

MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. In this authoritative and entertaining book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses (such as the writers of the Bible, major novelists, dramatists, journalists and political propagandists) influence what become the accepted records of human experience. Is there, he asks, even such a thing as 'objective' history? The depth of Cohen's inquiry and the delight he takes in his subjects includes the practitioners of what he calls 'Bad History,' those thieves of history who twist reality to glorify themselves and conceal their or their country's behaviour. Cohen investigates the published works and private utterances of our greatest historical thinkers to discover the agendas that informed their views of the world, and which in so many ways have informed ours. From the origins of history-writing, when such an idea seemed itself revolutionary, through to television and the digital age, MAKING HISTORY abounds in captivating figures brought to vivid life, from Thucydides and Tacitus to Voltaire and Gibbon, from Winston Churchill to Mary Beard. Rich in character, complex truths and surprising anecdotes, the result is a unique exploration of both the aims and craft of history-making. It will lead us to think anew about our past and ourselves.

SOME CRIMES YOU CAN'T FORGET. Detective Renée Ballard is given the chance of a lifetime: revive the LAPD's cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch is they must first crack the unsolved murder of the sister of the city councilman who is sponsoring the department - or lose everything... OTHERS YOU CAN'T FORGIVE. Harry Bosch is top of the list of investigators Ballard wants to recruit. The former homicide detective is a living legend - but for how long? Because Bosch has his own agenda: a crime that has haunted him for years - the murder of a whole family, buried out in the desert - which he vowed to close. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW WHO DID IT? With the killer still out there and evidence elusive - Bosch is on a collision course with a choice he hoped never to make...

'A brilliant modern love story. I found it atmospheric and transporting but also wise, clever and universal in its exploration of love, family and identity. I loved it' Cathy RentzenbrinkMizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun to throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband or hanging up laundry. Then, one rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi, a successful restaurateur. In him, she rediscovers freedom, friendship, a voice, and the neon, electric pulse of the city she has always loved. But the further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two lives - and in the end, we can choose only one. Alluring, compelling, startlingly honest and darkly funny, Fault Lines is a bittersweet love story and a daring exploration of modern relationships from a writer to watch.

'Offers the most complete picture ever published of how Highsmith saw herself' New York Times'One of the finest writers in the English language' Richard Osman'I love Highsmith so much. What a revelation her writing was' Gillian Flynn 'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.'Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries and notebooks offer an unforgettable insight into the life and mind of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating writers.Though the famously secretive Highsmith refused to authorise a biography during her lifetime, she left behind 8,000 pages of notebooks and diaries, along with tantalising instructions on how they should be read. This one-volume assemblage reveals, at last, the inscrutable figure behind the pen. The diaries show Highsmith's unwavering literary ambitions - coming often at huge personal sacrifice. We see Highsmith drafting Strangers on a Train while attending the Yaddo artists' colony in 1948, alongside Flannery O'Connor and at Truman Capote's recommendation. We feel her euphoria writing The Price of Salt (later adapted into the film Carol), one of the first mainstream novels to depict two women in love. And we watch Highsmith in Positano, subsisting on little more than cigarettes and gleefully conjuring Mr Ripley, the sociopathic anti-hero that would cement her reputation.In these pages Highsmith reflects on good and evil, loneliness and intimacy, sexuality and sacrifice, love and murder. She describes her tumultuous romantic relationships, alongside her sometimes dizzying social life involving Jane Bowles, Peggy Guggenheim, Carson McCullers, Arthur Koestler and W. H. Auden. And in her skewering of McCarthy-era America, her prickly disparagement of contemporary art and ever-percolating prejudices, we see Highsmith revealing the roots of her psychological angst and acuity.At once lovable, detestable and mesmerising, Highsmith put her turbulent life to paper for five decades. Offering all the pleasures of Highsmith's novels, the result is one of the most compulsively readable literary diaries to publish in generations

'Exquisitely written ... Be prepared to be swept away on an incredible journey' Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author of Black Ice'A story about magical maps that lead to your heart's desire [and] the people who would do anything to find them ... A vastly rich experience' Charles Soule, author of The Oracle YearThere are some maps you can lose yourself in...Nell Young has lived her life in and around maps. Her father, Dr. David Young, was one of the most respected cartographers in the world. But this morning he was found dead - or murdered? - in his office at the New York Public Library. Nell hadn't spoken to her father in years, ever since he fired her after an argument over a seemingly worthless highway roadside map. A map which was mass-produced - and every copy of which is now being found and destroyed. But why? To answer that question, Nell will embark on a dangerous journey into the heart of a conspiracy beyond belief, the secrets behind her family, and the true power that lies in maps . . . THE CARTOGRAPHERS is a story about Art and Science: where they meet, how they both enrich our lives, and how each defines the other. And it's a book about the mystery, history, and ineffable romance of maps.

'Superlative... No other thriller writer can make you break into a sweat and break your heart at the same time'THE TIMESNothing is as fragile as the memory of a child...Malone, a child barely four years old, starts to claim that his mother isn't his real mum. It seems impossible: his mother has birth certificates, photos of him as a child and even the paediatrician confirms this is her child. The school psychologist is the only one who believes him. Desperate to find out the truth, he approaches Marianne Augresse, a police captain with better things to do with her time: hot on the heels of a a major criminal, she doesn't think the wild fantasies of a child are something she should worry about. But what if she's wrong?

Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds.With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Savine must turn her talents from profit to survival before she can claw her way to redemption. Orso will find that when the world is turned upside down, no one is lower than a monarch. And in the bloody North, Rikke and her fragile Protectorate are running out of allies . . . while Black Calder gathers his forces and plots his vengeance.The banks have fallen, the sun of the Union has been torn down, and in the darkness behind the scenes, the threads of the Weaver's ruthless plan are slowly being drawn together...

'The Principle of Moments is my favourite kind of grand space opera where anything can happen and usually does at great speed' Ben Aaronovitch, author of the Sunday Times bestselling Rivers of London seriesFor fans of Becky Chambers' spacefaring family, V.E. Schwab's magical London and N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy comes a sensational adventure across time and spaceAsha Akindele lives in a future gripped by oppression, just one more human forced to assemble weapons for a war they'll never win. Then she discovers she has a sister imprisoned by Emperor Thracin and is forced to make a choice: remain a slave, or escape and risk everything.With the help of time-traveller Obi, who just wants to return to London, 1811, and his almost-boyfriend Prince George, Asha must travel through the stars to save a sister she's never met - and in doing so save worlds.

Lorna's world is small but safe. She loves her daughter, and the two of them is all that matters. But after nearly twenty years, she and Ella are suddenly leaving London for the Isle of Kip, the tiny remote Scottish island where Lorna grew up. Alice's world is tiny but full. She loves the community on Kip, her yoga classes drawing women across the tiny island together. Now Lorna's arrival might help their family finally mend itself - even if forgiveness means returning to the past... So with two decades, hundreds of miles and a lifetime's worth of secrets between Lorna and the island, can coming home mean starting again?

In der Nachfolge seines Bestsellers In 80 Bäumen um die Welt unternimmt Jonathan Drori eine weitere Reise rund um den Globus und erweckt dieses Mal für uns die Pflanzenkunde zum Leben. Er zeigt in unterhaltsamen und kenntnisreichen Texten auf, wie eng ihre Welten mit unserer eigenen Geschichte, Kultur und Folklore verwoben sind. Von der scheinbar vertrauten Tomate und dem Löwenzahn bis hin zur ,unheimlichen' Alraune und dem spanischen ,Moos von Louisiana' - jede dieser Geschichten steckt voller Überraschungen. Einige seiner pflanzlichen Protagonisten haben eine beunruhigende Vergangenheit, während andere die menschliche Kreativität entzündet oder ganze Zivilisationen zum Blühen gebracht haben. Die herrlichen Naturzeichnungen aus der Feder von Lucille Clerc machen dieses Buch zu einem bibliophilen Gesamtkunstwerk, das Text und Bild auf das Schönste verbindet. Eine botanische Reise voller Schönheit und Brillanz!

Vom ländlichen Japan der Nachkriegszeit nach New York in die internationale Kunstwelt und dort ganz nach oben - die mittlerweile über 90jährige japanische Künstlerin Yayoi Kusama hat ihr komplettes Leben der Kunst gewidmet und mit ihren Happenings und Fluxus-Installationen die (Kunst-)Welt bereichert, und nicht zuletzt auch als weibliche Künstlerin in einer Männerdomäne ihren feministischen Standpunkt vertreten. Ihre Werke werden in allen großen Ausstellungshäusern der Welt ausgestellt.Verfolgen Sie in dieser grafisch illustrierten Biografie ihren unglaublichen Lebensweg: Von ihrem mutigen Aufbruch aus Japan als junge Künstlerin Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts, von ihrer Begeisterung für die lebendige New Yorker Kunstszene in den 1970er Jahren, ihrer Rückkehr nach Hause und ihrem Aufstieg zum international gefeierten Star der Kunstszene im 21. Jahrhunderts.

Künstlerinnen erzählt für einmal die ganze Geschichte - die Durchbrüche, die Frauen beim Kampf um die Gleichstellung mit männlichen Künstlern erzielt haben, wichtige Beiträge, die sie zu männlich dominierten künstlerischen Bewegungen geleistet haben und von vergessenen und verborgenen Künstlerinnen, die jetzt endlich gewürdigt werden und ihr Beitrag zu unserer Kulturgeschichte anerkannt.Das Buch ist leicht verständlich, prägnant und reich illustriert. Es zeigt die Verbindungen zwischen verschiedenen Epochen, Künstlern und Künstlerinnen und Stilen auf und vermittelt ein gründliches Verständnis und eine große Freude an den Leistungen, die der weibliche Teil der Künstlerschaft ebenso vollbracht hat wie ihre männlichen Künstlerkollegen.

Innovative Geschichte der internationalen ArchitekturErkundet die wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Baukonzepte,mit Querverweisen zwischen Epochen, Technikenund MaterialienHandliches Überblickswerk für Studierende und alleArchitektur-InteressiertenEine kurze Geschichte der Architektur ist ein neuerund innovativer Leitfaden zum Thema Architektur.Er beleuchtet 50 Schlüsselgebäude, von den Pyramidenbis hin zu hochmodernen, nachhaltigen Wolkenkratzern.Zugänglich und prägnant geschrieben, verbindet diesesBuch die Bauten mit den angewandten Materialien,Bauelementen und Stilen und lässt den Leser diegebaute Welt verstehen.

Mit Glossar, Register und Künstler-BiografienLust auf Kunst? Dann ist dieses Buch die ultimative Anleitung, wenn Sie Grundlagen erwerben oder weiterführendes Wissen erlangen möchten. Techniken, Materialien, Anwendungsbeispiele - nahezu alle Aspekte des Umganges mit dem Medium Tusche werden hier auf verständliche Weise und mithilfe von eingängigen Illustrationen vorgestellt. Die Autorin ist selbst Künstlerin und weiß genau, worauf es dem Leser ankommt: "Behandeln Sie Tusche wie einen neuen guten Freund."Folgen Sie diesem Rat und erleben Sie die positive Energie der eigenen Kreativität!Tuschemalerei in allen Aspekten kompakt erklärt und mit zahlreichen Beispielen anschaulich illustriert.Erster Titel der neuen Reihe Lust auf Kunst.

¿ Eine prägnante Einführung in die Geschichte der modernen Kunst¿ Erkundet die wichtigsten Kunstwerke sowie maßgebliche Kunstströmungen, Themen und TechnikenEin neuartiger Überblick für Studierende, Kunstliebhaber und Museumsbesucher mit Querverweisen zwischen den Epochen, Techniken und HintergründenDieser konzentrierte Überblick erkundet anhand von 50 Schlüsselwerken die maßgeblichen Künstler, Kunstströmungen und Techniken der vergangenen knapp 200 Jahre der internationalen Kunst. Er stellt die Zusammenhänge und Hintergründe der Kunstgeschichte heraus und bietet eine prägnante, bildreiche und verständliche Einführung, die jeden Museumsbesuch und die Beschäftigung mit der modernen Kunst zu einem noch größeren Genuss macht.

Eine kurze Geschichte der Fotografie ist eine neue und innovativeEinführung in das Thema Fotografie. Einfach aufgebaut, erforschtdas Buch 50 Schlüsselfotos von den ersten Experimenten im frühen19. Jahrhundert bis zur digitalen Fotografie.Zugänglich und prägnant erklärt das Buch, wie, warum undwann bestimmte Fotos die Welt wirklich verändert haben. Esentmystifiziert den Fachjargon und ermöglicht dem Leser einumfassendes Verständnis und mehr Freude an Fotografie.

"Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst" ist eine neue, ganz andere Einführung in die Kunst. Einfach aufgebaut, erforscht das Buch 50 Schlüsselwerke, von den Wandmalereien in Lascaux bis zu zeitgenössischen Installationen, und verbindet diese dann mit Informationen über Kunstrichtungen, Themen und Techniken.Durch den besonderen Aufbau des Buches kann man sichmühelos über die wichtigsten Epochen, Künstler und Stileinformieren. Leicht zugänglich und prägnant formuliert, werdendie wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Kunstauffassungendargestellt. Darüber hinaus zeigt das Buch, wie diese miteinanderverbunden sind.Man erfährt, wie, warum und wann sich die Kunst verändert,wer bestimmte Dinge eingeführt hat, worin die Neuerungenbestanden, wo diese auftauchten und was für eine Rolle siespielten. Ohne überflüssigen und verwirrenden Fachjargon,doch mit viel Vergnügen bekommt man ein echtes Verständnisvon Kunst.