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  Time Life: Don’t miss the brand...

  Catherine Mayer, Sandi Toksvig

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  'Intriguing, enchanting, soulful … A book of timeless beauty' Elif Shafak 
  Includes an 'In Conversation' with the author and Sandi Toksvig. 
  Onstage at a Las Vegas convention, Elo Ó hAllmhuráin, a worldfamous tech magnate, demonstrates a time machine, catapulting himself and journalist Dory Silver into the distant future. Stranded and desperate to get home to her dying partner, Dory is forced to re-examine the past. 
  Time/Life is a love letter to science fiction rooted in a very real present of rising populism and the unintended consequences of technology. Above all, it is a powerful meditation on the nature of love itself. 
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  'Multiplexly brilliant, intricately fascinating, harrowingly emotional fiction, sprung from this century’s first and possibly final quarter' William Gibson, author of Neuromancer 
  'Mayer’s reimagining of H.G. Wells’ Time Machine is a profoundly moving exploration of loss and love. Time/Life delivers a wild blend of unreality with chilling elements that are all too real' Bee Rowlatt, author of In Search of Mary and One Woman Crime Wave 
  'Mayer’s genre-bending riff on H.G. Wells is as clever as it is poignant. A dark and sharply contemporary pleasure' Luke Jennings, author of the Villanelle series (the basis for Killing Eve) 
  'Catherine Mayer’s unique and prescient Time/Life playfully repurposes H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine for the post-truth generation, creating and recreating worlds like a computer game. Yet it is also a devastating meditation on grief and the ephemeral quality of time. It might make you cry but it will also make you laugh' Elizabeth Fremantle, bestselling author of Queen’s Gambit (made into the movie Firebrand) 
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  Praise for Catherine Mayer  
  'Beautiful, incredibly moving and unexpectedly comforting' Marian Keyes  
  ‘Breathtaking, heartbreaking and also full of love and hope, what a journey this book takes us on – with love, time travel and a toxic tech magnate’ Sandi Toksvig 
  FAILED TO RUN THIS ONE 
  For fans of Richard Coles (Murder Under the Mistletoe), Dolly Alderton (Good Material), and Colm Tóibín (Long Island). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Chasing the Great Corvid - An...

  Jeff Chapman

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  The Great Corvid, a gem rumoured to be the source of the monarchy's power, has been stolen. The Queen and her council demand that wizard emeritus Learvin and his cat familiar Nightmawl come out of retirement to lead the search. The most likely culprit is a dragon living in a mountain lair on the other side of Swamp Deslolation. The journey to the dragon's cave will be hard, but negotiating with a dragon carries its own set of perils. Nightmawl would rather rest his old bones in a tree and flirt with the neighbor cat, but Learvin is not one to turn down a challenge. Their quest will twist in unexpected ways. 
  The first story in The Cats of Incognito Lane series, Chasing the Great Corvid mixes humor with fantasy adventure in a delightful tale.

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  The Bedlam Boys Complete Series...

  Ruby Vincent

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  The town of Bedlam was born of rioters, revolt, pain, and murder. 
  Over a hundred years later, nothing has changed. 
  A shadow clings to our lives. Stalking, watching, waiting, taunting, and killing. And when it struck, I wasn’t ready. 
  I have to play their game now. Catch them, kill them, before Ruckus Royale or they’ll claim another sacrifice. 
  The trouble is a new band of outlaws are in charge, and Arsenio, Cairo, Jacques, Legend, and Roan don’t take well to people ruining their fun. 
  On the one night a year where anything goes, mayhem will sweep through the streets and the Kings of Ruckus will rule. 
  I have my orders. A life to save and a life to take. 
  And when my punishment comes for framing the Bedlam Boys, I’ll welcome it. I’ll let them free me of the sweet, innocent girl I never got to be. 
  Under their twisted, scorching love I will atone for the crimes paid and the ones still to come. 
  In the end, Bedlam will be brought to its knees to bow before its first queen. 
  The Bedlam Boys is a dark college reverse harem romance.

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  Goodnight Tokyo - A Novel

  Atsuhiro Yoshida

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  Set over several nights, between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., in and around Tokyo, this mind-blowingly constructed book is an elaborate, energetic fresco of human nocturnal existence in all its mystery, an enigmatic literary mix of Agatha Christie, Teju Cole, and Heironymous Bosch. 
   
   
   
  On this journey through the labyrinthine streets and hidden corners of one of the world's most fascinating cities, everybody is searching for something, and maybe searching in the wrong places. Elements of the fantastical and the surreal abound, as they tend to do in the early predawn hours of the morning, yet the settings, the human stories, and each character's search are all as real as can be. 
   
   
   
  Goodnight Tokyo offers listeners a unique and intimate take on Tokyo as seen through the eyes of a large cast of colorful characters. Their lives, as disparate and as far apart as they may seem, are in fact intricately interconnected, and their fates converge against the backdrop of the city's neon-lit streets and quiet alleyways. In his English-language debut, Yoshida masterfully portrays in captivating and lyrical prose the complexities of human relationships, the mystery of human connection, and the universal quest for meaning.

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  The Missing Three-Quarter - The...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, part of The Return of Sherlock Holmes collection. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the UK in August 1904 and in Collier's in the US on November 26, 1904. The story centers on Holmes being approached by Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge, to find Godfrey Staunton, a key rugby player whose sudden disappearance threatens the team's chances in an important upcoming match.

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  Dark Hollow

  Anna Katharine Green

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  The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is convicted and executed for the crime. Many years later, "a woman in purple" shows up at the house of Ostrander, the respected judge who had sentenced the inn-keeper to be executed. This mysterious woman turns out to be the wife of the convicted man, but she does not believe he was guilty. She visits the Judge, to challenge him on his verdict. He listens to her plea, but reaffirms his belief in her husbands guilt. Having nowhere to go, Deborah is given the position of maid, which she secretly uses to obtain proof of her husband's innocence and the identity of the real killer. However, the initial evidence that Deborah collects points in troubling new directions. (Summary by Elaine Webb)

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