Slow ManPaul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are

If she can pass their three rites of membership

the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley

Effy's tattered copy is all that's keeping her afloat through her stifling first term at her prestigious architecture college

but it's original and

Philip Reeve is back with this gripping sequel to the Smarties Gold Awardwinner

26a is an extraordinary first novel

And Banks realizes that his cases are weaving closer and closer together

the Dead Continent

Edmund Ironside

in strict violation of the terms of neutrality

loss and the real meaning of loyalty

but he is loyal all the same