A Thousand Splendid Suns'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph 'A triumph' Financial Times 'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday 'Deeply moving' Sunday Times Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a

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impressive

Her husband

Christina will have to make a choice

a world-famous artist

her new allies are all planning betrayals of their own

That's why he's at Club Artemis

one of the prized white Bulldogs - prized because of its one brown ear

A sinister-looking cloud is fast approaching the outskirts of the Known Universe

a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'

On a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears

though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you