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		<title>The Witches</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One child a week is 52 a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear. Beware! There are witches everywhere. Witches could be a cashier in a supermarket, a woman driving a fancy car, or even your own teacher. The only thing a witch cares about is squelching children. She hunts and squelches as many children as she possibly can. At least one a week. The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one disappear. Only one boy and his grandmother can stop her. But if their plan fails, the Grand High Witch will frizzle them like fritters, and then what will happen?]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Discover The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection, a stunning hardback collection of Roald Dahl&#39;s most beloved titles.</b></p>
<p><i>&#8216;Her witch stories, unlike most of the others, were not imaginary tales.&#39;</i></p>
<p>This is a story about REAL WITCHES.</p>
<p>The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.</p>
<p>That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her&#8230;</p>
<p><b>The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection uses the versions of Dahl&#39;s books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions.</b></p>
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		<title>Lords of the Salt Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<b>The story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much  of Scotland, and whose reach extended as far as Scandinavia,  continental Europe and even the Mediterranean.</b>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much of Scotland, and whose reach extended as far as Scandinavia, continental Europe and even the Mediterranean.Lords of the Salt Road reveals the dramatic history of the Norse earls of Orkney, who owed their allegiance to the Kings of Norway and ruled their own semi-autonomous empire with lands in mainland Scotland and the Western Isles. At their military height in the 11th century, they held a 400-mile swathe of territory, stretching from Shetland down to the Clyde Estuary.Drawing on contemporary sagas as historical sources, and capturing some of their spellbinding narrative drive, renowned historian and Orkney native Angus Konstam describes how these Norse earls and their followers led Viking raids around the British Isles and even further afield. For over four centuries their warriors and longships battled alongside Scandinavian kings and Norse rebels, and as Norse kingmakers these warlike earls sometimes paid the ultimate price for dabbling in international affairs. They were the key players in Viking Britain.Using a wide range of historical sources such as Celtic-Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon chronicles, this is a spellbinding tale of love, war, triumph, tragedy, treachery, murder, rebellion and greed.</p>
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		<title>The School of Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all. Kristian Hadeland, newly arrived in the city, seethes with ambition and contempt. His family in Norway never understood him; his fellow photography students bore him. But he knows he and his art are destined for more. Then he meets Hans, an eccentric Dutch artist. With Hans, the future Kristian yearns for is tangible. All art is possible. Any line can be crossed. But success comes at a price. And when Kristian does the unthinkable, will he be prepared to pay it?]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>&#8216;An</b><b> almost dangerously immersive reading experience that will completely take over your life&#8230;</b><b> utterly captivating&#8217; </b>Martin MacInnes, Booker longlisted author of <i>IN ASCENSION</i></p>
<p><b>London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all.</b></p>
<p>Kristian Hadeland, newly arrived in the city, seethes with ambition and contempt. His family in Norway never understood him; his fellow photography students bore him. But he knows he and his art are destined for more.</p>
<p>Then he meets Hans, an eccentric Dutch artist. With Hans, the future Kristian yearns for is tangible. All art is possible. Any line can be crossed.</p>
<p>But success comes at a price. And when Kristian does the unthinkable, will he be prepared to pay it?</p>
<p>Electrifying and unflinching, <i>The School of Night</i> is a singular novel about artistic creation and human corruption. It is the story of one terrible man&#8217;s rise and fall, and a reckoning with the darkest parts of human nature.</p>
<p><b>&#8216;Mysterious, unsettling, thought provoking, unpredictable and darkly entertaining&#8217;</b> Colin Barrett, Booker longlisted author of <i>WILD HOUSES</i> </p>
<p><b>PRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD:</p>
<p>&#8216;Absorbs you utterly&#8217; </b><i>Sunday Times</i><br /><b>&#8216;One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I&#8217;ve ever read&#8217; </b>Brandon Taylor<br /><b>&#8216;Addictive&#8217; </b><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br /><b>&#8216;Brilliant storytelling . . . Epic&#8217; </b><i>Independent</i><br /><b>&#8216;As accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama&#8217; </b><i>Spectator</i><br /><b>&#8216;Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive&#8217; </b><i>New York Times</i></p>
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		<title>Nothing grows by moonlight</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful stranger across a station platform. She follows him home, and over one heady night of wine and cigarettes, recounts to him the devastating story of her life.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>&#8216;It&#8217;s fantastic, it&#8217;s incredible&#8217; Pedro Almodóvar  </b></p>
<p><b>A hauntingly beautiful, unforgettable Norwegian classic, ripe for discovery</b></p>
<p>In the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful stranger across a station platform. She follows him home, and over one heady night of wine and cigarettes, recounts to him the devastating story of her life . . .</p>
<p>First published in 1947, <i>Nothing Grows by Moonlight</i> tells the haunting tale of one woman&#8217;s soul-shattering love affair. When an obsessive passion for her high school teacher consumes a small-town seventeen-year-old, her life spirals out of control, giving way to pregnancy, poverty and alienation. Here, darkness and light converge, and unrequited love blooms against the shadows of societal injustices, as she fights for autonomy: over her life, her mind and her body.</p>
<p>Captivating, visceral and brimming with emotion, <i>Nothing Grows by Moonlight</i> is a feminist classic of Scandinavian literature, and an uncompromising ode to female desire.</p>
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		<title>The third realm</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Morning Star kept readers up all night, immersed with nine characters whose individual lives are heightened by the sudden appearance of a blazing new star. The Wolves of Eternity, set between Norway and Russia, is an intimate journey into the experiences of two estranged half-siblings in the decades before the star rises. Now, in 'The Third Realm', the effects of the star are felt around the world, as people start to reckon with what it might possibly mean. Shapeshifting visitors, unsolved murders in the forest, black metal bands and an online bank of thousands of people's dreams - the star is back, and the limitless scale and ambition of Karl Ove's new universe is clear. This is life, death, the human condition, and the opportunity to bring readers in on the real-time creation of an epic and utterly immersive world.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><i>If no one ever died, what would happen then?</i></b></p>
<p>For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named Valdemar and is lured to a secret death metal gig in a remote forest. Geir, a policeman, is investigating a ritual murder but chances upon something more horrifying even than the bodies in the trees &#8211; the last bodies he sees, because, as undertaker Syvert is the first to realise, people have stopped dying since the star appeared.</p>
<p><b>What is haunting the world &#8211; and why?</b></p>
<p>As profound as it is thrilling, Karl Ove Knausgaard&#8217;s <i>The Third Realm </i>is a breathtaking novel about ordinary lives on the cusp of irrevocable change.</p>
<p><b>PRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD:</b></p>
<p><b>&#8216;Addictive&#8217; <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>
<p><b>&#8216;Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling&#8217; <i>New York Times</i></p>
<p>&#8216;Casts an existential spell. . . captivating&#8217; <i>Financial Times</i></b></p>
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		<title>The wolf</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Sweden two young boys are murdered, their corpses left in an almost brutally artistic arrangement, and the case remains unsolved. Years later, two more young boys are murdered in Norway in similar circumstances. Mia KrÃ¼ger, a young trainee at the Police Academy is drafted in to help solve the case due to her uncanny ability to piece together these horrific stories. Teamed up with Munch, her skills and his experience start to show that the two cases may be connected.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>&#8216;Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money&#8217; </b><i>Sunday Express</i><br /><b>&#8216;The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation&#8217;</b> <i>Sunday Times</i><br /><b>___</b></p>
<p>It was one of Sweden&#8217;s most notorious unsolved cases: two young boys abducted and murdered, their bodies brutally, artistically arranged.</p>
<p>But eight years later, when two other boys are found in similar circumstances, it looks like the killer might be back &#8211; this time in neighbouring Norway.</p>
<p>Led by veteran detective Holger Munch, the investigating police are baffled. There are no clues, no leads to follow. In desperation, Munch drafts in a trainee from the Police Academy, Mia Kruger, a young woman with an uncanny ability to see beyond the facts. Little does he know that Mia is battling her own demons and will soon find that her life and that of the case are entwined in ways no one could have imagined&#8230;.</p>
<p>From the internationally bestselling author of <i>I&#8217;m Travelling Alone</i>, comes another mesmerically chilling psychological tale of cat and mouse where the hunter may not know that they have become the hunted before it&#8217;s too late&#8230;<br /><b>___</p>
<p>Readers love Samuel Bjork:</p>
<p>&#8216;Ingenious&#8217;<br />&#8216;Simply terrific&#8217;<br />&#8216;Intelligent and gripping&#8217;<br />&#8216;Perfect for Scandi-Noir lovers&#8217;</b></p>
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