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Part One of the critically acclaimed Red Riding seriesNow a Netflix series that is 'better than The Godfather' (Telegraph) - f****eaturing a star-studded cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Rebecca HallJeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the...

'Brilliant.' New York Times'Remarkable.' Irish TimesAugust 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors.Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Against his wishes, Detective Minami is assigned to the case; as he gets drawn ever deeper into these comple...

'Extraordinary.' New York Times'Savagely beautiful.' The TimesTokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink this liquid according to strict instructions. Within minutes twelve of...

The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work.Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigation for General MacArthur's GHQ.Som...

Part Two of the critically acclaimed Red Riding seriesNow a Netflix series that is 'better than The Godfather' (Telegraph) - f****eaturing a star-studded cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Rebecca HallIf you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, 1974, then think again. 1977, the second instalment of the Red Riding series, is one long nightmare. Its ...

**A TIMES, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A magnificent book. ' MIKE ATHERTON'Tender, atmospheric - and hopeful.' iNEWS'A masterpiece.' IRISH TIMES'Electrifying.' GUARDIANFrom the author of The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, an ext...

'That's all I ask from anyone. That we try to make the people happy.'Bill Shankly had one aim: to make Liverpool Football Club invincible.As its manager from 1959, he secured the team promotion, the First Division title, the FA Cup and success in Europe. For fifteen years, he defined what it was to be a Liverpool fan, and demanded total loyalty from his players and coaches. A loyalty that Bill hoped would be repaid when he retired...David Peace's iconic nov...

Part Four of the critically acclaimed Red Riding seriesNow a Netflix series that is 'better than The Godfather' (Telegraph) - f****eaturing a star-studded cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Rebecca Hall1983's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer...

How can we deal with a matter as delicate as the loss of someone dear to us with children? How can we help them face their fears?All children learn, some sooner, some later, that unfortunately people or animals do not live forever. This can happen either through direct experience, such as with a loved one, perhaps sick or elderly, or a pet you are particularly fond of, or indirectly through a friend's story or by w...

Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a “brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic … exhilarating” crime novel (The New York Times Book Review).It's August 1946—one year after the Japanese surrender—and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police—irreverent, angry, despairing—goes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebeard—a decorated fo...

Abbiamo forse dimenticato che non esiste un solo modello di bellezza, ma che, al contrario, può assumere infinite forme diverse? Ci siamo sentiti tutti noi, almeno una volta, ‘’diversi’, provando quasi vergogna o timore.Kaya è una bambina molto coraggiosa, senza alcun dubbio diversa dai suoi coetanei: seppure così piccola, sa che la diversità è ricchezza. Grazie alla forza dell’amore e dell’amicizia, riuscirà a sradicare tutti i pregiudizi ingiusti...