The Illumination of Merton Browne

Fear is just the beginning...

On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever.

Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inaccessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons.

When Alex Cross is called to investigate a murder scene, he is shocked to find that the victim is an old friend. Cross begins the hunt for the perpetrators of this cruel crime. He is drawn into a dangerous underworld of Washington DC that leads him on a journey to the Niger Delta where heroin dealing, slave trade and oil and gas theft are rife.

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Marianne is married to a naval officer, Neil Sheridan. They have a daughter, Libby, and a home in Liverpool. When war comes, Marianne takes war work and moves into Crocus Street with her mother, Mrs Wainwright, and sister. Neil disapproves because the Wainwrights live so near the docks, which are bound to be a bombing target, but Marianne is firm.

Tells the story of a seventeen-year-old dropout who has been kicked out of his fourth school. This novel dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

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.