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by Rick Yancey (Penguin) ISBN: 9780141345925 Despite the success of The Fifth Wave and The Infinite Sea, the conclusion to Yancey’s bestselling post-apocalyptic series is, at best, mediocre. Four global catastrophes wiped out the majority of the population, and the fifth – the creation of child-driven death squads brainwashed into hunting down survivors – threatens to

by Gavin Chait (Doubleday) ISBN: 9780857523761 This is a science-fiction novel set in a remote village of Nigeria called Ewuru. The villagers discover the body of a man when a strange object falls from the sky and crashes in the jungle. The villagers know that the warlord from a neighbouring militia will soon be over to

Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum (Mantle) ISBN: 9781447280804 It is rare that a first novel is so beautifully written, rich, profound and deep. Anna is an American who marries Bruno and they move back to his home town in Switzerland. They have two sons and then a daughter, none of whom were planned, and one of whom is not

by Agent Kasper translated by John Cullen and Luigi Carletti (A&U Canongate) ISBN: 9781782115731 Super notes are counterfeit $100 bills so authentically made that the only difference between them and the real deal is the US Mint. Agent Kasper is deployed to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to pose as the co-owner of a bar by Italy’s