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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds a family across the generations in “one of the most beautiful books of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his future and a...

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle’s epic 1909 World’s Fair. “An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating...

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the end of the world. In science fiction the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

An Edwardian Murder Mystery: It is 1905; King Edward VII is on the throne. In the year following her debutante season, Lady Charlotte is trying to come to terms with the demands of being the daughter of a marquess, and the inequalities faced by women in the early 20th century. She is also suffering from an undiagnosed eating disorder. The Walstone Fair is an annual event, for which enthusiasm is shared above and below stairs. On the morning after the fair, the body of a house maid is discovered. Is the killer to be found at Askton Hall? Inspector Bolton must bring the murderer to justice. ...

Set mainly in Manchester, England, in the year 1906, a city which was at that time known the world over as Cottonopolis, for its dominance in the international cotton trade, Lady Charlotte and Inspector Bolton team up to solve their second murder mystery. An explosion at a cotton mill, killing four men, begins this intriguing story which contrasts the lives of the rich and poor, those who serve and those who are served, in the Edwardian period. As Lord Leyburn and his daughter travel to Cottonopolis to make an award to a worthy alderman, all is not what it seems. As Lady Charlotte must once...

Two years on from solving the Murder in Cottonopolis, Inspector Bolton is now working for Special Branch, when he is sent back to Askton Hall on the tail of a Serbian dissident who may try to disrupt negotiations over a treaty between the British and Russian governments. Duke Menshikov presents Lord Leyburn with a fabulous gift from Tsar Nicholas to King Edward, an automaton made by the famous jeweller Carl Fabergé. The next morning, the automaton is missing and the body of a German aristocrat is found in the marquess's study. Bolton must find the gift and solve the murder before an ...

A narcissistic UK Prime Minister. A Russian Premier determined to undermine the West. A cynical MI6 spy on the trail of a traitor in the British Secret Service. How has Putin laid a 40 year plot to control the UK Government? If it works in Britain, where next? Will democracy in the West be undermined by Putin's Puppets, The Moscow Marionettes? When the Deputy Chief of MI6, Jack Randall, is tasked to find a Russian mole operating at the very top of the Service, he uncovers a conspiracy to infiltrate the very heart of the British Establishment. This Russian plot has been forty years in the ...

Cotswold Solicitor, Benedict Gregory, cannot recall how he got home from a New Year’s Eve party at The Manor House. The next morning, the body of an elderly neighbour, Keith Breslaw, is discovered floating in the village pond, known colloquially as The Piddle. The police wonder if Ben’s claimed loss of memory is a convenient excuse or if he is in any way responsible for the death. Ben finds himself embroiled in a complex investigation involving blackmail and corruption as he tries to uncover if Keith Breslaw’s death is accidental or murder. ,

Cotswold antiques dealer, Matt Haigh, has long experienced psychological problems and relationship issues due to the abuse he received from his mother in childhood. But this time, as he is drawn into a murder investigation as a suspect, it soon becomes apparent his fears are not driven by paranoia and are neither irrational or misplaced. A series of country house raids, targeting valuable artifacts and priceless artwork remain unsolved. The latest victim has not reported everything stolen to the authorities and commissions Matt to find his most treasured possession. What is he hiding and is...

This is the 4th book in the Lady Charlotte and Inspector Bolton series. Having become estranged from her parents to follow her heart, Lady Charlotte finds the blossoming relationship with Bolton more complicated than she had imagined. When her father is debilitated in a riding accident, she finds herself torn between her new life and ties to the old one. With some trepidation, she returns to Askton Hall where she discovers the family’s financial security is in jeopardy and her brother is the prime suspect in a vicious murder. With the Leyburn family fortune and good name at risk, it is ...

Seattle. Nella cantina dell'hotel Panama il tempo pare essersi fermato: sono passati quarant'anni, ma tutto è rimasto come allora. Nonostante sia coperto di polvere, l'ombrellino di bambù brilla ancora, rosso e bianco, con il disegno di un pesce arancione. A Henry Lee basta vederlo aperto per ritrovarsi di nuovo nei primi anni Quaranta. L'America è in guerra ed è attraversata da un razzismo strisciante. Henry, giovane cinese, è solo un ragazzino ma conosce già da tempo l'odio e la violenza.

Jamie Fords stærke debutroman er en uforglemmelig kærlighedshistorie og en stærk fortælling om et ukendt hjørne af Anden Verdenskrig. Solgt i mere end en million eksemplarer på verdensplan og har ligget over to år på New York Times’ bestsellerliste. Seattle, 1986: Henry Lee slutter sig til en menneskemængde uden for Hotel Panama, der engang var den japanske bydels vartegn. Hotellet har været lukket i årtier, men nu har den nye ejer gjort et fund i kælderen: en række ejendele, der blev opmagasineret af japanske familier, kort før de blev sendt til interneringslejre under Anden Verdenskrig efter angrebet på Pearl Harbor.

Inspireret af en sand historie har Jamie Ford skrevet en vidunderlig bittersød roman om at finde kærligheden i en verden, hvor alt - også mennesker - er til salg. Seattle 1909. For den halvkinesiske børnehjemsdreng Ernest virker tilbuddet om at besøge den store verdensudstilling som noget af en gave, men midt i al hurlumhejet med eksotiske udstillinger, fyrværkeri og pariserhjul opdager han, at det i virkeligheden er ham, der er gaven. Dagens store begivenhed er bortlodningen af 'en sund og rask dreng til et godt hjem' - ham!

Broken A body on an East Coast beach. A brother shot dead in his car. An old feud with a police colleague erupts into open warfare. Four siblings: a priest, a grieving mother, a policeman and a crook, all broken by traumatic events that rip through their lives. Will anyone be left unbroken? DI Luke Denny’s world is turned upside down when events from his past and present collide. Leading his team to bring down an Organised Crime Group (OCG), Denny is desperately trying to seek justice while swimming against a rising tide in the midst of a family crisis. Trauma and grief bombard him from ...