New Releases by Paula Hawkins

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. Welcome to Eris: An island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . . A masterful novel that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith, and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers.

Paula Hawkins, un fenomen mundial amb més de 27 milions de lectors. Un thriller apassionant de l''autora de La noia del tren. A QUI CREURÀS? Des que eren petits, l''Edie, en Jake i en Ryan han estat inseparables. Ells tres contra el món. L''Edie pensava que la seva amistat podria amb tot, així que quan el seu marit, en Jake, és brutalment assassinat i el seu millor amic, en Ryan, és acusat del crim, el món se li enfonsa. L''Edie està sola per primer cop en molts anys a la casa del penya-segat que compartia amb en Jake. Està de dol i té por, i té raó de tenir-ne perquè algú l''està vigilant, algú que ha estat esperant aquest moment. Ara que l''Edie és vulnerable, el passat del qual ha intentat fugir desesperadament està a punt de trucar-li a la porta. Paula Hawkins, l''autora de La noia del tren, ens ofereix una novel·la apassionant en què descobrirem que fins i tot l''acte més benintencionat pot tenir conseqüències tràgiques. Una història plena de girs i tensió magníficament escrita per la reina indiscutible del suspens. Paula Hawkins, un fenomen mundial amb més de 27 milions de lectors. Un thriller apassionant de l''autora de La noia del tren.

''How can you say things like this? How can you be so blind?'' Since they were kids, Edie, Jake and Ryan have been the closest of friends. It''s been the three of them against the world. Edie thought the bonds between them were unbreakable. So when Jake is brutally murdered and Ryan accused of the crime, her world is shattered. Edie is alone for the first time in years, living in the remote house that she and Jake shared. She is grief-stricken and afraid - with good reason. Because someone is watching. Someone has been waiting for this moment. Now that Edie is alone, the past she tried so hard to leave behind is about to catch up with her... Praise for Paula Hawkins: ''Twists and turns galore . . . Paula Hawkins is a genius.'' Lisa Jewell ''Gripping and intriguing.'' S J Watson ''Utterly compelling.'' Daily Mail

The Girl on the Train, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The scorching new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. “A Slow Fire Burning twists and turns like a great thriller should, but it''s also deep, intelligent and intensely human.” – Lee Child “Only a clairvoyant could anticipate the book’s ending” – New York Times With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge. When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them. When it comes to revenge, even good people might be capable of terrible deeds. How far might any one of them go to find peace? How long can secrets smolder before they explode into flame? Look what you started.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning. “Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors . . who have reinvigorated the literary suspense novel by tapping a rich vein of psychological menace and social unease… there’s a certain solace to a dark escape, in the promise of submerged truths coming to light.” —Vogue A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother''s sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she''d never return. With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present. Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.

Jane Austen wrote words that commence many successes of women authors today. Although her success came after her untimely death, her words live in me and every female author that devised words of inspiration, love and imagination. I have comprised many essential writings for you to enjoy, with Jane Austen spirit guiding me; the words of this book will transform you in ways unimaginable. I admit; this book derived from personal feelings I felt for many years, and the conditions of the world induce me to be a voice of those that powerful and political connected suppress daily.

The #1 New York Times bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year and now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple having breakfast on their deck. She''s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It''s only a minute until the train moves on, but it''s enough. Now everything''s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

Armed with a bit of knowledge, women tend to be very good with money . . . but mention the word ''pensions'' to most and brows quickly start to furrow with confusion. The Money Goddess is a fun but also a practical, informative personal finance guide tailored specifically to the needs of women. The book features a fictional group of girlfriends who experience all the ups and downs of financial life, interwoven with expert advice on subjects ranging from debt to investing, buying a house, pensions and much more. Whether you�re just hopeless with money, or not so bad but haven''t changed your building society since they gave you a Paddington Bear for opening an account, this is the perfect companion for any woman of any age. It�s never too early or too late to make sure you�re in the know when it comes to money.

Includes directory of national and local child protection agencies.