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THE SURVIVORS by Jane Harper

THE SURVIVORS by Jane Harper

THE SURVIVORS

by Jane Harper

(Abacus £8.99, 384 pp)

For Kieran Elliott and his girlfriend, Mia, a trip from their Sydney home 支援する to the Tasmanian fishing village of Evelyn Bay, where they grew up, is filled with troubled memories.

When Kieran was 18, his 年上の brother, Finn, and a friend were on their way to 救助(する) Kieran, who had been marooned by the rising tide, when their boat 転覆するd and both men died. Mia’s best friend, Gabby, then 14, 消えるd the same night.

Now Kieran’s parents are leaving Evelyn Bay, but as Kieran, Mia and their baby daughter make their last visit to the family home, another 悲劇 occurs: the 団体/死体 of a young woman is 設立する on the beach.

This atmospheric thriller stealthily peels 支援する 層s of silence that cover the unspeakable secrets of a tightly knit community.

A DEL OF A LIFE by David Jason

A DEL OF A LIFE by David Jason

A DEL OF A LIFE

by David Jason

(Penguin £8.99, 336 pp)

David Jason has had a long and eventful career ― and at 81, it is not over yet. In his gloriously chatty memoir, he muses on the life lessons he’s learnt as he enters his ninth 10年間.

‘In an 試みる/企てる to find the middle ground somewhere between Socrates and Derek Trotter’, he 反映するs on his juvenile debut at the East Finchley 演劇 Festival of 1954, his 役割 as Del Boy in the iconic Only Fools And Horses (where he and Nicholas Lyndhurst were often laughing so much they could hardly get to the end of a scene), and the ingenious ways he kept busy during lockdown.

As the anecdotes keep coming, each more uproarious than the last, it is no surprise to learn that when he was knighted in 2005, he chose as his motto, ‘conata perficere’, which 概略で translates as ‘get it done!’

THE HAUNTING OF ALMA FIELDING by Kate Summerscale

THE HAUNTING OF ALMA FIELDING by Kate Summerscale

THE HAUNTING OF ALMA FIELDING

by Kate Summerscale

(Bloomsbury £9.99, 368 pp)

In the years between the two World Wars, the 増加するing 人気 of mediums and psychic phenomena attracted the attention of 科学の 研究員s, and one of these, a Hungarian 難民 called Nandor Fodor, 設立する his ideal 支配する in Alma Fielding, a 郊外の housewife from Croydon.

In 1938, all sorts of 驚くべき/特命の/臨時の manifestations were occurring in Alma’s house in Thornton ヒース/荒れ地: 飛行機で行くing crockery, animated eiderdowns, mysterious whisperings, nocturnal visitations ― all 明らかに the work of a poltergeist with malevolent 意図.

Kate Summerscale’s meticulously 研究d account of Fodor’s 調査s and their troublesome consequences reads as vividly as a ghost story.?

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