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Fiction bestsellers
The current top 10 fiction bestsellers
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1. A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré
Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed
Wildlife, is being mounted. Its purpose: capture a jihadist
arms-buyer. Cornwall, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces soldier
delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the
success it was cracked up to be, or a tragedy that was covered
up?
2. Six Years by Harlan Coben
Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie,
the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a
broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college
professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone,
and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband,
Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his
feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep
himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's
wife he's hoping for - but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning
widow is, she's been married to Todd for more than a decade, and
with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time
of his life - a time he has never gotten over - is turned
completely inside out.
3. Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella
Lottie is tired of long-term boyfriends who don't
want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears
and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both
still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. There will be no
dates and no engagement - just a straight wedding march to the
altar! Next comes the honeymoon on the Greek island where they
first met. But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Ben's
rushed marriage, and family and friends are determined to
intervene. Will Lottie and Ben have a wedding night to remember -
or one to forget?
4. Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson
Three killers are on the rampage in the capital and dead
bodies are piling up almost as fast as the police can count them.
Alex Cross is in charge of all three investigations and has never
been under more pressure. But with a crisis at home that threatens
to tear his family apart, Alex's attention is divided. While Cross
tracks the killers, he doesn't notice that someone is tracking him.
Can Alex unravel the cases and find the killers in time? Or will he
be the next dead body on the list?
5. The Hit by David Baldacci
When government hit man Will Robie is given his next target
he knows he's about to embark on his toughest mission yet. He is
tasked with killing one of their own, following evidence to suggest
that fellow assassin Jessica Reel has been turned. She's leaving a
trail of death in her wake, including her handler. The trap is set.
To send a killer to catch a killer. But what happens when you can't
trust those who have access to the nation's most secret
intelligence?
6. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
What if you had the chance to live your
life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a
snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she
can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910,
the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there
were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number
of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save
the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want
to? 'Life After Life' follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the
turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and
compassion, she finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and
shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past.
7. Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer
1945. The vote in the House of Lords as
to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a
tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on
the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to
America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in
search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father's
office on the night he was killed. When the General Election is
called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of
Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select
to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma's
son, who ultimately influences his uncle's fate. In 1957, Sebastian
wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the
Clifton family march onto the page.
8. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Sage Singer has a past that makes her
want to hide from the world. Sleeping by day and working in a
bakery by night, she kneads her emotion into the beautiful bread
she bakes. But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with
Josef Weber, a quiet man old enough to be her grandfather, and
respected pillar of the community, she feels that finally, she may
have found someone she can open up to - until Josef tells her the
evil secret he's kept for 60 years. Caught between Josef's search
for redemption and her shattered illusions, Sage turns to her
family history and her own life for answers. As she uncovers the
truth from the darkest horrors of war, she must follow a twisting
trail between betrayal and forgiveness, love and revenge. And ask
herself the most difficult question she has ever faced - can murder
ever be justice? Or mercy?
9. Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
Laura is in the throes of a midlife crisis. Her 20 year
marriage has gone stale; her husband has become a stranger to her
since losing his job 18 months ago. So when she is invited to a
conference in Boston, she jumps at the opportunity. In the hotel
lobby, she gets talking to Richard Coleman, an insurance salesman
in his 50s. Initially, Laura writes him off as grey and
uninspiring. But when a chance meeting brings them together again
that evening, Laura begins to discover a smarter, more animated
person beneath the salesman's façade.
10. The Tower by Simon Toyne
The forbidden Citadel at the heart of the ancient
Turkish city of Ruin opens its gates for the first time in history.
Why now, after centuries of secrecy? A deadly disease has erupted
within, and threatens to spread beyond its walls. Infected charity
worker Gabriel Mann may hold the cure - but can one dying man stop
an epidemic? Without him Liv Adamsen, a former journalist, is
vulnerable, surrounded by strangers in the desert oasis that is her
new home. Liv, however, has far bigger concerns thatn just her own
life.
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