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New & Reviewed [The Hate U Give]( Hate U Give]( Angie Thomas Voted the overall winner of the [Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2018]( Angie Thomas’s brilliant, genre-defying debut thriller is simply electrifying reading. A highly-charged challenge to contemporary police violence and racism in the USA, it’s also a poignant examination of what it's like to live a life torn between two very different worlds. [The Hate U Give]( is a book about growing up, finding your voice and refusing to be silenced. out more]( [The Secret Barrister]( [Why We Sleep]( [Rebel Prince]( Secret Barrister]( We Sleep]( Prince]( The Secret Barrister Matthew Walker Tom Bower for the law what [Do No Harm]( did for medicine, this explosive exposé uncovers the cracks in British justice’s legal crown. the science of sleep; an essential wake-up call to the health costs of missing out on much-needed shut-eye. Vows]( author [Tom Bower]( delivers a provocative, no-holds-barred portrait of the man who would be king. [Find out more]( [FIND OUT MORE]( [FIND OUT MORE]( [Philip Kerr 1956-2018]( Kerr]( 1956-2018 Readers were left bereft this weekend at news of the sudden death of [Philip Kerr](. It’s a loss made all the more bittersweet with his latest Bernie Gunther tale, [Greeks Bearing Gifts]( set for publication next week. First appearing in [Kerr]( acclaimed [Berlin Noir]( trilogy, Gunther proved the perfect antihero: unforgettable, inimitable, wisecracking and morally ambiguous. [Kerr]( confronted the reality of making impossible decisions in a world gone mad, steering Gunther from the trauma of Nazi-era Berlin to the broken Europe of the Cold War. There are few truly born to tell stories: [Philip Kerr]( was one of those people. [Berlin Noir]( [Prussian Blue]( [Greeks Bearing Gifts]( Noir]( Blue]( Bearing Gifts]( A masterclass omnibus of modern noir, [Kerr]( daring debut trilogy plunges his readers into the heart of Third Reich Berlin. on the run in this knife-edged man-hunt, combining a Stasi plot and a cold-case murder at Hitler’s private mansion. penultimate Gunther tale moves from Munich to Athens for a sweeping plot of Nazi war-crimes and long-held grudges. [Find out more]( [FIND OUT MORE]( [FIND OUT MORE]( [Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018]( Signed & Special Editions [Lies Sleeping]( [Thin Air]( [Legendary]( Sleeping]( Air]( Ben Aaronovitch Richard Morgan Stephanie Garber Magic, mayhem and Fetch the Folly mingle as PC Grant returns for a seventh outing in the [Rivers of London]( series. wait is over. The author whose imagination conjured [Altered Carbon]( brings to life a thrilling tail of interplanetary espionage. desperate bargain, a web of secrets, a deadly competition. 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