The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal

 

 

A New York Times Bestseller
An Economist Book of the Year
Costa Book Award Winner for Biography
Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)

Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots―which are then sold, collected, and handed on―he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive.

And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire.

Hidden Justice: A mystery and suspense stand alone crime thriller (No Justice Series) by JK Ellem

 

 

FROM BESTSELLING THRILLER AUTHOR, JK ELLEM - A mystery and suspense adult stand-alone crime thriller“Totally engrossed in this read, fantastic, brilliant what more can I say. This book was so intense I couldn't put it down, full of twists and turns and secrets, a must read for this who enjoy these sorts of books."It’s not what you hide, it’s who you hide from…For two years, Annie Haywood has lived in the small picturesque town of Erin’s Bay on Long Island, thinking she was safe. Until now…Abigail Brenner is also hiding her own secrets, the whereabouts of her missing father, Edward Brenner, is not one of them. He disappeared three years ago, took his sailing boat out one day on the calm blue waters of Erin’s Bay, and was never seen again. Without the influence of her father, some say Abigail Brenner has turned in to a wild, uncontrollable little rich girl who’s just biding her time until she can access her trust fund and the family fortune. Others in the town just want her dead.But someone is lurking amongst the wind-swept dunes at night, watching and waiting. And there are strange lights in the night sky above the lighthouse on Moors Island, a desolate, uninhabited rock that holds dark secrets of its own. Then there is Ben Shaw, a stranger in town. He started out from the boardwalk on Coney Island, and kept heading east until Abigail Brenner offered him a ride. Hidden under the surface of this seemingly idyllic community of wealth and privilege lies an undercurrent of jealousy, greed, and burning revenge.There is no justice in this town. But justice is coming…Hidden Justice is the latest adult thriller from best-selling author JK Ellem.