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Jul 18, 2025 12:50 AM

Author:Kathy Reichs,Cristin Milioti

Seizure

The breathtaking follow-up to Virals, Kathy Reichs' brand new forensic series

HEART-STOPPING FORENSIC ACTION WITH A LETHAL TWIST

The Virals' home on Loggerhead Island is under threat, and only one thing can save it: a lot of money.

A 300-year-old legend

Rumour has it that notorious pirate Anne Bonny hid her treasure somewhere in Charleston in 1720. No-one knows where, but Tory Brennan - great-niece of famous forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan - is certain that the Virals can work out Bonny's cryptic clues.

A deadly path

It isn't long before the Virals are on the right track. But they aren't the only ones searching for the treasure.Someone is following them, and will stop at nothing to get their hands on it.

Dead bodies litter the trail. Time is running out before the island will be sold.

Will the Virals' special powers be enough to save them?

Reviews

If you like Bones, you'll love Virals.

—— James Patterson

Kathy Reichs gets it dead right with sharp writing and a plot that throws a bunch of very real teens into a deadly adult world ... I loved it and I'm sure fans of Alex Rider will love it too

—— Anthony Horowitz

Mystery ... fantasy ... science ... and heart-stopping action - this book is DANGEROUS. After I read Tory Brennan's first adventure, I wanted more, more, MORE

—— R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps

The novel is written with a keen eye for detail, for character, place, and mood… The stories, characters and situations of this novel are fascinating in themselves and it would, I think, be possible to enjoy the book without knowledge of, or reference to, the politics and society of Israel. Yet many in the West will value it chiefly for what it reveals about life in Israel; they may discover that the situation there is more complicated, and certainly far less clear-cut than they had supposed

—— Allan Massie , Scotsman

Intriguing

—— Moris Farhi , Jewish Chronicle

Eshkol Nevo, grandson of Levi Eshkol, was hailed as a promising new writer with the publication of his short-story collection, B&B in Givatayim. Three years on, the critics are patting themselves on the back and saying, "I told you so." Thirty-three year-old Nevo's first full-length novel is a deeply human book, suffused with desire and melacholy.

—— Jerusalem Post

The alternating perspectives in this novel provide a key to understanding the discrepancies in Israel, between European and Oriental culture, religious and secular perspectives, Jews and Arabs. At the same time, Nevo tells us with great sensitivity about feelings and relationships between man and woman, parents and children, between entire peoples.

—— Die Welt

Playful and painful account, delicately translated...puts the personal before the political every time.

—— Emma Hagestadt , Independent,

This is a tale of modern China with all its wonders, marvels and absurdities and ironies roped together, making it a must-read. It’s little wonder that the author has won both China's equivalences of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

—— Da Chen, author of My Last Empress

Lenin's Kisses wickedly satirizes a sycophantic society where money and power are indiscriminately worshiped ... As the traveling circus gains fans across the country, it becomes clear that the officials behind the scenes, not the performers, are the true freaks

—— Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore , Wall Street Journal

Sprawling, sometimes goofy, always seditious novel of modern life in the remotest corner of China . . . Set Rabelais down in the mountains of, say, Xinjiang, mix in some Günter Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Gabriel García Márquez, and you’re in the approximate territory of Lianke’s latest exercise in épatering the powers that be . . . A satirical masterpiece

—— Kirkus Reviews

The novel's depth lies in its ability to express an unbearable sorrow, even while constantly making the reader laugh out loud ... a truly miraculous novel

—— Ming Pao Weekly (Hong Kong)

Yan Lianke weaves a passionate satire of today's China, a marvellous circus where the one eyed-man is king . . . Brutal. And wickedly funny

—— L'Express

Lenin's Kisses shines with both the lyrical flourishes of magical realism and the keenly sharpened knives of great satire. The reader joins the inhabitants of the village of Liven as they confront the great upheavals of 20th Century Chinese history armed with both whimsy and their obsessive determination to prevail. This tale is at once breathtaking and seriously funny. Anyone who wishes to understand the psychic world-view of the modern People's Republic of China must read this fine novel.

—— Vincent Lam, author of The Headmaster's Wager

With its distinctive language, structure and narrative approach, Lenin's Kisses presents a distictive version of 'rural china' and 'revolutionary China', even while establishing a new literary 'native China'

—— Contemporary Literature Commentary

Yan Lianke sees and describes his characters with great tenderness . . . this talented and sensitive writer exposes the absurdity of our time

—— La Croix

An unconventional blur of fact and fiction, How Should a Person Be? is an engaging cocktail of memoir, novel and self-help guide

—— Grazia

A candid collection of taped interviews and emails, random notes and daring exposition…fascinating

—— Sinead Gleeson , Irish Times

Provocative, funny and original

—— Hannah Rosefield , Literary Review

A serious work about authenticity, how to lead a moral life and accept one’s own ugliness

—— Richard Godwin , Evening Standard

An exuberantly productive mess, filtered and reorganised after the fact...rather than working within a familiar structure, Heti has gone out to look for things that interest her and "put a fence around" whatever she finds

—— Lidija Haas , Times Literary Supplement

A sharp, witty exploration of relationships, art and celebrity culture

—— Natasha Lehrer , Jewish Chronicle

[Sheila Heti] has an appealing restlessness, a curiosity about new forms, and an attractive freedom from pretentiousness or cant…How Should a Person Be? offers a vital and funny picture of the excitements and longueurs of trying to be a young creator in a free, late-capitalist Western City…This talented writer may well have identified a central dialectic of twenty-first-century postmodern being

—— James Wood, New Yorker

Funny…odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable…Sheila Heti does know something about how many of us, right now, experience the world, and she has gotten that knowledge down on paper, in a form unlike any other novel I can think of

—— New York Times

Playful, funny... absolutely true

—— The Paris Review

Sheila's clever, openhearted commentary will draw wry smiles from readers empathetic to modern life's trials and tribulations

—— Eve Commander , Big Issue in the North

Amusing and original

—— Mail on Sunday
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