{"title":"Christopher Wakling","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"what-i-did-book-christopher-wakling-9780719569098","title":"What I Did","description":"A boy runs across a busy road.  His father catches him and smacks him.  A passer-by looks on.   This is what happens next.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49521243750673,"sku":"GOR004358976","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697184772369,"sku":"NGR9780719569098","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52476738634001,"sku":"NLS9780719569098","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53100818104593,"sku":"GOR014740182","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0719569095.jpg?v=1763122925"},{"product_id":"what-i-did-book-christopher-wakling-9781848546165","title":"What I Did","description":"A boy runs across a busy road. His father smacks him. A passer-by intervenes ...   When Billy Wright runs across a busy road, his world is altered irreversibly, even though he doesn't realise it at the time. Because a passer-by has stopped to watch the scene.  She has seen Billy's father catch up with him and smack him. Within an hour she has informed social services, plunging the family into a living nightmare which begins with a social worker's visit and escalates through a series of misunderstandings until the family is threatened to its core. What I Did is a powerful novel about the unseen consequences of a split second decision, about a childhood interrupted and the lengths we go to to protect the ones we love. It is frequently heartbreaking, blackly funny, and utterly compelling.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49562756776209,"sku":"GOR003076833","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52498396938513,"sku":"GOR005289146","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848546165.jpg?v=1750768563"},{"product_id":"devil-s-mask-book-christopher-wakling-9780571239245","title":"The Devil's Mask","description":"Meet Inigo Bright. He's a bored young lawyer working in Bristol after  the abolition of the slave trade. A frustrated artist, at odds with his  wealthy merchant family, and engaged to a girl he no longer loves,  Inigo's dissatisfaction is complete when his boss and mentor, Adam  Carthy, charges him with the numbing task of reconciling years of port  fees and import duties for the newly formed Dock Company. But detail is  the devil's mask.   Inigo's routine investigation leads him to The  Belsize, a ship newly returned from the Indies, laden with rum, sugar,  tobacco, and a chilling secret. Those in the city whose interests the  secret protects move swiftly and savagely to keep the truth hidden at  all costs.   Before long Inigo, his boss and family, are implicated and  under threat. A cover-up seems the only way out. But Inigo has linked  the case to a charred corpse found on a building site in the rising district of Clifton and soon  there are other bodies to account for, too.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49565860725009,"sku":"GOR003626160","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50447228993809,"sku":"CIN0571239242A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51322925842705,"sku":"CIN0571239242G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571239242.jpg?v=1751426173"},{"product_id":"on-cape-three-points-book-christopher-wakling-9780330493406","title":"On Cape Three Points","description":"'Thirteen days ago I made a mistake. A momentary slip, but enough to launch me into freefall, a life unravelling in my wake'Lewis Penn's single mistake was to change his life forever.A junior lawyer at the successful law firm, Madison \u0026amp; Vere, he quietly strikes deals, sits in the shadows in meetings and clicks through emails. Whenever he can, he visits his terminally ill brother. His life is altogether routine and fairly uneventful. Then one day he is trusted with a file that contains highly confidential paperwork . . . and subsequently loses it.Lewis' desperate attempts to retrace his steps are in vain, his client is trying to reach him on the phone, his job is on the line - he needs to find that file fast. But every move Lewis makes seems to be the wrong one, and when his home is ransacked, he becomes convinced he is being pursued. Driven to extreme, reckless, even paranoid, behaviour, Lewis is reassured by a mysterious email: an offer of help. But by now his whole world seems to be spiralling dangerously out of control . . .'Subtle and intense . . . sucks you in like a dream and holds you like a nightmare. One of this year's key debuts' Lee Child","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49603455189265,"sku":"GOR002934179","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/033049340X.jpg?v=1751038716"},{"product_id":"beneath-the-diamond-sky-book-christopher-wakling-9780330427029","title":"Beneath the Diamond Sky","description":"Kashmir, the Himalayan foothills. Seven westerners on a misguided trekking expedition are taken hostage by separatist militants. Kate Cox and Ethan Hughes, a troubled young English couple, are among their number. At the mercy of hardened ideologues they cannot understand, the captives are pushed into a claustrophobic hell of shifting allegiances, where love and survival seem destined to collide.   As the hostages struggle to hold themselves together, so those at home begin to fall apart. Rachel is tormented by the memory of her cold and dishonest relationship with her sister, Kate; Ethan's father, unwilling to confront cruel family truths, is ready to blame everybody but himself. Redemption depends upon the hostages' safe return, but as the prospect of their release fades so do their hopes of escape – and they already know the penalty for dissent . . .   In the vein of Alex Garland's THE BEACH, BENEATH THE DIAMOND SKY is an absorbing psychological examination of how character fragments under pressure. It is a beautifully written, blackly funny and terrifying read","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613883506961,"sku":"GOR004119574","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330427024.jpg?v=1751260106"},{"product_id":"undertow-book-christopher-wakling-9780330443210","title":"The Undertow","description":"Wilson Taylor is a successful man: the owner of a thriving high-risk business, he has also raised his beloved daughter Anna almost single-handedly since infancy. But nothing can prepare him for the call he receives from Doctor Jo Hoffman, explaining how Anna, now nineteen and travelling abroad, has been gravely injured while swimming in Australia’s Byron Bay.   Wilson rushes to the other side of the world, ready to assess the situation and fix it. And though the police are convinced it was an accident, Wilson’s own investigation convinces him someone is to blame. Who was Anna's travelling companion and why did he abandon her? Who is the sinister blackmailer threatening Wilson . . . and how did they get those photos?   Interspersed with Anna's own account of her travels, Wilson’s quest takes him far from his daughter's bedside and deep into the Australian bush. But how much does he really know – or want to know – about his own child?   In this tautly written, vividly compelling novel, Christopher Wakling explores the subjective nature of relationships, truth and perception, and the illusion that we are in control of our lives.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49615888220433,"sku":"GOR003255962","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49622503522577,"sku":"GOR004456167","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330443216.jpg?v=1750941235"},{"product_id":"on-cape-three-points-book-christopher-wakling-9780330493390","title":"On Cape Three Points","description":"'Thirteen days ago I made a mistake. A momentary slip, but enough to launch me into freefall, a life unravelling in my wake'   Lewis Penn is a young business lawyer, his currency is mind-numbing detail, his skill is in keeping to the middle of the road. He’s never put a foot wrong. Until now.   Entrusted with a file of confidential papers, Lewis loses them; an oversight that threatens his career, his sanity and, ultimately, his identity.   Every step Lewis takes to cover up his mistake propels him further off course, into an incomprehensible world of Ukranian mafia and industrial spies. Increasingly paranoid, Lewis can only confide in his dying brother, Dan. But as the façade of Lewis’s life cracks, it seems that Dan’s is also riven by deception. Lewis’s faltering trajectory takes him from London to Washington DC and Cape Three Points, where a pivotal moral decision catapults him into freefall.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625621201169,"sku":"GOR008763122","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52108954501393,"sku":"GOR008567684","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330493396.jpg?v=1750695874"},{"product_id":"what-i-did-book-christopher-wakling-9780753190203","title":"What I Did","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49636458496273,"sku":"GOR007077251","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51510112616721,"sku":"GOR014308774","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0753190206.jpg?v=1750945407"},{"product_id":"escape-and-evasion-book-christopher-wakling-9780571239252","title":"Escape and Evasion","description":"'Escape and Evasion reads like a Network for the Bitcoin era.' Tony Parsons  City banker Joseph Ashcroft has stolen £1.34 billion from his own bank.   He has given it - untraceably - to impoverished strangers worldwide, and has fled.  Why has he done this? And will he get away with it?  Joseph knows that if he leaves the country, he will easily be tracked down. So he opts for hiding close by - first in the city, then in the woods near the home of his estranged family. An ex-soldier, he's adept at the art of camouflage.  On Joseph's trail is Ben Lancaster, the bank's head of security and, as it happens, a former army friend with whom he shares a violent, guilt-ridden past.  The hunt is on.  Escape and Evasion is a tragicomic tale of buried secrets, the lengths a man will go to win back those he loves, and the fallout from a monumental change of heart.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49647095283985,"sku":"GOR009091984","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50826265002257,"sku":"GOR009320317","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51828660437265,"sku":"GOR014415584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53042923340049,"sku":"GOR009986246","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571239250.jpg?v=1759232398"},{"product_id":"beneath-the-diamond-sky-book-christopher-wakling-9781594481048","title":"Beneath the Diamond Sky","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49910150758673,"sku":"CIN1594481040G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1594481040.jpg?v=1751150860"},{"product_id":"devil-s-mask-book-christopher-wakling-9780753189320","title":"The Devil's Mask","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50111011193105,"sku":"GOR011866257","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50120918532369,"sku":"GOR013243743","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0753189321.jpg?v=1750978992"},{"product_id":"what-i-did-book-christopher-wakling-9780062121691","title":"What I Did","description":"\"This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging....I LOVED IT.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e --Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel--the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster.  Room meets The Slap meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Wakling's tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. What I Did is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original--poignant, powerful, and extremely funny--a miraculous work that prompted London's Daily Mail to declare it \"the novel that should have won the Booker prize.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50159701491985,"sku":"CIN0062121693VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50694663405841,"sku":"GOR014038685","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50959868789009,"sku":"CIN0062121693A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50998996107537,"sku":"NIN9780062121691","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51248263954705,"sku":"GOR011094874","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062121693.jpg?v=1751164041"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-christopher-wakling.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}