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DIG I TA L AU DIOBOOK S N EW R E L E A SE S July – September 2015
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Welcome to our first new look digital brochure for OneClickdigital. This collection includes bestselling fiction and non-fiction; there’s something to ensure all listeners are entertained through the long summer days. In Lamplight you will discover moving family dramas from Barbara Taylor Bradford, Josephine Cox and Colleen McCullough. Amanda Prowse’s A Mother’s Story is a
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Lamplight
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Avid
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Doctor Who
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Nudged
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powerful and emotional tale that will have listeners hooked from the very beginning. In our Multicap Plans we have Lynda Bellingham’s inspiring memoirs, There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You. Travelling to Infinity, the inspiration behind multi award-winning film The Theory of Everything is Jane Hawking’s compelling account of her extraordinary first marriage. You’ll also find the latest titles from Jeffery Deaver, Adele Parks, Rosie Goodwin, John Sandford and Christopher Brookmyre. There’s plenty for fans of crime fiction to enjoy in our One User Plans with new titles from Peter May, Jack Higgins, Paul Finch and Luke Delaney. And for listeners who prefer more warmth and wit, there’s Fern Britton’s charming new novel, A Good Catch. In Nudged we have Costa Children’s Book Award Winner Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders and the final heart-stopping instalment of Piers Torday’s award-winning Dark Wild Trilogy, The Wild Beyond. Enjoy the brochure and please get in touch with your feedback.
With best wishes, The Editor
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The Boy I Love
The Skin Collector
Lynda Bellingham
Jeffery Deaver
A superb evocation of theatre life from a naturally gifted storyteller, the beloved Lynda Bellingham.
The latest exhilarating novel in the Lincoln Rhyme series.
In the summer of ‘82, Sally Thomas begins her first season as an Assistant Stage Manager at the beautiful theatre in Crewe. Flung into this new world, one of the first lessons she learns is that the actors need no tuition in the art of stage-fighting, since they are quite adept at stabbing each other in the back. And when her best friend Jeremy falls suddenly and dangerous in love, Sally has to grow up – fast. The Boy I Love is a beautiful novel from actress Lynda Bellingham. Her acting career spans 40 years, with appearances on Strictly Come Dancing, Loose Women and Calendar Girls.
A tattoo artist is using poison instead of ink. And on a young woman’s skin he’s left a message: ‘the second.’ Drafted in to investigate, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs find a single piece of evidence – a scrap of paper that connects this case with one they will never forget. And like the ‘Bone Collector’ before him, Rhyme and Sachs find themselves pitted against a perpetrator who plans his work to the last detail. “ Brilliant… it’s easy to get swept up in the sheer velocity of the action.” SCOTSMAN
“ The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable, and there is an excellent climax… If you want thrills, Deaver is your man.” GUARDIAN
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The Year of Taking Chances
Travelling to Infinity
A Week in Paris
An Irish Promise
Lucy Diamond
Jane Hawking
Rachel Hore
Isabella Connor
Because love is always worth the risk…
The inspiration behind the major biopic film The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne.
The streets of Paris hide a dark past…
A promise is a promise…
September, 1937: Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist. But then war breaks out and the city of light falls into shadow. Nearly twenty-five years later, Fay Knox, a talented young violinist, visits Paris on tour with her orchestra. She barely knows the city, so why does it feel so familiar? Soon touches of memory become something stronger, and she realises her connection with these streets runs deeper than she ever expected.
Rachel Ford has returned to Kilbrook to take revenge on the bullies who ruined her childhood and destroyed her family. Australian actor, Finn MacKenzie sets hearts fluttering when he arrives in Kilbrook to help his aunt. Finn isn’t looking for love, but there’s a definite spark between them. Rachel is torn between her desire for revenge and this new love affair. Will he understand why she must keep her promise, no matter the cost?
It’s New Year’s Eve and at a house party, three women bond over dodgy cocktails and fortune cookies, vowing to make this year their best one yet. But as the months unfold, Gemma, Saffron and Caitlin find themselves tested to their limits. Under pressure, they are each forced to rethink their lives. But dare they take a chance on something new? “ Delicious, delightful, and warm, Lucy Diamond never fails to make you laugh out loud and cheer for her colourful cast of characters.”
In this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking relates the inside story of her extraordinary marriage. As Stephen’s academic renown soared, his body was collapsing under the assaults of motor neurone disease and Jane’s candid account of trying to balance his 24-hour care with the needs of their growing family is inspirational. This is a book about optimism, love and change that will resonate with readers everywhere. “ A great read.”
ROWAN COLEMAN
“ A tour de force. Rachel’s Paris is rich, romantic, exotic and mysterious.”
DAILY MAIL
“ Charming, funny and as satisfying as a giant tiramisu. Loved it.”
IRISH INDEPENDENT ON BENEATH AN IRISH SKY
JUDY FINNIGAN
“ Jane writes about her former husband with tenderness, respect and protectiveness.”
MILLY JOHNSON
“ [A] compelling, fast-paced read with a plot that builds inexorably.”
“ The Paris of both ages is beautifully drawn and the women’s stories are skilfully interwoven, resulting in a richly emotional story, suspenseful and romantic.”
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DEIRDRE O’BRIEN, SUNDAY MIRROR
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Antonia Beamish Modern Fiction 12.25 hours 9781471298226
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Sandra Duncan
Biography & Autobiography 19.25 hours 9781471298202
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Modern Fiction 14.75 hours 9781471298097
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The Girl Who Just Appeared
The Ship
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Peace and Conflict
Jonathan Harvey
Antonia Honeywell
Emma Hooper
Irene Sabatini
To have a future, she needed to know her past…
Welcome to London, but not as you know it.
This is the story of a hero.
London, 2014: Adopted when just a few months old, Holly Smith has never fitted in. But then she finds a biscuit tin full of yellowing papers under the floorboards of the flat she was born in. Could these papers be the key to her past?
Oxford Street burned for three weeks, the Regent’s Park camps have been bombed. Lalla, 16, has grown up sheltered from the new reality by her visionary father, Michael Paul. He has promised Lalla and her mother that they will escape. Escape on a ship big enough to save 500 people. Once on board, as day follows identical day, Lalla’s unease grows. Where are they going?
“I’ve gone. I’ve never seen the water, so I’ve gone there. I will try to remember to come back.”
Liverpool, 1981: Fifteen-year-old Darren is negotiating life with his errant mother and the younger brother. When the Toxteth Riots begin, Darren finds himself with a moral dilemma. “ The Girl Who Just Appeared is a wonderful book – gripping and twisty and tender and touching.” MARIAN KEYES
“ The Ship is tense, engaging and emotionally charged: I devoured this novel.”
“ [I]ncredibly moving, beautifully written and luminous with wisdom. It is a book that restores one’s faith in life even as it deepens its mystery. Wonderful!”
HELEN DUNMORE
“ A beautiful futuristic fable with huge power to haunt and disturb.” M. R. CAREY, AUTHOR OF THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS
“ Absolutely delightful. Jonathan Harvey writes with all his heart and all his soul”
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“ Entertaining, ambitious and packed with news from elsewhere, leavened by the precious optimism of youth. Don’t miss it.”
CHRIS CLEAVE, AUTHOR OF THE OTHER HAND
Melody Grove
Modern Fiction 11.75 hours 9781471298233
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Irene Sabatini is the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, for her first novel The Boy Next Door.
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Ten-year-old Robert knows many things. He knows all about his hometown, Geneva. He knows about the Red Cross and all the places his dad has been. But still he has questions. Is his neighbour, Monsieur Renoir, really evil? Why did he leave a medal on Robert’s doorstep? In school, Robert learned all about wars and heroes. But soon he discovers what it really means to be a hero.
“ Irene Sabatini is a born writer.”
“ An irresistibly enchanting debut novel.”
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Etta’s greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning and begins walking the 2,000 miles to water. Meanwhile her husband Otto waits patiently at home, left only with his memories. Their neighbour Russell remembers too – and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto.
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Robert Slade
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Jonathan Broadbent Modern Fiction 8.75 hours 9781471298271
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Lobsters
Magic Sometimes Happens
Endsinger
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison
Margaret James
Jay Kristoff
Kei Miller
Sam and Hannah only have the holidays to find ‘The One’… Which is their lobster…
All it takes is one life changing decision…
The final novel in the Lotus War trilogy, following Stormdancer and Kinslayer.
A prize-winning new collection from acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller.
The flames of civil war sweep across the Shima Imperium. Blood turns against blood as the Dragon and Fox clans compete for the empty throne. The traitor Kin walks the halls of Guild power, his destiny only a bloody knife-stroke away. And as the earth splits asunder, as armies destroy each other for rule over an empire of lifeless ash and the final secret about blood lotus is revealed, the people of Shima will learn one last, horrifying truth.
We watch as the cartographer, used to assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognise a wholly different understanding of a place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman’s eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that on this island of roads that ‘constrict like throats,’ every place-name comes freighted with history and not every place that can be named can be found.
Instead of their summer holidays being epic, Sam and Hannah’s summer holidays is turning out to be very awkward… They must navigate social misunderstandings, the plotting of well-meaning friends and their own fears of being virgins to find happiness. But fate is at work to bring them together, and in the end, it all boils down to love. “ Lobsters is rude but extremely engaging and it brings out the insecurities of being a teenager and the worries about being uncool.”
London-based PR consultant Rosie Denham and American IT Professor Patrick Riley couldn’t be more different. She’s had a privileged English upbringing. He was raised in poverty in Missouri. Patrick has two kids, a job that means the world to him and a wife who might decide she wants her husband back. So when Patrick and Rosie fall in love, the prospects don’t seem bright for them. But magic sometimes happens – right? “ A dramatic, moving and intensely romantic story.” TRISHA ASHLEY ON THE SILVER LOCKET
“ [A] fast-paced, fantastical adventure [that] is sharp as a Shogun’s sword.”
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“ Frank, funny and honest.”
“ With airships, demons, and lashings of revolutionary swordplay, this chi-fuelled vision of a steampunk feudal Japan will blow your split-toed socks off.”
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This collection won the Forward Prize for best poetry collection, and Kei Miller has been named among the Next Generation Poets by the Poetry Book Society. “ The entire collection possesses that ease, its subject matter, wit and lyricism masterfully balanced to render a compelling whole and a rare accomplishment.” GUARDIAN
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Laurence Bouvard Romance 11 hours 9781471298318
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Triumph: Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics
There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You
The Love Shack
Bryant & May – The Burning Man
Jeremy Schaap
Lynda Bellingham
Jane Costello
Christopher Fowler
The remarkable behind-the-scenes story of one of the most iconic clashes in sports and world history.
The poignant, moving and uplifting memoir from much-loved actress, television presenter and bestselling author, Lynda Bellingham, written following her diagnosis with terminal cancer.
Imagine having to move back in with your parents – in your thirties…
Bryant and May embark on their most explosive case yet.
Dan and Gemma have found their dream first home, but the asking price is the stuff of nightmares. The only way they’ll ever save for a deposit is by returning, rentfree, to Dan’s childhood home. Obviously, no one wants to move back into a bedroom still adorned with Kylie posters, with a mother whose culinary skills are noted for their spectacular gastro-intestinal effects. But it’s only for six months. Even they can manage that. Surely.
A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests and a young homeless man burns to death after being caught between rioters and the police. But all is not as it seems – an opportunistic killer is using the chaos to exact revenge. Arthur Bryant and John May soon find their investigation taking an apocalyptic turn as the case comes to involve the history of mob rule, corruption, punishment and the legend of Guy Fawkes.
“ Funny, sexy and moving – a hilarious holiday romp with a heart. I loved it.”
“ One of our most unorthodox and entertaining writers.”
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In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goose-stepping, an African-American athlete won a staggering four Olympic gold medals. Jesse Owens, the son of sharecroppers, had singlehandedly crushed Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports. But it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man. With his incisive reporting and rich storytelling, Schaap reveals what really happened over those tense, exhilarating weeks in a nuanced and riveting work of sports history. “ Schaap leaves readers with a vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ‘30s Germany and America.”
Having been told that she only has a matter of months left to live and writing this in what would sadly be her final days, There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You is a brutally honest memoir, yet Lynda also manages to spread her infectious warmth and humour, bringing light to a very dark time. Lynda’s story is a heart-breaking but also a laugh-out-loud story too. The way Lynda tells her life story will serve as a great inspiration.
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SOPHIE KINSELLA
“ I laughed and I cried. The strength shines through in the whole book and the honesty. A fantastic woman.”
“ Riotous… thoroughly enjoyable and laugh-out-loud hilarious.”
COLEEN NOLAN
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“ The rest of us look on at these extraordinary people and wonder how we ourselves would manage. I am so grateful that such people are speaking out… while they can.”
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Jeff Harding
Biography & Autobiography 9.25 hours 9781471298295
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Sue Holderness
Biography & Autobiography 8 hours 9781510004504
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Multiple Narrators Modern Fiction 11.5 hours 9781510004535
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Tim Goodman Crime 13 hours
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Words of Command
Spare Brides
Thomas Cromwell
The Girl in the Red Coat
Allan Mallinson
Adele Parks
Tracy Borman
Kate Hamer
January 1830: One of the hardest winters in memory…
Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks turns her laser-sharp perception to the opulent backdrop of post-First World War England.
Thomas Cromwell is known to millions as the leading character in Hilary Mantel’s bestselling Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
She is the missing girl. But she doesn’t know she’s lost.
The 1920s: A time of hope, promise and parties, but not all the men came home, after The War. Meet the spare brides: Young, gorgeous and unexpectedly alone. Ava relishes the freedom of being single. Sarah fears no one can replace her hero husband. Beatrice finds it hard to shine, next to her dazzling friends and Lydia is married, rich, privileged. Then a chance encounter changes everything…
Born a tavern keeper’s son, Cromwell rose swiftly through the ranks to become Henry VIII’s right hand man and one of the most powerful figures in Tudor history. The architect of England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church and the dissolution of the monasteries, he oversaw seismic changes in our country’s history. Tracy Borman examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever.
The Prime Minister is resisting growing calls for parliamentary reform, provoking scenes of violent unrest. Against this inflammable backdrop LieutenantColonel Matthew Hervey, recently returned from an assignment in the Balkans, takes command of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. His fears that things might be dull are quickly dispelled by the business of vexatious officers, difficult choices over which NCOs to promote, not to mention the incendiarists on the doorstep of the King himself. Allan Mallinson is a former infantry and cavalry officer of thirty-five years’ service worldwide. As well as the Matthew Hervey series of novels, he is the author of Light Dragoons, a history of four regiments of British Cavalry, one of which he commanded.
“ Dramatic and swooningly romantic, this is historical fiction with real heart.”
“ Tracy Borman has crafted an exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor age’s most complex and controversial figures.”
MARIE CLAIRE
“ A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail.”
“ Kate Hamer conjures mystery with such grace, cool beauty and urgent suspense… Brilliant.” MATT HAIG
“ Kate Hamer’s novel is both gripping and sensitive – beautifully written, it is a compulsive, aching story full of loss and redemption.”
ALISON WEIR
“ Borman’s is a highly readable account, and will add to the debate surrounding this ultimately elusive character.”
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When Beth Wakeford takes her eight year-old daughter, Carmel, to a local children’s festival, they become separated. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own, with a man who believes she is a saviour.
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William Scott-Masson Action & Adventure 12.75 hours 9781510004498
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Charlotte Strevens Historical Fiction 14.75 hours 9781510004511
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Multiple Narrators History 15.25 hours 9781510004580
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Antonia Beamish Modern Fiction 12 hours 9781510004566
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Hidden
KP: The Autobiography
Blood Whispers
Vendetta
Emma Kavanagh
Kevin Pietersen
John Gordon Sinclair
Catherine Doyle
A gripping psychological thriller by a former police psychologist, author of Falling.
The book that rocked the English cricketing world.
How do you tell the truth in a world full of lies?
When it comes to revenge, love is a dangerous complication…
A gunman is at large, stalking the halls of a local hospital. No one knows who he is or why he is there and the best men in the force have been tasked to stop him. Among them is Aden, determined to do the right thing. For hospital psychologist Imogen, weighed down by troubles of her own, the presence of the gunman seems to have little to do with her, but she couldn’t be more wrong…
This is the fascinating life story of professional cricketer Kevin Pietersen, MBE, discussing everything from his childhood in South Africa to his recent experiences as one of the leading lights in the world of international cricket. Kevin was dropped from the England squad in February 2014 puzzling many observers. Kevin was the tourists’ leading run scorer across the series, and he remains the country’s highest run scorer of all time across all formats of the game.
“ Kavanagh tells the story with great verve, weaving the strands of her story expertly.”
“ Outrageous, audacious, jaw-dropping.”
DAILY MAIL ON FALLING
“ Dark, tense and convincing, this is a brilliantly executed and engrossing thriller. An extremely assured debut.” SUNDAY MIRROR ON FALLING
Kaltrina Dervishi is a prostitute on the run from Serbian gang leader Fisnik Abazi. The police want her to give evidence against him… Abazi wants her dead. Only her lawyer, Keira Lynch, can keep that from happening. What they don’t realise though is that Keira isn’t your typical Glasgow lawyer. When she was eight years old she killed a man and as they’re about to find out, she’s at her most dangerous when threatened. “ The language is fierce and unwavering, and the two protagonists, both strong women, are beautifully drawn.”
When five brothers move into the abandoned mansion next door, Sophie Gracewell’s life changes forever. Irresistibly drawn to bad boy Nic, Sophie finds herself falling into an underworld governed by powerful families. When Sophie’s own family skeletons come to life, she must choose between two warring dynasties – the one she was born into, and the one she is falling in love with. Vendetta is the first in an exciting new teen trilogy, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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“ Blood Whispers is Sinclair’s coming-of-age thriller… [it] secures him a safe berth in the pantheon of exciting, hard-hitting Tartan Noir authors.”
“ Utterly captivating.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Byron Mondahl
Biography & Autobiography 8.75 hours 9781510004542
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The Italians
Cold Revenge
Cross Stitch
The Way We Die Now
John Hooper
Alex Howard
Amanda James
Charles Willeford
Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles.
Detective Inspector Hanlon is back. She’s been promoted and now she goes undercover in Oxford to find the sadomasochistic killer of two students.
A stitch in time may save nine but a crossstitch spells disaster…
“No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.” elmore leonard
Despite past heartache, Sarah Yates is finally marrying her true love, John Needler. But Sarah and John can’t pretend they’re an ordinary couple. They’re time travellers and where time travel is involved, nothing runs smoothly. One minute Sarah is saying her vows and the next she is hurtled back in time to a country that is on the cusp of war. But when the past and the present collide, that’s when the real problems start…
A three-year-old murder case was coming together nicely. A killer Hoke once put in prison has moved in across the street. But now Hoke has to pretend to be a bum. In a dusty corner of South Florida, Hoke enters a world of Haitian migrant workers, soup kitchens, and whores. In the searing heat he’ll meet the man he’s been sent to kill – the most vicious beast in the land…
John Hooper’s marvellously entertaining and perceptive new book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Looking at the facts that lie behind – and often belie – the stereotypes, his revealing book sheds new light on many aspects of Italian life: football and Freemasonry, sex, symbolism and the reason why Italian has twelve words for a coat hanger, yet none for a hangover. John Hooper is Italy correspondent of the Economist and Southern Europe editor of the Guardian and Observer. The Italians is the fruit of more than 15 years based in Italy.
Philosophy lecturer Dr Gideon Fuller, with his penchant for high end sadistic sex, is in the frame, but Hanlon is not convinced. From the specialist brothels in Oxford and Soho, to the inner sanctum of a Russian people trafficker with a taste for hurting women, the trail leads Hanlon deeper and deeper into danger – until she herself becomes the killer’s next target. Alex Howard studied Arabic and Islamic History at Oxford, and has worked in adult education. This is his second book, following the first DI Hanlon title Time To Die.
Amanda is a published author of short stories and her first novel with Choc Lit, A Stitch in Time won a 2013 Reviewers’ Choice Award from Single Titles.
“ Elegant, tough and rhythmic as a championship boxing match.” SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“ Delivers an off-kilter view of venal humanity via inimitable prose… brims with energ y and brio.”
“ A time-travel tale á la Dr Who only with a heroine going back to three different periods, making sure people find their happy ending… a pure delight.”
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Love Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals
My History
The Mill Girl
The Lovers of Amherst
Jesse Armstrong
Antonia Fraser
Rosie Goodwin
William Nicholson
This is the hilarious first novel from the creator of Peep Show, and co-writer of The Thick of It.
The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.
A young girl’s courage and strength in the face of hardship and heartache. The new novel from much-loved author Rosie Goodwin.
A beautiful novel interweaving the stories of two love affairs.
It’s 1994 and the former Yugoslavia is being torn apart. In England, a gang of good-hearted young people are about to set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. A play which will light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very probably, stop the war.
Antonia Fraser’s memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and 1940s but its real concern is with her growing love of history. The fascination began as a child when her evacuation at the beginning of the war to an Elizabethan manor house became an inspiration for historical imaginings – and developed into an enduring passion; as she writes, “for me, the study of History has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life.”
Warwickshire, 1840s: Boys are destined for the pit and girls for the mill. Despite this, Maryann is happy there – until her mother dies. Her family collapses, leaving Maryann exhausted and Toby, the boy she is set on marrying, insists they wait. Then Maryann is offered a position as nanny to the daughter of the mill owner, Wesley Marshall, who Maryann grows unexpectedly close to. But their relationship doesn’t go unnoticed, threatening to unleash a world of problems on them all…
Jesse Armstrong is co-creator and writer of the BAFTA Award-winning Peep Show, as well as Fresh Meat, Bad Sugar, Babylon and, with Chris Morris, Four Lions. He was also co-writer of The Thick of It and the Oscarnominated In the Loop.
Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works and has won the Wolfson Award for History and the Norton Medlicott Medal of the Historical Association.
August, 1881: Mabel Todd, arrives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband David. Mabel soon fall passionately in love with Austin Dickinson, a married man with three children, and he with her. October, 2013: Alice Dickinson takes time off work to research a screenplay on a story that has fascinated her since college days, when her love of Emily Dickinson’s poems began. The story is the illicit love affair between Austin Dickinson and Mabel Todd. “ Nicholson draws his narrative strands together in a most entertaining fashion.”
“ A gifted writer. Tells a cracking story and does so with an insight into people that is rarely found.”
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“ Goodwin is a master of her craft: she excels in writing about the complexity of relationships, the hardships of life, the ties of family and the joys of love and friendship.” LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
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Field of Prey
The Broken
The Book of Human Skin
The Faithful Couple
John Sandford
Tamar Cohen
Michelle Lovric
A. D. Miller
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr. finally got lucky. And unlucky.
When close friends split, be careful whose side you’re on…
A brilliantly clever and insightful novel.
Layton had picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields. The only problem was something smelled bad… He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew and when they looked, they found a body stuffed down a cistern. By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, the police were up to fifteen bodies and counting. The victims had been killed over many years, one every summer. How could this have happened without anybody noticing?
Best friends tell you everything – about their kitchen renovation and their little girl’s schooling. Best friends don’t tell lies. They don’t take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don’t call lawyers. They don’t make you choose sides. Best friends don’t keep secrets about their past. They don’t put you in danger. Best friends don’t always stay best friends.
“A witty exciting page-turner which becomes increasingly addictive… Quite unlike anything else around – and all the better for that.” daily mail
“ A chillingly real psychological drama that had me in a total reading frenzy. I absolutely loved it.” “ A brilliant and skillfully plotted depiction of the unexpected breakdown of a friendship between two couples, with one of the most chilling twists I’ve read in a long time. I couldn’t put it down.”
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“ Few do it better than Sandford.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
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“ Powerful and moving. I loved The Faithful Couple.”
“ This book is fabulous – funny, horrific, subversive – in short a wholly addictive read. I don’t think I have enjoyed anything as much since Perfume.”
LISA JEWELL
“ Tough, engrossing and engaging, Sandford writes superb thrillers.”
In 18th Century Venice Minguillo Fasan, heir to a fortune, contrives to dispatch of his sister Marcella, condemning her to the fate of a nun. But Marcella Fasan is tougher than Minguillo imagines and aided by a servant, a painter, a skin-obsessed doctor, a Scottish merchant and a cigar-smoking pornographer, she pitches her wits against her brother…
California, 1993: Neil Collins and Adam Tayler, two young British men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in San Diego. They strike up a friendship that, while platonic, feels as intoxicating as a romance. They travel up the coast together whilst being harmlessly competitive, innocently collusive and wrapped up in each other. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that years later, they will desperately regret.
RODDY DOYLE
“ Compelling, elegant and deeply insightful. You won’t soon forget it.”
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Breaking the Silence
Laughter Lines
The Vintage Guide to Love and Romance
Seed
Joanne Milne
Des O’Connor
Kirsty Greenwood
Lisa Heathfield
An incredibly uplifting life-story of a woman who refused to give up hope and always lives life with a smile upon her face.
Guaranteed to keep you chuckling, a delightful collection of comic verse.
Beggars can’t be choosers…
Seed loves you. Seed will never let you go.
When Jessica Beam is thrown out of her flat, she finds herself relying on her only family – her grandmother. Things aren’t going so well for Grandma either. Her 1950s Good Woman guide books are out of print and her mortgage is staggering. When a publisher throws them a lifeline – a new contract if they can prove the Good Woman guides still work – Jess and Matilda have to work together if they want a roof over their heads.
Fifteen-year-old Pearl has lived her whole life protected within the small community at Seed, where they worship Nature and idolise their leader, Papa S. But when some outsiders arrive, everything changes. Pearl experiences feelings that she never knew existed and begins to realise that there is darkness at the heart of Seed. A darkness from which she must escape, before it’s too late…
Jo Milne was profoundly deaf from birth and is when she also began to lose her sight. Just before turning thirty, Jo was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic and progressive condition that will one day rob her of her sight altogether. In 2014 she made a lifechanging decision to undergo major surgery. She had cochlear implants fitted allowing her to hear for the first time. Every moment of Jo’s days since the operation has become a journey of discovery. Breaking the Silence is a remarkable and beautifully written memoir that will serve as an inspiration to everyone who reads it. By turn, it is heart-breaking and heart-warming.
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Much-loved entertainment legend Des O’Connor has broadcast to millions and performed to packed theatres around the world, but he has never lost touch with the simple joys and woes of everyday life. In this collection of comic verse, Des brings his irrepressible humour and mischievous delight to subjects ranging from satnav nightmares to the perils of sorting the recycling, from the recipe for a happy love life to surviving children’s parties. Des O’Connor is an entertainment legend with an illustrious career spanning over fifty years. His recent television work includes Today with Des and Mel, Countdown and The One and Only Des O’Connor.
A chilling and heart-breaking coming-of-age story of life, Seed will take listeners on a journey of gripping selfdiscovery, reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale.
“ I cannot tell a lie… this book is fabulous.” LUCY DIAMOND
“ Kookier than Kinsella, but just as comical. Fabulous feel-good fun!” ALI MCNAMARA
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The Valley
Daniel Klein
Charlie Lovett
John Renehan
Meditations from a Greek island on the pleasures of old age.
A novel about old books, young love and Jane Austen.
There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan but there was only one like this…
Our society worships at the fountain of youth, but are we missing out on an extraordinary stage in life? Daniel Klein ponders whether it is better to be forever young or to grin toothlessly and live an authentic old age. He journeys to the Greek island of Hydra to discover the secrets of ageing happily. Drawing on the lives of Greek locals, as well as philosophers, he uncovers the pleasures that are available only late in life.
Book lover and Jane Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has barely started her new job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure publication – the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their enquiry draws Sophie into a web of mystery surrounding the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice, with ultimately dangerous consequences.
Black didn’t even know its proper name. It was the farthest, the hardest, and the worst. He thought that everything about the Valley was myth and rumour. But Black finds after traveling deep into the heart of the Valley an illumination of dark secrets, dark secrets that had accumulated after months of fighting and dying in defence of an indefensible piece of land…
“ I was bowled over by its easy charm and hard-won wisdom.” “ An inventive tale with elements of romance and suspense, wrapped around a bookish mystery that will please lovers of old libraries and Austen fans.”
DAILY MAIL
“ Klein’s narrative is a delightful and spirited conversation, offering up the ingredients inherent to the art of living well in old age.”
“ Both a gripping, tightly-wound mystery as well as a sharply observed look at the deterioration of men tasked with too vague a mission and too little support deep in the mountains of Afghanistan.” PHIL KLAY, AUTHOR OF REDEPLOYMENT
DEBORAH HARKNESS
“ Fast-paced and great fun!”
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Winner of the CWA Award for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year Available as part of your August Standing Order Plan See page 19
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Meet Me In Manhattan
The Jackdaw
Claudia Carroll
Luke Delaney
He’s the one. Definitely… Isn’t he?
The fourth novel in the DI Sean Corrigan series – authentic and terrifying crime fiction with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective.
Everyone dates online these days, but how do you know the person you’re falling in love with is who they say they are? How far would you put your heart on the line? Holly Johnson decides to fly to the other side of the world to be with the man she’d almost given up hope of meeting. But when she arrives in New York City she is going to get the shock of her life… “ A heroine you just want fate to smile on.” HEAT
“ An emotional roller-coaster […] asks some probing questions about relationships and keeps the reader wondering until the very end.”
A man who calls himself ‘The Jackdaw’ has been abducting financial sector workers in London. He believes they must be punished for crimes of greed and for causing the banking crisis. The victims’ crimes are broadcast to the thousands who decide the verdict. Once the jury has decided, the Jackdaw will be the executioner. DI Sean Corrigan inherits the case, but as the Jackdaw’s popularity grows, he won’t stop until his mission is complete. “ An authentic voice on how the police operate with a stone-cold killer striking randomly around London, […] scary authenticity.”
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“ Confident, aggressive and very promising.” THE TIMES
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The Lives of Others
The Life and Loves of a He-Devil
Disobey
The Tudor Vendetta
Neel Mukherjee
Graham Norton
Jacqui Rose
Christopher Gortner
An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 and the Costa Novel Award 2014.
“It seems to me that we are all made up of the things we adore…”
From bestselling author Jacqui Rose, comes a hard-hitting thriller that you won’t forget in a hurry…
Upon the death of Mary I, Elizabeth I takes the throne and Brendan Prescott is called to aid the young queen amid a realm plunged into chaos.
Calcutta, 1967: Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world around him, all he leaves behind, before disappearing, is a note. At home, his family slowly begins to unravel – the once-thriving family business implodes and destructive secrets are unearthed. And all around them the sands are shifting as society fractures. This is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change. “ Neel Mukherjee has written an outstanding novel: compelling, compassionate and complex, vivid, musical and fierce.” ROSE TREMAIN
In his new autobiography, written with characteristic humour and often outrageous candour, Graham shows that life is more than just a series of dates and it’s really the things you love that make you who you are. From his beloved dogs to his rediscovered love of Ireland, the men Graham has loved and lost, to his love affair with New York. He is loved across the nation for his delight in the peculiar and for his ability to find humour and a common ground in all that life brings.
Alfie Jenkins breaks a lot of rules. When he sets up an illegal casino in Soho there’s bad will all round and soon Alfie and those closest to him become embroiled in an all-out war with a dangerous gang. Unfortunately this gang is a deadly enemy to have. When Alfie’s teenage niece Chloe is kidnapped, it becomes a terrifying race against time to save her. “ Gritty and gripping… a star in the making.”
“ He is both utterly immodest and charmingly self-depreciative.” THE SUNDAY TIMES
KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS
“ A captivating read from one of my favourite emerging authors.”
“ Full of wicked asides, tart observations and sharp remarks that could only have originated in Graham Norton’s witty brain.”
MEL SHERRATT
London, 1558: Queen Mary is dead, and twenty-fiveyear-old Elizabeth ascends the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth’s intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with the young queen, as well as his beloved Kate, scheming William Cecil, and archrival, Robert Dudley. A poison attempt on Elizabeth soon overshadows her coronation, but before Brendan can investigate, Elizabeth summons him in private to dispatch him on a far more confidential mission. “ Fast-paced and exciting, with beautifully researched historical details and a most engaging hero.” DIANA GABALDON, AUTHOR OF AN ECHO IN THE BONE
“ A swashbuckling, perilous adventure that you simply can’t put down!”
TERRY WOGAN, THE IRISH TIMES
“ Masterful… an unforgettable portrait of one family riven by the forces of history and their own desires.”
M. J. ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES
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The Blazing World
A Line of Blood
The Rocks
The Dying Place
Siri Hustvedt
Ben McPherson
Peter Nichols
Luca Veste
A polyphonic tour de force, nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2014.
A chilling psychological thriller about family – the ties that bind us, and the lies that destroy us.
A wise and witty comedy of manners, moving back through the lives of the generations.
A fate worse than death…
Artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of recognition she has received from the art world, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts. Yet, even after she has unmasked herself, some refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men. One thing is clear – Burden’s involvement with the last of her ‘masks’ turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the man’s bizarre death.
Alex and his son find their next-door neighbour dead in the bath. It looks like suicide, but the police want to talk to Alex’s wife. Millicent married Alex for a work permit – at least that has become the myth. The truth is they married for love, but neither wants to be exposed as a romantic. The police question Millicent – she admits to a mild flirtation. Part of Alex is glad the neighbour is dead. Then the murder investigation begins…
Set on Mallorca, The Rocks is a double love story told in reverse. Opening in 2005 with a dramatic event that seems to seal the mystery of two lives, the story moves backwards, unravelling over sixty years, amid the lives and relationships of two intertwined families. The Rocks is a darkly comic, bittersweet, finally heartbreaking novel, that slips back in time to reveal the shocking incident that marked and altered these lives for ever.
DI Murphy and DS Rossi discover the body of known troublemaker Dean Hughes, dumped on the steps of St Mary’s Church in West Derby, Liverpool. His body is covered with the unmistakable marks of torture. As they hunt for the killer, they discover a worrying pattern. Other teenagers, all young delinquents, have been disappearing. Who is clearing the streets of Liverpool? Can Murphy and Rossi find them before they meet the same fate as Dean?
Ben McPherson is a television producer, director, and writer, who has worked at the BBC for many years.
“ Absolutely brilliant.”
“ Darkly impressive.”
“ The Blazing World is a dazzling novel, the kind that makes you cry (or nearly cry) as well as think.” SUNDAY TIMES
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“ This family drama will completely consume you.”
“ It is an exuberantly clever piece of work… a novel that gloriously lives up to its title, one blazing with energ y and thought.”
“ A writer to watch.”
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The Billionaire’s Trophy
The Fire Sermon
Single, Carefree, Mellow
Captain Jack’s Woman
Lynne Graham
Francesca Haig
Katherine Heiny
Stephanie Laurens
Their relationship might be fake, but Emmie’s trepidation is all too real.
They were born together – they will die together. One strong Alpha twin and one mutated Omega; the only thing they share is the moment of death.
A tender and ruefully funny look at varieties of love, secrets, and betrayal in ten exquisite stories that form a guided tour of the human heart.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Regency-set Romances.
What is his intern’s photo doing on an escort website? Bastian Christou doesn’t know if he’s more surprised by her double life or her stunning photo – she’s kept those curves well hidden! Emmie is outraged when Bastian, her uncompromising boss, confronts her. She had no idea her photo was online. But his cheque’s been cashed and he’s come to collect his prize… A weekend in Greece. With her. Alone. Lynne Graham is a bestselling Mills and Boon author with sales of twenty six million books worldwide.
The Omegas live in segregation, cast out as soon as their mutation becomes clear. Forced to live apart, they are oppressed by their Alpha counterparts. The Alphas are elite. Once their weaker twin has been cast aside, they’re free to live in privileged safety. Cass and Zach are both perfect on the outside – no missing limbs, no visible Omega mutation. But Cass has a secret – one that Zach will stop at nothing to expose…
In the title story we meet Maya, who is torn between her wryly funny boyfriend and the allure of her veterinarian. Revisiting Maya in several stories, chronicling her various states of love – this is a collection about how we are unfaithful to each other, both wilfully and unwittingly. Populated with unwelcome house guests, disastrous birthday parties, needy but loyal friends and flirtatious older men, the stories are emotionally astute, sexy and disarming.
“ A hell of a ride. I would recommend it to anyone I can, regardless of age.”
“ Heiny’s book takes a disarming and wry look at the inherent nature of betrayal and secrets within relationships.”
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“ A sexy, exuberant adventure!” NEW YORK TIMES
“ You’ll hardly have time to take a breath between adventures and smouldering love scenes, and you’ll relish every second you spend with the delightful Kit and the marvellous Captain Jack.”
“ Maya, who appears in several more stories in various stages of life and love, is one of many captivating characters expertly imagined by Heiny.”
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Captain Jack’s handsome features and powerful physique compel Kit Cranmer to surrender to him. Captain Jack is Kit’s dream lover. His all-knowing gaze penetrates her with frightening ease, and his kisses leave her maidenly modesty in tatters. Suddenly Kit finds she’s only too delighted to explore with Jack the pleasures conventionally reserved for married ladies – little knowing what dangerous forces she’s unleashing. Captain Jack is laying a gentle trap that will curtail her freedom and bind her to him.
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Love in Small Letters
A Good Catch
The Axeman’s Jazz
Time and Time Again
Francesc Miralles
Fern Britton
Ray Celestin
Ben Elton
A tale of tender friendships and incredible transformations.
The new witty and warm novel from the bestselling author and TV presenter, Fern Britton.
When Samuel wakes up on 1st January, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing exciting – until a strange visitor bursts into his flat, determined not to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray cat, leads Samuel to an encounter with the enigmatic Valdemar and his neighbour Titus. Samuel discovers how small everyday acts can have the power to awaken the heart from its slumber.
Greer Clovelly seems to have it all, beautiful, slender and she’s in love with Jesse Behenna – determined that one day, they’ll be married. After all, their marriage would join two dynasties of Cornish fishing families. For her friend, Loveday Chandler, living in the shadow of her glamorous friend has become a way of life but she loves Jesse too… Jesse faces an agonising choice. Should he follow his heart or bow to his father’s wishes?
Longlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year.
If you had one chance to change history… Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill?
New Orleans, 1919: As a dark serial killer, The Axeman, stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer’s identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans – play jazz or risk becoming the next victim. And as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom over the city…
It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Stanton knows that a terrible war is coming. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so, could another bullet save it?
The Axeman’s Jazz is an ambitious, gripping thriller announcing a major new talent in historical crime fiction.
Ben Elton has written fourteen major bestsellers, and has also written some of television’s most popular and incisive comedy, including The Young Ones and Blackadder.
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Born in Barcelona, Francesc Miralles has written many bestsellers and has received several prestigious literary awards. Love in Small Letters is his most famous and acclaimed book.
“ A light-hearted, fun and easy read.” DAILY MAIL
“ Another gripping good read.” GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
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Camille
The Firemaker
Don’t Tell The Brides-to-Be
The End of Alice
Pierre Lemaitre
Peter May
Anna Bell
A. M. Homes
In the highly acclaimed and award-winning novels Alex and Irene Pierre Lemaitre created a memorable character, Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven, who will seek justice at any cost…
Three corpses. Two investigators. One burning truth.
Another fantastic read from the author of Don’t Tell the Groom.
“This is everything fiction should be – wrenching, disturbing and emotive.” independent
A burned corpse is a disturbing mystery for Beijing Detective Li Yan, until he enlists forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Having abandoned a broken life in Chicago for her work, she’s as determined as Li to ask difficult questions about the man’s death. But some questions have answers that they’d rather not hear, facts that others are desperate to conceal…
Things are looking up for Penny Robinson. She’s kicked her gambling addiction and even started her own business: Princess on a Shoestring, an all-inclusive service for brides-to-be. Penny’s got it all under control, That is, until a rival planner decides to take her down – one hard-won bride at a time. And when a romantic weekend away has some unexpected consequences, Penny’s expectations for her career are brought back down to earth with a bump.
The End of Alice treads the thin line between the evil and the everyday, causing a major controversy when it was first published. The story centres on a disturbing correspondence between the narrator, a middle-aged killer serving his twenty-third year in prison and his slang-speaking, sweet-seeming admirer, a nineteenyear-old girl intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Slowly, through these letters, the narrator’s dangerous character emerges.
“ A real feel-good story with loads of laughs, twists, tears. The characters are all lovable and the story is totally addictive. Highly recommended.”
“ A. M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything.”
Camille – whose wife Irene was murdered by a sadistic serial killer – has at last opened his emotional lockbox for Anne Forestier, the new woman who has unexpectedly entered his life. But brutal history seems to repeat itself as Anne is violently attacked. When it becomes clear that whoever assaulted Anne is determined to finish the job, Camille hides her in his country home. But in spite of his perfect covering of their trail, the mysterious antagonist finds them… Pierre Lemaitre is the winner of the CWA International Dagger Award for Alex.
“ Intense and fascinating.” GOOD BOOK GUIDE
“ Stunningly original, highly topical and extremely well written novel.” SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, AUTHOR OF THE HOURS
THE CHICKLIT CLUB ON DON’T TELL THE GROOM
“ Undeniably shocking. […] Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words.”
“ It enthrals at every stage of its unpredictability. Grippingly original.”
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The Kills: The Hit
The Wayward Bus
The Lie
Glass
Richard House
John Steinbeck
C. L. Taylor
Alex Christofi
The final book in the epic The Kills, nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2013.
One of Steinbeck’s most powerful novels.
Haunting and compelling, this psychological thriller will have you hooked…
A charming, off-beat comedy about a young man finding his way in the modern world.
Best friends are there for each other, you trust them with your life. At least that’s what Emma, Daisy, Leanne and Al think. But all that changes when they embark on a trip of a lifetime together. When they return home, only two of them are left alive… Many years later, one girl receives a threatening letter. Someone knows the truth about what happened on that holiday and will stop at nothing to expose it.
When a minor adventure up the spire of Salisbury Cathedral makes Günter Glass a local celebrity, John Blades – window-cleaner to the stars – comes calling. He wants Günter to join him in London to clean Europe’s tallest skyscraper, the newly constructed Shard in London Bridge. Günter soon finds himself among the bright lights of London but will his innocence put him on a collision course with the frequently baffling modern world?
The Kills is an epic novel of crime and conspiracy told in four books – this is book 4. A man is found in the desert, burned beyond all recognition. Thomas Berens thinks this is the man he’s been hunting. The last survivor. “ Richard House has written a gripping, hallucinogenic – and enormous – novel that deals with the aftermath of the Iraq conflict.”
The Wayward Bus travelled the back-roads through the lush California countryside. Its driver was a man of the land – lusty, hot-blooded and uninhibited. On the bus was a girl who danced at stag parties, a travelling salesman strictly out for fun, a boy coming into manhood and a college girl pursuing her secret, passionate quest. This is a story of crisis and passion, of love and longing. Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century.
GUARDIAN
“ An enjoyable rollercoaster of a suspense novel with multiple twists.”
“ [B]oth charming and funny, and not a little affecting, too.”
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse
In the Morning I’ll Be Gone
Carry You
Zoran Drvenkar
Piu Marie Eatwell
Adrian McKinty
Beth Thomas
He makes his way across a country gripped by fear, searching for his next victim… You.
The extraordinary story of one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian era.
A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
For anyone who has loved, lost or found it hard to let go…
In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T. C. Druce. Behind her application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had been none other than the eccentric 5th Duke of Portland, and that the Duke had faked the death of his alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce’s coffin would be found to be empty. And her children, therefore, were heirs to the Portland millions.
It’s the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA bomber who has escaped from the notorious Maze prison. Sean discovers a woman who wants justice for her daughter who died in a pub locked from the inside. Sean knows that if he can crack the ‘locked-room mystery,’ the bigger mystery of Dermot’s whereabouts might be revealed.
The legal case that followed revealed a dark underbelly of lies, lurking beneath the genteel facade of late Victorian England.
“ A locked room mystery within a manhunt killer, a clever and gripping set-up.”
When a snowstorm halts traffic on a German autobahn, drivers are forced to spend the night in their cars. As day breaks, scores of people are found dead and theories are rife. At first everyone agrees that several people must have acted together. No-one could have committed such an atrocity alone. It is only over time that theories come to focus on an individual perpetrator and ‘The Traveller’ is born… “ Very dark, very sinister, very original.” JOANNE HARRIS, AUTHOR OF CHOCOLAT
“ As dark a novel as I have read in years… for those with quick minds and strong stomachs.” THE TIMES
“ A lively account of the lies, deceit and hypocrisy of Victorian society and their tragic consequences.”
“ An easy-to-read, often thought-provoking tale about grief and family feuds as well as overcoming trauma and the value of true friendship.” DAILY MAIL
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“ A real gem – a light-hearted, highly original story.”
“ Driven by McKinty’s brand of lyrical, hardboiled prose, leavened by a fatalistic strain of the blackest humor, In the Morning I’ll Be Gone is a hugely satisfying historical thriller.”
THE TIMES
Daisy has lost her mum to breast cancer. She’s at rock bottom and doesn’t think she’ll ever get back up again. Her best friend Abi has other ideas. What Daisy doesn’t know is that her life is about to take an unexpected turn, when Abi signs them up to do a charity walk. Added to which, someone is about to burst into Daisy’s world in a riot of colour reminding her that life can be full of surprises.
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Creature Comforts
Hunted
The Ghost Fields
Rain on the Dead
Trisha Ashley
Paul Finch
Elly Griffiths
Jack Higgins
Fall back in love with life in this gripping read about fate and second chances in the eagerly awaited new novel from Trisha Ashley.
Heck needs to watch his back. Because someone’s watching him…
Can the team outrace a looming flood to find a killer?
A storm is coming for Sean Dillon…
A series of bizarre but fatal accidents are taking place. When a businessman survives a near-drowning but is found burnt alive in his car just weeks later, DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg is brought in to investigate. Soon it appears that other recent deaths might be linked. As the body count rises it’s clear that something far more sinister is at play, and it’s coming for Heck too…
In Norfolk a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery – a buried World War Two plane with the pilot still inside. DNA tests identify the man a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea. Events are further complicated by a TV company that wants to make a film about Norfolk’s deserted air force bases, the so-called Ghost Fields, which have been partially converted into a pig farm. Then human bones are found on the pig farm.
Thirty year old Izzy Dane has a peaceful life. She lives in the sleepy village of Halfhidden with her aunt Debo, who runs the local kennels. Izzy’s life isn’t particularly exciting, but that’s just how she likes it – she’s bid farewell to a dramatic life, and she’s perfectly content. So what happens when someone forces Izzy to fall in love with life again? Can you make an omelette without breaking a few eggs? “ Full of down-to-earth humour.”
“ Clever and well written with some bizarre murders and masses going on, it’s an excellent series.”
“ With fresh plots, interesting characters and vibrant settings, Jack Higgins has firmly cemented his reputation as one of the world’s most successful thriller writers.”
“ A leading voice in British crime writing.”
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“ A warm-hearted and comforting read. Trisha at her best.”
“ A thriller writer in a class of his own.”
CAROLE MATTHEWS
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Always the Bridesmaid
A Death in the Family
Pleasantville
How I Wonder What You Are
Lindsey Kelk
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Attica Locke
Jane Lovering
The brilliant new standalone bestseller from Lindsey Kelk.
An international phenomenon, which has been declared a masterpiece everywhere it has been published.
Sometimes politics is a matter of life and death.
“Maybe he wasn’t here because of the lights – maybe they were here because of him…”
Lauren has announced she’s getting married – just as Sarah’s husband asks her for a divorce. Nothing in Maddie’s career in event management has prepared her for this particular combo of planning and real pain. The news that her ex is also tying the knot is the final straw. But whether she likes it or not, everything is about to change for Maddie. “ Kelk has a hilarious turn of phrase and a sparkling writing style.” DAILY EXPRESS
“ Leaves you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.”
Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father and his bewilderment and grief on his father’s death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. “ It’s unbelievable… It’s completely blown my mind.”
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It’s 1996, and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville. Axel Hathorne, former chief of police, was all set to become Houston’s first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to Sandy Wolcott, a defence lawyer. And then, just as the competition intensifies, a girl goes missing, apparently while canvassing for Axel. And when her body is found, Axel’s nephew is charged with her murder. “ Rich in atmosphere, strong in story, hinges on human complexity.” VAL MCDERMID
“ Genuinely unnerving… subtle, complex questions of identity, family and history.”
It’s been over eighteen months since Molly Gilchrist had a man. So when she stumbles over one on the moors one morning, it seems like the Universe is laughing at her expense. But Phinn Baxter is no common drunkard. Finding mysterious men on the moors isn’t the weirdest thing Molly has to contend with, however. There’s also those strange lights she keeps seeing in the sky since meeting Phinn… Jane Lovering is the author of Please Don’t Stop the Music, the winner of the 2012 Romantic Novel of the Year & the Romantic Comedy award.
DAILY MAIL
ZADIE SMITH
“ A scorchingly honest, unflinchingly frank, hyperreal memoir of the life of one man and his family.” GUARDIAN
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Garden of Lies
Forty Acres
1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo
Breaking Point
Amanda Quick
Dwayne Alexander Smith
Stephen Bates
Suzanne Brockmann
The bestselling author presents an all-new novel of intrigue and murder set against the backdrop of Victorian London…
A young black lawyer is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power in this page-turning and provocative novel.
Stephen Bates paints a vivid portrait of every aspect of Britain in 1815.
The Kern Secretarial Agency provides professional services to its wealthy clientele, and Anne Clifton was one of the finest women in Ursula Kern’s employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end, and Ursula is convinced it was murder. Archaeologist Slater Roxton thinks Mrs Kern is crazy to meddle in such dangerous affairs. Together they must reveal the identity of a killer who is determined to stay hidden…
Martin Grey, a talented young lawyer, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of America’s most powerful and esteemed black men. He’s dazzled by what they have accomplished, and they think he has the potential to be one of them. They invite him for a weekend away from it all. But what he discovers, far from home, is a disturbing alternative reality which challenges his deepest convictions…
Count on the intense action and raw honesty that Suzanne Brockmann consistently delivers, as she goes for broke in Breaking Point – and never looks back.
Amanda Quick is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author of forty bestsellers under various pen names.
1815 was the year of Waterloo, the British victory that ended Napoleon’s European ambitions and ushered in a century largely of peace for Britain. But what sort of country were Wellington’s troops fighting for? And what kind of society did they return to? Overseas, the bounds of Empire were expanding; while at home the population endured the chill of economic recession. The Year In series gets to the heart of social and cultural life in the UK at key points in its history.
“ Smith has done something special here… This story will resonate long after the last page has fallen.”
As commander of the nation’s most elite FBI counterterrorism unit, agent Max Bhagat leads by hard-driving example – pushing himself to the limit and beyond. That includes his deep feelings for Gina Vitagliano, the woman who won his heart. But when the shocking news reaches him that Gina has been killed in a terrorist bombing, nothing can keep Max from making a full investigation and retribution his top priority. “ Brockmann consistently turns out first-rate novels that tug on the reader’s heartstrings, and her latest is no exception.”
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Mercy
Gracious Lies
One Hundred Years of Solitude
David Kessler
Hilda Lolly
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Is an innocent man about to be condemned to death?
A collection of five delightfully unsettling short stories that take a lingering peep behind the net curtains of everyday life, love and marriage.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world.
In Hand, Foot & Finger can Audrey endure another week of toil on the beautiful beaches of Weston-super-Mare? In The New Mrs Barefoot, Dobbo’s employer’s new wife is not quite the heavenly creature he was expecting. In Lemon, knife-sharp tensions erupt between Claire and her husband Trevor. While in Upper Rugless, a life of tranquillity and Victoria sponge is not as delightful as it promised to be. And in Sixty-Six Steps to Mother, Gerald and Angela ascend for Christmas lunch. Will it be a case of like mother, like son?
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
Lawyer Alex Sedaka is resigned to the fact that his client will be executed. Charged with the rape and murder of 18-year-old Dorothy Haufaman the case seems cut and dry – until the victim’s mother offers clemency in return for the whereabouts of her daughter’s body. Alex must now convince Clayton to come clean – but he still protests his innocence. “ This will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.” CLOSER
“ An intriguing collection of stories…”
Courses ranging from photography to yoga, creative writing to accounting.
“ The first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.” WILLIAM KENNEDY, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE LADY MAGAZINE
“ My favorite novels are extended songs. What is One Hundred Years of Solitude if not an opera? And a grand one at that!” STING, GRAMMY AWARD–WINNING SINGER-SONGWRITER AND MUSICIAN.
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That Summer in Ischia
The Flowers of the Field – Part Two
Penny Feeny
Sarah Harrison
A secret hides behind the Italian sun…
Following on from the international bestseller The Flowers of the Field, an epic novel set amid the turbulence of the Second World War.
In her early years, Allie and her bohemian mother Helena were always on the move. Now Helena keeps people at arm’s length – relationships never last and old friends have slipped away. But when Allie inherits Helena’s childhood home, she begins to see snatches of the tormented past her mother has been running from… Determined to find out what keeps driving her mother away from people, Allie follows a lead to the beautiful island of Ischia. “ Sun-drenched, dark and intriguing. I loved the way she painted Italy.”
Kate Kingsley remembers little of her childhood, other than the devastation of being torn away from everything she knew; sent to live as an adopted daughter in Kenya. 1936: Now 20, Kate leaves Kenya for a new life in London. Kate finds an ally in her Aunt Dulcie, whose own life is anything but straightforward. When Kate falls in love, she believes she has found a soul mate. But this is just the start of the journey. “ Well-written, imaginative and moving – a thoroughly enjoyable read.”
KATE LONG
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Taken for Dead
The Promise
A Mother’s Story
The Munitions Girls
Graham Masterton
Lesley Pearse
Amanda Prowse
Rosie Archer
No one could predict that the cutting of the cake would bring this wedding to a horrifying end…
War threatens to take all she has loved and lived for…
The unputdownable new novel from bestseller Amanda Prowse.
1943, Gosport, Hampshire: Pixie Saunders is 19 and employed in the local armaments factory.
Belle’s husband Jimmy enlists and heads for the trenches of northern France. Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives. Volunteering to help battlefield wounded, Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. A tragic accident brings her face to face with a man from her past she’s never quite forgotten. Torn between forbidden passion, loyalty and love, Belle is caught in an impossible situation.
Jessica has just had the wedding of her dreams and now she’s setting up a new home with her lawyer husband Matthew. Even better – they are expecting a child. But as they paint the nursery and shop for babygros, Jessica keeps waiting for the excitement to kick in. Why isn’t she transformed by maternal feelings? Where is the all-consuming love she’s supposed to feel for her child?
Pixie and her best friend Rita are making the most of the war while trying to stay alive. The work is dangerous and the hours long, but in the evenings they go to the pub or dancing. Pixie meets American serviceman Cal and falls in love. Then Pixie falls pregnant and her life changes dramatically. Alone and unable to work, she has to rely on the kindness of friends to help her survive…
Amanda Prowse is the author of four novels and a collection of short stories, including the bestselling What Have I Done? which sold 250,000 copies.
A heartwarming saga full of surprises, hardships and happy endings.
The severed head of Micky Crounan, local baker, is grinning gruesomely up from the bottom tier of his own cake. Katie Maguire of the Irish Garda is baffled – until another local businessman goes missing in horrific circumstances. Soon Katie is on the trail of a debtcollecting gang calling themselves The Kings of Erin. But these are very dangerous men and they will stop at nothing to throw Katie off the trail… “ One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time.”
“ Glorious, heart-warming.” WOMAN & HOME
PETER JAMES
“ An emotional and moving epic you won’t forget in a hurry.”
“ A natural storyteller with a unique gift for turning the mundane into the terrifyingly real.”
WOMAN’S WEEKLY
Rosie Archer was born in Gosport, Hampshire, where she still lives. She has had many short stories published in women’s magazines.
NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS
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Damsel in Distress
Soldiers’ Daughters
Master of War: Defiant Unto Death
Mischief
Carola Dunn
Fiona Field
David Gilman
Fay Weldon
A stylish cosy mystery set in 1923 England featuring British heiress and writer, Daisy Dalrymple.
A wonderful novel from Fiona Field, bringing back many of the characters from her previous hit Soldiers’ Wives.
The Black Prince has launched a devastating raid deep into France, laying waste to everything in his path…
Waspish, wise and wickedly witty, this is a collection to treasure forever.
In spring a young man’s fancy will turn to love and the Honorable Phillip Petrie is no exception. Daisy’s chum is totally smitten with Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank. But before the enthusiastic suitor can pop the question, his beloved is abducted. As a distraught Mr Arbuckle begins assembling the ransom, Phillip enlists Daisy to help him recover his missing sweetheart.
This is the story of two girls who, on the surface, seem to have a lot in common. Samantha Lewis will put everything into being the good soldier she thinks her father wants her to be. But her heart will lead her in an unexpected direction and threaten her love. Michelle Flowers also craves her father’s attention, but her impulsiveness will drive her into an obsession with the husband of another woman – with disastrous consequences.
Sir Thomas Blackstone, the British archer knighted on the field of Crecy, has used the intervening years to forge his own war band and has hacked out a fiefdom in central France. He knows the English are outnumbered, outmaneuvered and exhausted… but that will not stop him from fighting his way to one of history’s greatest military victories. But the field of battle is not the only arena in which Blackstone will have to fight for his life…
“ A dauntless Daisy and good-natured fun.” “ I couldn’t put it down.”
KIRKUS REVIEWS
“ Sharp, witty, incisive.” THE TIMES
“ Wise, knowing, forthright.” INDEPENDENT
“ Page-turning and gritty.” DAILY MAIL ON MASTER OF WAR
KATIE FFORDE
“ Appropriate historical detail and witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece.”
Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon’s inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words, selecting and introducing her favourite short stories from across her career as one of Britain’s foremost contemporary novelists.
“ I see flashes of brilliance that surpass Bernard Cornwell.” THE BOOKBAG
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Wish You Were Here
Glory
The Cavendon Women
The Ladies of Missalonghi
Catherine Alliott
Rachel Billington
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Colleen McCullough
The new novel from number one bestselling author Catherine Alliott.
A poignant and compelling story of three lives torn apart by the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War.
A sweeping saga set around an aristocratic family and their servants, this is Barbara Taylor Bradford at her best.
An endearing tale, full of wit, warmth and romance.
Glory is the story of the men and women of Gallipoli and the tragic events of 1915. Of the lives lost, the hearts broken, the decisions cast, the errors made and of the dark reality of the heroic dream. It is the story of three people changed forever, as the echoes of war ring loud through the years. It is a tale of everything but glory…
Cavendon Hall is a grand, imposing house nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, home to its owners, the aristocratic Ingham family and the Swann family who serve them. But in the summer of 1913, a devastating event changes their futures forever and threatens the Ingham name. Life as the families of Cavendon Hall know it is about to alter beyond recognition, as the storm clouds of war gather.
When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the South of France, in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. But Flora didn’t anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming along too… Their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns.
Rachel Billington has written twenty-one novels as well as ten books for children and several non-fiction works.
“ Compulsively readable.” THE TIMES
“ Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping the reader turning the page. She is one of the world’s best at spinning yarns.”
“ Hilarious and full of surprises.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
The Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron for generations. Wealthy, powerful and cruel, they get what they want, every time. Missy Wright, a Hurlingford by birth, has been shunned by her family since marrying for love, not money. Now widowed, she lives a quiet existence in genteel poverty. But then a stranger arrives in town; a divorcee from Sydney. She opens Missy’s eyes to the possibility of a happy ending. Colleen McCullough worked in neurophysiology at Yale Medical School for ten years, where she wrote the record-breaking, international bestseller The Thorn Birds.
GUARDIAN
“ Romantic and thrilling.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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Endangered
Eden in Winter
Death in Devon
Kate Thompson
C. J. Box
Richard North Patterson
Ian Sansom
They kept the home fires burning but their secrets buried…
Joe Pickett is going to find out the truth, even if it kills him. And this time, it just might.
1942: Sixteen-year-old Poppy Percival turns up at Trout’s clothing factory to start work as a seamstress. Poppy harbours a secret – one from which she is still suffering. But she’s not the only one with a secret. Each of her new friends at the factory is hiding something painful. The war will throw their lives into turmoil but also bring these women closer to each other than they could ever have imagined.
Joe has good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, his eighteen-year-old foster daughter, April, has run off with him. And then comes worse news: the body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway – barely alive, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors don’t know if she’ll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with it – but Joe knows in his gut who’s responsible.
From the number one New York Times bestselling author Richard North Patterson comes another chilling novel.
Another delightfully idiosyncratic mystery from Ian Sansom, author of The Norfolk Mystery, celebrating the classic detective novel.
Secrets of the Singer Girls is a sweeping wartime saga set in London’s colourful East End.
Swooping down from the majestic heights of Dartmoor, Swanton Morley, Miriam and Stephen Sefton embark on another adventure. Swanton Morley has been invited to speak at the school’s Founders’ Day… but a boy has died. With occasional outings to surf and to sample cream teas – Swanton Morley, Sefton and Miriam once again pit their wits against the dark, repressive, antiintellectual forces of 1930s England.
“ Solid-gold A-list must-read.”
Two months after the suspicious and much-publicised death of Adam Baline’s father, the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine’s death casts suspicions on those closest to him, testing his ability to protect those closest to him. But the sternest test of all is Carla Pacelli – his late father’s mistress and a woman to whom Adam finds himself increasingly drawn. The closer he gets to this beautiful woman the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he’s striven to conceal.
LEE CHILD
“ An intriguing psychological examination of a damaged family.”
“ Heart-stoppingly good.”
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DAILY MAIL
“ A delightful, idiosyncratic mystery set in the Thirties… Beautifully crafted by Sansom.” DAILY MAIL ON THE NORFOLK MYSTERY
“ Sansom is both celebrating and sending up the golden age of detective novels… leaves you looking forward to the next maniacal mystery tour.” EVENING STANDARD ON THE NORFOLK MYSTERY
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SEPTEMBER
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The Shop Girls
Nothing But Lies
Lonely Girl
The Apartment in Rome
Ellee Seymour
Lyndon Stacey
Josephine Cox
Penny Feeny
The charming true story of four young women working in a glamorous department store in the 1950s.
The third in the exciting new mystery series featuring ex-police dog handler, Daniel Whelan.
One fateful night changes the course of a child’s life forever…
Daniel Whelan’s ex-colleague, Joey Matsuki, has asked for his help. Joey is concerned for the safety of his fiancée, Tami, who has reported sightings of a sinister, hoodieclad figure lurking in the area. Working undercover, Daniel begins to believe there may be more to the situation than meets the eye. As he questions Tami’s friends and neighbours, it becomes clear that something isn’t right. There are things people aren’t telling him; small but significant incidents that can’t be explained…
Rosie’s mother is a cruel woman and has Rosie’s kind and loving father wrapped around her finger. Though John Tanner does his best to protect her, Rosie often bears the brunt of her mother’s rage. In one tragic moment Rosie’s fragile world is shattered. Grieving and alone, Rosie is thrust into a harsh reality, and she must face the obstacles that fate has set in her path.
A simple life in the sun: who could ask for more? A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of That Summer in Ischia.
For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth’s department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the girls step inside the elegant building, the hardships of their own lives are temporarily forgotten. Serving a variety of customers, from glamorous gypsy queens to royalty and the city’s fashionable elite, the store is a place where these young women can forge successful careers, under the everwatchful eye of flamboyant owner Mr Heyworth. Set during the 1950s, The Shop Girls perfectly brings to life the thrilling hustle and bustle of a fashionable department store.
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“ Stacey’s plot is both credible and consistently engaging, pulling the reader quickly towards […] stomach-clenchingly exciting denouement.”
Sandra Duncan
Biography & Autobiography 9 hours 9781471299049
“ Another hit for Josephine Cox.”
“ Vivid and gripping.”
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Gina’s life is good – she loves her adopted home in Italy and she is passionate about her work as a photographer. She’s all wrapped up in her latest artistic project, shots of the young men who arrive in Italy as refugees, destitute and vulnerable. One day, Sasha, a lonely British teenager at summer school, crosses Gina’s path. Sasha’s innocent romance creates complications neither of them could have imagined, leading Gina to wonder, can she come to terms with her past?
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Romance 13 hours 9781510005860
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SEPTEMBER
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Letters to the Lost
The Silk Tree
The Detective’s Secret
The Dressmaker of Dachau
Iona Grey
Julian Stockwin
Lesley Thomson
Mary Chamberlain
He promised to love her forever, but forever is running out…
An epic adventure to unravel China’s most guarded secret…
Jack and Stella uncover the secrets of a case – but Jack is carrying a secret of his own…
A dramatic tale of love, conflict, betrayal and survival.
1943: In the ruins of Blitzed London, Stella Thorne and Dan Rosinski fall in love. Sixty years later Dan makes one final attempt to find the girl he has never forgotten, sending a letter to the house where they shared a brief yet perfect happiness. But Stella has gone and the letter is opened by Jess. She is captivated by the story of a love affair that burned so bright. Can she help Dan find Stella before it is too late?
Forced to flee Rome, merchant Nicander meets an unlikely ally in the form of Marius, a fierce Roman legionary. Escaping to a new life in Constantinople, the two land upon its shores lonely and penniless. Needing to make money fast, they plot a wicked plan to steal precious silk seeds from the faraway land of Seres, Nicander and Marius must embark upon a terrifyingly treacherous journey across unknown lands, never before completed.
October, 1987: As a hurricane sweeps through Britain, a man’s body slowly rots, locked inside an old water tower in west London. He carries no identification and fits no missing persons’ description. His corpse is never claimed.
1939, London: Eighteen-year-old Ada Vaughan is a beautiful, ambitious seamstress and a career in couture is hers for the taking. A chance meeting with enigmatic Stanislaus von Lieben catapults Ada into a world of glamour and romance. When he suggests a trip to Paris, Ada is blind to all the warnings of war on the continent. But anticipation turns to despair when war is declared and the two are trapped in France…
“ A beautifully woven tale of love and loss that breaks your heart and rebuilds it. I couldn’t put it down.” LIZ FENWICK, AUTHOR OF THE CORNISH HOUSE
“ Letters to the Lost pulsates with life, offering a vibrant love story that transcends time and the heartbreak of war.”
“ Stockwin’s page-turning prose, vividly drawn characters and ability to draw the reader right into these ancient times create a grand and compelling historical epic.”
October, 2013: The month of the great storm of St Jude. A man dies beneath a late night Piccadilly line train. His brother insists he was murdered, but Jack, a train driver, is sure it was suicide. “ Lesley Thomson is a class above.” IAN RANKIN
“ The Dressmaker of Dachau is a thrilling story, brilliantly told. I couldn’t put it down. Ada Vaughan is a character to fall in love with: utterly real, flawed and beguiling.” SASKIA SARGINSON, AUTHOR OF THE TWINS
QUARTERDECK MAGAZINE
“ A gripping story… showing the familiar style of the author and demonstrating careful research that produces an entirely believable historical novel.”
KATE ALCOTT, AUTHOR OF THE DRESSMAKER
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Berlin Game
60 Years a Nurse
Plague Child
Amy Snow
Len Deighton
Mary Hazard
Peter Ransley
Tracy Rees
East is East and West is West – and they meet in Berlin…
Follow Mary Hazard as she shares heartwarming, and funny anecdotes from her colourful career as a London nurse.
The first instalment of a captivating trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.
A life-changing discovery awaits… if only she can unlock the secret.
September, 1625: Plague cart driver, Matthew Kneave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet, on the way to the plague pit, he hears a cry – the baby is alive. A plague child himself, and now immune from the disease, Matthew decides to raise it as his own. Fifteen years on, Matthew’s son Tom is apprenticed to a printer in the City but someone is determined to kill him…
Abandoned on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy is taken in at Hatville Court, but despised by family and household alike. The beautiful Hatville heiress, Aurelia Vennaway, is Amy’s only advocate. So when Aurelia dies young, Amy’s world collapses. But Aurelia leaves Amy with one last gift – a bundle of letters with a coded key and a treasure hunt that only Amy can follow.
“ A gripping coming-of-age story… an enthralling mystery adventure.”
“ Her writing (is) exceptional, the story compelling and we couldn’t help but fall in love with Amy Snow.”
He was the best source the Department ever had, but now he desperately wanted to come over the Wall. ‘Brahms Four’ was certainly a high-ranking mole, set to betray him. There was only one Englishman he trusted any more – someone from the old days. So they decided to put Bernard Samson back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk – the field is Berlin. The game is as baffling, treacherous and lethal as ever… “ Deighton’s best novel to date – sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the private spy.”
For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking experience. 60 Years a Nurse follows the dramas and emotions as Mary found her feet during those early years. From the firm friends she made under the everwatchful gaze of Matron and the sisters, to the eclectic mix of Londoners she strove to care for. These are the funny and heart-warming moments that helped Mary to follow her dream. Mary Hazard is an extraordinarily energetic 79-year-old, living in London. One of the longest serving nurses/ health professionals in the NHS.
OBSERVER
“ A masterly performance, much the best thing Deighton has done since SS-GB.”
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“ Ransley has a talent for melding dramatic historical detail with a strong story that could well give C. J. Sansom a run for his money.” SPECTATOR
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Avid
Avid An imprint dedicated to the increasingly popular genre fiction – specifically Supernatural, Horror, Fantasy and Science-Fiction. This quarter includes Raymond E. Feist, Jack Finney and Joe Abercrombie.
Golden Son
The King’s Buccaneer
Pierce Brown
Raymond E. Feist
Ender’s Game meets The Hunger Games in Golden Son – the second in an extraordinary trilogy from an incredible new voice.
A stand-alone novel set in Feist’s best-love world, that of The Riftwar Cycle.
Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded amongst the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down society from within. It’s a journey that will take him further than he’s ever been before – but is Darrow truly willing to pay the price that rebellion demands? “ The writing is excellent and the story is better. This is one terrific fantasy book, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone.”
In Amos Trask’s ship, Prince Nicholas and Squire Harry set sail for a friendly visit to Uncle Martin in Crydee. But shortly after their arrival, Crydee is brutally attacked. The castle is reduced to ruins and the townspeople are slaughtered. As Nicholas ventures further from his home in pursuit of the invaders, he learns that there is more at stake than the fate of the Kingdom. Behind the murderous pirates stands a force that threatens the entire world of Midkemia. “ File under guilty pleasure.” GUARDIAN
“ Epic scope… vivid imagination… a significant contribution to the growth of the field of fantasy.”
TERRY BROOKS
“ A shot of adrenalin for your imagination.”
WASHINGTON POST
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Rook Song
The Skull Throne
Caliban’s War
From Time to Time
Naomi Foyle
Peter V. Brett
James S. A. Corey
Jack Finney
The gripping sequel to Astra.
The Skull Throne of Krasia stands empty…
Astra Ordott is in exile – evicted from Is-Land for a crime she cannot regret. Recovering from a disorienting course of Memory Pacification Treatment, Astra struggles to focus on her goals – to find her Code father and avenge the death of her Shelter mother. But the deeper Astra ventures into this new world, the more she realises her true quest may be to find herself.
Built from the skulls of fallen generals and demon princes, The Skull Throne of Krasia is a seat of ancient, powerful magic. From atop the throne, Ahmann Jardir was meant to conquer the known world. But Arlen Bales, the Warded Man, stood against this course and cast them both from a precipice, leaving the world without a saviour. All the while, the demons have been growing stronger and there may be none strong enough to stop them.
The action-packed sequel to James S. A. Corey’s critically acclaimed science fiction hit Leviathan Wakes.
Jack Finney’s sequel to his classic time travel novel Time and Again.
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“ Foyle is effective at building tension and creating villainy all the more sinister for its well-meaning smile.”
For someone who didn’t intend to wreck the solar system’s fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it. While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core alliance is shattered. Then, on one of Jupiter’s moons, a single super-soldier attacks, slaughtering soldiers of Earth and Mars. The race is on to discover whether this is the vanguard of an alien army, or if the danger lies closer to home.
“ Peter V. Brett is one of my favourite new authors.”
SFX
“ Mind-boggling, imagination-stretching.” “ Leviathan Wakes is interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written, the kind of SF that made me fall in love with the genre.”
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
“ Impeccable plotting.”
Ruben Prien is still at work with the Project, still dreaming of altering man’s fate by going back in time to adjust events. Ruben’s purpose in summoning Simon Morley back from that earlier world is to prevent World War One. It is ironic, therefore, that the man assigned to carry to America the papers that might help avert the Great Catastrophe travels to his meeting on board the Titanic. And it is Si’s task to attempt to ensure his safe passage.
GUARDIAN
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
“ One of the most important, and most moving, timeslip texts yet composed.”
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY ON TIME AND AGAIN
“ A winning blend of old-school space opera and modern sensibility… Corey combines no-nonsense storytelling with hard-boiled dialogue as the novel races to a truly cosmic ending.” TELEGRAPH ON LEVIATHAN WAKES
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FR E O XC M L W US . F IV .H E O LY W ES
Avid
Half the World
Bliss House
Homeland
Joe Abercrombie
Laura Benedict
Cory Doctorow
Sometimes a girl is touched by mother war.
Richly gothic, creeping and dark, Bliss House is a haunting tale of loss, love and the secrets our houses can keep.
“A wonderful, important book […] I’d recommend […] over pretty much any book I’ve read this year.”
Rainey Bliss Adams’ perfect life came to an end one spring afternoon, when her husband was killed in an explosion that horrifically burned their fourteen year-old daughter, Ariel. Desperate for a new start, she takes Ariel to live in their beautiful family house. Once there, Ariel starts to mysteriously heal. But as a series of tragedies begins to unfold, it becomes clear that darkness lurks behind the dignified façade of Bliss House…
Marcus Yallow is no longer a student. California’s economy has collapsed, taking his parents’ jobs and his university tuition with it. Thanks to his activist past, Marcus lands a job as webmaster for a muckraking politician who promises reform. Things are never simple, though… Soon Marcus finds himself embroiled in lethal political intrigue and the sharp end of class warfare, American style.
“ Bliss House draws you in and refuses to let you go. The story is eerie, seductive, and suspenseful. Read it.”
“ A first class examination of all that’s wrong, and right, with American society, told in Doctorow’s inimitable and hugely enjoyable style. Faultless.”
Thorn is a girl touched by war. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named a murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Fate traps her in the schemes of the cunning minister Father, Yarvi, crossing half the world to find allies against the High King. Will Thorn forever be a tool in the hands of the powerful or can she carve her own path? “ Joe Abercrombie is fast becoming my favourite writer.” DEREK LANDY
“ Grabbed me and refused to let go.” GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who A new Standing Order Plan for 2015–16. Official BBC full-cast dramas, with music and sound effects in stereo, featuring former doctors including Colin Baker, Peter Davison and Paul McGann.
Faith Stealer
The Last
Graham Duff
Gary Hopkins
When the Doctor, Charley and C’rizz find their journey through the Interzone interrupted by a nightmarish vision, they are surprised to find the Kro’ka offering the perfect solution. The Multihaven, a harmonious community, appears to offer the perfect sanctuary in which to convalesce. But with the Doctor and Charley catching glimpses of an old friend and C’rizz on the receiving end of some unorthodox religious practices, their belief, hope and faith are about to be tested to the limit.
Trapped on a dying world, the Doctor, Charley and C’rizz come face-to-face with those responsible for the war to end wars. Powerful forces are at work on Bortresoye – natural forces that have excited the interest of Excelsior, the self-proclaimed saviour of her people. One final, desperate hope of escape presents itself to the travelers. But who will be the last to leave the planet? Who will have to stay behind? And will the Doctor, Charley and C’rizz live long enough to find out?
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JULY
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Medicinal Purposes
The Demons
The Warriors
The Future
Robert Ross
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs
Edinburgh, 1827: The infamous body snatchers William Burke and William Hare are at large. The local prostitutes dull their fear with cheap whisky. The graveyard owls are hooting. Business is good. When accidental tourists the Doctor and Evelyn Smythe arrive, a simple case of interest quickly turns sour. Just what is that time bending Scots mist? Whatever it is may put the very fabric of the universe under threat.
Georgi Selestru’s fears about the Dalek threat may not be shared by his superiors. Galanar’s very survival is at stake and the Dalek plan is gaining momentum. But who are the Demons, and whose side are they on?
The fight against the Daleks must succeed now. But while the Wardens are outnumbered and without a strategy, the Dalek Supreme is sensing victory.
“Maybe this chapter of history will be a bad one. Another one in which the Daleks win. But maybe it won’t be.” It would seem that not even Saloran Hardew knows what the future will hold.
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who
The Next Life
Caerdroia
The Juggernauts
Orbis
Alan Barnes
Lloyd Rose
Scott Alan Woodard
Alan Barnes
Washed up on the sandy shores of a paradise island, a wild-eyed shipwreck survivor is rescued by the wife of Daqar Keep, the richest man in the galaxy. Her name’s Perfection. He’s the Doctor. Together, they face a journey into the dark heart of this mysterious island, to discover the deepest secrets of this timeless cosmos. That’s if the giant crabs, killer crocodiles and murderous natives don’t get them first.
Self-exiled to a new universe, separated from his TARDIS, the Doctor has been struggling to work out the nature of the cosmic game in which he’s an unwilling pawn. Threatened and desperate, the Kro’ka abandons his behind-the-scenes machinations to confront the Doctor directly. But will both of them lose their way in the maze of the strange world in which they find themselves?
Within a small mining colony on the distant planet of Lethe, events are occurring the results of which could dramatically affect things on a universal scale. For within the dingy corridors of the artificial biosphere, the lone survivor of a devastating crash has expertly wormed his way into the lives of the colony’s personnel. A scientist known as Davros. Rescuing Mel and stopping Davros should be the Doctor’s primary goals, but could it be that this time, Mel does not wish to be rescued? And might Davros actually be working on something for the benefit of the civilised galaxies?
The Doctor has fallen to his death. His companion, Lucie Miller, has returned to her life on Earth, griefstricken. Then, one night, an alien visitor arrives at her front door and shoots her. Could it be that Lucie’s days with the Doctor are not over? She will only find the answer on the planet Orbis. A planet where all forms of life are facing violent extinction.
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AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
The Beast of Orlok
Hothouse
Dreamtime
The Game
Barnaby Edwards
Jonathan Morris
Simon A. Forward
Darin Henry
Germany, 1827. The town of Orlok is under a curse, haunted by the memory of a spate of grisly murders that shattered the community twenty years before. And now, it seems, the Beast has returned. As the killings begin again, the people of Orlok are understandably suspicious of two strangers newly arrived in their midst. The Doctor and Lucie must face their darkest fears as they find themselves plunged into a decidedly grim fairytale.
Somewhere in the south of England stands the Hothouse. Inside, rock star turned environmental activist Alex Marlow has a plan to save the world from climate change. By any means necessary. There’s something growing inside the Hothouse. Something that could turn back humanity’s tide. A voracious alien vegetable called the Krynoid. The Doctor’s going to have to stop it. By any means necessary.
A city travels the stars, inhabited by stone ghosts. At its heart, an ancient remembrance of Earth. There is only fear. And death. And the stone ghosts. For Hex’s first trip in the TARDIS, it’s about the strangest place he could have imagined. Adjustment to his new life could prove tough. But he will have to adjust and do more, just to stay alive, and Ace will have to be his guide through this lost city of shadows and predatory dreams. And the Doctor is the first to go missing.
The Gora and the Lineen are set to face off in the grudge match to end all grudge matches. The players are limbering up, the commentators are preparing, the fans are daubing themselves in their team’s colours. When the Doctor and Nyssa arrive, however, they find that Naxy is a sport that anyone can play – whether they want to or not. Cray’s entire future depends on the match’s outcome, but the time travellers soon realise that it is anything but just a game
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SEPTEMBER
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Catch 1782
Wirrn Dawn
The Scapegoat
The Cannibalists
Alison Lawson
Nicholas Briggs
Pat Mills
Jonathan Morris
When the Doctor and Mel visit the National Foundation for Scientific Research as it celebrates its centenary, Mel expects only to be able to catch up with her uncle. She doesn’t expect to meet her own ancestors. Visiting your relatives can sometimes be trying, but surely it should never be this difficult?
The Doctor and Lucie land right in the middle of one of the human race’s bloodiest periods of history. Trying to make a difference here would be like standing up and calling for a cease-fire on the Somme. Certain death… Or worse. Survival can be a messy business.
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the Theatre des Baroque! Oh, but if you think you’ve seen and heard all that Paris by night has to offer… the exotic sights of Le Moulin Rouge, perhaps, or the horror tricks of Le Grand Guignol… if you think nothing could cause your mouth to dry and your heart to pound… you’re wrong.
The Haven hangs in space. A vast star city, devoid of life. Organic life, that is. From their high spire, looking out over silent streets and empty plazas, the Assemblers are waiting for the day when the humans arrive. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting…
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Spy Dog: Mummy Madness
The Dying of the Light
Andrew Cope
Derek Landy
Spy Dog is the winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award and the Richard and Judy 7+ developing reader category.
The final shocking, heart-wrenching book in the jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series.
National security is under threat! The evil Mr Big has escaped from prison AGAIN and he’s on a mission to steal Egypt’s most valuable treasure, the Nile Ruby. The Prime Minister knows only one agent can stop this evil criminal mastermind – Spy Dog! But can Lara learn some new tricks in time to find the ruby, protect her pups and get Mr Big back in jail where he belongs?
The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder. And so he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers and criminals. The war may be over, but the final battle is about to begin. And not everyone gets out of here alive…
“ An imaginative, creative feast!” “ This is a writer at the height of his powers and Landy is getting better with every book… Whatever your age, read them and enjoy the ride.”
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“ A fast evolving plot and a great mix of scariness and humour.” SUNDAY EXPRESS
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Fantasy & Supernatural 18.5 hours 9780007546800
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The Ministry of Ghosts
Barry Loser: I am Sort of a Loser
Terror Kid
The Story of the Betrothed
Alex Shearer
Jim Smith
Benjamin Zephaniah
Umberto Eco
A spooky, funny mystery with ghost-hunting, useless adults… and tea.
Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize!
What is a terrorist? A shocking, moving and timely novel about the choices that shape us.
The most famous Italian classic novel, retold for children by the author of The Name of the Rose.
Rico knows to stay away from trouble as best he can. But he’s angry and frustrated at the injustices he sees happening at home and around the world. He wants to do something – but what? When he is approached by Speech, a mysterious man who shares Rico’s hacktivist interests, Rico is given the perfect opportunity to speak out. After all, what harm can a peaceful cyber protest do…?
Lorenzo and Lucia, both from peasant families, are planning their wedding. However, after meeting the villainous Don Rodrigo, the couple are forced to flee their village. Their dangerous journey in exile takes them through one of the most dramatic eras in Italian history, filled with war, famine and plague will they ever be able to find happiness together?
Thruppence and Tim don’t know what to expect when they ring the bell at the house with dusty windows. The Ministry of Ghosts has been given three months to prove the existence of ghosts! As it seems that children are particularly magnetic to ghosts, Thruppence and Tim are added to their ghost-catching team. And although neither of them are scared by talk of ghosts or monsters, they could never have imagined what happens next…
There’s a girl in Barry’s class who’s GETTING MORE LAUGHS THAN HIM! But luckily Barry immediately thinks up one of his brilliant and amazekeel plans to make sure he’ll have the final chuckle. All he needs is thirty boxes of Beard Flakes… “ Hugely enjoyable, surreal chaos.” OBSERVER
A powerful novel about justice, trust and idealism gone wrong that will make you look again at your definition of a terrorist.
“ A creative and fascinating idea, well written with interesting characters and scenery.” GUARDIAN
“ What makes these books special is that, brilliantly told by top-flight novelists, they are fresh, idiosyncratic and winning.” OBSERVER
“ The playful, obstinate and courageously humorous tone of Zephaniah’s writing shines through… hilarious and later heartbreaking.” GUARDIAN
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The Executioner’s Daughter
Princess Ellie’s Starlight Adventure
Marsh Road Mysteries: Diamonds and Daggers
Catch Your Death
Jane Hardstaff
Diana Kimpton
Elen Caldecott
Lauren Child
A thrilling adventure set in the underbelly of the Tower of London in Tudor times.
Princess Ellie is pony-mad!
Meet Piotr, Minnie, Andrew, Flora and Sylvia – true friends and even better mystery-solvers!
The third book in the ice-cool Ruby Redfort series, by multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child.
Moss hates her life. As the daughter of the Executioner in the Tower of London, it’s her job to catch the heads in her basket after her father has chopped them off. When she discovers a hidden tunnel that takes her to freedom, she learns that her life isn’t what she believes it to be. Her search for the truth takes her on a journey along the great River Thames. Could the answers lie deep in its murky depths?
Princess Ellie has four perfect ponies and the entire palace grounds to ride in. So Ellie’s in trouble when the King finds hoof prints on his lawn. He thinks she’s been riding in the royal garden. To prove her innocence, Ellie must catch the real culprit. But the only way to do it is to set out on a scary, starlight adventure… “ A heady cocktail of princesses, horses and mystery.” BBC PARENTING
“ A strong, new voice in children’s fiction – draws a wonderfully authentic portrait of a wilful tween desperate to find out more about her origins and flee the house of death.”
Hollywood sensation, Betty Massino, has come to star in the theatre down the road and Piotr and his friends Andrew and Minnie couldn’t be more excited! But when the famous actress’s hugely expensive diamond necklace goes missing, Piotr’s dad, a security guard at the theatre, is a prime suspect. With the help of Sylvie and her twin sister Flora, can Piotr, Andrew and Minnie solve the crime?
“ Lauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood.”
“ Funny… poignant… hilarious.” JULIA DONALDSON
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“ Perfect for Jacqueline Wilson fans.”
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Tigers are roaming the streets of Twinford and it looks like someone has deliberately released some very rare and very dangerous animals. Things are going to get wild – and Ruby is going to get badly lost in the wilderness. The question is, will she ever make it out alive? Well, as always, you wouldn’t want to bet against her…
“ Lauren Child is so good it’s exhilarating.”
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“ Mixes vivid history with supernatural adventure, and from its dark depths friendship, forgiveness and parental love rise to the surface.” SUNDAY TIMES
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My Friend the Enemy
The Wild Beyond
Secrets and Dreams
Shoutykid: How Harry Riddles Mega Massively Broke the School
Dan Smith
Piers Torday
Jean Ure
Simon Mayle
For Peter, the war is a long way away, until the night it comes to him.
The follow-up to the bestselling and Waterstones Children’s Prize shortlisted The Dark Wild and The Last Wild.
Even best friends don’t tell each other everything…
The funniest kid in fiction is back!
Summer, 1941: When a German plane is shot down over the woods, Peter rushes to the crash site to find something exciting to keep. But what he finds instead is someone – a young and injured German airman. The enemy. Here. And in trouble. Suddenly, helping him seems like the right thing to do. “ Grabbed me from page one… Dan Smith obviously knows his history.”
This is the story of a boy named Kester. He has brought the animals of his world back from the brink of disaster and he believes there is hope on the other side. He might just be right, because: 1. The last blue whale on the planet is calling to him; 2. His animal allies are ready for one last fight; 3. Out there, somewhere, a brave mouse holds the key to the future… “ A darkly comic and hugely inventive adventure… it could be the next big thing.”
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“ An exciting, thought-provoking book.”
When Zoe’s dream of going to boarding school becomes a reality, she can’t wait for her life there to begin – but sometimes things don’t turn out the way we expect. When one of Zoe’s new friends reveals a secret too big to share with the others in the group, Zoe finds herself caught in the middle. Will she be able to keep the Daisies together? Staying loyal while ‘fitting in’ has never seemed harder…
My name is Harry Riddles, and I live with my mum, my dad and my EVIL sister Charlotte. But now my mum is having TWINS so either me or Charlotte are gonna lose our bedroom. I’ve written to a bunch of people who might take Charlotte off our hands – oh and Brad Pitt’s wife to see if she wants to adopt a couple more kids, but who knows if they will write back. We’ll see. Simon Mayle is an award-winning screenwriter for film and television. This is his second book for children.
“ Jean Ure’s books are funny, funky, feisty – and fantastic reads!” JACQUELINE WILSON
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“ I haven’t read a book this good and interesting since The Hunger Games… an edge-of-your-seat fast-paced read.” GUARDIAN
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Plague
The Story of Crime and Punishment
Jelly Has a Wobble
Mountwood School for Ghosts
Ann Turnbull
A. B. Yehoshua
Candy Guard
Eva & Toby Ibbotson
“In sixteen hundred and sixty-five there was hardly anyone left alive.”
A daring retelling for children of one of literature’s classic moral stories.
The follow up to the hilarious Turning to Jelly, perfect for fans of Jean Ure.
Things are about to get spooky…
Spring 1665, London: Sam was just a young boy when his master took him out of the orphanage. When he was old enough, he was going to become his master’s apprentice. But that was before the plague arrived. Now, Sam finds himself nailed into his workshop home with only his dying master and pet dog Budge for company. Can Sam escape? And even if he does, will he be able to survive?
Raskolnikov is a poor student living in St Petersburg. Desperate to escape his poverty, he kills two people, and flees with a few watches and some jewellery. Although at first nobody suspects him, his own conscience plagues him and it isn’t long before an intelligent police detective by the name of Petrovich begins to have his doubts about Raskolnikov’s innocence, and is determined to make him confess.
Jelly’s totally embarrassing mum is getting married (again) and Jelly is Head Bridesmaid. Luckily her best friends are around to help – although they’re too busy coming up with mad schemes to get tickets to see their favourite band to be much use. How will Jelly be able to street dance up the aisle in front of everyone, without having a complete wobble?
Fredegonda, Goneril, and Drusilla are Great Hagges, much more important and much rarer than regular old hags. They think that ghosts these days are decidedly lacking – people haven’t been scared of ghosts for years. So one day they decide that something needs to change – it’s time for these ghosts to learn a thing or two about being scary. And what better way to teach them than to set up their very own school for ghosts?
“ The story zips along and I found it engrossing.”
“ Offers younger readers vivid, accessible first encounters with some literary heavyweights.”
Candy Guard is a writer, animator and cartoonist. She had a long-running strip cartoon in the Observer magazine and makes films for Channel 4.
A funny ghost story from Toby Ibbotson, son of award-winning author Eva Ibbotson, based on an idea conceived by Eva Ibbotson.
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“ Shimmers with wit, style and a special sense of fun.” AMANDA CRAIG
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Wild Boy and the Black Terror
Five Children on the Western Front
Hook’s Daughter
The Story of the Nose
Rob Lloyd Jones
Kate Saunders
Heidi Schulz
Andrea Camilleri
A return to the fascinating world of Wild Boy – under the respectable face of Victorian London.
An epic, heart-wrenching follow-on from E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It stories.
This fun title continues the Neverland adventures with Captain Hook’s daughter, Jocelyn.
A humorous masterpiece about a man and his wayward nose, adapted for children.
The five children have grown up and World War I has begun in earnest. The sand fairy has become a creature of stories… until, for the first time in 10 years, he suddenly reappears. Before this last adventure ends, all will be changed – the two younger children will have seen the Great War from every possible viewpoint, and the war’s impact will be felt right at the heart of their family.
It’s not easy being the daughter of Captain Hook. Twelve-year-old Jocelyn dreams of following in his footsteps – but her grandfather sends her to finishing school instead. When her father meets his unfortunate end, Jocelyn sails to Neverland to avenge his death. But she hadn’t bargained on ticking crocodiles, lazy pirates and a troublemaking boy called Peter.
Kovalyov wakes one morning to discover that his nose has disappeared! It has mysteriously found its way into a loaf of bread on the barber Yokovlevich’s breakfast table. The barber tries to get rid of it, but when Kovalyov steps out onto the St Petersburg streets, he finds his nose, now the size of a human, wearing a gold-embroidered uniform and travelling around in a carriage…
“ Saunders has created a simply brilliant book… E. Nesbit would be proud and honoured by this beautifully crafted, funny, heart-breaking story.”
“ A rollicking page-turner that’s more than just an action packed adventure.”
“ A gem of an idea… Bedtime stories get a literary makeover.”
A new sensation grips London – a poisoner who strikes without a trace, leaving victims mad with terror… and then dead. Is there a cure for the Black Terror? To find out, Wild Boy and Clarissa must catch the killer. Their hunt will lead them from the city’s vilest slums to its grandest palaces, and to a darkness at the heart of its very highest society. “ The story takes off like a rocket.” THE TIMES
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“ Saunders’s novel does what fiction does best: it focuses on individuals we care about in order to make a universal point.”
“ This entertaining take on the Peter Pan story neatly blends action-adventure and comical and heartfelt moments.” BOOKLIST
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The Enchanted Horse
Wilf the Mighty Worrier
Magdalen Nabb
Georgia Pritchett
A little toy horse is about to change Irina’s life forever…
“A total delight of a, what I call, book.”
Bella was real… Dreams don’t eat hay and drink water. Dreams don’t leave footprints in the snow.
Things Wilf was worried about before: stuffed animals, peanut butter, creepy crawlies that have waggly feeler things instead of eyes. Things Wilf is worried about now: the most evil man in the world, the most evil man in the world living next door, anyone called Alan. When Alan, a self-styled Evil Lunatic, moves in next door with his robot sidekick and his silent dog, Wilf knows he will have to find a way to overcome his fears.
When Irina sees a tatty horse in a junk-shop window, she thinks it looks sad and lonely. Irina is an only child and wants nothing more than to take care of this horse. Little does she know how special Bella is or that magical journeys lie in wait for them! “ Tender and touching, utterly enchanting.”
miranda Hart
“ A lively, funny story.”
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