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Dear Librarian, We’re stepping into spring with fantastic new fiction from some of today’s biggest authors. Jojo Moyes returns with The One Plus One, a beautiful and compelling romance about two lost souls meeting in the most unlikely circumstances. The Unpredictable Consequences of Love is the captivating new chart-topper from Jill Mansell, while Sebastian Faulks’ gloriously witty homage to P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, features the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster in a reversal of roles… Our non-fiction plan is packed with inspirational true life stories. I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb is the astonishing tale of the fight for girls’ education in Pakistan, and Winner of the National Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Major motion picture The Monuments Men, starring Matt Damon and George Clooney, is based on Robert M. Edsel’s book of the same name. It is an epic story about World War II’s most unlikely group of heroes, men who risked their lives to save hundreds of thousands of the world's greatest works of art. In this collection you’ll also find remarkable autobiographies from iconic comedian Jennifer Saunders and well-loved chef Rick Stein. We have plenty to please fans of crime fiction, including thrilling novels from Sophie Hannah, Peter May and Laura Wilson. DCI Banks makes a welcome return in Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson, and Sarah Lund has a brand new case in The Killing III by David Hewson. Classics by Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy, romance from award-winner Christina Courtenay and Anna Quindlen’s Women’s Prize for Fiction nominated Still Life With Breadcrumbs, ensure that there is something to satisfy every reader. Please get in touch with your feedback. Best wishes,
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INDEX • April 2014 Large Print titles 4-10 • May 2014 Large Print titles 10-20 • June 2014 Large Print titles 20-26 3
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells Sebastian Faulks
The Killing: Book 3 David Hewson
Stonemouth Iain Banks
978 1 47125 841 1 – 288pp
978 1 47125 839 8 – 640pp
978 1 47125 838 1 – 480pp
A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P. G. Wodehouse’s much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate
Based on the third series of the original Bafta-award winning television drama The Killing
Tough, funny, fast-paced and touching, Stonemouth is a rite of passage novel like no other
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fter five years in exile, Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth for the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. Although there’s supposed to be a temporary truce between Stewart and the town’s biggest crime family, it soon becomes clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of peace seriously. Before long he steps back into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt and all that it has lost him, uncovering ever darker stories.
‘[A] wonderfully happy book.’ GUARDIAN
hen Detective Inspector Sarah Lund is contacted by National Intelligence about an assassination threat to Prime Minister Troels Hartmann, attention is drawn towards the oil giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen. But when Zeuthen’s 9-year-old daughter, Emilie, is kidnapped the investigation takes on a different dimension as it becomes clear that her disappearance is linked to the murder. Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign, made all the more turbulent because of the mounting financial crisis. He needs Zeeland’s backing. Lund needs to make sense of the clues left by Emilie’s kidnapper before it’s too late.
‘Jeeves and the Wedding Bells is a masterpiece. This is a pitch-perfect undertaking: proof, almost a century after his debut, that Jeeves may not be so inimitable after all.’ SPECTATOR
Praise for the series: ‘A novel in the hugely experienced hands of David Hewson that defies expectation. Hewson’s style is tight, lean, almost like a film script’ EXPRESS
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ertie Wooster, recently returned from a sojourn in Cannes, finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. On this occasion, however, it is Jeeves who is to be seen in the drawing room while Bertie finds himself below stairs. Love, is at the root of the confusion. Bertie has met Georgiana on the Côte d’Azur, and though she is clever and he has a reputation for foolish engagements, it looks as though this could be the real thing. However, Georgiana is the ward of Sir Henry Hackwood, and is already betrothed to Mr Rupert Venables.
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‘Tender, funny and heart-stoppingly exciting’ THE TIMES ‘The mythology of Stewart’s past, and of Stonemouth itself, is utterly absorbing. Addictive, funny, and brilliantly observed’ DAILY MAIL
‘Turns TV gold into literary gold’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
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We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo
Dead Rich Katia Lief
The Undertaking Audrey Magee
978 1 47125 846 6 – 304pp
978 1 47125 845 9 – 400pp
978 1 47125 837 4 – 368pp
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, We Need New Names is an outstanding debut novel
In the latest Karin Schaeffer thriller, the rich play by their own rules
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ormer New York City homicide detective Karin Schaeffer should be enjoying a family holiday in Sardinia. But she and her husband, Mac, arrive on the island to find their children and nanny missing.
arling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. It isn’t all bad, though. There’s mischief and adventure, games of Find bin Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. They dream of the paradises of America, Dubai, Europe, where Madonna and Barack Obama and David Beckham live. For Darling, that dream will come true. But, like the thousands of people all over the world trying to forge new lives, Darling finds this new paradise brings its own set of challenges - for her and also for those she’s left behind.
‘Bulawayo’s novel is not just a stunning piece of literary craftsmanship but also a novel that helps elucidate today’s world’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
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s the kidnapping connected to Mac’s last case: investigating the infidelities of billionaire Godfrey Millerhausen? And, if so, just how far will he go to protect his secrets?
Praise for the author: ‘The ultimate race against the clock thriller’ LISA GARDNER
‘A bold and unsettling feat of empathy, all the more daring for its taut, beautifully understated style’ A. D. MILLER, author of Snowdrops
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esperate to escape the front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises ‘honeymoon’ leave for him and a pension for her. When Peter visits his new wife in Berlin; both are surprised by the attraction that develops. But when the tide of war turns and Berlin falls, Peter and Katharina, ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt, find their dream of family increasingly hard to hold on to...
‘A violent, elegant, unsentimental journey through hell and halfway back. This is an outstanding novel by a writer of huge talent and unusual candour.’ CHRIS CLEAVE, author of The Other Hand
‘Bulawayo’s courage and her literary scope shine out from this outstanding debut’ DAILY MAIL
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Reconstructing Amelia Kimberly McCreight
Snow White Must Die Nele Neuhaus
Loss of Innocence Richard North Patterson
978 1 47125 840 4 – 528pp
978 1 47125 842 8 – 592pp
978 1 47125 847 3 – 488pp
Do you really want to know what’s going on inside your daughter’s head?
Skin as white as snow, hair as black as ebony and lips as red as blood… But this is no fairy story…
ingle mother Kate Baron is in the meeting of her career when she is interrupted by a telephone call. Her daughter Amelia has just been suspended from her exclusive school. When Kate arrives at Grace Hall an hour later, she is greeted by the news that no mother ever wants to hear. A grieving Kate can’t accept that her daughter would kill herself. But she soon discovers she didn’t know Amelia quite as well as she thought, and so begins an investigation which takes her deep into Amelia’s private world and into the mind of a troubled young girl.
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‘A fantastic novel. If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll love this too.’ JODI PICOULT
A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick, this is a thrilling mystery from Germany’s bestselling crime author.
‘An extraordinary novel - profound, emotionally involving and totally addictive. This may be Richard North Patterson’s best work’ STEPHEN FRY
‘Like Gone Girl, this seamlessly marries a crime story with a relationship drama. And like Gone Girl it should be hailed as one of the best books of the year’ ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
‘[A] thriller that’s captivated Germany… [this] whodunit about two 17-year-old girls who go missing is filled with forensic detail and rattles along at a breakneck pace’ GRAZIA
‘A snapshot of America at a pivotal moment in history, and a beautifully written coming-of-age novel’ LADY ANTONIA FRASER
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n a wet November day, Detectives Pia Kirchoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to the scene of a mysterious accident. A woman may have been pushed from a bridge onto the motorway below. The investigation leads them to a small town near Frankfurt, where Pia and Oliver encounter a wall of silence. But when a young girl goes missing, the investigation turns into a dramatic race against time, because for the villagers, there is no doubt as to the identity of the perpetrator. And this time they are determined to take matters into their own hands.
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A flawed family, a forbidden friendship…
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une, 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane, life could not be safer, nor the future more certain. Soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the patrician Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted. But the Vineyard’s still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged, yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic young man, Blaine is a force of nature neither Whitney, nor her family, could have prepared for.
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Still Life with Bread Crumbs Anna Quindlen
The City of Strangers Michael Russell
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart Peter Swanson
978 1 47125 843 5 – 320pp
978 1 47125 745 2 – 576pp
978 1 47125 844 2 – 352pp
A once-famous photographer attempts to rebuild her life in the superb new novel from Anna Quindlen, the bestselling author of Every Last One till Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
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Deeply moving and very funny, this is the story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart and her mind. ‘The honesty of her storytelling is exemplary’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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New York, 1939: A city of hope. A city of opportunity. A city hiding dark secrets…
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arda Sergeant Stefan Gillespie is sent to America to bring a killer to justice, but his mission soon becomes part of an increasingly personal struggle. A chance encounter with an old friend draws him deep into a chilling network of conspiracy, espionage and terror. He becomes more involved than he should and discovers that the war that is looming in Europe is already being played out here on the streets, with deadly consequences. In this time when people must make a stand for what they believe in, the stakes for Stefan Gillespie, and everything he holds dear, couldn’t be higher.
‘Complex but compelling… utterly vivid and convincing… Michael Russell’s style is a pleasure: easy, fluent, clear, always calm and never over-heated.’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
George Foss never thought he’d see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack’s Tavern.
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hen George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college freshman. She and George became inseparable, so George was devastated when he got the news that she had committed suicide. But, as he stood in the living room of the girl’s grieving parents, he realized the girl in the photo on their mantelpiece - the one who had committed suicide - was not his girlfriend. Now, twenty years later, she’s back, and she’s telling George that he’s the only one who can help her... In his electrifying debut, Peter Swanson evokes the spirit of Body Heat and Double Indemnity, in a thriller about love, loss and memories.
‘The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride and an absolute blast from start to finish’ DENNIS LEHANE ‘As good as they come. A thrilling slice of contemporary noir with twists that you won’t see coming.’ MARK BILLINGHAM
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The Lady Risks All Stephanie Laurens
Romancing the Soul Sarah Tranter
The Monuments Men Robert M. Edsel
978 1 47125 855 8 – 640pp
978 1 47125 851 0 – 496pp
978 1 47125 850 3 – 688pp
Your Soul Mate is out there! Let a past life lead the way…
Now a major film starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray and Hugh Bonneville
A stunning standalone novel from the queen of Regency romance
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eville Roscoe, notorious and enigmatic, lives resolutely outside society, bound only by his code of honour - until challenged by his desire for the one woman he cannot have. Miranda Clifford is a lady imprisoned by rigid respectability - until tempted by a passion beyond her power to deny. Flung together in peril, through danger and intrigue, they discover a love impossible to ignore… or keep. Filled with passion, glamour and intrigue, The Lady Risks All is Stephanie Laurens, queen of historical romance, at her best.
‘The masterful, eloquent storyteller takes time to build the background, and the characters’ motivation, as she weaves an enchanting story’ ROMANTIC TIMES
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achael Jones hasn’t exactly chosen an average career path. She’s a ‘past-life regressionist’ and hopes to help her clients find their ‘Soul Mates’ through reconnecting them with their past lives. But Rachael made the mistake of regressing her best friend, Susie Morris, who has since been haunted by events that occurred in her past life. When Susie meets Hollywood actor, George Silbury, she is completely unprepared for her reactions. There’s an intense mutual attraction that neither can explain nor ignore.
Can George help Susie overcome the sense of desolation or will history’s habit of repeating itself ruin all chances of her finding happiness?
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hat if I told you that there was an epic story about World War II that has not been told, involving the most unlikely group of heroes? What if I told you there was a group of men on the front lines who didn’t carry machine guns or drive tanks; a new kind of soldier, one charged with saving, not destroying. From caves to castles in a thrilling race against time, these men risked their lives daily to save hundreds of thousands of the world’s greatest works of art. They were the Monuments Men, and this is their extraordinary true story.
‘Remarkable’ WASHINGTON POST ‘Engaging, inspiring’ PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
‘Sinfully sexy and deliciously irresistible’ BOOKLIST
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One Hundred and Four Horses Mandy Retzlaff
Under A Mackerel Sky Rick Stein
Good Wives Louisa May Alcott
978 1 47125 849 7 – 384pp
978 1 47125 848 0 – 400p
978 1 47125 852 7 – 400pp
This is the story of incredible bonds – a love of the land, the strength of a family, and of the connection between man and the most majestic of animals, the horse
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s the invasions gathered pace, the Retzlaffs began an epic journey across Zimbabwe, facing eviction after eviction, trying to save a group of horses with whom they felt a deep and enduring bond. When their neighbours fled to New Zealand, the Retzlaffs promised to look after their horses, and made similar promises to other farmers; they amassed an astonishing herd and faced an arduous journey to freedom.
‘The dramatic narrative of their dangerous journey … gives this epic its nail-biting edge. The horses, each with its own character, are the stars’ THE TIMES ‘A powerful story of loss, desperation and, above all, hope’ HORSE AND HOUND
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The wry, perceptive and brilliantly evocative memoir of one of Britain’s best-loved cooks
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ick Stein’s childhood in 1950s North Cornwall was idyllic. But ever-present was the unpredictable mood of his bipolar father. When Rick was 18 his father killed himself. Emotionally adrift, Rick left for Australia, carrying a suitcase stamped with his father’s initials. Manual labour in the outback followed by adventures in America and Mexico toughened up the naive public schoolboy. Eventually, Cornwall called him home. From the entrepreneurial days of his mobile disco, the Purple Tiger, to his first, unlikely nightclub where much of the time was spent breaking up drink-fuelled fights, Rick charts his personal journey.
Rick owns four restaurants, a delicatessen, a patisserie and a seafood cookery school in the small fishing port of Padstow, Cornwall. In 2003, Rick was awarded an OBE.
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Good Wives continues the story of the Little Women, the March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they approach womanhood
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eg longs to begin her new life with John Brook, though they can never be rich; Jo returns to devote herself to literature, and to Beth, whose illness has left her weak but whose serenity shines through the household; and Amy has gone to Aunt March, bribed with the offer of drawing lessons. Laurie remains irrepressible, with his high spirits and sense of fun, though his pursuit of Jo’s affections seems unlikely to succeed...
‘Six generations of readers have found in the story of the March family universal truths about girls, families and growing up’ GUARDIAN ‘Deals with life’s big questions - love and death, war and peace, and ambition versus family responsibility in a way that is inspiring and realistic.’ MARIE CLAIRE
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Silas Marner George Eliot
The Unpredictable Consequences of Love Jill Mansell
Children of the Revolution Peter Robinson
978 1 47125 853 4 – 304pp
978 1 47125 978 4 – 512pp
978 1 47125 982 1 – 512pp
The tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is the most immediately accessible of Eliot’s novels
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njustly exiled, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. That is until the unlikely appearance of a child on his hearth. The orphan child Eppie restores him to life with love and tenderness. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader’s attention until the last page as Eppie’s bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.
‘I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author’s works. It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple, rounded, consummate aspect… which marks a classical work.’ HENRY JAMES
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The delicious new romantic novel from Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author, Jill Mansell
The twenty-first novel in bestselling author Peter Robinson’s critically acclaimed DCI Banks series
hen Josh Strachan, newly returned to his home in north Cornwall from sunny California, first meets Sophie Wells, he’s immediately smitten. Sophie’s pretty, she’s funny, she has lots of friends and she clearly loves her job as a photographer. There’s just one problem: Sophie has very firmly turned her back on love. It’s nothing personal, she tells Josh, but she just doesn’t do dates. And no one - even Sophie’s scatty best friend Tula - will tell him why. Josh is sure Sophie likes him, though, and he’s just got to find out what’s put her off romance. And then put things right...
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x-college lecturer Gavin Miller is found dead; his distorted body strewn across a disused railway track near his home. There’s no sign of a struggle, and no concrete evidence except for one distinguishing package: £5,000 of cash, tucked inside the man’s pocket. But when DCI Banks delves into Miller’s past, he uncovers a troubled existence tarnished by accusations of abuse and misconduct which throws up an array of puzzling questions. One thing is clear: someone will stop at nothing - even murder to prevent Banks from discovering the truth…
‘A warm, witty and romantic read that you won’t be able to put down’ DAILY MAIL
‘Classic Robinson: a labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation’ OBSERVER
‘Jill Mansell is in a different league. And you’ll fall in love with the characters in this lovely tale’ SUN
‘Brilliant!... Gut-wrenching plotting, alongside heartwrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure.’ JEFFERY DEAVER
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Witness the Night Kishwar Desai
Long Way Home Eva Dolan
Never Look Back Clare Donoghue
978 1 47125 988 3 – 256pp
978 1 47125 987 6 – 544pp
978 1 47125 981 4 – 368pp
The start of a major new crime series from a CWA Debut Dagger shortlisted author featuring a detective duo from the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit
A chilling and compelling debut crime thriller set in South East London, perfect for all those who enjoy Peter James, Mark Billingham and Peter Robinson
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Winner of the Costa First Novel Award
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n a small town in the heart of India, a young girl, barely alive, is found tied to a bed inside a townhouse where 13 people lie dead. The girl is alive, but only just. The girl now awaits her trial for the murders that the local police believe she has committed. But an unconventional social worker, Simran Singh, is convinced of her innocence. As Simran begins to examine the circumstances around the case, she encounters a terrifying web of prejudice and deceit in which lives of women are endangered from birth. What she discovers will change her forever.
Nominated for the Man Asian Literary prize ‘Very important themes [and a] very appealing central character.’ JANE GARVEY, BBC RADIO 4
man is burnt alive in a suburban garden shed. DI Zigic and DS Ferreira are called in from the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit to investigate the murder. Their victim is quickly identified as a migrant worker and a man several people might have had good reason to see dead. Zigic and Ferreira know all too well the problems that come with dealing with a community that has more reason than most not to trust the police, but when another migrant worker is attacked, tensions rapidly begin to rise as they search for their killer.
‘A brilliant introduction to a new crime series. The plot is tight, the anger righteous and the action thrilling’ METRO ‘A stunning debut... The subject matter is fascinating, the execution of it is a joy to read’ JAMES OSWALD, author of Natural Causes
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hree women have been found brutally murdered in south London, the victims only feet away from help during each sadistic attack. And the killer is getting braver… Sarah Grainger is rapidly becoming too afraid to leave her house. Once an outgoing photographer, she knows that someone is watching her. DI Mike Lockyer heads up the regional murder squad. With three bodies on his watch, and a killer growing in confidence, he frantically tries to find the link between these seemingly isolated incidents. What he discovers will not only test him professionally but will throw his personal life into turmoil too.
The start of a gripping new crime series, Never Look Back was nominated for the CWA Debut Dagger whilst still an unpublished manuscript.
May 2014
Arctic Summer Damon Galgut
The Liar’s Daughter Laurie Graham
Perfect Wives Emma Hannigan
978 1 47125 985 2 – 432pp
978 1 47125 983 8 – 448pp
978 1 47125 693 6 – 512pp
A fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain’s finest novelists, E. M. Forster, from a twice Man Booker shortlisted author
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n 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes and the seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind. It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forster’s great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature.
‘Galgut seems the most likely of the crop of young South African novelists to fill J.M. Coetzee’s shoes.’ GUARDIAN
There are questions we can never hope to answer. It doesn’t stop us asking.
A heartwarming novel of family, friendship and coming home, perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy
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hen actress Jodi returns to Ireland to raise her son, she’s determined to shield him from the media. Even if coming home means leaving her husband - and waking old ghosts. Meanwhile, Francine takes pride in juggling her children, her home and her high-powered career. But behind closed doors, Francine’s life is crumbling around her. As Jodi struggles to keep her secrets to herself, and Francine comes to terms with some life-changing news, the two become unlikely friends. They discover that there’s no such thing as the perfect wife, or the perfect life – sometimes it’s better to be happy than to be perfect.
an Prunty’s mother has always claimed to have been Lord Nelson’s lover. She saw him die at Trafalgar, or so she says. Nan makes her own determined way in life, but is always haunted by the wish to know the truth about her father. From the ageing seamen at the Greenwich Hospital to the battlefields of the Crimea, Nan discovers the world is full of people with a story about Nelson.
‘Why is Laurie Graham not carried on people’s shoulders through cheering crowds? Her books are brilliant’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Funny, fascinating and profoundly moving. I savoured every sentence’ FREYA NORTH on A Humble Companion
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‘Warm, wise, uplifting…a wonderful storyteller’ CATHY KELLY
‘Invites comparison with Greene, Conrad and Naipaul.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Lie Still Julia Heaberlin
Hidden Casey Hill
Falling Emma Kavanagh
978 1 47125 986 9 – 464pp
978 1 47125 979 1 – 448pp
978 1 47125 980 7 – 384pp
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer…
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hen Emily Page and her husband Mike move to Clairmont, Texas, they believe that it’s a place where they can build a new life for themselves. Emily is soon invited to a prestigious lunch hosted by local doyenne Caroline Warwick. There she meets Clairmont’s rich housewives, but soon discovers that under the veneer of respectability lies shifting loyalties and dangerous secrets. So when Caroline disappears, Emily begins to search for clues and wonders if any of the well-bred Southern ladies in Caroline’s circle could have wanted her harmed…
‘Heaberlin expertly spins out a tale of lies and deceit that will keep the reader guessing.’ PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY ‘[A] carefully wrapped package of Texas soap opera, social and political expose, and well-paced thriller.’ BOOKLIST
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One dead body. A decades old mystery. And a silent child who holds the key…
A plane falls out of the sky. A woman is murdered. Four people all have something to hide.
hen a young girl is discovered dead on an isolated Irish country road, it seems at first glance to be a simple hit and run. Then the cops see the tattoo on her back - a pair of beautifully wrought angel wings that lend the victim a sense of ethereal innocence. Forensic investigator Reilly Steel is soon on the scene and she suspects that there is more to this case than a straightforward murder. Then the angel tattoo is traced to other children - both dead and alive - who are similarly marked…
im is a retired police officer. His beloved daughter has disappeared and he knows something is wrong. Tom has woken up to discover that his wife was on the plane and must break the news to their son. Cecilia had packed up and left her family. Now she has survived a tragedy, and sees no way out. Freya is struggling to cope with the loss of her father. But as she delves into his past, she may not like what she finds. ‘Before the plane crash, after the plane crash, such a short amount of time for the world to turn on its head…’
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‘[A] well-paced out-and-out crime story, featuring an attractive and intelligent new heroine’ IRISH INDEPENDENT on Taboo ‘The novel derives its page-turning quality from the rapid pace of events as the investigation gathers momentum’ IRISH TIMES on Taboo
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Falling is a brilliant debut psychological thriller by a former police psychologist, perfect for fans of Nicci French and S. J. Watson.
May 2014
The Riot Laura Wilson
The Secret Kiss of Darkness Christina Courtenay
The Maid of Milan Beverley Eikli
978 1 47125 984 5 – 512pp
978 1 47125 992 0 – 400pp
978 1 47125 993 7 – 432pp
The tension-filled new DI Stratton novel, from the winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Award
From the award winning author of Trade Winds comes a passionate, time-slip drama
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ayla Sinclair knows she’s in big trouble when she almost bankrupts herself to buy a life-size portrait of a mysterious eighteenth century man at an auction. Jago Kerswell knows there is danger in those stolen moments with Lady Eliza Marcombe, but he’ll take any risk to be with her. Over two centuries separate Kayla and Jago, but their lives become inextricably linked thanks to a gypsy’s spell. Kayla finds herself on a quest that could heal the past, but what she cannot foresee is the danger in her own future. Will Kayla find heartache or happiness?
958: Notting Hill is sweltering in a heatwave. It’s DI Stratton’s new manor and a powder keg of racial tension. A rent collector is stabbed and a series of street fights between teddy boys and Caribbean immigrants sparks further unrest. Young runaway Irene, on the verge of prostitution, finds her loyalties lie on both sides of the fight. A race riot breaks out - the worst Britain has ever seen. Stratton must tread a path through the violence and prejudice to find the killer and save Irene before Notting Hill explodes.
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ord Tristan Leeson is a model of diplomacy and self-control, even curbing the fiery impulses of his youth to preserve the calm relations deemed essential by his mother-in-law to preserve his wife’s health. A visit from his boyhood friend, feted poet Lord James Dewhurst, author of the sensational Maid of Milan, persuades Tristan that leaving the countryside behind for a London season will be in everyone’s interests. But as Tristan’s political career rises and his wife revels in society’s adulation, the secrets of the past are uncovered. And there’s a high price to pay for a life of deception.
‘A crime narrative of great authority... extremely evocative’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘The tang of Wilson’s period detail pops off the page... a richly imagined, compassionate story’ METRO
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May 2014
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth Chris Hadfield
Four Sisters Helen Rappaport
I am Malala Malala Yousafzai
978 1 47125 990 6 – 368pp
978 1 47125 989 0 – 624pp
978 1 47125 991 3 – 400pp
The vivid and refreshing insights in this book will completely change the way you view life on Earth – especially your own
Award-winning and critically acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport tells the tragic story of the daughters of the last Tsar of Russia
olonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft, and become a YouTube sensation with his performance of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ in space. The secret to Chris Hadfield’s success – and survival – is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst – and enjoy every moment of it.
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n 17th July 1918, four young women were all brutally murdered, together with their parents and their thirteenyear-old brother. Their crime: to be the daughters of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Helen Rappaport offers readers the most authoritative account yet of Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. Drawing on their own letters and diaries, she paints a vivid picture of their lives in the dying days of the Romanov dynasty. Compellingly readable, Four Sisters gives these young women a voice, and allows their story to resonate for readers almost a century after their death.
‘Hadfield has done more than probably any astronaut since the Apollo missions to transform the image of space exploration... Space has rarely seemed to close, or the world so astonishing.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Stunning, chilling and poignant, this is how history books should be written’ ALISON WEIR on Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs
‘Houston, we have a superstar’ WASHINGTON POST
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Winner of the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, from inspirational school girl Malala Yousafzai
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hen the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday 9th October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. Shot in the head at point blank range while riding the bus home from school, few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in Northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. I Am Malala will make you believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world.
‘This memoir brings out her best qualities. You can only admire her courage and determination. Her thirst for education and reform appear genuine. She also has an air of innocence, and there is an indestructible confidence. She speaks with such poise that you forget that Malala is 16.’ THE TIMES
May 2014
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Entry Island Peter May
978 1 47125 995 1 – 496pp
978 1 47125 994 4 – 304pp
978 1 47126 104 6 – 512pp
Bold and unique, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a heartbreaking tale of love, loss and vengeance, that has become a masterpiece of English literature
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale Treasure Island remains one of our most enduring stories of adventure and piracy
Only two kilometres wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of around 130 inhabitants - the wealthiest of which has just been discovered murdered in his home.
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hen Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island where ‘X’ marks the spot of a stash of buried pirate gold, he sets sail with his friends to recover the treasure. Jim soon realises that he’s not the only one who knows about the hoard. Suddenly he is thrown into a world of treachery, mutiny, and murder and, at the centre of it all, is the charming but sinister Long John Silver, who will stop at nothing to grab his share of the loot...
rom the moment of his adoption by the Earnshaws, the foundling boy Heathcliff devotes himself to their young daughter Catherine. Growing up together, the two share a love that blossoms into romance, until Catherine’s hurtful betrayal. But Heathcliff’s emotions know no bounds and acknowledge no limits, not even death. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine and Heathcliff.
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‘An undisputed masterpiece’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Passion and romance written as they ought to be’ GUARDIAN ‘As a first novel, there is very little that can compare to it.’ SARAH WATERS
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‘I believe Treasure Island to be Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece… Long John Silver is a great literary creation.’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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etective Sime Mackenzie arrives from Montreal, but the investigation itself appears little more than a formality. The evidence points to a crime of passion: the victim’s wife the vengeful culprit. But for Sime the investigation is turned on its head when he comes face to face with the prime suspect, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met.
Praise for the author: ‘In mood and texture, Peter May’s novels [...] are essentially Nordic, and he bears comparison with some of the best writers from those cold desolate climes’ THE TIMES ‘One of the best-regarded crime series of recent years’ INDEPENDENT on The Lewis Trilogy
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The One Plus One Jojo Moyes
The Garden of Burning Sand Corban Addison
The Night Ranger Alex Berenson
978 1 47126 115 2 – 592pp
978 1 47126 106 0 – 560pp
978 1 47126 112 1 – 496pp
The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes
The Garden Of Burning Sand addresses international human rights issues within the framework of deeply researched and compelling human stories
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Praise for the author: ‘Majestic, utterly compelling, tremendous. A heart-stopping read’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ‘Truly beautiful. Made us laugh, smile and sob like a baby - you simply have to read it’ CLOSER
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n a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, an young girl is brutally assaulted and left for dead. In shock, she cannot speak. Her identity is a mystery. The girl’s case is taken up by Zoe Fleming, a human rights lawyer working in Africa, and she is determined to find the perpetrator and seek justice. Also investigating is Joseph Kabuta of the Zambian police. At first they are reluctant to work together, their pasts, cultures and upbringings radically different. Their task is not only to help the girl, Kuyeya, recover but, against overwhelming odds and terrifying danger, to ensure justice doesn’t fail her again.
‘A compelling novel with a conscience and a heart, gripping in its drama and unique in its insights into a hidden and dangerous world.’ RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON
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Bestselling author Alex Berenson’s seventh gripping spy novel featuring ex-CIA agent John Wells
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or countless Somali asylum seekers, the Dadaab refugee camps have provided crucial shelter from war and drought. Yet they have never been safe. When four American camp volunteers leave, bandits hijack their car, and they awake hooded and bound. Hostages. Ex-CIA agent John Wells is persuaded to Kenya to find them. But Wells is no expert on kidnappings or East Africa. The clock is ticking, and the White House is edging closer to an invasion of Somalia. If the hostages aren’t found, they’ll be killed and America could end up in a war it never should have started...
Praise for the author: ‘A genuine talent’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Gritty and fast-moving’ OBSERVER
June 2014
The Undesirables Dave Boling
A Hundred Pieces of Me Lucy Dillon
Lasting Damage Sophie Hannah
978 1 47126 111 4 – 448pp
978 1 47126 114 5 – 592pp
978 1 47126 105 3 – 496pp
A deeply moving, intimate portrait of family, friendship and love, set against the backdrop of the Second Boer War
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hile the vastly outnumbered Boer commandos fight in the field, half a million British soldiers torch a flaming path across the South African veld. As they go, the British imprison thousands of displaced Boer families, including Aletta Venter’s, and cast them into newly devised ‘concentration camps’. In a crowded tent with her mother and siblings, Aletta finds ways to cope with the confinement, privation and loss, but searches for the rarest of comforts – a bit of adolescent normalcy, perhaps even the spark of forbidden romance. Her weapon of choice in this personal battle: a young girl’s powerful sense of hope.
If you had the chance to make a fresh start, what would you keep from your old life? What would you give away?
The sixth psychological suspense novel from bestselling crime writer Sophie Hannah is unnervingly good
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‘A quite remarkable book’ TIME OUT
‘Such a brilliant book. So satisfying and clever and deeply moving. I’ll be passing it on to all my friends.’ SOPHIE KINSELLA
‘A wholly absorbing epic about a community caught up in one of the worst moments in the twentieth century’ METRO
‘This vibrant and uplifting novel has not only entertained me hugely, but made me change the way I look at life.’ KATIE FFORDE
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t’s 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she’s logging on to a property website in search of a house she saw earlier. Soon Connie is clicking on the ‘Virtual Tour’ button, keen to see inside the house. She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, there’s a woman lying face down in a huge pool of blood. In shock, Connie wakes her husband Kit. But when Kit sits down at the computer to take a look, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in an ordinary room…
‘An assured psychological thriller of murderous domestic deceit’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Hannah has a canny knack of insinuating threat into apparently benign domesticity and she does a nice line in offbeat characters’ DAILY MAIL
June 2014
The Disappeared Kristina Ohlsson
Stop Dead Leigh Russell
Light in a Dark House Jan Costin Wagner
978 1 47126 109 1 – 512pp
978 1 47126 108 4 – 400pp
978 1 47126 107 7 – 464pp
Sometimes the truth is better left buried…
‘A brilliant talent in the thriller field’ JEFFERY DEAVER
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hen a successful businessman is brutally murdered, the police suspect his glamorous wife and her young lover. Then the victim’s business partner suffers the same gruesome fate and, when yet another body is discovered seemingly unrelated to the first two, the police are baffled. The only clue is DNA that leads them to two women: one dead, the other in prison. With a steady stream of bodies arriving at the morgue, can D.I. Geraldine Steel find the killer before another deadly attack?
he body of a woman is found carved up and buried in a forest in an innocuous Swedish suburb. Alex Recht and his team soon identify the body as belonging to missing student, Rebecca Trolle, but as they continue to excavate the site, they find that someone has been returning to the same spot to bury their victims year after year, decade after decade. Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman is assigned the task of delving into Rebecca’s private life. But little does she know that her enquiries are about to uncover evidence that will put her actions under scrutiny, and will throw her private life into turmoil.
‘Tense, dense and very atmospheric… Kristina Ohlsson is a true queen of Scandinavian crime’ MONS KALLENTOFT
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‘All the things a mystery should be, intriguing, enthralling, tense and utterly absorbing.’ BEST CRIME BOOKS ‘Stop Dead is taut and compelling, stylishly written with a deeply human voice.’ PETER JAMES
‘Superbly crafted, and with a set of police detectives who are all too human, it seeps into your subconscious, as only truly good thrillers can do.’ DAILY MAIL
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Light in a Dark House is an atmospheric, haunting and beautifully written psychological crime thriller from an award-winning crime writer
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innish detective Kimmo Joentaa is called to the local hospital in which his young wife died several years before. An unidentified woman in a coma has been murdered by someone who wept over the body, their tears staining the sheets around her. The death marks the start of a series of killings, with the unknown patient at their centre. As Christmas fast approaches, Kimmo’s attempts to unravel the case and identify the first victim are complicated by the disappearance of his friend, who has vanished after an awkward encounter at a party, and by a colleague’s spiral into the depths of a gambling addiction.
‘I found myself awake at 5am thinking about it. A crime thriller with the heart of a love story’ RUTH DUGDALL
June 2014
The Lemon Grove Helen Walsh
Chasing the Dead Tim Weaver
Flight to Coorah Creek Janet Gover
978 1 47126 113 8 – 256pp
978 1 47126 110 7 – 592pp
978 1 47126 120 6 – 432pp
Sun. Desire. Obsession. An explosive, intelligent novel from the prize-winning author Helen Walsh
Chasing the Dead is the first in the chilling David Raker series, from the author of Never Coming Back
ach summer, Jenn and her husband Greg return to Deia, on Mallorca’s dramatic west coast. This year the arrival of Emma, Jenn’s stepdaughter, and her new boyfriend Nathan threatens to upset their equilibrium. Beautiful and reckless, Nathan stirs something unexpected in Jenn. As she is increasingly seduced by Nathan’s youth and the promise of passion, the line between desire and obsession begins to blur. What follows is a highlycharged liaison that puts lives and relationships in jeopardy. For Jenn, after this summer, nothing can ever be the same.
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‘A combustible combination of raw emotion and deep compassion’ INDEPENDENT
‘An impressive debut’ GUARDIAN
‘She will knock you sideways’ GUARDIAN
‘Perfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves’ BOOKGEEKS
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ary Towne’s son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up - as a corpse in a car wreck. Investigator David Raker doesn’t want the work: it’s clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son, but he reluctantly agrees. Big mistake. For as he digs deeper, he discovers that Alex’s life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found - and dark, dangerous men willing to kill to protect them.
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What happens when you can fly, but you just can’t hide?
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nly Jessica Pearson knows the truth when the press portray her as the woman who betrayed her lover to escape prosecution. But will her new job flying an outback air ambulance help her sleep at night or atone for a lost life? Doctor Adam Gilmore touches the lives of his patients, but his own scars mean he can never let a woman touch his heart. In Coorah Creek, a town on the edge of nowhere, you’re judged by what you do. But when the harshest judge is the one you see in the mirror, there’s nowhere left to hide.
Janet Gover is the author of a dozen novels and short stories, and has been awarded the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Elizabeth Goudge Trophy.
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The Longest Holiday Paige Toon 978 1 47126 119 0 – 560pp
‘Don’t wait for the storm to pass; learn to dance in the rain…’
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week before Laura’s wedding, her fiancé, Matthew, makes a terrible mistake. Escaping the humiliation that is now her marriage, Laura is whisked off to Florida’s Key West by her best friend Marty. A carefree holiday full of cocktails, surrounded by gorgeous men, is exactly what the doctor ordered. Distraction comes in the form of sexy Cuban scuba diver Leo. Laura’s instant attraction to him knocks her flying. As the end of the holiday approaches, Laura doesn’t want to go home. Is it time to face the music? Or is there more to Key West than a holiday romance?
‘Fun, summery chick-lit with bite. If you want escapism, Paige Toon is perfect.’ COSMOPOLITAN
The King’s Grave: The Search for Richard III Phillipa Langley & Michael Jones 978 1 47126 116 9 – 384pp
Discover the official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history’s most controversial monarch
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n 22nd August 1485 Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field, the last king of England to die in battle. His victorious opponent, Henry Tudor went on to display Richard’s body for two days in nearby Leicester and then hurriedly buried in the church of the Greyfriars. Fifty years later, the king’s grave was lost, its contents believed to be emptied into the river Soar, and Richard III’s reputation was buried under a mound of Tudor propaganda. Now - in an incredible find - Richard III’s remains have been uncovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The King’s Grave traces this remarkable journey.
‘Jones’ cogent and nuanced narrative provides the historical ballast to Langley’s search.’ GUARDIAN ‘Jones’s historical chapters are measured, reasonable and elegantly written.’ SUNDAY TIMES
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Bonkers Jennifer Saunders 978 1 47126 118 3 – 352pp
The hilarious, touching life story of the iconic comedian and national treasure
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ennifer Saunders’ comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names. But it’s Jennifer herself who has a place in our hearts. This is her funny, moving and frankly bonkers memoir, filled with laughter, friends and occasional heartache - but never misery. Bonkers is full of riotous adventures: accidentally enrolling on a teacher training course with a young Dawn French, shooting Lulu, touring India with Ruby Wax and Goldie Hawn. Prepare to chuckle, whoop, and go bonkers!
‘Delightfully funny… she writes with moving honesty’ HELLO ‘Her account of battling breast cancer is as honest as it is uplifting’ DAILY MAIL
June 2014
North Korea Undercover John Sweeney
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
Plain Tales From the Hills Rudyard Kipling
978 1 47126 117 6 – 436pp
978 1 47126 121 3 – 464pp
978 1 47126 122 0 – 304pp – £16.00
North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell’s 1984 made reality.
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osing as a university professor, award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney travelled undercover to gain unprecedented access to the world’s most secret state. Drawing on his own experiences and his extensive interviews with defectors and other key witnesses, North Korea Undercover pulls back the curtain, providing a rare insight into life there today, examining the country’s troubled history and addressing important questions about its uncertain future. Sweeney’s highly engaging, authoritative account illuminates the dark side of the Hermit Kingdom and challenges the West’s perception of this paranoid nationalist state.
‘Harrowing... creepy and poignant; and, in turn, tragic and obscene.’ SUNDAY BUSINESS POST ‘A tremendous piece of reporting. This book is one that we should all read and absorb.’ ARMY RUMOUR SERVICE
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‘I won’t be a slave to the past - I’ll love where I choose!’
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n a moment of drunken rage, Michael Henchard betrays his wife and baby daughter, selling them to a sailor at a country fair. In his shame, he swears to never touch alcohol again for twentyone years. Years later, Henchard is now the Mayor of Casterbridge and an upstanding pillar of the community. When his wife and daughter return, he re-marries and adopts his daughter. But his secrets cannot stay hidden forever and he has many hard lessons left to learn Hardy’s fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the author’s most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description.
A collection from one of the greatest writers of short stories
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ipling’s early short stories of the Raj are collected here, creating vivid imagery of the sights and smells of India. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling’s tales tell of ‘heat and bewilderment and wasted effort and broken faith’. He writes brilliantly and hauntingly about the barrier between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience, but implacably crushed.
‘One feels as if one were seated under a palm-tree reading life by superb flashes of vulgarity’ OSCAR WILDE
‘It’s the most tragic tale of a man who did a great wrong and pays for it later. The way Henchard arranges his life just so, only to see it wrecked and ruined by Fate - it makes me howl with pathos’ INDEPENDENT
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The start of a new crime series from acclaimed author David Hewson, set in Amsterdam
A delightful new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James, about lost love, fate and second chances
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