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Dear Librarian, As Clipper Large Print goes from strength-to-strength, we begin 2014 with some of the biggest names in crime fiction. David Baldacci, a thriller writer at the top of his game, returns with The Hit, the second novel in his Will Robie, master assassin, series. Shortlisted for the Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award, Solo by William Boyd is a brand new James Bond Novel. It’s 1969 and Bond is about to go it alone, recklessly motivated by revenge…The Cuckoo’s Calling is a remarkable, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London. It’s also the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Stormbird is the first book in a new series from bestselling historical fiction author Conn Iggulden. Set during the Wars of the Roses, he brings this extraordinary period of British history dramatically to life. In Doctor Sleep, Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining. ‘This is the master on top form, drawing his readers in with his amazing storytelling power’ DAILY MAIL Alongside these, we have Iain Banks’ momentous first novel, The Wasp Factory and The Discourtesy of Death, William Brodrick’s fifth novel in his Father Anslem series, will not fail to entertain, while Costa First Novel Award nominated Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera and Costa Biography Award nominated Hannns and Rudolf by Thomas Harding, ensure that there’s something for every reader. Enjoy the new brochure and please get in touch with your feedback. With best wishes for the New Year,
The Editor
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The Cuckoo’s Calling Robert Galbraith
Wars of the Roses: Stormbird Conn Iggulden
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
978 1 47125 065 1 – 672pp
978 1 47125 064 4 – 608pp
978 1 47125 072 9 – 272pp
Published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, international best seller J. K. Rowling stunned the world with her debut crime novel
The master of historical fiction, Conn Iggulden, retells the gripping story of the English civil war in his new Wars of the Roses series
Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least…
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ing Henry V - the great Lion of England - is long dead. In 1437 the pious and gentle Henry VI, the Lamb, comes of age and accedes to the throne but his poor health and frailty of mind render him a weakling king. With England’s territories in France under threat, and rumours of revolt at home, fears grow that Henry and his advisers will see the country slide into ruin. As storm clouds gather over England, King Henry and his supporters find themselves besieged abroad and at home. Who, or what, can save the kingdom before it is too late?
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hen a troubled model falls to her death from a snowcovered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model’s complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger…
‘The Cuckoo’s Calling reminds me why I fell in love with crime fiction in the first place’ VAL McDERMID ‘Her crime debut beguilingly shows that she can renounce magic and yet be magical’ SUNDAY TIMES
The Wars of the Roses series will be a benchmark for historical fiction, showcasing Conn Iggulden at his finest. Praise for the author: ‘This is energetic, competent stuff; Iggulden knows his material and his audience’ INDEPENDENT
rank lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Frank’s mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Iain Banks’ celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality, imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.
‘A Gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality ...macabre, bizarre and...quite impossible to put down’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Iggulden is in a class of his own when it comes to epic, historical fiction’ DAILY MIRROR
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Screwed Eoin Colfer
The Darkening Hour Penny Hancock
The Victory Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
978 1 47125 080 4 – 384pp
978 1 47125 071 2 – 480pp
978 1 47125 066 8 – 672pp
Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels, turns his outstanding talent to a world as criminally funny as it is dark and compelling.
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x-army sergeant Daniel McEvoy is ready to say goodbye to New New Jersey’s lawless underworld and concentrate on his new life as club owner and bona fide boyfriend. But when he’s abducted and driven into the Hudson by a vengeful crime boss, he realises that the New Jersey underworld isn’t ready to say goodbye to him.
If Dan is to survive, he will have to evade bad guys on both sides of the law and find his missing aunt...
The tense and darkly atmospheric new psychological thriller from the author of award-winning Tideline
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middle class woman at her wits’ end and a struggling migrant worker with few options for survival. When tensions boil over, who will be the first to snap? Will it be Theodora, finally breaking under the pressure? Or Mona, desperate to find a way out?
Two women. Two stories. Who do you believe? ‘Beautifully worked and with a sharp eye for the menace in the commonplace’ DAILY MAIL ‘Brilliantly written and totally gripping. I loved it’ S J WATSON
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From the winner of the RNA Novel of the Year Award comes the thrilling twelfth installment in The Morland Dynasty series 1803: Napoleon is poised to invade England, with only Nelson’s weather-beaten ships in his way, but the French fleet are not the only threat to the fortunes of the Morland family. From the fashionable salons of Beau Brummell’s London to the shot-torn docks at Trafalgar, the Morlands face danger and personal tragedy, as well as love and fulfilment.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ first novel won the Young Writer’s Award in 1972 and she's been writing novels ever since.
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Sacrifice Max Kinnings
Something in Common Roisin Meaney
Black Bear Aly Monroe
978 1 47125 070 5 – 480pp
978 1 47125 069 9 – 608pp
978 1 47125 081 1 – 512pp
They shouldn’t have fitted together. Yet somehow they did.
‘Confirms Aly Monroe’s genius for creating tension’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
Max Kinnings’ second novel featuring Ed Mallory, a blind hostage negotiator, is a high tension, fast paced thriller that will keep you gripped until the very end
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ondon, Christmas Morning. 09:13am. Disgraced hedge fund manager Graham Poynter hides shamefully in his Belgravia mansion. 10:16am. A masked intruder stands over Poynter and his terrified family, while the last remaining security guard hangs impaled on a railing spike outside the house. 10:38am. Surrounding the scene are police helicopters, special forces teams, and Ed Mallory who must stop this twisted retribution.
‘A tense blockbuster with worryingly credible characters’ THE TIMES on Baptism ‘This thriller has more twists than a bagful of snakes and as much bite ... A must read’ PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH on Baptism
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ur lives are defined by other people. Some are with us from the start: parents, siblings, childhood friends. Others find us later: work colleagues, lovers. But occasionally there are people whose paths cross ours in unexpected ways - people who are destined to change our lives profoundly. One rainy afternoon two very different women meet, and through a twist of fate, Helen and Sarah become unlikely friends. This is the story of their friendship - from its traumatic beginning to its most unforeseen end.
‘A lovely and absorbing book by a novelist who has a gift for conveying the charm of the ordinary’ IRISH INDEPENDENT ‘A book to bring some sunshine into your life’ WOMAN’S WAY
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ent to Manhattan as part of the British effort to build intelligence into the new United Nations Organisation ‘from the foundations up’, Agent Peter Cotton wakes up in the Ogden Clinic on East 76th Street, a private facility reserved for very special patients and veterans. He is told he was found badly bruised, slumped in a doorway, and that he had been injected with at least three ‘truth-drugs’. He is lucky to be alive. Unable to be certain what is real and what hallucinatory, Cotton must piece together what has happened to him, but what he discovers is even more unsettling. His biggest uncertainty? Why he has been allowed to live.
‘Riveting stuff’ THE TIMES ‘Monroe is terrific at evoking this world’ GUARDIAN
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The Second Life of Amy Archer R S Pateman
The City of Shadows Michael Russell
The Tower Simon Toyne
978 1 47125 073 6 – 432pp
978 1 47125 068 2 – 560pp
978 1 47125 067 5 – 640pp
Ten years ago she disappeared without a trace...now she’s back.
A missing woman. Two mysterious murders. A city shrouded in secrets.
The final instalment in the bestselling conspiracy thriller trilogy by Simon Toyne
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ublin 1934: Detective Stefan Gillespie arrests a German doctor and encounters Hannah Rosen desperate to find her friend Susan, a Jewish woman who had become involved with a priest, and has now disappeared. When the bodies of a man and woman are found buried in the Dublin mountains, it becomes clear that this case is about more than a missing person. Stefan and Hannah trace the evidence all the way across Europe to Danzig. In this strange city where the Nazi Party are gaining power, Stefan and Hannah are inching closer to the truth and soon find themselves in grave danger…
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he forbidden Citadel at the heart of the ancient Turkish city of Ruin opens its gates for the first time in history. Why now, after centuries of secrecy? A deadly disease has erupted within, and threatens to spread beyond its walls. Infected charity worker Gabriel Mann may hold the cure – but can one dying man stop an epidemic? This much is clear: something big is coming. Something that will change everything. But will it be a new beginning or the End of Days?
n 31st December 1999, ten-year-old Amy Archer went missing from her local playground. Her body was never found and the lives of her parents, Beth and Brian, were torn apart. On the tenth anniversary of the disappearance, Beth is alone, still struggling with the enormity of her grief and the horror of not knowing the fate of her only child. But the fear and confusion have only just begun, and Beth’s world is turned upside down when a stranger knocks on her door, claiming to know what happened to Amy. Beth is introduced to a little girl who is the uncanny double of her missing daughter, who knows things that only Amy would remember; the name of her favourite toy, the place where she scratched her initials, what Beth likes for breakfast. But this can’t be Amy, she hasn’t aged a day...
‘This debut novel is a superb, atmospheric thriller… highly recommended’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
‘A gripping and well-written tale’ LITERARY REVIEW
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‘Intriguing and engaging… Relentless pace. An exciting and interesting read.’ THE SUN on Sanctus ‘A fast moving, thoroughly enjoyable, adventure… The sort of novel to devour in one sitting’ KATE MOSSE on Sanctus
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Close to the Wind Zana Bell
The Reluctant Bride Beverley Eikli
Confessions of an Air Ambulance Doctor Dr Tony Bleetman
978 1 47125 082 8 – 400pp
978 1 47125 077 4 – 448pp
978 1 47125 075 0 –336pp
‘We are not going any further until you tell me why yet another fiancé seems intent on wringing your neck.’
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eorgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms she’s used to, into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiancé to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother, before an unknown assassin can find him. Meanwhile, Captain Harry Trent is setting sail for New Zealand. Thrown together, unable to trust anyone, Georgiana and Harry are intent on fulfilling their missions despite the distractions of the other. But liberty comes at a price and the closer they get, the more they must question the true cost of being free.
Can honour and action banish the shadows of old sins?
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mily Micklen has no option after the death of her loving fiancé, Jack, but to marry the scarred, taciturn, soldier who represents her only escape from destitution. Major Angus McCartney is tormented by the reproachful slate-grey eyes of the strikingly similar women: Jessamine, his dead mistress, and Emily, the unobtainable beauty who is now his reluctant bride. Emily’s loyalty to Jack’s memory is matched only by Angus’s determination to win his wife with honour and action.
Angus and Emily may find love, but will the past secrets they uncover divide them forever?
A dramatic account of the highs and lows of an emergency air ambulance doctor onfessions of an Air Ambulance Doctor is the first ever behindthe-scenes account of life onboard an air ambulance. Drug addicts, lorry crashes, open-heart surgery, stab wounds, headless chickens, mating llamas, and strip routines - it’s all in a day’s work for emergency doctor Tony Bleetman and his team. Whether they are landing in the middle of the M1 or at a maximum security jail, Tony and his crew Helimed 999 are the first on the scene in the most critical of emergencies.
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This gripping read will make you laugh, cry and marvel at the wonders of life (and death) in equal measure.
Masquerades, deceptions and subterfuge in this exciting historical romance from Zana Bell
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Jessi-Cat Jayne Dillon 978 1 47125 074 3 – 208pp
The inspiring story of Jessi-cat, named Best Friend and National Cat of the Year 2012 by the Cats Protection Awards
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orcan was seven years old when his mother first heard him say ‘I love you’. The words were not directed at her, but at Jessi-cat, the family pet. Lorcan suffers from autism and selective mutism, rendering him unable to speak in certain situations. This all began to change with the arrival of a kitten named Jessi-cat. Jessi-cat is the stirring tale of how the affection and attention of a constant loving companion allowed a little boy to start to connect to the world around him.
‘A selectively mute boy’s extraordinary bond with the family cat has inspired his mother to tell their story’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Restaurant Babylon Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous 978 1 47125 076 7 – 336p
978 1 47125 079 8 – 480pp
The saucy secrets of the world’s finest kitchens
“I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.”
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orn and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life. She duly embarks on a career that includes husband-hunting, incest, bigamy, prostitution and pick-pocketing, until her crimes eventually catch up with her. One of the earliest and most vivid female narrators in the history of the English novel, Moll recounts her adventures with irresistible wit and candour – and enough guile that the reader is left uncertain whether she is ultimately a redeemed sinner or a successful opportunist.
hat makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months, while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and inhospitable as the Gobi desert? In Restaurant Babylon, Imogen Edwards-Jones and her anonymous industry insider lift the lid on all the tricks of the food trade and what really makes this £90 billion a year industry tick. So please do sit down, pour yourself some heavily marked-up wine and make yourself comfortable (although we’ll need that table back by 8.30 sharp).
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‘Still fresh, centuries on’ FREYA NORTH ‘Shocking and at times jaw-dropping, this is a must-read’ HEAT ‘A gloriously behind-the-scenes account of London's debauched hospitality business’ OBSERVER
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‘Bold, beautiful and brilliantly resourceful, Moll was ideally qualified to be the heroine of one of the first English novels’ GUARDIAN
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne
The Hit David Baldacci
Solo William Boyd
978 1 47125 078 1 – 336pp
978 1 47125 412 3 – 560pp
978 1 47125 411 6 – 384pp
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
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he father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland, on a journey which will lead them to the centre of the earth. Along the way they encounter various hazards and witness many incredible sights such as the underground forest, illuminated by electricity, the Great Geyser, the battle between prehistoric monsters, the strange whispering gallery, giant insects and the vast subterranean sea with its ferocious whirlpool.
Although published in the nineteenth century, Journey to the Centre of the Earth has lost none of its power and potency to excite and engage the modern reader. It is supreme escapist entertainment for all ages.
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‘The page-turner of the season’ THE TIMES
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hen government hit man Will Robie is given his next target he knows he’s about to embark on his toughest mission yet. He is tasked with killing one of their own, after evidence suggests that fellow assassin Jessica Reel has been turned. She’s leaving a trail of death in her wake, including her handler. The trap is set: send a killer to catch a killer. But what happens when you can’t trust those who have access to the nation’s most secret intelligence?
‘Baldacci inhabits the skin of his creations - tripping us up with unexpected empathy and subtle identification’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ‘One of the world’s biggest-selling thriller writers, Baldacci needs no introduction ... Brilliant plotting, heart-grabbing action and characters to die for.’ DAILY MAIL
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‘The prose of Boyd is frankly superior to that of Fleming... A bloody good thriller. A triumph.’ OBSERVER
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t’s 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond – British special agent 007 – is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime. Moving from rebel battlefields in West Africa to the closed doors of intelligence offices in London and Washington, this novel is at once a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted story, and a masterful study of power and how it is wielded – a brilliant addition to the James Bond canon.
‘A formidable literary achievement... It succeeds wonderfully.’ DAILY MAIL ‘A terrific twisting thriller... A tremendous Bond story.’ SUNDAY TIMES
February 2014
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea Mark Douglas-Home 978 1 47125416 1 – 432pp
The Soldier’s Bride Maggie Ford
The Swedish Girl Alex Gray
978 1 47125 414 7 – 528pp
978 1 47125 422 2 – 464pp
The second Sea Detective mystery, from crime author Mark Douglas-Home
A warm and heartwarming saga set in World War One, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn
‘Gray is the new master of Scottish crime writing.’ SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS
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ighteen-year-old Kirsty Wilson can’t believe her luck when she lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by the beautiful Eva Magnusson. But her initial delight turns to terror when Kirsty finds Eva lying dead in their home and their male flatmate accused of her murder. Kirsty refuses to accept that he is guilty and sets out to clear his name. But it is not long until another woman is brutally murdered. Horrified, the police realise that Kirsty could be right. Is it possible that they've put the wrong man behind bars?
‘Pacy ... Believable ... Its authentic tone has you hooked’ SOUTHEND EVENING ECHO
‘Brings Glasgow to life the same way Ian Rankin evokes Edinburgh’ DAILY MAIL
young woman stands on a remote beach in North West Scotland, gazing out to sea. Watching her is Cal McGill, the Sea Detective, an oceanographer with a reputation for solving crimes by tracking human bodies. Soon Cal is helping her unravel the events of twenty-six years ago when a different woman walked across this sweep of sand and into the waves, apparently drowning herself and her unborn child. As McGill questions the official history, he’s forced to confront his personal demons as well as the jealousies and tensions of a divided coastal community, determined to keep its secrets buried.
‘This is a classic whodunnit.’ THE SCOTSMAN
etty Bancroft longs to be married but her father has other ideas - he wants his daughter to stay at home and help run his East End shop. Heartbroken, Letty must remain unwed while her sweetheart goes off to fight in France. But her love affair has had consequences that will see her more determined than ever to be a soldier’s bride...
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‘Elegantly written and compelling, it introduces a new, thoroughly modern hero into the crime-fighting canon.’ THE HERALD
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Torn Casey Hill
Until Thy Wrath Be Past Asa Larsson
The False Virgin The Medieval Murderers
978 1 47125 417 8 – 432pp
978 1 47125 418 5 – 400pp
978 1 47125 413 0 – 544pp
A gripping forensic thriller featuring investigator Reilly Steel, from the bestselling husband and wife author team Kevin and Melissa Hill
‘Among the current batch of Nordic writers, the new Larsson is one to be followed with the most minute attention’ INDEPENDENT
The ninth instalment in this thrilling series from The Medieval Murderers uncovers and attempts to solve ageold mysteries
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n the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna, her sleep troubled by visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the girl in her dream? Joining forces with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Martinsson will need all her courage to face a killer who will kill again to keep the past buried under half a century of silent ice and snow.
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‘Very special...an outstanding debut forensic thriller’ THE BOOKSELLER
The fourth investigation in the Rebecka Martinsson series, from award winning Swedish author Asa Larsson
‘With the combined imaginations of Bernard Knight… Susanna Gregory, Ian Morson, and Philip Gooden, this is a thoroughly enjoyable read’ DAILY MAIL on The Sacred Stone
‘With this well-paced out-and-out crime story, featuring an attractive and intelligent new heroine, [Melissa Hill] looks set to find a whole new audience’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
‘Larsson’s laid back style makes her unflinching probing of the icy depths of the human heart all the more chilling’ TELEGRAPH
‘The various excellent crime writers each weave a clever and inventive tale around a central theme’ GOOD BOOK GUIDE on King Arthur’s Bones
hen an ex-cop is found dead in a bath of ice, the Dublin police believe it to be a revenge killing. Shortly afterwards, a journalist is found drowned in his own septic tank. Yielding little evidence, Reilly Steel concludes that she may be dealing with a killer who knows about crime scene investigation, using a very specific blueprint for the crimes. Who is the killer’s next victim? And what’s his endgame?
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D 848. Bernwyn of Lythe spurns marriage and chooses to remain a virgin, dedicated to Christ. When she is found murdered in a chapel, butterflies found resting on her body are taken to be a sign from God. But what if Bernwyn was not all she seemed? Could her saintly deeds have been mistakenly attributed to her, and the people have set up a shrine to a false virgin?
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A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
The Resistance Man Martin Walker
Where Women Are Kings Christie Watson
978 1 47125 415 4 – 656pp
978 1 47125 419 2 – 400pp
978 1 47125 420 8 – 400pp
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013
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uth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her Canadian beach home. She suspects it might be debris from the 2011 tsunami. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery, in which 16year-old Nao Yasutani is trying to find a reader and friend who finally understands her.
‘Funny, heartbreaking, moving and profound... The warmth, compassion, wisdom and insight with which Ozeki pieces all these stories together will have the reader linked in a similarly profound way to this fantastic novel’ INDEPENDENT
‘Walker is brilliant at capturing the murderous charms of rural France, with the aid of his charming St Denis chief of police Bruno’ DAILY MIRROR
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runo, chef de police, can’t get a moment’s peace. He’s uncovered a cache of old bank notes and is also dealing with a wave of burglaries. The victims include the recently retired head of Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee, which brings old flame Isabelle back to St Denis. The next burglary ends in murder: the victim’s bludgeoned body found by his lover - the prime suspect…
Martin Walker is a prize-winning journalist and the author of several acclaimed works of non-fiction, as well as the Bruno Courrèges mystery series.
‘Bewitching, intelligent and heartbreaking...Ozeki is one of my favorite novelists and here she is at her absolute best’ JUNOT DIAZ
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The new novel from the writer of the acclaimed Costa First Novel Award winner, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
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lijah, seven years old, has a history of disruptive behaviour. His adoptive mother Nikki believes that she and her husband Obi are strong enough to accept his difficulties - and that her being white will not affect her ability to raise a black son. However Deborah, Elijah’s birth mother, is ever-present. Just as Elijah starts to settle in, a surprise event rocks their fragile peace and the result is devastating.
Praise for the author: ‘Life changes irrevocably [amid] the complexities of family, politics and race. [A] colourful, bittersweet [and] affecting novel.’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Christie Watson’s affecting but unsentimental debut earns its place in the sun.’ THE INDEPENDENT
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Stoner John Williams
A Bargain Struck Liz Harris
Is This Love? Sue Moorcroft
978 1 47125 421 5 – 384pp
978 1 47125 427 7 – 416pp
978 1 47125 426 0 – 416pp
‘It’s the most marvellous discovery for everyone who loves literature’ IAN McEWAN
Set in Wyoming in 1887, a story of a man and a woman brought together through need, not love…
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‘Stoner is a brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise, and elegant novel’ NICK HORNBY
‘Liz Harris’s vivid portrayal of 1880s mid-west America as a place ruled by the elements where neighbourly trust is essential to survival, is another sure hit’ DAILY MAIL
illiam Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father’s farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. It is a novel to be savoured.
idower Connor Maguire advertises for a wife to raise his young daughter, Bridget, to work the homestead and to bear him a son. Ellen O’Sullivan longs for a home, a husband and a family. On paper, she is everything Connor needs in a wife. However, it soon becomes clear that Ellen has not been entirely truthful. As their personal feelings blur the boundaries of their deal, they begin to wonder if a bargain struck makes a marriage worth keeping.
How many ways can one woman love?
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hen Tamara Rix’s sister Lyddie is involved in a hit-and-run accident that leaves her in need of constant care, Tamara resolves to remain in the village she grew up in. But when Lyddie’s teenage sweetheart Jed Cassius returns to Middledip, he brings news that shakes the Rix family to their core. Jed’s life is shrouded in mystery, particularly his job, but despite his strange background, Tamara can’t help being intrigued by him. Can Tamara find a balance between her love for Lyddie and growing feelings for Jed, or will she discover that some kinds of love just don’t mix?
Sue Moorcroft won the Festival of Romance Best Romantic Read Award with her novel Love & Freedom and was shortlisted for the 2013 Romantic Novel of the Year Award
‘A terrific novel of echoing sadness’ JULIAN BARNES
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Fighting on the Home Front Kate Adie
The Prime Minister’s Ironing Board Adam Macqueen
C. S. Lewis: A Life Alister McGrath
978 1 47125 425 3 – 464pp
978 1 47125 423 9 – 400pp
978 1 47125 424 6 – 544pp
Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women’s lives changed during World War One
A collection of state secrets that those in power might have preferred to go unnoticed…
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n 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, women emerged from the shadows of their domestic lives. Now a visible force in public life, they began to take up essential roles - from transport to policing, munitions to sport, entertainment, and even politics. Kate Adie charts the seismic move towards equal rights with men that began a century ago and asks what these women achieved for future generations. This is history at its best - a vivid, compelling account of the pioneering women who helped win the war.
tored in Whitehall’s archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of daily life in the corridors of power. Adam Macqueen, author of the highly acclaimed bestseller Private Eye: The First 50 Years, presents us with some of the most unlikely revelations since the Official Secrets Act was inaugurated one hundred years ago. Not only about Mrs Thatcher’s ironing board, but Ted Heath’s car, Harold Macmillan’s bedroom carpet, Imelda Marcos and her son Bong Bong’s trip to Buckingham Palace and President Eisenhower’s particular problem with Winston Churchill’s trousers.
‘This is history at its most celebratory... The book is chatty, personal and packed with plenty of anecdote’ TELEGRAPH
‘A hugely enjoyable bran tub of revelations about our rulers’ fancies and foibles over the past century’ DAVID KYNASTON
‘Kate Adie provides a compelling account of how women’s lives changed during World War One.’ IRISH TATLER
‘Hilarious’ DAILY MAIL
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This definitive biography paints a portrait of a deeply original thinker who became an inspiring, though reluctant, prophet for our times
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or more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’s Narnia series has captured the imagination of millions. In C. S. Lewis: A Life, Dr Alister McGrath recounts the unlikely legacy of this Oxford don, who spent his days teaching medieval English Literature and his nights writing a bestselling fantasy series for children. Accessible and engaging, this is a fascinating portrayal of a creative genius who continues to inspire millions of readers around the world.
‘[A]s McGrath’s compelling narrative shows, the writer’s life is often just as interesting as his work, whatever C. S. Lewis might have said.’ INDEPENDENT ‘One comes away with a renewed sympathy for a provocative, perceptive, contrarian and somewhat tormented soul.’ WALL STREET JOURNAL ‘A penetrating and illuminating study’ N.T WRIGHT
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The Diary of a Provincial Lady E. M. Delafield
Three Men on the Bummel Jerome K. Jerome
The Discourtesy of Death William Brodrick
978 1 47125 428 4 – 850pp
978 1 47125 429 1 – 288pp
978 1 47125 677 6 – TBCpp
A delightful and witty celebration of the suburban British housewife
Three Men on the Bummel is a masterfully humorous depiction of the Victorian era
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hat is a “bummel”?’ said George. ‘How would you translate it?’ ‘A “bummel”,’ I explained, ‘I should describe as a journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started…’ After considerable indecision the bummel takes our heroes to Germany’s Black Forest where they manage to disrupt the tranquil way of life usually enjoyed by the denizens, whose curious behaviour they closely observe and record in their account of this second epic journey. Even without that dog, chaos and mayhem reign supreme…
ehind this rather prim title lies the hilarious fictional diary of a disaster-prone lady of the 1930s, and her attempts to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos. There’s her husband Robert, who, when he’s not snoozing behind The Times, does everything with grumbling reluctance; her gleefully troublesome children; and a succession of tricky servants who invariably seem to gain the upper hand. And if her domestic trials are not enough, she must keep up appearances. Particularly with the maddeningly patronising Lady Boxe, whom our Provincial Lady eternally (and unsuccessfully) tries to compete with.
‘She converts the small and familiar dullness of life into laughter’ THE TIMES ‘I reread, for the nth time, E. M. Delafield’s dry, caustic Diary of a Provincial Lady, and howled with laughter’ INDIA KNIGHT
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‘Jerome wrings the most improbable humour from the most mundane situations’ INDEPENDENT
‘Glorious, simply glorious’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
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A brilliant crime novel which explores the most acute moral questions surrounding how we end our lives, from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger
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n anonymous letter is sent, accusing Peter Henderson, of a grotesque murder: the calculated killing of Jenny, his disabled partner, who everyone believed to have died peacefully, two years previously, from a sudden attack of cancer. Now though, Anselm has been told the truth behind the soothing lie, and he must move cautiously to expose the killer. And so he begins his most delicate investigation yet, unaware that Jenny’s adoring father is haunted by the memory of torture and shootto-kill operations in Northern Ireland; that he remains capable of anything; that he has set out to execute Peter Henderson.
‘William Brodrick’s crime novels have the great (and unusual) merit of being unlike anyone else’s, not least because his series hero, Father Anselm, is a Gray’s Inn barrister turned Suffolk monk’ SPECTATOR on The Day of the Dead
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Doctor Sleep Stephen King
Dancing with the Virgins Stephen Booth
The May Bride Suzannah Dunn
978 1 47125 678 3 – 672pp
978 1 47125 694 3 – 560pp
978 1 47125 685 1– 464pp
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining
‘The body of the woman sprawled obscenely among the stones… She looked like a dead woman, dancing.’
Marrying the King was Jane Seymour’s destiny, and her revenge…
aunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, with an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant ‘shining’ power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival…
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ane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her brother, Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf Hall. Katherine Filliol is a breath of fresh air for the Seymour family. But the family is soon torn apart when an allegation is made against Edward’s wife. And when Jane is sent to serve Katharine of Aragon, she is forced to witness another wife being put aside. Changed forever by what happened to Katherine, Jane comes to understand that in a world where power is held entirely by men, there is a way in which she can still hold true to herself.
‘Thirty-six years on from his horror classic, The Shining, Stephen King’s sequel shows he still has plenty of creative steam.’ SUNDAY TIMES
The second Cooper and Fry case from acclaimed crime author Stephen Booth, available for the first time in large print.
‘Stephen King’s frightscapes are among the most incredible in literature, yet one believes in them unquestioningly.’ SPECTATOR
‘Another first-rate mystery… Booth is particularly good at creating credible characters’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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n a remote part of the Peak District stand the Nine Virgins, a ring of stones overshadowed by a dark legend. Now, a tenth figure is added to the circle – the body of Jenny Weston is discovered, her limbs arranged so she appears to be dancing. Weeks earlier Maggie Crew had been attacked on the moors. Is there a maniac on the loose, knifing woman at random? DC Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry struggle to make sense of the murders. But the moors have witnessed more bloodshed than either realises, and violence is to beget more violence before the answer is found.
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‘Suzannah Dunn...weaves...a love story that is both moving and believable...of second chances at love, and passion reawakened.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Mesmerising and beautifully written.’ SCOTSMAN
March 2014
The Moment Claire Dyer
The Carrier Sophie Hannah
The Doll’s House Louise Phillips
978 1 47125 679 0 – 336pp
978 1 47125 684 4 – 528pp
978 1 47125 681 3 – 560pp
Twenty-five years apart. One day to decide the future.
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addington station, nine a.m., rush hour. As the crowds ebb and flow, time suddenly stands still for two people: Fern and Elliott, ex-lovers who parted twenty-five years before and never expected to see each other again. But here they are, face to face, and the connection is as powerful as it was the day they first met. They tentatively arrange to meet again that evening when both will be travelling back through the station. As their emotions go round in circles, so does the Paddington clock, counting down the minutes to eight p.m. - and the moment the future is in their hands.
‘Beautifully written, with perfect form and pace. Fern and Elliott’s vivid emotional journey will stay with me’ HILARY BOYD ‘A man, a woman, and a ‘what-if’ moment that will give you goose bumps. A genuine contender for the crown of this year’s One Day’ LOUISE CANDISH
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From the Sunday Times top ten Bestseller, Sophie Hannah
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hen her plane is delayed overnight, Gaby Struthers finds herself forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: a terrified young woman named Lauren. She blurts out something about an innocent man going to prison for a murder he didn’t commit, and Gaby soon suspects that Lauren’s presence on her flight can’t be a coincidence. Because the murder victim is Francine Breary, the wife of the only man Gaby has ever truly loved. Tim Breary has confessed, and even provided the police with evidence. The only thing he hasn’t given them is a motive. He claims to have no idea why he murdered his wife . . .
‘A tale of the power that weakness and passivity can have over strength and action, and how theories of love and duty can lead us astray . . . Intriguing.’ GUARDIAN ‘A leading writer of psychological suspense . . . As ever, Hannah excels. Her books are so distinctive that they deserve to be placed in a separate sub-genre of their own.’ SPECTATOR 18
Winner of the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year
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hirty-five years ago Adrian Hamilton drowned. His death was reported as a tragic accident but the exact circumstances remained a mystery. Now his daughter Clodagh, visits a hypnotherapist who uncovers memories of her father’s death. And other memories come to light - the death of her baby sister. Meanwhile criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson is called to help an investigation after a body is found in a Dublin canal. When Kate studies the killing, she discovers a sinister connection to the Hamilton family. What happened in the Hamilton house all those years ago? And what connects them to the recent murder?
‘Chilling, mesmerising. Gets under your skin and stays with you’ NIAMH O’CONNOR ‘A gripping, suspenseful story peopled with well-drawn characters’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
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Marriage Material Sathnam Sanghera
The Amber Road Harry Sidebottom
The Echo James Smythe
978 1 47125 686 8 – 416pp
978 1 47125 680 6 – 512pp
978 1 47125 683 7 – 352pp
An epic tale of family, love and politics spanning the twentieth century, told with humour, tenderness and insight, and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award
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eturning to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, Arjan Banga finds everything he has tried to leave behind - a lethargic pace of life, insular rituals and ways of thinking. But when his mother insists on keeping their shop open, he finds himself being dragged back, forced into decisions about his imminent marriage back in London. Marriage Material tells the story of three generations through the prism of a Wolverhampton corner shop - itself a microcosm of the South Asian experience in the country: a symbol of independence and integration, but also of darker realities.
‘A stunning novel... touching and funny and feels so fresh... it just leaps off the page. I adored it.’ DEBORAH MOGGACH, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ‘Enormously enjoyable… Sanghera’s forte is wry comedy tinged with pathos… [A] warm, keenly observant and immensely appealing novel.’ SUNDAY TIMES
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The Amber Road is the sixth book in Harry Sidebottom’s acclaimed Warrior of Rome series
The stunning sequel to James Smythe’s critically acclaimed literary science-fiction novel The Explorer
D 264: The Roman Empire is torn in two. The western provinces - Gaul, Spain and Britain - have been seized by the pretender Postumus. To the east, on the plains of northern Italy, the armies of the emperor Gallienus muster. War is coming. Everyone must choose a side. On a mission shrouded in secrecy and suspicion, Ballista must journey the Amber Road to the far north to Hyperborea, back to his original home and the people of his birth. Yet not all welcome Ballista’s return. Does treachery pose the greatest danger?
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wenty years after the disappearance of the infamous Ishiguro – the first manned spacecraft to travel deep into space – humanity are setting their sights on the heavens once more. Under the direction of identical twin brothers Tomas and Mirakel Hyvönen – this space craft has a bold mission: to study what is being called ‘the anomaly’ – a vast blackness of space into which the Ishiguro disappeared. But soon these scientists learn that there are some things beyond our understanding. As the anomaly begins to test the limits of Mira’s sanity – will Tomas be able to save his brother from being lost in space too?
‘Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship’ THE TIMES
‘It’s like an episode of Star Trek written by JM Coetzee’ GUARDIAN
‘The best sort of red-blooded historical fiction’ ANDREW TAYLOR
‘Beautifully written, creepy as hell… as clever in its unravelling as it is breathlessly claustrophobic’ LAUREN BEUKES on The Explorer
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Never Coming Back Tim Weaver
Before We Met Lucie Whitehouse
Yours Truly Kirsty Greenwood
978 1 47125 744 5 – TBCpp
978 1 47125 682 0 – 432pp
978 1 47125 689 9 – 400pp
Never Coming Back is the brilliant new missing persons case in the David Raker series
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hen Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie’s house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner’s cooking, the TV’s on. Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone. When the police draw a blank, Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It’s clear someone doesn’t want the family found. But as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to uncover evidence of a sinister coverup, spanning decades and costing countless lives. And worse, in trying to find Emily’s missing family, he might just have made himself the next target ...
A whirlwind romance. A perfect marriage.
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annah Reilly has seized her chance at happiness. Until the day her husband fails to come home… The more questions Hannah asks, the fewer answers she finds. But are the secrets that Mark has been keeping designed to protect him or protect her? And can you ever really know what happened before you met?
‘An eerie page-turner.’ RED ‘A post-Du Maurier domestic gothic thriller… Whitehouse is a skilful, attentive writer’ GUARDIAN
‘Never Coming Back is a taut and thrilling novel, his best yet. We can’t recommend it highly enough.’ RICHARD MADELEY
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ewly engaged Natalie will do anything for a quiet life and if telling a few white lies keeps her friends and family happy, then so what? It’s not like they’ll ever discover what she’s really thinking... Until one night, thanks to a pub hypnotist, Natalie’s most private thoughts pop out of her mouth. Things get very messy, especially when some home truths offend her fiancé. Natalie must track down the hypnotist before her wedding is cancelled, but when she has no way to break the hypnotist’s spell, Natalie is forced to face the truths she has been avoiding her whole life ...
‘I cannot tell a lie... this book is fabulous’ LUCY DIAMOND ‘Funny, feel-good and full of characters to fall in love with, Yours Truly is a brilliant debut from an exciting new voice in women’s fiction. A truly gorgeous read’ VICTORIA FOX
‘Terrific thriller…it’s a cracker’ JUDY FINNIGAN
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‘Kookier than Kinsella, but just as comical. Fabulous feelgood fun!’ ALI McNAMARA
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Emma Linda Mitchelmore
Hanns and Rudolf Thomas Harding
Under Another Sky Charlotte Higgins
978 1 47125 690 5 – 416pp
978 1 47125 695 0 – 512pp
978 1 47125 687 5 – 400pp
Shortlisted for The Costa Biography Award, this is the true story of Hanns Alexander, the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin in the 1930s
Under Another Sky was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
It isn’t easy to look forward when the past is so close behind you
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ife hasn’t always been kind to Emma Le Goff. But now finally, her life appears to be looking up. She and her childhood sweetheart, Seth Jago, are set to marry. However, they discover that the past is more difficult to forget than they could have ever imagined, Emma continues to be haunted by the mysterious circumstances surrounding her family, and Seth is hounded by a jealous ex-lover set on revenge. Seth plans for their escape to Canada, but when the charismatic Matthew Caunter returns to Devon, Emma finds herself uncertain whether a move to Canada is really what she wants …
‘Linda Mitchelmore has a gift for making you feel right there, in the story, with her lovely warm characters.’ SOPHIE KING
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udolf Höss was a farmer who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators, Rudolf Höss his most elusive target. This book reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss’ capture.
‘Fascinating and moving...This is a remarkable book, which deserves a wide readership.’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.’ JOHN le CARRÉ
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hat has ‘Roman Britain’ meant to the British people since the Romans left? And what does Roman Britain mean to us now? How has it been reimagined, in story, song and verse? Charlotte Higgins leads us through the history, and by using some of Britain’s most intriguing ancient monuments, Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape, and history, in an entirely fresh way.
‘Mesmerising. Sophisticated and passionate. She personalises the story in a diaristic, almost poetic tone.’ GUARDIAN ‘An utterly original history, lyrically alive to the haunting presence of the past and our strange and familiar ancestors.’ SUNDAY TIMES
March 2014
Sane New World Ruby Wax
Anna of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett
The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
978 1 47125 688 2 – 336pp
978 1 47125 692 9 – 304pp
978 1 47125 691 2 – 448pp
‘[A] wonderful, painfully funny and instructive book’ TELEGRAPH
‘Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that I had never encountered in fiction, but only in life’ MARGARET DRABBLE
Published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands is considered the first modern spy novel
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uby Wax - comedian, writer and mental health campaigner shows us how our minds can jeopardise our sanity. With her own periods of depression and now a Masters from Oxford in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to draw from, she explains how our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxiety and stress. If we are to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world. Helping you become the master, not the slave, of your mind, here is the manual to saner living.
‘Ruby Wax has an extraordinary mind, and she has brought it to bear with trademark wit and searing honesty on the subject of that mind, and the minds of all us… A ruby beyond price.’ STEPHEN FRY
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gainst a brilliantly observed background of life in the Staffordshire Potteries, Anna of the Five Towns is both a novel about a gossipy, myopic, savage community and at its heart a young girl dominated by her miserly father. Anna Tellwright struggles to find freedom and independence, wanting both to please her father and help Willie Price, whose father killed himself after falling into bankruptcy. Meanwhile Anna is courted by the town’s most eligible bachelor but does her heart already belong to Willie?
Arnold Bennett was for some thirty years the dominant novelist and critic in Britain
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hen Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting a Baltic sailing trip, the vision of a manned yacht, stunning scenery and excellent duck shooting quickly works its charm. But Carruthers’ hopes for a holiday are quickly dashed. There has been suspicious German activity along the coast. The Medusa, manned by the sinister Dollman, has already tried to destroy Davies. What are the Germans up to? Nothing less than a plot to invade Britain. And only these two courageous Englishmen can stop them.
‘Unputdownable. a classic British adventure story, influencing both John Buchan and Ken Follett’ OBSERVER
‘In Sane New World, Wax touches upon her own anxieties and fears with honesty and humour... [she] hauls a stigmatised fact of life kicking and laughing into the open.’ THE TIMES
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C OMING SOON TO C L IP P ER LARGE PRINT
The delicious new romantic novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller
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A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse’s much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster
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