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Dear Librarian, Happy New Year! Welcome to our latest catalogue, full of great bestselling genre fiction. We kick off 2015 with some stellar crime fiction from Stephen King. The master of horror has turned his hand to suspense with Mr Mercedes, and produced ‘the best thriller of the year’ (Sunday Express). Tony Parsons’ crime thriller The Murder Bag also comes highly recommended with acclaim from Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver and Sophie Hannah. In Reykjavik Nights the king of Icelandic crime fiction, Arnaldur Indridason, takes us back to his much-loved character Detective Erlendur’s early days on the police force. We also have fantastic new titles from R. J. Ellory, Charles Cumming and James Patterson. For fans of women’s fiction there is a new title from phenomenal bestseller Hilary Boyd, A Most Desirable Marriage, which sees an apparently perfect marriage fall apart at the seams. Harriet Evans returns with a generational saga, involving a family where everyone has a secret in A Place for Us, and in The Snow Angel by Lulu Taylor a family portrait holds the clue to a decades old mystery. We’ve also got some award winning authors in this quarter – J from Howard Jacobson was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year, and we have the new collection of short stories from Man Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress. Costa Award winning author Colm Tóibín also returns with a moving saga set in Ireland, Nora Webster. In our Non-Fiction plan we also have Val McDermid’s Forensics, looking into the fascinating history of forensic science: key to many of her bestselling crime thrillers. Tracy Borman explores the life of the historical man-of-the-moment, Thomas Cromwell, in her gripping biography of this Tudor heavyweight. We hope you enjoy our selection of titles, if you have any feedback, please do get in touch. Best wishes,
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A Most Desirable Marriage Hilary Boyd
Reykjavik Nights Arnaldur Indridason
The Repercussions Catherine Hall
978 1 47127 490 9 – 416pp
978 1 47128 177 8 – 336pp
978 1 47128 183 9 – 352pp
We all have secrets, but not like this…
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awrence and Jo have enjoyed a strong marriage, the envy of their friends. Even after thirty years they have lots to say to each other, many interests in common and, until recently, a good sex life. But Lawrence seems wary and restless. Something’s wrong. Just how wrong, Jo is about to discover... Can they use their years of history - all the things they’ve shared - to overcome a devastating betrayal?
Praise for the author: ‘I was ripping through this book ... addictive’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Poignant, well observed and wonderfully written, this is a bit of a heart string-puller’ CLOSER
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This is Indridason’s complex detective, before he became one…
A sweeping narrative dealing with the psychological and emotional reality of war, as well as race, guilt, love and loss.
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hen war photographer Jo returns from her latest assignment in Afghanistan she hopes to restore equilibrium to her chaotic life. But images and events of her recent past and the reading of her great-grandmother Elizabeth’s diary haunt her night and day, forcing Jo to come to terms with demons she thought she could leave behind. Written as a long confession and alternating with Elizabeth’s account of nursing Indian soldiers at the Brighton Pavilion in 1915, The Repercussions is Catherine Hall’s most ambitious novel to date.
rlendur works nights. He’s a young officer in Traffic, not yet a detective. And Reykjavik’s nights are full of car crashes, robberies, drinkers and fighters. A homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned, and a young woman on her way home from a club vanishes, but few people care. Both cases go cold. Erlendur is not an investigator, but his instincts tell him their fates are worth pursuing. How could they be linked? Inexorably, he is drawn into the blackness of the city’s underbelly, where everyone is in the dark or on the run.
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‘The king of Icelandic crime fiction’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘An international literary phenomenon - and it’s easy to see why. His novels are gripping, authentic, haunting and lyrical’ HARLAN COBEN
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‘Her writing has a terse and fierce precision that tightens into tragic fury’ INDEPENDENT ‘A brilliant author.’ SIMON SAVIDGE for THE GUARDIAN
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If The Dead Rise Not Philip Kerr
The Nemesis Program Scott Mariani
978 1 47128 182 2 – 672pp
978 1 47128 181 5 – 528pp
The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81 J. B. Morrison 978 1 47128 179 2 – 320pp
Berlin, 1936. Sport, corruption and violent death; this is the hard-boiled, fast-paced Bernie Gunther we expect.
The explosive, thrilling new Ben Hope adventure from bestselling author, Scott Mariani.
Frank Derrick is eighty-one. And he’s just been run over by a milk float.
ernie Gunther, forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin’s Criminal Police, is now a house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - a businessman and a Jewish boxer, and Bernie is drawn into the lives of various hotel guests. One, a beautiful left-wing journalist, is intent on persuading America to boycott the Olympiad. The other, a Chicago gangster, who wants to use the Olympics to enrich his Chicago mob. As events unfold, Bernie uncovers a vast network of those who want a slice of the fortune the Nazis are spending to showcase Germany to the world.
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t was tough enough to fill the hours of the day when he was active. But now he’s broken his arm and fractured his foot, it looks set to be a very long few weeks ahead. Then a breath of fresh air comes into his life in the form of Kelly Christmas, home help. With her little blue car and appalling parking, Kelly changes Frank’s life. She reminds him that there is a big wide-world beyond the four walls of his flat and that adventures, however small, come to people of all ages.
‘Kerr brilliantly evokes the edgy atmosphere of the post-war period in one of the most gripping and accomplished detective novels published so far’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Kerr’s period detail is utterly convincing... a sophisticated thriller that brings the war and its aftermath to life’ INDEPENDENT
‘Slick, serpentine and very, very entertaining… If you’ve got a pulse, you’ll love Scott Mariani; if you haven’t, then maybe you crossed Ben Hope.’ SIMON TOYNE
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‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart… Scott Mariani packs a real punch.’ ANDY McDERMOTT 5
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Frank and Kelly’s story is sad and funny, moving, familiar, uplifting. And it’s guaranteed to make you laugh. ‘Warm and funny, this book will leave you with a satisfied smile’ CATHARINA INGELMAN-SUNDBERG, bestselling author of The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
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Winter Christopher Nicholson
One Moment, One Morning Sarah Rayner
Iron and Rust Harry Sidebottom
978 1 47128 552 3 – 352pp
978 1 47128 180 8 – 448pp
978 1 47128 550 9 – 448pp
A poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy’s relationship with his last muse.
One Moment, One Morning is a stunning novel about love and loss, about family and – above all – friendship.
In a single year six Emperors will lay claim to the Throne of the Caesars…
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‘Carried along by the momentum of a suspense-filled yet touching story that drives to the core of human emotion, this book is a real page-turner.’ EASY LIVING
‘Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship’ THE TIMES
celebrated author, in the winter of his life, awaits a visit from a beautiful young actress – the leading lady in a staging of his most famous tragedy. But his wife is troubled. An anxious and sickly woman, she watches the growing intimacy between her husband and the young woman, and becomes tormented by the idea that they will betray her. In this delicately-wrought novel, Christopher Nicholson has been inspired by the true story of the first theatrical production of Tess of the D’Urbervilles to paint a subtle and moving portrait of life’s little ironies, its disappointments and its desires.
‘A wonderfully insightful — and occasionally humorous — portrait of marital unhappiness and the dynamics of desire and longing’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘A superfine, thistledown novel… written in a prose of such quality that one does not notice the quality’ GUARDIAN
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he Brighton to London line. The 07:44 train. Carriages packed with commuters. A woman applies her make-up. Another occupies her time observing the people around her. A husband and wife share an affectionate gesture. Further along, a woman flicks through a glossy magazine. Then, abruptly, everything changes: a man has a heart attack, and can’t be resuscitated; the train is stopped, an ambulance called. For at least three passengers on the 07:44 on that particular morning, life will never be the same again.
‘An intimate, thoughtful novel celebrating women’s friendship and loyalty to each other.’ WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY
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pring, AD235. A surprise attack and the brutal murder of the Emperor Alexander and his mother shatters four decades of Roman certainty. Military hero Maximinus Thrax is the first Caesar risen from the barracks. A simple man of steel and violence, he will fight for Rome. The Senators praise the new Emperor with elaborate oratory, but will any of them accept a Caesar who was once a shepherd boy? In the north, as the merciless war against the barbarians consumes men and treasure, rebellion and personal tragedy drive Maximinus to desperate extremes, bloody revenge and to the borders of sanity.
‘A storming triumph… wonderful fight scenes, deft literary touches and salty dialogue’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
January 2015
No Harm Can Come to a Good Man James Smythe
The Snow Angel Lulu Taylor
A Lovely Way to Burn Louise Welsh
978 1 47128 551 6 – 464pp
978 1 47128 184 6 – 528pp
978 1 47128 178 5 – 416pp
A terrifyingly original thriller from the author of The Machine.
A forbidden passion. A lifetime of consequences.
ow far would you go to save your family from an invisible threat? ClearVista is used by everyone and can predict everything. It’s a daily lifesaver, predicting weather, to traffic, to who you should befriend. Laurence Walker wants to be the next President of the United States. ClearVista will predict his chances. It will predict whether he’s the right man for the job. It will predict that his son can only survive for 102 seconds underwater. It will predict that Laurence’s life is about to collapse in the most unimaginable way.
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ressida Felbridge is living the high life as a debutante in 1960s London society. Wishing only the best for his daughter, Cressida’s father decrees that she must have her portrait painted. But as soon as she meets the painter Ralph Few, Cressie knows her life will never be the same again. In the present day, Emily Conway is told of a mysterious legacy: a house in Cumbria, left to her by a woman she has never met. Could this house provide the chance to start anew, or does it hold secrets that she must uncover before it can be at peace?
‘A writer with a preternaturally powerful and distinctive voice’ GUARDIAN
A deliciously dark family saga from Lulu Taylor, the bestselling author of The Winter Folly.
‘One of our most talented new writers’ JOHN HARDING
‘[This] engrossing romantic saga is a hugely enjoyable, escapist treat.’ DAILY MIRROR on The Winter Folly
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‘Welsh plays brilliantly on our worst fears, and the pace never lets up. Seriously scary.’ THE TIMES
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t doesn’t look like murder in a city full of death. A pandemic called ‘The Sweats’ is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend, Dr Simon Sharkey, was not from natural causes. As roads out of London become gridlocked with people fleeing infection, Stevie’s search for Simon’s killers takes her in the opposite direction, into the depths of the dying city and a race with death.
‘A terrifying journey into the possible, this is dystopia for today. Feral, frightening and fascinating, A Lovely Way to Burn gripped and chilled me in equal measure’ VAL McDERMID ‘A thrillingly dystopian mystery’ GUARDIAN
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The Lost Garden Kate Kerrigan
Talk to Me Jules Wake
A Buzz in the Meadow Dave Goulson
978 1 47128 187 7 – 416pp
978 1 47128 188 4 – 448pp
978 1 47128 553 0 – 352pp
A mesmerising story about loss, friendship and the power of true love.
Olivia and Daniel certainly aren’t talking the language of love…
A fascinating look at the insect world found in one field in France - and how important that world is to all of us.
ileen Doherty can’t wait to go on her first adventure, tattie picking for the summer in Scotland. What she hadn’t bargained for was meeting the irresistible Jimmy Walsh, who falls for flame-haired Aileen the moment he sets eyes on her. Spending each day working together, Aileen and Jimmy fall passionately in love, until their happiness is cruelly cut short by a tragic accident. Aileen finds solace in reviving an abandoned garden. Gradually, through the magic of hope, Aileen brings the garden back to life - and herself with it. But it takes a true miracle to finally heal her broken heart.
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Praise for the author: ‘A book with heart; warm, enjoyable and gently compelling’ DAILY MAIL
‘A heart-warming debut’ THE BOOKSELLER
‘Goulson reveals details of insect lives that had me exclaiming with delight. His descriptive style is clear and elegant, with exactly the right dusting of humour.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘I devoured this book in one sitting - I LOVED IT!’ MARIAN KEYES
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livia has been in love with Daniel forever but, despite her best efforts, they’ve never been able to get it together. Their relationship has always been a series of mixed messages and misunderstandings and the final straw comes when Daniel mysteriously starts dating her flatmate, Emily. Hurt and confused, Olivia resolves to forget her heartache with a spot of speed dating. After all, what could possibly go wrong? One crazy stalker later and Olivia’s life is becoming increasingly strange and scary. Can she rely on Daniel to step in when events take a terrifying turn or will their communication breakdown ultimately result in tragedy?
‘Talk To Me is the next wave in chick lit.’ ELDER PARK BOOK REVIEWS
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n A Buzz in the Meadow Goulson tells the story of how he bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow and how, over a decade, he has created a place for his beloved bumblebees to thrive. But other creatures live there too, myriad insects of every kind. You will learn about how a deathwatch beetle finds its mate, about the importance of houseflies, why butterflies have spots on their wings, about dragonfly sex, bed-bugs and wasps. Goulson is brilliant, and very funny, at showing how scientists actually conduct experiments.
‘The real pleasure of reading this book is hearing the hum of biodiversity rising from every page.’ THE TIMES
January 2015
Good Morning, Mr Mandela Zelda la Grange
The Spy who Changed the World Mike Rossiter
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
978 1 47128 185 3 – 560pp
978 1 47128 186 0 – 496pp
978 1 47128 554 7 – 640pp
Zelda la Grange served Nelson Mandela in different capacities over nineteen years. She was serving as his Personal Assistant when he passed on in December 2013. ood Morning, Mr Mandela is the journey of an awkward young typist later chosen to become the President’s most loyal servant, spending most of her adult life travelling with and caring for the man she would come to call ‘Khulu,’ or ‘grandfather.’ Here Zelda pays tribute to Nelson Mandela as she knew him - a teacher who gave her the most valuable lessons of her life. A man who refused to be defined by his past, who forgave and respected all, but who was also frank, teasing and direct. Now she shares his lasting and inspiring gifts with the world.
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‘Compelling and ultimately heartbreaking... her unguarded honesty allows her to tells a remarkable story’ TELEGRAPH ‘Uplifting... generally charming… always reverent’ SUNDAY TIMES
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The gripping true story of Klaus Fuchs: the spy who sold the nuclear secrets to the Russians.
A brooding tragedy which scandalised Hardy’s contemporaries on first publication.
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ude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Manipulated by the beautiful Arabella Donn, he is distracted from his studies and lured into an affectionate but loveless marriage. When Arabella leaves him for a new life in Australia, Jude moves to Christchurch in the hopes of bettering himself through studies. However he becomes frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University. His only source of joy seems to lie in his unconventional relationship with his cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.
hen the three leaders of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, met at Potsdam in July 1945, President Truman announced to Stalin that the US had a new weapon. In fact, Stalin was well aware of the existence of the atomic bomb. Stalin owed his knowledge to the atomic scientist Dr Klaus Fuchs. A refugee from Nazi Germany, entrusted with crucial work for the British and American nuclear weapons project, Fuchs gave every piece of information he had to the KGB. The world that Fuchs helped create remained in the grip of a nuclear stand-off for a generation.
‘A gripping espionage story that might have been penned by the master of Cold War spy fiction John le Carré’ DAILY EXPRESS ‘Pacy and well-crafted’ GUARDIAN
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‘Visceral, passionate, anti-hypocrisy, anti-repression... Hardy reaches into our wildest recesses’ EVENING STANDARD ‘The greatest tragic writer among English novelists’ VIRGINIA WOOLF
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The Reef Edith Wharton
By Its Cover Donna Leon
The Murder Bag Tony Parsons
978 1 47128 555 4 – 432pp
978 1 47128 774 9 – 352pp
978 1 47128 289 8 – 380pp
A stunning classic from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, the author of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. he Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow, a young diplomat travelling from London to France, intent on proposing to Anna Leath. Anna is a young widow, an American living in France with her step-mother. However, unsettled by Anna’s restraint, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naive and impecunious young governess. But Sophie holds the key to a secret which comes to reveal Anna’s future and the very foundation of her life.
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‘A complex, subtle and moving story of the ways in which people torment one another and the awful power of retrospective jealousy.’ PENELOPE LIVELY
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By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon’s bestselling crime series.
The explosive and gripping first crime novel from Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy.
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hen several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene. He begins to seek information about some of the library’s regulars, such as the expriest Franchini, and Contessa Morosini-Albani, and comes to the conclusion that the thief could not have acted alone. However, when Franchini is found murdered in his home, the case takes a more sinister turn. Alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra, he delves into the pages of Franchini’s past and into the mind of a book thief in order to uncover the terrible truth.
Praise for the author: ‘The familiar characters and Venetian location are described with remarkable freshness and, as always, the edifying result is both amusing and thought-provoking’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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wenty years ago seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school. Now they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe has recently arrived in the Homicide division of London’s West End Central. Soon he is following the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the internet and all the way to the corridors of power. As the bodies pile up, Max finds the killer’s reach getting closer to everything - and everyone - he loves. Soon he is fighting not only for justice, but for his own life…
‘Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic.’ LEE CHILD ‘A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling (and wrenching) portraits of the characters, good and evil, conspire to make this a must-read.’ JEFFERY DEAVER
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Rivers of London Ben Aaronovitch
Stone Mattress Margaret Atwood
Artefacts of the Dead Tony Black
978 1 47128 299 7 – 544pp
978 1 47128 296 6 – 368pp
978 1 47128 305 5 – 336pp
The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city…
‘One of the most important writers in English today.’ GERMAINE GREER
It’s a dead man... Can’t you see someone’s put a bloody great spike through him?
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y name is Peter Grant and I was just probationary constable in the Metropolitan Police until one night in January, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluble - that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I’m a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden.
‘Witty, well plotted, vividly written and addictively readable’ THE TIMES ‘An engaging mix of magic and police procedural… the most satisfying fantasy thriller to hit bookshelves in quite some time. Witty, imaginative and gripping.’ SFX
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recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet’s syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly-formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland and she is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
‘It’s easy to appreciate the grand array of Margaret Atwood’s works ... in all their power and grace and variety. When I think of it, and put it together with her writerly gifts and achievements, it takes my breath away.’ ALICE MUNRO ‘Atwood is a poet. Scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work.’ JOHN UPDIKE 11
he discovery of a dead banker sends shock waves through the sleepy coastal town of Ayr. It’s up to DI Bob Valentine, recently back on the force after his near-fatal stabbing, to find the killer. Leads are hard to find and the pressure is on from the Chief Superintendent who still has serious concerns about her DI’s mental health. As it becomes clear that there’s a serial killer on the loose, Valentine must battle the demons of his post-traumatic stress that’s leaking frightening visions. Valentine is close to breaking point, but can he crack the case before he cracks up?
‘Taut, with a heart-wrenchingly honest protagonist and impressive literary style, it is among the best of the new Tartan Noir’ DAILY MAIL ‘Tony Black is my favourite British crime writer’ IRVINE WELSH
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A Colder War Charles Cumming
Carnival of Shadows R. J. Ellory
A Place for Us Harriet Evans
978 1 47128 290 4 – 436pp
978 1 47128 297 3 – 725pp
978 1 47128 292 8 – 594pp
From the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year comes a gripping and suspenseful new spy novel.
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I6’s Head of Station in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash. The Secret Intelligence Service wants the incident investigated – quickly and quietly. Arriving in Istanbul to investigate, Thomas Kell discovers that MI6 operations in the region have been fatally compromised. A traitor inside Western Intelligence threatens not just the special relationship, but the security of the entire Middle East. But when Kell is betrayed by those closest to him, the stakes become personal. He will do anything to see this operation through – including putting himself and others, in the line of fire…
‘From the first page to the last it has the ring of absolute authenticity. Tautly written, cleverly plotted… it reminded me strongly of the early books of John le Carré’ ROBERT HARRIS
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Something wicked this way comes…
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ansas, 1959. A travelling carnival appears overnight in the small town of Seneca Falls, with acts of inexplicable magic and illusion. But when a man’s body is discovered beneath the carousel with no clue as to his identity, FBI Special Agent Michael Travis is sent to investigate. As the consequences of what has happened become ever more disturbing, Travis struggles to open his mind to a truth that defies comprehension. Can he convince himself that things are not what they seem? Or is this a new reality which could undermine everything in which he has placed his trust?
‘An intriguing, delightfully unpredictable novel’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘An atmospheric thriller with a gallery of fascinating characters’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
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The day Martha Winter decided to tear apart her family began like any other day.
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he house has a soft, purple wisteria twining around the door. You step inside. The hall is cool after the hot summer’s day. The welcome is kind and always warm. Yet something makes you suspect life here can’t be as perfect as it seems. After all, the brightest smile can hide the darkest secret. But wouldn’t you pay any price to have a glorious place like this? Welcome to Winterfold. Martha Winter’s family is finally coming home.
A Place for Us by bestselling author Harriet Evans is a book you’ll dive into, featuring a family you’ll fall in love with... and never want to leave. Praise for the author: ‘Evans’s gift for characterisation and appreciation of complicated family dynamics singles this novel out as superior romantic fare.’ INDEPENDENT
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Zodiac Station Tom Harper
Vendetta Dreda Say Mitchell
Thirteen Weddings Paige Toon
978 1 47128 294 2 – 544pp
978 1 47128 291 1 – 576pp
978 1 47128 295 9 – 448pp
An extraordinary thriller set at the frozen edge of the world.
A fast-paced, race-against-time thriller, Dreda Say Mitchell is the female equivalent of Simon Kernick and Stephen Leather.
The charming new novel from the bestselling author, Paige Toon
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n the Arctic Ocean, the US Coast Guard icebreaker Terra Nova batters its way through the ice. There shouldn’t be anyone near them for hundreds of miles. But then a lone skier, half-dead with cold, emerges out of the snow. His name is Tom Anderson and he is the only survivor of a disaster at Zodiac Station, a scientific research base deep in the Arctic Circle. He tells an incredible story of scientists and spies, mayhem and murder. But whose blood is smeared across his clothes? Why is there a bullet hole through the jacket he’s wearing, and why is that jacket labelled with someone else’s name?
‘Harper is a master storyteller’ PETER JAMES ‘Harper effortlessly draws the reader into an unfamiliar time, bringing alive the characters and their motivations’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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‘Breathless from the first word and thrilling to the last’ LEE CHILD ‘Wonderful vivid writing and a truly original voice.’ PETER JAMES
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Praise for the author: ‘It’s fresh, incredibly confident… This wonderful pageturner kept me guessing right until the end’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Fun, summery, chick-lit with bite - if you want a bit of escapism, this is perfect’ COSMOPOLITAN
February 2015
Fall From Grace Tim Weaver
Things I Want You to Know Martina Reilly
Paper Swans Jessica Thompson
978 1 47128 293 5 – 568pp
978 1 47128 312 3 – 560pp
978 1 47128 314 7 – 496pp
Fall From Grace is the latest missing persons case in the bestselling David Raker series by Tim Weaver.
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hen Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie leave London for their dream retirement in Dartmoor, everything seems perfect. But then their new life is shattered. Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood from the back of the house - and never returns. Nine months later, with the police investigation at a dead end, Leonard’s family turn to David Raker. But nothing can prepare Raker for what he’s about to uncover, because at the heart of this disappearance lies a devastating secret. By the time Raker realises what it is, it’s not just him in danger - it’s everyone he cares about.
‘Weaver’s books get better each time - tense, complex, sometimes horrific, written with flair as well as care.’ GUARDIAN
When a love lasts longer than one lifetime…
‘A sweet, witty and likeable love story.’ SUNDAY MIRROR
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‘Reminiscent of One Day, this moving, quirky love story is sob-inducingly romantic.’ CLOSER on This is a Love Story
‘A powerful story that me laughing and crying’ CLARE DOWLING
‘A very modern romance, this is a sweet, witty and likeable love story.’ SUNDAY MIRROR
hen a tragic accident tore his life apart, Nick Deegan left his beautiful wife Kate and their two young children always thinking that someday he would return to them. Now, two years later, Kate has passed away and Nick moves back home to raise the children. Nick discovers a book Kate had left for him containing things she wanted him to know. But alongside the do’s and dont’s of raising their children are details of five dates, with five very different women for the months ahead. Nick slowly realises that it’s not romance Kate wanted him to find, but something far more important…
en Lawrence seems to have it all - the hot job, the flashy car, the luxurious apartment. But one tragic day in his past mars his future. Since the events of that day he hasn’t truly got close to anyone. He made a promise that love was the price he would pay for his mistakes. When Effy Jones - a bright, ambitious charity founder - walks into the PR firm where Ben works, neither realise that their lives are about to be turned upside down. When everything is broken one person can help to put the pieces together...
‘Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller’ DAILY MAIL
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Belle Paula Byrne
The Hollow Crown Dan Jones
Forensics Val McDermid
978 1 47128 307 9 – 304pp
978 1 47128 308 6 – 594pp
978 1 47128 311 6 – 418pp
The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson.
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ido Belle was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy captain and a slave woman, adopted by the Earl of Mansfield. As Lord Chief Justice of England he would preside over the notorious Zong case – the drowning of 142 slaves by an unscrupulous shipping company. His ruling provided the legal underpinning to the abolition of slavery in Britain. Paula Byrne vividly narrates the story of a family that defied convention, the legal trial that exposed the cruelties of slavery and the woman who challenged notions of race at the highest rank.
‘A touching account… artfully constructed’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘The theatrical zest of the narrative, which is a tie-in with a movie of the same name, holds it all together’ THE TIMES
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The War of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors…
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he fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently seven times as the great families of England fought to the death for power, majesty and the right to rule. Dan Jones describes how the Plantagenets tore themselves apart and were finally replaced by the Tudors. With vivid descriptions of the battle of Towton, where 28,000 men died in a single morning, to Bosworth, where the last Plantagenet king was hacked down, this is the real story behind Shakespeare’s famous history plays.
‘The Hollow Crown is exhilarating, epic, blood-androses history… Jones’s material is thrilling… it is a supremely skillful piece of storytelling.’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ‘Stonking narrative history told with pace, wit and scholarship about the bloody dynasty that produced some of England’s most brilliant, brutal kings’ OBSERVER on The Plantagenets 15
Bestselling crime writer Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic medicine, from the crime scene to the courtroom.
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n Forensics Val McDermid lays bare the secrets of this fascinating science drawing on interviews with professionals, groundbreaking research and her own experience. Along the way, she wonders at how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine time of death and how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer. In her novels, McDermid has been solving complex crimes and confronting unimaginable evil for years. Now, she’s looking at the people who do it for real.
Praise for the author: ‘McDermid has the ruthless psychological scalpel that forms part of the equipment of all good novelists, whatever their genre. And, fortunately for us, she knows just how to use it.’ GUARDIAN ‘The sheer brio of McDermid’s writing produces that increasingly rare thing, a genuine page-turner that doesn’t insult its readers’ intelligence.’ INDEPENDENT
February 2015
Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell
King Solomon’s Mines H. Rider Haggard
Mr Mercedes Stephen King
978 1 47128 318 5 – 640pp
978 1 47128 316 1 – 336pp
978 1 47128 666 7 – 560pp
‘I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage to shock people.’
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uth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress, falls for the deceit and seduction of the wealthy and bored Henry Bellingham. The affair however, is short-lived and soon Ruth who is carrying Bellingham’s unborn child is left abandoned, unemployed and homeless. She is saved by an elderly clergyman, Rev. Benson, and his family, who take pity on the young girl. Soon they help to establish for her a respectable place in society. But when Bellingham returns and once more begins his advances on Ruth she must make a decision - to retain her pride and endure the scorn of the community, or to succumb once more to Henry Bellingham.
In Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell lays bare Victorian hypocrisy, and its double standards for men and women.
A swashbuckling, Indiana Jones-style adventure!
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hen two men approach adventurer Allan Quartermain to lead a quest into the unexplored areas of north Africa, he agrees to be their guide. Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good are seeking his help to find Sir Henry’s brother, who was last seen travelling that way on a search for King Solomon’s Mines. Armed with a map that claims to show the way to the legendary treasure, and aided by a mysterious local named Umbopa, the men set out on an adventure into the darkest regions of Africa.
In 1885, H. Rider Haggard’s publisher considered King Solomon’s Mines as ‘the most amazing book ever written.’ ‘A peculiarly thrilling and vigorous tale of adventure’ ANDREW LANG
A riveting suspense thriller from the bestselling author, Stephen King.
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cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring a retired homicide detective who’s haunted by one of the few cases he left open - the pre-dawn slaughter of eight people among hundreds gathered in line for the opening of a jobs fair. Without warning, a lone driver ploughed through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes. The plot is kicked into gear when Bill Hodges receives a letter in the mail, from a man claiming to be the perpetrator. He taunts Hodges with the notion that he will strike again. Only Hodges, with a couple of misfit friends, can apprehend the killer in this highstakes race against time.
‘When it comes to grabbing an audience by the throat and giving them no choice but to keep reading, King has no equal’ GUARDIAN ‘Pays off exuberantly. [...] Surprising and invigorating.’ NEW YORK TIMES
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Invisible James Patterson & David Ellis
Beautiful Day Kate Anthony
J Howard Jacobson
978 1 47128 665 0 – 400pp
978 1 47128 669 8 – 395pp
978 1 47128 683 4 – 415pp
A chilling and terrifying stand-alone thriller from bestselling author James Patterson.
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veryone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emma has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom and her nightly recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emma’s ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison ‘Books’ Bookman, will believe that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emma finds a piece of evidence he can’t afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day - and they’re all inexplicable. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?
‘The prolific Patterson seems unstoppable.’ USA TODAY ‘James Patterson knows how to sell thrills and suspense in clean, unwavering prose.’ PEOPLE
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Beautiful Day is a poignant and heart-warming novel.
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achel is returning to work, and as she discovers, juggling a new job, three children and an ex-husband can feel like drowning. Philip doesn’t seem like an obvious lifesaver. He has just lost the one person who ever cared for him and he doesn’t know how to live in the real world. But might Philip and Rachel each have something the other needs? This is a story of unexpected friendship; of the messy, muddy territory of those broken by life and what it takes to fix them. It reminds us that the very darkest of days can be funny, heart-warming and even beautiful.
‘Heart-wrenching and compulsive, I’m sad I’ve finished it’HILARY BOYD ‘It’s not often you find a chick-lit book that genuinely makes you want to be a better person but this emotional, heart-warming story had just that effect on me… I loved it.’ DAILY MAIL
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A life-changing novel by one of Britain’s greatest novelists, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2010. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014.
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wo people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn’t know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a word starting with a J. Ailinn too has grown up in the dark about who she was or where she came from. On their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes. They aren’t sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they’ve been pushed into each other’s arms. But who would have pushed them, and why?
‘Comparisons do not do full justice to Jacobson’s achievement in what may well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times.’ GUARDIAN ‘A snarling, effervescent and ambitious philosophical work of fiction. Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling.’ INDEPENDENT
March 2015
Love in Small Letters Francesc Miralles
He Wants Alison Moore
Last Kiss Louise Phillips
978 1 47128 675 9 – 384pp
978 1 47128 670 4 – 171pp
978 1 47128 674 2 – 544pp
When Samuel wakes up on 1st January, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing exciting or unusual…
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strange visitor bursts into Samuel’s flat, determined not to leave, Mishima, a stray cat. Mishima leads Samuel to a strange encounter with the enigmatic Valdemar and his neighbour Titus, with whom he had previously never exchanged a word. This is the catalyst for an incredible transformation that is about to occur in the secluded world Samuel has built around himself. As unexpected friendships develop out of these encounters and a childhood love is reignited, Samuel discovers for the first time, how small everyday acts can have the power to unleash a hurricane of feeling and awaken the heart from its slumber.
Love in Small Letters is peppered with literary references and links to music and the art world, filled with eccentricity, cats and some extraordinary characters.
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A surprising, lingering and intensely moving tale from one of our most exciting novelists.
Her husband is having an affair with a woman who wants her life. How far will she go to take back control?
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etired teacher Lewis Sullivan always imagined living by the sea. He lives instead in the Midlands village in which he was born. His grown-up daughter visits every day, bringing soup. He does not want soup. He frequents his second-favourite pub, where he can get half a shandy, a speciality sausage and a bit of company. When a childhood friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his life and comfortable routine shaken up. Always unexpected, sparely written and beautifully crafted, He Wants deftly dissects the themes of loneliness, anxiety, the weight of recollection and the complex nature of friendship and family ties.
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n a quiet suburb, a woman desperately clings to her sanity as a shadowy presence moves objects around her home… In a hotel room across the city, an art dealer with a dubious sexual past is found butchered, his body arranged to mimic the Hangman card from the Tarot deck - But what connects them? When criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson is brought in to help investigate, she finds herself plunged into a web of sexual power and evil which spreads from Dublin to Paris, and then to Rome. Will Kate discover the identity of the killer before it’s too late to protect the innocent?
‘A haunting and accomplished novel’ INDEPENDENT
‘Phillips is superb at suspense, at conjuring up a dark menacing atmosphere.’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
‘Moore’s writing has a superb sense of the weight of memory.’ THE TIMES
‘Louise Phillips goes from strength to strength. […] Last Kiss takes her writing to another, more intense level. The pace is excellent, the characters, familiar and new, well drawn and believable.’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
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In Love and War Alex Preston
Savage Magic Lloyd Shepherd
Nora Webster Colm Toibin
978 1 47128 672 8 – 396pp
978 1 47128 673 5 – 449pp
978 1 47128 668 1 – 461pp
A novel of art and letters, of bawdy raconteurs and dashing spies, In Love and War takes you deep into the hidden heart of history.
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esperate to prove himself to his politician father, Esmond Lowndes is sent to Italy to forge ties between the British Union of Fascists and Mussolini’s government. In Florence, he discovers art and passion amongst eccentric expatriates and glamorous locals. But with the coming of war, he leaves his past behind and joins the Florentine resistance. He falls in love with a fellow freedom fighter and together they take on the malevolent Mario Carità, head of the Fascist secret police. Esmond is at the centre of assassination plots, shoot-outs and car chases, culminating in a final mission of extraordinary daring.
‘Rich in historical detail and utterly compelling’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Moving... Preston writes in unaffected but affecting prose’ THE TIMES
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Lloyd Shepherd’s most ambitious novel to date is a triumph of the imagination.
Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.
t’s 1814 and the streets of London’s Covent Garden are at the centre of a dark trade, enticing rich and poor alike with a cocktail of gin, beer and sex. Behind their own fashionable private doors in the surrounding parishes, a group of aristocratic young men are found murdered, all of them wearing masks, all of them behind locked doors. Constable Charles Horton’s investigation into these violent crimes begins at Thorpe Lee House in Surrey, where accusations of witchcraft have swept the village. What connects these broken London men, and a village awash with talk of burning witches?
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t is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children and trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, but trapped by her circumstances and is waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Slowly, through the gift of music and the power of friendship, she finds a glimmer of hope and a way of starting again. As the dynamic of the family changes, she seems both fiercely self-possessed but also a figure of great moral ambiguity, making her one of the most memorable heroines in contemporary fiction.
Praise for the author: ‘A joyously, flamboyantly melodramatic scamper’ GUARDIAN
‘A profoundly gifted world writer’ SEBASTIAN BARRY
‘Shepherd produces a satisfyingly rich and readable brew.’ THE SUNDAY TIMES
‘The Ireland of four decades ago is beautifully evoked… Completely absorbing [and] remarkably heart-affecting’ BOOKLIST
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Look Who’s Back Timur Vermes
After Before Jemma Wayne
Do Opposites Attract? Kathryn Freeman
978 1 47128 667 4 – 371pp
978 1 47128 671 1 – 408pp
97 81 47128 679 7 – 400pp
Look Who’s Back is a black and brilliant satire of modern media-bloated society, seen through the eyes of the Führer himself.
“That was the day that Mama made the rules: If they come, run. Be quiet and run. But not together. Never together. If one is found, at least the other survives….”
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erlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable and the inevitable happens: the ranting Hitler goes viral. He becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show and people begin to listen. But the Führer has another programme with even greater ambition - to set the country he finds a shambles back to rights.
‘A darkly entertaining satire’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Be warned. This book is funny. Very funny… good, edgy comedy that provides food for thought alongside the belly laughs’ INDEPENDENT
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uring a cold, British winter, three women reach crisis point. Emily, an immigrant survivor of the Rwandan genocide is existing but not living. Vera, a newly Christian Londoner is striving to live a moral life, her happiness constantly undermined by secrets from her past. Lynn, battling with an untimely disease, is consumed by bitterness and resentment of what she hasn’t achieved and what has been snatched from her. Each suffering their own demons, their lives have been torn open by betrayal: by other people, by themselves, by life itself. But as their paths interweave, they begin to unravel their beleaguered pasts, and inadvertently change each other’s futures.
‘Rich, haunted, gripping, painful and beautifully entwined’ RUTH PADEL
There’s no such thing as a class divide - until you’re on separate sides.
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rianna Worthington has beauty, privilege and a very healthy trust fund. The only hardship she’s ever witnessed has been on the television. Yet when she’s invited to see how her mother’s charity, Medic SOS, is dealing with the aftermath of a tornado in South America, even Brianna is surprised when she accepts. Mitch McBride, Chief Medical Officer, doesn’t need the patron’s daughter disrupting his work. He’s from the wrong side of the tracks and has led life on the edge, but he’s not about to risk losing his job for a pretty face. Poles apart yet dynamite together, can Brianna and Mitch ever bridge the gap separating them?
‘Little rich girl learns about life in a disaster area in South America. It’s a fun debut’ THE BOOKSELLER
‘A powerful novel. Its characters will haunt you long after their stories have been told’ NAOMI GRYN 20
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The Wedding Proposal Sue Moorcroft
Thomas Cromwell Tracy Borman
Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda Morten Storm
978 1 47128 680 3 – 367pp
978 1 47128 676 6 – 592pp
978 1 47128 678 0 – 149pp
Can a runaway bride stop running?
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lle Jamieson is a private person - and for good reason. But when she’s made redundant and with no ties to hold her, Elle heads off to sunny Malta. Lucas Rose hates secrets - he prides himself on his ability to lay his cards on the table. He’s furious when his summer working in Malta is interrupted by the arrival of Elle, his ex, all thanks to his Uncle Simon’s misguided attempts at matchmaking. Forced to live in close proximity, it’s hard to ignore what they had shared before Lucas’s wedding proposal scared Elle away. Can he deal with Elle’s closely guarded past when it finally comes to light?
Sue’s novel Love & Freedom won the Festival of Romance Best Romantic Read Award 2011.
Thomas Cromwell is known to millions as the leading character in Hilary Mantel’s bestselling Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. But who was the real Cromwell?
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orn a tavern keeper’s son, Cromwell rose swiftly through the ranks to become Henry VIII’s right hand man, and one of the most powerful figures in Tudor history. With the break of England and the Roman Catholic Church, resulting in the dissolution of the monasteries, he oversaw seismic changes in our country’s history. For years he has been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer, but Cromwell was also a loving husband and father, and a loyal and devoted servant. Tracy Borman examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever.
‘Tracy Borman has crafted an exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor age’s most complex and controversial figures’ ALISON WEIR ‘Borman’s is a highly readable account, and will add to the debate surrounding this ultimately elusive character’ FINANCIAL TIMES
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Filled with hair-raising close calls, coded messages and chilling duplicity, Agent Storm is a captivating real-life thriller.
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orten Storm was an unlikely Jihadist. A 6’1” red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens with a biker gang or in jail. But after converting to Islam he embarked on a transformation that led from a militant madrassa in Yemen to a close friendship with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric who would emerge as al-Qaeda’s greatest threat to the West. Then Storm’s story took another dramatic twist. He lost his faith and was recruited by the CIA, MI6 and MI5, becoming a double agent. His ultimate mission: to bring down his mentor al-Awlaki.
‘A rollicking read and a rare insider’s account of Western spying in the age of Al Qaeda, where the risk if exposed is not Cold War-style expulsion but gruesome execution’ NEW YORK TIMES
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Deep Down Dark Héctor Tobar
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Some Must Watch Ethel Lina White
978 1 47128 677 3 – 528pp
978 1 47128 682 7 – 544pp
978 1 47128 681 0 – 288pp
A dramatic account of the 33 miners of the San Jose mine in Chile by novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar.
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he heart-stopping survival story of the 33 miners trapped half a mile beneath the surface for 69 days when the San Jose Mine collapsed. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar captures and recreates this unique drama so vividly, from the conflicts and the emotions that enveloped the men during their first fortnight below ground, when death by starvation loomed as their likely fate, to the subsequent weeks during which they established contact with the outside world. All the while, they remain trapped inside a still-thundering mountain that could collapse upon them at any moment.
‘Deep Down Dark is an extraordinary piece of work’ GEORGE PACKER
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...’
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fter eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
‘Epic in historical scale, it is also an intimate book, showing how the personal and political intermingle and what the causes and effects of violence are.’ GUARDIAN
A serial killer is on the loose, looking for victims whom he regards as ‘imperfect.’
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elen Cadel is a live-in maid for Professor Warren and his peculiar family in their isolated mansion. One day, news breaks that there has been a series of murders of young girls – a serial killer is at large and ceases to be caught… When Helen goes for a walk one afternoon, she feels herself being watched. She returns to the mansion, residing in the safety of its walls. But then, residents of the mansion begin to ‘leave’... Helen begins to wonder, Could the serial killer be inside the mansion?
Ethel Lina White was a British crime writer, best known for her novel, The Wheel Spins, on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes, was based.
‘An electrifying, empathetic work of journalism that makes a four-year-old story feel fresh.’ KIRKUS
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