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Dear Librarian, Welcome to our summer brochure, packed full of popular, bestselling titles. From the author of the runaway success Room, Emma Donoghue, comes an entertaining historical romp in Frog Music, set in the darker side of 1870s San Francisco. We also have the latest title from Erica James, Summer at the Lake, a glorious escapist read following two women’s journeys to Lake Como. For the crime and thriller fans we have Simon Kernick’s new break-neck thriller, Stay Alive and Peter James’ very first title Dead Letter Drop, released for the first time in Large Print. Worldwide bestseller James Patterson returns to his task force tackling extreme crimes in NYPD Red 2, as they hunt a killer on an impossible mission. We’ve also got some debut authors that have been attracting a lot of attention in this quarter. Niamh Boyce’s The Herbalist won the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and the Sunday Times describe her as a ‘dazzling new voice’. M. J. Carter’s The Strangler Vine, nominated for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014, is a detective story set in 1830’s India, with a pairing to rival Sherlock and Dr Watson. The Financial Times called it ‘a rattling good yarn’. Alongside these great titles we have Mary Berry’s autobiography, Recipe for Life, a guide to manners and how to use them from Sandi Toksvig and new titles from Hilary Boyd and Philip Kerr. We hope you enjoy the titles in this brochure, and as ever, please get in touch if you have any feedback. Best wishes,
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Frog Music Emma Donoghue
The House of Dolls David Hewson
Transition Iain M. Banks
978 1 47126 639 3 – 544pp
978 1 47126 647 8 – 560pp
978 1 47126 641 6 – 560pp
‘Time and again, Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before’ ANN PATCHETT
From the author of The Flood comes a brand new crime series, set in Amsterdam
A high-definition, hyper-real apocalyptic fable for our times, from the master story-teller Iain Banks
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Praise for the author: ‘Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing’ LINWOOD BARCLAY
‘Baroque, digressive, kinetic, teeming with big ideas and grand theories, it’s a novel to get lost in… gripping’ THE TIMES
an Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything – and leaving one of them dead. Frog Music, inspired by true events, is an evocative novel of intrigue and murder: elegant, erotic and witty.
‘Emma Donoghue is one of the great literary ventriloquists of our time. Her imagination is kaleidoscopic. She steps borders and boundaries with great ease and style.’ COLUM McCANN ‘Donoghue’s first literary crime novel is a departure from her bestselling Room, but it’s just as dark and just as gripping as the latter’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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nneliese Vos, sixteen-year-old daughter of Detective Pieter Vos, disappeared three years ago. Her father’s desperate search revealed nothing, and resulted in his departure from the police force. One day, Laura Bakker, a misfit trainee detective from the provinces visits him. She’s come to tell him that the daughter of local politician, Katja Prins, has gone missing in circumstances similar to Anneliese. In the company of the intriguing and awkward Bakker, Vos finds himself drawn back into the life of a detective. Hoping that somewhere along the way, there will be a clue to his daughter’s fate…
David Hewson is the author of the Nic Costa series, set in Italy as well as the novelisation of the hit TV show The Killing. 4
magine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation whose operatives possess extraordinary powers. There is Temudjin Oh, an unkillable assassin who journeys between the high passes of Nepal, a version of Victorian London and a wintry Venice; Adrian Cubbish, restlessly greedy City trader; and the Philosopher, a state-sponsored torturer who moves between the time zones with sinister ease.
‘Stunning… tackles the issues of the responsibility of power, the moral implications of intervention and even the philosophical conundrum of what constitutes life itself.’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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His Father’s Son Tony Black
The Herbalist Niamh Boyce
Another Way to Fall Amanda Brooke
978 1 47126 649 2 – 336pp
978 1 47126 648 5 – 464pp
978 1 47126 644 7 – 416pp
A touching story of a family struggling to come to terms with their past, their present and an uncertain future
The Herbalist won the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the 2013 Irish Book Awards
If you could write your own happy ending, what would you say?
ustralia is the Lucky Country, and Joey Driscol knows it. It’s a far cry from his native Ireland, but he believes this is the place he and his wife Shauna can make a new life. But as the years pass, his new life comes under threat. Suddenly, Shauna disappears, taking their son, Marti, with her. When Joey gets word that they have returned to Ireland, he knows that he’ll have to do the same if he wants to see them again. And he also knows that he’ll finally have to confront the ghosts of his past that he’s been running from for years.
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mily is spellbound by the exotic stranger who sets up his stall in the market square. However, she has competition for the herbalist’s attentions. The women of her small town are all mesmerised by the visitor who, they say, can perform miracles. When Emily discovers the miracle-worker’s dark side, her world turns upside down. She may be naive, but she has a fierce sense of right and wrong. With his fate lying in her hands, Emily must make a decision. To make the herbalist pay for his sins? Or let him escape to cast his spell on another place?
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‘Soulful and stunningly written, this reads like a future classic’ LISA JEWELL
‘An elegant morality tale… her publisher described her as ‘a dazzling new voice’ I cannot disagree’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘I read The Herbalist with great pleasure. The characters jump alive from the page and I had to read fast to find out what happened, totally gripped.’ PATRICIA FERGUSON, author of The Midwife’s Daughter
‘Life affirming’ SUNDAY MIRROR
‘A moving and evocative tale, a heartfelt examination of the bond between fathers and sons, and about the baggage one generation passes on to the next’ DOUG JOHNSTONE
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or three long years, Emma has battled with illness, enduring everything with bravery and always with hope. Then one day Emma is told that they’ve reached the end of the road. Emma’s family and friends are thrown into denial, anger and grief. But Emma begins to write the story of the life she has always wanted to live. As her body starts to weaken, the lines between fiction and reality start to blur and her story takes on a life of its own. As the story gains in strength, Emma, and those who cherish her, discover that even in death, there is life.
‘Magic and unputdownable’ KATIE FFORDE ‘Haunting and heartbreaking’ FERN BRITTON
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The Lawless Kind Matt Hilton
Dead Letter Drop Peter James
A Song for the Dying Stuart MacBride
978 1 47126 645 4 – 400pp
978 1 47126 650 8 – 304pp
978 1 47126 646 1 – 672pp
Dead Letter Drop is bestselling crime author Peter James’ first ever novel, available for the first time in Large Print
A heart-stopping crime thriller from the bestselling author of Birthdays for the Dead and the DI Logan McRae series
ax Flynn, undercover agent, has the unenviable job of spying on his own side. When to kill, who to kill, whether to kill are all questions which have to be answered at great speed if he wants to stay alive. But why does an innocuous airline ticket No. 14B matter so much? Who has gone to the trouble of committing suicide? And could Flynn’s beautiful companion be a spy? The hazy, murky world of counter espionage leaves no room for errors of judgement and Flynn knows he’s finished if he makes one false move.
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Praise for the author: ‘Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order’ MARK BILLINGHAM
Joe Hunter as you’ve never seen him before.
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‘Fast-paced, action-filled and completely addictive, Matt shows his continuing maturity as a writer with an exhilarating ride that still maintains humour and wit.’ SHOTSMAG
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Praise for the author: ‘Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world.’ LEE CHILD
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ight years ago, ‘The Inside Man’ murdered four women and left three more in critical condition – all of them with their stomachs slit open and a plastic doll stitched inside. And then the killer just… disappeared. Ash Henderson was the Detective Inspector on the initial investigation, but since then he’s been put behind bars. But when a nurse turns up dead, killed with the signature style of the Inside Man, the investigating team manages to get Ash released and working the case. He’s out for as long as he’s useful. And if he’s out, he can get revenge.
‘Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field’ INDEPENDENT
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Big Bad Wolf Nele Neuhaus
Eden in Winter Richard North Patterson
The First Horseman D.K. Wilson
978 1 47126 642 3 – 656pp
978 1 47126 640 9 – 496pp
978 1 47126 643 0 – 480pp
From the international bestselling author of Snow White Must Die
Number One bestselling author Richard North Patterson returns with a dramatic novel in his Blaine trilogy
n a hot day in July, the body of a 16-year-old girl is pulled from the river Main near Frankfurt. She has been brutally murdered, but no one seems to miss her and no one seems to know who she is. Investigations lead to a rural children’s home in the mountains, and to a TV presenter whose research took her too close to the wrong people. As investigators Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein dig deeper, they uncover a pit of evil and cruelty in the midst of a middle class idyll. And then the case gets personal…
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‘A must for mystery fans... great customer reviews’ THE BOOKSELLER on Snow White Must Die
‘[D]ripping with summer diversions, youthful passion and ideals, class tensions, and familial disruptions.’ LIBRARY JOURNAL
‘Ms Neuhaus is Germany’s top-selling crime novelist, and her work is catching on throughout Europe’ WALL STREET JOURNAL
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wo months after the death of his father, Adam Blaine is doing everything he can to keep his family, and himself, together. Moreover, as the court inquest into his father’s death continues, Adam continues to try and protect his family from the people who suspect their involvement in his death. But the biggest test of all lies a little closer. Carla Pacelli, his late father’s mistress is pivotal to his family’s distress, but Adam cannot help but feel drawn to her. But the closer he gets, the closer he comes to revealing the secrets he’s strived to conceal.
‘A stunning tale of betrayal and love... secrets and scandals... thrilling suspense’ LINDA FAIRSTEIN on Fall From Grace 7
The first of a new series investigating real unsolved Tudor crimes, in which D.K. Wilson brings the streets of Tudor London to spectacular life
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n a misty November morning in 1536, Robert Packington was gunned down on his way to early morning mass. It was the first assassination by handgun in the history of the capital. Thomas Treviot a close family friend of Robert Packington, launches an investigation into Packington’s death. As Thomas searches for revenge, he must travel from the golden heart of merchant London, to the straw-covered backstreets of London’s poorest districts. Before long he is drawn into a dark conspiracy beyond his wildest imaginings and claiming justice for his friend starts to look impossible. Especially when Thomas realises that Robert wasn’t the man he thought he knew...
D.K. Wilson is an historian and expert on the Tudor period, having published acclaimed non-fiction books on Tudor England and Henry VIII
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The Highwayman’s Daughter Henriette Gyland
Somewhere Beyond the Sea Amanda James
The Trigger Tim Butcher
978 1 47126 654 6 – 384pp
978 1 47126 655 3 – 368pp
978 1 47126 691 1 – 416pp
Is it a crime to steal a heart?
When love begins with a lie, where will it end?
ounslow, 1768. When Jack Blythe, heir to the Earl of Lampton, is held up by a masked woman, brandishing a pistol and dressed as a ‘gentleman’ of the road, he wholly expects to have his purse stolen. And when he senses something strangely familiar about the lovely little bandit, Jack also expects to win his cousin Rupert’s wager by tracking her down first. But as Jack and the highwaywoman enter into a swashbuckling game of cat and mouse, uncovering an intricate web of fiercely guarded family secrets, the last thing Jack expects to have stolen is his heart.
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‘Gyland beautifully builds the atmosphere and wisely gives us a budding romance, too’ STAR MAGAZINE on The Elephant Girl
‘A pure delight’ THE BOOKSELLER on A Stitch in Time
octor Tristan Ainsworth has returned with his family to the village where he grew up in a desperate attempt to make his wife happy. Karen Ainsworth daren’t reveal her true feelings, but knows her husband has put up with her moods for too long. A chance to use her extraordinary singing voice may set her free. Surely her past can’t hurt her now? As a tide of blackmail heads their way threatening the foundations of their marriage, Karen and Tristan face a difficult question. Is their love strong enough to face the truth when it might cost them everything?
An exploration of the life of the teenager who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and so triggered the First World War
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n a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin fired the opening shots of the First World War. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip triggered conflict that would claim millions of lives in battle, and turmoil that would change our world. Tim Butcher uncovers the unreported details of Princip’s life and draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past. The Trigger is a rich and timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war and an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history
‘A remarkable, fascinating book by a courageous and perceptive writer’ ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH on Blood River ‘Quite superb… a masterpiece’ JOHN le CARRÉ on Blood River
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Where Memories Go Sally Magnusson
The People Selina Todd
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
978 1 47126 652 2 – 416pp
978 1 47126 653 9 – 576pp
978 1 47126 657 7 – 304pp
An extraordinary and deeply personal memoir, a manifesto and a call to arms, in one searingly beautiful narrative
What was it really like to live through the twentieth century?
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egarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation, Mamie Baird Magnusson’s whole life was a celebration of words - words that she fought to retain in the grip of a disease which is fast becoming the scourge of the 21st century. Married to writer and broadcaster Magnus Magnusson, they had five children. As well as chronicling the anguish, the frustrations and the unexpected laughs and joys that she and her sisters experienced during their mother’s eight year struggle with dementia, Sally Magnusson seeks understanding from experts and asks penetrating questions about how we treat older people, and the moral challenges of our times.
‘I was bowled over by this book. Intensely moving and inspiring… I read it in one sitting and thought about it again and again.’ JOANNA LUMLEY ‘This is an extraordinarily moving memoir which is, at the same time, a fascinating exploration of a condition that touches virtually every family.’ ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
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n 1910 three-quarters of the population were working class, but their story has been ignored until now. Based on the firstperson accounts of servants, factory workers, miners and housewives, award-winning historian Selina Todd reveals an unexpected Britain where cinema audiences shook their fists at footage of Winston Churchill, communities supported strikers and pools winners refused to become respectable. Charting the rise of the working class, through two world wars to their fall in Thatcher’s Britain and today, Todd tells their story for the first time, in their own words.
Uncovering a huge hidden swathe of Britain’s past, The People is the vivid history of a revolutionary century and the people who really made Britain great. ‘What differentiates Selina Todd’s book from existing literature on this subject is the way her narrative actually documents the voices of working-class people… Brilliant and well-researched’ NEW INTERNATIONALIST 9
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped is a rollicking adventure story and a dramatic political allegory
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rphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative, Uncle Ebenezer. But Ebenezer is far from welcoming, and David narrowly escapes being murdered before he is kidnapped and imprisoned on a ship bound for the Carolinas. When the ship is wrecked, David, along with the fiery rebel Alan Breck, makes his way back across the treacherous Highland terrain on a quest for justice. Stevenson dramatised a conflict at the heart of Scottish culture in the aftermath of the Jacobite rebellion, as well as creating an unforgettable adventure story.
‘It stands as one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most compelling works - it was one of the author’s favourites, and his affection for his central characters is unmistakable - and is a novel you want to press on people, knowing they’ll love it’ IAN RANKIN ‘Anyone who has read Kidnapped knows that Robert Louis Stevenson was a marvelously powerful storyteller as well as a great stylist’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
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The Warden Anthony Trollope
Summer at the Lake Erica James
Stay Alive Simon Kernick
978 1 47126 656 0 – 320pp
978 1 47126 675 1 – 566pp
978 1 47126 676 8 – 456pp
The Warden is Trollope’s witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal
It was a wedding invitation that changed everything for Floriana...
The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the bestselling author of Relentless
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ou’re on a trip with your family, miles from anywhere. A shot rings out - and your whole life changes in an instant. A woman is racing towards you, chased by three gunmen. Although you don’t know it, she harbours a deadly secret. She’s in terrible danger. And now you are too. You’re running, terrified, desperate to find safety. You know that the men hunting you have killed before. And if they catch you, you’ll be next.
r Septimus Harding, elderly warden of Hiram’s Hospital, lives comfortably with his young daughter, Eleanor, on the charitable wealth of the Alm house he supervises. When a zealous young reformer, and his daughter’s suitor, John Bold, launches a campaign to expose the inequality in the distribution of the charity’s income between its object and its officer, Mr Harding, the community is shocked.
This is Trollope’s first novel in his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire series. ‘Trollope will remain one of the most trustworthy… of the writers who have helped the heart of man to know itself.’ HENRY JAMES
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f Floriana hadn’t been so distracted at the thought of the wedding invitation, she might have seen the car coming. Instead, the fateful car crash sets in motion a series of events for both Floriana and Esme. Floriana gathers the courage to attend the wedding of her one true love in Italy, and Esme journeys with her to Lake Como to find the man who stole her heart so many years ago. It’s time for Esme and Floriana to face the past – and the future – on the shore of the most romantic and enchanting of lakes.
The latest novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James ‘A heart-warming, romantic story full of engaging characters, an emotional rollercoaster.’ DAILY EXPRESS on The Hidden Cottage
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‘As ever, Kernick’s research is impeccable. The plotting is brilliant and makes for a tense, action-packed read’ SUNDAY MIRROR ‘Simon Kernick writes great plots, great characters, great action.’ LEE CHILD
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Eeny Meeny M. J. Arlidge
When You Walked Back Into My Life Hilary Boyd
The Strangler Vine M. J. Carter
978 1 47126 678 2 – 386pp
978 1 47126 686 7 – 394pp
978 1 47126 682 9 – 412pp
A rocket-paced serial-killer thriller debut from M. J. Arlidge
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he girl emerged from the woods, barely alive. Her story was beyond belief. But it was true. Every dreadful word of it. Days later, another desperate escapee is found - and a pattern is emerging. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned then faced with a choice: kill or be killed. Detective Inspector Helen Grace has faced down her own demons on her rise to the top. As she leads the investigation, she learns that it may be the survivors who hold the key to the case. And unless she succeeds, more innocents will die…
Eeny Meeny is an electrifying debut, with the nerveshredding intensity of Saw and Along Came a Spider. Perfect for fans of James Patterson and Mo Hayder.
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The new novel from the bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park and Tangled Lives
‘The Strangler Vine is a considerable achievement, which left me waiting impatiently for a promised sequel’ THE TIMES
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or eight years Flora’s love affair with Fin was a whirlwind of fun and spontaneity - but when Flora wanted to settle down and have children, Fin vanished. Life moved on and Flora’s world filled with other people, other cares. There were benefits to being single - no socks under the bed, no mess in the bathroom - even if the memory of Fin could never be completely erased. But then suddenly, shockingly, Fin reappears. He’s a changed man, he says, and he wants her back. Is this a chance to put right the wrongs? Or a massive mistake?
‘Poignant, well observed and wonderfully written, this is a bit of a heart string-puller’ CLOSER on Tangled Lives
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alcutta, 1837. The East India Company rules India, and its most notorious and celebrated son, Xavier Mountstuart, has gone missing. William Avery, a junior officer in the Company’s army, is sent to find him, in the unlikely company of the enigmatic Jeremiah Blake. A more mismatched duo couldn’t be imagined, but they must bury their differences as they are caught up in a search that seems bound to end in failure. What was it that so captivated Mountstuart about the ‘Thugs’, the murderous sect of Kali-worshippers who strangle innocent travellers by the roadside? And why is everything shrouded in such secrecy?
The Strangler Vine has been longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction 2014 ‘A rattling good yarn… I do not remember when I enjoyed a novel more than this. Finishing it would have been unbearable had it not been for the reassuring promise at the end that Blake and Avery will return for more adventures’ FINANCIAL TIMES
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Origins of Love Kishwar Desai
The Perfect Affair Claire Dyer
The Fortune Hunter Daisy Goodwin
978 1 47126 674 4 – 494pp
978 1 47126 685 0 – 367pp
978 1 47126 683 6 – TBCpp
An unwanted child, a desperate couple and a dangerous secret…
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n Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted - until she was born with a fatal illness. Thousands of miles away in London, Kate suffers another miscarriage. She has heard of women who are prepared to carry a baby for others, and she knows this might be a way to finally find happiness. But will her desire for a baby stop at nothing...? The second novel featuring feisty social worker Simran Singh sees her uncovering the truth behind the shadowy facade of the multi-million dollar surrogacy industry.
‘Origins of Love is a serious, issue-based novel that is also a page-turner’ METRO ‘Desai’s Simran Singh novels are endowed with something else: the sense that she is delving not just into mysteries but into subjects that matter deeply. I cannot wait for her next adventure’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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What happens if you fall in love with the wrong person?
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ose knows only too well the exhilaration and devastation of loving a married man. So she watches with a keen eye as Eve - her closest companion, the granddaughter she never had meets Myles, the new tenant in her downstairs flat. Quietly and softly, Myles and Eve fall in love and, as they try to have the perfect affair like Rose did before them, they come to learn about the pain of lost opportunities, to decide whether it is ever better to follow your head or your heart, to know what it is to be torn between love and duty.
‘An exquisitely written, emotional book about impossible love and the moments that make life beautiful.’ JULIE COHEN ‘This year’s One Day’ LOUISE CANDLISH on The Moment
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From the author of the bestselling, My Last Duchess, sure to please any fans of Downton Abbey
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n 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful and intelligent, Sisi has everything - except happiness. Bored with Hapsburg Court and her dutiful husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England, where she finds excitement in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton. Ten years younger than her and engaged to the rich and devoted Charlotte, Bay has everything to lose by falling for a woman who can never be his. But Bay and the Empress are as reckless as each other, and their mutual attraction is a force that cannot be denied.
‘Sparkling and thoroughly engaging... highly enjoyable’ THE TIMES ‘Pure, light-hearted, unpretentious entertainment’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
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Kind of Cruel Sophie Hannah
Sorrow Bound David Mark
Murder Sarah Pinborough
978 1 47126 687 4 – 479pp
978 1 47126 681 2 – 421pp
978 1 47126 684 3 – 373pp
Another exceptional psychological thriller from prizewinning author Sophie Hannah
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hen Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist as a desperate last resort, she doesn’t expect that anything much will change. She doesn’t expect it to help with her chronic insomnia. She doesn’t expect to hear herself, under hypnosis, saying words that mean nothing to her: ‘Kind, cruel, kind of cruel’ - words she has seen somewhere before, if only she could remember where. She doesn’t expect to be arrested two hours later, as a result of having spoken those words out loud, in connection with the brutal murder of Katharine Allen, a woman she’s never heard of…
‘Hannah has outdone herself with Kind of Cruel… Her trademark precision-layered structure creates a multidimensional maze that holds at its centre a revelation which is truly hair-raising, even by Hannah’s standards.’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ‘Kind of Cruel is another compulsive book from Hannah, to be gulped down with all the lights on and someone to grab when the sense of menace grows too great’ OBSERVER
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In the third novel of David Mark’s DS Aector McAvoy series, the crimes become more and more personal…
A gruesome horror story set on the cobbled streets of Victorian London
hilippa Longman will do anything for her family. Roisin McAvoy will do anything for her friends. DS Aector McAvoy will do anything for his wife. Yet each has an unknown enemy - one that will do anything to destroy them. Sorrow Bound is a powerful police procedural thriller about how those with the biggest hearts make the easiest targets; and how the corrosive venom of evil can dissolve the bonds between good people, until all they are bound by is grief.
r Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is still recovering from when Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London - and a more malign enemy hid in his shadow. Bond and the others who worked on the gruesome case are still stalked by its legacies, both psychological and tangible. Now the bodies of children are being pulled from the Thames, and Bond is about to become inextricably linked with an uncanny, undying enemy.
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‘David Mark is an original and captivating new voice’ VAL McDERMID ‘Richly satisfying and told with remarkable flair, it confirms Mark as one of the darkest of the new faces in British crime writing, and not one to miss’ DAILY MAIL on Original Skin
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The sequel to Mayhem, the first gripping Dr. Bond mystery. ‘A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller’ GUARDIAN on Mayhem
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A House of Knives William Shaw
Sugar and Spice Angela Britnell
The Summer Guest Emma Hannigan
978 1 47126 680 5 – 497pp
978 1 47126 703 1 – 327pp
978 1 47126 697 3 – 463pp
A House of Knives is the excellent sequel to A Song From Dead Lips, full of intricate period detail
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arylebone, November 1968. Detective Sergeant Breen has a death threat and two burned bodies on his hands. One is an unidentified vagrant; the other the wayward son of a rising politician. One case suffers the apathy of the police force; the other obstructed by a PR-conscious father. Then the potential perpetrator of his death threats is murdered and Breen becomes a suspect. Out in the cold, banished from a corrupt system, Breen is finally forced to fight fire with fire.
William Shaw paints a powerful and poignant portrait of London’s swinging sixties, revealing the crimes committed in the name of liberation.
The Way to a Hero’s Heart…
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ily Redman is sure of two things: that she knows good food and that she gets what she wants. And she wants to make a success of her new TV show, Celebrity Chef Swap. Kenan Rowse is not looking for love. Back from a stint in Afghanistan and recovering from a messy divorce, the last thing he needs is another complication. So when he lands a job as Lily’s driver, he’s not too pleased to find they can’t keep their hands off each other! But trudging around Cornish farms, knee deep in mud was never going to be the perfect recipe for love – was it?
A charming and tasty romance from romance author Angela Britnell
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exi and her husband Sam have put their heart and soul into renovating No. 3 Cashel Square. And then, just as summer arrives, a mysterious stranger knocks on the door. Kathleen Williams has come from America, longing to see the house in Cashel Square where she was born, over sixty years ago. Kathleen’s visit is tinged with sadness but she finds comfort and laughter with Lexi and her niece Amelie. Soon the three women are sharing their hearts, tears and secrets, little knowing their unexpected friendship will touch them all in more ways than they can imagine...
‘A glorious read ... A wonderfully uplifting novel about women’s friendship by a writer who understands exactly how women think’ CATHY KELLY
‘A first-rate police thriller set amidst the seamy underside of the swinging sixties’ C. J. SAMSON on A Song from Dead Lips
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A lovely, warm, Irish family saga of three generations of women coming together one magical summer.
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Recipe for Life Mary Berry
My Salinger Year Joanna Rakoff
Peas and Queues Sandi Toksvig
978 1 47126 692 8 – 414pp
978 1 47126 689 8 – 307pp
978 1 47126 910 3 – 319pp
Fans of The Great British Bake Off will love to get their hands on Mary Berry’s autobiography, Recipe for Life
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orn in 1935, in the city of Bath, Mary’s childhood was a curious mix of idyllic picnics and ramblings, and alarming air raids. Nearly cut short by an almost fatal bout of polio when she was thirteen, which isolated Mary in hospital for months. Recovery saw her turn to her one true passion - cookery. And so began a love affair that has spanned six decades. In this touching, evocative and fascinating memoir, we accompany Mary on her journey. It is the life of a delightfully traditional but thoroughly modern woman.
Mary has been teaching Britain how to cook for over half a century. Her far-reaching culinary career has taken her from recipe tester and cookery editor, to TV personality on The Great British Bake Off.
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A charming coming-of-age memoir about a young woman who lands a job assisting J.D. Salinger’s literary agent in the 1990s
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t twenty-three, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. Joanna is given the task of answering Salinger’s fan mail. But as she reads the candid, heart-wrenching letters from his readers, she finds herself unable to type out the agency’s decades-old form response. Instead, drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salinger’s devotees, she abandons the template and begins writing back.
‘Here is a memoir that manages to be dreamlike but sharp, poignant but unsentimental. Here is a book I’m going to have to insist you read immediately’ MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD ‘An utterly beguiling memoir, not only about Salinger and a bygone era of publishing, but about relationships, finding one’s voice, and surviving in the big city’ BOOKSELLER 15
The award-winning Radio 4 broadcaster and writer offers advice and guidance on the social pitfalls of everyday life
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ow do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there’s a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught and getting it wrong can be humiliating. Thankfully, Sandi Toksvig has come to the rescue with her entertaining guide to modern manners, with characteristic wit and perceptiveness. Along the way she provides examples of her trickiest encounters, and argues the case for decency over convention, in this essential guide to behaviour in the twenty-first century.
‘This little book will change your life - and that of your loved (and unloved) ones. For the better. And make you laugh.’ JOHN HUMPHRYS
August 2014
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
The American Henry James
Prayer Philip Kerr
978 1 47126 705 5 – 593pp
978 1 47126 706 2 – 626pp
978 1 47126 738 3 – 515pp
Cooper’s most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition.
In this classic collision of the New World with Old Europe, James weaved a fable of thwarted desire.
International bestselling author Phillip Kerr’s Prayer is a gripping story that profoundly questions faith and the act of prayer
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merica; 1757. Across America, the armies of Britain and France struggle for power and land. Cora and Alice Munro, the daughters of an English commander, are on their way to join their father. Escorting them through the wilderness are Alice’s fiancé, Major Duncan Heyward, and the treacherous Indian Magua, who secretly serves the French. Magua’s plan to betray the party is foiled by the scout Hawkeye and his companions. Through a series of fights and rescues, this trio of loyal friends, who embody a code of honour, defend the virtuous sisters from Magua and his Iroquois thugs.
‘[Cooper’s] sympathy is large, and his humour is as genuine and as perfectly unaffected as his art.’ JOSEPH CONRAD
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uring a trip to Europe, wealthy American businessman Christopher Newman proposes marriage to the scintillating and beautiful aristocrat Claire de Cintré. To his dismay, he comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the American privileged class. Brilliantly combining elements of comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama, this tale of thwarted desire vividly contrasts 19th-century American and European manners.
‘A masterpiece of American romanticism in which James shows us his profound grasp of what he was ultimately to call The Americo-European legend’ LEON EDEL
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pecial Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. Once a religious man, now his job makes him question the existence of a God who could allow the violence he sees every day. Gil is asked to investigate a series of unexplained deaths of victims known for their liberal views. When a woman tells Gil that these men have been killed by prayer, he questions her sanity. Yet the evidence mounts that there might be something in what she says, even more so when Gil finds that his own life is on the line.
‘A high-concept novel tackled in unabashed fashion’ INDEPENDENT ‘A cracking thriller... the story unfolds at a whiteknuckle pace with a sense of the unknown that is genuinely disturbing’ THE TIMES
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NYPD Red 2 James Patterson
The Counterfeit Agent Alex Berenson
The Killing Room Christobel Kent
978 1 47126 739 0 – 589pp
978 1 47126 749 9 – 524pp
978 1 47126 759 8 – 415pp
The task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America’s most extreme city hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission
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vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case. Zach and Kylie have to find what’s really behind this murderous rampage while political and personal secrets of the highest order hang in the balance. But Kylie has been acting strange recently - and Zach knows whatever she’s hiding could threaten the biggest case of their careers.
‘Patterson knows how to keep the pages turning.’ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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This is bestselling author Alex Berenson’s eighth gripping spy novel featuring ex-CIA agent John Wells
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n an Istanbul hotel, a source warns that Iranian forces intend to kill a CIA station chief. Ex-CIA agent John Wells is called to investigate, but before he can get very far, the tip comes true. Which means when the next tip is given it’s taken seriously. And it’s a big one: a radioactive package has been put on a ship to the United States. As the government mobilises, Wells is sent on a mission to find out the truth. From Guatemala to Thailand, he uses every skill he has. But will it be enough to pull everyone back from the brink of war?
‘Gritty and fast-moving’ OBSERVER ‘One of the best new spy writers’ SUN
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A new Sandro Cellini Investigation from Christobel Kent
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hen private investigator Sandro Cellini is invited to attend a glamorous launch party in Florence, he has no idea what he’s walking into. Behind the ancient and luxurious façade of Palazzo San Giorgio, there lies a series of terrible secrets; an old torture chamber, hidden for centuries in the bowels of the building, and a much more recent malevolence. The former head of security for this elite development has just died under suspicious circumstances and Sandro finds himself stepping into dead man’s shoes. When one of the residents is found murdered in her room, events begin to spiral out of control.
‘Dark, gloomy and often sinister... An intelligent and convincing thriller with fleshed-out characters you want to meet again.’ DAILY MAIL
September 2014
The Armada Legacy Scott Mariani
Witness the Dead Craig Robertson
Theft of Life Imogen Robertson
978 1 47126 753 6 – 456pp
978 1 47126 747 5 – 487pp
978 1 47126 758 1 – 376pp
‘James Bond meets Jason Bourne meets The Da Vinci Code.’ J. L. CARRELL
Witness the Dead is the compelling new thriller from Scotland’s hottest new talent
Deliciously chilling and dangerous, Imogen Robertson draws you into a rich and detailed period crime novel
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Craig Robertson’s debut novel, Random, was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger and was a Sunday Times bestseller.
‘A gripping blend of the Georgian gothic and the forensic thriller’ INDEPENDENT
ormer SAS major Ben Hope is relaxing at his home in Normandy when he hears the worst news of his life. His exgirlfriend Dr Brooke Marcel has been kidnapped. Racing against the clock, Ben’s frantic search for Brooke leads him from Ireland to the Spanish mountains and the rainforests of Peru. What is the mysterious link between the kidnapping, the salvage of a sunken 16th-century Spanish warship and the secret activities of its wealthy discoverer? As the trail of wreckage and mayhem intensifies, Ben soon uncovers a web of intrigue, corruption and brutal murder. But will he be too late to find Brooke alive?
‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart… Scott Mariani packs a real punch.’ ANDY McDERMOTT
cotland 1972. Glasgow is haunted by a murderer nicknamed Red Silk - a feared serial killer who selects his victims in the city’s nightclubs. The case remains unsolved but Archibald Atto, later imprisoned for other murders, is thought to be Red Silk. In modern-day Glasgow, DS Rachel Narey is called to a crime scene at the city’s Necropolis. The body of a young woman lies stretched out over a tomb. Now retired, former detective Danny Neilson spots a link. But Atto is still behind bars. Must Danny face up to his fears that they never caught their man?
ondon, 1785. When the body of a West Indies planter is found pegged out in the grounds of St Paul’s, suspicion falls on one of the victim’s former slaves, who was found with his watch on the London streets. As Harriet and Crowther begin investigate, however, they find the answer is not that simple. Together, they negotiate the interests of the British government, the secrets of the plantation owners, and a network of alliances stretching across the Atlantic. And they must confront the uncomfortable truth that some people are willing to do great evil when they believe their cause to be just.
‘Stylish, enigmatic and wonderfully atmospheric. It’s a story of secrecy and shame, reason and passion, that resonates long after you reach the final page.’ FRANCIS WHEEN
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Cold Sacrifice Leigh Russell
Astonish Me Maggie Shipstead
The Dead Tracks Tim Weaver
978 1 47126 740 6 – 522pp
978 1 47126 761 1– 512pp
978 1 47126 757 4 – 547pp
The first DS Ian Peterson Murder Investigation
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hen three dead bodies are discovered in quick succession on his home patch in Kent, DI Ian Peterson becomes too embroiled in a complex murder investigation to worry about his forthcoming promotion or the state of his marriage. The first victim is a middle class housewife, stabbed to death in a park. Her husband is in the clear until the prostitute who provided him with an alibi is murdered. While the police are busy gathering evidence, a second prostitute is killed. Ian and a young female constable, Polly, struggle to make sense of the case and find the elusive killer.
‘A top-of-the-line crime tale and a five-star must-read.’ TAKE A BREAK ‘A brilliant talent in the thriller field’ JEFFREY DEAVER
From a prize-winning author comes an exquisitely written, compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet stonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a young American dancer who helps a Soviet ballet star, the great Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. A flash of fame and a passionate love affair follow, but when her relationship with Arslan sours, Joan decides to make a new life for herself. She quits ballet, marries a good man, and settles into the rhythm of Californian life with their son, Harry. But there is no mistaking that Harry is a prodigy. Inevitably Joan is soon pulled back into a world she thought she’d left behind and back to Arslan.
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‘Shipstead is a gifted writer who examines families and relationships in a poignant, insightful way’ STYLIST ‘A novel you must read… Shipstead has captured the mercurial flow of artistic genius’ WASHINGTON POST
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A serial killer more terrifying than you could ever imagine…
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eventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight-A student from a happy home, she rarely got into trouble. Investigator David Raker knows what it’s like to grieve. So when he’s hired by Megan’s parents to find out what happened, he recognises their pain. But as Raker investigates her disappearance, he realises everything is a lie. And soon the conspiracy of silence leads Raker towards a forest on the edge of the city. A place with a horrifying history - which was once the hunting ground for a brutal, twisted serial killer. A place known as the Dead Tracks…
‘Perfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves’ BOOKGEEKS
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Dead of Winter Lee Weeks
The Care and Management of Lies Jacqueline Winspear
Monsoon Mists Christina Courtenay
978 1 47126 741 3 – 433pp
978 1 47126 755 0 – 388pp
978 1 47126 777 2 – 402pp
Victim, suspect, policeman. When the lines blur, who do you trust?
The Care and Management of Lies is a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world
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y July 1914: the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia’s responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil that war will bring.
t’s 1759 and Jamie Kinross has travelled far to escape his past. In India he starts a new life as a gem trader, but when his mentor’s family is kidnapped, he vows to save them and embarks on a mission to the city of Surat. There he encounters Zarmina Miller. She is rich and beautiful, but her infamous haughtiness has earned her a nickname: "The Ice Widow". When it becomes clear that Zarmina’s step-son is involved in the plot, he begins to see another side to her - a dark past and a heart just waiting to be thawed. But is it too late?
Jacqueline Winspear is the award winning author of the much-loved Maisie Dobbs series which have been bestsellers in both the UK and USA.
This is the final novel in Christina Courtenay’s awardwinning Kinross series, the sequel to Trade Winds and Highland Storms.
hen two bodies surface in the garden of a house in North London, Forensics discover fingerprints which link back to an unsolved crime. More than a decade ago, in a holiday cottage in Sussex, a family was found brutally slaughtered. The prime suspect was Callum Carmichael, the father of the family and a police officer. But without evidence to arrest him, the case was left to go cold. DC Ebony Willis is sent to find Carmichael. But with every piece of information she tells him, she risks leading a dangerous man closer to his prey.
Gritty, atmospheric and impossible to put down, fans of Martina Cole and Jessie Keane will love Lee Weeks’ gripping thriller.
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‘[P]assionate and engaging, with some amazingly evocative descriptions of the rugged Highlands. A great winter read’ STAR MAGAZINE on Highland Storms
‘By the end of this book I was literally gasping for breath! Totally gripping’ CRIMESQUAD.COM
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Sometimes the most precious things cannot be bought…
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Falling Apart Jane Lovering
David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell
Judy: A Dog in a Million Damian Lewis
978 1 47126 773 4 – 388pp
978 1 47126 766 6 – 397pp
978 1 47126 767 3 – 408pp
In the mean streets of York, the stakes just got higher and even pointier.
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essica Grant liaises with Otherworlders for York Council so she knows that falling in love with a vampire takes a leap of faith. But her lover Sil, the City Vampire in charge of Otherworld York, he wouldn’t run out on her, he wouldn’t let his demon get the better of him. Or would he? With her loyalties already questioned for defending zombies, the Otherworlders no one cares about, Jess must choose which side she’s on, either help her lover or turn him in. Human or Other? Whatever she decides, there’s a high price to pay - and someone to lose.
From the award winning author of Please Don’t Stop The Music, this is the follow up to her paranormal romance Vampire State of Mind ‘Adventurous and witty’ STAR MAGAZINE on Vampire State of Mind
What if everything we thought about power was wrong?
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The heart-warming story of World War II’s only animal Prisoner of War
hat if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the advantage? This thought sets Malcolm Gladwell on an extraordinary journey that takes him from art to basketball, the brain to revolutions, along the way weaving unforgettable stories of misfits, outsiders, tricksters and underdogs who have faced outsized challenges and won. With his trademark warmth, humour and gift for showing us the world through new eyes, Gladwell lets us see why the powerful aren’t always what we think they are - and that some of us have more strength and purpose than we could ever imagine.
udy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million. Whether she was dragging men to safety from the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, scavenging food to help feed the starving inmates of a hellish Japanese POW camp, or by her presence alone bringing inspiration, she was cherished and adored by Allied servicemen. Judy’s unique combination of courage, kindness and fun repaid that honour a thousand times over and her incredible story is one of the most heart warming and inspiring tales you will ever read.
‘Breath-taking and thought-provoking’ NEW YORK TIMES
Praise for the author: ‘One of the best accounts of a behind-enemy-lines mission ever’ PHIL CAMPION, author of Born Fearless
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‘A Scheherazade for our time’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Romance with a twist’ BELLA on Vampire State of Mind
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Under One Roof Barry Martin with Philip Lerman
Evelina Frances Burney
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
978 1 47126 763 5 – 403pp
978 1 47126 780 2 – 567pp
978 1 47126 781 9 – 433pp
The heart-warming true story that inspired the opening scene of the Pixar movie Up!
The story of a young woman’s entry into society, womanhood and love
A blend of fantasy and realism makes this classic tale hilarious, frightening and profound all at the same time
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dith Macefield achieved hero status in 2006 when she turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development. Barry Martin respected that, and when he took the job as construction supervisor, he was determined to make things as easy for Edith. He gave her his phone number and told her to call if she needed anything. The day Edith asked Barry to drive her to a hair appointment, an unlikely friendship began, one that changed them both.
aised in seclusion until her seventeenth birthday, Evelina, the unacknowledged daughter of a former aristocrat, is exposed to London society for the first time while in the company of the fashionable Lady Howard, and her lack of aristocratic upbringing quickly becomes apparent. Evelina has little awareness of the customs and conventions of eighteenth-century London society, despite this; she strives for the attention of the handsome Lord Orville, while trying to avoid the dangerous Sir Clement Willoughby.
hen Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, little does he know what incredible misadventures await him. He finds himself shipwrecked and adrift at sea, subject to bizarre encounters with quarrelling Lilliputians, incredible giants, philosophising horses and a brutish tribe. All of these experiences change his view of humanity, and himself, forever. Along the way, Gulliver begins to realise that human nature is highly susceptible to corruption.
‘Among the six indispensable books in world literature’ GEORGE ORWELL
Full of heart and warmth, Under One Roof is a true story that reminds us the most important things in life can’t be bought. ‘A testament to the power of friendship, no matter how different those friends may be. I couldn’t put it down. DR. DAVID DOSA, author of Making the Rounds with Oscar
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