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DIG I TA L AU DIOBOOK S N EW R E L E A SE S January – March 2016
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As the New Year starts, we’re delighted to present our brand new eAudio releases. Our ground-breaking Multicap format once again provides a wide-range, high quality list of titles for your library. January’s Multicap collection includes Man Booker shortlisted Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways and A Twist of the Knife by Peter James, an unsettling collection of short stories from the bestselling author. Plus, the anticipated new title from Rosie Goodwin, Dilly’s Sacrifice – another exceptional tale guaranteed
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One User Collections/SOPs
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Lamplight
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Avid
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Doctor Who
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Nudged
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to please saga fans. There’s plenty for crime fiction fans in our One User Plans with titles from Adrian McKinty, Simon Kernick, Peter May and C. L. Taylor. Don’t miss The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz, the stunning new addition to Steig Larsson’s Millennium Series. Bernard Cornwell returns with his latest epic, Warriors of the Storm and Simon Toyne follows up his hugely bestselling Sancti trilogy with Solomon Creed, the first thrilling instalment in a new series. Our Lamplight imprint is packed with popular traditional fiction, including novels from Lesley Pearse, Hilary Boyd and Kate Lord Brown. Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo’s in The Orphans of Halfpenny Street by Cathy Sharpe, the start of a brand new saga series perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Rosie Goodwin. And indulge in classic stories from Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, transporting listeners back to the golden age of mysteries. Finally, our Nudged imprint has everything you need to entertain younger listeners. The Big Mog, a collection by Judith Kerr follows the antics of our favourite feline friend and Frank Cottrell Boyce continues the adventures of Ian Fleming’s famous flying car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again. We hope you agree this is an exciting eAudio collection – available exclusively on OneClickdigital. Our Standing Order Plans (SOPs) provide best value as well as a continuous flow of bestsellers with 20% discount. Plus, if you sign up to receive one of our children’s Standing Order Plans alongside an adult plan, we’ll give you 33% off the children’s plan. Enjoy our brand new brochure and if you would like any further information, please do get in touch. With best wishes, The Editor
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MultiCap Designed to meet true demand, our simultaneous multi-access Multicap SOPs include a mixture of bestselling and award-winning titles from across our imprints. This quarter includes authors such as C.J. Sansom, Peter James and Nicci French.
Sweet Caress
Sister Noon
William Boyd
Karen Joy Fowler
A compelling story of one woman’s extraordinary life – and a heart-wrenching tale of love and war in the twentieth century.
A fascinating historical novel from the author of the Man Booker shortlisted bestseller We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
It is Amory’s photographer uncle Greville who gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography and unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future. Her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi monde of Berlin of the late 20s, to New York of the 30s, to the Blackshirt riots in London and to France in the Second World War where she becomes one of the first female war photographers.
San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions. Lizzie Hayes, a docile, middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies’ Relief and Protection Society Home. When the wealthy but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up with an orphan in tow, Lizzie is drawn to them both. For it is the beautiful Mrs Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her rumoured voodoo practise, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie’s rebellious nature.
“ Serious, provocative, intelligent, Boyd’s writing is endlessly open to ideas.”
“ Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected.” NEW YORK TIMES
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“ Karen Joy Fowler has magic powers.”
“ His eccentric wit and restless intelligence exert a powerful appeal.”
SOPHIE HANNAH
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Jilly Bond
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A Daughter’s Secret
Lamentation
A Book of Scars
The Versions of Us
Eleanor Moran
C. J. Sansom
William Shaw
Laura Barnett
Only ask questions if you are prepared for the answers…
Matthew Shardlake is back in Lamentation, from the number one bestselling author, C. J. Sansom.
The third book in a powerful deconstruction of the sixties, A Book of Scars lays bare the forgotten crimes of that era.
Some moments can change your life for ever. Have you ever wondered, ‘what if?’
Summer, 1546: Shardlake is unexpectedly summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by Catherine Parr. She has written a radically Protestant confessional book that must never come to the King’s attention. Now it has inexplicably vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer. Shardlake’s investigations take him from the backstreet print shops of London to the dark, labyrinthine world of the royal court; a world he had sworn never to enter again.
1969: Five years ago, teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered. Her sister Helen Tozer will never forget. Returning home after quitting the Met Police, she brings with her the recovering Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen, who slowly becomes possessed by the unsolved case. But Breen is on a trail, for the two men connected to this case met in Kenya, during the Mau Mau uprising; and the history that Britain has turned its face from is now returning to haunt it.
Mia is a successful child psychologist, hoping to be made a partner in her company. But then she accepts a case that will change her life forever. Gemma is a teenage girl whose father is on the run for embezzlement. The police think Gemma knows where he is and they want Mia to talk to her. Both women are hiding devastating secrets and both women need the other to survive. The question is can they trust each other? “ Gripping, emotional.”
“ Shardlake’s back and better than ever […] a triumph both as detective fiction and as a novel.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
“ A dark and atmospheric story […] Shardlake deserves his wide and rapturous readership.”
“ Truly enthralling […] I simply adored this wonderful novel.” JESSIE BURTON, AUTHOR OF THE MINIATURIST
“ An eleg y for an entire alienated generation.”
DAISY GOODWIN
Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge when their paths first cross in 1958. And then there is David, Eva’s then-lover, an ambitious actor who loves Eva deeply. The Versions of Us follows the three different courses their lives could take following this first meeting; lives filled with love, betrayal and ambition. Through it all is a deep connection that endures whatever fate might throw at them.
“ Both brilliant and astonishingly good.”
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ELIZABETH BUCHAN
“ Excellent […] tackles bent police, the dark side of hippiedom and utterly nails the myth of the Swinging Sixties.” SUN
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Lisa Coleman
Modern Fiction 10.5 hours 9781510019393
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Historical Fiction 25.5 hours 9781510019355
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Cameron Stewart Crime 13.25 hours 9781510019379
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Do It Like a Woman
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
The House at the Edge of the World
The Year of the Runaways
Caroline Criado-Perez
Kevin Dutton
Julia Rochester
Sunjeev Sahota
Caroline Criado-Perez is a British journalist and feminist activist whose work has appeared in The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian and The Independent.
A fascinating exploration into the mind of the psychopath – revealing what we can learn from it.
Part mystery, part psychological drama, Julia Rochester’s The House at the Edge of the World is a darkly comic, unorthodox and thrilling debut.
The heart-stopping new book; shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015.
Psychopath – as soon as the word is out, images of murderers, suicide bombers and gangsters flash across our minds. But unlike their box-office counterparts, not all psychopaths are violent, or even criminal. In fact, they are fearless, confident, ruthless and focused – qualities tailor-made for success in twenty-first-century society. In this ground-breaking adventure into the world of psychopaths, renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals a shocking truth – psychopaths have something to teach us.
John Venton’s drunken fall from a cliff leaves his family with an embarrassing ghost. His twin children, Morwenna and Corwin, flee in separate directions as their mother, enraged by years of unhappy marriage, embraces merry widowhood. Only their grandfather finds solace in the crumbling house, endlessly painting their story onto a large canvas map. As the twins are drawn back to the house, they discover that their father’s absence is part of the map’s mysterious pull.
Every day, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male. One of the most tenacious campaigners of her generation, Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to these pioneering women. We meet the first woman to cross the Antarctic alone, a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan, a Chilean revolutionary turned politician and the Iranian journalist who dared to uncover her hair. “ Do It Like a Woman brings together stories of kick-ass women from around the world who have shown great heroism and bravery. It’s rousing and immensely readable.” GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
“ The Wisdom of Psychopaths is a surprising, absorbing, and perceptive book […] I found it altogether fascinating.” PHILIP PULLMAN
The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstance. Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in search of a new life. Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the choatic Randeep. Randeep has a visa-wife in a flat on the other side of town. And Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar. “ All you can do is surrender, happily, to its power.” SALMAN RUSHDIE
“ Wonderfully crisp and funny and it’s so full of vivid, surprising images that the reader almost doesn’t notice the moment that deep secrets begin to be revealed.”
“ Genuine, poignant […] A moral work of real intelligence and power.” THE TIMES ON OURS ARE THE STREETS
EMMA HEALEY, AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSING
“ Dutton tackles an elusive, important and much neglected aspect of the mind; our personality. He presents some highly original insights and does so in a provocative and humorous style.”
“ A must-read […] Put it on the curriculum.” SUNDAY IRISH INDEPENDENT
V. S. RAMACHANDRAN, AUTHOR OF THE TELL-TALE BRAIN
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David Timson
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The Storm
The Caveman
Motherland
The Insect Farm
Virginia Bergin
Jørn Lier Horst
Jo McMillan
Stuart Prebble
In this sequel to The Rain, Ruby’s fight for survival continues in a world where the rain is deadly.
Only three houses away from the policeman’s home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months.
A charming, witty and original novel: Oranges are not the Only Fruit meets Goodbye Lenin.
Stuart Prebble’s eagerly awaited new novel The Insect Farm will linger long in the mind of its readers.
Three months after the killer rain first fell, Ruby is beginning to realise that she cannot survive alone. When a chance encounter lands her back in the army camp, Ruby thinks she is safe. But being safe has a price and if Ruby wants to stay she must keep her eyes – and her mouth – shut.
Viggo Hansen was a man nobody ever noticed, even though he lived in the midst of a close-knit community. His death doesn’t hit the headlines, but there is something about the case that catches the attention of William Wisting’s journalist daughter, Line, and she decides to write a newspaper article with a different twist for the festive season: the portrait of a completely anonymous and obscure person whose death goes unremarked and unmourned.
It is 1978, Jess and her mother Eleanor struggle to sell socialism to Tamworth – a sleepy Midlands town that just doesn’t want to know. So when Eleanor is invited to spend a summer teaching in East Germany, she and Jess jump at the chance. But friends can become enemies and Jess soon discovers how easy it is to switch sides, how sides can be switched for you – sometimes without you even knowing.
Brothers Jonathan and Roger Maguire each have an obsession. For Jonathan, it is his girlfriend Harriet. For Roger, it is the elaborate universe he has constructed in a shed, populated by millions of tiny insects. But when their lives are abruptly shattered by a sudden and violent death, Jonathan is drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with the police. Does Roger know more than he is letting on?
Motherland is a tender mother-daughter story and a tragi-comic portrait of a childhood overcome with belief. It’s about loss of faith and loss of innocence, and what it’s like to grow up on the losing side of history.
“ Only rarely do a gripping psychological crime story and a literary writer’s insight and masterful style coincide. But The Insect Farm has that distinction.”
“ A gripping page-turner with moments of surreal humour and great tenderness – not to mention dread as the raindrops fall.” BOOKSELLER ON THE RAIN
“ Horst’s beautifully paced and compelling narrative ensnares the reader as it unveils the darkest side of human nature.” CARO RAMSEY
“ The Caveman is not just an intriguing, fast-paced thriller, but a thoughtful meditation on loneliness, and a moving testament to the value of each and every human life.”
JEFFREY DEAVER
“ The opening few pages of The Insect Farm so grabbed me that I couldn’t stop reading. This is one of the most original, surprising, and even shocking suspense thrillers that I’ve come across in a long time.”
NICOLA UPSON
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Avita Jay Thriller
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Saul Reichlin Thriller 10 hours
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Peter Noble
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The Winter War
The Silent Ones
Devil’s Bridge
Dilly’s Sacrifice
Philip Teir
William Brodrick
Linda Fairstein
Rosie Goodwin
A funny, razor-sharp and truthful family drama that unravels the fantasy we have of a perfect Scandinavian society.
The latest in CWA Gold dagger winning series, Father Anselm.
Devil’s Bridge is the latest in the Alexandra Cooper series from the expert in legal thrillers, Linda Fairstein.
A moving and uplifting story of family, loyalty and love, from much-loved author Rosie Goodwin.
The Manhattan waterfront is one of New York City’s most magnificent vistas. But Detective Mike Chapman is about to become far too well acquainted with the dangerous side of the Hudson River and its islands when he takes on his most personal case yet: the disappearance of Alex Cooper. There are so many leads and terrifying complications, including Mike and Alex’s intimate relationship, leading to question the methods Mike will use to get Cooper back…
Dilly is devastated – with her husband unable to work and four children already at home, they cannot afford to feed their new-born baby. Heartbroken, she delivers her baby girl to the Farthing family who have just lost their own daughter to measles. This act of desperation will change the lives of both families irrevocably. But when the chance for true love finally comes, will Dilly choose family over her own happiness?
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As he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max Paul’s life begin to dissolve. He hasn’t produced any work of note for decades. His wife no longer loves him. His grown-up daughters – one in London, one in Helsinki – have problems of their own. So when a former student turned journalist shows up and offers him a seductive lifeline, Max starts down a dangerous path from which he may never find a way back. “ Shot through with understated black humour and nicely balanced between tender and acerbic, this impressive novel is a forceful reminder that there is much more to Scandinavian writing than crime fiction.”
Father Anselm returns to the Old Bailey to fight the most difficult and troubling case of his life. Father Edmund Littlemore is charged with grave offences against Harry Brandwell who, it seems, is both a victim and a liar. Unknown to Anselm, Robert Saunders, a journalist, has been investigating Littlemore’s background and uncovered a troubled past. Meanwhile Harry Brandwell – abused, abandoned and betrayed – has decided to take matters into his own hands. “ Brodrick writes with great elegance, his style unhurried, dialogue intelligent, polite yet full of meaning.”
For three decades, Linda Fairstein served in the office of the New York County District Attorney. In 2010 she was presented with the Silver Bullet Award from the International Thriller Writers.
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“ One of my favourite writers […] her stories never fail to thrill.”
“ Rosie Goodwin excels at tugging-the-heartstrings.” LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO
“ Goodwin is a master of her craft: she excels in writing about the complexity of relationships, the hardships of life, the ties of family and the joys of love and friendship.” LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
KARIN SLAUGHTER
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Peter Noble
Modern Fiction 9.75 hours 9781510019478
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Barbara Rosenblat Crime 11 hours 9781510020504
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A Twist of the Knife
The New Woman
Rise
Here We Lie
Peter James
Charity Norman
Karen Campbell
Sophie McKenzie
With each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins…
He must be himself, whatever the cost.
An exhilarating and luminous novel about freedom, forgiveness and finding your place in the world.
“Jed is the man I will marry. Unless his past catches up with us all…”
In the bestselling collection of short stories from Peter James, we first come to meet Brighton’s finest detective, Roy Grace, and read the tale that went on to inspire James’ hugely successful novel, Dead Simple. James exposes the Achilles heel of each of his characters, and makes us question how well we can trust ourselves and one another. Each tale carries a twist that will haunt readers for days after they turn the final page…
Luke Livingstone is a respected solicitor, a father and grandfather, a pillar of the community. Yet Luke is struggling with an unbearable secret and it’s threatening to destroy him. All his life, Luke has hidden the truth about himself and his identity. It’s a truth so fundamental that it will shatter his family and leave him outcast. But to continue living, he must become the person – the woman – he knows himself to be, whatever the cost.
“ Peter will send chills up your spine and make you jump at all those bumps in the night […] Brilliant stuff.”
“ Will appeal to devotees of Joanna Trollope and Jodi Picoult […] [Norman] is hot on their heels.”
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“ New Zealand-based author Charity Norman has the […] clever knack of taking an issue and examining it from all angles, to see the effect it has on everyone involved.” NEW ZEALAND HERALD
Justine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man, she heads north to the valleys of the Highlands. Michael and Hannah are also running, with their two sons and their tattered marriage. They are looking for somewhere they can call home. In an ancient landscape, a shocking accident causes their lives to intertwine. Tangled together in threads of guilt and love, with Scotland rushing towards a referendum and the community fracturing, they must all face their ghosts. “ I am in awe of Karen Campbell’s writing. Rise soars and sears in equal measure – it is brilliant, unputdownable storytelling.” MEL GIEDROYC
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Sophie McKenzie is the bestselling author of Richard and Judy pick Close My Eyes and Trust in Me. “ You will race through this fast-moving thriller that saves the most shocking twist until the very end.” SUNDAY MIRROR ON CLOSE MY EYES
“ A beautifully written novel about freedom and forgiveness. Heated, political and lyrical, this is an excellent, topical novel.” RED
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On holiday with her family and adoring fiancé, Jed, Emily couldn’t be happier. But overnight, the idyllic trip turns into a waking nightmare when one of the group is found dead in what appears to be a terrible accident. The devastated party returns to London to cope with their loss while trying to resume their normal lives. But new revelations set Emily on a perilous journey to discover the truth about what happened…
“ Effortlessly thrilling and incredibly tense, you won’t believe this novel’s creepy twists and turns!” CLOSER ON CLOSE MY EYES
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Caroline Guthrie Modern Fiction 13 hours 9781510021433
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Blood Mist
Daunderlust
The Sun in Her Eyes
Dying For Christmas
Mark Roberts
Peter Ross
Paige Toon
Tammy Cohen
“A genuinely innovative crime writer with a taste for the macabre and unexpected.” daily mail
Narrated by Bafta Award winning actor Robbie Coltrane, star of Harry Potter and Cracker.
Blinding sunshine… A bend in the road… What became of the little girl with the sun in her eyes?
Dying for Christmas is a gripping page-turner for psychological crime fans.
Peter Ross’s articles from around Scotland provide a piece-by-piece portrait of a nation as it changes. They show Scotland as she really is, a hopeful country not without problems and pain, but a nation made great by the people who live, love, laugh and graft there. From anatomists who find dissection beautiful to chip-shop owners who sing arias while serving fish suppers, the Scots in these pages come over as eccentric, humorous, moving and extraordinary.
Amber was three when a car crash stole her mother’s life. She doesn’t remember the accident, but a witness at the scene has been unable to forget. Thirty years later, the witness is still trying to track Amber down. Meanwhile, Amber is living on the other side of the world when her father has a stroke – she flies home to Australia to be with him. Then Amber receives a letter that changes everything: “Before your mother died, she asked me to tell you something…”
Two massacred families with signs of ritual killings. A nine-year-old-child, abandoned in the snow. As Liverpool holds its breath, DCI Eve Clay hunts a sadistic killer who knows more about her past than she does. Her search will take her deep into the tunnels beneath Liverpool, boarded up and forgotten since World War II. There, deep underground, she will come face to face with true evil for the first time. “ A sprawling, gritty, violent, tribal crime epic with a deeply rooted sense of place and a gut-punch ending.”
A six time winner at the Scottish Press Awards, Peter Ross is one of Scotland’s best feature writers.
C. J. BOX
“ Not only a fine debut, but a fine mystery novel, period. I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.”
“ Acutely observed, wickedly funny and deftly plotted, with a satisfyingly smart twist at the end.” MAIL ON SUNDAY
“ Paige really ratchets up the tension. You’ll be in a reading frenzy by the end!” LISA JEWELL
“ The impression left by Daunderlust is of a nation teeming with vibrancy, character and individuality.”
JOHN CONNOLLY
“I am missing. Held captive by a blue-eyed stranger. To mark the twelve days of Christmas, he gives me a gift every day, each more horrible than the last. The twelfth day is getting closer. After that, there’ll be no more Christmas cheer for me. No mince pies, no carols. No way out… But I have a secret. No-one has guessed it. Will you?”
ALASTAIR MABBOTT, THE HERALD
“ A book of extraordinary depth […] a gently inspiring testament to the truth.” HUGH MACDONALD, SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS
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Jimfish
Before He Finds Her
Carnevale
The Household Spirit
Christopher Hope
Michael Kardos
Michelle Lovric
Tod Wodicka
“I’ll give his age as 18 and call him Jimfish. Because he’s a real fish out of water, this one is.”
She’s only alive because he thinks she’s already dead…
A moving love story featuring two of the greatest lovers the world has ever known.
A luminous story of a most curious friendship, for fans of Rachel Joyce.
In the 1980s, a man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, South Africa, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the dying days of the twentieth century.
Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a party, then murdered his wife and three-year-old daughter and disappeared. But everyone is wrong. Ramsey’s daughter got away. Meg, now known as Melanie, is nearly eighteen and sick of hiding. Melanie’s determined to confront her father, but can she find him before he finds her?
1782: Cecelia, the 13 year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova – the legendary seducer of women. Twenty-five years later Cecilia is in Albania, now a portrait painter of some renown. Enter a young man from England, a troubled poet, looking for adventure at any price – a man who begins his affair with Cecilia.
Part fable, part fierce commentary on the politics of power, this work is the culmination of a lifetime’s writing, from a Man Booker shortlisted author of enormous originality and range.
“ Brilliant. Before He Finds Her is one of the most innovative and compelling thrillers to come along in recent years.”
“ A lavish description of a sensual education that drips detail and drama.”
There’s something wrong next door – at least, that’s what neighbours Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Howie is an accidental recluse, content with his fishing and dreams of someday sailing away on a boat. Emily couldn’t be more different: she’s irreverent, outgoing and seemingly well-adjusted. But when Emily returns from college to care for her dying grandfather, Howie can’t help but notice her increasingly erratic behavior – not to mention her newfound love of nocturnal gardening. “ The Household Spirit is very special. There’s a pleasing familiarity to it but it’s also fresh, funny and unpredictable.”
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“ A dazzling baroque tale.”
“ A novel as human as it is suspenseful, as patient as it is thrilling.”
RODDY DOYLE
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“ Rarely have I been so captivated by a novel. Its compassion, wisdom, warmth. I loved it.”
GREGG HURWITZ
NATHAN FILER, AUTHOR OF THE SHOCK OF THE FALL
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We Are All Made of Stars
Friday on My Mind
The Wrong Girl
The Girls
Rowan Coleman
Nicci French
David Hewson
Lisa Jewell
We Are all Made of Stars is an uplifting and heartfelt novel about life, loss and what happens in between.
Friday on My Mind is the latest addictive and intriguing novel in the Frieda Klein series, by the bestselling author Nicci French.
A terrorist outrage grips the heart of the city.
The gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In and The Third Wife.
Married to a soldier who has returned from Afghanistan injured in body and mind, Stella Carey leaves the house every evening. During her nursing shifts, Stella writes letters for her patients to their loved ones – some full of humour, love and practical advice, others steeped in regret or pain – promising to post them after their deaths. Until one night Stella writes the letter that could give her patient one last chance at redemption, if she delivers it in time…
When a corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at least be sure that identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around the dead man’s wrist is a hospital band. On it are the words Dr F. Klein. But psychotherapist Frieda Klein is very much alive. And, after evidence linking her to the murder is discovered, she becomes the prime suspect.
“ What a gorgeous book this is – it gripped me and wouldn’t let me go. So engaging, so beautifully written – I loved every single thing about it.”
Amsterdam is bursting at the seams and the police are out in force, struggling to manage the crowds. Brigadier Pieter Vos is on duty with his young assistant, Laura Bakker, when the first grenade hits. In the chaos a young girl wearing a pink jacket is kidnapped. But she isn’t the daughter of an Amsterdam aristocrat as the terrorists first thought. What is the life of one immigrant child worth in the greater political game emerging? “ Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing.”
“ Nicci French’s sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition.” SOPHIE HANNAH
“ Brilliantly crafted […] masterly control of suspense.”
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“ Lisa Jewell’s characters are so real that I finish every book half-expecting to bump into one of them. Modern, complex, intuitive, she just goes from strength to strength.”
“ When Hewson hits his stride it feels like you’re being treated to a masterclass in crime writing.” CRIME FICTION LOVER
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You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer’s night, a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?
“ A stunning, beautiful, mesmerising book that everyone will be reading.”
“ We Are All Made of Stars is simply wonderful. Profoundly moving and ultimately hopeful, this story – like its deftly drawn characters – refuses to let you forget it.”
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The Flood
Bridesmaids
Post Mortem
The Mermaids Singing
Ian Rankin
Jane Costello
Kate London
Val McDermid
The Flood is the book that began Ian Rankin’s phenomenal career, now available as a download for the first time.
Four Weddings without the funeral!
A complex, intelligent, thrilling crime novel by an author who has walked the beat.
The Mermaids Singing explores the tormented mind of a serial killer unlike any the world of fiction has ever seen.
Mary Miller had always been an outcast – burnt in a chemical mix as a young girl, sympathy for her quickly faded. Now, years later, she is a single mother, caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher. The search for happiness isn’t easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret from their past, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images – of decay and regrowth, of fire and water – of the flood.
Evie is twenty-seven – she’s never been in love and worries that she never will be. And the prospect of being bridesmaid, at no less than three weddings, fills her with trepidation. Things get worse when Evie learns that Jack, the most attractive man Evie has ever laid eyes on, is Valentina’s date. Jack can’t possibly be as good as he seems. But as they sit together talking late into the night, Evie finds herself wishing he was real. “ If you like Sophie Kinsella, you’ll love Jane Costello.”
Kate London is a former police officer in the Metropolitan Police Service. Like all police officers she started in uniform, and then moved into the CID as a detective constable.
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A long-serving beat cop in the Met and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in London’s East End. Left alive on the roof are a five year old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths. Within hours, Lizzie has disappeared, and DPS officer Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth around the grisly deaths, in an investigation which takes her into the dark heart of policing in London.
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“ A must for lovers of Rankin.”
Up until now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were safely behind bars. This one’s different – this one’s on the loose. Four men have been found mutilated and tortured. As fear grips the city, the police turn to clinical psychologist Tony Hill for a profile of the killer. But soon Tony becomes the unsuspecting target in a battle of wits and wills, where he has to use every ounce of his professional nerve to survive. “ Terrifying but stylish and compassionate! Truly, horribly good.” MAIL ON SUNDAY
“ Gripping, intelligent stuff.” “ Intelligent, atmospheric, captivating – this book draws you in and doesn’t let you go. A must read.”
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Hear the Wind Sing
Deep South
Baby Love
The Last Pilot
Haruki Murakami
Paul Theroux
Maureen Carter
Benjamin Johncock
Hear the Wind Sing is Haruki Murakami’s earliest novel, available for the first time in English translation.
“Still one of the best literary travellers we have.” evening standard
The third title in a series of crime novels starring DS Bev Morriss.
For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth – to China, Africa, the Pacific Islands, Russia, and elsewhere. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas he writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers – the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi – and above all, the lives of the people he meets.
A good police officer doesn’t get emotional, but some cases just make you want to cry… Taken off a high-profile rape investigation to lead the hunt for a missing baby, Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is torn professionally and personally. When the baby-snatching turns into something more sinister it forces Bev to face uncomfortable feelings of her own – and when she takes her eye off the ball for a split second, she finds herself in serious trouble.
The Last Pilot re-ignites the thrill and excitement of the space race through the story of one man’s courage in the face of unthinkable loss.
Hear the Wind Sing follows the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. The narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J’s Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept with and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Haruki Murakami’s books include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages. “ An excellent introduction to a writer who has […] become one of the most influential novelists of his generation.” OBSERVER
Maureen Carter is the creator of two critically acclaimed crime series.
“ His ability to sum up a people or a city in a few lines is undiminished.”
“ By far the best debut novel I’ve read in years – it reads like the reclusive disciple of Cormac McCarthy and St-Exupery.”
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“ Theroux’s work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged.”
JOANNE HARRIS, AUTHOR OF CHOCOLAT
“ An impressive debut […] a marvellous, emotionally powerful novel.”
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“ Which other author can remind you simultaneously of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and J. K. Rowling, not merely within the same chapter but on the same page?”
The Last Pilot begins in the bone-dry Mojave Desert during the late 1940s, where US Air Force test pilots are racing to break the sound barrier. Among the exalted few is Jim Harrison: dedicated to his wife, Grace, and their baby daughter. By the 1960s, the space race is underway and Harrison and his colleagues are offered a place in history as the world’s first astronauts. Jim is faced with the decision of whether to accept his ticket to the moon and at what cost.
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Wallflowers
The Looking Glass House
Out of Sight Out of Mind
Eliza Robertson
Vanessa Tait
Evonne Wareham
From the winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize comes a delicate and startling collection.
What happened before Alice fell down the rabbit hole?
Everyone has secrets. Some are stranger than others.
Oxford, 1862: Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, but there is a problem: Mary does not like children, especially the precocious Alice Liddell. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the mathematics tutor, she is flattered by his attentions. But Mary is determined to become Mr Dodgson’s muse – and will turn all the lives around her topsy-turvy in pursuit of her obsession.
Madison Albi is a scientist with a very special talent – for reading minds. When she stumbles across a homeless man with whom she feels an inexplicable connection, she can’t resist the dangerous impulse to use her skills to help him. But as she delves deeper into J’s mind, it becomes clear that some secrets are better off staying hidden. Is J really the man Madison believes him to be?
A small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her back yard, a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries, migratory birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen pots and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting revelations. Eliza Robertson’s delicate and startling stories tell of the adventure of the ordinary and the magic within the everyday. “ Robertson lets images vibrate with possibilities. Almost every story, individually, is sharp, illuminating.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Vanessa Tait is the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Looking Glass House is inspired by family treasures and stories of the ‘original’ Alice.
Evonne Wareham won the Romantic Novelist Association 2012 Joan Hessayon Award for her debut novel, Never Coming Home. “ A dark mystery with a fiery romance at its heart.” MEG GARDINER
“ Filled with lush flora and fauna, both real and figurative […] Assured and ambitious.” GUARDIAN
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The Third Woman
All the Little Pieces
Jonathan Freedland
Jilliane Hoffman
A chilling high-concept thriller from No. 1 bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland.
A gripping new psychological thriller from bestselling author Jilliane Hoffman.
Journalist Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she never thought she would be investigating her own sister’s murder. Then she uncovers evidence that suggests that Abi was the third victim in a series of killings that’s been hushed up as part of a major conspiracy. But the government dictates what the ‘truth’ is. With her life on the line, Madison must give up the story, or face the consequences… Jonathan Freedland has previously written bestselling thriller books under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. “ A propulsive, satisfying novel which burns with moral indignation.”
As Faith Saunders drives home in the pouring rain, a young woman appears out of nowhere, pleading for help. With her daughter Maggie asleep in the backseat, Faith refuses to let the stranger in. When the missingperson posters go up, Faith’s guilt consumes her. She has one chance to convince a jury of what happened. If she fails, two killers will be set free. And they know exactly where to find Faith and her family… “ Guaranteed to follow in the best-selling footsteps of Cornwell, Reichs and Slaughter.” GUARDIAN
“ Gripping, well-crafted suspense […] a belter of a book.” SUNDAY EXPRESS
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The Girl in the Spider’s Web
Churchill’s Secret Warriors
The Killing Room
The Runaway Actress
David Lagercrantz
Damien Lewis
Peter May
Victoria Connelly
The girl with the dragon tattoo is back: Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in a continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.
The bestselling author of Zero Six Bravo brings the adventures of an intriguing wartime secret unit to life.
The Killing Room is the third in the acclaimed China Thriller series from Peter May, author of The Lewis Man and The Chessmen.
Get your running shoes on to catch this hilarious, charming and utterly engaging novel from Victoria Connelly.
In the bleak moments of winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike hard. So Britain’s wartime leader called for the development of a completely new kind of warfare, recruiting a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first ‘deniable’ secret operatives to strike behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death.
Eighteen mutilated women in a Shanghai mass grave. But this is only the beginning of a horrific case for Investigator Li Yan and Mei Ling, Head of Shanghai’s Serious Crime squad. Ling is a formidable woman, and she appears to threaten Li Yan’s relationship with pathologist Margaret Campbell. But when Campbell discovers that the victims were subjected to live autopsies, she knows she’ll need all the help she can get.
When the stresses of being an A-list actress get too much for her, Connie Gordon decides to escape to a tiny Scottish village. But little does she realise that whilst Lochnabrae might be quiet, it’s far from sleepy… When she meets local playwright Alastair McInnes, who’s sworn he’ll never become involved with another actress again, sparks fly. The quiet little village of Lochnabrae will never be the same again…
“ A masterwork of sheer momentum […] compelling.”
“ Sunshine on a rainy day.”
Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son’s well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story – and it is a terrifying one. More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder’s world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker. “ David Lagercrantz has done well. […] The Girl in the Spider’s Web conveys the essence and atmosphere of Larsson’s Millennium novels”
Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster and conflict zones around the world. He has written a dozen non-fiction and fiction books, topping bestseller lists worldwide.
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“ Stunningly original, highly topical and extremely well written.” SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
“ Victoria writes with a deliciously light touch and joyous enthusiasm.” FIONA WALKER
“ One of the most remarkable stories in the history of special forces operations.”
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Are You Watching Me?
The Commitments
I am China
My Revolutions
Sinéad Crowley
Roddy Doyle
Xiaolu Guo
Hari Kunzru
“Dear Elizabeth, I’ve been watching you. I hope to see you… Soon.”
The bestselling book behind the long running West End stage show.
What would you sacrifice to change the world? What would you die for?
Rescued from her dark past by the owner of a drop-in centre for older men, Liz Cafferky soon finds herself as the charity’s face – and the unwilling darling of the Dublin media. Amidst her claustrophobic fame, Liz barely notices the letter. But then one of the centre’s clients is brutally murdered and she receives another, more sinister note…
The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Managed by Jimmy Rabbitte and brilliantly coached by Joey ‘The Lips’ Fagan. Their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to the steps of the studio door. But can The Commitments live up to their name?
Two lovers, separated by oceans and an oppressive political regime, desperate to find their way back to each other.
Sinéad Crowley’s first novel was nominated for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year.
“ Hugely enjoyable […] Wonderfully funny.”
It’s the day before Mike Frame’s fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn’t matter, because it’s not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about. Now Mike is seeing ghosts – a dead ex-lover and an old friend who wants to reminisce. Mike can no longer ignore the contradiction between who he is and who he once was.
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“ Heart-wrenching […] an extraordinary and important book.”
“ A charming, truthful and immensely funny story which leaves you gasping for more.”
“ Chilling, riveting and brilliantly written, you’ll be up reading this way into the night!”
In a detention centre in Dover Chinese musician Jian is awaiting his fate. In Beijing his girlfriend Mu sends desperate letters to London to track him down. Above a noisy London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter. As she unravels the story of these Chinese lovers, Iona sets out to bring them back together, but time seems to be running out.
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“ Dark, witty fiction.”
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“ A beautifully constructed piece of story-telling […] taut, hard-edged prose.” “ His finest piece of work to date […] impassioned, intelligent and profoundly serious […] We need more books like this.”
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Gun Street Girl
81 Days Below Zero
The Maverick Millionaire
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Adrian McKinty
Brian Murphy
Alison Roberts
J. Ryan Stradal
The fourth in the Sean Duffy series by acclaimed crime writer Adrian McKinty.
81 Days Below Zero is a tale of the capacity to endure extreme conditions, intense loneliness and flashes of raw terror, and to emerge stronger than before.
The man she has been waiting for…
A joyful, quirky and heartwarming novel about the family you lose, the friends you make and chance connections that can define a life.
Belfast, 1985: Detective Inspector Sean Duffy is initially left cold by the murder of a wealthy couple, shot dead while watching TV. And when their troubled son commits suicide, leaving a note that takes responsibility for the deaths, the case is closed. But something doesn’t add up. Soon Duffy is on the trail of a mystery that will take him into the white-hot heart of the biggest political scandal of the decade. “ A superb satire of its time and place.”
1943: Five Army aviators left Alaska’s Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a crash that claimed all but one – Leon Crane. With little more than a parachute for cover and an old Boy Scout knife in his pocket, Crane now found himself alone in sub-zero temperatures. Crane knew that his chance of survival dropped swiftly with each passing day. This is his story.
Jake Logan may be ex-military, but recently he’d been more at home among Hollywood’s finest. So different from where he is right now: seeking shelter from a powerful storm with the most beautiful woman he’s ever met. Ellie Sutton doesn’t trust easily; but with nowhere to run, for some reason she feels safe with the handsome enigmatic stranger. As rescue draws closer, they realise they don’t want their time together to end…
Who is Eva Thorvald? To her single father, a chef, she’s a recipe tester and the love of his life. To the chilli chowdown contestants of Cook County, Illinois, she’s a fire-eating demon. She’s an enigma, and when we first meet her, she’s ten, secretly cultivating chilli peppers in her wardrobe. Over the years, the people she meets will shape her – and she, them – in ways unforgettable, riotous and profound.
IRISH TIMES
“ This is a great story, wonderfully told […] seamlessly interweaving the pilot’s intense struggle against the elements with the broader history of the war, Alaska, and the home front.”
“ Adrian McKinty is back with the same perceptive commentary on social conditions and an acute awareness of political realities in the Belfast of the eighties.”
“ A charming, fast-moving round robin tale of food, sensuality and Midwestern culture, Mr Stradal has delivered one extremely tasty, well-seasoned debut.”
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JANET FITCH, AUTHOR OF WHITE OLEANDER
“ Murphy’s instincts for pacing and re-creating emotions, dialogue and details are so finely crafted that you might find yourself shivering right along with Crane.” MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
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Dead in the Water
The Final Minute
The Martyr’s Curse
Jeannie Waudby
Ann Granger
Simon Kernick
Scott Mariani
Two sides. No choice.
For a rainswept Cotswold village, flooding is the least of its woes…
The gripping new race-against-time thriller from bestselling author Simon Kernick.
It is the wettest winter on record and as Christmas approaches the rivers burst their banks. In the village of Weston Saint Ambrose, a young girl’s body is seen floating downstream and when it becomes stuck under the jetty at a reclusive writer’s home, the author is alarmed to discover that he recognises the victim of a brutal murder…
“She’s dead. There’s blood everywhere. And the most terrifying thing of all is that I think her killer might be me…”
The exhilarating and addictive new thriller in the Ben Hope series by the master bestseller, Scott Mariani.
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When sixteen-year-old K narrowly survives a bomb attack, she agrees to cross the line: to go under cover, befriending the radical young group held responsible. But it’s hard making friends when you’re lying. And what K discovers is far from black and white. Even enemies become real people – and one boy is special. Can she ever tell him who she really is? Can love unite them all? “ There are echoes of Orwell and Kafka in this tense thriller, which thoroughly respects its readers’ intelligence.” LOVEREADING4KIDS
“ Characterisation, as ever with Granger, is sharp and astringent.”
A traumatic car-crash. A man with no memory, haunted by nightmares. When the past comes calling in the most terrifying way imaginable, Matt Barron is forced to turn to the one person who can help. Ex Met cop, turned private detective, Tina Boyd. Soon they are both on the run… “ Another accomplished race against time with a delightfully morally ambiguous hero.”
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Ex-SAS major Ben Hope has found sanctuary in a remote monastery in the French Alps. But when a team of merciless killers slaughter the innocent monks Ben’s revenge quest draws him into a bewildering mystery of stolen treasure, deception and murder. As he works to unravel the clues he is confronted with a terrifying reality that threatens to cruelly reshape the future of humanity. What is the significance of an ancient curse dating back to a heretical burning?
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“ Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart […] Scott Mariani packs a real punch.” ANDY McDERMOTT
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The Things We Do for Love
The Accident
I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That
The Lion of Mistra
Alice Peterson
C. L. Taylor
Ben Goldacre
James Heneage
Love may hurt, but not loving hurts even more…
A gripping psychological thriller about the deadly secrets your children can keep.
The very best journalism from one of Britain’s most admired and outspoken science writers.
January Wild loves her daughter, her job and her childhood home by the sea. The arrival of a new boss, however, threatens to shake up January’s safe world. Everyone at her office agrees: Ward Metcalfe is a soulless, corporate slave driver. Yet over time January sees there is more to Ward than meets the eye. What exactly is he hiding? And is January prepared to risk everything to find out?
Sue Jackson has the perfect family, but when her teenage daughter Charlotte deliberately steps in front of a bus and ends up in a coma, she is forced to face a new reality. Retracing her daughter’s steps she finds a horrifying entry in Charlotte’s diary. In her hunt for evidence, Sue begins to mistrust everyone and is forced to look further; into the depths of her own past. What if she is the reason that Charlotte is in danger?
Rome never fell. The empire continued as Byzantium. This epic historical novel concerns one man’s role in saving the empire.
“ I couldn’t put it down. What a beautiful, uplifting, unconventional love story”
“ An enjoyable rollercoaster of a suspense novel with multiple twists.”
PAIGE TOON ON ONE STEP CLOSER TO YOU
In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. This is a collection of the best of his journalism from one of our wittiest, most indignant and most fearless commentators on the worlds of medicine and science.
The Lion of Mistra is the third book in the Mistra Chronicles, following The Walls of Byzantium and Towers of Samarcand.
“ You’ll laugh your head off, then throw all those expensive health foods in the bin.” OBSERVER
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“ This is a book to make you enraged – properly, boneshakingly furious […] A work of brilliance.”
“ Utterly compelling. I could not put this gripping, heart-stopping page-turner down.”
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The Ottoman Turks are at the gates of Constantinople and Luke Magoris has to find a fortune to build defences for his beloved Mistra, the last glorious outpost of Imperial Rome. He turns to the Ming Empire for trade, and to Italy for its rapidly developing banks. And yet the Varangian treasure – which only Luke can uncover – may hold the key to all.
“ A stirring tale of the struggle for Byzantium. Heneage brings to life both the tragedy and the heroism.” TOM HOLLAND ON THE WALLS OF BYZANTIUM
“ Fascinating historical mysteries and vivid colourful characters. It’s a page-turner fast enough to make its own breeze” CONN IGGULDEN ON THE WALLS OF BYZANTIUM
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Freedom’s Child
After the Flood
Only Ever Yours
Blood Relatives
Jax Miller
John Nichol
Louise O’Neill
Stevan Alcock
A heart-stopping thriller about a woman, who will stop at nothing to save her daughter.
Former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol sets out on a personal journey to discover what happened to 617 Squadron.
Winner of the Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and shortlisted for the Young Adult Book Prize 2015.
An incredible novel: a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders.
Freida and Isabel have been best friends their whole lives. Now, aged sixteen, they expect to be selected as companions – wives to wealthy and powerful men. But as the intensity of the final year takes hold, isabel starts to self-destruct. And then into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. Freida must fight for her future, even if it means betraying the only friend she has ever known…
Leeds, late 1975 and a body has been found on Prince Philip Playing Fields. Ricky, teenage delivery van boy for Corona pop, will be late for The Matterhorn Man. In the years that follow until his capture, the Yorkshire Ripper and Rick’s own life draw ever closer with unforeseen consequences. Set in a time in England’s history of upheaval and change – both personal and social – this is a story told in an unforgettable voice.
“ A dark dream. A vivid nightmare. The world O’Neill imagines is frightening because it could come true. She writes with a scalpel.”
“ Refreshing, even radical […] Blood Relatives could never be accused of being dull.”
There’s a lot people don’t know about Freedom Oliver. They don’t know that Freedom is not her real name. That she has spent the last eighteen years living under Witness Protection. That she put her two children up for adoption. Then Freedom’s daughter goes missing, and everything changes. Tracked by her husband’s sadistic family, who are thirsty for revenge, as she gets closer to the truth, Freedom faces an even more dangerous threat. “ Original, compelling and seriously recommended.”
On the 17th May 1943, 133 airmen set out in 19 Lancasters to destroy the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams. 56 of them did not return. Despite these catastrophic losses, the raid became a propaganda triumph. The survivors were feted as heroes and became celebrities of their time. John Nichol retraces the path of 617 Squadron’s most dangerous sorties as their reputation called them into action again and again.
LEE CHILD
“ Full of poignant episodes […] A fitting tribute to the raw courage of these young men.”
“ A terrific read from a powerful new voice.” KARIN SLAUGHTER
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“ Utterly magnificent […] gripping, accomplished and dark.” MARIAN KEYES
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“ Blood Relatives is full of daring, authenticity and wit. It is a work of brutal, hilarious poetry.” RACHEL CUSK
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Left of the Bang
A Beautiful Mind
The Vampire’s Assistant
The Hidden Pleasures of Life
Claire Lowdon
Sylvia Nasar
Darren Shan
Theodore Zeldin
Powerful, radically honest and very, very funny, this is the best novel yet about the ‘lost generation’ of young Londoners today.
The inspiration behind the Oscar-winning film featuring Russell Crowe in the lead role of John Nash.
“Fast-paced and full of macabre touches.” j. k. rowling
For failing concert pianist Tamsin Jarvis, the pressure is mounting. She thought she was happy with her adoring schoolteacher boyfriend Callum, but when Chris comes into their lives, that starts to change. In a few months Chris will be gone, leaving for his first tour of Afghanistan. Nothing seems to be working out the way Tamsin wants it to – in fact, she’s not even sure what it is she wants.
John Nash was a mathematical genius by age thirty when he slipped into madness after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community, John Nash emerged after decades of a ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game theory revolution. This is his story.
Theodore Zeldin illuminates how our lives can be enriched by the realisation that it is only by truly relating to others that we really become human.
“ A remarkably compelling and shrewd look at the way we live now. Clear-eyed, audacious and disarmingly honest.” WILLIAM BOYD
“ A compelling book about a phenomenal figure. Sylvia Nasar manages to illuminate both the man and his maths.”
Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy until his visit to Cirque du Freak. Now, as he struggles with his new life as a vampire’s assistant, he tries desperately to resist the one temptation that sickens him, the one thing that can keep him alive. But destiny is calling: The Wolf Man is waiting. “ Shan is uncannily skilful in sucking readers into his macabre world.” CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Theodore Zeldin is an Oxford academic, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature, and the author of many non-fiction titles.
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“ An intriguing analysis of the tortured life of John Nash, mathematical genius and Nobel laureate extraordinary.”
“ Lowdon flies deftly between the perspective of each character and it is here that her talent really lies […] She takes time with the fears and hopes of each one, conjuring up a tension that builds painfully slowly.”
In The Hidden Pleasures of Life Theodore Zeldin demonstrates that both the greatest problems and the greatest opportunities of the twenty-first century lie in our relationships with others. With examples from his unparalleled research and his experiences with the giants of modern business and politics, this book reveals how our society is full of untapped potential for human interactions.
“ The most exciting and ambitious work of nonfiction I have read in more than a decade.”
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Every Woman for Herself The Blue
Warriors of the Storm
Where They Found Her
Trisha Ashley
Lucy Clarke
Bernard Cornwell
Kimberly McCreight
A hilarious account of divorce and dating from Sunday Times bestseller, Trisha Ashley.
Gripping and unpredictable, The Blue is the newest novel from Richard & Judy favourite, Lucy Clarke.
The new novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series The Warrior Chronicles.
The very worst crimes are those we commit against the ones we love.
A fragile peace governs the kingdoms of Wessex, East Anglia and Mercia. Uhtred, her greatest warrior, controls the northern parts from the strongly fortified city of Chester. The Northmen come in force under the cover of night, led by the terrifying Viking warrior, Ragnall Iverson, a fierce fighter and ruthless leader. Uhtred will stop at nothing to take back his corner of Northumbria and secure the future of Bebbanburg.
Motherhood hasn’t come at all easy for Molly Anderson. But she’s finally enjoying life as mother to five-year-old Ella and as Arts reporter for the small but respectable Ridgedale Reader. That is, until a body is found in the woods adjacent to Ridgedale University’s ivy-covered campus, a discovery that threatens to unearth secrets long buried by the town’s most powerful residents…
When Charlie’s husband Matt tells her he wants a divorce she has to start from scratch. Single, broke and approaching 40 she is forced to return to her childhood home. Charlie finds her new life refreshing. Now that she’s single she’s got no need to be the perfect wife. But just as she begins to feel settled, handsome, badtempered actor, Mace North, moves in nearby and starts mixing things up in more ways than one… “ One of the best writers around!” KATIE FFORDE
With a quick spin of the globe, Kitty and Lana escape their grey reality and journey to the Philippines. There they discover ‘The Blue’ – a beautiful yacht, with a wandering crew. But the tide turns when death creeps quietly on deck. A dangerous swell of mistrust and lies threatens to bring the crew’s adventures to an end – but some won’t let paradise go… whatever the price. “ Kept me guessing, and wanderlusting, all the way through […] the ultimate holiday read.”
“ A warm-hearted and comforting read.” CAROLE MATTHEWS
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“ She creates a world that pulls us in completely and genuinely, with characters that can enrage, amuse and fill us with empathy.”
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“ A rollercoaster of a novel […] McCreight has once again proven herself to be an insightful writer capable of taking us on a hell of a ride.” JODI PICOULT
“ Strong narrative, vigourous action and striking characterisation, Cornwell remains king of the territory he has staked out as his own.”
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“ Beautifully written […] a gripping page turner.”
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Solomon Creed
Killing Ways
The Memory of Evil
Run, Mummy, Run
Simon Toyne
Alex Barclay
Roberto Costantini
Cathy Glass
The first in an electrifying new thriller series from Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Toyne. Perfect for fans of Lee Child and The Bourne Identity.
An intense and gripping thriller from bestselling author Alex Barclay, this is Ren Bryce’s most shocking case yet…
The Memory of Evil is the earth-shattering finale to Roberto Costantini’s internationally bestselling crime trilogy.
A gripping story of abuse and escape from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
FBI Special Agent Ren Bryce takes on a depraved serial killer fueled by a warped sense of justice. A master of evasion, each life he takes ramps up Ren’s obsession with finding him. Then one victim changes everything and brings Ren face to face with a detective whose life was destroyed by the same pursuit. Together, can they defeat this monster? Or will he take them both down?
31st August, 1969: Colonel Gaddafi seized power in Commissario Balistreri’s birthplace of Libya and his beloved mother Natalia fell to her death. Balistreri has always suspected the resulting suicide verdict to be a flagrant cover-up for her murder. Investigative journalist Linda Nardi has been investigating the Vatican Bank for its shadowy transactions. But now Linda will find her attention diverted to an equally irresistible assignment: the collapse of Colonel Gaddafi’s forty-two year dictatorship.
Who is Solomon Creed? A plane crashes in the Arizona desert. One lone figure emerges alive from the wreckage. He has no memory of his past, and no idea of his future. He only knows he must save a man. But how do you save someone who is already dead? “ Among the best current thrillers.”
“ The rising star of the hard-boiled crime fiction world, combining wild characters, surprising plots and massive backdrops with a touch of dry humour.”
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“ Intriguing and engaging […] Relentless pace. An exciting and interesting read.”
In The Memory of Evil, one woman will encounter a longentombed truth in the rubble of Tripoli: unearthing a conspiracy neither she, nor the man it was designed to protect, will ever be able to erase from their minds.
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“ [Her] twists never feel forced; and the denouement, when it comes, is almost unbearably intense and shocking.”
When Aisha spots an ad for a ‘personal introductory service for professionals’ in the newspaper, she could never have guessed it would lead to such a perfect marriage. But you should be careful what you wish for. Soon she is trapped in a cycle of horrific abuse and imprisonment. And with two young children to protect, Aisha must draw on what strength she has left to find an escape. “ A moving read that Cathy Glass fans will devour.” THE SUN
“ A hugely touching and emotional true tale.” STAR MAGAZINE
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“ A passionate portrayal of a corrupt and criminal Italy.” THE TIMES ON THE DELIVERANCE OF EVIL
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At Hawthorn Time
Body of Lies
The Redeemers
The Secret Affair
Melissa Harrison
David Ignatius
Ace Atkins
Brenda Jackson
An exquisite novel about four people’s lives, our changing relationship with the landscape and what it means to belong.
The book behind the major motion picture starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Russell Crowe.
An electrifying crime novel from bestselling author Ace Atkins set in the real Deep South.
A new romance from Brenda Jackson featuring the notorious Westmoreland brothers.
Howard and Kitty have recently moved to Lodeshill after a life spent in London. Now, their marriage is wordlessly falling apart. Custom car enthusiast Jamie has lived in the village for all of his nineteen years and dreams of leaving it behind, while Jack, a vagrant farm-worker and mystic in flight from a bail hostel, arrives in the village on foot one spring morning. All four of them are struggling to find a life in the modern countryside; all are trying to find ways to belong.
Roger Ferris is one of the CIA’s soldiers in the war on terrorism. He left Iraq with a shattered leg and a mission – to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as ‘Suleiman.’ But when his scheme begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan’s intelligence service. But can Ferris trust him?
He is only in his early 30s, but now Quinn Colson is jobless – voted out of office as sheriff, thanks to county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers from bigger and better places, but before he goes, he’s got one more job to do – bring down Stagg’s criminal operations. At least that’s the plan…
It has been a year since Jillian Novak walked away from Aidan Westmoreland. But Aidan is confident that fourteen days on a cruise ship – just him, Jillian and the deep blue sea – will reignite a passion that cannot be denied.
“ A profoundly unsentimental yet deeply compassionate meditation on searching for myth and meaning, on our need to belong, and the place of history in the history of place.” HELEN MACDONALD, AUTHOR OF H IS FOR HAWK
“ Listeners are in for a treat […] Hill’s performances […] add dimension, subtlety, shading, and a master narrator’s finesse to the work as a whole.”
“ Atkins can run rings around most of the names in the crime field.”
LORI FOSTER
“ Jackson’s characters are wonderful, strong, colourful and hot enough to burn the pages.”
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“ Atkins is one of the finest crime and thriller writers working today.”
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“ Brenda Jackson writes romance that sizzles and characters you fall in love with.”
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“ Body of Lies is fiction but reads like fact. CIA officers admire Ignatius because more than any other writer he understands the nuances of their trade. Fascinating.” GEORGE TENET, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR
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Peg Plunkett
Borderlines
The Wallcreeper
Julie Peakman
Michela Wrong
Nell Zink
Revelations and racy anecdotes about the lives of the rich and famous of Dublin and London abound within Peg Plunkett.
A compelling courtroom drama and a gritty, aromatic evocation of place, inspired by recent events from a British writer with nearly two decades of experience in Africa.
Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before – this is one of the most exciting novels published this year.
Julie Peakman is an Honorary Fellow at both the Wellcome Institute and at Birkbeck College, University of London, as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
British lawyer Paula Shackleton is mourning a lost love when a man accosts her over breakfast. Winston Peabody represents the African state of North Darrar, embroiled in a border arbitration case with its giant neighbour. He needs help with the hearings in The Hague, Paula needs to forget the past. She flies to the state’s capital determined to lose herself in work, but soon discovers that even jobs taken with the purest intentions can involve moral compromise.
Interlaken, Berne, 21st century: Several things happen after the car hits the rock. Tiff ceases to be pregnant. Stephen captures, like, the most wonderful bird – fleet, stealthy, and beautiful – a real ‘lifer.’ And the wallcreeper, the wallcreeper says ‘twee.’ The Wallcreeper is nothing more than a portrait of marriage, complete with all its requisite highs and lows: drugs, dubstep, small chores, birding, breeding and feeding. “ Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range.”
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“ The most exciting debut novel I’ve read recently.”
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“ This is wonderful, readable and illuminating […] Michela Wrong is an enormously talented writer.” NEW STATESMAN
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In the eighteenth century Peg Plunkett blitzed her way through balls and masquerades, creating scandals and gossip wherever she went, leaving dukes and barristers stranded in her wake. She was the first madame ever to write her memoirs, thereby setting the template for the whore’s memoir. In Peg Plunkett, Julie Peakman brings her subject and the world through which she moved to glorious, bawdy life.
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Doctor of the High Fells
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Elizabeth Gill
Sarah Harrison
From the bestselling author of Miss Appleby’s Academy and Far From My Father’s House comes a tale of determination and courage.
An epic novel set amid the turbulence of the Second World War.
Determined to practice as a doctor, Prue Stanhope escapes a loveless marriage to journey far from home to a surgery in the rural mining town of Tow Law, County Durham. But Prue soon finds that harsh conditions, suspicious villagers and limited resources are only the beginning – gaining the townspeople’s trust will be her greatest challenge of all.
Kate Kingsley remembers little of her early childhood, before being sent to live as the adopted daughter of Jack and Thea in Kenya. Now 20, she leaves Kenya for a new life in London. But this is 1936 – a time of decadence, but also turmoil. Kate confronts personal danger, faces conflicting loyalties, and must make a heart-breaking choice, before she can find a kind of freedom. “ A most compelling and intriguing book, the work of a fine story-teller.”
“ A born storyteller.” TRISHA ASHLEY
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“ Elizabeth Gill writes with a masterful grasp of conflicts and passions hidden among men and women of the wild North Country.” LEAH FLEMING
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The Dress
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A Dangerous Place
Infinite Home
Kate Kerrigan
Lesley Pearse
Jacqueline Winspear
Kathleen Alcott
Kate Kerrigan’s enthralling novel interweaves the dramatic stories of Joy and Lily.
She witnessed a murder – and now her life is in danger…
“Wry and immensely readable.” daily mail
A poignant story of how a community is built and torn apart.
Lily Fitzpatrick loves vintage clothes. But this passion for beautiful clothes is about to have unforeseen consequences, when Lily stumbles upon the story of a 1950s New York beauty, who shares Lily’s surname. Joy Fitzpatrick was a legend. But what was the famous dress which she once commissioned? What happened to it – and why did Joy suddenly disappear from New York high society?
Fifteen year old Belle, snatched from the streets and sold into prostitution, is made a courtesan in New Orleans. At the mercy of desperate men who crave her beauty and will do anything to keep her, Belle’s dreams of home, family and freedom appear futile. Are Belle’s courage and spirit strong enough to help her escape? And what will await her at the end of the long, dangerous journey home?
“ Mesmerising. Just beautiful.”
“ With characters it is impossible not to care about […] this is storytelling at its very best.”
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Within a charming, if dilapidated, Brooklyn brownstone, live a family of sorts: beautiful agoraphobe Adeleine, Thomas, an artist who has shut away his materials in the wake of a stroke, Edward, a cynical stand-up comedian and Paulie, a young man with William’s Syndrome. Brought together by ageing landlady Edith, the tenants all live safely in tune with each other. But when their home is suddenly and violently threatened, they are shocked into action.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
“ An emotional and moving epic you won’t forget in a hurry.”
MARIAN KEYES
“ Maisie Dobbs has not been created – she has been discovered. And what a revelation she is!” “ Jacqueline Winspear’s consummate skill in writing crime stories with intricate psychological layers is proven yet again.”
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“ Glamorous, gripping and moving. I just loved it.”
Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place… In Jacqueline Winspear’s powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril.
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“ Infinite Home is Alcott at her lyrical best. In her arresting new novel, she explores the boundaries of family and fraternity.” NATHAN ENGLANDER
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“ Vibrant, inventive, expansive […] pure poetry.” SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
London Match
Death at Wentwater Court
Alison Case
Agatha Christie
Len Deighton
Carola Dunn
A gripping and heart-breaking novel that reimagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws’ loyal servant, Nelly Dean.
Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again!
The final part of the classic spy trilogy, Game, Set and Match, set when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
A lively mystery for the honourable Daisy Dalrymple.
Young Nelly Dean has been Hindley’s closest companion for as long as she can remember, living at the great house, Wuthering Heights. But when the benevolence of the master brings a wild child into the house, Nelly must follow in her mother’s footsteps and be called servant. When a new heir is born, a reign of violence begins that will test Nelly’s spirit as she finds out what it is to know true sacrifice. “ Alison Case has cracked open Wuthering Heights and inserted into the gaps her own richly imagined story […] I never thought I needed more Wuthering Heights. Now I wonder how I could have been satisfied with only the original telling.”
To the world she was Agatha Christie, legendary author of bestselling whodunits. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, travelling with her husband, renowned archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he investigated the buried ruins and ancient wonders of Syria and Iraq. When friends asked what this strange ‘other life’ was like, she decided to answer their questions by writing down her adventures in this eye-opening book. Come, Tell Me How You Live is an altogether remarkable and increasingly poignant narrative, a fascinating, vibrant and vivid portrait of everyday life in a world now long since vanished.
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No stranger to sprawling country estates, well-heeled Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground at Wentwater Court to cover a story for Town & Country magazine. But her interview gives way to interrogation when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a chilly end on the tranquil skating pond. With evidence that his death was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard so the culprit can’t slip through their fingers…
“ Deighton is back in his original milieu, the bleak spy world of betrayers and betrayed.”
“ Appropriate historical detail and witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece.”
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Bernard Samson hoped they’d put Elvira Miller behind bars. But there was one troubling thing about Mrs Miller’s confession – something about two code-words where there should have been one. The finger of suspicion pointed straight back to London. And that was where defector Erich Stinnes was locked up, refusing to say anything. Now he had to get him to talk…
“ As always, Dunn evokes the life and times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above […] This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries.” BOOKLIST
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Monty and Me
Meet Me on the Beach
The Mysterious Mr Quin The Food of Love
Louisa Bennet
Hilary Boyd
Agatha Christie
Prue Leith
You might think that dogs can’t understand us… but you’d be wrong.
Where do you run when your heart’s breaking all the rules?
A proud family. A wild daughter. A desperate hope.
Apart from an obsession with cheese, Monty is a perfectly rational animal. So when his beloved master is stabbed to death, Monty decides to use his formidable nose to track the killer down. Luckily he manages to find a home with Rose Sidebottom, the young policewoman who’s investigating the case. But with her colleagues turning against her and the wrong man collared, she’s going to need a little help…
When Harry Stewart dies of a heart attack, the whole village is devastated – except for his wife Karen, who knew the abusive alcoholic Harry had become. Karen is nonetheless wracked with guilt – her only comfort in her grief is William, the sympathetic local vicar. But when Karen realises she might be falling in love, she flees to the seaside. A chance encounter brings William back into her life – can they persuade each other to take one final leap of faith?
An excellent mystery from the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
“ Charming and uplifting, Monty is the new kid on the block among animal sleuths.”
So far, it had been a typical New Year’s Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite – a keen observer of human nature – sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet to unfold. So it proved when a mysterious stranger arrived after midnight. Who was this Mr Quin? And why did his presence have such a pronounced effect on Eleanor Portal, the woman with the dyed-black hair? “ Offers a rare treat for discriminating readers.”
“ Boyd is as canny as Joanna Trollope at observing family life.”
PETER JAMES
World War Two is not yet over. Laura Oliver, beautiful and tempestuous, falls in love with Giovanni, an Italian ex-prisoner-of-war, now a humble cook. Together, the couple flee to London where they arrive in a city that has not yet re-awoken after the traumas of war. Facing destitution, only their love for one another and their dream of opening a restaurant business keeps them going. This is a tale of prejudice and ambition, and one couple’s struggle to carve out a life of their own. As a cook, restaurateur, food writer and business woman, Prue Leith has published twelve cookbooks, she has also written five contemporary romance novels.
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“ An engaging page-turner that explores secrets and relationships.” CLOSER
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The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
Eight Hundred Grapes
Pirate King
The Moth Snowstorm
Cathy Sharp
Laura Dave
Laurie R. King
Michael McCarthy
When there is nowhere else to turn, St Saviour’s will give them hope…
There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide…
The latest adventure for the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes.
It’s 1948 and Sister Beatrice, who runs the St Saviour’s Children’s Home, knows that many children are still looking for a safe haven. One such arrival is Mary Ellen whose mother is gravely ill. The one silver lining is her best friend, the tearaway Billy Baggins. When an unwelcome face from Billy’s past arrives on the scene, things are brought to a head. Can the women work together to keep Billy on the straight and narrow?
Returning to her family’s Sonoma vineyard after an unexpected devastating secret is revealed, Georgia Ford yearns for the rituals of harvest, the comfort of her parents and her brothers’ camaraderie. But this year the family farmhouse is rife with undercurrents. As the storm clouds gather towards the end of the harvest, sibling rivalry, marriage vows and the promise of the future are all tested. Will this harvest be the final one for the family, or a chance for a new beginning?
When Mary Russell is called to investigate the criminal activities that surround England’s silent-film supreme, Randolph Fflytte, she finds herself travelling undercover to Morocco, as chaperone to the stars of his latest extravaganza, ‘Pirate King.’ Nothing seems amiss until the cameras start to roll and Mary feels a storm of trouble brewing… and where is her husband Sherlock Holmes? As film fiction becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves may experience a final fadeout…
“A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love […] A must-read.” helen macdonald, author of h is for hawk.
“ A wry observer of modern love.”
“ A master storyteller.”
Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo’s in this gritty drama that will appeal to fans of Katie Flynn.
USA TODAY
Michael McCarthy, one of Britain’s leading writers on the environment, proposes a defence of a natural world which is increasingly threatened. He argues that nature is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services. Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, McCarthy presents a new way of looking at the world. “ Impassioned, polemical and personal […] At its heart, this is a book aiming to persuade those who are broadly sympathetic to think in a different way, and in that it is surely a success – and a joy.”
MICHAEL CONNELLY
“ King takes on literature’s most famous detective with masterful aplomb. I loved it.” ELIZABETH GEORGE, AUTHOR OF THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY SERIES
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“ Articulated beautifully […] his quest to track down every British butterfly as a tribute to his dead mother brought me to tears.” SUNDAY TIMES
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Robin Hood Yard
Whose Body?
The Girls Who Went to War
The Christmas We Met
Mark Sanderson
Dorothy L. Sayers
Duncan Barrett
Kate Lord Brown
“A gripping evocation of the sights, smells and murders of Thirties London.” telegraph
Enter the 1920s Golden Age of Detection with this first novel from Dorothy L. Sayers.
An inspiring tale written by Sunday Times best-sellers, Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi.
November, 1938: Johnny Steadman, investigative journalist, is called to the scene of a murder – a man has been tied to his bed, mutilated and left to bleed to death. When the Mayor of London is subjected to a vicious Anti-Semitic attack, Johnny begins to wonder if the two cases are connected. Soon, he uncovers a shocking conspiracy that could bring the United Kingdom to its knees. Will he live to tell the tale?
An unidentified corpse is found in a bathtub and the police are jumping to conclusions. It was the body of a tall stout man. On his dead face, a handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance… Lord Peter Wimsey knew immediately what the corpse was supposed to be, and with the help of his friend Inspector Parker, their problem is to find out whose body had found its way into Mr Alfred Thipps’ Battersea bathroom.
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many. Clearly, in the fight against Hitler, manpower alone wasn’t going to be enough. More than half a million women served in the armed forces during the Second World War. This book tells the story of just three of them.
A gorgeous tale about the secrets revealed by a collection of family jewels by internationally successful author, Kate Lord Brown.
“ This tightly plotted tale of shifting personal and political allegiances moves at a brisk pace.”
“ Important and inspiring.” “ I admire her novels […] she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and a wonderful eye for detail.”
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“ Sweepingly romantic […] heartbreaking at times; a vivid, gripping read.”
RUTH RENDELL
“ Both emotionally believable and intriguing […] undeniable page-turning appeal.”
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“ She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energ y and wit.”
FINANCIAL TIMES
When Grace Manners takes up residence on Wittering Manor estate, she little realises working alongside eccentric Fraser Stratton will change her life. Grace has struggled to make ends meet and the little cottage on the estate is both a refuge and a workshop for her jewellery business. It’s only when Grace uncovers the story behind a diamond brooch she inherited that she becomes drawn into a family secret that threatens to destroy what little she has left…
“ I found myself bewitched […] a deliciously winding narrative that takes us into the heart of battle, the locked rooms of family secrets, and the alluring promise of finally finding true love.”
P. D. JAMES
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ON THE PERFUME GARDEN
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The Night in Question
Water for Elephants
A Little Murder
My Sister’s Secret
Laurie Graham
Sara Gruen
Suzette A. Hill
Tracy Buchanan
Laurie Graham brings to life the London of 1888 where, in the shadows, lurks the lacerating threat of the Ripper.
Now a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson.
A host of colourful and comic characters leap from the pages in the latest novel from highlypraised author, Suzette A. Hill.
An addictive, gripping and emotionally powerful novel from the author of The Atlas of Us.
Dot Allbones possessed little beauty and few prospects, so she was lucky to discover her talent – she can make people laugh. Now on London’s music hall stage, Dot feels she’s not done badly. Pretty Kate Eddowes was an unlikely childhood friend for Dot. An encounter on a London street, years later, makes it clear that Kate’s life has not gone according to plan. But this is Whitechapel in 1888 – the shadowy streets are no place for a desperate woman to wander…
Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. In the Depression Era, Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers ‘Most Spectacular Show on Earth.’ There he meets the freaks, grifters and misfits that populate this world: Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act, August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the circus’s animal trainer) and Rosie, the seemingly untrainable elephant Jacob cares for. “ This marvelously exciting and satisfying book has been given the engaging audio production it deserves.”
“ Literary treats don’t come much better […] I loved this book and didn’t want to reach the end.”
“ A perfect mixture of funny and acerbic, with a cast of colourful characters and a school of well-deployed red herrings, A Little Murder is wholly delightful.”
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DAILY MAIL ON THE GRAND DUCHESS OF NOWHERE
“ Water for Elephants is fun, sweet and thrilling and will pull you into the mysterious life of the circus so far that you won’t want to leave.”
“ A fascinating glimpse into a vanished world.” SUNDAY TIMES ON THE GRAND DUCHESS OF NOWHERE
London, early 1950s: Marcia Beasley of St John’s Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the crime and bringing meaning to her gruesome death and it seems her whole social circle have secrets to hide and grudges to bear. Who, for example, is the limping midnight visitor? Is the bibulous priest as ingenious as he seems? And will Mrs Burkiss ever yield her keys to the broom cupboard?
Willow’s memories of her parents are sun-drenched and full of smiles, love and laughter. But a mysterious invitation to a photographic exhibition exposes a secret that’s been buried since a tragic accident years ago.Willow is forced to question everything she knew about Charity, her late mother and Hope, the aunt she’s lived with since she was a child. But who can she really trust? No one has been telling the truth. “ An ambitious and deeply poignant story that will take you into another world.” HEAT ON THE ATLAS OF US
“ Beautiful, heartbreaking, uplifting […] really worth a read.” HELLO ON THE ATLAS OF US
LAURA WILSON, AUTHOR OF STRATTON’S WAR
“ This dry, funny British gem, with its eccentric cast of characters, will leave readers laughing and eagerly awaiting the next.”
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Secrets She Left Behind
The Scoundrel and the Debutante
Loss of Innocence
Cromwell’s Blessing
Diane Chamberlain
Julia London
Richard North Patterson
Peter Ransley
An emotional family saga from bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult.
A thrilling regency romance, from bestselling author Julia London.
A sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968.
The price for a country. The price for a King. The price for a marriage. The dramatic story of Tom Neave continues…
America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane – spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha’s Vineyard – life could not be safer, nor the future more certain. But the Vineyard’s still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged, yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic young man, Blaine is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for.
1647: The King has surrendered to Parliament. Lord Stonehouse, to show his loyalty to Parliament, has named grandson Tom as his successor. But Lord Stonehouse’s son, Richard, is also Tom’s estranged father and a Royalist. Parliament itself is deeply divided and King Charles tries to exploit the divisions between them. When Richard arrives from France with a commission to snatch the King from Parliamentary hands, he and Tom are set on a collision course.
“ This may be Richard North Patterson’s best work: surprising and different, yet with the same ability to penetrate the minds of others – especially women, which is a rare gift.”
“ An intelligent and imaginative tale of a pivotal year in English history.”
The sudden disappearance of Sara Weston is a mystery to her seventeen-year-old son, Keith. Keith is healing from an arson attack and in Sara’s absence, he must face a challenging situation alone: the release of his half-sister, Maggie, from prison. Maggie, who was partially responsible for the fire. Somehow the two must find a way to overcome the past because Maggie and her family may be all Keith has left.
The Cabot sisters had shocking plans to rescue their family from certain ruin and now Prudence Cabot is left standing in the rubble of scandal. Now regarded as an unsuitable bride, she’s tainted. Yet this unwilling wallflower is ripe for her own adventure. And when an irresistibly sexy American stranger on a desperate mission enlists her help, she simply can’t deny the temptation. “ Julia London strikes gold again. Warm, witty and decidedly wicked – great entertainment.”
“ [A] finely tuned family drama, with beautifully drawn characters and a string of twists that will keep you guessing right up to the end.”
STEPHANIE LAURENS ON THE DEVIL TAKES A BRIDE
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“ Essential reading for Jodi Picoult fans.”
“ A snapshot of America at a pivotal moment in history, and a beautifully written coming-of-age novel.”
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ANTONIA FRASER
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Avid
Avid An imprint dedicated to the increasingly popular genre fiction – specifically Supernatural, Horror, Fantasy and Science-Fiction. This quarter includes bestsellers Raymond E. Feist, Robin Hobb and Joe Abercrombie.
Rise of a Merchant Prince
The Gospel of Loki
Raymond E. Feist
Joanne Harris
The second book in the bestselling Serpentwar series, following Shadow of a Dark Queen.
The first adult epic fantasy novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Chocolat.
After a harrowing brush with the armies of the Emerald Queen, Roo Avery is now free to choose his own destiny. But nothing can prepare him for the dangers of his new life, where the repayment of a debt can be as deadly as a knife in the shadows and betrayal is always close at hand. The war with the Emerald Queen is far from over and the inevitable confrontation will pose the biggest threat yet… “ Fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination.” WASHINGTON POST
“ She is so terrific, she can write about anywhere, anything, anyone.”
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“ File under guilty pleasure.”
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The novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods – retold from the point of view of the world’s ultimate trickster, Loki. It tells the story of Loki’s recruitment from the underworld of Chaos, his many exploits on behalf of his one-eyed master, Odin, through to his eventual betrayal of the gods and the fall of Asgard itself.
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Starborn
Cibola Burn
Goblins
Fool’s Quest: Part One
Lucy Hounsom
James S. A. Corey
Charles Grant
Robin Hobb
Death and destruction will bar her way…
The exhilarating fourth novel in the bestselling Expanse series, following the Hugonominated Abaddon’s Gate.
The first title in the X-Files audiobook series inspired by the classic and much-loved television series.
“Hobb is one of the great modern fantasy writers.”
The rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity’s home planets. James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail. And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great civilisation which once stood here is gone. And that something killed them.
Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI – the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, form rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. These are the cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what’s really out there… and panics.
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On the day Kyndra comes of age, she accidentally disrupts an ancient ceremony. So when an unnatural storm targets her superstitious community, Kyndra is blamed. She fears for her life until two strangers save her, wielding powers not seen for an age. Together, they flee to the hidden citadel of Naris, where Kyndra will be tested to unlock her own magic. If she survives the ordeal, she’ll discover a force greater than she could ever have imagined. “ Evocative, original world-building and a wonderfully feisty heroine: top marks to Lucy Hounsom.”
“ Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be.”
KAREN MILLER
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Betrayed by his own people, the Fool has made his way back to the Six Duchies. But as Fitz attempts to heal his old friend in Buckkeep Castle, his young daughter Bee is abducted from Withywoods by pale and mysterious raiders. Fitz must find a way to rescue his beloved Bee. Can he bear to take up the tools of his old trade again, even to avenge his dearest friend and save his child? This is part 1 of the second book in the Fitz and the Fool series. “ In today’s crowded fantasy market Robin Hobb’s books are like diamonds in a sea of zircons.”
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
“ What a mix: immersive world-building, secret societies, a flawed and hugely likeable protagonist, and awesome magic. There’s a lot to like here, but be warned, this book will seriously damage your sleep.”
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
“ A little slice of heaven.” GUARDIAN
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Explore the languages of the World Half A War
Time’s Eye
A Cold Silence
Joe Abercrombie
Arthur C. Clarke
Alison Littlewood
A classic coming-of-age tale set in a vivid and richly-imagined world from Sunday Times bestselling author, Joe Abercrombie.
Real power is beyond human control, and as two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting.
A chilling horror novel, the follow up to the Richard & Judy Book Club pick, A Cold Season.
Princess Skara has been left with only words. She must conquer her fears and sharpen her wits to a lethal edge if she is to reclaim her birth right. The deep-cunning Father Yarvi has made allies of old foes and stitched together an uneasy peace. But now the ruthless Grandmother Wexen has raised the greatest army since the elves made war on God. And when Mother War spreads her iron wings, she may cast the whole Shattered Sea into darkness…
Firstborn are unknown to humankind – until they act. In an instant, Earth’s timeline is carved up and reassembled into a patchwork for different eras, from prehistory to the year 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these devices responsible for creating the rifts in time? Are they cameras? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still?
“ This is my favourite Abercrombie book yet.” “ Wonderfully entertaining […] You won’t set the book down either to eat or sleep or work if you can help it.”
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
“ The action is frenetic, the characters are as sharp as the blades they wield, and the humour is biting. It’s sure to garner him a whole new legion of fans.”
Ben Cassidy has strict instructions from his mother Cass: he must never go back to Darnshaw, his childhood home. Then an old friend dies unexpectedly and he breaks his promise to attend her funeral. But Jessica died because of a game, Acheron. It promises to grant your deepest desire – for a price. Friendship. A finger. A murder. Your soul. Acheron – would you?
Plus, download the free App for learning on the go!
“ An itchy tension-cranker of parental paranoia.” SFX ON A COLD SEASON
“ This is a very spooky story […] Disturbing in a Midsomer Murders kind of way.” DAILY EXPRESS ON A COLD SEASON
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“ By the end, when two of history’s most ambitious conquerors meet, we are […] thoroughly invested in the characters.”
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Time Works
Pier Pressure
Steve Lyons
Robert Ross
The TARDIS lands in between times, in a time where this is no time. A time in which nothing can possibly be. But something is… The Doctor, Charley and C’rizz are rats in the wheelwork, a threat to the schedule of a world where timing is everything. And the seconds are counting down to a fateful future that has already happened. Unless they can beat the clock. Tick, tock.
Brighton, Sussex; 1936. “Ere, listen listen, I’ve got one for you. There once was this bloke, you see. Good-looking sort of chap. Lovely, brightly coloured coat. Quality gear. But his name wasn’t Miller. Oh no, this bloke called himself the Doctor. Doctor who you ask? And may well you. Don’t know me self. No one ever knew. Funny that. Mind you, them were dark days. No one was laughing. Just like the entire town was cursed it was. Cursed by something not of this world…”
Doctor Who A new Standing Order Plan for 2015-16. Official BBC full-cast dramas, with music and sound effects in stereo, featuring former doctors including Colin Baker, Peter Davison and Paul McGann.
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Night Thoughts
Full Fathom Five
Sympathy for the Devil
Auld Mortality
Edward Young
David Bishop
Johnathan Clements
Marc Platt
A remote Scottish mansion. Five bickering academics are haunted by ghosts from their past. Reluctantly they offer shelter to the Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex. Ace tries to befriend the young housemaid, Sue. Sue knows secrets. She knows why the academics have assembled here, and she knows why they are all so afraid. But Sue’s lips are sealed, preferring to communicate through her disturbing toy, Happy the Rabbit. And then the killing begins.
The Deep-sea Energy Exploration Project was apparently destroyed by dirty bombs in 2039 AD, turning the surrounding sea bed into a radioactive tomb. Rumours suggest the DEEP was conducting illegal, unethical experiments. In 2066 the Doctor discovers the research centre remains intact. The Doctor is determined to be the first to uncover and confront the secrets of the DEEP.
What if… the Doctor had not been UNIT’s scientific advisor?
What if… the Doctor and Susan had never left Gallifrey?
On the eve of the Handover, an advanced Chinese stealth bomber crashes in the hills above Hong Kong. The discredited UNIT has just 24 hours to steal the technology, rescue the passenger and flee to international waters. Down by the harbour, there’s big trouble in Little England – an ancient evil is stirring in a place of peace. The Doctor finds a world on the brink of terror. A world that has lived without him for years. A world that is frighteningly like our own…
In a marble mausoleum, deep in the cisterns beneath the Capitol, Gallifrey’s favourite author faces his ultimate destiny. Who is the woman who claims to be his granddaughter? Who is the sepulchral figure in robes of night? Which path should Hannibal’s army take to Rome? And on a snowy mountain high in the Alps, the Doctor remembers the ultimate question: What if he and Susan had never left Gallifrey?
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Doctor Who
Something Inside
The Kingmaker
The Settling
The Hollows of Time
Trevor Baxendale
Nev Fountain
Simon Guerrier
Christopher H. Bidmead
“WARNING: YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER THE CUBE. ALL FORMS OF TELEPATHY ARE PROHIBITED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TELEPORTATION UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. PSYCHIC POWERS WILL BE FORCIBLY REMOVED (MENTAL SURGERY IS COMPULSORY).
Not surprisingly the Doctor becomes mixed up with Richard the Third himself, as he tries to unravel the perplexing problem of who exactly killed the Princes in the Tower. Peri and Erimem also encounter a suspicious time traveller. Someone who shouldn’t really be there at all. So who did murder the Princes in the Tower? Perhaps it’s best not to ask a question like that. You might not like the answer…
Note to Sir Arthur Aston, governor of the town of Drogheda, 10 September 1649. “Sir, having brought the army belonging to the Parliament of England before this place, to reduce it to obedience, to the end effusion of blood may be prevented, I thought fit to summon you to deliver the same into my hands to their use. If this be refused, you will have no cause to blame me. I expect your answer and rest your servant. O. Cromwell.”
The Doctor and Peri have been on holiday, visiting old friend Reverend Foxwell in the sleepy English village of Hollowdean. But why are their memories so hazy? Piecing together events they recall a mysterious chauffeur, who is not what he seems, and many of the locals are devoted to a leader known as ‘Professor Stream’. But who is Stream? And what lies within the Hollows of Time? The Doctor will discover that not every question has a definitive answer…
CAUTION: YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS. YOU HAVE NO POWERS. YOU HAVE NO DEFENCE. YOU ARE NOW INSIDE THE CUBE.”
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Paradise 5
Point of Entry
The Nowhere Place
The Reaping
P. J. Hammond
Marc Platt
Nicholas Briggs
Joseph Lidster
The Doctor and Peri visit the planet Targos Delta to check in on old friend Professor Albrecht Thompson, only to discover that he has vanished. He was last sighted taking a shuttle to the holiday resort of Paradise 5, then never seen again. The Doctor’s curiosity is piqued, they must investigate. Peri will go undercover on Paradise 5, while the Doctor hides in the shadows. Because paradise holds a terrible secret beneath the white marble and golden trimmings. The mute Cherubs have a story to tell.
The 16th Century. Playwright Kit Marlowe is attempting to write Doctor Faustus when a darkness descends on his life, in the cadaverous form of a Spaniard called Velez. After a near-disastrous collision with an asteroid in space, the TARDIS makes an emergency landing in Elizabethan England. These two events are connected. The Omnim are ready. And the point of entry approaches…
2197. The fighter-carrier Valiant has just crossed Pluto’s orbital path. Its captain is expecting trouble from alien raiders. She is not expecting the Doctor and Evelyn.
On the morning of 9 May 1984, Peri woke up. She was expecting to spend the day relaxing in Lanzarote and, that evening, leave her mother and stepfather to go travelling with some guys she’d only just met. But things don’t always go as expected as her friends and family discover when, four months later, she returns home having travelled further than anyone could have imagined.
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1952. The Turret Class locomotive Ivy Lee is hurtling through the night. On board, there should only be two passengers: both of them carrying documents from the War Office. But now, there are also two unexpected visitors on the train. The Doctor and Evelyn have arrived and ‘Time’s End’ is approaching.
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Red
The Evil One
Destroy the Infinite
Last of the Colophon
Stewart Sheargold
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs
Jonathan Morris
Subject [error] Melanie Bush, designated companion of subject 3999. Subject [error] is not chipped and is a threat. Her ability to harm has not been checked, compromising the continued security programming of this Whitenoise system. She must be inhibited.
The TARDIS lands in the cargo hold of luxury space cruiser the Moray Rose. The crew and passengers are missing. The agents of Inter-Galaxy Insurance are determined to find out what’s happened and the shadowy Interplanetary Police Inspector Efendi is showing a very particular interest.
The colony planet Delafoss is occupied by the army of a rapacious alien force known only as the Eminence. The Doctor and Leela arrive expecting to find Earth’s most successful, unspoiled colony. Instead, they are confronted by a planet choked by industrialisation. For the first time in his life, the Doctor confronts the Eminence… and things will never be quite the same again.
The planet Colophos is a dead world. When the Doctor and Leela land, joined by the crew of the Oligarch survey ship, it’s not long before they receive a communication from one of the ruins. A communication from Astaroth Morax, the last of the Colophon. But is he really as powerless as he seems? What became of the rest of his race – and why didn’t he die with them? Entering his lair, the Doctor uncovers a terrifying secret…
Subject 3999 the Doctor. Subject has committed homicide. This subject now in constant redline. His propensity for violence remains unchecked. Analysis suggests synchronisation with the killer. The Doctor will attempt to kill again. He must be stopped.
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Caught up in all this, the Doctor and Leela find themselves facing a horde of metal mantis-like aliens. But throughout it all, Leela is haunted by terrible nightmares and the dawning realization that everything she knows about her life is a lie.
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Spy Dog: Stormchaser
The Big Mog Collection
Andrew Cope
Judith Kerr
The Spy Dog series is the winner of the Richard and Judy 7+ developing reader category and the Red House Children’s Book Award.
A classic collection, available for the first time as an eAudiobook, read by Andrew Sachs and Geraldine McEwan.
It’s raining chickens! An unusual storm cloud has been hovering over Brickfield town and LARA knows that something isn’t quite right about it – it smells, sort of… chicken-y. The people of Brickfield are becoming strangely grumpy so LARA, Spy Dog extraordinaire, must investigate. If the town doesn’t see sunshine soon the consequences could be dogastrophic!
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“ An imaginative, creative feast!”
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A compilation of five Mog stories, a must-have for all fans of Judith Kerr’s feline heroine. Mog goes to the vet, forgets about her cat flap, has her peaceful day shattered by a baby, plus many more moggy adventures, in these unforgettable and charming stories.
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The Bubblegum Tree
Completely Cassidy: Star Reporter
The Sound of Whales
The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable
Alexander McCall Smith
Tamsyn Murray
Kerr Thomson
Dan Gutman
Billy, Nicola and Mr Gopal are off to India in a flying boat to solve a baffling mystery!
The hilarious follow up to Completely Cassidy: Accidental Genius that will have you crying with laughter!
“He couldn’t stop thinking there was someone out there among the waves, crying for help and disappearing under the black water.”
Cassidy is determined to discover a hidden talent to help her stand out from the crowd. So when her petition to let girls wear trousers gets her noticed by the editor of the school mag, she’s thrilled. Could she be a star reporter? But her plans go pear-shaped when her investigations mysteriously end up online. Who’s leaking her top-secret gossip?
Three children are spending their summer on a wild Scottish island. Fraser is desperate for adventure, Hayley is fed up, while Dunny spends his days staring out to sea. But everything changes with the discovery of two bodies on the beach: a whale and a man. Fraser and Hayley see a mystery – adventure to be solved, but Dunny is inconsolable. And in the end, it will take someone who listens to the sea to put it right.
The most exciting road trip in history begins! Twelve year old twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald embark on an action packed family vacation.
The gum that comes from the wonderful bubblegum trees that grow in the Indian jungle has not been delivered for two months. Without this secret ingredient, there’ll be no more Gopal’s Best Pink Bubblegum and even more importantly, no more Bubblegummies – the people who live in the trees and harvest the gum. It’s not an easy mystery to solve – and soon the friends are involved in a bungee-jumping, tiger-trouncing, woodcutter-walloping, bubblegumblowing adventure! Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and most popular authors. He has written novels for adults and children alike.
“ A total cringe-fest and total fun!”
Kerr Thomson was the winner of the Times & Chicken House Children’s Fiction Award 2014.
KAREN McCOMBIE
“ For fans of Wimpy Kid, Cathy Cassidy and books of that ilk, this is a story that readers will enjoy very much […] a great tale for the pre-teen market.”
Coke and Pepsi McDonald didn’t want to jump off a cliff. They didn’t want to get hit by poisoned darts from blowguns either. And they certainly didn’t want to get locked in their burning school and thrown into a pit at the top of a sand dune. One thing’s for sure, it’ll be easy for Coke and Pep to write their essays on ‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation.’ Dan Gutman is the author of the bestselling Genius Files series, as well as the internationally bestselling My Weird School series.
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A Surprise for Princess Ellie
Wilf the Mighty Worrier Battles a Pirate
Compton Valance: Super F.A.R.T.s versus the Master of Time
Shrunk! Ghosts on Board
Diana Kimpton
Georgia Pritchett
Matt Brown
Fleur Hitchcock
Princess Ellie is pony-mad!
Narrated by Great British Bake Off presenter Mel Giedroyc!
She always wants to sneak off to the stables – and especially when she realises something’s wrong with her pony, Starlight. But Meg the groom won’t tell her what it is. To take her mind off it, Ellie goes for a ride on the beach. But then disaster strikes and she’s stuck! How will she get back to her beloved Starlight? “ Brilliantly addictive […] An irresistible blend of glitz, glamour, horses and adventure.” BLACKPOOL GAZETTE
“ A heady cocktail of princesses, horses and mystery is enough to make any girl giddy.”
Things Wilf was worried about before: Lion dentists, Creepy Crawlies wearing wigs, Marmite. Things Wilf is worried about now: The most evil man in the world, Anyone called Alan, Alan deciding to become a pirate and destroy the world. Alan is Wilf’s self-styled evil lunatic next-door-neighbour. He has a grumpy robot sidekick and a silent right-hand-dog. But when Alan decides that pirating is an excellent way to destroy the world, Wilf knows he will have to overcome his fear of parrots to stop him… “ A total delight of a, what I call, book.”
BBC PARENTING
MIRANDA HART
It’s time for Compton Valance to show evil what he’s made of… Fresh from saving the universe, Compton and Bryan are whisked off to the future to become trainee Time Crime Agents. But when a notorious criminal mastermind escapes from a maximum security prison and kidnaps Bryan, Compton must race against time to save his best friend – and the world – from evil… using only a slimy sandwich! “ A book bulging with […] quirky narrative styles, hilarious bullet points, laugh-out-loud jokes and funny, clever plots and twists. This is a story just asking to be read […] again and again and again.”
SUNDAY TIMES ON SHRUNK!
“ Utterly bonkers, uniquely British and completely loveable, it’s the zaniest book I’ve read all year.” DAILY MAIL ON SHRUNK!
“ Fun for newly developing or reluctant readers and everyone else as well.”
JACQUELINE WILSON
Victor, the ghost, is desperate to get off dreary Black Hall Island, so he steals a ride on an unsuspecting tourist boat back to Bywater-by-Sea. Two other ghosts – the terribly vain Flora Rose and the lonely but friendly Billy – know he is up to no good, so they follow him. While Tom is distracted, trying to stop a corporation from building a theme park over his Field Craft hut, Victor sees his opportunity to take over the world. “ Will make its readers laugh out loud.”
LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
“ A lively, funny story.”
Something spooky is happening in Bywater-by-Sea…
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Mischief at Midnight
Listen to the Moon
The Big Wish
The Silver Dream
Esme Kerr
Michael Morpurgo
Brandon Robshaw
Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
The thrilling follow up to The Glass Bird Girl, perfect for fans of Enid Blyton.
The stunning World War One novel from Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller and multi-million-copy bestseller.
If you had a million wishes, what would you do with them?
Sequel to the bestseller Interworld by awardwinning writers Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves.
There’s a new girl in class at Knights Haddon, and she isn’t like anyone the other girls have ever met before. Janet is cool and confident, so Edie is thrilled when they become friends and when her friendship with Anastasia becomes rocky, Janet is there for her. But when mischief begins to unfold, Edie begins to think Janet may not be all she seems and suddenly events take a dangerous turn.
May, 1915: Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies – injured, thirsty and lost, with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word – Lucy. Where has she come from? Is she a mermaid, the victim of a German U-boat, or even – as some islanders suggest – a German spy?
Brandon Robshaw has written several books for children. He sings in a choir, and plays the piano and ukulele (not very well).
“ A belter of a book that rivals War Horse in its cinematic storytelling.”
“ Sensitively written, this is a cut above most fiction for girls of nine-plus.” AMANDA CRAIG
DAILY TELEGRAPH
“ With plenty of twists and turns, this is a gripping adventure story, which will keep readers turning the pages right until the satisfying conclusion.”
Eleven-year-old Sam has a problem. Well, quite a few problems. So when he sees a shooting star, he naturally wishes on it – for a million wishes. Of course, he doesn’t expect the wish to come true, but somehow it does… But then he discovers that changing stuff has consequences he hadn’t anticipated. And what’s the point of doing anything, if you can just wish for it and make it happen?
After mastering the ability to walk between dimensions, Joey helped save the Altiverse from destruction. But rival powers of magic and science are still out there, seeking to control all worlds. InterWorld’s peacekeeping mission is far from finished. And when a stranger follows Joey back to BaseTown things get even more complicated. No one knows who she is or where she’s from and, more importantly, why she knows so much about InterWorld. Dangerous times lie ahead… “ A fast-paced compulsively readable tale.” BOOKLIST, ON INTERWORLD
“ Michael Morpurgo writes brilliantly about war and animals, conveying the big emotions without preaching.”
“ A mind-stretching ride.”
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The Strawberry Sisters: Perfectly Ella
The Magic Potions Shop: Chitty Chitty Bang The Young Apprentice Bang Flies Again
The Giant Rumble: Wrestling Trolls: Match Three
Candy Harper
Abie Longstaff
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Jim Eldridge
Meet the Strawberry Sisters!
The Magic Faraway Tree meets Worst Witch – a magical young fiction series, perfect for young listeners.
The first-ever sequel to Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, written by bestselling author Frank Cottrell Boyce and endorsed by the Fleming estate.
The third slam-down book in the hilarious Wrestling Trolls series.
Along with her sisters and one very tired Mum who’s struggling to keep it all together, Ella’s small home is crammed with almost-finished homework, nearly-clean jumpers and a vampire bunny called Buttercup. With so much going on, life can sometimes feel totally crazy but the Strawberry sisters have a secret weapon against the craziness of the world they live in, each other. “ A touching story about sisters and friendships. Gentle and warm and funny.”
In the Kingdom of Arthwen, there was a very unusual shop. It wasn’t on the high street, it was deep in the forest. It wasn’t in a building, it was inside a tree. It didn’t sell food, or clothes, or toys – this shop sold potions. Tibben wants to be the Potions Master one day, just like Grandpa, but for now he is an Apprentice and there’s a lot to learn! From the creator of the bestselling Fairytale Hairdresser series, Abie Longstaff, this story is perfect for engaging younger children.
JACQUELINE WILSON
Abie Longstaff is the eldest of six children. She now lives in North London with her family and a very pesky cocker spaniel who chews the post.
When the Tooting family find an abandoned engine and fit it to their campervan, they have no idea of the adventure that lies ahead. Their campervan now has a mind of her own! It’s not long before they’re hurtling along as Chitty tracks down her long-lost bodywork. But there are sinister forces at work too. When it comes to a car as special as Chitty, everybody wants a piece of her… “ Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again is already being dubbed truly scrumptious by the original author’s family.” DAILY MAIL
Waldo’s Wrestling Trolls are back, and they’re ready to rumble! But the villainous Lord Veto has other plans. Challenged to a Giant Rumble but suffering from a shortfall of wrestlers, Jack and his friends set out to find more participants for their great battle. But what starts as a fun-filled road trip in their trusty caravan, soon becomes an action-packed adventure filled with dangers such as farting Billy Goats, poisonous spiders and evil servants of the wicked King Nugget. Jim Eldridge is an award-winning writer, with over 250 TV and 250 BBC Radio 4 scripts to his name. He has had 79 books published which have sold over 3 million copies. “ Original, funny, action packed and just plain Troll-tastic!”
“ [This] sequel to kids’ favourite Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is set to fly off the shelves.”
MO O’HARA
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Precious and the Zebra Necklace
Year Two Forever and Ever
Dara Palmer’s Major Drama
Pinocchio
Alexander McCall Smith
Lauren Pearson
Emma Shevah
Michael Morpurgo
A charming adventure for children with Precious, star of Alexander McCall Smith’s bestselling No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
Welcome to Crabtree school – the school that’s too good to leave!
Being different is sometimes hard – especially if you believe that you have an astonishing Hollywood-bound talent!
Pinocchio as you’ve never seen him before: telling his own story through the master storyteller and award-winning author, Michael Morpurgo.
Well before Precious Ramotswe founded her Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency, as an eight-year-old girl she was already solving mysteries. Here, in this delightful, new, enchanting tale for children, we see how the young Precious became the crafty and intuitive private investigator we all know and love! Find out as Alexander McCall Smith tells the story of in another adventure featuring Precious Ramotswe. Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and most popular authors. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency has sold over twenty-five million copies worldwide.
Ava Alexandra Hughes is 7 Years, 4 months and 15 days old. She’s looking forward to her first day of Year 3 at Crabtree School for Girls. But there is a serious problem: Crabtree School is just too good and last year’s Year 6 are refusing to leave! Now those pesky eleven-year-olds are clogging up the whole school, and Ava is going to be stuck in Year 2 forever and ever! Lauren Pearson is a children’s book agent at Curtis Brown. This is the first in a great new series about Crabtree School!
Meet eleven-year-old Dara Palmer. She loves dancing and dreams of being a world-famous actress – which means she has to get the main part in the school play. When she doesn’t get any part at all, Dara begins to wonder whether it’s because of her looks rather than her acting skills. But Dara has big ideas – and is determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight. “ A funny and heartwarming novel about modern-day families.” LOVEREADING4KIDS ON DREAM ON AMBER
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“ This classic puppet story has tended to be a little, well, wooden in the telling, but Morpurgo has made it dance.” THE TIMES
“ Emma Shevah has created a wonderfully modern voice that manages to perfectly balance a sensitive subject with light and laughter.”
“ A charming read, even for those who think they already know the story of Pinocchio inside out.”
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“Now – there’s no point in pretending here – I was, and still am deep down, a puppet. Everyone knows Pinocchio is a puppet. I reckon I must be just about the most famous puppet the world has ever known. But the truth is I’m not just a puppet, I’m more than just bits of wood and string. I’m me. So I thought it was about time that I, Pinocchio, told you my story…”
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The Girl in the Spider’s Web
Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection
Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
Stephan Pastis
Brandon Sanderson
The fourth book in this bestselling series sees Timmy Failure take to the road – with the usual disastrous consequences!
In the third book of this action-packed adventure series, Alcatraz must defeat the most evil Evil Librarian of them all – his mother!
Shenanigans abound as Timmy Failure finds himself on a road trip with none other than notorious criminal Molly Moskins. Travelling halfway across the country to help your mother’s boyfriend settle into his new job is inconvenient for any detective. If he is to arrest Corrina Corrina and solve the YIP YAP case, Timmy, his sidekick polar bear Total, and Molly Moskins must go on the run! The first book in the Timmy Failure series was a Booktrust Best Book Awards winner and listed as one of 100 Modern Children’s Classics by The Sunday Times.
Alcatraz Smedry has made it to the Free Kingdoms. Unfortunately, so have the evil Librarians – including his mother… Now all Alcatraz has to do is find a traitor among the Knights of Crystallia, try to be friends with his very unfriendly father, save one of the last bastions of the Free Kingdoms from the enemy, and get his friend Bastille reinstated as a real knight. No pressure! “ Like Lemony Snicket and superhero comics rolled into one…” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“ Timmy Failure is a winner!” JEFF KINNEY, AUTHOR OF DIARY OF A WIMPY KID
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Ramon de Ocampo Thriller 6.75 hours 9781510019232
The most talked about novel of 2015 – the girl with the dragon tattoo is back! Available now on OneClickdigital. See page 16
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