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Dear Librarian, Welcome to our new brochure. Here you’ll find the best in fiction and non-fiction in our Clipper, Lamplight and Center Point westerns plans.
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We’re thrilled to introduce two hugely popular saga authors to our Lamplight imprint; Hide Her Name is a stunning novel of scandal and community from bestselling author Nadine Dorries, and The Throwaway Children by Diney Costeloe is a gritty and heartrending tale of two sisters sent from England to an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of WWII. Lamplight also features massive blockbusters from Jack Higgins and Bernard Cornwell. Clipper brings you some of the biggest names in crime fiction today, with new titles from Peter James, James Patterson, Stuart MacBride and Tim Weaver. Number one bestseller Tony Parsons also returns with The Slaughter Man, the second title in his electrifying DC Max Wolfe series.
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With inspirational memoirs H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald and Lynda Bellingham’s There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You, and the welcome return of Man Booker Prize winning authors Margaret Atwood and Peter Carey with their new novels The Heart Goes Last and Amnesia, there’s something to cater to all tastes. Enjoy the new brochure and please get in touch with your feedback!
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Clipper Large Print Fiction Titles October – December 2015
A Twist of the Knife Peter James
The Slaughter Man Tony Parsons
Broken Homes Ben Aaronovitch
978 1 51000 964 6 – 656pp
978 1 51000 965 3 – 304pp
978 1 51000 968 4 – 416pp
Peter James’ first novel-length collection of short ‘shocker’ stories.
By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag.
The bestselling PC Peter Grant series returns with something dark south of the river...
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n New Year’s Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London; their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon is a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered, leading Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard’s Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as ‘The Slaughter Man’. Can he really be back in the game? All Max knows is that he needs to find the missing child and stop the killer before he destroys another innocent family – or finds his way to his own front door…
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ith each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins. From a woman intent on bizarre revenge, to a restaurant critic with a morbid fear of the number thirteen. From a man arranging a life-changing assignation, to a couple heading for a disaster-filled vacation. In this collection of short stories, Peter 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.
Praise for the author: ‘Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business.’ KARIN SLAUGHTER ‘James just gets better and better and deserves the success he has achieved with this first-class series.’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY on Want You Dead
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‘I’ve long been a fan of Tony Parsons’s writing […] and I’m really enjoying his genre move into crime fiction. This is brilliant stuff!’ PETER JAMES ‘Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic.’ LEE CHILD on The Murder Bag 4
mutilated body in Crawley. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil; an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common serial killer? Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his case-load. And then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle… Is there a connection? And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River?
‘For all the murder and mayhem, this is a darkly comic read with characters you can’t help but like’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ‘The books deliver a charming, witty and exciting romp through a magical world not all that far from our own’ INDEPENDENT
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The Secret of Magic Deborah Johnson
Sister Noon Karen Joy Fowler
A Quiet Flame Philip Kerr
978 1 51000 975 2 – 464pp
978 1 51000 970 7 – 384pp
978 1 51000 966 0 – 544pp
‘If you liked The Help, you’ll love this one!’ ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Sister Noon is the story of Lizzie Hayes, whose dull life is about to be shaken up by a mysterious and powerful woman.
946, New York: Reggie Robichard is a rarity - a young civil rights lawyer. Reggie stumbles across a letter asking for the investigation into a young black soldier whose body has been found floating in the river in Mississippi. Justice is not the only draw to this case. The letter is signed by the reclusive M. P. Calhoun, author of one of the most banned books in the country about the friendship between three children, black and white, a magical forest and a murder. But once down in Mississippi, Reggie finds herself walking directly into M. P. Calhoun’s book, a place where more than one type of justice exists.
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an Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions - home to a respectable middle class, but with the Wild West lingering in the imagination... Lizzie Hayes, a middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies’ Relief and Protection Society, known as the ‘Brown Ark.’ Lizzie is waiting for a spark that will liberate her from convention. When the wealthy, ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark with an orphan, Lizzie is drawn to them. It is the beautiful Mrs Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her mysterious past and rumoured voodoo practise, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie’s rebellious nature.
‘A powerful portrait of the Deep South in the year before the civil rights movement and of a society in which black and white lead lives that are segregated yet deeply intertwined.’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected.’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Written with such charm that it is a beguiling read. [… ] A wonderful and clever read.’ THE LADY
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‘Fowler has a voice like no other, lyrical, shrewd and addictive, with a quiet deadpan humour that underlies almost every sentence.’ NEWSDAY 5
This novel asks some highly provocative questions about the true extent of Argentina’s Nazi collaboration and anti-semitism under the Peróns.
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osing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal, Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie’s final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve. Circumstances lead the chief of police in Buenos Aires to suppose that the murderer may be one of several thousand ex Nazis who have fetched up in Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who better than Bernie Gunther to help him track that murderer down?
‘Brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of post-war period in one of the most gripping and accomplished detective novels published this year.’ THE SUNDAY TIMES
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Closed for Winter Jørn Lier Horst
The Deadliest Sin The Medieval Murderers
The Atlantis World A. G. Riddle
978 1 51000 973 8 – 336pp
978 1 51000 971 4 – 608pp
978 1 51000 969 1 – 560pp
Shortlisted for The Petrona Prize, Closed for Winter is the next tale in the outstanding William Wisting mysteries.
The 10th instalment in The Medieval Murderers series.
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he summer cottages are closed and peace is settling over the coast of Vestfold, but the autumn fog conceals evil deeds… Ove Bakkerud is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before closing for winter but when the tourists leave, less welcome visitors arrive. Bakkerud’s cottage is ransacked by burglars and next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting has witnessed grotesque murders before, but the desperation he sees in this latest murder is something new and his unease does not diminish when they discover several more corpses on the deserted archipelago…
‘Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers.’ THE TIMES ‘Closed for Winter is a piece of quality craftsmanship […] bringing together an unexpectedly windy plot, highly intelligent characterizations and a delectably subtle noir mood.’ EDINBURGH BOOK REVIEW
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348: Tales begin arriving in England of poisonous clouds fast approaching which have overwhelmed whole countries, with scarcely a human being left. While some pray and live more devoutly, others vow to enjoy their remaining days on earth by drinking and gambling. And then there are those who hope that God’s wrath might be averted by going on a pilgrimage. But if God was permitting this, then it surely could only be because they had committed terrible sins? So when a group of pilgrims are forced to seek shelter at an inn, they tell their stories of sin, so that it might emerge which one is the best, and therefore, the worst…
“The various excellent crime writers each weave a clever and inventive tale around a central theme.” GOOD BOOK GUIDE “Cleverly written and exuding an authentic atmosphere... an enchanting blend of medieval mystery and murder.” RENAISSANCE MAGAZINE 6
The blockbusting final instalment in the Origin Mystery trilogy.
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0,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Now the next stage of human evolution is beginning. Will we survive this time? Geneticist Kate Warner and counter-terrorism agent David Vale have prevented a fierce plague from wiping out humanity - but the struggle to survive is far from over. The Atlantis World stretches deep into space and time, harbouring an enemy greater than anyone had imagined. Kate and David must race through galaxies, past space stations and into the past of a mysterious culture whose secrets could save humanity in its darkest hour.
The Origin Mystery trilogy has sold a million copies in the US and is being translated into 18 different languages, as well as being in development for a major motion picture.
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Race to Death Leigh Russell
The Winter War Philip Teir
My Real Children Jo Walton
978 1 51000 967 7 – 448pp
978 1 51000 974 5 –384pp
978 1 51000 972 1 – 448pp
The second novel in the new DI Ian Peterson series, from bestselling author Leigh Russell. “Moments before, he had been enjoying a day out at the races. Now he could be dying…. As he fell a loud wind roared past his ears, indistinguishable from the roar of the crowd. The race was over.” A man plummets to his death during the York Races. Suicide or murder? Newly-promoted DI Ian Peterson is plunged into a complex and high-profile case and as the body count increases, the pressure mounts for his team to solve the crimes quickly. But the killer is following the investigation far more keenly than Ian realises and time is running out as the case suddenly gets a lot closer to home...
‘A stylish top-of-the-line crime tale.’ JEFFREY DEAVER ‘Leigh Russell is one to watch.’ LEE CHILD
Funny, sharp, and brilliantly truthful, Teir’s debut has the feel of a big, contemporary, humane American novel, but with a distinctly Scandinavian edge.
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n the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middleclass Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki. But look closer and the cracks start to show. As he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max’s life begin to dissolve. He hasn’t produced any work of note for decades and his wife no longer loves him. 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…
‘Teir offers a similarly sardonic yet sympathetic critique of a multi-generational family […] remarkable eye for human behaviour […] an intelligent debut.’ TELEGRAPH ‘Cool yet compassionate […] bitingly funny […] engrossing.’ THE LADY
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The day Mark called, Patricia Cowan’s world split in two: what if you could remember two versions of your life?
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t is 2015 and Patricia Cowan is very old. ‘Confused today’ read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. Her childhood and her years at Oxford during the Second World War – those things are solid in her memory. Then comes a phone call… Her memory splits in two. She was Trish, a housewife and mother of four. She was Pat, a successful travel writer and mother of three. She remembers living her life as both women, so very clearly. Which memory is real – or are both just tricks of time and light?
‘Good novels show us a character’s destiny as an expression of who they fundamentally are. What most novels do only once, My Real Children does twice.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ‘Such a wise book, about sweetness in sorrow, without any sentiment... It’s easy to write a sad book, but this one uplifts and sweetens even as it tears your heart to pieces.’ COREY DOCTOROW
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There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You Lynda Bellingham 978 1 51001 215 8 – 304pp
The way Lynda tells her life story will serve as a great inspiration.
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aving been told that she only has a matter of months left to live and writing this in what will sadly be her final days, There’s Something I’ve Been Dying To Tell You is a brave and brutally honest memoir. Woven into this very moving and brave story are extraordinary, colourful tales of her acting and family life that will enlighten and entertain as well as the journey that Lynda has taken to find the family of her birth father having already suffered heartache in her search for her birth mother. Lynda Bellingham is a tremendously gifted storyteller with a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter.
‘I laughed and I cried. The strength shines through in the whole book and the honesty. A fantastic woman.’ COLEEN NOLAN ‘The actress bore no bones about sharing some of the most intimate details about her bowel cancer, and did so with admirable honesty.’ INDEPDENDENT
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Amnesia Peter Carey
The Fifth Gospel Ian Caldwell
978 1 51001 217 2 – 320pp
978 1 51001 220 2 – 592pp
Cyber underworld of radicals and hackers collide with international power politics, making for an incredible new novel from the twice Man Booker Prize-winner, Peter Carey.
A lost gospel, a relic, and a dying pope’s final wish lead to a quest to untangle Christianity’s biggest mystery.
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hen Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia’s prison system, allowing hundreds of asylum seekers to walk free, she also let the cat out of the bag. The Americans ran the prisons, like so many parts of her country, and so the doors of some 5000 American places of incarceration also opened. Both countries’ secrets threatened to pour out. Was this a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore - known to himself as ‘Australia’s last serving left wing journalist’ - has no doubt. Felix is going to write Gaby’s biography, to save her, and himself, and maybe his country.
004: As Pope John Paul II’s reign enters its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it opens, its curator is murdered. The same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator’s research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with his five-year-old son. When the police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep his family safe, undertakes his own investigation. To find the killer he must reconstruct the dead curator’s secret: what the four Christian gospels - and a little-known, fifth gospel, reveal about the Church’s most controversial holy relic.
‘Exhilarating, the first Australian comedy-conspiracycyber thriller. It even has a viral twist at the end. As I said, Carey can do anything.’ INDEPENDENT
‘The Fifth Gospel is nothing short of groundbreaking; a literary feast wrapped around an intriguing murder mystery.’ NELSON DEMILLE
‘Often rumbustiously funny, it has an almost Dickensian zest for colourful characters... Metaphorical vitality pulses through Carey’s prose.’ THE SUNDAY TIMES
‘Ian Caldwell has managed to turn Church history, politics and biblical scholarship into an erudite yet propulsive page-turning thriller.’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
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Jimfish Christopher Hope
A Hard Woman To Kill Alex Howard
Post Mortem Kate London
978 1 51001 230 1 – 176pp
978 1 51001 228 8 – 368pp
978 1 51001 223 3 – 384pp
Part fable, part fierce commentary on the politics of power, this work is the culmination of a lifetime’s writing and thinking.
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n the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA. The Sergeant whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, peers at the boy before he gives his verdict… “If he’s white he is not the right sort of white. But if he’s black, who can say? I’ll give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish. Because he’s a real fish out of water, this one is.” So begins the odyssey of Jimfish. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond the borders of South Africa to the wider world.
‘Breathtaking to the very end.’ GUARDIAN ‘Hope’s latest offering is an enticing one, beautifully written... It draws us in and keeps us guessing.’ IRISH EXAMINER
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The next anticipated instalment in the DI Hanlon series, from Alex Howard.
This is a complex, intelligent, thrilling crime novel by an author who has walked the beat.
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“She could not escape the horror of it: falling unstoppably, irretrievably until the hard concrete reaches up. That last glimpse of them at the edge.” 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 is a five year old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths. Within hours, Lizzie Griffiths 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.
n Chechnya, an incorruptible security officer is assassinated and in Berlin, a small child grieves for his father. In the East an obese psychopath sets his feet on the first rungs of his criminal career. A frightened Russian woman seeks DCI Hanlon’s help in finding her missing husband. Hanlon’s not keen on the case. Until she hears a name she recognises only too well. Arkady Belanov, a sadistic pimp and owner of an exclusive brothel in Oxford is involved. When DI Enver Demirel, her former partner and friend, disappears, Hanlon is forced into an uneasy alliance with the London underworld to rescue him from the blood-stained hands of the Russian mafia.
‘A tenacious crime thriller with a difference.’ LOVE READING on Cold Revenge
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‘Intelligent, atmospheric, captivating - this book draws you in and doesn’t let you go. A must read.’ ROSAMUND LUPTON
November 2015
The Long Shadow Liza Marklund
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes Anna McPartlin
Follow A Star Christine Stovell
978 1 51001 226 4 – 640pp
978 1 51001 225 7 – 384pp
978 1 51001 211 0 – 384pp
A violent robbery. A family killed. A daughter missing…
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violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there was a third child – a teenage daughter – who is unaccounted for. Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she’d envisioned, as she begins to piece together a terrifying story of violence, abuse and murder.
‘This instalment in the Bengtzon chronicles offers plenty of suspense.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Here is a truth that can’t be escaped: for Mia ‘Rabbit’ Hayes, life is coming to an end…
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abbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it. She loves her spirited daughter Juliet, her colourful, unruly family and the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye. But it turns out the world has other plans for Rabbit, and she’s ok with that. Because she has plans for the world too and only a handful of days left to make them happen. Here is a truth that won’t be forgotten: this is a story about laughing through life’s surprises and finding the joy in every moment.
‘A delightful roller-coaster ride of emotion.’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT ‘Buy a packet (or box) of tissues and settle down with this wonderful story.’ HEAT MAGAZINE
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Sometimes your heart’s the only navigator you need.
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ay Starling’s had enough of her demanding career and even more of her demanding ex. Responding to a ‘crew-wanted’ ad, she follows her dreams of escape only to find herself at sea with red-haired Bill Blythe. May is surprised by the heat building up inside the vintage wooden boat. So when May and Bill tie up at Watling’s Boatyard in Little Spitmarsh, May’s determined to test her new-found feelings on dry land. But May’s dream of escaping her former life is in danger of being swept away when several unwelcome blasts from the past follow her ashore.
‘Sparks and misunderstandings crewing a boat from Devon to Woodbridge adds a nice backdrop to a satisfying romance.’ THE BOOKSELLER
November 2015
The Kind Worth Killing Peter Swanson
What Remains Tim Weaver
All Fall Down Jennifer Weiner
978 1 51001 221 9 – 352pp
978 1 51001 219 6 – 576pp
978 1 51001 232 5 – 368pp
A sublimely plotted novel of trust and betrayal, The Kind Worth Killing will keep you gripped and guessing late into the night.
The bestselling author of the David Raker series, including Fall From Grace and Never Coming Back, is back with a new missing person’s sensation investigation.
“Hello there.” I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger’s face. “Do I know you?” Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it?
olm Healy used to be one of the Met’s best detectives. Until, haunted by the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters, his life was left in ruins. His failure to find an elusive killer - or even a motive for such a merciless crime consumed him, his career and his family. Missing persons investigator David Raker is the only friend Healy has left. The only one who understands that redemption rests on solving these murders. As they reopen the investigation together, Raker learns the hard way how this case breeds obsession - and how an unsolvable puzzle can break even the best detective.
‘Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful […] could be an instant classic.’ LEE CHILD ‘Gripping, elegantly and stylishly written, and extremely hard to put down!’ SOPHIE HANNAH
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‘Weaver’s books get better each time - tense, complex, sometimes horrific, written with flair as well as care.’ GUARDIAN
One seemingly perfect life. One devastating secret.
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llison Weiss is a working mother, balancing a business, ageing parents, a demanding daughter and her marriage. But when her online business becomes a huge success, she finds herself overwhelmed. As she struggles to hold her life together, Allison finds that the painkillers she was prescribed help - they help her get through the hectic days. She worries that the bottles seem to empty a bit faster each week, but it’s not as if she has an actual problem. Until she ends up in a world she never thought she’d experience… rehab. And as Allison struggles to get her life back on track, she learns a few life lessons along the way.
‘Best known for her sense of humor, Weiner’s raw new novel proves she is equally as fluent in poignancy. A searing, no-holds-barred look at an ordinary woman whose life spirals out of control.’ JODI PICOULT
‘Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller.’ DAILY MAIL
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The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood
Second Honeymoon James Patterson
Dead Man Walking Paul Finch
978 1 51001 452 7 – 384pp
978 1 51001 454 1 – 416pp
978 1 51001 636 1 – 544pp
A sinister, wickedly funny and deeply disturbing novel about a near future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free.
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iving in their car, surviving on tips, Charmaine and Stan are in a desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for Consilience, a ‘social experiment’ offering stable jobs and a home of their own, they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month – swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But then, unknown to each other, Stan and Charmaine develop passionate obsessions with their ‘Alternates,’ the couple that occupy their house when they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire begin to take over.
The gripping follow-up to bestseller Honeymoon.
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BI agent John O’Hara receives a call from a man desperate for his help. His son and daughter-in-law have been found murdered on their honeymoon in the Caribbean. The grieving father wants justice and will pay O’Hara handsomely to hunt down the killer. Federal agents aren’t allowed to moonlight, but O’Hara is on suspension and battling some serious demons. He takes on the case, but as O’Hara delves deeper, a past he thought was dead and buried soon comes back to haunt him.
Praise for the author: ‘This author knows precisely how to manipulate his readers.’ GUARDIAN
The fourth unputdownable book in the DS Mark Heckenburg series. A killer from bestselling author Paul Finch.
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s a brutal winter takes hold of the Lake District, a prolific serial killer stalks the fells. ‘The Stranger’ has returned and for DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg, the signs are all too familiar. Last seen on Dartmoor ten years earlier, The Stranger murdered his victims in vicious, cold-blooded attacks. As The Stranger lays siege to a remote community, Heck watches helplessly as the killer plays his cruel game, picking off his victims one by one. And with no way to get word out of the valley, Heck must play ball…
Praise for Stalkers: ‘Stalkers is a very dark premise… it’ll have you by the throat until you get to the end.’ BOOKS AND WRITERS
‘It’s easy to appreciate the grand array of Margaret Atwood’s works. […] When I think of it, and put it together with her writerly gifts and achievements, it takes my breath away.’ ALICE MUNRO ‘One of the most important writers in English today.’ GERMAINE GREER
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December 2015
Too Charming Kathryn Freeman
Man On Fire Stephen Kelman
Behind Closed Doors Susan Lewis
978 1 51001 499 2 – 368pp
978 1 51001 470 1 – 368pp
978 1 51001 467 1 – 624pp
Does a girl ever really learn from her mistakes?
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etective Sergeant Megan Taylor thinks everyone learns from their mistakes. She once lost her heart to a man who was too charming and she isn’t about to make the same mistake again - especially not with sexy defence lawyer, Scott Armstrong. Aside from being far too sure of himself for his own good, Scott’s major flaw is he defends the very people that she works so hard to imprison. But when Scott wants something he goes for it. And he wants Megan. One day she’ll see him not as a lawyer, but as a man - and that’s when she’ll fall for him.
‘From the start, the plot of this book was an absolute page turner and kept me interested until I realized in such a short time that I was at the end.’ REVIEWS TRS
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An unforgettable story of faith, forgiveness and second chances, Man on Fire is a powerful and touching novel from the Booker and Guardian-shortlisted author.
A powerful novel about secrets and mistakes and how life can change course in less than a heartbeat. From the Top Ten bestselling author of Never Say Goodbye.
ohn Lock has come to India to meet his destiny. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England, of the decades he has wasted. He has come to offer his help to Bibhuit Nayak, a man who is a world record breaker, specialising in feats of extreme endurance and ill-advised masochism. In answering Bibhuti’s call for assistance, John hopes to rewrite a brave end to a life poorly lived. But as they take their leap of faith together and John is welcomed into Bibhuti’s family and Mumbai - he learns more about life, death and everything in between than he could ever have bargained for.
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hen fourteen-year-old Sophie Monroe suddenly vanishes one night it looks at first as though she’s run away from home. Her computer and mobile phone have gone and she’s taken a bag full of clothes. As the police investigation unfolds a wealth of secrets from the surrounding community start coming to light. For Detective Sergeant Andrea Lawrence, the case is a painful reminder of the tragedy that tore her family apart over twenty years ago. But is the past clouding her judgment, preventing her from seeing a truth that neither she, nor Sophie’s family, would ever want to face?
Praise for the author: ‘The humour, the resilience, the sheer ebullience of its narrator - a hero for our times.’ DAILY MAIL
Susan Lewis is the bestselling author of thirty-two novels. She is also the author of Just One More Day and One Day at a Time, the moving memoirs of her childhood in Bristol.
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The Missing and the Dead Stuart MacBride
The Turning Point Freya North
What She Left T. R. Richmond
978 1 51001 455 8 – 640pp
978 1 51001 468 8 – 480pp
978 1 51001 471 8 – 416pp
The new Logan McRae novel from the number one bestselling author, Stuart MacBride.
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hen you catch a twisted killer there should be a reward, right? What Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae gets instead is a ‘development opportunity’ out in the depths of rural Aberdeenshire. Welcome to divisional policing – catching drug dealers, shop lifters, vandals and the odd escaped farm animal. Then a little girl’s body washes up just outside the sleepy town of Banff, kicking off a massive manhunt. Logan’s got enough on his plate keeping B Division together, but DCI Steel wants him back on her team. As his old colleagues stomp around the countryside, burning bridges, Logan gets dragged deeper and deeper into the investigation.
‘Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order.’ MARK BILLINGHAM ‘MacBride is a damned fine writer – no one does dark and gritty like him.’ PETER JAMES
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Poignant, engrossing and moving, The Turning Point is a novel about the importance of seizing happiness and trusting that love will always find a way.
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ver one short weekend, when Canadian musician Scott Emerson and British children’s author Frankie Shaw meet by chance, a profound connection is made. Their homes are thousands of miles apart: Frankie and her children live by the coast of North Norfolk while Scott’s roots lie deep in the mountains of British Columbia. Against all advice, they decide to see where this might go. Over oceans and time zones, they make sacrifices and take risks, discovering along the way new truths about love and family. But fate has a tragic twist in store; one that could destroy all that was hoped for.
‘A very telling and enjoyable take on contemporary life.’ WOMAN AND HOME ‘Skilfully written, and full of interesting characters.’ THE LADY 14
‘What She Left is an extraordinary and bold creation.’ GUARDIAN
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hen Alice Salmon died last year, the ripples from her tragic drowning could be felt in the news, on the internet and in the hearts of those closest to her. However, the man who knows her best isn’t family or a friend. His name is Professor Jeremy Cooke, an academic fixated on piecing together Alice’s existence. Cooke knows that faithfully recreating Alice, through her diaries, text messages and online presence, has become all-consuming. But he does not know how deep his search will take him into this shocking story of love, loss and obsession where everyone including himself - has something to hide…
‘A deliciously modern take on the psychological thriller […] very well-written and intelligently realised […]a memorable debut.’ DAILY MAIL ‘Every month brings another book billed the new Gone Girl, but we think we’ve found a winner.’ MARIE CLAIRE
December 2015
Blood Mist Mark Roberts
The Last Refuge Craig Robertson
How To Make A Friend Fleur Smithwick
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A Red River City thriller from Mark Roberts.
You can run from your past but you can never hide from yourself…
A tense, poignant and intriguing novel about the grasp loneliness can hold over the heart and mind.
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hen John Callum arrives on the Faroe Islands, determined to make a new start, he is surprised by how quickly he is welcomed into the close-knit community. Then the sleepy peace is shattered by an almost unheard of crime on the Island - murder. A team of detectives arrives from Denmark to help the local police, who are ill-equipped for a manhunt of this scale. But when tensions arise, the community closes rank to protect its own… Outsider Ryan will have to watch his back. But more terrifying than that, why can’t he shake the suspicion that the crime could have had something to do with him?
‘A sprawling, gritty, violent, tribal crime epic with a deeply rooted sense of place and a gut-punch ending.’ C.J. BOX
A former journalist, Craig Robertson had a 20-year career with a Scottish Sunday newspaper before becoming a full-time author.
‘An absolute must-read. Full of the highs and lows of a beautiful, convincing friendship.’ OK! MAGAZINE
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s a lonely child, Alice found comfort the same way so many others do - she invented a friend. Sam was always there when she needed him, until one day... he wasn’t. Now, Alice’s life almost resembles something happy, normal. She has a handful of close friends and a career as a photographer. But when a tragic accident shatters the world Alice has constructed, the sense of isolation that haunted her in childhood returns. And with it, so does Sam. To Alice, he looks and feels like a real person, but how can that be so? And who will decide when it’s time for him to leave again?
‘An intriguing and extremely sinister debut.’ WOMAN & HOME
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Walking Away Simon Armitage
Writing the Garden Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
H is for Hawk Helen MacDonald
978 1 51000 977 6 –368pp
978 1 51000 976 9 – 352pp
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The brilliant sequel to Simon Armitage’s acclaimed bestseller Walking Home - the story of his travels on Britain’s South West coast.
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n Walking Away Simon Armitage swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain’s south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finish. From the surreal pleasuredome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula, then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we’ve come to expect of one of Britain’s best loved and most popular writers.
‘Walking Away is very funny, very enjoyable and fuelled by Armitage’s own down-to-earth poetic genius.’ GUARDIAN
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his is a fascinating exploration of the writings and personalities who have shaped our ideas about gardens and gardening. Gardening, more than most outdoor activities, has always attracted a cult of devotedly literate practitioners - people who like to dig, it appears, also like to write. For the most part they are not professional landscape designers or how-to horticulturalists, but rather hands-on gardeners who write with their own gardens in full-view. Ranging in time and place from France to modern-day New York City, they invite the listener into the natural world of soil and flowers.
s a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. H is for Hawk is about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.
Praise for the author: ‘Her book is a delight to have and to hold, small enough to slip into a pocket to read in the garden.’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
‘I can’t remember the last time a book made me feel so many different things in such quick succession.’ GUARDIAN
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In the Land of Giants Max Adams
Born Survivors Wendy Holden
Gone to Ground Marie Jalowicz-Simon
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Part travelogue, part expert reconstruction, In the Land of Giants offers a beautifully written insight into enigmatic but richly exciting period of our island’s history.
A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust.
One woman’s extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany.
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Max Adams is a critically-acclaimed biographer, archaeologist, traveller and writing coach who lives in North-east England.
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mong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz IIBirkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel and Anka each passed through its gates with a secret - they were all newly pregnant. Alone, scared and with so many loved ones already lost, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left; their lives and those of their unborn babies. Born Survivors follows the mothers’ incredible journey - first to Auschwitz, then to a German slave labour camp and finally, their hellish 17-day train journey to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Sixty-five years later, the three ‘miracle babies’ met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that saved them.
An incredible, inspirational story of resilience, resourcefulness, and maternal courage, set against the background of the holocaust.
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erlin, 1941: Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty different safe houses. She stays with foreign workers, committed communists and even convinced Nazis. Any false move might lead to arrest. Always on the move, never certain who could be trusted and how far, it was her quick-witted determination and hair-raising strokes of luck that ensured her survival.
‘Jalovicz Simon is a born storyteller, fluently describing dire practicalities, sparing no one in criticism or praise, including herself.’ THE OBSERVER ‘Remarkable... Fascinating... She is a female voice from the horrors of the Second World War and it is good that voice lives on.’ INDEPENDENT
November 2015
Zero Night Mark Felton
Being Mortal Atul Gawande
Elegy Andrew Roberts
978 1 51001 502 9 – 288pp
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978 1 51001 501 2 – 432pp
The untold story of World War Two’s most daring great escape.
A revolutionary and emotionally searing account of death, dying and medicine.
Andrew Roberts evokes the pity and the horror of the blackest day in the history of the British army.
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flag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of the 30th of August 1942, ‘Zero Night,’ 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first ‘Great Escape’ - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious ‘Warburg Wire Job.’ Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as prisoners charged the camp’s double perimeter fences. Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape itself and the adventures of those who eluded the Germans.
‘Felton’s action-packed account provides a fitting tribute to the ingenuity of the escapees and of the brave civilians who subsequently assisted them.’ THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE
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or most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn’t matter whether you were five or fifty every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is a story about the modern experience of mortality and how medicine has changed this and where our ideas about death have gone wrong. Atul Gawande outlines a story that crosses the globe, as he examines his experiences as a surgeon and those of his patients and family and learns to accept the limits of what he can do.
‘Medicine, Being Mortal reminds us, has prepared itself for life but not for death. This is Atul Gawande’s most powerful, and moving, book.’ MALCOLM GLADWELL
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‘An impassioned, broad-ranging and deeply personal exploration.’ GUARDIAN
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The Infidel Stain M. J. Carter
The Dress Kate Kerrigan
Perfect Daughter Amanda Prowse
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The hugely anticipated sequel to the acclaimed Blake and Avery mystery, The Strangler Vine.
Kate Kerrigan’s enthralling novel interweaves the dramatic story of Joy, the beautiful but tortured socialite and that of Lily - determined to uncover the truth.
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‘The Strangler Vine was a promising and enjoyable debut […] Carter has proved with The Infidel Stain that it was not a one-off.’ THE TIMES ‘An entertaining stew of blackmail, murder, crossdressing and incomprehensible slang.’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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‘Mesmerising. Just beautiful.’ CECELIA AHERN
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‘Prowse handles her explosive subject with delicate skill. […] Deeply moving and inspiring.’ DAILY MAIL ‘Uplifting and positive, but you may still need a box of tissues.’ HELLO
‘Glamorous, gripping and moving.’ MARIAN KEYES
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London Rain Nicola Upson
We That Are Left Clare Clark
The Empty Throne Bernard Cornwell
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May, 1937: London prepares to crown a new king.
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The sixth novel in Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey series sets an audacious, deeply personal crime against the backdrop of one of the most momentous days in British history.
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We That Are Left explores the devastating effect of the First World War and the choices a family must make when their lives have been shattered.
The new novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series The Warrior Chronicles. In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler.
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he ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no apparent heir. His wife is a born leader, but no woman has ever ruled over an English kingdom. And she is without her greatest warrior and champion, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. An empty throne leaves the kingdom exposed to rival West Saxons and to the Vikings, who are on a bloody rampage once more. A hero is needed, a hero who has been in battle all his life, who can destroy the double threat to Mercia. A hero who will ultimately decide the fate of a nation…
t is 1910 and to ten-year-old Oskar Grunewald, the Melville family is impossibly, incomprehensibly glamorous. It is a world to which Oskar, mathematics prodigy and son of a penniless German composer, has no wish to belong. His fascination is all for physics where new scientific discoveries are. But when Theo Melville is killed in the Great War, shattering his family’s lives, Oskar finds himself drawn reluctantly into the gaping hole his death has left behind. As Theo’s two sisters struggle in a world that no longer plays by the old rules, Oskar’s life becomes entwined with theirs in ways that will change all of their futures forever.
‘Some novels are like languishing in an exquisitely scented bath. This is one of them.’ DAILY MAIL ‘A wonderful, engrossing book.’ VOGUE
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October - November 2015
The Throwaway Children Diney Costeloe
A Want Of Kindness Joanne Limburg
The Hurricane Sisters Dorothea Benton Frank
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Gritty and heart-wrenching - the story of two sisters sent first to an English and then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War 2.
An authentic historical novel which reimagines Queen Anne’s life from child princess in the glittering Restoration court to becoming the Queen of England.
Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long - for three generations of one family, drama is headed in their direction too.
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‘The story is a compelling one and as a consequence, the book is very hard to put down.’ BOOKBAG
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he wicked, bawdy Restoration court is no place for a child princess. Ten-year-old Anne cuts an odd figure: a sickly child, she is drawn towards improper pursuits. Cards, sweetmeats, scandal and gossip with her Ladies of the Bedchamber figure large in her life. But as King Charles’s niece, Anne is also a political pawn, who will be forced to play her part in the troubled Stuart dynasty. As Anne grows to maturity, she is transformed from overlooked Princess to the heiress of England. Forced to overcome grief for her lost children to her own betrayal of her father, she becomes one of the most complex and fascinating figures of English history.
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t eighty, determined matriarch Maisie Pringle is a force to be reckoned with. She will have the final word on everything, especially when she’s dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, is caught up in the classic maelstrom of being middle-age and in an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. Liz’s beautiful twenty-something daughter, Ashley, dreams of a future that keeps them all at odds. This storm season, Maisie, Liz and Ashley will deal with challenges that demand they face the truth about themselves.
‘A great storyteller, a ray of sunshine, and a fabulous party guest. If she were a cocktail, she’d be fizzy.’ ADRIANA TRIGIANI ‘An entertaining and heart-warming account of female resilience, loyalty and love.’ THE LADY
November – December 2015
Hide Her Name Nadine Dorries
The Judas Gate Jack Higgins
The Mystery of Tunnel 51 Alexander Wilson
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Another stunning novel from the bestselling author of The Four Streets.
Treachery has a price in this mesmerising Sean Dillon thriller from the Sunday Times-bestselling author, Jack Higgins.
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elmand Province, Afghanistan: A lone convoy edges its way towards a deserted mountain village, led by US Army Rangers in Mastiff APVs. Stopping to search the area, the Rangers are hit by a massive roadside bomb and as half the patrol lie dead or injured, the rest are ambushed with military precision. The ambush is bad, but what’s worse is that, amidst the battlefield chatter picked up, not all the Taliban voices are Afghan – some are English… Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor down, with all the resources of the ‘Prime Minister’s private army’ at his disposal…
n the Four Streets, a dreadful murder has been committed and 14-year-old Kitty Doherty is pregnant with the dead man’s child. This secret is so dangerous that it is decided Kitty must go to Ireland to await the baby’s birth. But in Liverpool, the police aren’t giving up their search for the truth. Somewhere, in this tight-knit Irish Catholic community, someone must know something. The streets are alive with gossip and rumour, and it isn’t easy to keep a secret that big.
‘The characters are engaging, the streets scenes cinematic and the theme of the novel powerful.’ THE TIMES ‘A vigorous and vibrant story. […] An addictive novel to be devoured in one sitting.’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
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‘James Bond may find he has a worthy rival.’ DAILY MAIL
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‘The dialogue is reminiscent of that in the early Agatha Christie novels.’ BOOKS MONTHLY ‘I was gripped all the way through and enjoyed the work tremendously. Well recommended.’ EURO CRIME
‘A thriller writer in a class of his own.’ FINANCIAL TIMES
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Frontier Fury Will Henry
Ordeal John Prescott
Blood Sky Will Cook
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rontier Fury is set in the Pacific Northwest in 1858. Kamiak, a murderous Palouse chieftain, is vying for control of the Yakima Federation of Indian tribes. When Colonel Stedloe leads his troops into the area on a peace mission, Kamiak declares it an act of war that must be met with annihilation. The Legend of Little Dried River is the story of Preacher Nehemiah Bleek, the founder of the Horse Creek Mission School to shelter Indian children orphaned by war. The great Cheyenne warrior, Roman Nose, brings his nephew, to Preacher Bleek for safe-keeping. What neither Preacher nor Roman Nose realise is that Colonel John M. Chivington, commanding the cavalry in Colorado, has learned of this sanctuary…
ix people rode the stage from Tucson bound for San Diego: Young Muller, middle-aged Huston, Ansel Jager, the flashily dressed gambler, Maggie Hale, the painted dance-hall girl, the old prospector and Lieutenant James V. Patterson. Jager and Maggie seemed to have some acquaintance with one another; other than that, the six were strangers. Attacked by Apaches, the stage was overturned and the driver killed — and the party was set afoot in the desert, miles from water or help. The Indians lurked within rifle range, ever threatening, as the little band faced the gruelling walk across the desert to a reported water hole.
lood Sky deals with the effects of nature’s unpredictability on a small group of ranchers when a drought leads to frayed nerves and sudden violence. The Contest pits a determined hunter against a vengeful buck in a powerful clash of wills. The Far-Travelin’ Man is an off-trail character study of revenge and redemption set in the Tennessee hill country. Stage coach passengers in Bell’s Station struggle with their choices when it appears a wounded marshal is dying. In Wildcat on the Prod a hot-headed young Texas cowboy locks horns with a rival over the woman he loves. Fight at Renegade Basin concerns a horse trader’s battle to keep his homestead ranch from the clutches of an unprincipled land baron.
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Saddle Up For Steam Boat Allan Vaughan Elston
Lost Gold Todhunter Ballard
The Naked Land Lee E. Wells
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n The Dragon Was a Lady, Faith Thorndike inherits a gold mine and mansion from her father, and finds herself in the midst of turmoil. Lazarus Howe, attorney for the estate, proposes marriage. But before she marries, she needs to learn the truth about the mine. In Lost Gold, a wagon load of high-grade placer gold was abandoned and hidden in a cañon in the Superstition Mountains by Mary Thorne’s uncle. Mary Thorne has a map of the location, but only she knows where the gold was actually hidden in the cañon. She hires a dangerous gang to help her locate the cache. Fearing the group’s leader will kill her once he has the gold, she begins to form alliances with members of the gang, always a dangerous strategy…
al Graydon had got the message: a lot of powerful people didn’t want him to take on the job of fencing the greatest cattle range in all of the Southwest. It was the biggest job of his life, but a fence meant war, and war was something a fence-man could live without. So Hal was ready to call it quits… until the fence-haters made one wrong move too many — they killed Hal’s best friend. That’s how the fence-haters got their war and a lot more they’d never reckoned on.
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Silvermane Zane Grey
Long Gun Les Savage Jr.
Trouble Hunter Fred Grove
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978 1 62899 495 7 – 304pp
ilvermane is the story of two brothers, Lee and Cuth Stewart, trying to capture a wild stallion in the Sevier range country. Tappan’s Burro tells of a desert prospector and his burro, Jenet. Cañon Walls is the story of outlaw Monty Bellew, who finds employment as a ranch hand for a Mormon widow, and he is able to make the ranch a financial success while falling in love with the widow’s daughter. Jane Stacey is a schoolteacher in From Missouri, who is persuaded to come West by love letters from Frank Owens. When Jane arrives, she discovers there is no Mr. Owens, only some ranch hands having some fun. But then, she is not the middle-aged matron they had expected, either…
ong Gun is set during New Mexico’s last days as a province of Mexico. Celia Arnaud learns that there is only one man who can get her company’s furs through to St. Louis. Washakie Winters has an unsavory reputation and is impossible to locate, but Celia Arnaud intends to do just that. Traitor Town takes place during the war itself, with the Americans poised to invade Santa Fe, having defeated the Mexican troops sent to defend the city. Blood Star over Santa Fe takes place shortly after the end of the war. Paul Trent stumbles upon the plot of an insurgency that places his life in danger. Death Song for Santa Fe Rebels is the story of Corday Vidal. He’s wanted by the occupying American Army, who is trying to learn why freight wagon trains have been disappearing in northern New Mexico.
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November - December 2015
Caprock Range Ed La Vanway
Kansas Kid – A Western Duo Lauran Paine
The Outcast of Spirit Ridge James C. Work
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978 1 62899 497 1 – 352pp
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n Border Town, Joe Alvarado’s family has occupied his land for generations. Joe is an old man now and has always lived in peace with his neighbours. But Grant Mitchell of the Bar M thinks now is the time to make his move. He orders the irrigation system on Joe’s land to be stoppered. It is only the first step in a plan to force Joe to sell out. A bullet is another way… Kansas Kid begins with a shooting. A rider from the Bear Trap Ranch, seemingly drunk, is shot and killed when he picks a fight with a stranger who has just arrived in town. Race Dunphy, outside the saloon the shooting occurred, is puzzled by the incident, especially when he learns that the Bear Trap rider was feigning being drunk.
rüdj is a misshapen, one-eyed hunchback. He was less than a year old when a wagon wheel crushed his head, and he was left in a shallow grave. His only possession linking him to the white world was a heavy iron bar made by a mysterious blacksmith. When the Plains Indians discovered the abandoned infant with his iron bar, they made him one of their own. He became a water-dreamer, but as he was coming of age, Grüdj committed sacrilege and was cast out of the village, just as the wagon train had abandoned him. Grüdj set off for the high mountains - his vision quest is a journey marked by violence, mystery and irresolvable conflicts between Grüdj and the water spirit, the elements, and an elfin woman named Luned. This is the story of Grüdj, the outcast.
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The third in The Gower Street Detective series, starring Sidney Grice,Victorian London’s premier personal detective.
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