Bonnier Books UK: Adult Trade Catalogue Jan-June 2023

January Fiction

The Witches of Vardo Anya Bergman 5

A Season for Hope Rosie Goodwin 6

The English Führer Rory Clements 7 Cruel Tides Maria Adolfsson 8

The Physician’s Daughter Martha Conway 9

January Non-fiction

Sins of the Father Shaneda Daly with Linda Watson-Brown 11 Eat Right, Lose Weight Pippa Campbell 12

Age Proof Professor Rose Anne Kenny 13

Talking with Psychopaths and Savages Christopher Berry-Dee 14 Always Remember Your Name Andra and Tatiana Bucci 15

I Let Him Go Denise Fergus 16

February Fiction Virtual Strangers Sam Canning 18

The Flour Mill Girls Anna Cliffe 19 The Mirror Man Lars Kepler 20

Dark Rooms

Lynda La Plante 21 Outcast Chris Ryan 22

A Lesson Learned Rosie Goodwin 23

February Non-fiction Us and Them Mark Blake 25

You, Me, and the Space Between Us Matt and Sarah Davies 26 The Fuss-Free Family Cookbook Ciara Attwell 27 Ugly Anita Bhagwandas 28 Humble Heroes Ben Shephard 29

March Fiction

The Mother

T.M. Logan 31 The Empire Michael Ball 32

The Royal Station Master’s Daughters at War Ellee Seymour 33 See No Evil David Fennell 34

The Walled Garden Sarah Hardy 35

The Messenger Megan Davis 36 Pure Evil Lynda La Plante 37

The Love Algorithm

Claudia Carroll 38

March Non-fiction

Stacked Against Us Sabrina Cohen-Hatton 40

Hope Tom Parker 41 Lead Sister Lucy O’Brien 42

Numbercrunch

Professor Oliver Johnson 43 Behind the Seams Esme Young 44

How to Talk to Your Cat Claire Bessant 45

Military Intelligence Blunders Colonel John Hughes-Wilson 46

Reach for the Stars Michael Cragg 47

April Fiction

Nemesis

Wilbur Smith with Tom Harper 49

The Girl on the 88 Bus Freya Sampson 50 Killing Jericho William Hussey 51

Time After Time Louise Pentland 52 A Deadly Likeness Lesley McEvoy 53

April Non-fiction

Break Free Adam Alter 55

Why, Father?

Toni Maguire 56

The 10 Commandments

Fats Timbo 57

Kitty’s Salon

Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel 58

Bear Woman

Karolina Ramqvist 59

May Fiction

A New Life in the Château Sarah Long 61

One Puzzling Afternoon Emily Critchley 62

Titans of War Wilbur Smith with Mark Chadbourn 63

The Hive Scarlett Brade 64 An Island Promise Patricia Wilson 65

The Spider Lars Kepler 66

May Non-fiction

Master the Art of Trading Lewis Daniels 68

Opening Doors Reggie Nelson 69 Season of the Witch Cathi Unsworth 70 Unforgettable Steve Thompson 71 Miss Willmott’s Ghosts Sandra Lawrence 72 Box-Set Business School Rhianna Dhillon 73 Something Wicked Carol Ann Lee 74

June Fiction

This Wild, Wild Country Inga Vesper 76

The Expectant Detectives Kat Ailes 77

Bridget’s War Shirley Mann 78

The Country Village Allotment Cathy Lake 79

Codename Faust

Gustaf Skördeman 80

What the Focaccia Ginger Jones 81

The Launch Party Lauren Forry 82 The Illusions Liz Hyder 83

June Non-fiction

Bandit Country Jamie Reid 85

The Stone Age Lesley-Ann Jones 86

The Islander Chris Blackwell 87 Rave New World Kirk Field 88

Managing Expectations Minnie Driver 89

The Natural History of Crime Patricia Wiltshire 90

No Free Parking Nicholas Boys Smith 91

From CIA to CEO Rupal Patel 92

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The Witches of Vardo

Anya Bergman

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They will have justice. They will show their power. They will not burn

1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcraft. When Zigri, desperate and grieving after the loss of her husband and son, embarks on an affair with the local merchant, it’s not long before she is sent to the fortress at Vardø, to be tried and condemned as a witch.

Zigri’s daughter, Ingeborg, sets off into the wilderness to try to bring her mother back home. Accompanying her on this quest is Maren – herself the daughter of a witch – whose wild nature and unconquerable spirit gives Ingeborg the courage to venture into the unknown and to risk all she has to save her family.

Also captive in the fortress is Anna Rhodius, once the King of Denmark’s mistress, who was sent in disgrace to the island of Vardø. What will she do – and who will she betray – to return to her privileged life at court?

These witches of Vardø are stronger than even the King of Denmark. In an age weighted against them, they refuse to be victims. They will have their justice. All they need do is show their power.

ANYA BERGMAN became interested in the witch trials of Vardø and the vivid folk tales of the North while living in Norway. Travelling to the Steilneset memorial, in which Louise Bourgeois and Peter Zumthor commemorated women persecuted as witches, she became fascinated by their stories. Now resident in Edinburgh, Anya graduated with distinction from the Creative Writing programme at Edinburgh Napier University. She is working on her next novel, which unites two women and two time periods of global unrest and upheaval.

‘A page-turning magical story of forgotten women in the past, with powerful resonance for the world we live in now’ L.R. Lam

‘Brilliant, brutal, captivating, heart-stopping, heartwrenching . . . I adored it!’ Sinéad Moriarty

A Season for Hope

Rosie Goodwin

Britain’s best-loved saga author is back with the latest story in her Precious Stones series

Whitby, 1845. Amber Ainsley works as a laundry maid for the wealthy Greenwood family, but when she falls pregnant with her employer’s illegitimate child, she is cast out, left homeless and destitute.

She flees to Whitby, but Barnaby Greenwood follows, offering to find a family to raise their daughter, to save her from being sent to the workhouse. Broken-hearted but wanting the best for her child, Amber hands her daughter over. Meanwhile, Barnaby’s wife, Louisa, is overjoyed when she gives birth to twins – but the babies are weak, and she is terrified they won’t survive.

Poverty-stricken, Amber soon has no choice but to return to work for the Greenwoods. There, one twin is flourishing while the other sickens. And when Amber notices a familiar birth mark on the infant girl’s leg, her world is turned upside-down . . .

Has she found her daughter and will they ever be able to be a family?

ROSIE GOODWIN is the four-million-copy bestselling author of more than thirty-five novels. She is the first author in the world to be allowed to follow three of Catherine Cookson’s trilogies with her own sequels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, then fostered a number of children, she is now a full time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton, the setting for many of her books, with her husband and their beloved dogs.

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The English Führer

Rory Clements

For a spy, peace can be deadlier than war . . .

The brand-new blockbuster from ‘the master of the wartime thriller’ Financial Times

Autumn 1945. Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces.

Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family life. Until a call from senior MI5 boss Lord Templeman brings him out of retirement.

A nearby village has been locked down by the military, its residents blighted by a deadly illness. No one is allowed in or out.

There are rumours the Nazi machine is still operational, with links to Unit 731, a notorious Japanese biological warfare research laboratory. But how could they possibly be plotting on British soil – and why?

What’s more, Wilde and Templeman’s names are discovered on a Gestapo kill list. And after a series of assassinations an unthinkable question emerges: could an Englishman be behind the plot?

Determined to become a writer, RORY CLEMENTS forged a career as a journalist, progressing from local newspapers to Fleet Street. He was an associate editor at Today newspaper until its demise in 1995, followed by stints as Health Editor at the Daily Mail and Evening Standard.

Since 2007, Rory has been writing full time in a quiet corner of Norfolk, England, winning the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2010 for his second novel, Revenger, and again in 2018 for his eighth novel, Nucleus. Three other novels – Martyr, Prince and The Heretics – have all been shortlisted for awards.

Cruel Tides

Maria Adolfsson

The eagerly awaited next case for DI Karen Eiken Hornby from the global bestselling author Maria Adolfsson

A secluded island. A missing woman.

An impossible choice.

Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby is not the only person to have returned to her native island nation, Doggerland, after years abroad. Following a ten-year hiatus, Luna has chosen to secretly record her comeback album where she was born and raised. Spirits are high among her team at the wrap party, though Karen is less than impressed with the simpering singer. The next morning, Luna is nowhere to be found.

Nothing goes unnoticed in the tight-knit community –certainly not the arrival, or the disappearance, of a worldfamous singer. So, while the rest of the force is frantically searching for a suspect whose brutal attacks on women are increasing in intensity and frequency, a reluctant Karen is tasked with discreetly looking into Luna’s whereabouts.

As time ebbs away, so does the possibility of finding Luna alive, while Karen faces seemingly impossible choices, ones that could spell life or death, both for herself and others.

MARIA ADOLFSSON lives in Stockholm, where she worked as a communications director and now writes full time. The Doggerland series has been sold into eighteen languages to date and has sold over 330,000 copies in Sweden alone.

Praise for the Doggerland series

‘Terrific’ Sunday Times

‘A cracking police procedural’ Irish Independent

‘Impressive’ Canberra Times

The Physician’s Daughter

Martha Conway

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A compelling, atmospheric novel of one woman’s perseverance, set in the aftermath of the American Civil War

In a world made for men, can one woman break free from tradition and walk a new path?

It is 1865, the American Civil War has just ended, and Eighteen-year-old Vita Tenney is determined to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a doctor like her father. But when her father tells her she must get married instead, Vita explores every means of escape – and finds one in war veteran Jacob Culhane. Damaged by what he’s seen in battle and with all his family gone, Jacob is seeking investors for a fledgling business. Then he meets Vita, and together they hatch a plan that should satisfy both their desires.

Months later, Vita seemingly has everything she ever wanted. But alone in a big city and haunted by the mistakes of her past, she wonders if the life she always thought she wanted was too good to be true. When love competes with ambition, what will come out on top?

From the author of The Floating Theatre, The Physician’s Daughter is the story of two people trying to make their way in a world that is struggling to escape its past.

MARTHA CONWAY has been nominated for an Edgar Award and won the North American Book Award for Best Historical Fiction. She teaches creative writing for Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she is one of seven sisters. She now lives in San Francisco with her family.

January Non-fiction

Sins of the Father

Shaneda Daly with Linda Watson-Brown

Sins of the Father tells of Shaneda Daly’s horrific abuse for over a decade by her own father, and how she managed to take back the power he had taken away so cruelly

‘I look back now and see that I never stood a chance. It’s hard when you realise your whole childhood was taken away. I never got the chance to be a child.

Shaneda Daly was only six years old when her father started grooming her. For more than ten years, he would go on to sexually abuse and rape his daughter at least once a day. In her house of doom, the emotional and physical toll on Shaneda was immense. Eventually, her ex-army and prison officer father admitted to his family what he had been doing, agreeing to leave home to get help. Returning after only a year, he was welcomed back, apparently a changed man. With no choice but to accept it, Shaneda lived alongside him again only for him to try and abuse her once more.

Shaneda managed to contact the police and leave home, finally reclaiming her power and standing up to the man who destroyed her childhood. Decades later, in 2011, she watched as her father was convicted on 227 counts of abuse – the average number that usually secures a conviction is less than twenty. Shaneda now fights as a campaigner for other victims and is bravely telling her story fully for the first time: the story of a survivor.

SHANEDA DALY is a campaigner and survivor of abuse. She lives in Ireland where she runs Survivors Side By Side and coordinates support group meetings nationwide, as well as campaigns for mandatory life sentences for those convicted of child abuse. This is her first book.

LINDA WATSON-BROWN is a ghost writer and author. She has written more than thirty books and can be contacted through her website at www.lindawatsonbrown.co.uk.

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Eat Right, Lose Weight

Pippa Campbell

Nutritionist Pippa Campbell identifies seven reasons why women may struggle to lose weight – and shows them what they can do about it

Do you want to lose weight but struggle to find a plan that works for you? Do you feel frustrated because the latest diet trend isn’t a long-term solution to weight loss?

In Eat Right, Lose Weight, functional nutritional and nutrigenomics practitioner and certified metabolic balance coach Pippa Campbell shows you how to work out the specific reasons why you might be struggling to lose weight. In the course of her work helping thousands of women, Pippa has established seven core reasons why some women don’t see the weight-loss results they desire: digestion, blood sugar, stress, detox, thyroid function, oestrogen levels and serotonin.

In this practical, personalised guide, she will show you how to work out what your specific metabolic issue is, the impact it has on your body’s ability to lose weight, and the steps you can take to put your body back on the right track.

Packed with tasty recipe ideas, meal planners and illuminating client case studies, this is the book that will change the way women approach weight loss.

PIPPA CAMPBELL is an experienced functional nutrition practitioner, weight loss specialist and certified nutrigenomics practitioner. She is a certified metabolic balance coach, registered with the Institute of Functional Medicine and Complimentary Medical Association. She has over 12 years experience specialising in female health and weight loss.

Age Proof

The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life

Professor Rose Anne Kenny

One of the world’s leading scientists on ageing delivers a revealing and enjoyable account of what ageing is and how we can tackle its more serious side effects

The No. 1 International Bestseller

Did you know that we can lead longer and healthier lives by making simple changes right now?

Professor Rose Anne Kenny has thirty-five years of experience at the forefront of ageing medicine. In Age Proof, she draws on her own pioneering research and the latest evidence to demystify why we age, and she shows us that 80% of our ageing biology is within our control: we can not only live longer lives but become happier and healthier deep into our later years.

Effortlessly distilling scientific theory into practical advice that we can apply to our everyday lives, Professor Kenny examines the impact that food, genetics, friendships, purpose, sex, exercise and laughter have on how our cells age. This illuminating book will show you the steps you can take to stay younger for longer – and will prove that you really are just as young as you feel.

PROFESSOR ROSE ANNE KENNY is an award-winning physician and researcher who has been Head of the academic department of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin since 2006. She is the founding Principal Investigator of The Irish LongituDinal study on Ageing (TILDA). In 2022, Professor Kenny was appointed Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College Dublin, the first female physician to take the prestigious seat.

Professor Kenny has published over 600 scientific publications to date and was admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA) in 2014 – Ireland’s highest recognition for scientific excellence.

She recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award for her research on ageing at the world congress in Kuala Lumpur in 2019. She was voted a Health Hero by the Irish Times in 2018, won the Trinity Innovation Award in 2017 and was elected President of the Irish Geriatrics Society in 2020.

Talking with Psychopaths and Savages

Letters from Serial Killers Christopher Berry-Dee

A unique study of the criminal mind based on the author’s extensive correspondence with convicted serial murderers

This is a book based on the enormous archive of letters from convicted serial killers that Christopher Berry-Dee has amassed over more than three decades. It explores the downright creepy correspondence with murderers, serial killers and psychopaths behind bars, and includes never-before-published scans of letters and eerilydesigned envelopes.

A must-have for fans of the million-copy global bestselling series.

A noted writer and criminologist, CHRISTOPHER BERRY-DEE ’s recent books include: Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: A Journey into the Evil Mind, the UK’s bestselling true-crime title of 2017: Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Mass Murderers and Spree Killers (2021): and Talking with Serial Killers: Sleeping with Psychopaths (2022). He is the country’s No. 1 true-crime author.

Always Remember Your Name

Andra and Tatiana Bucci

An unforgettable story of the power of sisterhood and of how a mother’s love triumphed over impossible odds

On 28 March 1944, Italian sisters Tati (six) and Andra (four) were taken to the infamous Kinder Block in Auschwitz, presided over by Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death. By the time Auschwitz was liberated, 230,000 children had been murdered, and the sisters were among only 70 child survivors.

Throughout their ordeal in the camp and their long journey from Auschwitz to Lingfield House in Britain, they clung on to their promise to their mother to ‘always remember your name’. It was this connection to their heritage that brought them miraculously back to their parents, years later and many countries away. The sisters overcame their trauma to live long lives, bearing witness as survivors of the Holocaust.

ANDRA (b. 1939) and TATIANA BUCCI (b. 1937) were born in Fiume, the daughters of a Catholic father and Jewish mother. They were deported to Auschwitz along with their mother, grandmother, aunt and a cousin. When the camp was liberated in 1945, they were sent first to Czechoslovakia and later to England, where their parents finally tracked them down. They were reunited with their parents in 1946. Today, they bear witness in schools and at the camps.

‘Always Remember Your Name is heartbreaking and yet utterly uplifting, with the fierce bond of two sisters at its heart, who survived the Holocaust to bear witness, so that none of us will ever forget’ Heather Morris, international bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

‘A valuable record of what was suffered by surely some of our youngest survivors. Insightful and illuminating, the road to recovery – with its silences, loyalties, and self examinations – is never what we might suppose’ Esther Freud, bestselling author of Hideous Kinky

I Let Him Go

Denise Fergus

The Sunday Times bestseller, reissued for the thirtieth anniversary of James’s death, with new chapters from Denise

‘I was crying so much I couldn’t breathe. The thought of leaving the shopping centre without him was crushing. I knew that walking away from the place where he had gone missing, without any idea where he now was, meant that things were really bad. James had been right by my side and then he was gone forever.

On 12 February 1993, Denise Fergus’s life changed forever. As she was running errands at New Strand Shopping Centre, she let go of her two-year-old son’s hand for a few seconds to take out her purse.

Denise never saw her son again.

For the first time since that moment thirty years ago, Denise tells her extraordinary story in this heartwrenching book, an unflinching account of that terrible day. What if she had never taken James shopping? What if she had turned right coming out of the butcher’s, instead of left? Denise's initial hope after seeing her son on CCTV with other children quickly turned to devastation when, two days later, James’s body was found.

His death reverberated around the world and his killers became the youngest ever convicted murderers in UK legal history. Four minutes is all it took for them to lead James away from his mother to his death. Denise took up a tortuous legal battle for James, and it was her astonishing strength and love for her son that ultimately helped to change the way the law treats victims of crimes.

This is a mother’s tale of finding a way through the despair to remember the happiness and wonderful memories that James brought his family. Above all, Denise doesn’t want her son to be remembered as a murdered child, and with this beautifully written book, she does just that.

DENISE FERGUS is the mother of James Bulger, who was murdered in 1993 – in a series of events that shocked the world. Denise lives with her three sons and her second husband, Stuart. In 2010, Denise launched the James Bulger Memorial Trust, which supports young victims of crime, hatred and bullying. In January 2017, Denise was given the British Citizen Award for her tireless work helping other families through situations similar to her own.

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Virtual Strangers

Sam Canning

Do you believe in love at first type?

A modern You’ve Got Mail meets When Harry Met Sally.

Two people. One desk. A million Zoom calls. What could go wrong?

When Ada and Fraser find themselves freelancing from the same café together every day, they strike up a mutually beneficial friendship. Fraser saves her the best biscuits, and Ada protects the best table when he’s running late.

As they work side-by-side, Ada can’t help but notice how attractive Fraser is and how well they get along. But then Ada signs up to an Agatha Christie fan fiction site and she starts chatting with a guy online. His interests are the same as hers, and the anonymity helps them both be more honest and open. As Ada’s messages with the mystery man become deeper and more honest, she thinks she’s falling for him.

Ada feels torn between Fraser and Mister-E, but can you have real feelings for someone when you’re virtual strangers?

SAMANTHA CANNING is a Northern Irish-born and Edinburgh-based writer. Virtual Strangers is her debut novel.

The Flour Mill Girls

Anna Cliffe

The first book in a brand-new WWI saga series

Sandwich, Kent, 1913.

There are rumours of war besetting the country, but sisters Daisy, Violet and Holly Graham have other things on their minds. With the family smock mill keeping them busy and the local Brewer boys turning their heads, the girls are looking forward to a summer of fun.

But their plans soon come crashing to the ground as war is declared. When their brothers, Asa and Clem, and the three Brewer lads Ren, Alder and Rosen, all volunteer to do their part for the war effort and are shipped off, the women are left with the problem of how to keep the business running. With the men away at war, and life increasingly hard, will the Graham girls find the answers they’re looking for? And when long-held secrets are revealed, could their lives change forever . . .

A former journalist, ANNA CLIFFE lives in East Kent close to the sea. The clear sight of France across the English Channel often makes her wonder what it must have been like for the wives and daughters and sisters left behind when their menfolk went to fight in the Great War; being able to see where their loved ones actually were must have been very strange. The Flour Mill Girls trilogy is a love letter to those women.

The Mirror Man

Lars Kepler

If you see his reflection, it’s already too late . . . The gripping new crime novel from global thriller writing phenomenon, Lars Kepler

Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house, where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape . . . and once caught, they rarely survive their punishment.

Five years later, Jenny is found dead in a public park, and the police are scrambling to find a lead among the scant evidence. But Detective Joona Linna realised that this murder has an eerie connection to a death that was declared a suicide years before. And now when Mia, a seventeen-year-old orphan, goes missing, it becomes clear to Joona that they are dealing with a serial killer – and the murderous rampage has just begun.

As the police close in on the killer, Mia and her fellow captives are plunged into ever greater danger, and Joona finds himself in a seemingly impossible race against time to save their young lives.

LARS KEPLER is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (b. 1966) and Alexander Ahndoril (b. 1967), authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series.

With seven instalments to date, the series has sold seventeen million copies in forty languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler and have each published several acclaimed novels.

Dark Rooms

Lynda La Plante

Someone wants you out of the picture . . . The thrilling new Detective

Jane Tennison crime novel from the Queen of Crime Drama

Helena Lanark is the only one who knows about the horrors that once occurred in her family’s house. The heiress of an immense family fortune, she now resides in a luxurious care home, her mind and memory fading fast.

Jane Tennison is leading a murder investigation into the recent brutal death of a young girl, her decomposed, starved body discovered in an old air raid shelter in the garden of the Lanark’s now derelict house. Initially, the focus is on identifying the victim, until another body is found hidden in the walls of the shelter.

As the investigation and search for answers intensifies, Jane travels to Australia. There she discovers the dark secret that the Lanark family has kept hidden for decades. A secret that not only threatens to bring down a family dynasty, but also places Jane Tennison in mortal danger . . .

LYNDA LA PLANTE was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and the RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing – and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows.

Lynda’s original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and the Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer’s Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity.

Lynda La Plante is the first layperson to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. In 2020 she launched the acclaimed Listening to the Dead podcast with former CSI Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes.

Outcast

Chris Ryan

The brand-new standalone thriller from SAS legend and five-million-copy bestselling author Chris Ryan

After single-handedly intervening in a deadly terrorist attack in Mali, SAS Warrant Officer Jamie ‘Geordie’ Carter is denounced as a lone wolf by jealous superiors.

Now a Regiment outcast, Carter is given a second chance with a deniable mission: locate SAS hero-gone-rogue David Vann.

Vann was sent into Afghanistan to train local rebels to fight the Taliban. But he’s since gone silent, and expected attacks on key targets have not happened.

Tracking Vann through Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Carter discovers not only the rogue soldier’s involvement in a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the Middle East – but an imminent attack that will have deadly consequences the world over . . .

CHRIS RYAN was born in Newcastle. He joined 22 SAS in 1984. After completing the year-long Alpine Guides Course, he was the troop guide for B Squadron Mountain Troop. He completed three tours with the antiterrorist team, serving as an assaulter, sniper and finally Sniper Team Commander.

Chris was part of the SAS eight-man team chosen for the famous Bravo Two Zero mission during the 1991 Gulf War. He was the only member of the unit to escape from Iraq, where three of his colleagues were killed and four captured, for which he was awarded the Military Medal. Chris wrote about his experiences in his book The One That Got Away, which became an immediate bestseller. Since then, he has written over fifty books and presented a number of very successful TV programmes.

Ryan chooses fiercely up-to-the-minute plots, and laces them with an exceptional eye for detail and insider knowledge . . . Nobody takes you to the action better than Ryan, because he’s the real deal.

A Lesson Learned

Rosie Goodwin

The brand-new book from Britain’s best-loved saga author

Nuneaton, 1869.

When young Saffie’s parents fell in love, her mother was cast out by her well-to-do family. Choosing love over money, they eloped, and raised their daughter on the canals. For as long as she can remember, Saffie has loved learning and it is her dream to become a teacher, but what use is an education to a canal girl?

Will Saffie step out of the shadow of the past into the light of her dreams?

ROSIE GOODWIN is the four-million-copy bestselling author of more than thirty-five novels. She is the first author in the world to be allowed to follow three of Catherine Cookson’s trilogies with her own sequels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, then fostered a number of children, she is now a full time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries. Rosie lives in Nuneaton, the setting for many of her books, with her husband and their beloved dogs.

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Us and Them

The Story of Hipgnosis

Mark Blake

Us and Them

The Definitive Story of Hipgnosis

The visual geniuses behind Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin , Paul McCartney and more….

The definitive story of the Hipgnosis design partnership, their iconic album artwork and their rock ’n’ roll life

Between the late 60s and early 80s, design house Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic and ubiquitous album artwork of all time. Their original lifespan coincided with the golden age of the 12-inch LP, beginning just as the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper made the record sleeve the ultimate blank canvas and ending just as new technology looked set to usurp vinyl.

Having originally been approached to design an album cover for their friends Pink Floyd, students Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell and Storm Thorgerson would go on to define the visual identity of rock ’n’ roll for the next fifteen years, swiftly gaining international prominence for their famed The Dark Side of the Moon artwork. This paved the way for other major musicians to set foot in the surreal photo-design world of Storm and Po, resulting in seminal Hipgnosis creations for the likes of Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Genesis, Black Sabbath, ELO and Yes.

In this authorised account, with access to previously unpublished material and exclusive contributions from David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Robert Plant and even Aubrey Powell himself, Mark Blake goes behind the scenes of the Hipgnosis partnership to reveal the pioneering ambition and grand vision that led to their success, as well as the clashing egos and artistic differences that undermined it. The Hipgnosis story –

itself loaded with as much rock-star excess as the exploits of the bands they worked with – also offers hithertountold insight into some of music’s most legendary bands, as viewed through the prism of the people who shaped their imagery and cultural legacy.

With the work of Hipgnosis continuing to be referenced, reproduced and revered worldwide, Us and Them serves as a celebration, a cautionary tale and a compelling human drama, exploring the vital intersection between art and music.

MARK BLAKE is an acclaimed music journalist and author. Former assistant editor of Q magazine and longtime contributor to Mojo, Blake has written for many highprofile publications including Rolling Stone and Billboard.

Among his previous books are Magnifico!: The A to Z of Queen (Nine Eight Books), the bestselling Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd and Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond, which was listed as a ‘Music Book of the Year’ by The Times, the Sunday Times, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph.

Blake has edited and contributed to titles about Freddie Mercury, Keith Richards and punk music. He has also worked on official projects for Queen, Pink Floyd, the Who and the Jimi Hendrix estate. He lives just outside London with his wife and son.

You, Me, and the Space Between Us

How To (Re)Build Your Relationship Matt and Sarah Davies

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Therapists – and married couple –

Matt and Sarah Davies help readers to understand why their relationship feels broken and give them the tools to repair it

‘Communication is at the core of all relationships, and it is inevitable that it fails at times. These occurrences offer crucial golden opportunities to find our way back to harmony. If we are available and willing to make successful repairs, the relationship strengthens and builds in trust and resilience . . . it is what you do with conflict that matters.’

This is a book for anyone who is struggling in their relationship. Written by two relationship therapists –who are also a married couple – it gently unpicks why communication breaks down and why either party might be driven to behave in particular ways. Every relationship goes through periods of rupture, but Matt and Sarah show us why it happens and how it is possible to turn a period of struggle into something positive.

Written with empathy, warmth and wisdom, this book is an engaging blend of personal narrative, expert advice, illuminating case studies and practical exercises.

MATT DAVIES is a marriage counsellor and psychosexual and relationship therapist. He has worked in two NHS settings in psychosexual health and for adults with personality disorders; and at Tavistock Relationships. He is now in private practice in London and Sussex.

SARAH DAVIES is a movement and somatic coach, and a co-founder of Love Lab with her husband, Matt Davies, where they blend therapeutic techniques with movement in workshops on sexuality and relationships.

The Fuss-Free Family Cookbook

No More Separate Meals for Adults and Children

Ciara Attwell

Say goodbye to separate meals for adults and children, with 100 recipes from the UK’s No. 1 food blogger, Ciara Attwell!

Ciara Attwell wants to solve your family meal problem: cooking separate meals for yourself and your children.

With 100 healthy, easy, quick recipes, Ciara will show you how to make everyone happy in The Fuss-Free Family Cookbook.

With a few tweaks to her dishes, she promises no more cooking twice!

● No more having to use ten pots and pans

● Tips on what can be frozen or prepped ahead

● Minimal utensils

● Supermarket ingredients

Adapting to everyone’s needs, with ease and time at the forefront of the recipes, Ciara also includes lower-calorie alternatives for adults in case you are wanting to enter 2023 with a healthier outlook.

With a few easy tweaks to each recipe, shown in gorgeous recipe photos, everyone can enjoy the same food –together.

*Recipes suitable for children aged two and above*

CIARA ATTWELL is an award-winning food blogger and busy mum to two young children. In 2014 she set up her blog, My Fussy Eater, to create meals that catered for the whole family in one go. In just over two and a half years, My Fussy Eater was one of the leading family food blogs in the UK. Ciara’s hundreds of thousands of followers find high-quality recipes, easy to understand instructions and helpful tips and tricks on her YouTube channel, Facebook and Instagram.

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Redefine Your Beauty Standards

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Why are our lives shaped by such limited ideas about beauty? How can we break free of them for a happier, more inclusive future?

How we feel about our faces and bodies stems from a narrow set of beauty standards, honed over the years by corporations keen to sell us things to ‘fix’ them.

We’ve all had those moments. The ones where you look in the mirror and hate what you see. From childhood, we’re encouraged to obsess over our looks and to go to any length to change them and fit in. To make matters more complicated, we’re now also ordered to ‘just love ourselves’ from every corner of the internet. If only it were that easy . . .

In Ugly, leading beauty journalist Anita Bhagwandas argues that in order to feel beautiful, we need to understand what has made us feel ugly in the first place.

Once we unpick these myths, alongside our own personal ones, we can all dismantle the centuries-old conceptions of beauty, power and privilege. This is beauty writing like never before.

ANITA BHAGWANDAS is a multi-award-winning journalist, social commentator, broadcaster and diversity advocate with over ten years’ experience working for the UK’s top lifestyle titles, such as Stylist, Marie Claire and Women’s Health, where she’s held senior beauty and features roles. She’s currently a beauty columnist at the Guardian’s Saturday magazine, Beauty Director at Conde Nast Traveller and a freelance writer and brand consultant.

Humble Heroes

Inspirational Stories of Hope, Heart and Humanity Ben Shephard

‘This is a book about real people, real stories, real heroes. You might not know their faces, and you might not yet know their names – but once you’ve met them, you’ll never forget them’

Ben Shephard knows better than most how often we are exposed to bad news. Presenting one of the UK’s most popular TV breakfast shows for nearly twenty years, he is no stranger to endless reams of stories that instil fear and worry, rather than hope and trust. Now more than ever, it can be hard to stay optimistic. However, Ben also knows better than anybody how powerful and resilient the human spirit can be: through his job, he frequently meets people with stories that reaffirm our collective faith in humanity.

This is a book about those special stories. It is about the real people Ben has met and their real acts of everyday heroism, no matter how small or big, which inspire and lift us all up, even on the gloomiest days. In Humble Heroes, Ben shares their stories, showing us how they’ve done it and inspiring us all to do the same. From the old friend running marathons to raise money for children

with heart conditions (and roping Ben in with him), to the man fighting for our right to clean, safe housing; from the coffee company reducing reoffending rates among ex-prisoners, to the founder of an equestrian school using horses to help trauma survivors: these are stories of ordinary people who have taken it upon themselves to make the world a better place.

In a world that can feel increasingly complicated and divisive, Humble Heroes is a rousing tonic to remind us of what we can achieve through determination and positivity – and of the essential goodness of human nature.

BEN SHEPHARD is the host of Good Morning Britain and both ITV’s The Tipping Point and Ninja Warrior, having previously hosted many flagship shows across multiple networks, including the award-winning Xtra Factor and Goals on Sunday for Sky Sports, not to mention his regular work in events broadcasting. One of Britain’s most popular presenters, Ben is passionate about raising money for charity and using his platform for good. He currently has 786,900 followers on Twitter, 484,000 on Instagram, and 233,000 on Facebook.

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The Mother

T.M. Logan

The unmissable new thriller from the twomillion-copy Sunday Times bestselling author and master of the up-all-night thriller

Framed for murder. Now she’s free . . .

A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and watching in agony as her sons grieve. But she is unable to comfort them – or reveal her secret.

A decade earlier, Heather gets her children ready for bed and awaits the return of her husband, Liam, little realising that this is the last night they will spend together as a family. Because tomorrow she will be accused of Liam’s murder.

Ten years ago, Heather lost everything. Now she will stop at nothing to clear her name – and to get her children back.

T.M. LOGAN is a Sunday Times bestseller whose thrillers have sold more than 1.5 million copies in the UK and are published in 18 countries around the world. The Holiday was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and is now a major Netflix drama. The Catch is also being filmed for TV. Formerly a national newspaper journalist, he now writes full time and lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children. Follow him on Twitter @TMLoganAuthor

‘The master of the all-too-believable, it-could-happen-tome story’ B.A. Paris

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The Empire

Michael Ball

The first in a series set in the world of theatre by the West End legend

Welcome to The Empire theatre

1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid the glitz and glamour, he soon learns that the true magic of the theatre lies in its cast of characters – both on stage and behind the scenes.

There’s stunning starlet Stella Stanmore and Hollywood heartthrob Lancelot Drake; and Ruby Rowntree keeps the music playing, while Lady Lillian Lassiter, theatre owner and former showgirl, is determined to take on a bigger role. And then there’s cool, competent Grace Hawkins, without whom the show would never go on . . . could she be the leading lady Jack is looking for?

When long-held rivalries threaten The Empire’s future, tensions rise along with the curtain. There is treachery at the heart of the theatre and a shocking secret waiting in the wings. Can Jack discover the truth before it’s too late, and the theatre he loves goes dark?

Musical theatre legend Michael Ball brings his trademark warmth, wit and glamour to this, his debut novel.

MICHAEL BALL OBE is a singer, actor, presenter and now author. He’s been a star of musical theatre for over three decades, winning the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical twice; he’s also won two BRIT Awards and been nominated for a Grammy. Michael regularly sells out both his solo tours and his Ball & Boe shows with Alfie Boe and has multiple platinum albums. The Empire is his first novel.

‘A golden debut – charming, funny and romantic’ Cameron Mackintosh

‘A fantastic book. Brilliant’ Don Black OBE

‘Takes you to the magical world of theatre’ Rosie Goodwin

The Royal Station Master’s Daughters at War

Ellee Seymour

A dramatic WWI saga

The second heartwarming book in The Royal Station Master’s Daughters series.

Life is going well for Maria. Welcomed into the Saward family, she has secured herself a job as a maid for Queen Alexandra and is living with her family in a beautiful cottage on the royal Sandringham estate. The luxuries and privilege associated with the royal family are a far cry from the poverty and suffering she endured before, though the royals, like the nation, are tightening their belts. But when a mysterious relative turns up, seemingly on the run from the law, Maria’s new-found happiness could be under threat.

Meanwhile, World War I is raging, and the daughters of Harry Saward, the royal station master, are doing their bit for the war effort. Ada’s beloved husband, Alfie, is away on the front line, leaving her to care for their young son alone. Beatrice, a nurse in a local cottage hospital, is faced with the daily horror of young men wounded in battle, while mourning the loss of her first love, Sam. And Jessie is transforming Queen Alexandra’s flower garden at Wolferton Station into a vegetable plot to help with food shortages, all the while longing for the return of her sweetheart, Jack. In a village torn apart by tragedy, how will the family survive the many challenges that war brings, and find the happiness they’re all searching for?

The Royal Station Master’s Daughters at War is the second book in a brand-new WWI saga series, inspired by the Saward family, who ran the station at Wolferton in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through this family we get a glimpse into all walks of life – from royalty to the humblest of soldiers.

ELLEE SEYMOUR is a journalist and PR professional living near Cambridge. The Royal Station Master’s Daughters at War is her second saga novel. Ellee knows the current station master at Wolferton, who is the great-grandson of Harry Saward, the station master the series is based on.

See No Evil

David Fennell

For this killer, it’s DEATH at first sight . . . The chilling new thriller from the author of the intensely creepy serial killer debut, The Art of Death

Two men are found dead in London’s Battersea Park. One of the bodies has been laid out like a crucifix – with his eyes removed and placed on his open palms.

Detective Inspector Grace Archer and her caustic DS, Harry Quinn, lead the investigation. But when more bodies turn up in a similar fashion, they find themselves in a race against time to find the sadistic killer.

The hunt leads them to Ladywell Playtower in South East London, the home to a religious commune lead by the enigmatic Aaron Cronin. Archer and Quinn suspect Cronin’s involvement, but his alibis are watertight, and the truth is seemingly buried. If Archer is to find the killer, she must first battle her way through religious fanatics, London gangsters – and her own demons . . .

DAVID FENNELL was born and raised in Belfast before leaving for London at the age of eighteen with £50 in one pocket and a dog-eared copy of Stephen King’s The Stand in the other. He jobbed as a chef, waiter and bartender for several years before starting a career in writing for the software industry. He has been working in CyberSecurity for fourteen years and is a fierce advocate for information privacy. David has played rugby for Brighton and has studied Creative Writing at the University of Sussex. He is married, and he and his partner split their time between Central London and Brighton.

To find out more, visit his website: www.davidfennell.co.uk

Follow him on Twitter: @davyfennell

Praise for David Fennell

‘Fennell has created one of the most compelling characters in UK crime fiction’ M.W. Craven

‘Kept me alert and on-edge right up through the deeply satisfying finale’ A.J. Finn

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The Walled Garden

Sarah Hardy

A luminous debut novel about love, the trauma of war and the miracle of human resilience

No one survives the war unscathed. But even in the darkest days, seeds of hope can grow . . .

It is 1946 and in the village of Oakbourne the men are home from the war. Their bodies are healing but their psychological wounds run deep. Everyone is scarred –those who fought and those left behind.

Alice Rayne is married to Stephen, heir to crumbling Oakbourne Hall. Once a sweet, gentle man, he has returned a bitter and angry stranger, destroyed by what he has seen and done, tormented by secrets Alice can only guess at.

Lonely and increasingly afraid of the man her husband has become, Alice must try to pick up the pieces of her marriage and save Oakbourne Hall from total collapse. She begins with the walled garden and, as it starts to bear fruit, she finds herself drawn into a new, forbidden love.

Set in the Suffolk countryside as it moves from winter to spring, The Walled Garden is a captivating love story and a timeless, moving exploration of trauma and the miracle of human resilience.

SARAH HARDY has lived for the last ten years in rural Suffolk, which is where her novel is set. Before that, she lived in London and worked on national magazines and newspapers.

‘Richly evocative and transporting’ Stacey Halls

The Messenger

Megan Davis

Rosamund Lupton meets Lupin in this accomplished debut from an eclectic, cut-throat new voice in thriller writing

Wealthy and privileged, Alex has an easy path to success in the Parisian elite. But he and his domineering father have never seen eye to eye. Desperate to escape the increasingly suffocating atmosphere of their apartment, Alex seeks freedom on the streets of Paris, where his new-found friend Sami teaches him how to survive. But everything has a price – and one night of rebellion changes their lives forever.

A simple plan to steal money takes a sinister turn when Alex’s father is found dead. Despite protesting their innocence, both boys are imprisoned for murder. Seven years later, Alex is released from prison with a single purpose: to discover who really killed his father. Yet as he searches for answers and atones for the sins of his past, Alex uncovers a disturbing truth with far-reaching consequences.

Set in the heart of Paris, against a backdrop of corruption, fake news and civil unrest, The Messenger is a mindracing new thriller that follows one son’s journey to find redemption and expose the truth.

MEGAN DAVIS was born in Australia and grew up in mining towns across the world. She has worked in the film industry and her credits include Atonement, In Bruges, Pride and Prejudice and the Bourne films. Megan is also a lawyer and is currently an associate at Spotlight on Corruption. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her debut, The Messenger, won the Bridport Prize for a First Novel in 2018, judged by Kamila Shamsie, as well as the Lucy Cavendish Prize for unpublished writers in 2021. She has lived in many places, including France for a number of years, but now lives in London.

‘An intelligent, gripping and stylish literary thriller –I couldn’t put it down. Megan Davis is a major new talent’ Sophie Hannah

‘Megan Davis’s electric, suspenseful and stunning evocation of contemporary Paris is unforgettable’ Elizabeth Macneal

‘A well-written, intriguing novel with an excellent sense of place’ Kamila Shamsie

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Pure Evil

Lynda La Plante

The astonishing new Detective Jack Warr thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Buried, Judas Horse and Vanished

It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault. But it was just the beginning.

As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is warned by his mentor DCI Ridley that they have only scratched the surface of the man’s crimes.

Then DCI Ridley is suddenly removed from his post. No one is to contact him – and no one will say why.

As Warr digs into Rodney’s past, Ridley calls pleading for help, now accused of a murder he insists he didn’t commit.

One of these men is a true monster, an evil soul. But which? And what awaits Warr if he discovers the truth?

LYNDA LA PLANTE was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and the RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing – and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows.

Lynda’s original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and the Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer’s Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity.

Lynda La Plante is the first layperson to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. In 2020 she launched the acclaimed Listening to the Dead podcast with former CSI Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes.

The Love Algorithm

Claudia Carroll

Love is just a numbers game . . . isn’t it?

True love is only just a swipe away? Right?

Iris lives by numbers. The only thing missing from her perfectly calibrated life is a partner – and not for lack of trying.

Kim is too busy being the life of the party to look for love.

Her terrible dates make great stories for her friends and co-workers, as long as she’s not caught by her tyrannical boss, Iris.

Connie, Kim’s recently widowed mum, is single for the first time since the 1970s. The dating game has changed a lot since her day . . .

Sick of being let down, Iris takes matters into her own hands – using her analytical skills to create the first real formula for love. With Kim and Connie on board, they launch Analyzed, a dating app like no other.

As Analyzed takes the world by storm, are the three women in over their heads? Is love really just a numbers game?

CLAUDIA CARROLL is a bestselling author who has published seventeen novels. Four of her books have been optioned, two for movies and two for TV. Her books regularly reach No. 1 in Ireland, they’re widely translated, and in the UK, she’s a Sunday Times bestseller.

Praise for Claudia Carroll

‘A superb romcom, with relatable and loveable characters that literally burst from the pages. With laugh-outloud moments, woven between a heartwarming and hopeful story, it charmed me from the first page’ Carmel Harrington

‘Brilliantly funny’ Sun

‘An immensely talented writer’ Sinéad Moriarty

‘A laugh on every page, entirely empathetic characters and a warm heart in the middle of the story. I found this book highly entertaining and totally satisfying’ Liz Nugent

‘Brilliant’ Bella

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Stacked Against Us

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

A rallying call to change the perception of successful women by a woman at the top of her field

Two people are firefighters. When one is asked what they do for a living, their response is met with: ‘That’s amazing, you are so brave!’, while the other is asked: ‘Isn’t that dangerous? Aren’t you scared? What about your kids?’ Can you guess the difference between the two? These comments are the reality many women at work and in life. Gender biases stop women from succeeding – but why are certain qualities associated with success viewed less favourably for women?

After leaving home at fifteen, going through extreme personal adversity and a period of homelessness, Sabrina gained first-hand experience of the hurdles women face to become successful. In Stacked Against Us, she explores the everyday prejudices women experience through the prism of success. From leadership, to risk-taking, perception and failure, Sabrina exposes the invisible barriers that are holding women back.

Through an analysis of studies and data, Sabrina unpicks why women are judged differently, examines why that matters and offers practical solutions on how we can tackle our biases and overcome sustained systems.

This is how it’s stacked against us and why we need to change it.

DR SABRINA COHEN-HATTON is one of the most senior woman fire officers in the world. She has a first class honours degree in psychology, a Masters in International Fire Service Development and a PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience. She is now recognised as a leading international expert on risk-critical decision making in crises and is an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University.

Sabrina has presented her work all over the world and uses her research to change deeply ingrained national policy.

Hope

Tom Parker

The powerful and uplifting No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

In March 2022, much-loved pop star, father and son Tom Parker died from incurable brain cancer. This story is his legacy, in his own words.

A proud working-class lad from Bolton, Tom rose to charttopping fame with The Wanted and even took America by storm. A loving father to Aurelia and Bodhi and a devoted husband to Kelsey, his life after pop superstardom was all about family, friends and finding new purpose.

After his diagnosis in 2020, he become a prominent campaigner for brain cancer research, appearing in the House of Commons as well as holding a massively successful concert in aid of Stand Up to Cancer in the Royal Albert Hall.

Throughout it all, Tom had hope. This inspirational memoir shows how far hope and daring to dream can carry you, no matter what cards you’re dealt.

TOM PARKER was a member of The Wanted. Diagnosed with Stage IV Gliablastoma in 2020, he worked hard to raise awareness of the condition, including organising a massive concert in aid of Stand Up to Cancer in winter 2021. He was the proud father of two children and a loving husband to his wife, Kelsey. He died in March 2022.

Lead Sister

The Karen Carpenter Story Lucy O’Brien

A pioneering biography re-evaluating the life and legacy of transcendent musician Karen Carpenter

When the Carpenters first toured Japan, a journalist mistakenly referred to Karen as the ‘lead sister’ of the band. This designation stuck, and Karen liked it so much she had a T-shirt custom-made with the slogan, which she wore while drumming on the band’s 1976 world tour. The term also sums up the approach of this biography: a celebratory re-evaluation of a pioneering woman.

As one of the biggest-selling acts of the 1970s, sibling duo Richard and Karen Carpenter created lush soundscapes of melodic pop, producing global hits like ‘We’ve Only Just Begun’, ‘Top of the World’ and ‘Close to You’. However, though Karen is rightly recognised as one of the greatest singers in popular music, the tragedy of her early death in 1983, at the age of just thirty-two, often overshadows all that she achieved. She has long been portrayed as a victim, controlled by her family and exploited by the music industry.

This book now seeks to reframe her life and legacy.

Through fresh interviews with friends, musicians and co-workers, bestselling author Lucy O’Brien’s fascinating profile explores Karen’s contributions in the studio as a singer, drummer, arranger and producer, as well as tracing the roots of the Carpenters’ sound and of Karen’s distinctive vocals. Forty years after her death, it also

honours the lead sister’s achievements in the face of her struggle with anorexia, as viewed through the lens of new perspectives on eating disorders and mental health.

Yet, despite the chronic nature of her illness, Karen Carpenter was, above all, a creative, dedicated and assured artist, whose music delivers an emotional resonance that has transcended generations – and that is how she should be remembered.

DR LUCY O’BRIEN is a writer, academic and author of She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music; Dusty: The Classic Biography and Madonna: Like an Icon: Lucy also co-authored Skin’s memoir, It Takes Blood and Guts

Lucy was a judge for the Penderyn Music Book Prize in 2018 and has contributed to numerous publications including Q, Mojo, NME, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire. She is also a TV and radio broadcaster, having co-produced Righteous Babes, the Channel 4 film about women in rock, and scripted the BBC Radio 2 series She Bop.

Her PhD is on women’s agency and power in popular music and, back in 1979–80, she played in all-female punk band, the Catholic Girls.

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Numbercrunch

Professor Oliver Johnson

This is a mathematician’s toolkit for cutting through wall-to-wall information overload and making sense of our modern world

In our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. Often these statistics can seem contradictory and say wildly different things depending on who is sharing them. In a world where information is so slippery, what can we grasp hold of to make sense of it all?

Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the information all around us – from the exponential growth of viruses and pandemics to social media filter bubbles, from stock market fluctuations to how rumours spread, from the datafication of our sports pages to the environmental concerns affecting our planet.

In doing so, he reveals how, with some mathematics knowledge, we can make better choices in our lives, whether it’s deciding which news sources to pay attention to or when the best time is to leave a party!

Journeying through three sections – Randomness, Statistics and Information – we meet a host of brilliant minds, including Alan Turing and Claude Shannon, and key principles such as the law of large numbers, entropy and the Fermi Estimation.

Lucid, surprising and entertaining, Numbercrunch supplies the reader with the definitive mathematician’s toolkit to make sense of our surroundings, cut through disinformation, and truly understand how our world is changing.

OLIVER JOHNSON is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics at Bristol University. He was previously a research fellow at Cambridge University and fellow of Christ’s College Cambridge.

He has written on how information travels for the Guardian and the Observer, The Times and the Sunday Times, the Spectator and the Telegraph

He is on Twitter as @BristOliver, where he tweets about how statistics can help us make sense of the world and has almost 50k followers.

Behind the Seams

Esme Young

The instant Sunday Times bestseller

From adventures at Central Saint Martins to The Great British Sewing Bee, go behind the scenes of Esme Young’s amazing life . . .

At age five, Esme was asked to write in her notebook, but instead, she filled it with drawings – the only way she knew to express herself. At seven, when it was discovered she was partially deaf, she found refuge in her sketchbooks. Shortly after, Esme made her first garment and a passion for sewing and designing was born. As a teenager, she made her way to London where her creative journey truly began.

Living in a squat with other young creatives, Esme made the most of her time: studying at Central Saint Martins, launching a clothing line called Swanky Modes with three friends and £50 each, watching Notting Hill Carnival with David Bowie, and altering a dress for Cher. The 90s saw a career move into costumes for films, where she designed outfits for Trainspotting, Bridget Jones’s Diary and The Beach, before she moved onto the small screen herself.

A celebration of a creative life lived differently, Behind the Seams is a reminder that it’s never too early, or too late, to pick up a needle and start stitching in a new direction.

ESME YOUNG is a fashion designer and a judge on the much-loved TV series The Great British Sewing Bee. Esme’s career spans a lifetime of creativity, from working on films and pop videos to adverts and catwalks. Her work has been featured in a range of magazines and newspapers including Vogue, ID, The Face, the Sunday Times and so much more.

As well as designing, Esme also teaches at Central Saint Martins.

How to Talk to Your Cat

Claire Bessant

Do you want to understand why your cat does the things it does? Claire Bessant,

the original cat whisperer, reveals how to communicate with your cat in this reissue of her bestselling book

Cats have been our favourite domestic pets since ancient times, and a very real understanding has evolved between these fascinating animals and their human counterparts. This book, written by a leading cat expert, will guide you toward forging a more meaningful bond between you and your feline pet.

Claire Bessant explains cats’ likes and dislikes, and analyses problems that sometimes arise between cats and their owners. Most importantly, she offers advice on how to solve them. By learning more about your cat, you’ll develop a deeper appreciation for your furry friend.

CLAIRE BESSANT is the former Chief Executive of the Feline Advisory Bureau, a charity that provides information on a wide range of cat topics and funds vets to specialise in feline medicine. She also writes for various cat magazines. She has authored and co-authored many books, including: The Nine Life Cat, What Cats Want, The Perfect Kitten and How to Give your Dog a Longer and Healthier Life.

Military Intelligence Blunders

Colonel John Hughes-Wilson

A frightening study of intelligence failings – ‘blunders’ – and their impact on events

Here is the insider’s view from a former professional intelligence officer.

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer’s –and controversial insider’s – view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the US-led coalition’s 2003 war with Iraq, as well as failures of intelligence in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion in February 2022.

This new edition has been comprehensively revised and updated, to include new chapters on, among other matters, the ‘war on terror’ and cyberwarfare.

During his twenty-five years in the Intelligence Corps and as a Special Forces operations officer, COLONEL

JOHN HUGHES WILSON saw active service in the Falkland Islands, Cyprus, Arabia and Northern Ireland, as well as in the dangerous jungles of Whitehall and NATO. One of Britain’s leading military historians, he is the author of, among other books, JFK: An American Coup d’Etat (John Blake, 2013) and the Imperial War Museum’s A History of the First World War in 100 Objects (2014); his much reprinted book Intelligence Blunders was found at Osama Bin Laden’s bedside and has become a CIA textbook. He has also been a frequent broadcaster for BBC television and radio.

‘A cracking good read . . . I will recommend this book to anyone’ Professor Richard Holmes, CBE

‘The Falklands, Yom Kippur, Tet and Pearl Harbor? Avoidable intelligence blunders or much worse? Altogether a compelling read from someone who knows the business’ Nigel West

Reach for the Stars

1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

Michael Cragg

From Girl Power to Girls Aloud (and all the glorious points in between), the definitive study of British pop music at the turn of the millennium, told by everyone who was there

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will explore, celebrate and contextualise the thus-far-uncharted period of British pop that flourished between 1996 and 2006.

A double-denim-loving time before the glare of social media and the accession of streaming, it was the era in which we embraced Cool Britannia, tiptoed into a new millennium, and unleashed the force of reality TV and talent shows across the world.

Throughout all these cultural shifts, the bastions of 00s pop – armed with buoyant, immaculately crafted, carefree anthems – provided entertainment, escapism and fun for millions. It was a heady, chorus-heavy decade – populated by the likes of Steps, S Club 7, Blue, 5ive, Mis-Teeq, Hear’Say, Billie Piper, All Saints, Busted, Girls Aloud, Will Young, McFly, B*Witched, Craig David and Atomic Kitten, among countless others – yet the music was often dismissed as inauthentic, juvenile, not ‘worthy’ enough: ultimately, a ‘guilty pleasure’.

Now, music writer Michael Cragg aims to redress that balance. Using the oral-history format, Cragg goes beneath the surface of the bubblegum exterior, speaking to some of the key players about the reality of their experiences. What did they think about the music? The videos? The hairstyles? The fans? The label? The rivalry? Did they feel like their success would ever end? Did they feel trapped?

Compiled from interviews with popstars, songwriters, producers, choreographers, magazine editors, recordcompany executives, TV moguls and more, this is a complete behind-the-scenes history of the last great movement in British pop – a technicolour turning point ripe for re-evaluation, documented here in astonishing, honest and eye-opening detail.

MICHAEL CRAGG has been writing about pop music for over a decade and has interviewed everyone from Lady Gaga to Lorde, via Little Mix, Shawn Mendes, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Britney Spears. He has written for outlets including Vogue, the Guardian, GQ, the BBC, the Observer, Popjustice, Dazed and Billboard. During his three years as contributing editor at the Guardian’s Guide! newsletter, he interviewed 00s pop luminaries such as Steps, Emma Bunton and Nadine Coyle. He also edits the independent biannual music magazine BEAT

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Nemesis

Wilbur Smith with Tom Harper

A brand-new historical epic from the Master of Adventure, in which three strands of the Courtney family converge in a bloodthirsty bid for revenge

Paris, 1794. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching the latest victims of the revolutionary reign of terror. Among them is the Comtesse de Bercheny, Constance Courtney, Paul’s mother. As he watches her execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her – to survive, no matter what. When Paul rescues a young girl from attack, the two form an allegiance, but with the world at war and traitors in every corner, just how far will Paul go to ensure his survival?

Cape Town, 1806. Adam Courtney has spent his life in servitude to the navy and in the shadow of his father, the illustrious Admiral Robert Courtney. But when a visit home to Fort Auspice, Nativity Bay ends in tragedy, the fort destroyed and the Courtney family dead, Adam must accept his destiny and seek vengeance. Robert gives Adam the family heirloom, the Neptune sword, and makes his son swear on its blade that he will not rest until he has delivered justice. From Cape Town to Calcutta, on a quest for his family’s honour, Adam discovers that the enemy he seeks may be closer to him than he realises . . .

WILBUR SMITH was born in Central Africa in 1933. He became a full time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds and has since published over fifty global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series, the Hector Cross Series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. An international phenomenon, his readership built up over fifty-five years of writing, establishing him as one of the most successful and impressive brand authors in the world. Wilbur Smith passed away peacefully at home in 2021 with his wife, Niso, by his side, leaving behind him a rich treasure-trove of novels and stories that will delight readers for years to come.

TOM HARPER is the author of thirteen thrillers and historical adventures, including The Orpheus Descent, Black River and Lost Temple. Research for his novels has taken him all over the world, from the high Arctic to the heart of the Amazon jungle. He lives with his family in York.

The Girl on the 88 Bus

Freya Sampson

The author of The Last Library brings us a beautifully uplifting novel about how one chance meeting can change the course of your life forever

When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, broken-hearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly pensioner Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 when he met a girl on the number 88 bus with beautiful red hair just like her own. They made plans for a date, but Frank lost the ticket with her number written on it. For the past sixty years, he’s ridden the same bus, trying to find her.

Libby is inspired by the story and, with the help of an unlikely companion, she makes it her mission to continue Frank’s search. As she begins to open her guarded heart to strangers and new connections, Libby’s tightly controlled world expands. But with Frank’s dementia progressing quickly, their chance of finding the girl on the 88 bus is slipping away . . .

More than anything, Libby wants Frank to see his lost love one more time. But their quest also shows Libby just how important it is to embrace her own chance for happiness –before it’s too late.

FREYA SAMPSON worked in TV and was the executive producer of Channel 4’s Four in a Bed and Gogglesprogs. She studied History at Cambridge University and is a graduate of the Faber Academy. She lives in London with her husband, two young children and an antisocial cat. Her debut novel, The Last Library, was published in 2021; The Girl on the 88 Bus is her second novel.

‘The characters are relatable and lovable; the story is uplifting and romantic, full of emotions and heart, celebrating the importance of making human connections and embracing our dreams. This book is my happy place!’ Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis

‘Heartwarming, gorgeously written and I fell instantly in love with the quirky cast of characters’ Jessica Ryn

‘I loved it’ Hannah Tovey

‘A must-read’ Sarah J. Harris

Killing Jericho

William Hussey

The gothic, helter-skelter thriller debut that introduces crime fiction’s first ever Traveller detective, Scott Jericho

Disgraced and penniless after his assault on a violent suspect, former Detective Scott Jericho is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected. Now, troubled by his failure, his brilliant mind stagnates.

That is, until a series of bizarre murders reawaken his interest. Men and women with no obvious link to each other are being murdered – in ways that recall a centuryold legend of the Jericho Travelling Fair.

As Jericho unpicks the threads of a baffling mystery, a helter-skelter hunt for a killer begins. But as the bodies pile up, a shocking truth awaits him: a revelation that will test not only Jericho’s intellect but challenge the very core of his morality . . .

WILLIAM HUSSEY is the award-winning author of over a dozen novels, including the Crime Fest awardnominated Hideous Beauty and The Outrage. Born the son of a travelling showman, he has spent a lifetime absorbing the history, folklore and culture of fairground people, knowledge he has now put to work in his Scott Jericho thrillers. William lives in the seaside town of Skegness with his faithful dog, Bucky, and a vivid imagination.

‘Darkly original, suspenseful and haunting. Killing Jericho is a first-class thriller’ Chris Whitaker

‘Crime fiction is crying out for more diversity, and in Scott Jericho we have been gifted a blisteringly new brand of hero’ Sarah Hilary

Time After Time

Louise Pentland

No. 1 bestselling author Louise Pentland is back with her brand-new novel that will make you laugh, make you cry and thoroughly charm you!

Sometimes you have to go back to move forwards.

Tabby is stuck. She still lives in the small town she grew up in . . . the town she’s barely ever left.

So, when her dad drops a bombshell over their weekly Sunday dinner, Tabby takes a look at her own life. She lives firmly in her comfort zone and doesn’t know how to break out. Sometimes she wishes she could go back and start all over again.

When she meets Bea, a free spirit like no one else she’s ever known, with an ‘interesting’ sense of style, Tabby quickly befriends her, recognising in Bea the change she’s been craving. But soon it becomes clear that more has changed than her new friend. Somehow Tabby has been transported back to the 1980s.

With the chance to reinvent herself in another time, will Tabby finally manage to move forwards?

LOUISE PENTLAND is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Wilde novels trilogy and nonfiction book MumLife. She’s the number one parenting vlogger in the UK, with nine million combined followers across her social platforms. Louise is the creator and host of the podcast Mothers’ Meeting, where she interviews fellow mums and discusses all things motherhood.

Louise featured on the ‘Sunday Times Top 100 Influencers’ list and was crowned as the number one ‘mumfluencer’ by Mother & Baby. She is also a UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality and an NSPCC Ambassador for Childhood. Louise has filmed with an array of people, from Kim Kardashian to the Pope at the Vatican. She is also involved in the support and encouragement of childhood literacy with charity Bookstart.

‘Such a warm and witty author’ Jenny Colgan

‘A beautiful writer’ Lindsey Kelk

‘So much warmth’ Daisy Buchanan

A Deadly Likeness

Lesley McEvoy

An apparently repentant serial killer offers to help catch his own copycat in the gripping crime novel by a leading profiler and behavioural analyst

In the 80s and 90s, Jacob Malecki killed fifteen people over a thirteen-year period.

At the height of the murders, Dr Jo McCready was at university and, as an exercise, compiled a profile of Malecki, which broke open the case and helped send him down for life.

Twenty-five years later, a copycat killer is recreating his murders. What’s more, Malecki offers to help the police catch him from his own prison cell.

Malecki claims he’s repenting for his crimes. Jo doubts it, but as the body count rises, she can’t ignore the killer’s offer. What does he really want – and can Jo find out before anyone else dies?

LESLEY MCEVOY was born and bred in Yorkshire and has had a passion for writing in one form or another all her life. The writing took a backseat as Lesley developed her career as a behavioural analyst / profiler and psychotherapist – setting up her own consultancy business and therapy practice. She has written and presented extensively around the world for over twenty-five years, specialising in behavioural profiling and training, with a wide variety of organisations. The corporate world provided unexpected sources of writing material when, as Lesley said, she found more psychopaths in business than in prison! Through Lesley’s work in some of the UK’s toughest prisons, she met people whose lives had been characterised by drugs and violence and whose experiences informed the themes she now writes about. Deciding in 2017 to concentrate on her writing again, Lesley produced her debut novel, The Murder Mile

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‘Highly original and whipsmart on detail, I devoured it in one sitting’ Peter James

Break Free

Adam Alter

Atomic Habits crossed with Thinking Fast and Slow: a ground-breaking new framework to help you optimise your life, overcome obstacles, and achieve your potential

Break Free is a groundbreaking new smart-thinking title that will help anyone optimise their mind to overcome the obstacles holding them back.

Everyone, at some time, will go through episodes of simply being stuck; whether it’s in our careers or relationships, our personal, professional or artistic lives. We call these things ‘being stuck in a rut’, ‘having writer’s block’ or ‘being frozen in place’. This feeling of being stuck is not just harmful in the short term but is often dangerous to our mental health and well-being, with severe consequences to our success and development.

Break Free is the remedy for identifying and overcoming the ‘friction points’ holding us back. Adam Alter offers a brilliantly applicable new framework for not only getting ‘unstuck’ but also going on to thrive. Critically, he introduces us to the Friction Audit: a test to work out where our sticking points lie and categorise them as existing in our Head, Heart or Habits. Break Free then takes us through a five-step process to strive for more and to thrive.

By furnishing you with the tools to rise from the inertia, fear or failure holding you back, Break Free will help you optimise your life, overcome obstacles and achieve your potential.

ADAM ALTER is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the author of Drunk Tank Pink, a New York Times bestseller about the forces that shape how we think, feel and behave, and Irresistible, a book about the rise of tech addiction and what we should do about it. Alter was recently included in the Poets and Quants ‘40 Most Outstanding Business School Professors under 40 in the World’, and has written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Wired, Washington Post and Atlantic, among other publications. He has shared his ideas at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and with dozens of companies around the world.

Why, Father?

Toni Maguire

From No. 1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival

Julie was only a young girl when she was first abused by her father. His evil acts were followed by abuse from her local priest, arranged by her father. After her mother found out about the abuse, and believing there was nothing she could do to help her child, she committed suicide.

Julie and her siblings were split up and placed in different foster homes, all knowing they were unlikely to see each other ever again. Told that her mother had committed a grave sin, her foster parents were far from kind to her. She experienced years of loneliness, feeling completely abandoned.

The abuse Julie experienced was so extensive it led to her needing an operation to repair the damage her body went through. When asked who or what had been responsible, she responded ‘the priest’. But she was not believed in her small northern town in the 60s, where everyone believed a priest took his orders directly from God.

After finally meeting her kind and caring husband a few years ago, and after celebrating her sixtieth birthday, she decided it was time for her story to be told. This is her true story of survival.

TONI MAGUIRE is the author of fifteen books, including her own bestselling memoirs Don’t Tell Mummy and When Daddy Comes Home. Telling her own story encouraged others who had kept their childhood secrets hidden to approach her, and she now writes for those who need a voice, too.

To date, she has sold over 1.5 million books worldwide. Toni lives in the UK.

The 10 Commandments

Fats Timbo

The first inspirational book from TikTok megastar comedian, Fats Timbo

Ten commandments, ten chapters, ten ways to change your life.

Born with Achondroplasia, Fats Timbo entered a world which does not accept those outside of its expectations.

Fats had to develop her superpower: her fearlessness in the face of rejection and criticism. Her first book will show girls and women not to fear what others think, to revel in their ability to subvert expectations.

These are her ten commandments for living fearlessly.

Fats will share how she came to love her body, and face down her challenges, in her manifesto for all those who struggle with a fear of their own difference. Each chapter ends with personal journaling space, and once you have finished, Fats wants you to rip those pages out and create your own manifesto for living fearlessly.

FATS TIMBO is a twenty-three-year-old TikTok comedian with 2.5 million followers online, who rose to prominence for her snappy sketches, quick wit and disability-advocacy.

You can find her on TikTok and Instagram @fatstimbo.

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Kitty’s Salon

Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel

Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin

There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin ‘salon’ run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution.

Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic – the city of Cabaret. But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by women specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients. Masterminded by Heydrich, the spymaster who Hitler himself called ‘the man with the iron heart’, the exclusive bordello turned listening post was patronised by the Nazi leaders themselves, not knowing that hidden ears were listening.

One of the last untold stories of World War II, Salon Kitty’s sensational true history sheds new light on Nazi methods of control and coercion, and the way that they used and abused sex for their own perverse purposes.

Historian and journalist NIGEL JONES is the author of eight historical books and biographies, including acclaimed lives of Rupert Brooke and Oswald Mosley, Peace and War: Britain in 1914 and Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London. An authority on the poets of the Great War and the rise of Nazism and Fascism between the world wars, Nigel has also guided historical tours of the Western Front, Germany and Italy for several years. A former deputy editor of History Today and a founding editor of BBC History magazine, he writes and reviews regularly for these and other national newspapers and magazines, and frequently appears in TV historical documentaries.

URS BRUNNER studied History, Politics and Literature at the University of Zurich and the American University of Cairo, and works as a freelance journalist.

DR JULIA SCHRAMMEL is an Austrian journalist who studied at the University of Salzburg and works with several media companies.

Bear Woman

Karolina Ramqvist

Reflections on Myth, Motherhood and Hidden History

Marguerite de la Rocque didn’t exist before her guardian abandoned her on a remote island.

Abandoned, pregnant to a man she’d met on board one of the first ships sailing to settle what became Canada, Marguerite was forced to fight for her life against the treacherous wilderness of Nova Scotia, giving birth alone. When her guardian returned nearly two years later, her lover and her baby had died, but Marguerite had survived.

Returning to France, her story was concealed so that her family’s reputation might be protected.

Centuries later, a woman with small children of her own begins writing what she believes to be a television script about the life of Marguerite de la Rocque and her incredible story of survival against the odds. As she delves deeper into the hidden history of Marguerite and her extraordinary story of persecution and survival, the woman begins to question her ability to tell this story, or that of any woman in history, and in so doing exposes a fundamental truth about what it is to be both a writer and mother.

For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden’s bestselling authors, in which she examines motherhood and the female experience.

KAROLINA RAMQVIST is one of the most influential Swedish writers and feminists of her generation. In 2015, she was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize for her novel The White City.

‘The deeply personal journey of a writer, surprising and illuminating, and for me, familiar in the most reassuring way, as she loses herself in this compelling story’ Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky

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A New Life in the Château

Sarah Long

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La vie en rose begins at fifty!

Nicole and her friends are living the dream. No dull, tedious retirement for them – instead the nine friends have clubbed together to purchase a magnificent (if crumbling) château in Normandy. And after three years of shared dinners, fine wine and gorgeous scenery, they have finally settled into a routine. True, not everything has gone to plan. They’re one older resident down – and several younger residents up. Will and Fizz’s new baby, Louis, fills the house with life, and when Nicole’s daughter Maddie and her family arrive, they are welcomed into the fold.

But money for the upkeep of the château soon runs low, and the make-shift family decide to take in lodgers. The arrival of visitors brings a welcome new dynamic to their community, and one particular guest, the charming and intriguing artist Apolline Granger, draws them all in – with unexpected consequences.

How long can they keep living the dream?

The hilarious and feel-good escapist novel about friendship and new beginnings. Perfect for fans of Jo Thomas, Cathy Bramley and Veronica Henry.

SARAH LONG is a London-based author of three previously published commercial fiction novels and one hilarious memoir about her ten years living in Paris. She is a married mother of three.

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One Puzzling Afternoon

Emily Critchley

In a small town filled with secrets, Eightyfour-year-old Edie Green must look back into the past to discover what happened to her friend Lucy, who went missing years before . . .

I kept your secret, Lucy. I’ve kept it for more than sixty years . . .

It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-yearold Edie Green is lonely. Living alone with her eccentric mother – who conducts seances for the local Ludthorpe community – she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life.

When the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. But Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep . . .

Then Lucy goes missing.

2018. Edie is eighty-four and still living in Ludthorpe. When one day she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen, her family write it off as one of her many mix ups. There’s a lot Edie gets confused about these days. A lot she finds difficult to remember. But what she does know is this: she must find out what happened to Lucy, all those years ago . . .

A darkly compelling treat, One Puzzling Afternoon is an irresistible small-town mystery for fans of Elizabeth is Missing, Joanna Cannon and Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers.

EMILY CRITCHLEY grew up in Essex. She has lived in Brighton and London and now lives in Hertfordshire, where she works as a librarian. She has a first class BA in Creative Writing from London Metropolitan University and an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from Birkbeck University of London. Her YA debut Notes on my Family, was nominated for the Carnegie, long listed for the Branford Boase, and Book of the Week in the Sunday Times, and her middle grade novel, The Bear who Sailed the Ocean on an Iceberg, was published in October 2021 by independent publisher Everything With Words. One Puzzling Afternoon is her debut adult novel.

Titans of War

Wilbur Smith with Mark Chadbourn

A ruthless enemy. A civilisation in ruins

For over fifty years Egypt has known nothing but war and devastation at the hands of the Hyksos, a bloodthirsty barbarian people who crush armies in their wake. Times are desperate, but throughout the conflict, a brave resistance fights on under the great Taita.

Under Taita, Piay has been trained to become a great spy, unmatched by any other. Determined to prove his worth, he embarks on a dangerous mission the north – to Mycenae, through the heart of Hyksos land, and across the great sea – to find allies. As the situation becomes increasingly precarious, and the fate of the kingdom is hanging in the balance, can Piay succeed in his quest or will this mean the end of the glory that is Egypt once and for all?

Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom Wilbur Smith returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series.

WILBUR SMITH was born in Central Africa in 1933. He became a full time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds and has since published over fifty global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series, the Hector Cross Series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. An international phenomenon, his readership built up over fifty-five years of writing, establishing him as one of the most successful and impressive brand authors in the world. Wilbur Smith passed away peacefully at home in 2021 with his wife, Niso, by his side, leaving behind him a rich treasure-trove of novels and stories that will delight readers for years to come.

MARK CHADBOURN is a Sunday Times bestselling author of historical fiction novels about the Anglo-Saxon warrior Hereward, published under his pseudonym James Wilde. His Age of Misrule books, under his own name, have been translated into many languages. As a screenwriter, he’s written for the BBC and is currently developing a series for Lionsgate and several of the streaming networks. He began his career as a journalist reporting from the world’s hotspots.

The Hive Scarlett Brade

Should he live or die? You decide

Charlotte Goodwin looks directly at the camera and reveals a chilling truth to the thousands watching her Instagram Live broadcast. She has killed her exboyfriend’s new partner in cold blood. But she is not finished yet. The viewers must now vote to decide whether he should live or die.

The public display sends shockwaves rippling through the online community and the numbers of viewers skyrockets. But as Lincoln’s past is revealed, how will he be judged?

The Hive explores our darkest fears of the relationship between social media and mental health, but, most importantly, the strength of sisterhood against all the odds.

SCARLETT BRADE is the daughter of parents who migrated from the Caribbean to England in the early 1970s. She was born and educated in London, though as a child she spent her summers in Canada, where she developed her love affair with reading. When not writing, Scarlett spends most of her time cooking, drinking fine wines, and entertaining family and friends. The Hive is her first thriller novel, and she is currently writing her second.

‘Lively, shocking . . . A fresh, modern take on the revenge story’ Guardian

‘Tense, topical and stylish’ T.M. Logan

‘A gripping page-turner’ Nadine Matheson

An Island Promise

Patricia Wilson

Patricia Wilson returns with a sun-soaked novel set on the island of Corfu

Patricia Wilson’s latest sweeping historical romantic novel follows Daphne, a young, Jewish Greek artist, as she hides during the Nazi occupation of Athens . . .

In 2023, Daphne’s granddaughter, Flora, an art restorer, is planning her 100th birthday, when Daphne tells Flora of a valuable piece of art which bought her freedom during the war. Realising she knows so little about her family history, Flora heads to Corfu to uncover the secrets of their past . . .

PATRICIA WILSON was born in Liverpool, has lived on Crete and is now settled on Rhodes. She was first inspired to write when she unearthed a rusted machine gun in her garden – one used in the events that unfolded during World War II on the island of Crete. The now elderly women involved in those events told Patricia their story, and her celebrated debut Island of Secrets (170k copies sold) was the result.

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The Spider

Lars Kepler

The brilliantly creepy and dark new thriller from one of the world’s biggest crime writers

Three years ago, Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threatening text about a gun with nine white bullets – one of which is waiting for Detective Joona Linna. But time passed and the threat faded. Until now.

A sack with a decomposed body is found tied to a tree in the forest. A milky white bullet casing is found at the murder scene. And soon the police are sent complicated riddles from the killer – a chance to stop further murders.

Joona Linna and Saga Bauer must fight side by side to solve the puzzle and save each victim before it’s too late. But the violent hunt becomes increasingly desperate.

LARS KEPLER is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (b. 1966) and Alexander Ahndoril (b. 1967), authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series.

With seven instalments to date, the series has sold seventeen million copies in forty languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler and have each published several acclaimed novels.

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Master the Art of Trading

Lewis Daniels

This the most comprehensive, up-todate primer for novice traders – covering everything from commodities to crypto –written by a leading expert

Trading has never been more popular. From hobbyists to armchair investors to day traders, in recent years we have seen a boom unlike anything before, as people look to the markets for a boost in evermore precarious times. However, existing books on the subjects are generally too old, too niche or too arcane – there is nothing comprehensive and cutting edge that offers new traders an entry point into investing. Master the Art of Trading does exactly that.

From explaining the grand theories of trading to discussing the behavioural economics underpinning the markets; from unpicking visual data, such as candlestick graphs and trend lines, to revealing the secrets of a successful trade: this book provides budding and novice investors with all the tools to become supremely more informed, confident and competent.

Lewis Daniels is one of the leading lights of the trading scene, with an uncanny knack of predicting major trends, and is the director of Mayfair Trading. Master the Art of Trading is an accessible, comprehensive, and engaging primer for novice traders, to help them hit the ground running and make an impact in the markets.

LEWIS DANIELS grew up wanting to be a trader from the moment he visited New York’s Wall Street as a teenager while on a school trip from Wales. Lewis went on to found his own trading platform, Mayfair Trading, operating out of the Welsh valleys. Completely self-taught, Lewis is now recognised as the one of the leading lights of investing. Lewis wrote Master the Art of Trading originally as a trading primer for his eleven-year-old son.

Opening Doors

Reggie Nelson

An inspirational memoir of how a young person, against the odds, changed the course of their life

Whatever ideas, plans and dreams you have, you’ve got to go for them! Be your biggest supporter, learn to eradicate the doubts in your mind, embrace the rejections and start opening doors . . .

Reggie Nelson had a tough childhood growing up on a council estate in East London. His father suddenly died and his mother had to work multiple jobs just to get by. But when she had to collect Reggie from a cell where he, at only twelve, was being held for troublemaking, he knew he needed to change. After catching an episode of How’d You Get So Rich?, Reggie was inspired to get any advice he could to help him turn his life around. So, he got on a train to London’s most affluent areas and started knocking on doors. What he found was more powerful than he thought possible – and changed the course of his life.

Inspiring, moving and empowering, Opening Doors is a story of how the power of guidance, visibility and mentoring can give anyone the platform to learn and succeed. Because when one door closes, another door will always open . . .

REGGIE NELSON is an Associate for a Private Equity in London and sits on the advisory board of a large social mobility charity in the UK. He previously served as the Group Chair of the ACCA Student Advisory Group and spent a year as a co-host of the #YourWorkYourMoney podcast on BBC 5 Live. He is constantly featured in national press and media and has spoken all over the world on topics ranging from his story, social mobility and education to finance and investing. Reggie is a big advocate of mentoring and offers a huge amount of time mentoring students from socially disadvantaged areas across the UK.

Season of the Witch

The Book of Goth Cathi Unsworth

The first book to cover the inception and rise of goth – one of the world’s most enduringly popular musical subcultures

1979. Months of industrial action throughout the winter have left the dead unburied and mountains of rubbish piling up in the streets.

Unlikely alliances of outsiders prepare to seize power, set the political agenda and write the soundtrack for the years to come. Their figureheads are two very different kinds of dominatrices . . .

As Margaret Thatcher enters 10 Downing Street, four bands born of punk – Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, the Cure, and Magazine – find a way to distil the dissonance and darkness of the shifting decade into a new form of music. Pushing at the taboos the Sex Pistols had unlocked and dancing with the fetishistic, all will become global stars of goth.

By the time Thatcher is cast out of office in 1990, the arrival of goth will have imprinted itself on the cultural landscape as much as the Iron Lady herself.

Now, forty years since its inception, author Cathi Unsworth provides the first comprehensive overview of the music, context and lasting legacy of goth. This is the story of how goth was shaped by the politics of the era –from the miners’ strikes and privatisation to the Troubles and AIDS – as well as how its rock ’n’ roll outlaw imagery

and innovative, atmospheric music cross-pollinated throughout Britain and internationally, speaking to a generation of alienated youths.

A fascinating social history, Season of the Witch tells the tale of an enduring counterculture, one that steadfastly refuses to give up the ghost.

CATHI UNSWORTH began her career on the legendary music weekly Sounds at the age of nineteen, where she topped a poll to be named the Sounds journalist readers would most like to go for a drink with. Her popularity was down to her identification with gothic music.

Cathi’s previous book, Defying Gravity, was described by Julie Burchill as ‘the only book about punk you’ll ever need’ and was chosen as Book of the Year by Rough Trade, Uncut and the Daily Telegraph in 2019. She has also written six pop-culture-laced noir novels and her shortform work has appeared in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Bizarre, Melody Maker, Mojo and Uncut.

Unforgettable

Steve Thompson

Unforgettable is a powerful, affecting and raw story from one of the true giants of British rugby

I’m in my early forties. There are days when I don’t remember the names of my wife and four kids . . .

In 2003, England won the Rugby World Cup. Steve Thompson was in England’s front row, at the heart of the match and at the heart of the scrum – one of sport’s most violent battlegrounds.

But triumph came at a cost. Today, he remembers nothing about playing in that final. In his words, watching the tape back is like watching a ghost.

The years of hurt, and the culture of sucking up punishment and coming back for more, have taken a terrible toll. Steve has been diagnosed with early onset dementia and serious progressive brain damage. Steve and his wife, Steph, had a happy family life planned, with decades ahead of them. Now he needs to capture these elusive memories for the sake of his children, before they disappear forever.

With stories contributed by his world-cup winning teammates and his former manager, Sir Clive Woodward, Unforgettable is raw, powerful storytelling. This tale of hope and courage stands as testament to the ultimate strength of the human mind – and to a man no longer pushing himself to the limit for competition, but for his own place in the world.

STEVE THOMPSON MBE is a former Rugby Union player and 2003 Rugby World Cup winner. Once England’s most capped hooker, Thompson has also played for the British & Irish Lions as well as playing almost 200 matches for the Northampton Saints. The legacy of Steve’s life in rugby should be a host of treasured memories. Instead, it is one of trying to recall the names of his wife and four young children, being lost in a street he has walked down a hundred times. Steve has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, the result of endless collisions, concussions and injuries. He is now campaigning to improve the game and safeguard those who play it.

‘A deeply affecting read . . . among the most important ever’ Daily Mail

‘So powerful. This book might just change the way you think about sport forever’ Sir Clive Woodward

‘As brave as they come’ Gareth Thomas

‘Moving and profound’ The Times

‘Heartbreaking’ Owen Slot, The Times

Miss Willmott’s Ghosts

Sandra Lawrence

The beguiling story of one of Britain’s most remarkable horticulturalists

Ellen Ann Willmott was a remarkable woman whose achievements in horticulture, botany, landscape architecture, photography and more should have made her one of the most well-known trailblazers of her age. Yet, both posthumously and within her lifetime, she instead became known as a bitter, cantankerous and eccentric miser, and her reputation has been forever stained by the image of her maliciously seeding other people’s gardens with thorns.

The beginnings of this prickly myth can be traced back to her conspicuous absence at what should have been the pinnacle of her career: the Royal Horticultural Society’s inaugural Victoria Medal of Honour Award ceremony, at which she was due to be one of only two female recipients. Universally interpreted as the rudest of snubs, nobody has ever stopped to question why Ellen wasn’t there or if she was really as difficult and mean as she has been portrayed ever since.

Sandra Lawrence has been granted unparalleled access to her archives, and with it has uncovered the secrets behind this thorniness. This is a book with it all: gossip, sisters, rivalry, squandered inheritance, forbidden love, bad marriages and, at the heart of it all, trailblazing talent.

SANDRA LAWRENCE is a freelance journalist and author, writing, over the past twenty-odd years, hundreds of articles for all the broadsheets and over sixty magazines and journals. She specialises in heritage and garden writing; publications to which she has contributed horticultural features include the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Times Weekend, the Guardian, Independent, FT, Britain, British Heritage, the English Garden, Hortus, Landscape, Garden News, Country Life and Homes & Gardens. She is a columnist for British Heritage Travel and on the Q&A expert panel for History Revealed. She is a full member of the Garden Media Guild.

Sandra is the author of fourteen non-fiction books for adults and children, on a variety of subjects, ranging from history (including Murder and Mayhem, Bonnier, 2016; Trials and Treachery, Bonnier, 2017 and Instant History, Carlton, 2019) via myths, legends and folklore (including Myths & Legends, 360 Degrees, 2017; An Atlas of Heroes, Templar, 2018; and An Atlas of Monsters, Templar, 2019) and quirky heritage (Paperscapes: Paris, Welbeck, 2019; Paperscapes: London, Welbeck 2019).

Sandra was shortlisted for GMG Journalist of the Year, 2018–19, for a series of three long-form essays in Hortus about the Victorian Kitchen Garden; she was also shortlisted for the SLA’s Information Book Award in both 2018–19 and 2019–20.

‘An amazing read! I galloped through it.’ Lady Antonia Fraser

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Box-Set Business School

Rhianna Dhillon

Box-Set Business School explores the brilliant business lessons buried in the most celebrated TV series of our time, from The Sopranos to Succession. Bingewatch your way to an MBA!

‘It’s all about the product, says Walter White in Breaking Bad. ‘Make it simple but significant,’ asserts Mad Men’s Don Draper. ‘Shit runs downhill, money runs up,’ curses Tony Soprano.

They’re not wrong. In fact, these are some of the business principles that have stood the test of time: enduring lessons that have built brands, forged firms and created corporations. These are some of the tenets underpinning Fortune and FTSE 100 organisations and espoused by the some of the most inspiring business mavericks on the planet. In fact, there’s a whole lot that our favourite TV box-sets can teach us about the world of business –lessons that wouldn’t be out of place in any MBA. TV critic and broadcaster Rhianna Dhillon leads us through the very best that TV series can teach us about the world of business. From why you should always put the product first in Breaking Bad to why there’s no substitute for learning what the client needs over a cocktail in Mad Men; from cash flow being king in The Sopranos to the importance of teamwork in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

With Box-Set Business School, you can learn all about business from the comfort of your sofa – and never have to feel bad about binge-watching until the early hours ever again.

RHIANNA DHILLON is a freelance film critic and radio presenter. She is the Film and TV reviewer for Lauren Laverne on BBC 6Music, host of podcasts for Radio Times and the British Independent Film Awards, and presenter for BAFTA and the BFI. She has been the film critic for BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Sky News, Sky News Sunrise, and Channel 5 News. This is her first book.

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The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches Carol Ann Lee

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The true story behind the Pendle Witch Murders . . .

On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster’s Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture; their treatment was such that one of the group died in Lancaster Castle’s dungeons while awaiting trial.

Today, a thriving tourism industry exists in and around Pendle, the former home of the so-called witches, yet virtually everything we know about the case originates from a single source: Thomas Potts’s Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches, hurriedly published in 1613 and distinctly skewed in favour of the prosecution. Until now . . .

Sunday Times bestselling author Carol Ann Lee brings an entirely fresh perspective to the story by approaching it as true crime. Having worked in the genre for more than a decade, her research leads to revelatory discoveries, transforming our knowledge of those shadowy figures behind ill-famed names, and the terrible events that befell them.

After four centuries of superstition and surmise, the two central warring families – each headed by a fiercely independent widow working as ‘cunning women’ – emerge fully formed, as the book uncovers the reality of their lives and their alleged crimes before exploring the trial and executions.

Along the way, we uncover the truth behind some of the story’s most enduring mysteries. This is a groundbreaking book that takes the reader on a spellbinding journey into the dark heart of England’s largest and most notorious witch trial.

Born in Yorkshire in 1969, CAROL ANN LEE spent her childhood in Cornwall and now lives in York. She has written on subjects as wide-ranging as Anne Frank and Ruth Ellis, and specialises in true crime. Her book on Myra Hindley, One of Your Own, is the definitive study of both Hindley and the Moors Murders case. Lynda La Plante chose Somebody’s Mother, Somebody’s Daughter, Carol’s 2019 book on the victims and survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper, as her Book of the Year in the Christmas edition of The Big Issue. The Murders at White House Farm, Carol’s 2015 book, was optioned for television by New Pictures and aired on ITV1.

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This Wild, Wild Country Inga Vesper

The captivating new mystery from the author of The Long, Long Afternoon

Three women. An isolated town. A decades-old mystery.

1933. Cornelia Stover is headstrong and business-minded – not the kind of woman the men of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be. Then she stumbles upon a secret hidden out in the hills . . .

1970. Decades later, Joanna Riley, a former cop, packs up her car in the middle of the night and drives west, fleeing an abusive marriage and a life she can no longer bear. Eventually, she runs out of gas and finds herself in Boldville, a sleepy desert town in the foothills of the Gila Mountains.

Joanna was looking for somewhere to retreat, to hide, but something is off about this place. In a commune on the outskirts a young man has been found dead, and Joanna knows a cover up when she sees it. Soon, she and Glitter, a young, disaffected hippie, find themselves caught up in a dark mystery that goes to the very heart of Boldville, where for too long people have kept their eyes shut and turned their heads away. A mystery that leads them all the way back to the unexplained disappearance of Glitter’s grandmother Cornelia forty years before . . .

A captivating, atmospheric new novel from the lauded author of The Long, Long Afternoon, This Wild, Wild Country simmers with secrets, lies and terrible betrayal, unravelling the lives of three women at the mercy of their times.

INGA VESPER is a journalist and editor. She moved to the UK from Germany to work as a carer, before the urge to write and explore brought her to journalism. As a reporter, she covered the coroner’s court and was able to observe how family, neighbours and police react to a suspicious death. Inga has worked in Syria and Tanzania, but now lives in Glasgow, because there’s no better way to find a good story than eavesdropping on the chatter in a Scottish cafe on a rainy day.

‘Thrilling, haunting and darkly beautiful. This Wild, Wild Country enchants as mysteries deepen and secrets echo over the harsh realities of the American Dream’ Chris Whitaker

‘Vesper is immensely readable’ Sunday Times

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Kat Ailes

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Motherland meets Midsomer Murders

in this fresh and funny mystery about a group of soon-to-be mums who turn detective when there’s a murder at their antenatal class

For Alice and her partner, Joe, moving to the sleepy Cotswold village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their unexpected first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she’ll learn to make jam. But the rural idyll they’d hoped for doesn’t quite pan out when a dead body is discovered at their local antenatal class and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation.

With a cloud of suspicion hanging over the heads of the whole group, Alice sets out to solve the mystery and clear her name, with the help of her troublesome dog, Helen. However, there are more secrets and tensions in the heart of Penton than first meet the eye. Between the discovery of a shady commune up in the woods, the unearthing of a mysterious death years earlier and the near-tragic poisoning of Helen, Alice is soon in way over her head.

KAT AILES ’s debut novel was runner-up for the Comedy Women in Print Unpublished Prize 2021. She works as an editor and freelanced for several years to allow her to take a couple of belated gap years, including hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. She now lives in the Cotswolds with her lovely husband and son and her beautiful but foolish dog.

Bridget’s War

Shirley Mann

A heartwarming and inspiring saga of a female police office during World War II

The Isle of Man, 1942

Manx born and bred, Bridget Quayle loves the island and knows every inch of it like the back of her hand. But that doesn’t mean she wants to be there now, as World War II rages around the world.

As a newly trained police officer, living in the vibrant and bustling city of London, she had it all. A budding career, celebrity status as one of only a few female officers, and a busy social life. Then World War II strengthened its grip and she found herself posted back to the island – a stark contrast to the exciting streets of the capital.

But, tasked with managing Rushen Camp, a women’s internment camp, she realises that the war can be just as dangerous on an island in the middle of the Irish Sea as in the centre of a big city. When the arrival of two women claiming to be Austrian Jews arouses Bridget’s suspicions, she finds herself tested beyond anything she was taught in her training. And when a childhood friend of her brothers comes back to the island, she finds she is torn between being the professional adult she wants to be and the tomboy from her childhood who roamed the cliffs without boundaries.

SHIRLEY MANN is a Derbyshire-based journalist who spent most of her career at the BBC. She now makes short films for organisations such as the Heritage Lottery Fund. Her first novel, Lily’s War, was inspired by Shirley’s mother, who was a WAAF and her father who was in the Eighth Army. Her second book, Bobby’s War is about a young ATA pilot.

The Country Village Allotment

Cathy Lake

A feel-good seasonal read about community, female friendship and the power of nature

At eighty-two years old, Zelda Grey is tired. The only thing that brings Zelda joy these days is her allotment in the gorgeous village of Little Bramble, where she has lived her whole life, and her three cranky goats.

Widow Mia Holmes always loved visiting Little Bramble Allotment with her husband, Gideon. But, since his death, she can’t motivate herself. She’s reached breaking point, and isn’t sure she can carry on.

And history teacher Liz Carter thought she had it all. The perfect job, perfect boyfriend in Rhodri and the perfect wedding to plan. Until she found Rhodri in bed with the neighbour. As she wallows in her misery, her sister takes her in hand and drags her to Little Bramble Allotment, and suddenly she discovers the wonders of planting, growing and getting her hands dirty.

In an increasingly lonely world, these three women strike up an unlikely friendship and find that community, female friendship and the wonders of nature can truly be powerful healers.

CATHY LAKE is a women’s fiction writer who lives with her family and three dogs in beautiful South Wales. She writes uplifting stories about strong women, family, friendship, love, community and overcoming obstacles.

Codename Faust

Gustaf Skördeman

The thrilling sequel to Gustaf Skördeman’s bestseller, Geiger, which took the world by storm

Who have you spoken to about me?

What do you know about Operation Wahasha?

What have you told Detective Sara Nowak?

These are the last words priest Jürgen Stiller hears before he is executed by a former terrorist known only by the codename ‘Faust’.

Then the killer begins the hunt for Detective Sara Nowak.

Nowak is dangerously unaware that she is a target – until she is shot at in her own home.

As Nowak races to unmask her would-be assassin, the trail leads her back to West Germany, to a group of radical terrorist fanatics – and to a deadly question:

What was Operation Wahasha?

With Faust closing in, Nowak must find the answers before many more lives are taken – including her own.

GUSTAF SKÖRDEMAN was born in Sweden and is a screenwriter, director and producer. Geiger, his thriller debut, was published in more than twenty languages.

Praise for Geiger

‘A fast-paced thriller . . . An impressive debut’ Financial Times

What the Focaccia

Ginger Jones

Escape to Italy with the brand-new foodie romcom from the author of You Had Me at Halloumi

Ginger Jones is back with her next laugh-out-loud, mouth-watering tale from the rolling fields of sundrenched Italy.

Ramona Matthews had it all: A glittering fashion career. A passion for paragliding. Unconditional love. But a flying injury and a rejected clothing line later, she’s been blown off course.

It doesn’t help that her boyfriend, Harry, is overcompensating. They’ve never discussed marriage and now here he is proposing on a zero-gravity flight surrounded by strangers. This is not the happily-ever-after Ramona was envisaging.

So, leaving her old life behind, she heads to Italy with the wild idea of setting up an inclusive fashion studio in a disused wine cellar. The inhabitants of her new village are sceptical – not least of all the attractive and infuriating Marco.

Can a year in Tuscany get her life back on track? And will Ramona ever learn to love and fly again?

GINGER JONES is a fiery redhead with a love for chocolate, spicy food and swimming al fresco. She collects chintzy china teacups, drinks loose leaf Darjeeling and loves fifties fashion. Most of her writing time is spent in the company of Lulu, her schnoodle who has helped and hindered the creation of Halloumi and What the Focaccia? in equal measure.

Ginger loves comic writing. Her influences are Caitlin Moran, Helen Fielding and Nora Ephron. Having previously written for the stage, she finds the live buzz of theatre exhilarating and enjoys nothing more than finding fringe venues she never knew existed.

She and Lulu look forward to penning many more novels together.

Praise for You Had Me At Halloumi

‘Fun and quirky romcom!’

‘This book made we want to eat loads of Greek food and try out new recipes!’

‘Perfect for a sunny afternoon’

‘This mouth watering and sunny story is the epitome of escapism’

The Launch Party

Lauren Forry

Agatha Christie meets Andy Weir in the ultimate locked room mystery set in the first hotel on the moon

Ten lucky people have won a place at the most exclusive launch event of the century: the grand opening of the Hotel Artemis, the first hotel on the moon. It’s an invitation to die for. As their transport departs for its return to Earth and the doors seal shut behind them, the guests take the next leap for mankind.

However, they soon discover that all is not as it seems. The champagne may be flowing, but there is no one to pour it. Room service is available, but there is no one to deliver it. Besides the ten of them, they are completely alone.

When one of the guests is found murdered, fear spreads through the group. But that death is only the beginning. Being three days’ journey from home and with no way to contact the outside, can any of the guests survive their stay?

LAUREN FORRY was brought up in the woods of Pennsylvania before moving to New York City to earn her undergraduate degree in Cinema Studies and Screenwriting from New York University. She later earned her MA and MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing from Kingston University in London, England. There she was awarded the Faber and Faber Creative Writing MA Prize for her thesis work, Abigale Hall. She is now an Assistant Professor of English at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and also adjuncts for Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA programme. She resides in Bucks County, PA with her dogs and whatever it is her dogs bark at in the night.

Home Pub Date: 22/6/2023

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The Illusions

Liz Hyder

The captivating new novel from the multiaward-winning author of The Gifts and Bearmouth

At a time of extraordinary change, two women must harness their talents to take control of their own destiny . . .

Bristol, 1896. Used to scraping a living as the young assistant to an ageing con artist, Cecily Marsden’s life is turned upside down when her master suddenly dies. Believing herself to blame, could young Cec somehow have powers she little understands?

Meanwhile, Eadie Carleton, a pioneering early filmmaker, struggles for her talent to be taken seriously in a male-dominated world, and a brilliant young magician, George Perris, begins to see the potential in moving pictures. George believes that if he can harness this new technology, it will revolutionise the world of magic forever – but in order to achieve his dreams, he must first win over Miss Carleton . . .

As a group of illusionists prepare for a grand spectacle, Cec, Eadie and George’s worlds collide. But as Cec falls in love with the bustling realm of theatre and magic, she faces the fight of her life to save the performance from sabotage and harness the element of real magic held deep within her.

The Illusions is the captivating new novel from the muchlauded author of The Gifts. Inspired by real-life illusionists and early film pioneers, this astonishing story of women and talent, magic and power, sweeps you into a world where anything is possible and nothing is quite as it seems . . .

LIZ HYDER has been making up stories for as long she can remember. She has a BA in drama from the University of Bristol and, in early 2018, won the Bridge Award/Moniack Mhor Emerging Writer Award. Bearmouth, her debut young adult novel, won a Waterstones

Children’s Book Prize and the Branford Boase Award, and was chosen as the Children’s Book of the Year by The Times. Originally from London, she now lives in South Shropshire.

Praise for The Gifts

‘Fierce and touching’ Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne

‘Haunting, thrilling, wonderful. I loved it’ Stacey Halls, bestselling author of Mrs England

‘A stirring tale of female empowerment, full of vivid imagery and evocative settings’ Observer

Bandit Country

Jamie Reid

A gripping, atmospheric true-crime epic, for fans of Peaky Blinders and Get Carter . . .

Welcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess. A world of luxurious nightclubs where racketeers, gamblers and glamorous women mixed with entrepreneurs, bunny girls, politicians and policemen. Bandit Country is a gripping, atmospheric true-crime noir.

It is the story of Britain’s 1960’s gambling boom, as the country emerged from years of hardship to embrace exotic night-life and entertainment, all supplied by the Mafia.

It is a emotional, visceral story of brothers: the Luvaglios, who dreamed of an empire founded among the hard industrial skylines and bridges of Newcastle, built on good times and bright lights – dreams that, for a moment, were lived in technicolour; and the Kray twins, who looked up to this new kingdom from London and saw a slice of action they wanted for themselves.

And above all, it is a story of betrayal, murder and a shocking miscarriage of justice, as empires crumble, friends turn on friends, and the good times come screeching to a halt. Sure to be loved by fans of Peaky Blinders, this story – that inspired classic British gangster film Get Carter – isn’t quite like anything you’ve read before. Turn the page and roll the dice . . .

JAMIE REID is the author of the non-fiction books, A License to Print Money (shortlisted for the 1992 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award), Days Like These, The Education of a Racing Lover (short listed for 2004 William Hill gambling Book of the year award). His true story Doped, about the 1960s racehorse doping gangs, was the winner of the 2013 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He is also a journalist and has written for the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, the Financial Times, Harpers and Queen, the New Statesman, Money Observer and Private Eye.

The Stone Age

Lesley-Ann Jones

The Rolling Stones juggernaut appraised and dissected as never before – the good, the bad, the ugly

From Sunday Times bestselling author LesleyAnn Jones.

On 12th July 1962, the Rollin’ Stones performed their firstever gig at London’s Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a ‘g’ was added, a spark was lit and their destiny was sealed. No going back.

These five white British kids set out to play the music of Black America. They honed a style that bled bluesy undertones into dark insinuations of women, sex and drugs. Denounced as ‘corruptors of youth’ and ‘messengers of the devil’, they created some of the most thrilling music ever recorded.

Now, their sound and attitude seem louder and more influential than ever. Elvis is dead and the Beatles are over, but Jagger and Richards bestride the world. The Stones may be gathering moss, but on they roll.

Yet how did the ultimate anti-establishment misfits become the global brand we know today? Who were the casualties, and what are the forgotten legacies? Can the artist ever be truly divisible from the art?

Lesley-Ann Jones’s new history tracks this contradictory, disturbing, granitic and unstoppable band through hope, glory and exile, into the juggernaut years and beyond into rock’s ongoing reckoning . . . where the Stones seem more at odds than ever with the values and heritage against which they have always rebelled.

Good, bad and often ugly, here are the Rolling Stones as never before.

LESLEY-ANN JONES is an acclaimed biographer, novelist, broadcaster and keynote speaker. She honed her craft on Fleet Street, as a newspaper journalist. She is the bestselling author of Bohemian Rhapsody: The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury, Hero: David Bowie, and Ride a White Swan: The Lives & Deaths of Marc Bolan. A childhood friend of David Bowie, Lesley-Ann has interviewed many of the world’s best-loved artists, including Paul McCartney, Madonna and Prince, often forming lifelong friendships with her subjects. She is a mother of three and lives in London.

The Islander

My Life in Music and Beyond Chris Blackwell

The definitive autobiography by renowned Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, looking back across his phenomenal life and career

As the founder of Island Records, renowned music producer Chris Blackwell has discovered and worked with some of the most legendary artists of the second half of the twentieth century – from Steve Winwood to Cat Stevens, Bob Marley to Grace Jones, U2 to Roxy Music, via Nick Drake, the B-52’s and Robert Palmer.

A maverick free spirit himself, Blackwell turned Island into a home for groundbreaking musicians and their wildly divergent music styles, playing an instrumental role in bringing reggae to the world stage.

Now, as he reflects on his life, the great raconteur takes us back to the island where it all began: Jamaica – the paradise where his family once partied with the likes of Noël Coward, Ian Fleming and Errol Flynn and where, as local Jamaican sounds began to adopt contemporary American trends, Blackwell’s burgeoning musical instincts flourished. It was also the birthplace of the cutting-edge Island Records, founded by Blackwell in 1959. But that was just the start of a truly remarkable career . . .

Winding through the music industry, this fascinating memoir makes for a giddy ride, encountering Island’s many esteemed collaborators over the years and unpacking the initiatives, decisions and risks that ultimately brought such enduring success to Blackwell, both in music and beyond.

CHRIS BLACKWELL is a celebrated record producer, businessman and founder of the hugely influential Island Records music label.

PAUL MORLEY is an acclaimed British music journalist and music industry executive.

Rave New World

Confessions of a Raving Reporter Kirk Field

A laser-lit, laugh-out-loud trip through the 1990s clubbing scene –a This Is Going to Hurt for the rave generation

As a humble barman at the M25 Orbital raves, Kirk Field witnessed the moment acid house exploded. Inspired by media lies to start writing the truth about what he saw unfolding, Kirk became a ‘raving’ reporter for the clubbers’ bible Mixmag, covering the historic parties from the inside and sending sweat-soaked dispatches from distant dancefloors as the scene expanded across Europe and beyond.

With a cast of characters including Diego Maradona, Timothy Leary, the KLF, Michael Eavis, Genesis P-Orridge, Brigitte Nielsen, Boris Yeltsin, Boy George, Saddam Hussein’s wife, the president of Tunisia, the CIA, the KGB, Dave Courtney, Norman Lamont’s dominatrix and even Her Majesty the Queen, Kirk’s whirlwind account of the golden age of clubbing tells the story of what really happened in the ‘naughty 90s’, exposing the seedy underbelly of rave culture while also capturing the nostalgic spirit of the era.

Told through a mixture of vivid first-person narrative, surreal insider anecdotes and incisive social commentary, this honest, hilarious and uncensored postcard of hedonism will appeal to anyone who’s ever put their hands in the air like they just don’t care.

KIRK FIELD was re-born in June 1989 in a courtyard in Hackney and spent the next decade of his life dancing, travelling, writing, singing and promoting some of London’s biggest club nights, his words appearing in the likes of Mixmag, DJ Mag and the NME.

In 1999, he formed a bespoke clubbing travel company, becoming the first person to deliver international club cruises from the UK. His knowledge of the scene led to him penning Ibiza guides for everyone from the Sun to Time Out and presenting features on Radio 1 and MTV.

Since 2005, Kirk has helped to develop the world’s premier alpine music festival, Snowbombing in Austria, for which he continues to provide creative consultancy and media hosting.

Managing Expectations

Minnie Driver

Honest, funny, raw and brilliantly written: essays from Minnie Driver

Managing Expectations is a collection of delicately crafted, hilarious and heartfelt essays, a ‘tell-most’, in which Minnie Driver uses her formidable storytelling skills to examine and understand her less-than-ordinary life. Suffused with warmth and humour, Minnie shares poignant, candid and honest stories of her unconventional childhood, the shock of fame, motherhood, love, success, failure, the power of sisterly love, and the loss of her beloved mother.

It’s about how things not working out actually worked out in the end, and how reaching for the dream is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream itself coming true.

MINNIE DRIVER is best known for her breakout role in Circle of Friends and the 1997 film Good Will Hunting (which reaped nominations for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award). She has appeared in numerous TV programmes, including The Riches, starring opposite Eddie Izzard, for which she was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe. She is also a singer, with three studio albums and the host of the podcast Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver.

‘Vital, heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with humour, style and intelligence’ Graham Norton

‘A wonderful memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled it up in one joyous sitting’ Elizabeth Day

‘A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving’ Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt

Home Pub Date: 8/6/2023

ISBN: 9781789466485

Format: Hardback

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The Natural History of Crime

Patricia Wiltshire

Date: 8/6/2023

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Working at the interface of where the criminal and natural world interact, Patricia shows us how she finds the answers to some of the worst crimes imaginable

I love puzzles, and finding answers is the only truly enjoyable part of what I do.

This is because Professor Patricia Wiltshire is a forensic ecologist, her days spent at crime scenes collecting samples, standing over dead bodies in a mortuary, or looking down her microscope for evidence. Nature has given us a messy, imperfect world, but her job is to help make sense of it when we need to most.

A pioneer of forensic ecology – using the natural world to help solve crimes – Patricia has been involved in some of the most high-profile murder cases. Not only does she help the police solve crimes and give answers to the most bemusing circumstances but she can help exonerate the innocent and enable confessions from the guilty.

Through a study of her most infamous cases, we join Patricia in putting the puzzle together, teasing the evidence out of her cases – ‘a garden came out of his hair’ – and showing us all how life and death have always been, and always will be, intertwined.

PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILTSHIRE

has worked on over 300 criminal cases across the UK, including some of the highest profile cases of the past twenty-five years. A leading voice in forensic science, she has worked with every police force in the UK on cases involving rape, murder, abduction, neglect and searching for graves and hidden remains.

No Free Parking

Nicholas Boys Smith

A new history of London, framed through its Monopoly streets and the colourful stories behind them

From the medieval cobbles, through Dickensian iron and fog, to the neon lights and bustle of the twenty-first century, the ever-changing streets of London map out the vibrant stories, triumphs and struggles of everyone who ever called London home.

From the Roman and Celts marching along the ancient Old Kent Road, to the rattling newspaper presses of Fleet Street, the game of Monopoly has painted London’s story across cheerful coloured tiles.

But those Monopoly streets live and breathe – they don’t just illuminate our history. They open up whole new ways of thinking about it. The mobs have taken to our streets. The overlords have taken them back. Wars have spilled out into them. Lovers have snuck around them, and fires have raged through them.

In a city of rags and riches, where folk hero Dick Whittington believed the streets were paved with gold, anything could happen – and everything has.

You may think you know the history of London. You don’t. Or at least, not entirely. This is the story of the capital as you’ve never, quite, heard it before.

NICHOLAS BOYS SMITH is a Londoner. He read history at Cambridge where he received a double first and an historical research MPhil with distinction. After an international career with McKinsey & Co and in finance, he founded and now runs the London-based social enterprise Create Streets. He has served as a Commissioner for Historic England and has a host of distinguished academic credentials. Alain de Botton has called his recent research: ‘an artful recipe book for that most crucial of human achievements: good cities.’ He has written for the Spectator, Evening Standard, The Times, Sunday Times, Telegraph, The Critic, etc, and been interviewed across TV and radio.

From CIA to CEO

Rupal Patel

From CIA to CEO is an ops manual for entrepreneurs that reveals how the esoteric techniques of the CIA can help anyone find their voice, discover their potential, and thrive in the world of business Agent-turned-entrepreneur Rupal Patel shares the unique skills she developed as a female field agent in the high-octane, alpha-male world of the CIA, and combines those clandestine insights with her experience as a business leader and mentor. She reveals how methods such as Profiling and Situational Awareness help amplify strengths and build resilience. How game-changing new frameworks like Identity Driven Leadership and Personal Energy Mapping instil drive, purpose and conviction. And how the CIA mindset encourages you to remake the rules to find your own path and reach your goals.

Full of motivating stories and unique exercises, From CIA to CEO will equip you with the all the tools you’ll need for achieving Mission Success

The daughter of Indian immigrants, RUPAL PATEL is a born-and-bred New Yorker now living near London. Her unconventional career as a CIA analyst and successful entrepreneur has taken her from dusty briefing rooms in jungles and war zones to the gilded halls of NATO and Capitol Hill. As a CEO, leadership consultant and strategic advisor, she now helps founders, corporate leaders, and next generation change-makers lead in powerful, meaningful ways while building mental toughness and unshakable resilience.

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