W.F. Howes CD & Playaway Brochure July-September 2015

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U NA BR I D G E D AU DIOB OOK S N EW R E L E A SE S July – September 2015 CD & Playaway

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Dear Librarian, Welcome to our Summer catalogue, with plenty of titles to enjoy, whatever the weather!

We’re proud to present our new-look, new-format brochures, designed to be easy and intuitive to help you find and discover titles. This quarter we’ve got lots of crime blockbusters, some thrilling non-fiction and heart-warming sagas.

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Clipper is packed full of fantastic crime fiction this quarter. Firstly we have Peter James’ latest Roy Grace novel, You Are Dead, where Detective Grace comes up against Brighton’s first serial killer in over eighty years. We also have the new Bernie Gunther novel from Philip Kerr: The Lady from Zagreb, and the second crime novel from Tony Parsons: The Slaughter Man which continues the story from last year’s runaway bestseller The Murder Bag. Alongside these we have new titles from Tim Weaver, John Sandford and Stuart Neville.

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Avid

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For fans of women’s fiction we have bestseller Lucy Diamond’s new novel Summer at Shell Cottage, where one family’s holiday will be turned on its head and The Soldier’s Daughter by Rosie Goodwin, a moving saga set in World War Two.

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In Lamplight we have new novels from Anne Bennett, Lesley Pearse and Nadine Dorries, as well as Maureen Lee’s latest title: The Kelly Sisters. For fans of historical fiction we have Keane’s Charge, set in the Napoleonic Wars, and Blood and Steel by Harry Sidebottom set in the days of Ancient Rome.

Jammer Teen

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Doctor Who

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Blackstone

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Playaway lamplight

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Avid has exciting new books from acclaimed bestselling authors Mark Lawrence and Ben Aaronovitch, as well as China’s biggest science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem,

by Cixin Liu. Jammer presents a mixture of commercial fiction and non-fiction, including Russell Brand’s Revolution, Tilly Bagshawe’s The Show and One Mile Under from Andrew Gross. The queen of gritty crime Kimberley Chambers is back with The Wronged and CWA Dagger in the Library award winner Craig Russell returns with a re-boot to his Jan Fabel series: The Ghosts of Altona.

We also have more great titles in our Doctor Who and Blackstone Standing Order Plans, so please do take a look.

We hope you enjoy our titles in this brochure, please do get in touch if you have any feedback.

With best wishes, The Editor

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Clipper Representing award-winners, shortlisted titles and top bestsellers. This quarter includes new titles from authors such as Louise Candlish, Philip Kerr and Tony Parsons.

The Sudden Departure of the Frasers

The Lady from Zagreb

Louise Candlish

Philip Kerr

Welcome to Lime Park Road. A pictureperfect street with a secret at its heart.

The Lady from Zagreb is another inimitable Bernie Gunther investigation – a rich, dark and fast-paced adventure of a nightmarish time and a lonely, indomitable hero.

When Joe and Christy Davenport step behind the Oxford Blue painted door of their ‘forever’ home, they believe their dreams have come true. Yet the boxes aren’t even unpacked before a series of events leads Christy to become obsessed with the previous occupant, the glamorous, enigmatic Amber Fraser, whose departure from Lime Park Road is shrouded in mystery. What happened to her? And why are Joe and Christy’s attempts at friendship with neighbours met with an unnerving silence? “ Louise Candlish’s stories don’t shy away from life’s more painful and emotional moments.”

In 1942, there are worse places to be than Zurich and detective Bernie Gunther has seen his fair share of them.

So when a superior asks him to track down a glamorous German actress believed to be hiding in Zurich, he takes the job. The actress, it emerges, is the daughter of a fanatical Croatian fascist, the sadistic commandant of a notorious concentration camp and Bernie finds himself involved in something much more sinister. “ Richly layered, […] Remarkable.”

SUNDAY TIMES ON A MAN WITHOUT BREATH

GLAMOUR

“ Compelling […] Elegantly constructed.”

“ Tense, twisty and completely addictive, will keep you guessing right until the end.”

FINANCIAL TIMES ON A MAN WITHOUT BREATH

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

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Julie Teal Modern Fiction 14.75 hours

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The Slaughter Man

The Vanished Ones

At the Ruin of the World

All the Single Ladies

Tony Parsons

Donato Carrisi

John Henry Clay

Jane Costello

By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag.

The Vanished Ones is the new literary thriller from Donato Carrisi: intelligent, exhilarating and incredibly compelling.

448 AD. The Roman Empire is crumbling.

Be careful what you wish for…

The Emperor is weak. Politicians scheme and ambitious generals vie for power. Then, from the depths of Germany, arises an even darker threat: Attila, King of the Huns, determined to crush Rome once and for all.

In a time of danger and deception, three young people dream that Rome can be made great once more. But they find themselves forced to survive in a world more deadly than any of them could have imagined.

Samantha Brooks’ boyfriend has made a mistake: Jamie has booked himself a one-way flight to South America.

Solo. But Sam isn’t giving up without a fight. She hatches a plan that involves dirty tricks, plotting, and a single aim: to win him back. But by the time Jamie finally wakes up, a gorgeous new pretender has entered Sam’s life. Which begs the question… does she still want him back?

On New Year’s Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon is a gun for stunning cattle, leading Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard’s Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man. But the Slaughter Man is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game? “ Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic.”

Hundreds of eyes stare out from the missing persons board – people who have been gone too long and are being forgotten. But what if some of these people wanted to disappear, to hide in the shadows? This is the question Mila and her team must ask themselves as long-lost people begin to return. Clues are being left for Mila, clues she doesn’t fully understand and which her colleagues are strangely dismissive of. “ Shiveringly intelligent.”

LEE CHILD ON THE MURDER BAG

“ A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling portraits of the characters, good and evil, conspire to make this a must read.”

Dr John Henry Clay is a Lecturer in History at the University of Durham, this is his second novel on the Roman Empire.

Jane Costello is the bestselling author of seven novels, one of which has won the RNA’s Romantic Comedy award. “ If you like Sophie Kinsella, you’ll love Jane Costello.”

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JEFFREY DEAVER ON THE MURDER BAG

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The Watched

The Turning Point

A Cold Killing

The Well

Casey Hill

Freya North

Anna Smith

Catherine Chanter

The new forensic thriller from international bestselling author, Casey Hill.

The unputdownable, tear-jerking new novel from Freya North.

Reporter turned investigator Rosie Gilmour returns in the new thriller from Anna Smith.

“One night is enough to swallow a lifetime of lives.”

Forensic investigator Reilly Steel is back in Florida, hoping that a relaxing stay at the home of her old FBI mentor Daniel Forrest will help her. But Reilly soon finds herself drawn into a local investigation, a gruesome murder where the body of a woman has literally been torn in two. And when another disturbing killing occurs, Reilly can’t help but feel that she has come across something like this before. But where?

Frankie Shaw is a single mum in pursuit of a fresh start.

Moving from London to a Norfolk with her two teenage kids will do them all good, she thinks. But the reality is harsher – isolated and struggling with writer’s block, Frankie regrets her decision. When she meets Scott, it seems to be a turning point – the chance of a fresh start.

But fate has a twist in store and the real turning point comes when tragedy strikes.

Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie throws herself into the investigation, looking for a witness that has gone missing. A witness that might hold the key to the story.

But she has her own reasons to stay hidden…

“ Brimming with emotional drama and packing a huge twist, this story will keep you guessing until the very end.”

“ Chilling and compelling.”

Casey Hill is the pseudonym of husband and wife writing team Melissa and Kevin Hill.

HEAT

“ Casey Hill is in the business of creating old-fashioned mystery stories.”

“ The Well has the pulse of a thriller combined with a futuristic evocation of a Big Brother society.”

KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS

ALLISON PEARSON

“ As perfectly paced and neatly plotted as any Ian Rankin novel.”

“ I was gripped from the start and raced through to the end in one long sitting.”

IRISH INDEPENDENT

When Ruth Ardingly and her family first drive up from London and view ‘The Well’, they are enchanted by a jewel of a place. But the locals suspect foul play in its verdant fields and drooping fruit trees, and Ruth becomes increasingly isolated as she struggles to explain why her land flourishes whilst her neighbours’ produce withers and dies. Fearful of envious locals and suspicious of those who seem to be offering help, Ruth grows less and less sure who she can trust.

“ There was so much that impressed me… I loved this book!”

DAILY MAIL ON TO TELL THE TRUTH

JESSIE BURTON, AUTHOR OF THE MINIATURIST

DAILY MAIL

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Sophie and the Sibyl

Everything I Never Told You

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

Patricia Duncker

Celeste Ng

Marlon James

David Lagercrantz

A compelling Victorian novel and a playful meditation on the creation of literature.

A gripping page-turner, about secrets, love, longing, lies and race.

“Vast and teeming… a vivid novel that deserves all the praise it has received.” sunday telegraph

The astonishing fictionalised story of Alan Turing’s tumultuous life.

The Duncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business in Germany. When Max’s gambling gets out of hand, Wolfgang sends him to pay court to a celebrity author – Sibyl, also known as George Eliot. Yet Wolfgang has an ulterior motive: for his brother to consider Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. Both women have Max in thrall – out of his depth, Max finds himself precariously balanced between Sophie and the Sibyl.

Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt, and Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to hold someone accountable. But it’s the youngest in the family – Hannah – who may be the only one who knows what really happened.

On 3 December 1976, just weeks before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston.

Leonard Corell, a detective sergeant in the sleepy town of Wilmslow, is tasked with investigating the suicide of a local recluse, Alan Turing. Torn between admiration for the dead man’s genius and disgust for his sexuality, Corell continues to investigate the open-and-shut case, stumbling across forbidden knowledge about the marvels of Bletchley Park, and the horrors of its hero’s downfall.

“ Sophie and the Sibyl is wonderful; I was transfixed.

It’s not just the fiendishly clever blending of real-life and fiction, I was completely gripped all the way through.”

KATHRYN HUGHES

“ Patricia Duncker should be made a DBE.” LOUIS DE BERNIERES

“ [A] moving tale… of daughters for whom cultural disconnect is but the first challenge.”

VOGUE

David Lagercrantz is an acclaimed Swedish author and journalist and has been selected to continue Steig Larsson’s multi million bestselling Millennium series.

“ This seething, hot, violent, action-packed novel is enormous in every sense… the ambition is huge, but [James] pulls it off with huge style, confidence, imagination and wit… Extraordinary.”

THE TIMES

“ The mysterious circumstances of 16-year-old Lydia Lee’s tragic death have her loved ones wondering how, exactly, she spent her free time. This ghostly debut novel calls to mind The Lovely Bones.”

“ The most original novel I’ve read in years.

A haunting, incendiary work.”

IRVINE WELSH

MARIE CLAIRE

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Emerald City

A Tiger’s Wedding: My Childhood in Exile

Rush Hour

The Templar Revelation

Chris Nickson

Isla Blair

Iain Gately

Lynn Picknett

An edge-of-your-seat and hold-on-tight read.

Actress Isla Blair’s extraordinary, moving and uplifting story of her childhood in India and her separation from her parents.

The birth, growth and triumph of commuting.

The classic investigation that inspired The Da Vinci Code.

Seattle, May 1988: Why would up and coming musician Craig Adler OD on heroin just days before signing a major record deal? Music journalist Laura Benton is determined to find the answer. But then the threats begin. Just a phone call at first, then a bullet in the mail.

As the threats escalate, her dreams turn to nightmares and Laura finds herself desperately fighting for her reputation – and her life. “ The other unbeatable reader is the great Lorelei King. As the feisty Laura Benton, she is the heroine of Emerald City […] the first of a promising series of mystery thrillers.”

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Born in Bangalore, India, Isla grew up on a tea plantation managed by her father. She spent her early years in the lush hills of Kerala with her much loved older sister Fiona. This warm, spice-scented idyll was abruptly ended when, obliged by tradition, her parents sent Isla and her sister ‘home’ to boarding school.

‘Home’ was cold, gloomy, post-war austerity Scotland; an alien land where for several years she nursed an astonishing secret. “ Isla Blair paints pictures with words and her scenes spring off the page like a film script. The agonies of a young girl turning into a woman have never been better done.”

Each working day 500 million people across the planet experience the miracle and misery of commuting.

In Rush Hour, Iain Gately traces the past, present and future of commuting, from the age of Dickens to the potential of the driverless car. He examines the contrasting experiences of commuters in the world: from the crush-loaded salarymen of the Tokyo metro to the road-rage afflicted middle managers of America. “ Colourful, engaging and hugely enjoyable.”

THE SUNDAY TIMES

In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince found clues his work that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. It was the beginning of a quest through time and space that led the authors into the mysterious world of secret societies and a devastating new view of the real character and motives of the founder of Christianity and the roles of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene. “ Astonishing, gruesome, shocking, and sensational… An impressively argued book.”

“ I loved this book’s generosity and curiosity about daily life and the people stuck in it.”

WASHINGTON TIMES

GUARDIAN (BOOK OF THE WEEK)

JOANNA LUMLEY

“ This is a true saga, a life’s journey of such compelling attraction. She very often moved me to tears and then her wit and sense of wicked fun restores the balance.”

SIR DEREK JACOBI

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Too Charming

Emma and her Daughter Cider Brook

The Secret His Mistress Carried

Kathryn Freeman

Linda Mitchelmore

Carla Neggers

Lynne Graham

Does a girl ever really learn from her mistakes?

Can ‘second love’ be true love?

Hiding from the Greek…

Detective Sergeant Megan Taylor once lost her heart to a man who was too charming and she isn’t about to make the same mistake again – especially not with sexy defence lawyer, Scott Armstrong. But when Scott wants something he goes for it. And he wants Megan. One day she’ll see him not as a lawyer, but as a man… and that’s when she’ll fall for him. Isn’t a man innocent until proven guilty?

It’s 1927 and Emma has returned to England from Canada with her teenage daughter, Fleur. After the tragedies of the past, Emma is ready to start again in Devon, the place she used to call home. But memories are not the only thing that she has to contend with.

Throughout it all Matthew Caunter is rarely far from Emma’s thoughts. Could he be the key to her finally finding happiness?

Unlikely partners bound by circumstance… or by fate?

“ A fun debut.”

“ Linda Mitchelmore has a gift for making you feel right there, in the story, with her lovely warm characters.”

THE BOOKSELLER ON DO OPPOSITES ATTRACT?

Being rescued by a good-looking firefighter isn’t how Samantha Bennett expected to start her stay in Knights Bridge. Now she has everyone’s attention – especially that of Justin Sloan, her rescuer, who wants to know why she was camped out in an abandoned old cider mill. Samantha is daring, determined, seized by wanderlust – everything that strong, stoic Justin never knew he wanted. Until now…

Bestselling author Carla Neggers returns to the lush Swift River Valley with the irresistible story of one woman’s quest for treasure and redemption.

SOPHIE KING

“ Vivid and page turning with a captivating young heroine.”

The ink is barely dry on Giorgios Letsos’s divorce papers and there’s only one thing on this unstoppable Greek’s mind: finding Billie Smith, his mistress before his marriage. Billie has fought hard to heal her broken heart after Gio chose to marry someone else. When he storms back into her life she’s determined not to fall for his seduction again. Especially now that she has a secret to protect… their son. “ This was a fast-paced story with lots of interesting angles.”

NETGALLEY

MARGARET KAINE

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Taken Over by the Billionaire

To Defy a Sheikh

Humane Killer

Villanelle: Hollowpoint

Miranda Lee

Maisey Yates

Diana Gabaldon

Luke Jennings

Driven to distraction…

The cost of defiance!

Hotshot entrepreneur Benjamin Da Silva is used to being in the driving seat, but when he finds himself in need of a chauffeur, beautiful, straight-talking Jess Murphy proves that sometimes taking his foot off the pedal can be equally pleasurable! Jess isn’t impressed by his wealth; she knows she should steer clear – so why can’t she get off the collision course leading right towards Benjamin?

Princess Samarah Al-Azem knows revenge cannot be rushed. Having bided her time, she’s finally ready to bring down Sheikh Ferran – her kingdom’s enemy and the man who took everything from her. In the still of night, she lies in wait in his bedchamber… Soon Ferran has the beautiful assassin at his mercy – now Samarah must decide: imprisonment in a cell… or in diamond shackles as his wife.

Diana Gabaldon teams up with her son Sam Sykes for this exclusive audio fantasy short.

From bestselling author Luke Jennings, the second razor-sharp novella in the Villanelle thriller series.

Miranda Lee is an Australian romance author, wellknown for her passionate, real-life characters and enduring, memorable story lines.

Bestselling romance author Maisie Yates has been nominated for a RITA award for her novels.

A witch, a reanimated Crusader Knight, and two members of the church are bestowed with an immense task. So begins an unlikely and accidental alliance between these ill-assorted characters as they strive to slay the dragon Ziegfried, which is terrorising the countryside.

International bestseller Diana Gabladon is the author of the hugely popular Outlander series and the historical adventure series of Lord John.

Villanelle is the ultimate assassin. Beautiful and heartless, she’s been trained to be the best. Her latest target is a firebrand Russian leader whose extreme political theories threaten to unleash global conflict.

But lying in wait for Villanelle is intelligence officer Eve Polastri. A hunter by nature, fiercely clever, Eve is ready to pursue her adversary wherever the search leads her.

And so starts a deadly game between two brilliant and determined female protagonists…

If you’re after an action thriller series with a strong female lead, look no further than Villanelle. The mayhem has only just begun…

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The Strange Library

The Fifth Gospel

The Soldier’s Daughter

You Are Dead

Haruki Murakami

Ian Caldwell

Rosie Goodwin

Peter James

A unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans.

A lost gospel, a relic, and a dying pope’s final wish. The new novel from the author of The Rule of Four.

A story of hope, love and a young woman’s struggle to keep her family together in the face of the horrors of World War Two.

Peter James is back with the 11th book in his multi-million-copy bestselling crime series.

A mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered. The same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator’s research partner, Father Alex Andreou. When the papal police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex undertakes his own investigation. But just as he begins to understand the truth about his friend’s death, Father Alex finds himself hunted down…

Bryony Valentine lives at home with her mother Lois, father James and two younger siblings. For as long as Bryony can remember, she has been soft on the boy next door, Eddie, but her best friend Ruth has feelings for him too. When the war begins, Eddie is called up to serve, as is James, whilst the three Valentine children are dispatched to Cornwall. Will the Valentine family ever unite, and will Bryony ever see Eddie again?

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On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library pops into the library, wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. This is his first mistake. Led to a special ‘reading room’ under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned. His mother will be worrying why he hasn’t returned and the old man seems to have an appetite for eating small boy’s brains. How will he escape? “ The best novelist on the planet.”

OBSERVER

“ If you loved The Da Vinci Code – Dive into this.”

“ While anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it’s the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.”

PEOPLE MAGAZINE ON THE RULE OF FOUR

“ A gifted writer. Tells a cracking story and does so with an insight into people that is rarely found.”

“ Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business.”

KARIN SLAUGHTER

NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST

“ James just gets better and better and deserves the success he has achieved with this first-class series.”

“ Goodwin is a master of her craft: she excels in writing about the complexity of relationships, the hardships of life, the ties of family and the joys of love and friendship.”

NEW YORK TIMES

The last words Nick Walton hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished. That same afternoon, workmen unearth the remains of a woman, who has been dead for 30 years. At first these two events seem totally unconnected. But then Roy Grace has a chilling realisation… Does Brighton have its first serial killer in over eighty years?

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

LANCASHIRE EVENING POST

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The Good Girl

The Final Silence

The Day We Disappeared

Deadline

Fiona Neill

Stuart Neville

Lucy Robinson

John Sandford

Bestselling author Fiona Neill is back with a dark, compelling and controversial novel of one family’s darkest secrets.

The latest breakneck thriller from Stuart Neville, rising star of crime fiction.

A gripping and unpredictable story of two young women running from their pasts. We defy you to guess the twist…

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a brand new Virgil Flowers thriller that will keep you gripped until the very last page.

Annie has a secret. It’s a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn’t have – yet Annie isn’t broken. Kate has run away. But it’s proving difficult to reinvent herself, however, with one person always on her mind. Nobody is really who they seem. Even Annie and Kate aren’t entirely sure who they are any more. Can they work it out, before their pasts catch up with them for good?

In southeast Minnesota, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. “Issues” is correct. The proposal up for a vote is whether to authorise the killing of a local reporter.

Meanwhile, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been found, and the victim is a local reporter…

When Ailsa Field uproots her family to Norfolk, she’s determined a change of scene will fix all their problems.

Then the Fairports move in next door and Ailsa is terrified their influence will damage her family’s new start. But for teenagers Romy and Jay, none of that matters. But when Romy decides to help Jay, what started as an innocent plan quickly threatens to destroy the Field family forever… “ Neill’s characters are so cleverly depicted, you feel as if you’ve met at least one of them before.”

Rea Carlisle has inherited a house from an uncle she never knew. It doesn’t take her long to clear out the dead man’s possessions, but one room remains locked.

When Rea finally forces it open she discovers inside a chair, a table – and a leather-bound book. Inside its pages are locks of hair, fingernails: a catalogue of victims. Horrified, Rea turns to the only person she can think of: DI Jack Lennon. “ What makes Stuart Neville so special is that he never forgets the human heart that beats inside the bleakest darkness.”

VAL MCDERMID

VOGUE

“ What a book! Fabulous characters, dark secrets and a clever, compulsive plot that will take you completely by surprise. Read it!”

“ Crime writer John Sandford is one of the best around.”

LUCY DIAMOND

“ This pacey, exciting thriller is Neville’s best yet.”

SUN

“ Few do it better than Sandford.”

SUNDAY MIRROR

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London Rain

Sometimes the Wolf

Past Crimes

House of Ashes

Nicola Upson

Urban Waite

Glen Erik Hamilton

Monique Roffey

The latest instalment of the much-loved series starring Josephine Tey from Nicola Upson.

A spellbinding story of family, violence and unintended consequences.

An unputdownable series debut, from a thrilling new voice in American crime writing.

House of Ashes was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2014.

May, 1937, and London prepares to crown a new king. At the height of the Coronation celebrations, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose is called in to investigate a murder at Broadcasting House, a death which Josephine Tey suspects is linked to a decade-old scandal. With Archie’s hands tied by politics, it is left to Josephine to get to the truth. Soon she is forced to confront at first-hand the deadly consequences of love, deceit and betrayal.

Sheriff Patrick Drake tried to lead an upstanding life.

He did okay for a while, singlehandedly raising his family, but then he was hit with money troubles, and ended up convicted of one of the biggest crimes in local history. Twelve years later Patrick is on parole under the watchful eye of his son Bobby. But trouble isn’t done with the Drakes, and a terrifying threat boils up from Patrick’s old life. And this time, no one will be spared…

Van Shaw was raised to be a thief, but at the age of eighteen he abruptly abandoned the illicit life and joined the US Army, leaving behind Seattle and his grandfather who taught him the trade. But after ten years of estrangement, Van’s grandfather has suddenly asked him to come home. He does so, only to find his grandfather shot in the head and bleeding out on the kitchen floor…

The City of Silk is restless, its people suffering in the grip of corruption. Then, one hot July evening, The Leader gathers his followers, half-trained men and boys, and storms the House of Power. Caught up in the mayhem is quiet, scholarly Ashes. He had been inspired by The Leader’s charisma, but now he’s not so sure. What happens over the next six days will change the small island’s future forever…

“ A hell of a good novel, relentlessly paced and beautifully narrated.”

“ A zip line ride of a thriller, plummeting through the back alleys of Seattle… Hamilton has crafted a compelling new hero in Van Shaw.”

“ Roffey’s writing is raw and visceral and she thrusts her readers headlong into the middle of the action.”

“ Any crime aficionado… should make room for Nicola Upson’s novels.”

STEPHEN KING

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GREGG HURWITZ

“ Goes to the heart of questions of political temptation and folly; it grips from beginning to end.”

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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Wrote For Luck

The Other Child

With a Zero at its Heart

The Floating Book

D. J. Taylor

Lucy Atkins

Charles Lambert

Michelle Lovric

A new collection from one of the UK’s most celebrated biographers, novelists, and critics.

Sometimes a lie feels kinder than the truth… but what happens when that lie becomes an avalanche of deceit?

“Poetic, tender and funny.” guardian

A richly textured tale of love and learning, lust and superstition.

Wrote For Luck ranges from North Norfolk to Chicago, from sordid old antique dealers to glamorous young writers, from glorious local gossips to frustrated academics. The stories abound with gleeful absurdity and waspish humour. But they are also rich in melancholy and the heady sadness of people struggling to find a place in the world. Some are fascinatingly strange; others are uncomfortably familiar. Some are simply hilarious – and all are touchingly human. “ These short stories are sophisticated morsels of modern life, needle-sharp, and touchingly aware of the social subtext… Excellent.”

When Tess is sent to photograph Greg, a high-profile paediatric surgeon, she instantly connects with him.

Their relationship quickly deepens, and then Tess – already a single mother to nine-year-old Joe – finds out she’s pregnant. Within just a few months, they have married and moved to the States. But strange things keep happening in their rented home. As a fierce Boston winter closes in, and her baby’s birth looms, Tess makes a jaw-dropping discovery… “ A moving and suspenseful tale of the secrets a family keeps.”

RACHEL HORE

In his beautiful and haunting new book, Charles Lambert explores the fragmentary nature of memory, how the piecing together of short recollections can reveal a greater narrative. Through chapters tackling elemental themes such as Sex, Death, and Money, Lambert assembles the narrator’s moving life story. Executed with all the grace and finesse of his previous acclaimed work, this is an incredible artistic achievement, breath-taking in its simplicity yet aweinspiring in its scope. “ Each beautifully crafted episode in this exquisite book is coruscating, profound and original.”

“ A stunning evocation of fifteenth-century Venice… spine-tingling… Has the power to transport.”

INDEPENDENT

ANGELA JACKSON, AUTHOR OF THE EMERGENCE OF JUDY TAYLOR

THE TIMES

Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon is a lover of many men in the fabled city, though married to one she despises.

On the edge of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer sets up the first printing press in Venice and looks for the book that will make his fortune. When he publishes Catullus, the poet whose unrequited love inspired the most tender and erotic poems of antiquity, a scandal is set in motion that will change all their lives forever.

“ An enthralling tale of love, obsession and religious fervour… recreates a fascinating time in history.”

“ Sharp and clever… Taylor has a great knack of pulling the reader in, and his endings… linger long in the mind.”

BIG ISSUE

GUARDIAN

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Red Notice

Quite a Good Time to be Born

Skyfaring

A Summer Breeze

Bill Browder

David Lodge

Mark Vanhoenacker

Collette Caddle

Corruption, murder and dirty politics in Russia – told by one of Putin’s Most Wanted.

A memoir from one of Britain’s finest novelists and critics.

An airline pilot captures the wonder of flight for the modern traveller.

The magical new bestseller from bestselling Irish author Colette Caddle.

November 2009. Sergei Magnitsky, is led to an isolation cell in a Moscow prison, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes. Magnitsky’s brutal killing has remained uninvestigated to this day. Red Notice is a searing exposé on the Russian authorities responsible for the murder, slicing deep into the heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths.

In this memoir of his life, David Lodge looks back over his childhood and youth, including his undergraduate years at University College London. After National Service and two years’ postgraduate research, married at last and soon a father, he struggles to make a start as both novelist and academic. Candid, witty and insightful, Quite a Good Time to be Born gives a fascinating picture of the evolution of a writer who has become a classic in his own lifetime.

In Skyfaring, airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying, on a journey from day to night, from new ways of mapmaking and the poetry of physics to the names of winds and the nature of clouds. Here, anew, is the simple wonder and transcendent joy of motion, and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love.

Zoe Hall has wanted to be an actress ever since she can remember. When she discovers that her husband Ed has been cheating on her, she decides now is the time to return home to Ireland. And finally she gets her lucky break – a part in a new play in an acclaimed Dublin theatre. Little does she realise that soon she will be torn between her past and her future…

“ Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile foreign city… but it’s all true, and it’s a story that needs to be told.”

“ The self-portrait of an extraordinarily good, wrongly modest man; a distinguished scholar, and one of the finest of current novelists.”

LEE CHILD

“ Read it, and you’ll find yourself requesting a window seat every time you fly.”

“ Caddle can whip up a tremendous love story.”

IRISH INDEPENDENT

“ Will have readers laughing and crying every step of the way.”

BOOKSELLER

IRISH TIMES

SPECTATOR

“ A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the culture of corruption and impunity in Putin’s Russia today.”

JOHN M CCAIN

“ Anyone with some knowledge of academia or the literary world will find it full of interest.”

SCOTSMAN

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Adam Grupper Biography & Autobiography 14.25 hours

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John Moraitis Travel & Geography 12.75 hours

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The Cross of Love

A Summer to Remember Scars of Betrayal

The Truth About Lady Felkirk

Barbara Cartland

Victoria Connelly

Sophia James

Christine Merrill

A classic tale from the queen of romance, Barbara Cartland.

Follow Nina deep into the English countryside in this perfect escapist read.

The long-kept secret…

The wife he doesn’t know…

When Rena’s father dies she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home.

She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. There in the earth she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale, beginning a beautiful friendship. But her new happiness is threatened, and it will take all Rena’s faith and courage to triumph.

Nina Elliot is tired of her life. So she makes a brave decision to leave it all behind. Taking a job deep in the English countryside, she settles into life with the Milton family, where she works as a researcher for author Dudley. But her quiet life is soon interrupted when the handsome Milton boys return home – for they plan to make sure this really is a summer to remember…

Cassandra Northrup had believed Nathaniel dead… until now. Relief at the sight of Nathaniel turns to darkest shame as Cassie sees the hate in his eyes. Years have passed, and their physical scars have faded, but the pain runs deeper than ever. Yet passion can be born out of betrayal – and as desire crackles between them once more will Cassie reveal the secret she’s long kept hidden?

When William Felkirk opens his eyes the past six months are blank. What happened? And who is this beautiful woman claiming to be his wife and caring for his broken body? Justine will do anything to protect her sister, even if that means pretending to be a stranger’s wife.

But with every passing day William unlocks her heart just a little more, and Justine knows she won’t be able to hide the truth for ever…

Barbara Cartland was one of the world’s most prolific novelists who wrote an amazing 723 books in her lifetime, of which no less than 644 were romantic novels.

“ Sunshine on a rainy day.”

LISA JEWELL

“ James weaves her spell, captivating readers with wit and wisdom, and cleverly combining humour and poignancy with a master’s touch.”

A heartbreaking and passionate Regency romance from Christine Merrill.

ROMANTIC TIMES

“ Victoria writes with a deliciously light touch and joyous enthusiasm.”

FIONA WALKER

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To Tempt a Viking

Presumed Guilty

The Girl in Room Fourteen

When Will Jews Be Forgiven the Holocaust

Michelle Willingham

James Carol

Carol Drinkwater

Howard Jacobson

She’s testing his resolve!

A further look into the Jefferson Winter chronicles – introducing Jefferson Winter’s mentor, Yoko Tanaka.

A heartrending love story set on the warm shores of the Mediterranean.

In this provocative new essay, the novelist Howard Jacobson asks whether Jews will ever be forgiven the Holocaust.

Warrior Viking Ragnar Olafsson stood by as his best friend claimed the woman he desired the most. When Elena is taken captive, fearless Ragnar risks everything to save her. Now they are stranded with only each other for company. Suddenly every longing, every look, every touch is forbidden. Elena could tempt a saint – and sinner Ragnar knows he won’t be able to hold out for long! “ Willingham employs entertaining plot twists in this thought-provoking tale of love.”

ROMANTIC TIMES MAGAZINE

Yoko Tanaka is one of the best profilers in the FBI. She’s been called in to consult on the case of ‘Valentino,’ a killer who steals his victims’ hearts. Within 24 hours they have a suspect in custody – a nineteen-year-old called Jefferson Winter whose IQ is off the charts. He’s also the son of one of America’s most notorious serial killers. Not only does he confess to the murders, he knows details of the crimes that only the killer could know. It’s an open and shut case, or is it?

Striking, raven-haired Cecile produces the finest lemons on the Riviera. Her ice creams and lemonades, sold on her stall at Cannes market, are as renowned as the Mediterranean city itself. But Cecile is a woman with a secret. When she was nineteen, Cecile travelled south to a lemon festival on the borders of Italy and France.

But she was not anticipating the enigmatic Italian who offered her a future…

Experience teaches that the burden of guilt is as difficult as the burden of obligation. Philosophers note that irritation with this burden can quickly turn to resentment. So should Jews therefore be careful not to present themselves as victims? Does the same law apply to anti-Semitism? Howard Jacobson wonders if this chain of animosity can ever be broken.

Carol Drinkwater is a multi-award winning actress and author of twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction.

An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson novels include the highly acclaimed The Act of Love and the Man Booker Prize winning The Finkler Question.

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Hand of God

The Quality of Silence

What Remains

Black Rabbit Hall

Philip Kerr

Rosamund Lupton

Tim Weaver

Eve Chase

The second Scott Manson thriller from bestselling crime writer Philip Kerr, following on from January Window.

The much-anticipated new novel from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Rosamund Lupton.

The bestselling author of the David Raker series is back with a sensational new missing person’s investigation.

Life will never be the same again for the Alton family…

Scott Manson and London City are in Athens battling for the UEFA Champion’s League title. The situation in Athens is tense, and some of City’s players are so unpopular in Greece they’ve been assigned bodyguards. Karaiskakis Stadium is packed to the rafters when tragedy strikes, Christoph Bundchen collapses and dies mid-match. Is it a heart attack? Or something more sinister?

The cold was shocking in its violence. She’d thought the colour of cold was white, like snow, or blue perhaps, like on a cold tap, but cold like this was conceived in a place without daylight and was black, the absence of all light and colour. Somewhere out there was Matt. She yelled his name into the dark as loudly as she could. But the sound was obliterated by the wind so that she didn’t know if she’d made any sound at all…

Colm Healy used to be one of the Met’s best detectives.

Until, haunted by the unsolved murders of a mother and her twin daughters, his life was left in ruins. Missing persons investigator David Raker is the only friend Healy has left. The only one who understands that redemption rests on solving these murders. Their search will unravel a thread of tragedy spanning years, and will force them to sacrifice everything they have left…

“ A gripping whodunnit set in the world of football.”

Rosamund Lupton is the author of Sister, a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author.

SPORT ON JANUARY WINDOW

“ Weaver’s books get better each time – tense, complex, sometimes horrific, written with flair as well as care.”

GUARDIAN

“ Highly entertaining and deliciously gossipy.”

At Black Rabbit Hall nothing much ever happens – time seems to move slower at this idyllic holiday home in Cornwall. Until the worst thing happens and for the Alton children time feels like it’s stopped altogether. In the present day, Lorna Smith is searching for her perfect wedding venue and is inexplicably drawn to the now crumbling Black Rabbit Hall, unaware that her own history is locked up in those derelict walls…

Eve Chase always wanted to write about families – ones that go wrong but somehow survive – and big old houses, where family secrets and untold stories seed in the crumbling stone walls. Black Rabbit Hall is such a story.

“ Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller.”

IRISH INDEPENDENT ON JANUARY WINDOW

DAILY MAIL

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Summer at Shell Cottage The Harvest Man

I Take You

Tightrope

Lucy Diamond

Alex Grecian

Eliza Kennedy

Simon Mawer

Another must read from the bestselling author of The Year of Taking Chances.

Alongside Jack the Ripper there is another brutal serial killer roaming the streets of Victorian London…

“I’m getting married. He’s perfect! It’s a disaster.”

A brilliant Cold War spy story from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Glass Room.

A seaside holiday at Shell Cottage in Devon has always been the perfect escape for the Tarrant family. But this year, everything has changed. Following her husband’s recent death, Olivia is struggling to pick up the pieces.

Harriet’s looking forward to a break with her lovely husband Robert and teenage daughter Molly. But unknown to Harriet, Robert is hiding a secret – and so, for that matter, is Molly… “ Well-written, full of humour and filled with a reminder about what it means to be kind.”

Spring, 1890. The spectre of Jack the Ripper still haunts Inspector Walter Day; he alone is convinced that the Ripper remains at large. But now a new killer is terrorising the citizens of London. They call him the Harvest Man; he hides away in the attics of the unsuspecting, emerging at night to terrorise his victims.

This macabre new threat requires Inspector Day to confront his demons, but he soon discovers the game has only just begun…

“ I Take You is the funniest book I’ve read all year…

Eliza Kennedy makes infidelity sexy again!”

JEFFERY DEAVER

“ Sparkling tale of love and friendship.”

“ Shiver-inducingly creepy. A racy read.”

HEAT ON THE YEAR OF TAKING CHANCES

“ Wickedly smart, hilariously funny, sexy, clever… the most enjoyable read I have had in YEARS. I completely loved it.”

JANE GREEN

“ Will keep you riveted from page one.”

CLOSER ON THE YEAR OF TAKING CHANCES

Meet Lily Wilder – the luckiest woman in the world.

She has a dream job, friends who adore her and a total catch of a fiancé. Lily is also completely incapable of being faithful to just one man. Will loves Lily, but does he really know her? As the wedding approaches, Lily’s nights of booze, laughter and questionable decisions become a growing reminder that the happiest day of her life might turn out to be her worst mistake yet.

Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn’t understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground her life. Family and friends surround her and a RAF officer attempts to bring her the normality of love and affection but she is haunted by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war helped to develop the Atom Bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie?

Simon Mawer’s sense of time and place is perfect: Tightrope is a compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.

GARY SHTEYNGART

DAILY EXPRESS

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Enough Rope

The Illuminations

The Spider in the Corner of the Room

The Lost Child

Barbara Nadel

Andrew O’Hagan

Nikki Owen

Caryl Phillips

A powerful and thrilling novel of London’s ever-evolving dark side from bestselling crime author Barbara Nadel.

Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?

A thrilling novel from an award-winning writer and columnist.

Written in the tradition of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Phillips has transformed a classic into a profound story that is singularly its own.

Private Investigator Lee Arnold and Superintendent Paul Venus are by no means friends, but when Venus’ son Harry is kidnapped, the Superintendent doesn’t know who else to turn to. Arnold and his partner Mumtaz Hakim soon find themselves chasing leads into several of the East End’s uneasily coexisting communities. The truth, however, is stranger and more dangerous than either Arnold or Hakim imagine. “ A compelling new series.”

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ON A PRIVATE BUSINESS

Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Only when her beloved grandson, Luke, returns home to Scotland does Anne’s secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

“My name is Dr Maria Martinez and I am – was – a Consultant Plastic Surgeon. I am 33 years old. Place of birth: Salamanca, Spain. And I was convicted of the murder of a Catholic priest.”

Maria is in prison. She says she’s innocent and is fighting to clear her name. Because deep down she knows the truth better than anyone. Doesn’t she?

The Spider in the Corner of the Room is Nikki Owen’s international debut novel – the first in a trilogy featuring the unforgettable Dr Maria Martinez.

“ The Illuminations is a book at once both tender and ambitious.”

OBSERVER

“ A new and original pair of detectives… it has the ring of truth.”

“ With uncanny intimacy, eloquence, and compassion, Caryl Phillips stitches together past and present, the world of classic English literature and of hardscrabble, contemporary English life more movingly than ever before.”

“ A bold and significant work of art… an eloquent and often beautiful anatomy of the way we live now – in love, in war and in our imagination.”

INDEPENDENT ON A PRIVATE BUSINESS

A sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves. At its centre is Monica Johnson, cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England. Intertwined with her modern narrative is the ragged childhood of Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff, the antihero of Wuthering Heights and one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys.

EVENING STANDARD

PICO IYER

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SEPTEMBER

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Hold the Dark

In Dubious Battle

The Weightless World

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson’s Own Hero

William Giraldi

John Steinbeck

Anthony Trevelyan

Max Adams

A terrifying literary thriller set on the Alaskan tundra, about the mystery of evil and mankind’s losing battle with nature.

A fast-paced story of social unrest.

A compelling debut novel from a new, supremely talented voice in the world of fiction.

An intimate portrait of a forgotten British naval hero and a thrilling portrait of the glory years of the age of sail.

Wolves have come for the children, three have been taken from an isolated Alaskan village, including the sixyear-old boy of Medora and Vernon Slone. Wolf expert Russell Core arrives in Keelut to investigate the killings and learns of the horrifying darkness at the heart of Medora. As Core attempts to rescue Medora from her husband’s vengeance, he comes face to face with the untamed animal in the soul of every human being.

Set in California apple country, a strike by migrant workers spirals out of control, as principled defiance turns into blind fanaticism. Caught in this upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who finds himself briefly becoming the leader of the strike before being crushed in its service.

Nobel-Prize winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century.

We live in an age when things that would once have seemed miraculous are starting to seem mundane – even if they still, sometimes, bring with them profound implications… In The Weightless World, Anthony Trevelyan weaves a story of deep-rooted humanity, jam-packed with unforgettable characters – and, at its core, an account of friendship, love and loss, which will touch your heart.

“ A taut, muscular and often unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness. Epic, relentless… a beautifully realised novel.”

Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy Collingwood’s service took him to Boston, where he lived and fought during the American War of Independence; to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray; to Corsica; Sicily; and Menorca, where he ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean. “ A compelling narrative.”

DENNIS LEHANE

LITERARY REVIEW

“ Thrilling.”

“ Particularly effective in portraying the orchestrated chaos below deck in battle.”

GUARDIAN

SPECTATOR

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How to Catch a Russian Spy

Last Man Standing

The Winter Rose

The Piano Man Project

Naveed Jamali

Sir Roger Moore

Jennifer Donnelly

Kat French

The fascinating story behind a legendary double-agent operation.

A selection of memorable behind-the-scenes movie anecdotes from the veteran actor, narrated by Sir Roger Moore himself.

A strong, satisfying historical novel, full of rich storytelling.

Finding love isn’t always black and white…

In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. He had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he’d learned from books, films, video games and TV. And yet, he ended up at the centre of a highly successful counterintelligence operation that targeted Russian espionage in America.

Naveed Jamali is a reserve intelligence officer in the US Navy. He has spent more than a decade in technology management and continues to consult in the field of big data and security.

In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of the show-business scene.

In this fabulous collection of true stories from his stellar career, Roger lifts the lid on the movie business, from Hollywood to Pinewood. It features outrageous tales from his own life and career as well as those told to him by a host of stars and filmmakers, including Tony Curtis, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Frank Sinatra, and many more.

Wonderfully entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny, this selection of tales from the world of the movies is vintage Moore at his very best.

Sir Roger Moore KBE has had an extraordinary career that has spanned seven decades, from early television to the golden age of Hollywood and on to international superstardom.

India’s family, fiancé and the general medical establishment object to her position as a female doctor but she insists on defying convention, finding a post in London’s East End. There she meets a gang boss called Sid Malone. Criminal he may be but he also has a hidden charm… But Sid has a past and enemies, including India’s ruthless fiancé whose intention is to marry into the family money… “ Melodramatic set pieces keep this romp rattling along… adding colour to a world defined by poverty and corruption.”

DAILY MAIL

“ Savour every page, it’s well worth it.”

Honeysuckle Jones has a problem, and her best friends Nell and Tash are on a mission to help her solve it. She needs a man – a caring, intelligent, funny man. Luckily Honey’s new neighbour fails on almost every count. But when Honey discovers the devastating reason for his moods she decides to give him another chance. And discovers that the best songs aren’t always in tune… “ Laugh-out-loud fun with a real romantic heart.”

MIRANDA DICKINSON

“ Citrus-sharp humour, a glorious cast of characters, a hero you’ll want to run off with and a heroine you just want fate to smile on.”

CLAUDIA CARROLL

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Beyond Seduction

Rescued by the Millionaire

Never Forget Me

The Courtesan’s Book of Secrets

Stephanie Laurens

Cara Colter

Marguerite Kaye

Georgie Lee

A fantastic historical romance from New York Times bestselling author, Stephanie Laurens.

Wanted: A second pair of hands!

As war blazes across Europe, three couples find a love that is powerful enough to overcome all the odds…

A list of noblemen’s names – each one guilty of treason.

In a moment of recklessness, Gervase Tregarth, sixth Earl of Crowhurst, swears he’ll marry the next eligible lady to cross his path. Cloistered at his ancestral castle in Cornwall, with nary a suitable woman for miles, he never expects he’ll have to fulfil his pledge, at least not until the London season begins. But then he meets his neighbour, the very appealing Madeline Gascoigne.

Daniel Riverton is handsome… and a confirmed bachelor. The only thing he finds more frightening than commitment? Children! When his neighbour Trixie Marsh appeals for his help with her mischievous twin nieces, his instinct is to steer clear. Against all expectations, Daniel’s a natural with the twins, and Trixie can’t take her eyes off her rescuer. Could Daniel be just what this house of chaos needs?

Winner of a Romantic Times Career Achievement award in the ‘Love and Laughter’ category, Cara has written over forty novels.

“ Laurens spices up her superbly sensual, elegantly written love story with a generous measure of intrigue, and the results are splendidly entertaining.”

As war looms, genteel Flora’s ancestral home is turned into a hospital, where she meets dashing revolutionary Geraint, whose passionate, sizzling kiss has her praying for this soldier’s safe return! Rugged British soldier Robbie had one hedonistic night in Paris with beautiful French Sylvie. But, as all Europe is torn apart, can these starcrossed lovers forge a lasting bond through their letters?

A heart-wrenching new book from powerfully emotional author Marguerite Kaye.

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To save his family legacy Rafe Densmore must seize a courtesan’s infamous register. No one can ever know how his father betrayed his country! One person stands in Rafe’s way – the beautiful Cornelia, Comtesse de Vane. In the card rooms of Paris, Rafe and Cornelia once made an unbeatable team. Now, returning to London an impoverished widow, she’ll do anything to possess the register. Even if that means becoming Rafe’s partner once again…

Award-winning author Georgie Lee returns with a gripping historical romance.

“ A reliable serving of rogues and romance.”

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The Girl in the Spider’s Web Coming soon

by Stieg Larsson

The Doors of Perception

Only Child

Paris for One

Aldous Huxley

Christopher Meyer

Jojo Moyes

From the author of Brave New World comes a beautifully esoteric exploration of the mind.

A brave and beautiful memoir of one family’s emotional history.

The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”

In this highly personal memoir, Christopher Meyer tells the story of his father, Flight Lieutenant Reggie Meyer, an RAF pilot, who was shot down and killed over the Greek island of Ikaria. Through his mother’s diary and family papers Christopher Meyer pieces together a wartime story of love, tragedy and sacrifice.

Bestselling author Jojo Moyes brings us a charming and heart-warming short story – a Quick Read for 2015.

Aldous Huxley was an English poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and humanist philosopher. He was the author of Brave New World.

In a stunning climax, Only Child takes us to a moving ceremony of remembrance at the little mountain-top church where the islanders had buried him under the noses of German occupying forces.

Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris.

She has never even been on a weekend away with her boyfriend. Everyone knows she is just not the adventurous type. But, when her boyfriend doesn’t turn up for their romantic mini-break, Nell has the chance to prove everyone wrong.

Alone in Paris, Nell meets the mysterious moped-riding Fabien. Could this turn out to be the most adventurous weekend of her life? “ Moyes does a majestic job of conjuring a cast of characters who are charismatic, credible and utterly compelling.”

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The girl with the dragon tattoo is back: Lisbeth Salander returns in the fourth audiobook in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.

Coming soon as part of your Standing Order Plan for October.

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Love Me Tender

The Ballymara Road

Anne Bennett

Nadine Dorries

A heartrending tale of love and tragedy during the Birmingham Blitz.

The final gripping instalment of the great trilogy, which began with The Four Streets and continued in Hide Her Name.

When war breaks out in 1939 many of the local men enlist, including Barry, Kathy O’Malley’s husband, leaving the women to cope as best they can. When Kathy meets Doug, a handsome American GI, she is immediately drawn to him, but she is determined to honour her marriage vows. However, when she receives a telegram informing her that her husband is missing, presumed dead, she makes a decision that will have far-reaching consequences. “ [Anne Bennett is] blessed with a vivid imagination and a natural aptitude for writing.”

On Christmas morning Kitty Doherty gives birth to her baby – who is immediately taken away for adoption in America. But Kitty’s life is hanging by a thread, her only hope a dangerous journey through snow to Ballymara and her Irish family. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Sean and Alice try to set up a new life, far away from the families they have deserted in Liverpool. “ As fast-paced as it is entertaining. An addictive novel to be devoured at one sitting.”

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“ Engaging… cinematic and powerful.”

THE TIMES

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A Flower That’s Free – Part One

The Traitor

The Saffron Trail

Justice for the Damned

Sarah Harrison

Jonathan Holt

Rosanna Ley

Ben Cheetham

An epic novel set amid the turbulence of the Second World War.

A race against time to unlock the secrets of Italy’s past.

Thirty years of fear. Thirty years of closed minds. It is all about to change.

Kate Kingsley remembers little of her early childhood, before being sent to live as the adopted daughter of Jack and Thea in Kenya. Now 20, she leaves Kenya for a new life in London. But this is 1936 – a time of decadence, but also turmoil. Kate confronts personal danger, faces conflicting loyalties, and must make a heart-breaking choice, before she can find a kind of freedom.

He died in the darkness, surrounded by friends. They found him at sunrise, on Venice’s most popular beach.

His throat had been cut, his tongue removed. Captain Kat Tapo suspects a ritual murder with Masonic roots. The brotherhood won’t give up its secrets to a policewoman – but Kat won’t give up the hunt.

“Once, there was a girl who loved saffron. She loved its secrets, its mystery, and best of all, she loved its hint of magic.”

“ A most compelling and intriguing book, the work of a fine storyteller.”

“ An arresting thriller… Venice is a magnificent backdrop for a story of secrets and lies.”

DAILY MAIL

CATHERINE COOKSON

“ A genuinely thrilling thriller… a terrific book by any standard… outstanding.”

After the death of her mother, Nell travels from rural Cornwall to the chaos of Marrakech; exploring the heady delights of Moroccan cuisine could help her fulfil her dream of opening her own restaurant. It’s there she meets Amy – a young photographer trying to unravel the story behind her family’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The two women develop a close friendship and discover a surprising connection between their own pasts.

“ Fast-moving action and lots of twists make this… a most enjoyable read.”

“ Elegant storytelling at its very best.”

VERONICA HENRY

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A Sheffield prostitute has disappeared. She’s just the latest in a long line of missing girls stretching back three decades. Amongst the women working South Yorkshire’s streets, rumours of a serial killer have long circulated. The police’s top brass don’t want to know about it, but two very different detectives are being drawn into a murky world of perversion, murder and corruption that stretches from the streets to the corridors of power.

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Styx and Stones

Keane’s Charge

Will and Tom

The Paid Companion

Carola Dunn

Iain Gale

Matthew Plampin

Amanda Quick

When malice turns to murder…

The intrepid band of warriors, led by Captain James Keane, have been given their toughest job yet by Wellington.

Will and Tom is a glimpse into the life of the infamous artist J. M. W. Turner as a young man.

The Earl of St Merryn needs a woman: his intentions are purely practical…

1797, West Yorkshire: When rising artist Will Turner arrives at Harewood House in high summer, his intention is to sketch the house and grounds, receive his commission and return to London. But things at the grand house are not quite as he expects. Will’s treatment by his hosts is surprisingly offhand and most perplexing of all is the appearance of another painter – his childhood friend and now rival, Tom Girtin.

He needs a fiancée to keep the husband-hunting ladies of the town at bay. His solution is to hire a paid companion and Miss Elenora Lodge appears to be the perfect candidate. Elenora’s sorry financial circumstances convince her to accept the Earl’s generous, if scandalous, offer. But the Earl soon discovers that the meek and mild companion he’d initially envisioned stirs a bothersome passion in his heart.

“ Witty and engaging… A convincing portrait of a difficult, yet vulnerable genius and a clever study of the tangled relationship between art, power and money.”

“ One of the hottest writers in romance today.”

The hot summer heat could put anyone on edge but to Daisy Dalrymple, it does seem that her brother-in-law, Lord John Frobisher, is exceptionally tense – and with good reason. Someone with an evil sense of humour is sending him a series of poisoned pen letters that threaten to reveal racy secrets which could ruin him completely. “ Cunning… appropriate historical detail and witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece.”

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“ As always, Dunn evokes the life and times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy. This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries.”

The British and French armies have retreated from the city of Coimbra, leaving it in ruins. Infiltrating the streets are Spanish guerrilla fighters, local Portuguese determined to avenge the horrors inflicted upon them and intelligence agents determined to find the hidden book of ciphers. James Keane and his men are sent into the midst of this, not only to prevent the book falling into enemy hands, but also to discover which of the guerrilla groups are to be trusted. “ Richard Sharpe would be delighted to have James Keane on his side! Iain Gale’s creation is a wonderfully imaginative addition to the fascinating tales of Britain’s defiance of Bonaparte.”

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USA TODAY

“ Everything Amanda Quick writes is an instant classic.”

IRIS JOHANSEN

BERNARD CORNWELL

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The Burning Room

The Throwaway Children

The Life Intended

Death Descends on Saturn Villa

Michael Connelly

Diney Costeloe

Kristin Harmel

M. R. C. Kasasian

“Connelly weaves his story as deftly as always, never slackening the tension.” daily express

Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable – the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War Two.

Kristin Harmel presents a bittersweet story of love and loss.

In the new novel from M. R. C. Kasasian’s charming Gower Street Detective series, crime becomes personal…

In the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually non-existent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. “ A taut and believable tale set in a grimly recognisable world where those at the top – be they career politicians or career criminals – share a disregard for the lives of those they exploit.”

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Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage. It is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them, without their family’s consent or knowledge, are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children.

After her husband’s sudden death over ten years ago, Kate Westhoven never expected to be lucky enough to find another love of her life. But now she’s planning her second walk down the aisle to a perfectly nice man.

So why isn’t she more excited? When she starts seeing Patrick, her late husband, in her dreams, she begins to wonder if she’s really ready to move on… “ One of the best books of the summer.”

“ One of the most delightful and original… novels of the year… a series that could well become a cult.”

MARIE CLAIRE ON THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING

“ The kind of book that stays with you…

The ending will no doubt bring tears to your eyes.”

“ Diney Costeloe has tackled an important subject.

We should never forget this terrible injustice!”

DAILY MAIL ON THE MANGLE STREET MURDERS

“ Funny, fresh and sharply plotted… starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson.”

ROMANTIC TIMES ON THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING

JOHN HUMPHREYS

Gower Street, 1883: March Middleton is the neice of London’s greatest (and most curmudgeonly) personal detective, Sidney Grice. March has just discovered a wealthy long-lost relative she never knew she had.

When this newest family member meets with a horrible death, March is in the frame for murder and only Sidney Grice can prove her innocence.

“ Connelly weaves his story as deftly as always, never slackening the tension.”

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Survivor

Shadow on the Crown

Mexico Set

The Golden Age of Murder

Lesley Pearse

Patricia Bracewell

Len Deighton

Martin Edwards

From internationally bestselling author, Lesley Pearse, Survivor is a story of bravery and love.

Set in an England where the Vikings are on the brink of invasion, this is an epic tale of seduction, war and unrequited love.

Mexico Set is a classic spy novel from the master of the genre.

The story behind some of the most famous classic detective novels of all time.

When they spotted Erich Stinnes in Mexico City, it was obvious that Bernard Samson was the right man to ‘enrol’ him. With his domestic life a shambles and his career heading towards disaster, Bernard needed to prove his reliability. And he knew Stinnes already – Bernard had been interrogated by him in East Berlin.

A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and her fellow writers in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books that cast new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors’ darkest secrets. This is the first book about the ‘Detection Club’, the world’s most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers.

1938: Headstrong eighteen-year-old Mari Carrera leaves a small town in rural New Zealand aboard the SS Rimutaka, bound for the bustling anonymity of London – but she is all too willing to be seduced by the temptations of the glittering West End. Until war comes and snatches it all away.

As the Blitz rains death on London, Mari’s life is blown apart. And soon this born survivor must risk everything – putting her life on the line for others. “ Utterly riveting, brilliant.”

1002 AD. Emma, a young Norman girl, must take her place as bride to England’s King Æthelred, a ruler who is looking for nothing more than a political pawn to protect his shores and bear his next child. But Emma soon realises that her new role comes with danger: the seductive Elgiva, mistress to the King, will stop at nothing in her battle for the circlet of gold.

“ Martin is increasingly recognised as one of Britain’s most exciting crime writers.”

DAILY MAIL

“ A magnificent work of historical fiction, evoking time and place in a remarkable way.”

“ The poet of the spy story.”

LIVERPOOL DAILY POST

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“ Deighton’s best… until the next.”

“ Edwards knows his business. He understands how to parcel out the clues and red herrings so as to feed the reader enough information to keep a variety of possibilities open, while making sure to prepare for a satisfying solution.”

“ What a great book! Fascinating… a tense, exciting story.”

“ Characters it is impossible not to care about.”

DIANA GABALDON, AUTHOR OF OUTLANDER

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The Museum of Things Left Behind

You, Me and Other People

The Kelly Sisters

No Place for a Lady

Seni Glaister

Fionuala Kearney

Maureen Lee

Gill Paul

Escape into this hugely enjoyable, big-hearted and beautifully written novel, set in Vallerosa, a European country you’ve never heard of before.

For Adam and Beth, splitting up wasn’t the end – it was just the beginning…

Sunday Times bestseller Maureen Lee returns with this heart-warming tale of three sisters striking out in the roaring twenties.

All’s fair in love and war…

Vallerosa is every tourist’s dream – a tiny, picturesque country surrounded by lush valleys and verdant mountains; a place sheltered from modern life and the rampant march of capitalism. But in isolation, the locals have grown cranky, unfulfilled and disaffected. Can the town be fixed? Can the local bar owners be reconciled?

Can an unlikely visitor be the agent of change and rejuvenation this broken idyll is crying out for?

Adam knew the deal – he just thought he wouldn’t get caught. Beth had forgiven him once for cheating on her, and he should have known better than to risk it all over again.

Beth is trying to find out who she is without Adam, but as she tries to move on, she realises that one lie was only the first in a very long trail. When the secrets come tumbling out, can life ever be the same?

It’s 1925 and Patricia, Tara and Aideen couldn’t be more excited to be starting a new life in Liverpool. Yet it soon becomes clear that all is not as it seems, for the girls are hastily swept onto a huge ocean liner heading to New York. When their father vanishes mid-way across the Atlantic, the grieving sisters prepare themselves for a new life in the big city. For whatever their father was running from has every chance of catching up with them…

1854: Lucy Harvington, ill-educated beyond how to be a wife, has travelled to the Crimea with her handsome and impetuous officer husband Charlie. As the day of battle dawns she can only pray her husband survives. If he doesn’t, what will become of her? Dorothea Gray, volunteer nurse at the Westminster Hospital, is determined to follow her little sister Lucy to the front and to serve her country alongside her heroine Florence Nightingale.

Perfect for lovers of Poldark, Gone With The Wind or the storytelling of Victoria Hislop.

Heart-warming and heart-breaking, You, Me and Other People is perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Adele Parks and David Nicholls.

Maureen Lee’s award-winning novels have earned her a regular place on the Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller list.

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Full of wisdom, humour and light, The Museum of Things Left Behind is a heart-warming fable for our times that asks us to consider what we have lost and what we have gained in modern life.

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Perfect Daughter

Shadows of War

Blood and Steel

The Spider’s Web

Amanda Prowse

Michael Ridpath

Harry Sidebottom

Ben Cheetham

Wife. Mother. Daughter. What happens when it all becomes too much?

The new novel from bestselling thriller writer Michael Ridpath, set in the early, uncertain days of World War Two.

From the bestselling author of Warrior of Rome comes the second book in an epic new series set in third century Rome.

The new Steel City thriller from the author of Blood Guilt and Angel of Death.

October, 1939: War has been declared, but until the armies massed on either side of the French/German border engage, all is quiet on the Western Front. But just because its quiet doesn’t mean that it’s not deadly.

There are those who believe the war no one wants to fight should be brought to a swift conclusion, even if it means treachery.

Rome, 238 AD: Emperor Maximinus’ reign hangs in the balance. At the helm of an empire that is bleeding manpower and money to sustain his wars in the north, rebellions flare in the far reaches of its territories. And in Rome, the first blood of the revolt is shed when an assassin murders Maximinus’ prefect and announces to Rome that their ruler is dead and the Gordians have taken the throne.

Jackie loves her family. Sure, her teenage children can be stroppy. Her husband a little lazy. And providing round-the-clock care for her Alzheimer’s-ridden mother is exhausting. All Jackie wants is for her children to have a brighter future than she did. So long as Martha, the eldest, gets into university and follows her dreams, all her sacrifice will be worth something… won’t it? “ Prowse handles her explosive subject with delicate skill… Deeply moving and inspiring.”

“ Michael Ridpath, no stranger to big sales figures, has another hit on his hands.”

DAILY MAIL

“ Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship.”

SHOTS

“ A powerful page-turner.”

THE TIMES

“ Brilliant… the writing is typical top-calibre Ridpath.”

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February 14th, 1993: Sheffield United supporters remember it as the day their team won a famous victory against Manchester United. The date is lodged in Anna Young’s brain for a different reason. That was the day her sister, Jessica, was abducted. Fast forward twenty years.

The case has long since gone cold. But Anna made a promise to look after her little sister. And it’s a promise she intends to keep no matter how long it takes… “ Fast-moving action and lots of twists make this… a most enjoyable read.”

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“ A storming triumph… wonderful fight scenes, deft literary touches and salty dialogue.”

CRAIG RUSSELL

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Our Land at War

The Milliner’s Secret

The Wedding Cake Tree

Swords Around the Throne

Duff Hart-Davis

Natalie Meg Evans

Melanie Hudson

Ian Ross

A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms and villages of Britain.

June, 1940. As Paris, the City of Light, approaches its darkest hour, a young woman treads the line between survival and collaboration.

Can a mother’s secret past provide the answers for a daughter’s future?

The second novel in this gripping series, set at the end of the Roman Empire, sees a treasonous conspiracy threatening to bring down the Emperor Constantine.

On the outbreak of war, the countryside was invaded by service personnel and evacuee children by the thousand; land was taken arbitrarily for airfields, training grounds and firing ranges, and whole communities were evicted. Prisoner-of-war camps brought captured enemy soldiers to close quarters, and farmers were burdened with new restrictions on what they could and could not grow. Combining both hardship and farce, this book examines the profound changes that the war brought to Britain’s countryside. “ Duff Hart-Davis tells their fascinating story, which will be new to many readers, remarkably well.”

LITERARY REVIEW

Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, using a false claim to aristocratic birth to launch herself as a fashionable milliner. When the Nazis invade, the influence of a high-ranking German lover protects her business. But the cruel demands of war – and of love – cannot be kept at bay forever. Soon Coralie must find the courage to do what’s necessary to protect her friends, her freedom and everything she believes in.

Natalie Meg Evans’ first novel, The Dress Thief, was the winner of the Festival of Romance Best Historical Novel Award.

Celebrity photographer Grace Buchanan has always known that, one day, she’d swap her manic day job for the peace and quiet of her beloved childhood cottage, St Christopher’s – she just didn’t expect it to be so soon. At the reading of her mother’s will, she’s shocked to learn that inheriting St Christopher’s hangs on one condition: Grace must drop everything for two weeks and travel the country with a mysterious stranger – warweary Royal Marine, Alasdair Finn. “ I laughed and I cried while reading this book.

Thoroughly enjoyable.”

Rewarded for saving the emperor’s life in battle, centurion Aurelius Castus is promoted to the Corps of Protectores, the elite imperial bodyguard, the swords around the throne. But he soon discovers the court to be just as hazardous as the battlefield; behind the gilded facade of empire, there are spiralling plots, murderous betrayals and dangerous seductions. And one relentless enemy. “ Hugely enjoyable. The author winds up tension into an explosion of fast-paced events.”

THE SUN

CONN IGGULDEN

“ A truly accomplished and delicious debut novel.”

“ Ian Ross blazes in the world of Empire and legions…

This is up there with Harry Sidebottom and Ben Kane.”

LAURIE GRAHAM ON THE DRESS THIEF

M. C. SCOTT

“ This story is as glamorous as the gowns it describes.”

THE LADY ON THE DRESS THIEF

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Avid

Avid An imprint dedicated to the increasingly popular genre fiction – specifically supernatural, horror, fantasy and sci-fi.

This quarter’s authors include Raymond E. Feist, Peter Newman and James S. A. Corey.

City of Stairs

Shadow of a Dark Queen

Robert Jackson Bennett

Raymond E. Feist

An intriguing and clever fantasy science fiction novel from an award winning writer.

The astonishing first volume in Raymond E. Feist’s bestselling Serpentwar series.

You’ve got to be careful when you’re chasing a murderer through Bulikov, for the world is not as it should be.

When the gods were destroyed and worship of them banned, reality folded; now stairs lead to nowhere and alleyways have become portals to the past. Now the murder of a diplomat has begun whispers of an uprising. Only one woman may be willing to pursue the truth – but it is likely to cost her everything.

Ancient powers are readying themselves for a devastating confrontation. A dark queen has raised her standard and is gathering armies of unmatched might. Into this battleground of good and evil a band of desperate men are forced, among them are some unlikely heroes – Erik, a bastard heir denied his birth right, and his friend Roo, an irrepressible scoundrel with a penchant for thievery.

They are accompanied by the mysterious Miranda, upon whom all must wager their lives.

“ City of Stairs is a compulsively readable and thought-provoking tale that confirms the author as one of the genre’s most exciting talents.”

“ Fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination.”

WASHINGTON POST

SCIFI NOW

“ A smooth novel of near perfection and the best Epic Fantasy novel I’ve read this year. I cannot recommend this novel highly enough.”

SFF WORLD

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The Vagrant

Foxglove Summer

Abaddon’s Gate

Tombley’s Walk

Peter Newman

Ben Aaronovitch

James S. A. Corey

A. W. Gray

‘The Vagrant’ is his name. He has no other.

The new title in the PC Grant series from bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch.

The explosive third novel in the Expanse space opera series, featuring the acclaimed Leviathan Wakes.

The beast that walks like a man feeds beneath a blood-red Texas moon…

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Friendless and alone the Vagrant walks across a desolate, war-torn landscape. His purpose is to reach the Shining City, last bastion of the human race, and deliver the only weapon that may make a difference in the ongoing war. But the Shining City is far away and the world is a very dangerous place.

Peter Newman’s writing has been shortlisted for a Hugo Award.

In a small village in Herefordshire, the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children.

But while you can take the copper out of London, you can’t take the London out of the copper. Peter soon finds himself caught up in a deep mystery and having to tackle local cops and local gods. And what’s more, all the shops are closed by 4pm… “ For all the murder and mayhem, this is a darkly comic read with characters you can’t help but like.”

For generations, the solar system was humanity’s great frontier, until now. The alien artefact has emerged to build a gate outside the orbit of Uranus. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a flotilla of ships going out to examine the artefact. As they try to find out whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.

A chilling masterpiece of horror for fans of Stephen King and Richard Matheson.

“ A politically complex and pulse-pounding page turner…

Series fans will find this installment the best yet.”

THE SUNDAY EXPRESS

Billy Ed and Dory Barnes left the honky-tonk in Tombley’s Walk on a warm Texas night. They never returned. Billy’s body was found soon after, ripped to pieces by a wolf-like creature that walked on two legs.

As a full moon bathes the town in terror, the residents bolt their doors in fear of the night. But no lock will keep out the unspeakable horror that has infected the oncesleepy Texas community…

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“ As brilliant and funny as ever.”

“ Great characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fights, freakish experiments, and twisty-turny mysteries.”

SUN

WIRED.COM

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Avid

The Saffron Trail

by Rosanna Ley

The Liar’s Key

The Three-Body Problem

At the Mountains of Madness

Mark Lawrence

Cixin Liu

H. P. Lovecraft

From the critically-acclaimed author of Prince of Fools comes the second volume of the brilliant new epic fantasy series, The Red Queen’s War.

The multi-award winning phenomenon from China’s most beloved science-fiction author, The Three-Body Problem is a bestselling classic available in English for the first time.

A master of terror and nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft solidified his place at the top of the horror genre with this macabre supernatural tale.

Winter is keeping Prince Jalan Kendeth far from the longed-for luxuries of his southern palace. And although the North may be home to his companion, the warrior Snorri ver Snagason, he is just as eager to leave. For the Viking is ready to challenge all of Hell to bring his wife and children back into the living world. He has Loki’s key – now all he needs is to find the door.

Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilisation on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them, or to fight against the invasion.

“ There are special rewards in store here for readers… Highly recommended.”

“ A milestone in Chinese science fiction.”

When a geologist leads an expedition to the Antarctic plateau, his aim is to find rock and plant specimens.

The barren landscape offers no evidence of any life-form – until they stumble upon the ruins of a lost civilization. Strange fossils of creatures unknown to man lead the team deeper, where they find carved stones dating back millions of years. But it is their discovery of the terrifying city of the Old Ones that leads them to an encounter with an untold menace.

NEW YORK TIMES

ROBIN HOBB

“ Lovecraft’s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.”

“ The best kind of science fiction.”

“ The brisk adventure and black magic will leave readers eager for the next chapter in the series.”

CLIVE BARKER

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

“ At the Mountains of Madness ranks high among the horror stories of the English language.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

TIME

The latest novel from the author of The Villa and Return to Mandalay.

“ Elegant storytelling at its very best.”

VERONICA HENRY

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Jammer

Jammer Commercial, mass-market fiction and non-fiction with a contemporary twist. This quarter features authors such as Peter May, Russell Brand and Joseph Finder.

The Show

A Devil Under the Skin

Tilly Bagshawe

Anya Lipska

More glamour in the manor from Tilly Bagshawe, author of The Inheritance.

The third book in the thrilling Kiszka and Kershaw crime series.

When Wraggsbottom Farm’s finances are squeezed, Laura Baxter has an idea to show the world the secret of her happy (if sometimes muddy) country life: producing a reality show about Fittlescombe village. But when the new vicar takes it upon himself to lead a protest, Laura and her husband Gabe find that the village is divided.

Will Laura be able to weather the storm, or will her big idea turn out to be her biggest mistake?

Things are looking up for Janusz Kiszka, big-hearted ‘fixer’ to London’s Poles. Kasia, is finally leaving her no-good husband to make a new life with him. Then Kasia vanishes – and the big Pole’s world is torn apart.

Convinced she’s been abducted, he seeks the help of an old contact – maverick cop Natalie Kershaw. But what connects Kasia and a string of brutal East End murders? And who is the murderous enforcer stalking the streets of London?

“ Full of scandal, sex and secrets, all of which combine to keep you hooked till the very end.”

“ A gripping reminder of how crime fiction reveals the world around us.”

CLOSER

“ You’re always guaranteed a corking characters and a fast-paced read with a Bagshawe story, and this doesn’t disappoint.”

HEAT

VAL MCDERMID

“ A taut twisty narrative with a fantastic pay-off.”

PAUL FINCH

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The Fourth Sacrifice

Make Something Up

Love Notes for Freddie

The Silk Factory

Peter May

Chuck Palahniuk

Eva Rice

Judith Allnatt

Li Yan and Margaret Campbell meet again to investigate a series of ritual executions in Beijing.

Stories you’ll never forget – just try – from literature’s most transgressive author.

One dance step can change everything…

A beautiful, eerie story of love and memory.

Marnie FitzPatrick is a reclusive sixth-former with a dysfunctional family, and Julie Crewe is a disillusioned maths teacher who lives vicariously through the girls she teaches.

Whilst Rosie carefully picks through her late mother’s things, one piece of paper reawakens memories long forgotten. In the same village two centuries earlier, Effie, Beulah and Tobias struggle to survive. As Effie wonders how she will keep afloat, her heart is captured by soldier in a fine red coat. And when he swears to dress her in the very silk her brother and sister make, she hopes the promise might change their lives forever.

The first victims are drugged, tied, labelled with a single word and a single number – then expertly beheaded.

But the fourth victim is an American diplomat. Slowly Margaret Campbell and Li Yan tease out the killer’s secrets. But the closer they come to the truth behind the executions, the more dangerously close they come to a killer who is prepared to sacrifice anyone to conceal it.

A great collection of stories from the author of Fight Club. In Zombies, the best and brightest of a high school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. While in Tunnel of Love, a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing ‘relief’ to dying clients. And in Excursion, Fight Club fans will be thrilled to find a side of Tyler Durden never seen before.

“ A masterwork of sheer momentum . . . compelling.”

“ Twenty-one stories and a novella to disturb and delight.”

GLASGOW HERALD

THE BOOKSELLER

This is the story of summer 1967, when the sun burned down on the roof of the Shredded Wheat factory, and a boy called Freddie danced to the records he had stolen. This is what happens when three people are bound together by something that can’t be explained by any equation. “ Brilliantly written, hugely engaging and full of glorious detail, this book is a must-read.”

“ Peter May is a writer I’d follow to the ends of the earth.”

NEW YORK TIMES

“ Genuinely and deeply moving.”

THE TIMES

“ A novel of rare insight, exquisitely written.”

MICHAEL MORPURGO

HEAT

“ A swoon of a read… vintage style drips from every page.”

ELLE

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The Island Escape

A Night in with Audrey Hepburn

The Sun is God

The Invisible Guardian

Kerry Fisher

Lucy Holliday

Adrian McKinty

Dolores Redondo

It’s time to get back to where it all began…

A hilarious and heart-warming debut and the perfect girl’s night in.

Based on real events, a thrilling story of murder set in the South Pacific before the First World War.

The Spanish bestselling crime novel that has taken Europe by storm.

Octavia Sheldon thought she’d have a different life. One where she travelled the world with an exotic husband and free-spirited children. But married to safe, reliable Jonathan, her life now consists of packed lunches and school runs. She can barely recognise herself. What if she could escape back to the island where she spent her summers? And what if the man she used to love was there waiting for her… “ Such a funny, feel-good read… with terrific authentic characters.”

JANE LYTHELL, AUTHOR OF THE LIE OF YOU

After a terrible day on the set of a TV sci-fi series, failed actress Libby Lomax plonks herself down for her trillionth viewing of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Relaxing on her battered old couch, Libby is gob smacked to find Screen Icon, Audrey Hepburn, sitting beside her. Between ladylike puffs on her vintage cigarette holder Audrey proffers advice. With a little bit of Audrey Hepburn magic, she might just be able to turn her life around… “ I laughed my slippers off!”

ALEXANDRA BROWN, AUTHOR OF CUPCAKES AT CARRINGTON’S

“ So witty and fun.”

LUCY ATKINS, AUTHOR OF THE MISSING ONE

1906: Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a South Pacific island, working a small, failing plantation.

Hauptmann Kessler, the local government representative, approaches Will with a request for his help. On a neighbouring island inhabited by a cultish group who believe that sun worship and eating only coconuts will bring them eternal life, someone has died in suspicious circumstances. Kessler has been tasked with uncovering the real reason for his demise.

The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, the second death in a month.

Inspector Amaia Salazar heads an investigation which will take her to the heart of Basque country: a place of mists, rain and forests. Torn between the rational part of her job and local myths, Amaia Salazar must fight off the demons of her past, to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose… “ Has so many facets to it that it becomes utterly compelling.”

PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES

“ An exciting new voice.”

IAN RANKIN

“ McKinty gets better and better.”

THE TIMES

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AUGUST

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Revolution

Orkney Twilight

Book of Numbers

The Fixer

Russell Brand

Clare Carson

Joshua Cohen

Joseph Finder

“A delight… Revolution is a text that will help politicise a generation.” independent

Jim says he’s an undercover policeman.

His daughter Sam thinks he’s a liar.

The breakout novel from a prodigiously talented author.

You can run. You can hide.

We all know the system isn’t working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar.

Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there’s nothing we can do – “it’s just the way things are”. You have been lied to. Brand destroys this illusory façade, amusingly and deftly. This book makes revolution not only possible, but inevitable and fun.

On holiday in Orkney, Sam spies on Jim as he runs secretive errands across the island. Why is he so interested in Norse mythology? And why does Sam have the eerie feeling that she too is being watched? When Sam finally discovers the truth, it will draw her into a dangerous world of darkness and deception…

When the enigmatic billionaire founder and CEO of Tetration, the world’s most powerful tech company, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. This tech mogul, known only as ‘Principal’, takes Josh deep into his own mind. Accompanying Josh on a mindbending world tour, Principal soon initiates Josh into the secret pretext of the autobiography project, and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication.

“ Revolution is funny, full of charm, and engaging.”

GUARDIAN

“ A compelling and authentic voice… refreshingly distinctive in his analysis of what is wrong about the way modern Britain is run.”

Orkney Twilight is an original and haunting thriller about fathers, daughters and the ghosts of the past.

Clare Carson is an anthropologist. Her father was an undercover policeman in 1970s London.

Joshua Cohen is the author of several books, including Four New Messages and Attention! A (Short) History.

INDEPENDENT

When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into – and renovate – the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father’s stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril – and change everything he thought he knew about his father. “ A startling thrill ride… one man’s fight for survival becomes a journey to the light.”

MICHAEL CONNELLY

“ Original, emotionally satisfying, expertly twisted, genuinely entertaining. The thriller to read this year.”

LISA GARDNER

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AUGUST

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The Ghosts of Altona

Green Glowing Skull

The Sisters

Stripped

Craig Russell

Gavin Corbett

Claire Douglas

Brian Freeman

One of Craig Russell’s most loved creations Jan Fabel returns to face a terrifying killer.

A darkly comic tale of mythologies, machines and the metaphysical swirl from the winner of the Irish Novel of the Year.

One had a secret. One lost her mind. One died.

Everyone keeps secrets in Vegas.

Especially about murder.

Four bodies are found. There is nothing to connect them, other than that they have been killed in the same way. The press call the killer ‘The Ghost’, as he leaves no trace. But Fabel suspects that the motive may be linked to their histories. After a near deadly encounter Fabel realises that he too is being hunted. A spectre from his own past believes himself to be untouchable – because he believes himself already dead. “ A great writer at the very top of his game.”

After fleeing his dying parents in Dublin for Manhattan, Rickard Velily hopes to be reborn as an Irish tenor. At the very peculiar Cha Bum Kun Club, he meets Denny Kennedy-Logan and Clive Sullis, and a plan is enacted: to revive the old songs and ballads for a young city in thrall to technology. But that is without reckoning on meddlesome sprites and more malign forces who plot to subjugate the human race.

After the death of her twin sister, Lucy, and a subsequent breakdown, Abi is haunted by memories.

One day she meets Bea – a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Lucy – and Bea’s twin brother, Ben, with whom she feels an irresistible attraction. Bea invites Abi to live with them, which places Abi’s relationship with Ben under strain. But Bea has a secret that she’ll do anything to hide…

Claire Douglas won the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award with her manuscript for this novel, The Sisters.

“ The triumph is in the telling… a timely reminder that while fiction may not change things in the real world, it does offer us new ways to dream.”

PETER JAMES

“ Storytelling at its very best.”

MICHAEL CONNELLY

Elonda’s seen most things working the streets. But it’s a first when her client is shot dead in the act. Detective Jonathan Stride quickly establishes that the victim is M. J. Lane, son of a reclusive millionaire film producer.

Any number of people might have wanted to kill M. J. It seems the killer wants to send a message about the brutal slaying, decades earlier, of a nightclub dancer.

That case was wrapped up quickly. Too quickly?

Someone certainly thinks so… “ Freeman captures the sleazy atmosphere of the city… driving its narrative briskly to a dramatic conclusion.”

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

IRISH TIMES

“ Freeman ably juggles multiple plot strands while never losing sight of the human dimension…

Confirmation of a major talent.”

“ A troubling, mysterious, demanding and beautiful book, narrated in a voice unlike any I have encountered in fiction.”

EMMA DONOGHUE

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No Way Out

The Monopolists

The Wronged

One Mile Under

David Kessler

Mary Pilon

Kimberley Chambers

Andrew Gross

Prepare to lose sleep with this breakneck thriller for fans of John Grisham and Jeff Abbott.

The inside story of the world’s most famous board game.

The Butlers are at war, and they’re taking everyone down with them…

The heart-pounding new thriller from bestselling author Andrew Gross.

Most people think that Monopoly was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the Great Depression in 1935 and lived happily – and richly – ever after. That story, however, is not exactly true. The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers, the lost female originator of the game, and one man’s lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game’s questionable origins.

As always with the Butlers, family comes first. Vinny’s brother Michael may think he’s the top dog running the family business, but it won’t last when Vinny finds out how good his brother’s got it.

Leading a tour down rapids in Colorado, whitewater guide Dani Haller comes across the body of a friend.

Local police chief Wade Dunn insists the case is closed, but when Dani threatens to go public with some evidence, she finds herself in jail. Once ex-detective Ty Hauck hears that his god-daughter is in trouble, he immediately jumps to her aid. Together he and Dani step foot into a sinister scheme running deep beneath the surface of a quiet Colorado town.

When TV talkshow host Elias Claymore is accused of raping a 19-year-old girl he turns to his friend Alex Sadaka to defend him. But Alex has a fight on his hands, for Claymore is anything but squeaky clean. Forced to share the defence with a lawyer from Claymore’s insurance firm, Alex must fight to uncover the truth.

Could it be that this time there is No Way Out? “ This will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.”

CLOSER

A fascinating social history of corporate greed that illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads like the best detective fiction.

In the background, Little Vinny thinks he’s one step ahead of his dad; he’s still keeping a secret he’ll take to his grave – even if that means that he sends more people to theirs first… “ Brilliantly delivers a story of violence, treachery and family ties… Easy to read and hard to put down.”

“ A total white knuckle, stay-up-all-night thrill ride.”

HARLAN COBEN

NEWS OF THE WORLD

“ A spine-chilling mystery with a thrilling twist.”

“ [A] fast-paced tale with gritty authenticity.”

COSMOPOLITAN

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This Changes Everything

Taking Pity

The Dying Season

I Followed the Rules

Naomi Klein

David Mark

Martin Walker

Joanna Bolouri

Naomi Klein returns with a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political change.

Another page-turning DS McAvoy thriller, Taking Pity is not to be missed.

The Dordogne town of St Denis may be picturesque and sleepy, but it has more than its fair share of secrets.

Some rules are made to be broken…

We seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. Exposing the work of ideologues on the right who know the challenge this poses to the free market all too well, Naomi Klein also challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups. It’s time to stop running from the full implications of the crisis and begin to embrace them.

They have taken DS Aector McAvoy’s family. They have taken DCI Colin Ray’s foundation. They have taken DS Trish Pharaoh’s fight. Now the ruthless criminal network that has tightened its stranglehold on Hull intends to take everything that remains from those who dare to stand in its way. Taking Pity is the story of three officers who can take no more, and a merciless nemesis that takes no chances, no prisoners and no pity.

“ Klein is a brave and passionate writer who always deserves to be heard, and this is a powerful and urgent book.”

“ One of the darkest of the new faces in British crime writing, and not one to miss.”

OBSERVER

When Bruno is invited to the 90th birthday of a powerful local patriarch, he encounters a family with more secrets than even he had imagined. When one of the other guests is found dead the next morning and the family try to cover it up, Bruno knows it’s his duty to prevent the victim from becoming just another skeleton in their closet. Even if his digging reveals things Bruno himself would rather keep buried.

“ Pure chick-lit heaven.”

NOVELICIOUS

MIRROR

“ This is a conversation that needs to happen on a large scale, and on a local scale, and on a personal scale, very soon.”

“ Hilarious.”

SUN

“ Walker is brilliant at capturing the murderous charms of rural France”

DAILY MAIL

When Catriona Buchanan decides to date only by ‘The Rules’ from The Ten Rules of Enticement, she could never have imagined where she would end up. We follow Cat on a journey of sexual restraint, polite conversation and cookery classes as she disregards everything she thought she knew about dating. But when she nets not one, but two, new love interests, Cat must decide if pretending to be someone she’s not is really worth the pay-off.

MARGARET ATWOOD

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SEPTEMBER

Jammer

Jammer

A Great Day at the Office

In the Name of Love

Ordinary Joe

Mislaid

Dr John Briffa

Patrick Smith

Jon Teckman

Nell Zink

Do you wake up dreading work? Feel utterly drained by midday? If this sounds familiar, Dr John Briffa can help!

A taut, elegantly chilling drama in the tradition of Scandinavian masters from Ibsen to Larsson.

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true.

Nell Zink’s hugely entertaining, totally unique Mislaid explodes the nuclear family and topples every foundation of identity.

Just a few small changes to your daily routine could boost your productivity and performance, making for a healthier and happier you. Dr Briffa shows that getting ahead at work doesn’t have to mean long hours, no breaks and an over-dependence on the snack machine.

Based on the latest research, A Great Day at the Office offers a tried and tested strategy to bring out the best in you, at your job and in your life!

A young woman is brutally murdered on an island near Stockholm. Suspicion falls first on a family of Iraqi refugees. But then the victim’s story begins to unfold.

Lena Sundman was rude, dysfunctional, and young.

Everything Dan Byrne disliked. Hiding out on the island after the sudden death of his wife, Dan finds himself drawn to the troubled girl, starting from the moment he rescues her from a gathering snowstorm.

Dr John Briffa is a practising doctor, author and international speaker. He is a former columnist for the Daily Mail and the Observer, is a regular contributor to the Times, and has written for and been featured in more than 50 newspapers and magazines.

Originally an architect born in Ireland, Patrick Smith has worked as a translator for many years. Having published two novels in Swedish, he began his first in English at the age of 70.

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ISBN 9780007564354

What would you do if you were happily married… with two gorgeous children… and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to you… And it wasn’t a joke.

Joe West, accountant, father and husband is just your average guy who has just walked into that dream scenario. Except the dream sours fast and suddenly everything he holds dear is on the line.

Sometimes life is crazier than the movies.

Virginia, 1966. The motionless deeps of the lake outside Stillwater College are being ruffled. Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, is determinedly fondling Peggy, an ingénue freshman with literary pretensions, in his canoe. So begins a long affair but the two are mismatched from the start. The story that follows rocks the boat in every sense. Nell Zink’s hugely entertaining, totally unique Mislaid explodes the nuclear family and topples every foundation of identity. “ Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range.

Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.”

JONATHAN FRANZEN

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43

Jammer Teen

Jammer Teen Ideal for engaging teenagers, whether new or voracious readers. Including authors such as Vanessa Curtis, Kiera Cass and Holly Smale.

The titles we select will also be popular with many adults.

The Earth is Singing

The 100 Society

Vanessa Curtis

Carla Spradberry

A fifteen-year-old Jewish girl finds herself caught up in the horrors of Nazi invasion…

Six teenagers participate in a dangerous game that goes very wrong…

“My name is Hanna. I am 15. I am Latvian. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing, taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend and I’m training to be a dancer. But none of that is important any more. Because the Nazis have arrived, and I am a Jew. And as far as they are concerned, that is all that matters. This is my story.”

The 100 Society is more than just a game; it’s an obsession. At Clifton Academy, sixth-form student Grace Becker will stop at nothing to carry out the rules of the game with her friends: tagging 100 locations around the city. But then the group catches the attention of a menacing stalker – the Reaper – who seems intent on exposing their illegal game, and the once tight-knit group starts to unravel…

This is a powerful novel for young adult listeners about bravery in the face of the utmost danger.

Vanessa Curtis is an award-winning author. Vanessa was inspired to write The Earth is Singing when she discovered her own Jewish Latvian heritage.

“ A pleasingly dark teen thriller with fun, fresh characters. Spradbery is a debut author to watch.”

JAMES DAWSON

“ Will have you on the edge of your seat and your nails bitten down to the quick… I just loved this adrenalin, white knuckle ride of a book.”

BATH CHRONICLE

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AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

Jammer Teen

Jammer Teen

Game Changer

It’s About Love

The Heir

All That Glitters

Tim Bowler

Steven Camden

Kiera Cass

Holly Smale

A gripping thriller from the Carnegie awardwinning storyteller.

Real life is messier than the movies.

A new generation of captivating characters and romance awaits in the fourth book of The Selection series!

The fourth book in the award-winning Geek Girl series.

Mikey is frightened of open spaces and would much rather curl up in his room and avoid the world outside.

So going to a noisy, public place is a big deal – but with his sister Meggie by his side, it should be safe. But things go badly wrong when he encounters a gang and witnesses something terrible. To make matters worse, they know where he lives… This time, there’s no hiding place for Mikey. “ Bowler is masterly at creating tension… a sharp, suspenseful thriller.”

He’s Luke. She’s Leia. Just like in Star Wars. Just like they’re made for each other. Same film studies course, different backgrounds, different ends of town. Only this isn’t a film. This is real life. This is where monsters from the past come back to take revenge. This is where you are sometimes the monster. And where the things we build to protect us, can end up doing the most harm…

Steven Camden is a leading spoken-word poet and bestselling author of Tape. “ Truly gripping… a cleverly structured, movingly characterised and powerful tale.”

THE SUNDAY TIMES ON NIGHT RUNNER

“ Reality TV meets dystopian fairy tale… Charming, captivating.”

KIERSTEN WHITE ON THE SELECTION

SUNDAY TIMES ON TAPE

“ An edg y, suspenseful thriller.”

Eighteen years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon’s heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn’t expect her Selection to be anything like her parents’ fairy-tale love story… but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn’t as impossible as she’s always thought.

Harriet Manners has high hopes for the new school year: she’s a Sixth Former now, and things are going to be different. But with Nat busy falling in love at college and Toby preoccupied with a Top Secret project, Harriet soon discovers that’s not necessarily a good thing… “ A feel-good satisfying gem that will have teens smiling from cover to cover, and walking a little taller after reading.”

BOOKS FOR KEEPS

“ Loved Geek Girl. Wise, funny and true, with a proper nerd heroine you’re laughing with as much as at. Almost.”

JAMES HENRY, WRITER OF SMACK THE PONY AND GREEN WING

THE IRISH TIMES ON NIGHT RUNNER

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45

Doctor Who

Faith Stealer

The Last

Graham Duff

Gary Hopkins

When the Doctor, Charley and C’rizz find their journey through the Interzone interrupted by a nightmarish vision, they are surprised to find the Kro’ka offering the perfect solution. The Multihaven, a harmonious community, appears to offer the perfect sanctuary in which to convalesce. But with the Doctor and Charley catching glimpses of an old friend and C’rizz on the receiving end of some unorthodox religious practices, their belief, hope and faith are about to be tested to the limit.

Trapped on a dying world, the Doctor, Charley and C’rizz come face-to-face with those responsible for the war to end wars. Powerful forces are at work on Bortresoye – natural forces that have excited the interest of Excelsior, the self-proclaimed saviour of her people. One final, desperate hope of escape presents itself to the travelers. But who will be the last to leave the planet?

Who will have to stay behind? And will the Doctor, Charley and C’rizz live long enough to find out?

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Official BBC full-cast dramas, with music and sound effects in stereo, featuring former doctors including Colin Baker, Peter Davison and Paul McGann.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Medicinal Purposes

The Demons

The Warriors

The Future

Robert Ross

Nicholas Briggs

Nicholas Briggs

Nicholas Briggs

Edinburgh, 1827: The infamous body snatchers William Burke and William Hare are at large. The local prostitutes dull their fear with cheap whisky. The graveyard owls are hooting. Business is good. When accidental tourists the Doctor and Evelyn Smythe arrive, a simple case of interest quickly turns sour. Just what is that time bending Scots mist? Whatever it is may put the very fabric of the universe under threat.

Georgi Selestru’s fears about the Dalek threat may not be shared by his superiors. Galanar’s very survival is at stake and the Dalek plan is gaining momentum. But who are the Demons, and whose side are they on?

The fight against the Daleks must succeed now. But while the Wardens are outnumbered and without a strategy, the Dalek Supreme is sensing victory.

“Maybe this chapter of history will be a bad one. Another one in which the Daleks win. But maybe it won’t be.”

It would seem that not even Saloran Hardew knows what the future will hold.

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AUGUST

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

The Next Life

Caerdroia

The Juggernauts

Orbis

Alan Barnes

Lloyd Rose

Scott Alan Woodard

Alan Barnes

Washed up on the sandy shores of a paradise island, a wild-eyed shipwreck survivor is rescued by the wife of Daqar Keep, the richest man in the galaxy. Her name’s Perfection. He’s the Doctor. Together, they face a journey into the dark heart of this mysterious island, to discover the deepest secrets of this timeless cosmos.

That’s if the giant crabs, killer crocodiles and murderous natives don’t get them first.

Self-exiled to a new universe, separated from his TARDIS, the Doctor has been struggling to work out the nature of the cosmic game in which he’s an unwilling pawn.

Threatened and desperate, the Kro’ka abandons his behind-the-scenes machinations to confront the Doctor directly. But will both of them lose their way in the maze of the strange world in which they find themselves?

Within a small mining colony on the distant planet of Lethe, events are occurring the results of which could dramatically affect things on a universal scale. For within the dingy corridors of the artificial biosphere, the lone survivor of a devastating crash has expertly wormed his way into the lives of the colony’s personnel.

A scientist known as Davros. Rescuing Mel and stopping Davros should be the Doctor’s primary goals, but could it be that this time, Mel does not wish to be rescued?

And might Davros actually be working on something for the benefit of the civilised galaxies?

The Doctor has fallen to his death. His companion, Lucie Miller, has returned to her life on Earth, griefstricken. Then, one night, an alien visitor arrives at her front door and shoots her. Could it be that Lucie’s days with the Doctor are not over? She will only find the answer on the planet Orbis. A planet where all forms of life are facing violent extinction.

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AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

The Beast of Orlok

Hothouse

Dreamtime

The Game

Barnaby Edwards

Jonathan Morris

Simon A. Forward

Darin Henry

Germany, 1827. The town of Orlok is under a curse, haunted by the memory of a spate of grisly murders that shattered the community twenty years before. And now, it seems, the Beast has returned. As the killings begin again, the people of Orlok are understandably suspicious of two strangers newly arrived in their midst. The Doctor and Lucie must face their darkest fears as they find themselves plunged into a decidedly grim fairytale.

Somewhere in the south of England stands the Hothouse. Inside, rock star turned environmental activist Alex Marlow has a plan to save the world from climate change. By any means necessary. There’s something growing inside the Hothouse. Something that could turn back humanity’s tide. A voracious alien vegetable called the Krynoid. The Doctor’s going to have to stop it. By any means necessary.

A city travels the stars, inhabited by stone ghosts. At its heart, an ancient remembrance of Earth. There is only fear. And death. And the stone ghosts. For Hex’s first trip in the TARDIS, it’s about the strangest place he could have imagined. Adjustment to his new life could prove tough. But he will have to adjust and do more, just to stay alive, and Ace will have to be his guide through this lost city of shadows and predatory dreams. And the Doctor is the first to go missing.

The Gora and the Lineen are set to face off in the grudge match to end all grudge matches. The players are limbering up, the commentators are preparing, the fans are daubing themselves in their team’s colours.

When the Doctor and Nyssa arrive, however, they find that Naxy is a sport that anyone can play – whether they want to or not. Cray’s entire future depends on the match’s outcome, but the time travellers soon realise that it is anything but just a game

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SEPTEMBER

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Catch 1782

Wirrn Dawn

The Scapegoat

The Cannibalists

Alison Lawson

Nicholas Briggs

Pat Mills

Jonathan Morris

When the Doctor and Mel visit the National Foundation for Scientific Research as it celebrates its centenary, Mel expects only to be able to catch up with her uncle. She doesn’t expect to meet her own ancestors. Visiting your relatives can sometimes be trying, but surely it should never be this difficult?

The Doctor and Lucie land right in the middle of one of the human race’s bloodiest periods of history. Trying to make a difference here would be like standing up and calling for a cease-fire on the Somme. Certain death…

Or worse. Survival can be a messy business.

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the Theatre des Baroque! Oh, but if you think you’ve seen and heard all that Paris by night has to offer… the exotic sights of Le Moulin Rouge, perhaps, or the horror tricks of Le Grand Guignol… if you think nothing could cause your mouth to dry and your heart to pound… you’re wrong.

The Haven hangs in space. A vast star city, devoid of life.

Organic life, that is. From their high spire, looking out over silent streets and empty plazas, the Assemblers are waiting for the day when the humans arrive. Waiting.

Waiting. Waiting…

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50

Blackstone

Blackstone A new Standing Order Plan for 2015–16, representing internationally bestselling American authors across a variety of genres.

This quarter includes Brian Freeman, Loretta Chase and Lee Goldberg.

Vanished

The Brothers Cabal

Elizabeth Heiter

Johnathan Howard

Sometimes the past can haunt you…

Sometimes the past is best forgotten.

Horst Cabal has risen from the dead – again.

Eighteen years ago, FBI profiler Evelyn Baine’s best friend, Cassie Byers disappeared, becoming third in a series of unsolved abductions. Only a macabre nursery rhyme was left at the scene, a nursery rhyme that claimed Evelyn was also an intended victim. Now, after all these years of silence, another girl has gone missing in South Carolina and the Nursery Rhyme Killer is taking credit. But is Cassie’s abductor really back, or is there a copycat at work? “ Want to read a top-rate thriller? Vanished had me turning page after page. Wow. When you talk about our most-promising new thriller writers, put Elizabeth Heiter on the list!”

Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely to meet, is resurrected by an occult conspiracy that wants him as a general in a monstrous army – their plan is to create a country of horrors. Horst realises that he cannot fight them alone. What he really needs on his side is a sarcastic, amoral, heavily armed necromancer.

As luck would have it, this exactly describes his brother. “ An entertaining and surprisingly emotional yarn that promises entertaining future trials for the Cabal brothers.”

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY

R. L. STINE, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GOOSEBUMPS

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A Well-Tempered Heart

Lord of Scoundrels

Season of Fear

Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii

Jan-Philipp Sendker

Loretta Chase

Brian Freeman

Lee Goldberg

From the international bestselling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats comes another outstanding story.

They call him many names, but angelic isn’t one of them.

International Thriller Writers Award winner and bestselling author Brian Freeman returns to the sun-drenched beaches of Naples, Florida, and the idiosyncratic world of Detective Cab Bolton.

Winner of the IAMTW Scribe Award for Best Original Novel.

Blackstone

AUGUST

Blackstone

JULY

Although Julia Win is a successful lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads. Her boyfriend recently left her, she has suffered a miscarriage and despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life – Julia is lost and exhausted. One day in a meeting, she hears a stranger’s voice in her head, forcing her to leave the office. In the following days, her crisis only deepens. Not only does the voice refuse to disappear, but it starts to ask questions Julia has been trying to avoid… “ This is the kind of stunningly perfect novel that changes lives.”

Sebastian Ballister is big, bad and dangerous to know.

No respectable woman would have anything to do with him and he wants nothing to do with respectable women. He’s determined to sin and sin again… and all’s going swimmingly until the day a shop door opens and she walks in. Jessica is a determined young woman, and she’s going to drag her imbecile brother off the road to ruin, no matter what it takes. “ The passion is to die for, and every romance reader I know has this book on their keeper shelf.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

NEW YORK TIMES

Attractive and popular politician Diane Fairmont is running for the Florida governorship, but a chill is cast over the campaign when she receives an anonymous note announcing the return of the assassin who killed her husband ten years earlier. Because of complicated ties between Fairmont and his mother, movie actress Tarla Bolton, Detective Bolton is assigned to the case.

Bolton tries to unlock the secrets of a poisonous conspiracy, before nature provides the perfect cover for a long-dormant killer to strike again.

Some people think Hawaii is paradise, but Monk knows that danger, like dirt, lurks everywhere. Look at Helen Gruber, the rich tourist who took a fatal blow from a coconut. The police say it fell from a tree, but Monk suspects otherwise. Psychic Dylan Swift claims to have a message from beyond, but Monk has his doubts about Swift’s credibility. But finding the killer and proving Swift a fraud may prove a tough coconut to crack. “ An entertaining and ruefully funny diversion that stars one of television’s best-loved characters.”

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN

“ Fast-paced. […] A taut thriller that’s at once a whodunit and a who-will-do-it.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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SEPTEMBER

Blackstone

Dangling Man

Angel Landing

Bark

Saul Bellow

Alice Hoffman

Lorrie Moore

An essential masterpiece from the Nobel laureate, Saul Bellow.

The tale of a man and a woman, so consumed with helping others that they are in danger of failing in their duty to themselves.

A new collection of stories by one of America’s most beloved and admired short story writers, Lorrie Moore.

Natalie, a therapist, is in love with Carter – but he is deeply dedicated to his environmental work, and the fate of their relationship takes a backseat to the fate of the planet.

Then a new client walks into Natalie’s office. He is an intriguing man, with an incredible tale to tell, and under his influence she faces questions about the direction of her own passion, the true meaning of commitment…

In Debarking, a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq. In Foes, a political argument goes awry as the events of 9/11 manifest at a fund-raising dinner.

In The Juniper Tree, a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced into a kind of nightmare reunion. In Wings, we watch the unravelling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths.

Expecting to be inducted into the army during World War Two, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Written in diary format, Bellow’s first novel documents Joseph’s psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice. “ In this imaginative journal, set against fresh and vivid scenes in Chicago, the author has outlined what must seem to many others an uncannily accurate delineation of themselves.”

“ A good, old-fashioned love story […] Alice Hoffman’s writing at its precise and heartbreaking best.”

“ Bark nails the tragedies and absurdity of modern life, from divorce to the Iraq invasion, while sacrificing none of the poignancy of the personal.”

WASHINGTON POST

NEW YORK TIMES

VANITY FAIR

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A new standing order plan for 2015–2016 Official BBC full-cast dramas with sound effects See page 45 for the collection

JULY

53

Playaway clipper

Playaway A media format designed for audiobooks – preloaded MP3 players with an audiobook locked in.

Just press play.

The Boy I Love

Amnesia

The Skin Collector

Lynda Bellingham

Peter Carey

Jeffery Deaver

A superb evocation of theatre life from a naturally gifted storyteller, the beloved Lynda Bellingham.

The incredible new novel from twice Man Booker Prize winner, Peter Carey.

The latest exhilarating novel in the Lincoln Rhyme series.

In the summer of ‘82, Sally Thomas begins her first season as an Assistant Stage Manager at the beautiful theatre in Crewe. Flung into this new world, one of the first lessons she learns is that the actors need no tuition in the art of stagefighting, since they are quite adept at stabbing each other in the back.

And when her best friend Jeremy falls suddenly and dangerous in love, Sally has to grow up – fast.

The Boy I Love is a beautiful novel from actress Lynda Bellingham.

Her acting career spans 40 years, with appearances on Strictly Come Dancing, Loose Women and Calendar Girls.

When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia’s prison system, setting hundreds of asylum seekers free, she also let the cat out of the bag. The Americans ran the prisons, and so the doors of some 5,000 American prisons also opened. Was this a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore has no doubt, and to save her, he’s going to write her biography. But how to get Gaby to co-operate? “ Carey is a wily and supremely confident storyteller on a grand scale.”

THE TIMES

“ A new Peter Carey novel is cause for joy.”

GUARDIAN

A tattoo artist is using poison instead of ink. And on a young woman’s skin he’s left a message: ‘the second’. Drafted in to investigate, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs find a single piece of evidence – a scrap of paper that connects this case with one they will never forget. And like the Bone Collector before him, Rhyme and Sachs find themselves pitted against a perpetrator who plans his work to the last detail. “ Brilliant… it’s easy to get swept up in the sheer velocity of the action.”

SCOTSMAN

“ The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable, and there is an excellent climax… If you want thrills, Deaver is your man.”

GUARDIAN

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JULY

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The Year of Travelling Taking Chances to Infinity

A Week in Paris The Girl Who Just Appeared

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

The Lives of Others

Lucy Diamond

Jane Hawking

Rachel Hore

Jonathan Harvey

Emma Hooper

Neel Mukherjee

Because love is always worth the risk…

The inspiration behind the major biopic film The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne.

The streets of Paris hide a dark past…

To have a future, she needed to know her past…

September, 1937. Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist. But then war breaks out and the city of light falls into shadow. Nearly twenty-five years later, Fay Knox, a talented young violinist, visits Paris on tour with her orchestra. She barely knows the city, so why does it feel so familiar? Soon touches of memory become something stronger, and she realises her connection with these streets runs deeper than she ever expected.

London, 2014. Adopted when just a few months old, Holly Smith has never fitted in. But then she finds a biscuit tin full of yellowing papers under the floorboards of the flat she was born in. Could these papers be the key to her past?

“I’ve gone. I’ve never seen the water, so I’ve gone there. I will try to remember to come back.”

An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.

It’s New Year’s Eve, and at a house party, three women bond over dodgy cocktails and fortune cookies, and vow to make this year their best one yet. But as the months unfold, Gemma, Saffron and Caitlin find themselves tested to their limits. Under pressure, they are each forced to rethink their lives. But dare they take a chance on something new? “ Delicious, delightful, and warm, Lucy Diamond never fails to make you laugh out loud and cheer for her colourful cast of characters.”

ROWAN COLEMAN

“ Charming, funny and as satisfying as a giant tiramisu. Loved it.”

MILLY JOHNSON

In this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking relates the inside story of her extraordinary marriage.

As Stephen’s academic renown soared, his body was collapsing under the assaults of motor neurone disease, and Jane’s candid account of trying to balance his 24-hour care with the needs of their growing family is inspirational. This is a book about optimism, love and change that will resonate with readers everywhere. “ A great read.”

“ A tour de force. Rachel’s Paris is rich, romantic, exotic and mysterious.”

DAILY MAIL

JUDY FINNIGAN

“ Jane writes about her former husband with tenderness, respect and protectiveness.”

“ The Paris of both ages is beautifully drawn and the women’s stories are skilfully interwoven, resulting in a richly emotional story, suspenseful and romantic”

SUNDAY EXPRESS

Liverpool, 1981. Fifteen-year-old Darren is negotiating life with his errant mother and the younger brother. When the Toxteth Riots begin, Darren finds himself with a moral dilemma. “ The Girl Who Just Appeared is a wonderful book – gripping and twisty and tender and touching.”

MARIAN KEYES

“ Absolutely delightful. Jonathan Harvey writes with all his heart and all his soul.”

Etta’s greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea.

And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning and begins walking the 2,000 miles to water. Meanwhile her husband Otto waits patiently at home, left only with his memories. Their neighbour Russell remembers too – and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto. “ [I]ncredibly moving, beautifully written and luminous with wisdom.

It is a book that restores one’s faith in life even as it deepens its mystery. Wonderful!”

CHRIS CLEAVE, AUTHOR OF THE OTHER HAND

LISA JEWELL

“ Neel Mukherjee has written an outstanding novel: compelling, compassionate and complex, vivid, musical and fierce.”

ROSE TREMAIN

“ An irresistibly enchanting debut novel.”

DEIRDRE O’BRIEN, SUNDAY MIRROR

Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism.

Compelled by an idealistic desire, all he leaves behind before disappearing is a note. The ageing patriarch and matriarch of his family, the Ghoshes, preside over their large household, unaware that their family is unravelling.

For this is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change: the chasm between the generations, and between those who have and those who have not, has never been wider.

BOOKLIST

“ Masterful… an unforgettable portrait of one family riven by the forces of history and their own desires.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH

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The Ship

The Blazing World

Peace and Conflict

An Irish Promise

Endsinger

Love in Small Letters

Antonia Honeywell

Siri Hustvedt

Irene Sabatini

Isabella Connor

Jay Kristoff

Francesc Miralles

Welcome to London, but not as you know it.

A polyphonic tour de force, nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2014.

This is the story of a hero.

A promise is a promise…

Ten-year-old Robert knows many things. He knows all about his hometown, Geneva. He knows about the Red Cross and all the places his dad has been. But still he has questions. Is his neighbour, Monsieur Renoir, really evil? Why did he leave a medal on Robert’s doorstep? In school, Robert learned all about wars and heroes. But soon he discovers what it really means to be a hero.

Rachel Ford has returned to Kilbrook to take revenge on the bullies who ruined her childhood and destroyed her family.

Australian actor, Finn MacKenzie sets hearts fluttering when he arrives in Kilbrook to help his aunt.

Finn isn’t looking for love, but there’s a definite spark between them. Rachel is torn between her desire for revenge and this new love affair. Will he understand why she must keep her promise, no matter the cost?

The final novel in the Lotus War trilogy, following Stormdancer and Kinslayer.

A tale of tender friendships and incredible transformations.

The flames of civil war sweep across the Shima Imperium. Blood turns against blood as the Dragon and Fox clans compete for the empty throne. The traitor Kin walks the halls of Guild power, his destiny only a bloody knife-stroke away.

And as the earth splits asunder, as armies destroy each other for rule over an empire of lifeless ash and the final secret about blood lotus is revealed, the people of Shima will learn one last, horrifying truth.

When Samuel wakes up on 1st January, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing exciting – until a strange visitor bursts into his flat, determined not to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray cat, leads Samuel to an encounter with the enigmatic Valdemar and his neighbour Titus.

Samuel discovers how small everyday acts can have the power to awaken the heart from its slumber.

Oxford Street burned for three weeks, the Regent’s Park camps have been bombed. Lalla, 16, has grown up sheltered from the new reality by her visionary father, Michael Paul. He has promised Lalla and her mother that they will escape. Escape on a ship big enough to save 500 people. Once on board, as day follows identical day, Lalla’s unease grows. Where are they going? “ The Ship is tense, engaging and emotionally charged: I devoured this novel.”

Artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of recognition she has received from the art world, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts. Yet, even after she has unmasked herself, some refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men. One thing is clear: Burden’s involvement with the last of her ‘masks’ turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the man’s bizarre death. “ The Blazing World is a dazzling novel, the kind that makes you cry (or nearly cry) as well as think.”

HELEN DUNMORE

“ A beautiful futuristic fable with huge power to haunt and disturb.”

M. R. CAREY, AUTHOR OF THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

SUNDAY TIMES

Irene Sabatini is the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, for her first novel The Boy Next Door. “ Irene Sabatini is a born writer.”

“ [A] compelling, fast-paced read with a plot that builds inexorably.”

IRISH INDEPENDENT ON BENEATH AN IRISH SKY

DAILY MAIL

LA TIMES

“ Entertaining, ambitious and packed with news from elsewhere, leavened by the precious optimism of youth. Don’t miss it.”

“ It is an exuberantly clever piece of work… a novel that gloriously lives up to its title, one blazing with energ y and thought.”

“ With airships, demons, and lashings of revolutionary swordplay, this chi-fuelled vision of a steampunk feudal Japan will blow your split-toed socks off.”

INDEPENDENT ON THE BOY NEXT DOOR

THE TIMES

“ [A] fast-paced, fantastical adventure [that] is sharp as a Shogun’s sword.”

Born in Barcelona, Francesc Miralles has written many bestsellers and has received several prestigious literary awards.

Love in Small Letters is his most famous and acclaimed book.

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The Axeman’s Jazz

Time and Time Again

Bryant & May – The Burning Man

Words of Command

Spare Brides

Lynda Bellingham

Ray Celestin

Ben Elton

Christopher Fowler

Allan Mallinson

Adele Parks

The poignant, moving and uplifting memoir from much-loved actress, television presenter and bestselling author, Lynda Bellingham, written following her diagnosis with terminal cancer.

Longlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year.

If you had one chance to change history… Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill?

Bryant and May embark on their most explosive case yet.

January 1830: one of the hardest winters in memory…

New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer – The Axeman – stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer’s identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victim. And as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom over the city…

It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Stanton knows that a terrible war is coming. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so, could another bullet save it?

A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests, and a young homeless man burns to death after being caught between rioters and the police. But all is not as it seems; an opportunistic killer is using the chaos to exact revenge.

Arthur Bryant and John May soon find their investigation taking an apocalyptic turn as the case comes to involve the history of mob rule, corruption, punishment and the legend of Guy Fawkes.

The Prime Minister is resisting growing calls for parliamentary reform, provoking scenes of violent unrest. Against this inflammable backdrop Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey, recently returned from an assignment in the Balkans, takes command of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. His fears that things might be dull are quickly dispelled by the business of vexatious officers, difficult choices over which NCOs to promote, not to mention the incendiarists on the doorstep of the King himself.

Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks turns her laser-sharp perception to the opulent backdrop of post-First World War England.

Having been told that she only has a matter of months left to live and writing this in what will sadly be her final days, There’s Something I’ve Been Dying To Tell You is a brutally honest memoir, yet Lynda also manages to spread her infectious warmth and humour, bringing light to a very dark time. Lynda’s story is a heart-breaking but also a laughout-loud story too. The way Lynda tells her life story will serve as a great inspiration.

The Axeman’s Jazz is an ambitious, gripping thriller announcing a major new talent in historical crime fiction.

“ I laughed and I cried. The strength shines through in the whole book and the honesty. A fantastic woman.”

Ben Elton has written fourteen major bestsellers, and has also written some of television’s most popular and incisive comedy, including The Young Ones and Blackadder.

“ One of our most unorthodox and entertaining writers.”

Allan Mallinson is a former infantry and cavalry officer of thirty-five years’ service worldwide. As well as the Matthew Hervey series of novels, he is the author of Light Dragoons, a history of four regiments of British Cavalry, one of which he commanded.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

COLEEN NOLAN

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“ Dramatic and swooningly romantic, this is historical fiction with real heart.”

MARIE CLAIRE

“ A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail.”

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The 1920s: a time of hope, promise – and parties. But not all the men came home, after The War. Meet the spare brides. Young, gorgeous – and unexpectedly alone. Ava relishes the freedom of being single. Sarah fears no one can replace her hero husband. Beatrice finds it hard to shine, next to her dazzling friends. And Lydia is married, rich, privileged. Then a chance encounter changes everything.

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The Love Shack

The Girl in the Red Coat

Blood Whispers Thomas Cromwell

The End of Alice

The Wayward Bus

Jane Costello

Kate Hamer

John Gordon Sinclair

Tracy Borman

A. M. Homes

John Steinbeck

Imagine having to move back in with your parents – in your thirties…

She is the missing girl. But she doesn’t know she’s lost.

“How do you tell the truth in a world full of lies?”

Kaltrina Dervishi is a prostitute on the run from Serbian gang leader Fisnik Abazi. The police want her to give evidence against him: Abazi wants her dead. Only her lawyer, Keira Lynch, can keep that from happening. What they don’t realise though is that Keira isn’t your typical Glasgow lawyer. When she was eight years old she killed a man, and as they’re about to find out, she’s at her most dangerous when threatened.

“This is everything fiction should be – wrenching, disturbing and emotive.” independent

One of Steinbeck’s most powerful novels.

When Beth Wakeford takes her eight year-old daughter, Carmel, to a local children’s festival, they become separated. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own, with a man who believes she is a saviour.

Thomas Cromwell is known to millions as the leading character in Hilary Mantel’s bestselling Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.

Dan and Gemma have found their dream first home, but the asking price is the stuff of nightmares.

The only way they’ll ever save for a deposit is by returning, rentfree, to Dan’s childhood home.

Obviously, no one wants to move back into a bedroom still adorned with Kylie posters, with a mother whose culinary skills are noted for their spectacular gastro-intestinal effects. But it’s only for six months.

Even they can manage that. Surely. “ Funny, sexy and moving – a hilarious holiday romp with a heart. I loved it.”

SOPHIE KINSELLA

“ Riotous… thoroughly enjoyable and laugh-out-loud hilarious.”

HEAT

“ Kate Hamer conjures mystery with such grace, cool beauty and urgent suspense… Brilliant.”

MATT HAIG

“ Kate Hamer’s novel is both gripping and sensitive – beautifully written, it is a compulsive, aching story full of loss and redemption.”

LISA BALLANTYNE

“ The language is fierce and unwavering, and the two protagonists, both strong women, are beautifully drawn.”

DAILY MAIL

“ Blood Whispers is Sinclair’s coming-of-age thriller, a rapid fire story that secures him a safe berth in the pantheon of exciting, hardhitting Tartan Noir authors.”

EVENING POST

Born a tavern keeper’s son, Cromwell rose swiftly through the ranks to become Henry VIII’s right hand man, and one of the most powerful figures in Tudor history. The architect of England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church and the dissolution of the monasteries, he oversaw seismic changes in our country’s history. Tracy Borman examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever. “ Tracy Borman has crafted an exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor age’s most complex and controversial figures.”

ALISON WEIR

“ Borman’s is a highly readable account, and will add to the debate surrounding this ultimately elusive character.”

The End of Alice treads the thin line between the evil and the everyday and caused a major controversy when it was first published. The story centres on a disturbing correspondence between the narrator, a middle-aged killer serving his twenty-third year in prison; and his slang-speaking, sweet-seeming admirer, a nineteenyear-old girl intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Slowly, through these letters, the narrator’s dangerous character emerges. “ A. M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything.”

The Wayward Bus travelled the back-roads through the lush California countryside. Its driver was a man of the land – lusty, hot-blooded and uninhibited. On the bus was a girl who danced at stag parties, a travelling salesman strictly out for fun, a boy coming into manhood and a college girl pursuing her secret, passionate quest. This is a story of crisis and passion, of love and longing.

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century.

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, AUTHOR OF THE HOURS

“ Undeniably shocking… Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words.”

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Don’t Tell the Brides-to-Be

Glass

The Way We Die Now

The Broken

My History

The Mill Girl

Anna Bell

Alex Christofi

Charles Willeford

Tamar Cohen

Antonia Fraser

Rosie Goodwin

Another fantastic read from the author of Don’t Tell the Groom.

A charming, off-beat comedy about a young man finding his way in the modern world.

“No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.”

When close friends split, be careful whose side you’re on…

A young girl’s courage and strength in the face of hardship and heartache.

Things are looking up for Penny Robinson. She’s kicked her gambling addiction and even started her own business: Princess on a Shoestring, an all-inclusive service for brides-to-be. Penny’s got it all under control, That is, until a rival planner decides to take her down – one hard-won bride at a time. And when a romantic weekend away has some unexpected consequences, Penny’s expectations for her career are brought back down to earth with a bump.

When a minor adventure up the spire of Salisbury Cathedral makes Günter Glass a local celebrity, John Blades – window-cleaner to the stars – comes calling. He wants Günter to join him in London to clean Europe’s tallest skyscraper, the newly constructed Shard in London Bridge. Günter, ex-milkman and aspiring window-cleaner, soon finds himself among the bright lights of London. Will Günter find his way along the straight and narrow? Or will his innocence put him on collision course with the frequently baffling modern world?

A three-year-old murder case was coming together nicely. A killer Hoke once put in prison has moved in across the street. And Hoke’s daughter has blue hair.

But now Hoke has to pretend to be a bum. In a dusty corner of South Florida, Hoke enters a world of Haitian migrant workers, soup kitchens, and whores. In the searing heat he’ll meet the man he’s been sent to kill – the most vicious beast in the land…

The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.

“ A real feel-good story with loads of laughs, twists, tears. The characters are all lovable and the story is totally addictive. Highly recommended.”

THE CHICKLIT CLUB ON DON’T TELL THE GROOM

Alex Christofi has written a number of short pieces for theatre, and blogs about arts and culture for Prospect magazine. Glass is his first novel.

elmore leonard

“ Elegant, tough and rhythmic as a championship boxing match.”

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl’s schooling.

How one of them is leaving the other for a younger model. Best friends don’t tell lies. They don’t take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don’t call lawyers.

They don’t make you choose sides.

Best friends don’t keep secrets about their past. They don’t put you in danger. Best friends don’t always stay best friends. “ A chillingly real psychological drama that had me in a total reading frenzy. I absolutely loved it.”

LISA JEWELL

“ Delivers an off-kilter view of venal humanity via inimitable prose… brims with energ y and brio.”

THE TIMES

“ A brilliant and skillfully plotted depiction of the unexpected breakdown of a friendship between two couples, with one of the most chilling twists I’ve read in a long time. I couldn’t put it down.”

Antonia Fraser’s memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and 1940s but its real concern is with her growing love of history.

The fascination began as a child when her evacuation at the beginning of the war to an Elizabethan manor house became an inspiration for historical imaginings – and developed into an enduring passion; as she writes “for me, the study of History has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life.”

Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works and has won the Wolfson Award for History and the Norton Medlicott Medal of the Historical Association.

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“ A gifted writer. Tells a cracking story and does so with an insight into people that is rarely found.”

NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST

“ Goodwin is a master of her craft: she excels in writing about the complexity of relationships, the hardships of life, the ties of family and the joys of love and friendship.”

NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST

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Warwickshire, 1840s: Boys are destined for the pit and girls for the mill. Despite this, Maryann is happy there – until her mother dies. Her family collapses, leaving Maryann exhausted, and Toby, the boy she is set on marrying, insists they wait.

Then Maryann is offered a lifeline: a position as nanny to the daughter of the mill owner, Wesley Marshall, who Maryann grows unexpectedly close to. But their relationship doesn’t go unnoticed, threatening to unleash a world of problems on them all…

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The Faithful Couple

The Lovers of Amherst

Field of Prey

The Buried Giant

Breaking the Silence

Laughter Lines

A. D. Miller

William Nicholson

John Sandford

Kazuo Ishiguro

Joanne Milne

Des O’Connor

A brilliantly clever and insightful novel.

A beautiful novel interweaving the stories of two love affairs.

The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr. finally got lucky. And unlucky.

The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Man Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day.

An incredibly uplifting life-story of a woman who refused to give up hope and always lives life with a smile upon her face.

Guaranteed to keep you chuckling, a delightful collection of comic verse.

The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in hope of finding a son they haven’t seen for years. They expect to face many hazards, some strange and other-worldly – but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.

Jo Milne was profoundly deaf from birth and is when she also began to lose her sight. Just before turning thirty, Jo was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic and progressive condition that will one day rob her of her sight altogether.

In 2014 she made a life-changing decision to undergo major surgery.

She had cochlear implants fitted allowing her to hear for the first time. Every moment of Jo’s days since the operation has become a journey of discovery.

California, 1993: Neil Collins and Adam Tayler, two young British men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in San Diego. They strike up a friendship that, while platonic, feels as intoxicating as a romance. They travel up the coast together whilst being harmlessly competitive, innocently collusive and wrapped up in each other. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that years later, they will desperately regret. “ Powerful and moving. I loved The Faithful Couple.”

RODDY DOYLE

“ Compelling, elegant and deeply insightful. You won’t soon forget it.”

CLAIRE MESSUD

August 1881: Mabel Todd, arrives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband David. Mabel soon fall passionately in love with Austin Dickinson, a married man with three children, and he with her.

October 2013: Alice Dickinson takes time off work to research a screenplay on a story that has fascinated her since college days, when her love of Emily Dickinson’s poems began. The story is the illicit love affair between Austin Dickinson and Mabel Todd. “ Nicholson draws his narrative strands together in a most entertaining fashion.”

Layton had picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields. The only problem was something smelled bad… He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew and when they looked, they found a body stuffed down a cistern. By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, the police were up to fifteen bodies and counting. The victims had been killed over many years, one every summer. How could this have happened without anybody noticing? “ Tough, engrossing and engaging, Sandford writes superb thrillers.”

THE TIMES

“ Kazuo Ishiguro is an original and remarkable genius.”

NEW YORK TIMES

Breaking the Silence is a remarkable and beautifully written memoir that will serve as an inspiration to everyone who reads it. By turn, it is heart-breaking and heart-warming.

“ A master craftsman.”

MARGARET ATWOOD

LITERARY REVIEW

“ Few do it better than Sandford.”

Much-loved entertainment legend Des O’Connor has broadcast to millions and performed to packed theatres around the world, but he has never lost touch with the simple joys and woes of everyday life. In this collection of comic verse, Des brings his irrepressible humour and mischievous delight to subjects ranging from satnav nightmares to the perils of sorting the recycling; from the recipe for a happy love life to surviving children’s parties.

Des O’Connor is an entertainment legend with an illustrious career spanning over fifty years. His recent television work includes Today with Des and Mel, Countdown and The One and Only Des O’Connor.

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8.75 hours

ISBN 9781510004696

7.75 hours

ISBN 9781510004702

11.25 hours

ISBN 9781510004672

11.75 hours

ISBN 9781510004740

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ISBN 9781510004733

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Des O’Connor

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1.25 hours

ISBN 9781471295478

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Pleasantville

How I Wonder What You Are

Forty Acres

Love, Sex & Other Foreign Policy Goals

The Vintage Guide to Love and Romance

The Book of Human Skin

Attica Locke

Jane Lovering

Dwayne Alexander Smith

Jesse Armstrong

Kirsty Greenwood

Michelle Lovric

Sometimes politics is a matter of life and death.

“Maybe he wasn’t here because of the lights – maybe they were here because of him…”

A young black lawyer is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power in this pageturning and provocative novel.

This is the hilarious first novel from the creator of Peep Show, and co-writer of The Thick of It.

Beggars can’t be choosers…

“A witty exciting page-turner which becomes increasingly addictive… Quite unlike anything else around – and all the better for that.”

It’s 1996, and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville.

Axel Hathorne, former chief of police, was all set to become Houston’s first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to Sandy Wolcott, a defence lawyer. And then, just as the competition intensifies, a girl goes missing, apparently while canvassing for Axel. And when her body is found, Axel’s nephew is charged with her murder. “ Rich in atmosphere, strong in story, hinges on human complexity.”

VAL MCDERMID

“ Genuinely unnerving… subtle, complex questions of identity, family and history”

It’s been over eighteen months since Molly Gilchrist had a man. So when she stumbles over one on the moors one morning, it seems like the Universe is laughing at her expense.

But Phinn Baxter is no common drunkard. Finding mysterious men on the moors isn’t the weirdest thing Molly has to contend with, however.

There’s also those strange lights she keeps seeing in the sky since meeting Phinn…

Jane Lovering is the author of Please Don’t Stop the Music, the winner of the 2012 Romantic Novel of the Year and the Romantic Comedy award.

Martin Grey, a talented young lawyer, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of America’s most powerful and esteemed black men. He’s dazzled by what they have accomplished, and they think he has the potential to be one of them. They invite him for a weekend away from it all. But what he discovers, far from home, is a disturbing alternative reality which challenges his deepest convictions… “ Smith has done something special here… This story will resonate long after the last page has fallen.”

It’s 1994 and the former Yugoslavia is being torn apart. In England, a gang of good-hearted young people are about to set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play.

A play which will light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very probably, stop the war.

Jesse Armstrong is co-creator and writer of the BAFTA Award-winning Peep Show, as well as Fresh Meat, Bad Sugar, Babylon and, with Chris Morris, Four Lions. He was also co-writer of The Thick of It and the Oscar-nominated In the Loop.

When Jessica Beam is thrown out of her flat, she finds herself relying on her only family: her grandmother. Things aren’t going so well for Grandma, either. Her 1950s Good Woman guide books are out of print and her mortgage is staggering. When a publisher throws them a lifeline – a new contract if they can prove the Good Woman guides still work – Jess and Matilda have to work together if they want a roof over their heads. “ I cannot tell a lie… this book is fabulous.”

LUCY DIAMOND

“ Kookier than Kinsella, but just as comical. Fabulous feel-good fun!”

ALI MCNAMARA

DAVID BALDACCI

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In 18th Century Venice Minguillo Fasan, heir to a fortune, contrives to dispatch of his sister Marcella, condemning her to the fate of a nun. But Marcella Fasan is tougher than Minguillo imagines, and aided by a servant, a painter, a skin-obsessed doctor, a Scottish merchant and a cigar-smoking pornographer, she pitches her wits against her brother… “ This book is fabulous – funny, horrific, subversive – in short a wholly addictive read. I don’t think I have enjoyed anything as much since Perfume.”

JOANNE HARRIS

“ Amazing and unique.”

WHOOPI GOLDBERG

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13 hours

ISBN 9781510004757

9.25 hours

ISBN 9781510004771

12.5 hours

ISBN 9781510004764

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ISBN 9781510004801

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That Summer in Ischia

The Flowers of the Field – Part Two

Taken for Dead

The Promise

A Mother’s Story

Penny Feeny

Sarah Harrison

Graham Masterton

Lesley Pearse

Amanda Prowse

A secret hides behind the Italian sun…

Following on from the international bestseller The Flowers of the Field, an epic novel set amid the turbulence of the Second World War.

No one could predict that the cutting of the cake would bring this wedding to a horrifying end…

War threatens to take all she has loved and lived for…

The unputdownable new novel from bestseller Amanda Prowse.

In her early years, Allie and her bohemian mother Helena were always on the move. Now Helena keeps people at arm’s length: relationships never last and old friends have slipped away.

But when Allie inherits Helena’s childhood home, she begins to see snatches of the tormented past her mother has been running from…

Determined to find out what keeps driving her mother away from people, Allie follows a lead to the beautiful island of Ischia. “ Sun-drenched, dark and intriguing.

I loved the way she painted Italy.”

KATE LONG

“ Vivid and gripping – a most accomplished first novel.”

Kate Kingsley remembers little of her childhood, other than the devastation of being torn away from everything she knew; sent to live as an adopted daughter in Kenya. 1936: Now 20, Kate leaves Kenya for a new life in London. Kate finds an ally in her Aunt Dulcie, whose own life is anything but straightforward. When Kate falls in love, she believes she has found a soul mate. But this is just the start of the journey. “ Well-written, imaginative and moving – a thoroughly enjoyable read.”

WORLD OF BOOKS

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“ Glorious, heart-warming.”

WOMAN & HOME

“ An emotional and moving epic you won’t forget in a hurry.”

Jessica has just had the wedding of her dreams, and now she’s setting up a new home with her lawyer husband Matthew. Even better – they are expecting a child.

But as they paint the nursery and shop for babygros, Jessica keeps waiting for the excitement to kick in. Why isn’t she transformed by maternal feelings? Where is the all-consuming love she’s supposed to feel for her child?

Amanda Prowse is the author of four novels and a collection of short stories, including the bestselling What Have I Done? which sold 250,000 copies.

WOMAN’S WEEKLY

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“ One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time.” “ A natural storyteller with a unique gift for turning the mundane into the terrifyingly real.”

“ Full of unforgettable people, places and passions.”

BARBARA TRAPIDO

The severed head of Micky Crounan, local baker, is grinning gruesomely up from the bottom tier of his own cake. Katie Maguire, of the Irish Garda, is baffled – until another local businessman goes missing in horrific circumstances.

Soon Katie is on the trail of a debtcollecting gang calling themselves The Kings of Erin. But these are very dangerous men. And they will stop at nothing to throw Katie off the trail…

Belle’s husband Jimmy enlists and heads for the trenches of northern France. Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives. Volunteering to help battlefield wounded, Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. A tragic accident brings her face to face with a man from her past she’s never quite forgotten. Torn between forbidden passion, loyalty and love, Belle is caught in an impossible situation.

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13 hours

ISBN 9781510000858

13.25 hours

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13.5 hours

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Amanda Prowse Modern Fiction 9.75 hours

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AUGUST

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The Munitions Girls

Damsel in Distress

Soldiers’ Daughters

Master of War: Defiant Unto Death

Mischief

Wish You Were Here

Rosie Archer

Carola Dunn

Fiona Field

David Gilman

Fay Weldon

Catherine Alliott

1943, Gosport, Hampshire.

Pixie Saunders is 19 and employed in the local armaments factory.

A stylish cosy mystery set in 1923 England featuring British heiress and writer, Daisy Dalrymple.

The Black Prince has launched a devastating raid deep into France, laying waste to everything in his path…

Waspish, wise and wickedly witty, this is a collection to treasure forever.

The new novel from number one bestselling author Catherine Alliott.

Pixie and her best friend Rita are making the most of the war while trying to stay alive. The work is dangerous and the hours long, but in the evenings they go to the pub or dancing. Pixie meets American serviceman Cal and falls in love.

Then Pixie falls pregnant and her life changes dramatically. Alone and unable to work, she has to rely on the kindness of friends to help her survive…

In spring a young man’s fancy will turn to love, and the Honorable Phillip Petrie is no exception.

Daisy’s chum is totally smitten with Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank. But before the enthusiastic suitor can pop the question, his beloved is abducted.

As a distraught Mr Arbuckle begins assembling the ransom, Phillip enlists Daisy to help him recover his missing sweetheart.

A wonderful novel from Fiona Field’s first novel, bringing back many of the characters from her previous hit Soldiers’ Wives.

Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon’s inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words, selecting and introducing her favourite short stories from across her career as one of Britain’s foremost contemporary novelists.

When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the South of France, in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. But Flora didn’t anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming along too… Their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns.

A heartwarming saga full of surprises, hardships and happy endings.

“ A dauntless Daisy and good-natured fun.”

Rosie Archer was born in Gosport, Hampshire, where she still lives.

She has had many short stories published in women’s magazines.

“ Appropriate historical detail and witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece.”

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This is the story of two girls who, on the surface, seem to have a lot in common. Samantha Lewis will put everything into being the good soldier she thinks her father wants her to be. But her heart will lead her in an unexpected direction and threaten her love. Michelle Flowers also craves her father’s attention, but her impulsiveness will drive her into an obsession with the husband of another woman – with disastrous consequences. “ I couldn’t put it down.”

KIRKUS REVIEWS

THE TIMES

“ Wise, knowing, forthright.”

“ Compulsively readable.”

INDEPENDENT

THE TIMES

“ Hilarious and full of surprises.”

“ Page-turning and gritty.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH

“ I see flashes of brilliance that surpass Bernard Cornwell.”

THE BOOKBAG

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“ Sharp, witty, incisive.”

DAILY MAIL ON MASTER OF WAR

KATIE FFORDE

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Sir Thomas Blackstone, the British archer knighted on the field of Crecy, has used the intervening years to forge his own war band and has hacked out a fiefdom in central France. He knows the English are outnumbered, outmaneuvered and exhausted… but that will not stop him from fighting his way to one of history’s greatest military victories.

But the field of battle is not only arena in which Blackstone will have to fight for his life…

7.5 hours

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Julia Franklin Modern Fiction 12.25 hours

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The Cavendon Women

The Ladies of Missalonghi

Secrets of the Singer Girls

Endangered

Eden in Winter

Rachel Billington

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Colleen McCullough

Kate Thompson

C. J. Box

Richard North Patterson

A poignant and compelling story of three lives torn apart by the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War.

A sweeping saga set around an aristocratic family and their servants, this is Barbara Taylor Bradford at her best.

An endearing tale, full of wit, warmth and romance.

They kept the home fires burning but their secrets buried…

Joe Pickett is going to find out the truth, even if it kills him.

And this time, it just might.

Glory is the story of the men and women of Gallipoli and the tragic events of 1915. Of the lives lost, the hearts broken, the decisions cast, the errors made and of the dark reality of the heroic dream. It is the story of three people changed forever, as the echoes of war ring loud through the years. It is a tale of everything but glory…

Cavendon Hall is a grand, imposing house nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, home to its owners, the aristocratic Ingham family and the Swann family who serve them. But in the summer of 1913, a devastating event changes their futures forever and threatens the Ingham name. Life as the families of Cavendon Hall know it is about to alter beyond recognition, as the storm clouds of war gather.

1942: Sixteen-year-old Poppy Percival turns up at Trout’s clothing factory to start work as a seamstress. Poppy harbours a secret – one from which she is still suffering. But she’s not the only one with a secret. Each of her new friends at the factory is hiding something painful. The war will throw their lives into turmoil but also bring these women closer to each other than they could ever have imagined.

Joe has good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, his eighteen-year-old foster daughter, April, has run off with him. And then comes worse news: the body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway – barely alive, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors don’t know if she’ll recover.

Cates denies having anything to do with it – but Joe knows in his gut who’s responsible.

From the number one New York Times bestselling author Richard North Patterson comes another chilling novel.

Rachel Billington has written twenty-one novels as well as ten books for children and several nonfiction works.

“ Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping the reader turning the page. She is one of the world’s best at spinning yarns.”

GUARDIAN

“ Romantic and thrilling.”

The Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron for generations. Wealthy, powerful and cruel, they get what they want, every time. Missy Wright, a Hurlingford by birth, has been shunned by her family since marrying for love, not money.

Now widowed, she lives a quiet existence in genteel poverty. But then a stranger arrives in town; a divorcee from Sydney. She opens Missy’s eyes to the possibility of a happy ending.

Colleen McCullough worked in neurophysiology at Yale Medical School for ten years, where she wrote the recordbreaking, international bestseller The Thorn Birds.

Secrets of the Singer Girls is a sweeping wartime saga set in London’s colourful East End.

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“ Solid-gold A-list must-read.”

LEE CHILD

“ Heart-stoppingly good.”

Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of Adam Baline’s father, the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine’s death casts suspicions on those closest to him, testing his ability to protect those closest to him.

But the sternest test of all is Carla Pacelli – his late father’s mistress and a woman to whom Adam finds himself increasingly drawn. The closer he gets to this beautiful the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he’s striven to conceal. “ An intriguing psychological examination of a damaged family.”

DAILY MAIL

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Anna Bentinck Historical Fiction 14.5 hours

ISBN 9780008123628

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Federay Holmes

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Death in Devon The Shop Girls

Nothing But Lies

Lonely Girl

The Apartment in Rome

Letters to the Lost

Ian Sansom

Ellee Seymour

Lyndon Stacey

Josephine Cox

Penny Feeny

Iona Grey

Another delightfully idiosyncratic mystery from Ian Sansom, author of The Norfolk Mystery, celebrating the classic detective novel.

The charming true story of four young women working in a glamorous department store in the 1950s.

The third in the exciting new mystery series featuring ex-police dog handler, Daniel Whelan.

One fateful night changes the course of a child’s life forever…

He promised to love her forever, but forever is running out…

For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth’s department store in Cambridge is a dream come true.

Once the girls step inside the elegant building, the hardships of their own lives are temporarily forgotten. Serving a variety of customers, from glamorous gypsy queens to royalty and the city’s fashionable elite, the store is a place where these young women can forge successful careers, under the ever-watchful eye of flamboyant owner Mr Heyworth.

Daniel Whelan’s ex-colleague, Joey Matsuki, has asked for his help.

Joey is concerned for the safety of his fiancée, Tami, who has reported sightings of a sinister, hoodie-clad figure lurking in the area. Working undercover, Daniel begins to believe there may be more to the situation than meets the eye. As he questions Tami’s friends and neighbours, it becomes clear that something isn’t right. There are things people aren’t telling him; small but significant incidents that can’t be explained…

A simple life in the sun: who could ask for more? A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of That Summer in Ischia.

Swooping down from the majestic heights of Dartmoor, Swanton Morley, Miriam and Stephen Sefton embark on another adventure. Swanton Morley has been invited to speak at the school’s Founders’ Day… but a boy has died. With occasional outings to surf and to sample cream teas – Swanton Morley, Sefton and Miriam once again pit their wits against the dark, repressive, anti-intellectual forces of 1930s England. “ A delightful, idiosyncratic mystery set in the Thirties…Beautifully crafted by Sansom.”

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“ Sansom is both celebrating and sending up the golden age of detective novels… leaves you looking forward to the next maniacal mystery tour.”

Set during the 1950s, The Shop Girls perfectly brings to life the thrilling hustle and bustle of a fashionable department store.

“ Stacey’s plot is both credible and consistently engaging, pulling the reader quickly towards […] stomachclenchingly exciting denouement.”

Rosie’s mother is a cruel woman and has Rosie’s kind and loving father wrapped around her finger.

Though John Tanner does his best to protect her, Rosie often bears the brunt of her mother’s rage. In one tragic moment Rosie’s fragile world is shattered. Grieving and alone, Rosie is thrust into a harsh reality, and she must face the obstacles that fate has set in her path. “ Cox’s talent as storyteller never lets you escape the spell.”

DAILY MAIL

“ Another hit for Josephine Cox.” SUNDAY EXPRESS

Gina’s life is good – she loves her adopted home in Italy and she is passionate about her work as a photographer. She’s all wrapped up in her latest artistic project, shots of the young men who arrive in Italy as refugees, destitute and vulnerable. One day, Sasha, a lonely British teenager at summer school, crosses Gina’s path.

Sasha’s innocent romance creates complications neither of them could have imagined, leading Gina to wonder, can she come to terms with her past? “ Vivid and gripping.”

LIZ FENWICK, AUTHOR OF THE CORNISH HOUSE

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“ A beautifully woven tale of love and loss that breaks your heart and rebuilds it. I couldn’t put it down.”

“ Letters to the Lost pulsates with life, offering a vibrant love story that transcends time and the heartbreak of war.”

BARBARA TRAPIDO

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1943: In the ruins of Blitzed London, Stella Thorne and Dan Rosinski fall in love. Sixty years later Dan makes one final attempt to find the girl he has never forgotten, sending a letter to the house where they shared a brief yet perfect happiness. But Stella has gone and the letter is opened by Jess. She is captivated by the story of a love affair that burned so bright. Can she help Dan find Stella before it is too late?

SOP Mike Grady

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7.75 hours

ISBN 9780008117368

SOP Sandra Duncan

Biography & Autobiography 9 hours

ISBN 9781510002920

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9 hours

ISBN 9781510002937

SOP Carole Boyd Modern Fiction 7.5 hours

ISBN 9780007546886

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10.75 hours

ISBN 9781510004870

Avita Jay Modern Fiction 17 hours

ISBN 9781510004894

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SEPTEMBER

The Detective’s Secret

The Dressmaker Berlin Game of Dachau

60 Years a Nurse

Plague Child

Julian Stockwin

Lesley Thomson

Mary Chamberlain

Len Deighton

Mary Hazard

Peter Ransley

An epic adventure to unravel China’s most guarded secret…

Jack and Stella uncover the secrets of a case – but Jack is carrying a secret of his own…

A dramatic tale of love, conflict, betrayal and survival.

East is East and West is West – and they meet in Berlin…

Follow Mary Hazard as she shares heart-warming, and funny anecdotes from her colourful career as a London nurse.

The first instalment of a captivating trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.

Forced to flee Rome, merchant Nicander meets an unlikely ally in the form of Marius, a fierce Roman legionary. Escaping to a new life in Constantinople, the two land upon its shores lonely and penniless.

Needing to make money fast, they plot a wicked plan to steal precious silk seeds from the faraway land of Seres, Nicander and Marius must embark upon a terrifyingly treacherous journey across unknown lands, never before completed. “ Stockwin’s page-turning prose, vividly drawn characters and ability to draw the reader right into these ancient times create a grand and compelling historical epic.”

QUARTERDECK MAGAZINE

October, 1987: As a hurricane sweeps through Britain, a man’s body slowly rots, locked inside an old water tower in west London. He carries no identification and fits no missing persons’ description. His corpse is never claimed.

October, 2013: The month of the great storm of St Jude. A man dies beneath a late night Piccadilly line train. His brother insists he was murdered, but Jack, a train driver, is sure it was suicide. “ Lesley Thomson is a class above.”

IAN RANKIN

“ A gripping story… showing the familiar style of the author and demonstrating careful research that produces an entirely believable historical novel.”

1939, London: Eighteen-yearold Ada Vaughan is a beautiful, ambitious seamstress and a career in couture is hers for the taking. A chance meeting with enigmatic Stanislaus von Lieben catapults Ada into a world of glamour and romance. When he suggests a trip to Paris, Ada is blind to all the warnings of war on the continent.

But anticipation turns to despair when war is declared and the two are trapped in France… “ The Dressmaker of Dachau is a thrilling story, brilliantly told. I couldn’t put it down. Ada Vaughan is a character to fall in love with: utterly real, flawed and beguiling.”

SASKIA SARGINSON, AUTHOR OF THE TWINS

He was the best source the Department ever had, but now he desperately wanted to come over the Wall. ‘Brahms Four’ was certainly a high-ranking mole, set to betray him. There was only one Englishman he trusted any more – someone from the old days. So they decided to put Bernard Samson back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk – the field is Berlin. The game is as baffling, treacherous and lethal as ever… “ Deighton’s best novel to date – sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the private spy.”

OBSERVER

“ A masterly performance, much the best thing Deighton has done since SS-GB.” SUNDAY TIMES

For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking experience. 60 Years a Nurse follows the dramas and emotions as Mary found her feet during those early years. From the firm friends she made under the ever-watchful gaze of Matron and the sisters, to the eclectic mix of Londoners she strove to care for. These are the funny and heart-warming moments that helped Mary to follow her dream.

September, 1625: Plague cart driver, Matthew Kneave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet, on the way to the plague pit, he hears a cry – the baby is alive. A plague child himself, and now immune from the disease, Matthew decides to raise it as his own. Fifteen years on, Matthew’s son Tom is apprenticed to a printer in the City but someone is determined to kill him… “ A gripping coming-of-age story… an enthralling mystery adventure.”

RADIO TIMES

Mary Hazard is an extraordinarily energetic 79-year-old, living in London. One of the longest serving nurses/health professionals in the NHS.

“ Ransley has a talent for melding dramatic historical detail with a strong story that could well give C. J. Sansom a run for his money.”

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SOP Peter Noble Historical Fiction 14 hours

ISBN 9781510004863

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15 hours

ISBN 9781510004887

SOP Julie Teal Historical Fiction 11.75 hours

ISBN 9780008131227

LAMPA10 Narrated by

James Lailey

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10.5 hours

ISBN 9780007566075

Deirdre O’Connell

Biography & Autobiography 8 hours

ISBN 9780008129989

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Gordon Griffin Historical Fiction 14.75 hours

ISBN 9780008130305

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Amy Snow

Meet Me in Manhattan

The Jackdaw

Reasons to Stay Alive

The Life & Loves of a He-Devil

Tracy Rees

Claudia Carroll

Luke Delaney

Matt Haig

Graham Norton

A life-changing discovery awaits… if only she can unlock the secret.

He’s the one. Definitely…

Isn’t he?

The fourth novel in the DI Sean Corrigan series – authentic and terrifying crime fiction with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective.

“Matt Haig is astounding.”

“It seems to me that we are all made up of the things we adore…”

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SEPTEMBER

Abandoned on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy is taken in at Hatville Court, but despised by family and household alike. The beautiful Hatville heiress, Aurelia Vennaway, is Amy’s only advocate. So when Aurelia dies young, Amy’s world collapses. But Aurelia leaves Amy with one last gift – a bundle of letters with a coded key and a treasure hunt that only Amy can follow. “ Her writing (is) exceptional, the story compelling and we couldn’t help but fall in love with Amy Snow.”

RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB

Everyone dates online these days, but how do you know the person you’re falling in love with is who they say they are? How far would you put your heart on the line?

Holly Johnson decides to fly to the other side of the world to be with the man she’d almost given up hope of meeting. But when she arrives in New York City she is going to get the shock of her life… “ A heroine you just want fate to smile on.”

HEAT

“ An emotional roller-coaster […] asks some probing questions about relationships and keeps the reader wondering until the very end.”

IRISH INDEPENDENT

A man who calls himself ‘The Jackdaw’ has been abducting financial sector workers in London.

He believes they must be punished for crimes of greed and for causing the banking crisis. The victims’ crimes are broadcast to the thousands who decide the verdict. Once the jury has decided, the Jackdaw will be the executioner. DI Sean Corrigan inherits the case, but as the Jackdaw’s popularity grows, he won’t stop until his mission is complete. “ An authentic voice on how the police operate with a stone-cold killer striking randomly around London, […] scary authenticity.”

stephen fry

Aged 24, Matt Haig’s world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth. “ Brings a difficult and sensitive subject out of the darkness and into the light.”

MICHAEL PALIN

“ A small masterpiece that might even save lives.”

In his new autobiography, written with characteristic humour and often outrageous candour, Graham shows that life is more than just a series of dates and it’s really the things you love that make you who you are. From his beloved dogs to his rediscovered love of Ireland, the men Graham has loved and lost, to his love affair with New York. He is loved across the nation for his delight in the peculiar and for his ability to find humour and a common ground in all that life brings. “ He is both utterly immodest and charmingly self-depreciative.”

THE SUNDAY TIMES

“ Full of wicked asides, tart observations and sharp remarks that could only have originated in Graham Norton’s witty brain.”

JOANNA LUMLEY

THE SUN

“ Confident, aggressive and very promising.”

TERRY WOGAN, THE IRISH TIMES

THE TIMES

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ISBN 9781510004900

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13.5 hours

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SOP Matt Haig Biography & Autobiography 4.5 hours

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Graham Norton Biography & Autobiography 7 hours

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JULY

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Disobey

The Tudor Vendetta

The Fire Sermon

Single, Carefree, A Line of Blood The Dying Mellow Place

Jacqui Rose

Christopher Gortner

Francesca Haig

Katherine Heiny

Ben McPherson

Luca Veste

From bestselling author Jacqui Rose, comes a hardhitting thriller that you won’t forget in a hurry…

Upon the death of Mary I, Elizabeth I takes the throne and Brendan Prescott is called to aid the young queen amid a realm plunged into chaos.

They were born together – they will die together.

One strong Alpha twin and one mutated Omega; the only thing they share is the moment of death.

A tender and ruefully funny look at varieties of love, secrets, and betrayal in ten exquisite stories that form a guided tour of the human heart.

A chilling psychological thriller about family – the ties that bind us, and the lies that destroy us.

A fate worse than death…

Alfie Jenkins breaks a lot of rules.

When he sets up an illegal casino in Soho there’s bad will all round and soon Alfie and those closest to him become embroiled in an all-out war with a dangerous gang. Unfortunately this gang is a deadly enemy to have. When Alfie’s teenage niece Chloe is kidnapped, it becomes a terrifying race against time to save her. “ Gritty and gripping… a star in the making.”

KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS

“ A captivating read from one of my favourite emerging authors.”

MEL SHERRATT

London, 1558: Queen Mary is dead, and twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth ascends the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth’s intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with the young queen, as well as his beloved Kate, scheming William Cecil, and archrival, Robert Dudley. A poison attempt on Elizabeth soon overshadows her coronation, but before Brendan can investigate, Elizabeth summons him in private to dispatch him on a far more confidential mission. “ Fast-paced and exciting, with beautifully researched historical details and a most engaging hero.”

The Omegas live in segregation, cast out as soon as their mutation becomes clear. Forced to live apart, they are oppressed by their Alpha counterparts. The Alphas are elite.

Once their weaker twin has been cast aside, they’re free to live in privileged safety. Cass and Zach are both perfect on the outside – no missing limbs, no visible Omega mutation. But Cass has a secret – one that Zach will stop at nothing to expose… “ A hell of a ride. I would recommend it to anyone I can, regardless of age.”

JAMES OSWALD

DIANA GABALDON, AUTHOR OF AN ECHO IN THE BONE

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ISBN 9780008119751

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“ Heiny’s book takes a disarming and wry look at the inherent nature of betrayal and secrets within relationships.”

Alex and his son find their nextdoor neighbour dead in the bath.

It looks like suicide, but the police want to talk to Alex’s wife. Millicent married Alex for a work permit – at least that has become the myth.

The truth is they married for love, but neither wants to be exposed as a romantic. The police question Millicent – she admits to a mild flirtation. Part of Alex is glad the neighbour is dead. Then the murder investigation begins…

“ Darkly impressive.”

THE TIMES

Ben McPherson is a television producer, director, and writer, who has worked at the BBC for many years.

“ A writer to watch.”

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ELLE

SOP Steve West

In the title story we meet Maya, who is torn between her wryly funny boyfriend and the allure of her veterinarian. Revisiting Maya in several stories, chronicling her various states of love – this is a collection about how we are unfaithful to each other, both wilfully and unwittingly. Populated with unwelcome house guests, disastrous birthday parties, needy but loyal friends and flirtatious older men, the stories are emotionally astute, sexy and disarming.

DI Murphy and DS Rossi discover the body of known troublemaker Dean Hughes, dumped on the steps of St Mary’s Church in West Derby, Liverpool. His body is covered with the unmistakable marks of torture.

As they hunt for the killer, they discover a worrying pattern. Other teenagers, all young delinquents, have been disappearing. Who is clearing the streets of Liverpool? Can Murphy and Rossi find them before they meet the same fate as Dean?

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ISBN 9780008128999

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6.75 hours

ISBN 9780008130183

12.5 hours

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10.75 hours

ISBN 9780008104191

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AUGUST

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A Good Catch

Hidden

Camille

The Firemaker

KP: The Autobiography

Dead Old

Fern Britton

Emma Kavanagh

Pierre Lemaitre

Peter May

Kevin Pietersen

Maureen Carter

The new witty and warm novel from the best-selling author and TV presenter, Fern Britton.

A gripping psychological thriller by a former police psychologist, author of Falling.

In the highly acclaimed and award-winning novels Alex and Irene Pierre Lemaitre created a memorable character, Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven, who will seek justice at any cost…

Three corpses.

Two investigators.

One burning truth.

The book that rocked the English cricketing world.

From the talented author of Working Girls comes a new chilling tale…

Greer Clovelly seems to have it all, beautiful, slender and she’s in love with Jesse Behenna – determined that one day, they’ll be married.

After all, their marriage would join two dynasties of Cornish fishing families. For her friend, Loveday Chandler, living in the shadow of her glamorous friend has become a way of life but she loves Jesse too… Jesse faces an agonising choice. Should he follow his heart or bow to his father’s wishes? “ A light-hearted, fun and easy read.”

DAILY MAIL

A gunman is at large, stalking the halls of a local hospital. No one knows who he is or why he is there and the best men in the force have been tasked to stop him.

Among them is Aden, determined to do the right thing. For hospital psychologist Imogen, weighed down by troubles of her own, the presence of the gunman seems to have little to do with her, but she couldn’t be more wrong… “ Kavanagh tells the story with great verve, weaving the strands of her story expertly.”

DAILY MAIL ON FALLING

“ Another gripping good read.”

“ Dark, tense and convincing, this is a brilliantly executed and engrossing thriller. An extremely assured debut.”

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

SUNDAY MIRROR ON FALLING

Camille – whose wife Irene was murdered by a sadistic serial killer – has at last opened his emotional lockbox for Anne Forestier, the new woman who has unexpectedly entered his life. But brutal history seems to repeat itself as Anne is violently attacked. When it becomes clear that whoever assaulted Anne is determined to finish the job, Camille hides her in his country home. But in spite of his perfect covering of their trail, the mysterious antagonist finds them…

A burned corpse is a disturbing mystery for Beijing Detective Li Yan, until he enlists forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Having abandoned a broken life in Chicago for her work, she’s as determined as Li to ask difficult questions about the man’s death. But some questions have answers that they’d rather not hear, facts that others are desperate to conceal… “ Intense and fascinating.”

GOOD BOOK GUIDE

“ Stunningly original, highly topical and extremely well written novel.”

SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

This is the fascinating life story of professional cricketer Kevin Pietersen, MBE, discussing everything from his childhood in South Africa to his recent experiences as one of the leading lights in the world of international cricket. Kevin was dropped from the England squad in February 2014 puzzling many observers.

Kevin was the tourists’ leading run scorer across the series, and he remains the country’s highest run scorer of all time across all formats of the game. “ Outrageous, audacious, jaw-dropping.”

SUNDAY TIMES

“ Utterly captivating.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Blood splattered daffodils stuffed in a dead woman’s mouth. The random act of a gang, or revenge?

West Midlands Police think Sophie Carrington’s murder is the latest attack by yobs beating up the old – but Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss won’t accept it. No one desecrates a body like that unless it’s personal. When her new boss buries Bev in paperwork, it’s time for Birmingham’s most gritty detective to rebel…

Maureen Carter is the creator of two critically acclaimed crime series. Her books reflect what she sees as the fascinating relationship between the police and the media during major crime investigations.

“ It enthrals at every stage of its unpredictability. Grippingly original.”

THE TIMES ON ALEX

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SOP Fern Britton Modern Fiction 9.25 hours

ISBN 9780008121556

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10.75 hours

ISBN 9781510002845

11 hours

ISBN 9781510002814

14 hours

ISBN 9781510002838

SOP Byron Mondahl Biography & Autobiography 8.75 hours

ISBN 9781510002821

JAMPA10 Narrated by

Clare Corbett

Genre Crime Duration

9 hours

ISBN 9781510002876

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AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

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You

Cold Revenge

In the Morning I’ll Be Gone

The Lie

Creature Comforts

Hunted

Zoran Drvenkar

Alex Howard

Adrian McKinty

C. L. Taylor

Trisha Ashley

Paul Finch

He makes his way across a country gripped by fear, searching for his next victim… You.

Detective Inspector Hanlon is back. She’s been promoted and now she goes undercover in Oxford to find the sadomasochistic killer of two students.

A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

Haunting and compelling, this psychological thriller will have you hooked…

Fall back in love with life in this gripping read about fate and second chances in the eagerly awaited new novel from Trisha Ashley.

Heck needs to watch his back. Because someone’s watching him…

When a snowstorm halts traffic on a German autobahn, drivers are forced to spend the night in their cars. As day breaks, scores of people are found dead and theories are rife. At first everyone agrees that several people must have acted together. No-one could have committed such an atrocity alone. It is only over time that theories come to focus on an individual perpetrator and ‘The Traveller’ is born… “ Very dark, very sinister, very original.”

JOANNE HARRIS, AUTHOR OF CHOCOLAT

“ As dark a novel as I have read in years… for those with quick minds and strong stomachs.”

Philosophy lecturer Dr Gideon Fuller, with his penchant for high end sadistic sex, is in the frame, but Hanlon is not convinced. From the specialist brothels in Oxford and Soho, to the inner sanctum of a Russian people trafficker with a taste for hurting women, the trail leads Hanlon deeper and deeper into danger – until she herself becomes the killer’s next target.

Alex Howard studied Arabic and Islamic History at Oxford, and has worked in adult education. This is his second book, following the first DI Hanlon title Time To Die.

THE TIMES

It’s the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA bomber who has escaped from the notorious Maze prison. Sean discovers a woman who wants justice for her daughter who died in a pub locked from the inside.

Sean knows that if he can crack the ‘locked-room mystery,’ the bigger mystery of Dermot’s whereabouts might be revealed. “ A locked room mystery within a manhunt killer, a clever and gripping set-up.”

SUNDAY TIMES

“ Driven by McKinty’s brand of lyrical, hard-boiled prose, leavened by a fatalistic strain of the blackest humor, In the Morning I’ll Be Gone is a hugely satisfying historical thriller.”

Best friends are there for each other, you trust them with your life. At least that’s what Emma, Daisy, Leanne and Al think. But all that changes when they embark on a trip of a lifetime together.

When they return home, only two of them are left alive… Many years later, one girl receives a threatening letter. Someone knows the truth about what happened on that holiday and will stop at nothing to expose it. “ An enjoyable rollercoaster of a suspense novel with multiple twists.”

DAILY MAIL

Thirty year old Izzy Dane has a peaceful life. She lives in the sleepy village of Halfhidden with her aunt Debo, who runs the local kennels.

Izzy’s life isn’t particularly exciting, but that’s just how she likes it – she’s bid farewell to a dramatic life, and she’s perfectly content.

So what happens when someone forces Izzy to fall in love with life again? Can you make an omelette without breaking a few eggs? “ Full of down-to-earth humour.”

SOPHIE KINSELLA

“ This dark and creepy book is a must read.”

A series of bizarre but fatal accidents are taking place. When a businessman survives a neardrowning but is found burnt alive in his car just weeks later, DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg is brought in to investigate. Soon it appears that other recent deaths might be linked. As the body count rises it’s clear that something far more sinister is at play, and it’s coming for Heck too… “ Clever and well written with some bizarre murders and masses going on, it’s an excellent series.”

THE BOOKSELLER

“ A warm-hearted and comforting read. Trisha at her best.”

THE SUN

CAROLE MATTHEWS

IRISH TIMES

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16.5 hours

ISBN 9780007566938

9.5 hours

ISBN 9781510002869

9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510002852

12 hours

ISBN 9780008121495

SOP Julia Barrie Modern Fiction 12.5 hours

ISBN 9780008119812

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Paul Thornley

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12.75 hours

ISBN 9780007558841

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The Ghost Fields

Rain on the Dead

Always the Bridesmaid

Breaking Point

Mercy

Gracious Lies

Elly Griffiths

Jack Higgins

Lindsey Kelk

Suzanne Brockmann

David Kessler

Hilda Lolly

Can the team outrace a looming flood to find a killer?

A storm is coming for Sean Dillon…

The brilliant new standalone bestseller from Lindsey Kelk.

Is an innocent man about to be condemned to death?

It begins with the attempted assassination of the ex-President of the United States. Only the presence of Sean Dillon and the fellow members of the ‘Prime Minister’s Private Army’ prevents it becoming a bloodbath. Soon they are on the trail of the perpetrators, confident they will catch them. What Dillon doesn’t realize is that they have just sprung a trap that will lead them to almost certain death.

Lauren has announced she’s getting married – just as Sarah’s husband asks her for a divorce.

Nothing in Maddie’s career in event management has prepared her for this particular combo of planning and real pain. The news that her ex is also tying the knot is the final straw. But whether she likes it or not, everything is about to change for Maddie.

Count on the intense action and raw honesty that Suzanne Brockmann consistently delivers, as she goes for broke in Breaking Point – and never looks back.

A collection of five delightfully unsettling short stories that take a lingering peep behind the net curtains of everyday life, love and marriage.

In Norfolk a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery – a buried World War Two plane with the pilot still inside. DNA tests identify the man a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea. Events are further complicated by a TV company that wants to make a film about Norfolk’s deserted air force bases, the socalled Ghost Fields, which have been partially converted into a pig farm. Then human bones are found on the pig farm. “ A leading voice in British crime writing.”

CRIMESQUAD

“ With fresh plots, interesting characters and vibrant settings, Jack Higgins has firmly cemented his reputation as one of the world’s most successful thriller writers.”

THE STRAND MAGAZINE

“ Kelk has a hilarious turn of phrase and a sparkling writing style.”

DAILY EXPRESS

“ Leaves you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.”

COMPANY

As commander of the nation’s most elite FBI counter-terrorism unit, agent Max Bhagat leads by harddriving example – pushing himself to the limit and beyond. That includes his deep feelings for Gina Vitagliano, the woman who won his heart. But when the shocking news reaches him that Gina has been killed in a terrorist bombing, nothing can keep Max from making a full investigation and retribution his top priority.

Lawyer Alex Sedaka is resigned to the fact that his client will be executed. Charged with the rape and murder of 18-year-old Dorothy Haufaman the case seems cut and dry – until the victim’s mother offers clemency in return for the whereabouts of her daughter’s body. Alex must now convince Clayton to come clean – but he still protests his innocence. “ This will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.”

CLOSER

“ Brockmann consistently turns out first-rate novels that tug on the reader’s heartstrings, and her latest is no exception.”

“ A thriller writer in a class of his own.”

FINANCIAL TIMES

In Hand, Foot & Finger can Audrey endure another week of toil on the beautiful beaches of Weston-superMare? In The New Mrs Barefoot, Dobbo’s employer’s new wife is not quite the heavenly creature he was expecting. In Lemon, knife-sharp tensions erupt between Claire and her husband Trevor. While in Upper Rugless, a life of tranquillity and Victoria sponge is not as delightful as it promised to be. And in Sixty-Six Steps to Mother, Gerald and Angela ascend for Christmas lunch. Will it be a case of like mother, like son? “ An intriguing collection of stories…”

THE LADY MAGAZINE

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON OUT OF CONTROL

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JAMPA5 Narrated by

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10 hours

ISBN 9781510004818

8 hours

ISBN 9780008122065

SOP Lotti Maddox Modern Fiction 11.5 hours

ISBN 9780008121686

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14.5 hours

ISBN 9781510004832

11.75 hours

ISBN 9780008129187

Multiple Narrators Modern Fiction 5 hours

ISBN 9781510004856

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The Valley

Amanda Quick

John Renehan

The bestselling author presents an all-new novel of intrigue and murder set against the backdrop of Victorian London…

There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan but there was only one like this…

The Kern Secretarial Agency provides professional services to its wealthy clientele, and Anne Clifton was one of the finest women in Ursula Kern’s employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end, and Ursula is convinced it was murder. Archaeologist Slater Roxton thinks Mrs Kern is crazy to meddle in such dangerous affairs. Together they must reveal the identity of a killer who is determined to stay hidden…

Amanda Quick is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author of forty bestsellers under various pen names.

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Black didn’t even know its proper name. It was the farthest, the hardest, and the worst. He thought that everything about the Valley was myth and rumour. But Black finds after traveling deep into the heart of the Valley an illumination of dark secrets, dark secrets that had accumulated after months of fighting and dying in defence of an indefensible piece of land… “ Both a gripping, tightly-wound mystery as well as a sharply observed look at the deterioration of men tasked with too vague a mission and too little support deep in the mountains of Afghanistan.”

PHIL KLAY, AUTHOR OF REDEPLOYMENT

SOP TBC Historical Fiction 12.75 hours

ISBN 9781510004849

JAMPA10 Narrated by

William Hope

Genre Thriller Duration

13.5 hours

ISBN 9781510004825

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