W. F. Howes CD & Playaway October - December 2015 by W.F.Howes

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October – December 2015 CD & Playaway

Dear Librarian, Welcome to our new catalogue, filled with an exciting array of blockbuster titles to keep your borrowers entertained this autumn.

Contents CLIPPER

Clipper

3 – 23

Lamplight

24 – 31

British author Nicci French returns in December with Friday on My Mind – a dark and riveting psychological thriller, filled with suspense. There’s plenty more for insatiable crime fans with new books from David Hewson, Peter James and Simon Kernick.

Avid

32 – 34

In Lamplight we have new novels from Jacqueline Winspear, Kate Lord Brown and Elizabeth Gill. The Orphans of Halfpenny Street by Cathy Sharp is the first in a brand-new saga series set in a 1940s East End Children’s Home.

Jammer

35 – 42

Avid brings you the latest fantasy epic from bestselling author Joe Abercrombie; Half a War continues his breath-taking Shattered Sea series and is guaranteed to have listeners on the edge of their seats.

Jammer Teen

43 – 44

Jammer presents a mixture of commercial fiction and non-fiction, including The Accident by C. L. Taylor, Peter May’s The Killing Room and romantic drama The Things We Do for Love by Alice Peterson.

Doctor Who

45 – 49

And for the best value, signing up to our Standing Order Plans will ensure that you receive 20% discount on the list price, and supply you with a selection of the newest and most popular titles, exclusively from W. F. Howes.

Blackstone

50 – 52

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

Playaway clipper

53 – 60

With best wishes, The Editor

Playaway lamplight

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Playaway jammer

66 – 71

In Clipper, look out for the long-awaited fourth book in Steig Larsson’s Millennium series. Written by Swedish author David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider’s Web continues Lisbeth Salander’s gripping story. Much-loved author Rosie Goodwin returns with Dilly’s Sacrifice, a moving and uplifting story of family, loyalty and love.

OCTOBER

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Clipper Representing award-winners, shortlisted titles and top bestsellers. This quarter includes new titles from authors such as David Lagercrantz, 2015 Man Booker Prize-nominated Sunjeev Sahota and Nicci French.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web

Lamentation

David Lagercrantz

C. J. Sansom

The girl with the dragon tattoo is back: Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in a continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.

Matthew Shardlake is back in Lamentation, from the number one bestselling author C. J. Sansom.

Written by Swedish novelist and journalist David Lagercrantz, this is the much anticipated continuation of one of the best-loved crime series of the last decade. David Lagercrantz’s work on the fourth book in the series has been rigorously secretive. He is very aware – and protective – of Stieg Larsson’s legacy. The Girl in the Spider’s Web will be the publishing sensation of 2015.

Summer, 1546. Shardlake is unexpectedly summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by Catherine Parr. She has written a radically Protestant confessional book, that must never come to the King’s attention. Now it has – inexplicably – vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer. Shardlake’s investigations take him from the backstreet printshops of London to the dark and labyrinthine world of the royal court; a world he had sworn never to enter again. “ Shardlake’s back and better than ever… a triumph both as detective fiction and as a novel.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

“ A dark and atmospheric story… Shardlake deserves his wide and rapturous readership.” THE TIMES

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CD9 TUP

Saul Reichlin

CD9 TUP

Genre Crime

Genre

Duration

17.5 hours

ISBN 9781510005006

Steven Crossley Historical Fiction 25.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008656

OCTOBER

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Coming soon

No Mortal Thing

The Versions of Us

The Commitments

Sister Noon

Gerald Seymour

Laura Barnett

Roddy Doyle

Karen Joy Fowler

A novel of relentless power and mounting suspense, a brilliant portrayal of organised crime in Europe.

Some moments can change your life for ever. Have you ever wondered, what if…?

The bestselling book behind the long running West End stage show.

Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge when their paths first cross in 1958. And then there is David, Eva’s then-lover, an ambitious actor who loves Eva deeply. The Versions of Us follows the three different courses their lives could take following this first meeting. Lives filled with love, betrayal, ambition but through it all is a deep connection that endures whatever fate might throw at them.

The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Managed by Jimmy Rabbitte and brilliantly coached by Joey ‘The Lips’ Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to the steps of the studio door. But can The Commitments live up to their name?

A fascinating historical novel from the author of the Man Booker shortlisted bestseller We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.

Jago is a kid from a rough part of London who has worked hard to get a job in a bank. Marcantonio is a member of the ‘Ndrangheta crime families from Southern Italy. He is in Germany to learn how to channel their illicit millions towards legitimate businesses. When Jago witnesses Marcantonio commit a vicious assault, he is drawn into the middle of a delicate surveillance operation… “ Once again demonstrating his ability to probe the moral murkiness of the spy trade and create an absorbingly diverse ensemble, Seymour crafts a sophisticated, reader-teasing tale.” SUNDAY TIMES ON THE CORPORAL’S WIFE

“ Truly enthralling. I simply adored this wonderful novel.” JESSIE BURTON, AUTHOR OF THE MINIATURIST

“ Both brilliant and astonishingly good.”

“ Hugely enjoyable… wonderfully funny.” DAILY TELEGRAPH

“ A charming, truthful and immensely funny story which leaves you gasping for more.”

San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions. Lizzie Hayes, a docile, middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies’ Relief and Protection Society Home. When the wealthy but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up with an orphan in tow, Lizzie is drawn to them both. For it is the beautiful Mrs Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her rumoured voodoo practise, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie’s rebellious nature. “ Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected.”

SUNDAY TIMES

NEW YORK TIMES

ELIZABETH BUCHAN

“ Karen Joy Fowler has magic powers.”

“ When readers get to the nailbiting climax… they may be wondering why they should bother with any other thriller writer.”

SOPHIE HANNAH

INDEPENDENT ON THE CORPORAL’S WIFE

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Narrated by

CD9 TUP

Ben Allen

CD9

Genre Thriller

Genre

Duration

18.25 hours

ISBN 9781510008663

Multiple Narrators Modern Fiction 12.75 hours

ISBN 9781510008793

CD9

Laurence Kinlan

CD9

Genre Humorous

Genre

Duration

3.75 hours

ISBN 9781510003248

Liza Ross

Historical Fiction 8.75 hours

ISBN 9781510008694

OCTOBER

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The Festival of Insignificance

A Daughter’s Secret

A Book of Scars

I am China

Milan Kundera

Eleanor Moran

William Shaw

Xiaolu Guo

This is international literary heavyweight Milan Kundera’s first novel in over 12 years.

Only ask questions if you are prepared for the answers…

Kundera is finally and fully realising his old aesthetic dream in this novel that could easily be viewed as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humour. What more can we say? Nothing. Just listen.

Mia is a successful child psychologist, hoping to be made a partner in her company. But then she accepts a case that will change her life forever. Gemma is a teenage girl whose father is on the run for embezzlement. The police think Gemma knows where he is and they want Mia to talk to her. Both are hiding devastating secrets, and both women need the other to survive. The question is, can they trust each other?

The third book in a powerful deconstruction of the sixties, A Book of Scars lays bare the forgotten crimes of that era.

Two lovers, separated by oceans and an oppressive political regime, desperate to find their way back to each other.

1969. Five years ago, teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered. Her sister Helen will never forget. Returning home after quitting the Met Police, she brings with her the recovering Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen, who slowly becomes possessed by the unsolved case. But Breen is on a trail, for the two men connected to this case met in Kenya, during the Mau Mau uprising; and the history that Britain has turned its face from is now returning to haunt it.

In a detention centre in Dover Chinese musician Jian is awaiting his fate. In Beijing his girlfriend Mu sends desperate letters to London to track him down. Above a noisy London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter. As she unravels the story of these Chinese lovers, Iona sets out to bring them back together, but time seems to be running out.

“ Enchanting… it explores all aspects of a declining civilisation without taking any of them too seriously… in this novel… insignificance is the very essence of life.”

“ Gripping, emotional.” DAISY GOODWIN

INDEPENDENT

“ An eleg y for an entire alienated generation.”

LA REPUBBLICA

“ Heart-wrenching… an extraordinary and important book.” “ Dark, witty fiction.”

NEW YORK TIMES

“ Excellent… tackles bent police, the dark side of hippiedom and utterly nails the myth of the Swinging Sixties.”

FINANCIAL TIMES

SUN

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CD9

Richmond Hoxie

CD9

Genre Literature

Genre

Duration

2.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008786

Lisa Coleman Modern Fiction 10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008687

CD9

Cameron Stewart

CD12

Multiple Narrators

Genre Crime

Genre Literature

Duration

13.25 hours

ISBN 9781510008670

11.75 hours

ISBN 9781471285745

OCTOBER

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The House at the Edge of the World

The Year of the Runaways

My Revolutions

Motherland

Julia Rochester

Sunjeev Sahota

Hari Kunzru

Jo McMillan

Part mystery, part psychological drama, Julia Rochester’s The House at the Edge of the World is a darkly comic, unorthodox and thrilling debut.

Nominated for the 2015 Man Booker Prize…

What would you sacrifice to change the world? What would you die for?

A charming, witty and original novel: Oranges are not the Only Fruit meets Goodbye Lenin.

It’s the day before Mike Frame’s fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn’t matter, because it’s not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about. Now Mike is seeing ghosts – a dead ex-lover and an old friend who wants to reminisce. Mike can no longer ignore the contradiction between who he is and who he once was.

It is 1978, Jess and her mother Eleanor struggle to sell socialism to Tamworth – a sleepy Midlands town that just doesn’t want to know. So when Eleanor is invited to spend a summer teaching in East Germany, she and Jess jump at the chance. But friends can become enemies, and Jess soon discovers how easy it is to switch sides, and how sides can be switched for you, sometimes without you even knowing.

John Venton’s drunken fall from a cliff leaves his family with an embarrassing ghost. His twin children, Morwenna and Corwin, flee in separate directions as their mother, enraged by years of unhappy marriage, embraces merry widowhood. Only their grandfather finds solace in the crumbling house, endlessly painting their story onto a large canvas map. As the twins are drawn back to the house, they discover that their father’s absence is part of the map’s mysterious pull.

The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstance. Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in search of a new life. Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the choatic Randeep. Randeep has a visa-wife in a flat on the other side of town. And Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar. “ All you can do is surrender, happily, to its power.”

“ A beautifully constructed piece of storytelling… taut, hard-edged prose.”

SALMAN RUSHDIE

“ Genuine, poignant… a moral work of real intelligence and power.”

“ Wonderfully crisp and funny and it’s so full of vivid, surprising images that the reader almost doesn’t notice the moment that deep secrets begin to be revealed.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH

“ His finest piece of work to date… impassioned, intelligent and profoundly serious… we need more books like this.”

THE TIMES ON OURS ARE THE STREETS

EMMA HEALEY, AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSING

Motherland is a tender mother-daughter story and a tragi-comic portrait of a childhood overcome with belief. It’s about loss of faith and loss of innocence, and what it’s like to grow up on the losing side of history.

SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

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Sartaj Garewal

Narrated by

Simon Prebble

Narrated by

Genre

Modern Fiction

Genre

Modern Fiction

CD12 Genre

Duration

Avita Jay

Modern Fiction 10 hours

ISBN 9781510008816

CD12

Duration

16 hours

ISBN 9781510008809

CD15

Duration

9.5 hours

ISBN 9781510018846

CD15 Genre

Duration

Charlie Sanderson Historical Fiction 9 hours

ISBN 9781510008823

OCTOBER

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The Winter War

Do it Like a Woman

Churchill’s Secret Warriors

81 Days Below Zero

Philip Teir

Caroline Criado-Perez

Damien Lewis

Brian Murphy

A funny, razor-sharp and truthful family drama that unravels the fantasy we have of a perfect Scandinavian society.

Caroline Criado-Perez is a British journalist and feminist activist whose work has appeared in The Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian and the Independent.

The bestselling author of Zero Six Bravo brings the adventures of an intriguing wartime secret unit to life.

81 Days Below Zero is a tale of the capacity to endure extreme conditions, intense loneliness and flashes of raw terror, and to emerge stronger than before.

As he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max Paul’s life begin to dissolve. He hasn’t produced any work of note for decades. His wife no longer loves him. His grown-up daughters – one in London, one in Helsinki – have problems of their own. So when a former student turned journalist shows up and offers him a seductive lifeline, Max starts down a dangerous path from which he may never find a way back. “ Shot through with understated black humour and nicely balanced between tender and acerbic, this impressive novel is a forceful reminder that there is much more to Scandinavian writing than crime fiction.” SUNDAY TIMES

Every day, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male. One of the most tenacious campaigners of her generation, Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to these pioneering women. We meet the first woman to cross the Antarctic alone; a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; a Chilean revolutionary turned politician; and the Iranian journalist who dared to uncover her hair. “ Do it Like A Woman brings together stories of kickass women from around the world who have shown great heroism and bravery. It’s rousing and immensely readable.” GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

“ A must-read… Put it on the curriculum.”

In the bleak moments of winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike hard. So Britain’s wartime leader called for the development of a completely new kind of warfare, recruiting a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first ‘deniable’ secret operatives to strike behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death. Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster and conflict zones around the world. He has written a dozen non-fiction and fiction books, topping bestseller lists worldwide.

1943: Five Army aviators left Alaska’s Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a crash that claimed all but one – Leon Crane. With little more than a parachute for cover and an old Boy Scout knife in his pocket, Crane now found himself alone in subzero temperatures. he knew that his chance of survival dropped swiftly with each passing day. This is his story. “ This is a great story, wonderfully told… seamlessly interweaving the pilot’s intense struggle against the elements with the broader history of the war, Alaska, and the home front.” ERIC JAY DOLIN

“ One of the most remarkable stories in the history of special forces’ operations.”

“ Murphy’s instincts for pacing and re-creating emotions, dialogue and details are so finely crafted that you might find yourself shivering right along with Crane.”

DAILY EXPRESS ON ZERO SIX BRAVO

SUNDAY IRISH INDEPENDENT

MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

SOP Availability

Narrated by

CD15 Genre

Duration

Peter Noble Modern Fiction 9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510008847

Genre Duration

TBC

General Non Fiction 10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008854

Nigel Carrington

Paul Ferrone

Genre History

Duration

10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008861

8.75 hours

ISBN 9781510018877

OCTOBER

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Love in the Highlands

The Runaway Actress

Not Quite a Wife

Nine Months to Change His Life

Barbara Cartland

Victoria Connelly

Mary Jo Putney

Marion Lennox

Fans of Downton Abbey will love Barbara Cartland.

Get your running shoes on to catch this hilarious, charming and utterly engaging novel from Victoria Connelly.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

“I rescued you on this island… and you rescued me right back.”

When the Balkan royal Prince Stanislaus demands an English bride, Queen Victoria decides to send him Lady Lavina. Determined to avoid this fate, Lavina throws herself on the mercy of the Marquis of Elswick, who agrees to help by pretending to be engaged to her. But when Her Majesty arrives with Prince Stanislaus, they know there is still a battle to be fought. Then Lavina learns a shattering secret – the real reason the Marquis agreed to help her. “ Cartland’s well-crafted little gem of traditional Regency romance, traditional values, and traditional young ladies promise pleasant reading.”

When the stresses of being an A-list actress get too much for her, Connie Gordon decides to escape to a tiny Scottish village. But little does she realise that whilst Lochnabrae might be quiet, it’s far from sleepy… When she meets local playwright Alastair McInnes, who’s sworn he’ll never become involved with another actress again, sparks fly. The quiet little village of Lochnabrae will never be the same again… “ Sunshine on a rainy day.”

“ Putney’s endearing characters and warm-hearted stories never fail to inspire and delight.”

LISA JEWELL

ROMANTIC TIMES

James owns a shipping fleet, half a London gaming house, and is a ruthlessly effective spymaster. He is seldom self-indulgent… except when it comes to the indomitable beauty who was once his wife. Laurel gave James her heart, until she saw him perform an act of shocking violence before her very eyes. That night she left her husband. Now, ten years later, a chance encounter turns passionate, with consequences that cannot be ignored. They must face common enemies and a very uncommon love.

Ben Logan never asks anyone for help. Until, during a deadly hurricane, he’s washed up on a deserted island. There he finds his life in the hands of petite nurse Mary Hammond. Trapped with only each other for comfort, Ben and Mary turn to one another. Back home safely, Mary dominates Ben’s dreams. Three months later, Mary arrives at Ben’s New York office, with news that their one night had the power to change their lives forever… “ This heartfelt and exciting story is bound to be an immediate favourite.” ROMANTIC TIMES BOOK REVIEWS

SABRINA JEFFRIES

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

“ No one writes historical romance better.”

FIONA WALKER

CATHY MAXWELL

SOP Availability

Narrated by

RO3

Anthony Wren

RO3

Genre Romance

Genre

Duration

4.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008915

Scarlett Mack Modern Fiction 11 hours

ISBN 9780008138882

RO3

Steven Crossley

RO3 M&B

TBC

Genre Romance

Duration

10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510003200

8.25 hours

ISBN 9781510008885

OCTOBER

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The Maverick Millionaire

The Tycoon and the Wedding Planner

The Last Day of Christmas

Hotel Paradise

Alison Roberts

Kandy Shepherd

Chris Brookmyre

Carol Drinkwater

The man she has been waiting for…

When one wedding leads to another…

Jake Logan may be ex-military, but recently he’d been more at home among Hollywood’s finest. So different from where he is right now: seeking shelter from a powerful storm with the most beautiful woman he’s ever met. Ellie Sutton doesn’t trust easily; but with nowhere to run, for some reason she feels safe with the handsome enigmatic stranger. As rescue draws closer, they realise they don’t want their time together to end…

Kate Parker distracts herself from her memories by keeping busy – and how better than organizing weddings for Dolphin Bay’s sweethearts? But tall, dark and handsome tycoon Sam Lancaster’s arrival suddenly has Kate forgetting where she left the confetti. And mysterious Sam will be around awhile longer – because he’s got to oversee Kate’s building project! There’s no time for distractions but is it time to stop running from happiness now that it’s led them to each other?

Suspense, conspiracy and Jack Parlabane – a journalist who doesn’t know what’s good for him – lie within this superb short story.

From Paris to the shores of the Mediterranean, this short story from Carol Drinkwater will not disappoint.

Civil servant Kendra has spent her whole life struggling against the Etonian powers-that-be. So when she realises her boss is up to no good, she turns whistleblower, calling a journalist who is looking for a way to fight back himself. Jack Parlabane is a hack who will go to desperate lengths for a good story. Reduced to peddling PR puff pieces, he is delighted when Kendra’s information threatens to blow up a national corruption case. But Parlabane soon realises this story might prove dangerous to both of them. This is one present Parlabane might regret opening…

Genevieve Bowles, an award-winning songwriter, is invited to visit the newly refurbished Hotel Paradise. Genevieve knows the hotel well – in fact, her past life there has haunted her for over a decade… Twelve years earlier, two travelers meet in Paris. Full of optimism, Genevieve and Paul head south to the Riviera where they start work at the Hotel Paradise. But when a stranger arrives who threatens her future with Paul, Genevieve senses that events are about to spin out of control. A popular and acclaimed actress author and filmmaker, Carol Drinkwater has published twenty books for both the adult and young adult markets. She is currently at work on her twenty-first title.

SOP Availability

Narrated by

RO3 M&B

TBC

RO3 M&B

TBC

SSCD3

Multiple Narrators

SSCD3

Carol Drinkwater

Genre Romance

Genre Crime

Genre Romance

Duration

5.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008892

5.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008908

2 hours

ISBN 9781510009639

2.5 hours

ISBN 9781510009622

Mandela: An Audio History

Devil’s Bridge

Dilly’s Sacrifice

A Twist of the Knife

Nelson Mandela

Linda Fairstein

Rosie Goodwin

Peter James

One of the most moving audio documentaries ever produced.

Devil’s Bridge is the latest in the Alexandra Cooper series from the expert in legal thrillers.

With each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins…

One of the most comprehensive oral histories of apartheid, Mandela: An Audio History tells the story of the struggle against apartheid. It weaves together more than 50 first-person interviews with an unprecedented collection of archival sound: a rare recording of the 1964 trial that resulted in Mandela’s life sentence; a visit between Mandela and his family secretly taped by a prison guard; and pirate radio broadcasts from the African National Congress.

The Manhattan waterfront is one of New York City’s most magnificent vistas. But Detective Mike Chapman is about to become far too well acquainted with the dangerous side of the Hudson River and its islands when he takes on his most personal case yet: the disappearance of Alex Cooper. There are so many leads and terrifying complications, including Mike and Alex’s intimate relationship, leading to question the methods Mike will use to get Cooper back…

A moving and uplifting story of family, loyalty and love, from much-loved author Rosie Goodwin.

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For three decades, Linda Fairstein served in the office of the New York County District Attorney. In 2010 she was presented with the Silver Bullet Award from the International Thriller Writers.

“ Remarkable… compelling… unique history.” AUDIOFILE

“ Surprisingly thorough and very compelling… A very fine short history of apartheid – very approachable and… quite engrossing.”

“ One of my favourite writers… her stories never fail to thrill.”

DWD’S REVIEWS

KARIN SLAUGHTER

Dilly is devastated: with her husband unable to work and four children already at home, they cannot afford to feed their new-born baby. Heartbroken, she delivers her baby girl to the Farthing family who have just lost their own daughter to measles. This act of desperation will change the lives of both families irrevocably. But when the chance for true love finally comes, will Dilly choose family over her own happiness? “ Rosie Goodwin excels at tugging-the-heartstrings.”

In multi-million-copy bestselling author Peter James’ collection of short stories we first come to meet Brighton’s finest detective, Roy Grace, and read the tale that went on to inspire James’ hugely successful novel, Dead Simple. James exposes the Achilles heel of each of his characters, and makes us question how well we can trust ourselves, and one another. Each tale carries a twist that will haunt readers for days after they turn the final page… “ Peter will send chills up your spine and make you jump at all those bumps in the night… Brilliant stuff.”

LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO

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

HEAT

LANCASHIRE EVENING POST

SOP Availability

Narrated by

SSCD3 Genre Duration

Nelson Mandela Biography & Autobiography 1.25 hours

ISBN 9781510018747

CD9 TUP

Barbara Rosenblat

CD9 TUP

Charlie Sanderson

CD9 TUP

Leighton Pugh

Genre Crime

Genre Saga

Genre Crime

Duration

11 hours

ISBN 9781510011946

14 hours

ISBN 9781510011953

10.75 hours

ISBN 9781510011939

NOVEMBER

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The Silent Ones

Dead in the Water

The Final Minute

Here We Lie

William Brodrick

Ann Granger

Simon Kernick

Sophie McKenzie

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and the latest instalment in the Father Anselm series.

For a rainswept Cotswold village, flooding is the least of its woes…

The gripping new race-against-time thriller from bestselling author Simon Kernick.

Jed is the man I will marry. Unless his past catches up with us all…

Father Anselm returns to the Old Bailey to fight the most difficult and troubling case of his life. Father Edmund Littlemore is charged with grave offences against Harry Brandwell who, it seems, is both a victim and a liar. Unknown to Anselm, Robert Saunders, a journalist, has been investigating Littlemore’s background and uncovered a troubled past. Meanwhile Harry Brandwell – abused, abandoned and betrayed – has decided to take matters into his own hands.

It is the wettest winter on record and as Christmas approaches the rivers burst their banks. In the village of Weston Saint Ambrose, a young girl’s body is seen floating downstream and when it becomes stuck under the jetty at a reclusive writer’s home, the author is alarmed to discover that he recognises the victim of a brutal murder…

“She’s dead. There’s blood everywhere. And the most terrifying thing of all is that I think her killer might be me…”

On holiday with her family and adoring fiancé, Jed, Emily couldn’t be happier. But overnight, the idyllic trip turns into a waking nightmare when one of the group is found dead in what appears to be a terrible accident. The devastated party returns to London to cope with their loss while trying to resume their normal lives. But new revelations set Emily on a perilous journey to discover the truth about what happened…

“ Characterisation, as ever with Granger, is sharp and astringent.”

“ Another accomplished race against time with a delightfully morally ambiguous hero.”

THE TIMES

“ Brodrick writes with great elegance, his style unhurried, dialogue intelligent, polite yet full of meaning.”

Sophie McKenzie is the bestselling author of Richard and Judy pick Close My Eyes and Trust in Me.

SUNDAY MIRROR

“ The reader can expect a treat. Lively, different and fun.”

“ You will race through this fast-moving thriller that saves the most shocking twist until the very end.”

“ Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!”

YORKSHIRE POST

THE TIMES ON THE DISCOURTESY OF DEATH

A traumatic car-crash. A man with no memory, haunted by nightmares. When the past comes calling in the most terrifying way imaginable, Matt Barron is forced to turn to the one person who can help. Ex Met cop turned private detective, Tina Boyd. Soon they are both on the run…

SUNDAY MIRROR ON CLOSE MY EYES

HARLAN COBEN

“ Effortlessly thrilling and incredibly tense, you won’t believe this novel’s creepy twists and turns!” CLOSER ON CLOSE MY EYES

SOP Availability

Narrated by

CD9

TBC

CD9

TBC

CD9

TBC

CD9

Multiple Narrators

Genre Crime

Genre Thriller

Duration

10.25 hours

ISBN 9781510011977

10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510011991

10.25 hours

ISBN 9781510011960

11.5 hours

ISBN 9781510018822

NOVEMBER

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The New Woman

The Sun in Her Eyes

Rise

Dying For Christmas

Charity Norman

Paige Toon

Karen Campbell

Tammy Cohen

He must be himself, whatever the cost.

Blinding sunshine… A bend in the road… What became of the little girl with the sun in her eyes?

An exhilarating, luminous novel about freedom and forgiveness, and finding your place in the world.

Dying for Christmas is a gripping page-turner for psychological crime fans.

Amber was three when a car crash stole her mother’s life. She doesn’t remember the accident, but a stranger at the scene has been unable to forget. Amber is now married to Ned and living on the other side of the world in London. When her father has a stroke, she flies straight home to Australia to be with him. Then Amber receives a letter that changes everything. “Before your mother died, she asked me to tell you something…”

Justine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man, she heads north to the valleys of the Highlands. Michael and Hannah are also running, with their two sons and their tattered marriage. They are looking for somewhere they can call home. In an ancient landscape, a shocking accident causes their lives to intertwine. Tangled together in threads of guilt and love, with Scotland rushing towards a referendum and the community fracturing, they must all face their ghosts.

Luke Livingstone is a respected solicitor, a father and grandfather, a pillar of the community. Yet Luke is struggling with an unbearable secret, and it’s threatening to destroy him. All his life, Luke has hidden the truth about himself and his identity. It’s a truth so fundamental that it will shatter his family and leave him outcast. But to continue living, he must become the person – the woman – he knows himself to be, whatever the cost. “ Will appeal to devotees of Joanna Trollope and Jodi Picoult… [Norman] is hot on their heels.”

“ Paige really ratchets up the tension. You’ll be in a reading frenzy by the end!”

DAILY MAIL

“ New Zealand-based author Charity Norman has the… clever knack of taking an issue and examining it from all angles, to see the effect it has on everyone involved.”

“ I am in awe of Karen Campbell’s writing. Rise soars and sears in equal measure – it is brilliant, unputdownable storytelling.”

LISA JEWELL

MEL GIEDROYC

I am missing. Held captive by a blue-eyed stranger. To mark the twelve days of Christmas, he gives me a gift every day, each more horrible than the last. The twelfth day is getting closer. After that, there’ll be no more Christmas cheer for me. No mince pies, no carols. No way out… But I have a secret. No-one has guessed it. Will you? Tammy Cohen also writes under the name Tamar Cohen, and has published four novels. “ Acutely observed, wickedly funny and deftly plotted, with a satisfyingly smart twist at the end.” MAIL ON SUNDAY

“ A beautifully written novel about freedom and forgiveness. Heated, political and lyrical, this is an excellent, topical novel.”

NEW ZEALAND HERALD

RED

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Multiple Narrators Modern Fiction 14 hours

ISBN 9781510011984

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Sarah Blackstone

CD12

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Caroline Guthrie Modern Fiction 13 hours

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Emma Gregory

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NOVEMBER

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The Household Spirit

The Lion of Mistra

Jimfish

Carnevale

Tod Wodicka

James Heneage

Christopher Hope

Michele Lovric

A luminous story of a most curious friendship, for fans of Rachel Joyce.

Rome never fell. The empire continued as Byzantium. This epic historical novel concerns one man’s role in saving the empire.

“I’ll give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish. Because he’s a real fish out of water, this one is.”

A moving love story featuring two of the greatest lovers the world has ever known, Casanova and Byron and introducing a third: Cecilia Cornaro.

There’s something wrong next door. At least, that’s what neighbours Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Howie is an accidental recluse, content with his fishing and dreams of someday sailing away on a boat. Emily couldn’t be more different: she’s irreverent, outgoing and seemingly well-adjusted. But when Emily returns from college to care for her dying grandfather, Howie can’t help but notice her increasingly erratic behavior – not to mention her newfound love of nocturnal gardening. “ The Household Spirit is very special. There’s a pleasing familiarity to it but it’s also fresh, funny and unpredictable.” RODDY DOYLE

“ Rarely have I been so captivated by a novel. Its compassion, wisdom, warmth. I loved it.”

The Ottoman Turks are at the gates of Constantinople and Luke Magoris has to find a fortune to build defences for his beloved Mistra, the last glorious outpost of Imperial Rome. He turns to the Ming Empire for trade, and to Italy for its rapidly developing banks. And yet the Varangian treasure – which only Luke can uncover – may hold the key to all. The Lion of Mistra is the third book in the Mistra Chronicles, following The Walls of Byzantium and Towers of Samarcand. “ A stirring tale of the struggle for Byzantium. Heneage brings to life both the tragedy and the heroism.”

In the 1980s, a man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, South Africa, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the dying days of the twentieth century. Part fable, part fierce commentary on the politics of power, this work is the culmination of a lifetime’s writing, from a Man Booker shortlisted author of enormous originality and range.

“ A lavish description of a sensual education that drips detail and drama.” ELLE

“ A dazzling baroque tale.”

TOM HOLLAND ON THE WALLS OF BYZANTIUM

SUNDAY TIMES

“ Fascinating historical mysteries and vivid colourful characters. It’s a page-turner fast enough to make its own breeze.”

NATHAN FILER, AUTHOR OF THE SHOCK OF THE FALL

1782. The 13 year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova – the legendary seducer of women. Twenty-five years later Cecilia is in Albania, now a portrait painter of some renown. Enter a young man from England, a troubled poet, looking for adventure at any price – a man who begins his affair with Cecilia.

CONN IGGULDEN ON THE WALLS OF BYZANTIUM

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NOVEMBER

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A Beautiful Mind

After the Flood

The Hidden Pleasures of Life

My Wicked Marquess

Sylvia Nasar

John Nichol

Theodore Zeldin

Gaelen Foley

The inspiration behind the Oscar-winning film featuring Russell Crowe in the lead role of John Nash.

Former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol sets out on a personal journey to discover what happened to 617 Squadron.

Theodore Zeldin illuminates how our lives can be enriched by the realisation that it is only by truly relating to others that we really become human.

“Gaelen Foley’s talents, like fine wine, only improve with each new book.” romantic times

On the 17th May 1943, 133 airmen set out in 19 Lancasters to destroy the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams. 56 of them did not return. Despite these catastrophic losses, the raid became a propaganda triumph. The survivors were feted as heroes and became celebrities of their time. John Nichol retraces the path of 617 Squadron’s most dangerous sorties as their reputation called them into action again and again.

In The Hidden Pleasures of Life Theodore Zeldin demonstrates that both the greatest problems and the greatest opportunities of the twenty-first century lie in our relationships with others. With examples from his unparalleled research and his experiences with the giants of modern business and politics, this book reveals how our society is full of untapped potential for human interactions.

“ Full of poignant episodes… A fitting tribute to the raw courage of these young men.”

Theodore Zeldin is an Oxford academic, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature, and the author of many non-fiction titles.

John Nash was a mathematical genius by age thirty when he slipped into madness after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community, John Nash emerged after decades of a ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game theory revolution. This is his story. “ A compelling book about a phenomenal figure. Sylvia Nasar manages to illuminate both the man and his maths.” THE TIMES

“ An intriguing analysis of the tortured life of John Nash, mathematical genius and Nobel laureate extraordinary.”

DAILY EXPRESS

The Inferno Club – a scandalous gathering of wealthy libertines and highborn rakehells devoted to their wicked pleasures. So the Club’s members are known to London Society. But little does the world suspect the true purpose of the Inferno Club--or the danger that looms over England--which these select, powerful lords are secretly sworn to fight. Gaelen Foley is a bestselling romance author who has won many awards including a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Historical Romance.

“ The most exciting and ambitious work of nonfiction I have read in more than a decade.”

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DAILY TELEGRAPH

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ISBN 9781510018907

Peter Noble

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Saul Reichlin General Non Fiction 14.5 hours

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NOVEMBER

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The Wild One

Mastered by Love

The Rake’s Bargain

Crown Prince, Pregnant Bride

Janet Gover

Stephanie Laurens

Lucy Ashford

Kate Hardy

The wounds you can’t see are the hardest to heal…

The leader of the Bastion Club now faces that most dangerous mission of all: finding a bride.

The stage is set…

A secret to turn his royal world upside down.

Iraq war veteran Dan Mitchell once disobeyed an order. Now a national park ranger in the Australian outback, he’s faced with another order he is unwilling to obey… Photographer Rachel Quinn seeks out beauty in unlikely places. But Quinn knows darkness – and Dan soon realises she needs his help as much as he needs hers. Carrie Bryant was a jockey until a racing accident broke her nerve. Now Dan and Quinn need her expertise, but can she face her fear?

‘Dalziel’, Royce Varisey, Duke of Wolverstone, served his country for decades, facing dangers untold, but he must now take on that gravest duty of all: marriage. Yet the young ladies he’s supposed to consider are predictably boring. Far more tempting is his castle’s wilful and determinedly aloof chatelaine, Minerva Chesterton. Beneath her serene façade lies a woman of smouldering sensuality, one who will fill his days with comfort and his nights with pleasure.

Deborah O’Hara loves leading her troupe of actors. But when she becomes entangled in a web of secrets spun by the rakishly handsome Damian Beaumaris, Duke of Cirencester, she is forced to play the hardest role of her life. That of the stunning but disloyal Paulette, the Duke’s widowed sister-in-law. To regain the honour of his family Beau needs Deb’s help, but despite his intentions, he doesn’t bargain on the forbidden sparks that fly with his beautiful leading lady…

One look into the stranger’s mysterious eyes and Indigo Moran knows she’s made a mistake in taking his picture. But who does he think he is? That night Indigo discovers he’s a prince. Crown Prince Lorenzo Torelli of Melvante. Now Indigo has a royal secret that’s about to turn his ordered world upside down!

Janet Gover was born in Melbourne. She is the author of a dozen novels and short stories, and has been awarded the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Elizabeth Goudge Trophy.

“ Fans of Laurens’s popular romances… won’t be disappointed by this solid offering.”

“ Outrageous, interesting and tremendous fun.”

Kate Hardy is an award-winning author of more than 50 books for Harlequin Mills & Boon. She won the RNA Romance Prize in 2008 and won the RoNA Rose Prize in 2014.

FRESH FICTION

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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NOVEMBER

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To Sin with the Tycoon

Christmas at the Beach Café

No God Zone

Bringing Stan In

Cathy Williams

Lucy Diamond

Cristina Odone

Julia Rochester

With the quirk of an eyebrow, Gabriel Cabrera can get anything he wants!

A charming short story from bestselling author Lucy Diamond.

God was everywhere, once.

An exciting prequel to The House at the Edge of the World.

That is until he meets PA Alice Morgan and realises three things: He’s jealous, he’s in pursuit and she’s immune to his charms. So he’ll draw her to him – his every word an innuendo promising pleasure, his every touch sinfully seductive – and sweet, virginal Alice will come to him willingly so Gabriel can claim his prize…

After a hectic summer running her beach café in Cornwall, Evie Flynn is looking forward to her first Christmas with new boyfriend Ed. But when Ed’s ex suddenly gets in touch again, and some unexpected guests arrive: Ed’s surly brother Jake and Evie’s heartbroken best friend Amber, Evie’s Christmas starts to look as if it’ll be a total turkey. Will any of her festive wishes come true… or is this Christmas just a recipe for disaster?

“ Her authentic English settings inspire, and the relationship-building is truly well done.” RT BOOK REVIEW

Prayer was part of public life; places of worship marked our landscape. Equality is the new deity now, and much of Europe is already becoming a no-God area. In this short essay, Cristina Odone explores whether God is no longer welcome in the West, and whether religious followers have been silenced in our newly secular society. Cristina Odone is a journalist for the Daily Telegraph. She broadcasts regularly for TV and radio and runs a website. She is a former editor of the Catholic Herald and deputy editor of the New Statesman.

“Why do you want to be a boat builder?” “Because,” said Morwenna, “I like the way the boats grow.” Morwenna and Corwin are eight years old; wind-swept and salty haired twins growing up on the Devon coast. In the soft autumn light they play as their grandfather Matthew watches the boats come in. But it is a day unlike any other. Julia Rochester’s The House at the Edge of the World is a razor-sharp debut novel. Set decades before the turbulent events of the novel, short story Bringing Stan In is a vivid glimpse into the childhood of Morwenna and Corwin.

An absolute cracker from Lucy Diamond, this novella is perfect for anyone who loves heart-warming stories!

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Melody Grove Modern Fiction 2.75 hours

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Avita Jay

Modern Fiction 0.5 hours

ISBN 9781510012028

DECEMBER

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Warriors of the Storm

Friday on My Mind

The Wrong Girl

We Are All Made of Stars

Bernard Cornwell

Nicci French

David Hewson

Rowan Coleman

The new novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series The Warrior Chronicles.

Friday on my Mind is the latest addictive and intriguing novel in the Frieda Klein series by the bestselling author Nicci French.

A terrorist outrage grips the heart of the city.

We Are all Made of Stars is an uplifting and heartfelt novel about life, loss and what happens in between, from bestselling author Rowan Coleman.

A fragile peace governs the kingdoms of Wessex, East Anglia and Mercia. Uhtred, her greatest warrior, controls the northern parts from the strongly fortified city of Chester. The Northmen come in force under the cover of night, led by the terrifying Viking warrior, Ragnall Iverson, a fierce fighter and ruthless leader. Uhtred will stop at nothing to take back his corner of Northumbria and secure the future of Bebbanburg. “ The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.”

When a corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at least be sure that identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around the dead man’s wrist is a hospital band. On it are the words Dr F. Klein. But psychotherapist Frieda Klein is very much alive. And, after evidence linking her to the murder is discovered, she becomes the prime suspect. “ Nicci French’s sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition.” SOPHIE HANNAH

“ Brilliantly crafted… masterly control of suspense.”

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

Amsterdam is bursting at the seams and the police are out in force, struggling to manage the crowds. Brigadier Pieter Vos is on duty with his young assistant, Laura Bakker, when the first grenade hits. In the chaos a young girl wearing a pink jacket is kidnapped. But she isn’t the daughter of an Amsterdam aristocrat as the terrorists first thought. What is the life of one immigrant child worth in the greater political game emerging? “ Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing.” LINWOOD BARCLAY

“ When Hewson hits his stride it feels like you’re being treated to a masterclass in crime writing.”

“ What a gorgeous book this is – it gripped me and wouldn’t let me go. So engaging, so beautifully written – I loved every single thing about it.”

CRIME FICTION LOVER

DAILY MIRROR

“ Strong narrative, vigourous action and striking characterisation, Cornwell remains king of the territory he has staked out as his own.”

Married to a soldier who has returned from Afghanistan injured in body and mind, Stella Carey leaves the house every evening. During her nursing shifts, Stella writes letters for her patients to their loved ones – some full of humour, love and practical advice, others steeped in regret or pain – promising to post them after their deaths. Until one night Stella writes the letter that could give her patient one last chance at redemption, if she delivers it in time…

JILL MANSELL

“ We Are All Made of Stars is simply wonderful. Profoundly moving and ultimately hopeful, this story – like its deftly drawn characters – refuses to let you forget it.”

SUNDAY TIMES

MIRANDA DICKINSON

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ISBN 9780007574025

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Beth Chalmers

CD9 TUP

Saul Reichlin

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Modern Fiction

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DECEMBER

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The Girls

Where They Found Her

The Mermaids Singing

Hear the Wind Sing

Lisa Jewell

Kimberly McCreight

Val McDermid

Haruki Murakami

The gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In and The Third Wife.

The very worst crimes are those we commit against the ones we love.

The Mermaids Singing explores the tormented mind of a serial killer unlike any the world of fiction has ever seen.

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami’s earliest novels.

You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer’s night, a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible? “ Lisa Jewell’s characters are so real that I finish every book half-expecting to bump into one of them. Modern, complex, intuitive, she just goes from strength to strength.” JOJO MOYES

“ A stunning, beautiful, mesmerising book that everyone will be reading.”

Motherhood hasn’t come at all easy for Molly Anderson. But she’s finally enjoying life as mother to five-year-old Ella and as Arts reporter for the small but respectable Ridgedale Reader. That is, until a body is found in the woods adjacent to Ridgedale University’s ivy-covered campus, a discovery that threatens to unearth secrets long buried by the town’s most powerful residents… “ A rollercoaster of a novel … McCreight has once again proven herself to be an insightful writer capable of taking us on a hell of a ride.”

Up until now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were safely behind bars. This one’s different – this one’s on the loose. Four men have been found mutilated and tortured. As fear grips the city, the police turn to clinical psychologist Tony Hill for a profile of the killer. But soon Tony becomes the unsuspecting target in a battle of wits and wills, where he has to use every ounce of his professional nerve to survive. “ Terrifying but stylish and compassionate! Truly, horribly good.”

JODI PICOULT

MAIL ON SUNDAY

“ She creates a world that pulls us in completely and genuinely, with characters that can enrage, amuse and fill us with empathy.”

“ Gripping, intelligent stuff.”

Hear the Wind Sing follows the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. The narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J’s Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Haruki Murakami’s books include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and The Strange Library. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize.

THE TIMES

GILLIAN FLYNN

TAMAR COHEN

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Saul Reichlin

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DECEMBER

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The Flood

At Hawthorn Time

The Last Pilot

The Looking Glass House

Ian Rankin

Melissa Harrison

Benjamin Johncock

Vanessa Tait

The Flood is the book that began Ian Rankin’s phenomenal career, now available as an audiobook for the first time.

An exquisite novel about four peoples’ lives, our changing relationship with the landscape, and what it means to belong.

What happened before Alice fell down the rabbit hole?

Mary Miller had always been an outcast – burnt in a chemical mix as a young girl, sympathy for her quickly faded. Now, years later, she is a single mother, caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher. The search for happiness isn’t easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret from their past, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images – of decay and regrowth, of fire and water – of the flood.

Howard and Kitty have recently moved to Lodeshill after a life spent in London; now, their marriage is wordlessly falling apart. Custom car enthusiast Jamie has lived in the village for all of his nineteen years and dreams of leaving it behind, while Jack, a vagrant farm-worker and mystic in flight from a bail hostel, arrives in the village on foot one spring morning, bringing change. All four of them are struggling to find a life in the modern countryside; all are trying to find ways to belong.

The Last Pilot re-ignites the thrill and excitement of the space race through the story of one man’s courage in the face of unthinkable loss.

“ Britain’s best crime novelist.”

“ A profoundly unsentimental yet deeply compassionate meditation on searching for myth and meaning, on our need to belong, and the place of history in the history of place.”

EXPRESS

“ A must for lovers of Rankin.” GOOD BOOK GUIDE

HELEN MACDONALD, AUTHOR OF H IS FOR HAWK

The Last Pilot begins in the bone-dry Mojave Desert during the late 1940s, where US Air Force test pilots are racing to break the sound barrier. Among the exalted few is Jim Harrison: dedicated to his wife, Grace, and their baby daughter. By the 1960s, the space race is underway and Harrison and his colleagues are offered a place in history as the world’s first astronauts. Jim is faced with the decision of whether to accept his ticket to the moon and what it might cost. “ By far the best debut novel I’ve read in years – it reads like the reclusive disciple of Cormac McCarthy and St-Exupery.” JOANNE HARRIS, AUTHOR OF CHOCOLAT

Oxford, 1862. Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, but there is a problem: Mary does not like children, especially the precocious Alice Liddell. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the mathematics tutor, she is flattered by his attentions. But Mary is determined to become Mr Dodgson’s muse – and will turn all the lives around her topsy-turvy in pursuit of her obsession. Vanessa Tait is the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Looking Glass House is inspired by family treasures and stories of the ‘original’ Alice.

“ An impressive debut… A marvellous, emotionally powerful novel.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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Gareth Bennett-Ryan Modern Fiction 8.25 hours

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Melody Grove Historical Fiction 8.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014480

DECEMBER

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The Memory of Evil

Wallflowers

Borderlines

Testaments Betrayed

Roberto Costantini

Eliza Robertson

Michela Wrong

Milan Kundera

The Memory of Evil is the earth-shattering finale to Roberto Costantini’s internationally bestselling crime trilogy.

From the winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize comes a delicate and startling collection.

In this extended meditation Kundera reflects on the betrayed testaments – of Europe, of art, of the art of the novel and of artists

31st August 1969: Colonel Gadaffi seized power in Commissario Balistreri’s birthplace of Libya, and his beloved mother Natalia fell to her death. Balistreri has always suspected the resulting suicide verdict to be a flagrant cover-up for her murder.

A small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her back yard; a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting revelations. Eliza Robertson’s delicate and startling stories tell of the adventure of the ordinary and the magic within the everyday.

A compelling courtroom drama and a gritty, aromatic evocation of place, inspired by recent events from a British writer with nearly two decades of experience in Africa.

Journalist Linda Nardi has been investigating the Vatican Bank for its shadowy transactions. But now Linda will find her attention diverted to an equally irresistible assignment: the collapse of Colonel Gadaffi’s forty-two year dictatorship. In The Memory of Evil, one woman will encounter a longentombed truth in the rubble of Tripoli: unearthing a conspiracy neither she, nor the man it was designed to protect, will ever be able to erase from their minds.

“ Robertson lets images vibrate with possibilities. Almost every story, individually, is sharp, illuminating.”

She flies to the state’s capital determined to lose herself in work, but soon discovers that even jobs taken with the purest intentions can involve moral compromise.

Kundera’s essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. Stravinsky and Kafka with their odd friends Ansermet and Brod; Hemingway with his biographer; Janacek with his little nation; and Rabelais with his heirs – the great novelists. In the light of their wisdom this audiobook examines some of the great situations of our time. “ A defence of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading.” NEW YORK TIMES

“ An exceptionally talented writer.”

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

GUARDIAN

“ Filled with lush flora and fauna, both real and figurative… Assured and ambitious.”

“ This is wonderful, readable and illuminating… Michela Wrong is an enormously talented writer.”

GUARDIAN

“ A passionate portrayal of a corrupt and criminal Italy.”

British lawyer Paula Shackleton is mourning a lost love when a man accosts her over breakfast. Winston Peabody represents the African state of North Darrar, embroiled in a border arbitration case with its giant neighbour. He needs help with the hearings in The Hague, Paula needs to forget the past.

NEW STATESMAN

THE TIMES ON THE DELIVERANCE OF EVIL

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Jilly Bond Modern Fiction 11.5 hours

ISBN 9780008148362

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DECEMBER

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Peg Plunkett: Memoirs

Deep South

Bridesmaids

Eternal Kiss of Darkness

Julie Peakman

Paul Theroux

Jane Costello

Jeaniene Frost

Revelations and racy anecdotes about the lives of the rich and famous of Dublin and London abound within Peg Plunkett: Memoirs.

“Still one of the best literary travellers we have.”

Four Weddings without the funeral!

From bestselling author of the Night Huntress series, Jeaniene Frost, comes another supernatural romance.

In the eighteenth century Peg Plunkett blitzed her way through balls and masquerades, creating scandals and gossip wherever she went, leaving dukes and barristers stranded in her wake. She was the first madame ever to write her memoirs, thereby setting the template for the whore’s memoir. In Peg Plunkett: Memoirs, Julie Peakman brings her subject and the world through which she moved to glorious, bawdy life. Julie Peakman is an Honorary Fellow at both the Wellcome Institute and at Birkbeck College, University of London, as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth – to China, Africa, the Pacific Islands, Russia, and elsewhere. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas he writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers – the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi – and above all, the lives of the people he meets.

Evie is twenty-seven; she’s never been in love and worries that she never will be. And the prospect of being bridesmaid at no less than three weddings fills her with trepidation. Things get worse when Evie learns that Jack, the most attractive man Evie has ever laid eyes on, is Valentina’s date. Jack can’t possibly be as good as he seems, but as they sit together talking late into the night, Evie finds herself wishing he was real. “ If you like Sophie Kinsella, you’ll love Jane Costello.” COSMOPOLITAN

“ His ability to sum up a people or a city in a few lines is undiminished.”

“ Full of laugh out loud moments!” GLAMOUR

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Chicago Private Investigator Kira Graceling should have kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. There she finds Mencheres, a breathtaking Master vampire who thought he’d seen it all. Then Kira appears – fearless, beautiful… human, who braved death to rescue him. With danger closing in, Mencheres must choose either the woman he craves, or defeating an enemy bent on his eternal destruction. “ A new twist on the classic vampire myths… Jeaniene Frost has a winner on her hands.”

“ Theroux’s work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged.”

YASMEEN GALENORN

OBSERVER

“ A fast-paced, sexy thrill of a book that takes the black and white struggle of good vs evil, and blends it to get every possible shade of gray.” KATHRYN SMITH

SOP Availability

Narrated by

Sandra Duncan

Genre History

Genre

Duration

7.75 hours

ISBN 9781510014510

TBC

Travel & Geography 17.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014534

RO3

Genre

Modern Fiction

Duration

TBC

10 hours

ISBN 9781510014565

RO3

TBC

Genre Romance Duration

10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014817

DECEMBER

Clipper

Coming soon

Out of Sight Out of Mind

The Playboy of Rome

The Secret Affair

The Prince She Never Forgot

Evonne Wareham

Jennifer Faye

Brenda Jackson

Scarlet Wilson

Everyone has secrets. Some are stranger than others.

Has this Italian playboy finally met his match?

A new romance from Brenda Jackson featuring the notorious Westmoreland brothers.

What do you do when true love knocks on your door?

Madison Albi is a scientist with a very special talent – for reading minds. When she stumbles across a homeless man with whom she feels an inexplicable connection, she can’t resist the dangerous impulse to use her skills to help him. But as she delves deeper into J’s mind, it becomes clear that some secrets are better off staying hidden. Is J really the man Madison believes him to be?

Italian chef Dante DeFiore hasn’t much time for Lizzie Addler’s dreams of culinary fame – he has a restaurant to run! But, as Lizzie proves herself to be a spectacular addition to his kitchen, Dante realises he needs her in his life… forever! Award-winning author, Jennifer Faye pens fun, heartwarming romances. Jennifer has won the RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award.

Evonne Wareham won the Romantic Novelist Association 2012 Joan Hessayon Award for her debut novel, Never Coming Home.

It has been a year since Jillian Novak walked away from Aidan Westmoreland. But Aidan is confident that fourteen days on a cruise ship – just him, Jillian and the deep blue sea – will reignite a passion that cannot be denied. “ Brenda Jackson writes romance that sizzles and characters you fall in love with.”

Ten years after therapist Ruby shared an unforgettable kiss in Paris with a stranger, he shows up on her doorstep – and reveals that he’s a prince! Duty has kept Prince Alexander away, but now he can make their dreams come true… Scarlet Wilson wrote her first story aged eight and has never stopped. She lives on the West Coast of Scotland, writing medical and contemporary romances.

LORI FOSTER

“ Jackson’s characters are wonderful, strong, colourful and hot enough to burn the pages.”

“ A dark mystery with a fiery romance at its heart.” MEG GARDINER

ROMANTIC TIMES

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Narrated by

RO3

Jenny Funnell

RO3 M&B

TBC

RO3 M&B

TBC

RO3 M&B

TBC

Genre Romance

Duration

10.5 hours

ISBN 9781471233241

8.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014770

6.25 hours

ISBN 9781510014794

8.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014787

DECEMBER

Clipper

Lamentation The eagerly anticipated new novel from the Number One bestselling author, C. J. Sansom Hush Little Baby

The Miracle of Normandy

The 45% Hangover

James Carol

Alex Gerlis

Stuart MacBride

A brand new title from highly-acclaimed, bestselling author of Broken Dolls, James Carol.

Author and journalist Alex Gerlis explores whether D-Day would have been won at all without the allied deception operation.

A brilliantly twisty, 80-page novella from the No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.

D-Day marked the start of the Battle for Normandy which in turn led to the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe and the defeat of Germany. Although it is seen as an unqualified success, the Battle for Normandy was a much more closely fought affair. It wasn’t until the 1970s that details of the Allies’ top secret and audacious deception plan emerged.

It’s the night of the big Referendum, and all Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to do is find a missing ‘No’ campaigner. Should be easy enough, but, as usual, DCI Steel has plans of her own. As the votes are counted there’s trouble brewing in the pubs and on the streets of Aberdeen. Logan’s picked up a promising lead, but all is not quite what it seems, and things are about to go very wrong.

FBI profiler Yoko Tanaka is in Florida helping the local PD with their ‘Sandman’ case. Three mothers and their daughters have been found murdered in their homes, the mothers brutally stabbed while the little girls have been smothered and posed to look like they’re sleeping. Defying protocol, Yoko makes a detour to entice Jefferson Winter to join the case. All Yoko knows is that he’s the only person who can help her before the Sandman claims another two victims… “ Broken Dolls has it all. Horrifying evil, a brilliant, conflicted profiler and cracking pace and tension. I read it in what seemed like two trembling gulps.”

“ Intriguing novel full of extraordinary insights into the human stories behind the great struggle against Hitler. Fascinating read.”

“ MacBride is a damned fine writer – no one does dark and gritty like him.”

GAVIN ESLER, BROADCASTER AND AUTHOR OF A SCANDALOUS MAN

PETER JAMES

“ Ferocious and funny.”

STEPHEN FRY

VAL MCDERMID

“ Toe-clenching, nail-biting, peep-frombehind-your-fingers suspense.”

“ Highly intelligent historical fiction and a guaranteed chart-topper.” DAILY EXPRESS

S. J. BOLTON

SOP Availability

Narrated by

SSCD3

TBC

SSCD3

TBC

SSCD3

Steve Worsley

Genre Crime

Genre History

Genre Crime

Duration

3.25 hours

ISBN 9781510014725

2 hours

ISBN 9781510014664

2.5 hours

ISBN 9780008136550

Available as part of your October Standing Order Plan, see page 3 for details.

OCTOBER

Lamplight

Lamplight Representing traditional genres such as sagas and mysteries. This quarter includes established authors such as Lesley Pearse, Jacqueline Winspear and Hilary Boyd.

Doctor of the High Fells

A Flower That’s Free (Part 2)

Elizabeth Gill

Sarah Harrison

From the bestselling author of Miss Appleby’s Academy and Far From My Father’s House comes a tale of determination and courage.

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

Determined to practice as a doctor, Prue Stanhope escapes a loveless marriage to journey far from home to a surgery in the rural mining town of Tow Law, County Durham. But Prue soon finds that harsh conditions, suspicious villagers and limited resources are only the beginning – gaining the townspeople’s trust will be her greatest challenge of all. “ A born storyteller.” TRISHA ASHLEY

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

“ Elizabeth Gill writes with a masterful grasp of conflicts and passions hidden among men and women of the wild North Country.” LEAH FLEMING

SOP Availability

Narrated by

LAMP5

Anne Dover

LAMP5

Gabrielle Glaister

Genre Saga

Duration

11 hours

ISBN 9781510009929

17.25 hours

ISBN 9781471297052

OCTOBER

Lamplight

The Dress

Belle

A Dangerous Place

Infinite Home

Kate Kerrigan

Lesley Pearse

Jacqueline Winspear

Kathleen Alcott

Kate Kerrigan’s enthralling novel interweaves the dramatic stories of Joy and Lily.

She witnessed a murder – and now her life is in danger…

“Wry and immensely readable” daily mail

A poignant story of how a community is built and torn apart.

Lily Fitzpatrick loves vintage clothes. But this passion for beautiful clothes is about to have unforeseen consequences, when Lily stumbles upon the story of a 1950s New York beauty, who shares Lily’s surname. Joy Fitzpatrick was a legend. But what was the famous dress which she once commissioned? What happened to it – and why did Joy suddenly disappear from New York high society?

Fifteen year old Belle, snatched from the streets and sold into prostitution, is made a courtesan in New Orleans. At the mercy of desperate men who crave her beauty and will do anything to keep her, Belle’s dreams of home, family and freedom appear futile. Are Belle’s courage and spirit strong enough to help her escape? And what will await her at the end of the long, dangerous journey home?

“ Mesmerising. Just beautiful.”

“ With characters it is impossible not to care about… this is storytelling at its very best.”

CECELIA AHERN

“ I’m a huge Maisie Dobbs fan.”

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

MARIAN KEYES

“ Maisie Dobbs has not been created – she has been discovered. And what a revelation she is!” ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

DAILY MAIL

“ Glamorous, gripping and moving. I just loved it.”

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place… In Jacqueline Winspear’s powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril.

WOMAN’S WEEKLY

LEE CHILD

“ Jacqueline Winspear’s consummate skill in writing crime stories with intricate psychological layers is proven yet again.” HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW

Within a charming, if dilapidated, Brooklyn brownstone live a family of sorts: beautiful agoraphobe Adeleine; Thomas, an artist who has shut away his materials in the wake of a stroke; Edward, a cynical stand-up comedian and Paulie, a young man with William’s Syndrome. Brought together by ageing landlady Edith, the tenants all live safely in tune with each other. But when their home is suddenly and violently threatened, they are shocked into action. “ Infinite Home is Alcott at her lyrical best. In her arresting new novel, she explores the boundaries of family and fraternity.” NATHAN ENGLANDER

“ Vibrant, inventive, expansive… pure poetry.” SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH

SOP Availability

Narrated by

LAMP5 Genre Duration

Genevieve Swallow Historical Fiction 11.25 hours

ISBN 9781510009912

LAMP5

Sherry Baines

LAMP5

Genre Saga

Genre

Duration

21.5 hours

ISBN 9781471282539

Julie Teal Historical Fiction 10 hours

ISBN 9781510011915

LAMP10

Laurence Bouvard

Genre Saga Duration

8 hours

ISBN 9780008136901

OCTOBER

Lamplight

Nelly Dean

Come, Tell Me How You Live

London Match

Death at Wentwater Court

Alison Case

Agatha Christie

Len Deighton

Carola Dunn

A gripping and heartbreaking novel that reimagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws’ loyal servant, Nelly Dean.

Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again!

The final part of the classic spy trilogy, Game, Set and Match, set when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.

A lively mystery for the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple.

Young Nelly Dean has been Hindley’s closest companion for as long as she can remember, living at the great house, Wuthering Heights. But when the benevolence of the master brings a wild child into the house, Nelly must follow in her mother’s footsteps and be called servant. When a new heir is born, a reign of violence begins that will test Nelly’s spirit as she finds out what it is to know true sacrifice. “ Alison Case has cracked open Wuthering Heights and inserted into the gaps her own richly imagined story… I never thought I needed more Wuthering Heights. Now I wonder how I could have been satisfied with only the original telling.”

To the world she was Agatha Christie, legendary author of bestselling whodunits. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, travelling with her husband, renowned archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he investigated the buried ruins and ancient wonders of Syria and Iraq. When friends asked what this strange ‘other life’ was like, she decided to answer their questions by writing down her adventures in this eye-opening book. Come, Tell Me How You Live is an altogether remarkable and increasingly poignant narrative, a fascinating, vibrant and vivid portrait of everyday life in a world now long since vanished.

TRACY CHEVALIER

Bernard Samson hoped they’d put Elvira Miller behind bars. But there was one troubling thing about Mrs Miller’s confession – something about two codewords where there should have been one. The finger of suspicion pointed straight back to London. And that was where defector Erich Stinnes was locked up, refusing to say anything. Now he had to get him to talk…

No stranger to sprawling country estates, well-heeled Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground at Wentwater Court to cover a story for Town & Country magazine. But her interview gives way to interrogation when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a chilly end on the tranquil skating pond. With evidence that his death was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard so the culprit can’t slip through their fingers…

“ Deighton is back in his original milieu, the bleak spy world of betrayers and betrayed.”

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

OBSERVER

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“ Once again Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even managed to give a new twist or two to the spy story. But then he is a master of the form.”

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

WASHINGTON POST

SOP Availability

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LAMP10 Genre Duration

Charlie Sanderson Historical Fiction 16.25 hours

ISBN 9780008147525

LAMP10 Genre Duration

Judith Boyd Biography & Autobiography 7.75 hours

ISBN 9780008148539

LAMP10

James Lailey

LAMP10

TBC

Genre Crime

Genre Mystery

Duration

14.75 hours

ISBN 9780007566167

6.75 hours

ISBN 9781510009936

NOVEMBER

Lamplight

Meet Me on the Beach

The Mysterious Mr Quin The Food of Love

Art in the Blood

Hilary Boyd

Agatha Christie

Prue Leith

Bonnie MacBird

Where do you run when your heart’s breaking all the rules?

An excellent mystery from the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

A proud family. A wild daughter. A desperate hope.

In this new adventure for the classic characters, in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Watson’s friendship is tested to the limits.

When Harry Stewart dies of a heart attack, the whole village is devastated – except for his wife Karen, who knew the abusive alcoholic Harry had become. Karen is nonetheless wracked with guilt; her only comfort in her grief is William, the sympathetic local vicar. But when Karen realises she might be falling in love, she flees to the seaside. A chance encounter brings William back into her life; can they persuade each other to take one final leap of faith? “ Boyd is as canny as Joanna Trollope at observing family life.”

So far, it had been a typical New Year’s Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite – a keen observer of human nature – sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet to unfold. So it proved when a mysterious stranger arrived after midnight. Who was this Mr Quin? And why did his presence have such a pronounced effect on Eleanor Portal, the woman with the dyed-black hair? “ Offers a rare treat for discriminating readers.”

World War Two is not yet over. Laura Oliver, beautiful and tempestuous, falls in love with Giovanni, an Italian exprisoner-of-war, now a humble cook. Together, the couple flee to London where they arrive in a city that has not yet re-awoken after the traumas of war. Facing destitution, only their love for one another and their dream of opening a restaurant business keeps them going. This is a tale of prejudice and ambition, and one couple’s struggle to carve out a life of their own. As a cook, restaurateur, food writer and business woman, Prue Leith has published twelve cookbooks, she has also written five contemporary romance novels.

NEW YORK TIMES

DAILY MAIL

“ An engaging page-turner that explores secrets and relationships.”

A snowy December, 1888. A strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris. Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful cabaret star, writes that her illegitimate son by an English lord has disappeared. Racing to Paris with Watson at his side, will Holmes find the missing boy and stop a rising tide of murders? To do so he must stay one step ahead of a dangerous French rival and the interference of his own brother, Mycroft. “ In a world with more than its share of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, it is rare for one to soar above the rest, but Bonnie MacBird’s Art in the Blood achieves this singular feat and deserves a tip of the deerstalker.” OTTO PENZLER

CLOSER

“ Vivid period detail, a superb, labyrinthine plot, snappy pacing and, most importantly, a deep respect for the classic characters.” BRYAN COGMAN PRODUCER OF GAME OF THRONES

SOP Availability

Narrated by

LAMP5

TBC

LAMP5

Hugh Fraser

LAMP5

Anna Parker – Naples

LAMP5

TBC

Genre Romance

Genre Classics

Genre Saga

Genre Crime

Duration

10.25 hours

ISBN 9781510012639

9 hours

ISBN 9780008109356

12.25 hours

ISBN 9781510012622

13 hours

ISBN 9780008152611

NOVEMBER

Lamplight

The Orphans of Halfpenny Street

Eight Hundred Grapes

Pirate King

The Moth Snowstorm

Cathy Sharpe

Laura Dave

Laurie R. King

Michael McCarthy

When there is nowhere else to turn, St Saviour’s will give them hope…

There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide…

The latest adventure for the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes.

It’s 1948 and Sister Beatrice, who runs the St Saviour’s Children’s Home, knows that many children are still looking for a safe haven. One such arrival is Mary Ellen whose mother is gravely ill. The one silver lining is her best friend, the tearaway Billy Baggins. When an unwelcome face from Billy’s past arrives on the scene, things are brought to a head. Can the women work together to keep Billy on the straight and narrow?

Returning to her family’s Sonoma vineyard after an unexpected devastating secret is revealed, Georgia Ford yearns for the rituals of harvest, the comfort of her parents and her brothers’ camaraderie. But this year the family farmhouse is rife with undercurrents. As the storm clouds gather towards the end of the harvest, sibling rivalry, marriage vows and the promise of the future are all tested.

Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo’s in this gritty drama that will appeal to fans of Katie Flynn.

Will this harvest be the final one for the family, or a chance for a new beginning?

In England’s silent-film industry, Randolph Fflytte is king. Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate the criminal activities that surround Fflytte’s movie studio but nothing seems amiss until the company starts rehearsals in Lisbon. There the thirteen blondehaired, blue-eyed actresses who Mary is bemusedly chaperoning, meet the swarm of real buccaneers Fflytte has recruited to provide authenticity. As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves may experience a final fadeout.

“A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love[…] A must-read.” helen macdonald, author of h is for hawk

MICHAEL CONNELLY

USA TODAY

Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, McCarthy presents a new way of looking at the world. “ Impassioned, polemical and personal[…] At its heart, this is a book aiming to persuade those who are broadly sympathetic to think in a different way, and in that it is surely a success - and a joy.”

“ A master storyteller.”

“ A wry observer of modern love.”

Michael McCarthy, one of Britain’s leading writers on the environment, proposes a defence of a natural world which is increasingly threatened. He argues that nature is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services.

“ King takes on literature’s most famous detective with masterful aplomb. I loved it.”

INDEPENDENT

“ Articulated beautifully[…] his quest to track down every British butterfly as a tribute to his dead mother brought me to tears.”

ELIZABETH GEORGE, AUTHOR OF THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY SERIES

SUNDAY TIMES

SOP Availability

Narrated by

LAMP5

Antonia Beamish

LAMP10

Genre Saga

Genre

Duration

14.5 hours

ISBN 9780008152666

Laurence Bouvard Modern Fiction 8 hours

ISBN 9780008145996

LAMP10

TBC

LAMP10

Genre Mystery

Genre

Duration

11.25 hours

ISBN 9781510018471

Gordon Griffin Science & Nature 10 hours

ISBN 9781510012660

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

Lamplight

Robin Hood Yard

Whose Body?

The Girls Who Went to War

The Night in Question

Mark Sanderson

Dorothy L. Sayers

Duncan Barrett

Laurie Graham

“A gripping evocation of the sights, smells and murders of Thirties London.” telegraph

Enter the 1920s Golden Age of Detection with this first novel from Dorothy L. Sayers.

An inspiring tale written by Sunday Times bestsellers, Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi.

November, 1938. Johnny Steadman, investigative journalist, is called to the scene of a murder – a man has been tied to his bed, mutilated and left to bleed to death. When the Mayor of London is subjected to a vicious Anti-Semitic attack, Johnny begins to wonder if the two cases are connected. Soon, he uncovers a shocking conspiracy that could bring the United Kingdom to its knees. Will he live to tell the tale?

An unidentified corpse is found in a bathtub and the police are jumping to conclusions. It was the body of a tall stout man. On his dead face, a handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance… Lord Peter Wimsey knew immediately what the corpse was supposed to be, and with the help of his friend Inspector Parker, their problem is to find out whose body had found its way into Mr Alfred Thipps’ Battersea bathroom.

In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many. Clearly, in the fight against Hitler, manpower alone wasn’t going to be enough.

Laurie Graham brings to life the London of 1888 where, in the shadows, lurks the lacerating threat of the Ripper.

“ This tightly plotted tale of shifting personal and political allegiances moves at a brisk pace.”

“ I admire her novels… she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and a wonderful eye for detail.”

GUARDIAN

More than half a million women served in the armed forces during the Second World War. This book tells the story of just three of them. “ Important and inspiring.” DAME VERA LYNN

“ Literary treats don’t come much better… I loved this book and didn’t want to reach the end.”

RUTH RENDELL

“ Both emotionally believable and intriguing… undeniable page-turning appeal.”

DAILY MAIL ON THE GRAND DUCHESS OF NOWHERE

“ She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energ y and wit.”

FINANCIAL TIMES

Dot Allbones possessed little beauty and few prospects, so she was lucky to discover her talent – she can make people laugh. Now on London’s music hall stage, Dot feels she’s not done badly. Pretty Kate Eddowes was an unlikely childhood friend for Dot. An encounter on a London street, years later, makes it clear that Kate’s life has not gone according to plan. But this is Whitechapel in 1888 – the shadowy streets are no place for a desperate woman to wander…

“ A fascinating glimpse into a vanished world.”

P. D. JAMES

SUNDAY TIMES ON THE GRAND DUCHESS OF NOWHERE

SOP Availability

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LAMP10

TBC

LAMP10

Wanda McCaddon

LAMP5

TBC

LAMP5

Genre Crime

Genre Mystery

Genre History

Genre

Duration

7.75 hours

ISBN 9780008131111

6 hours

ISBN 9781510012677

11.75 hours

ISBN 9780008141547

Juanita McMahon Historical Fiction 11.5 hours

ISBN 9781510015999

DECEMBER

Lamplight

Water For Elephants

A Little Murder

The Christmas We Met

My Sister’s Secret

Sara Gruen

Suzette A. Hill

Kate Lord Brown

Tracy Buchanan

Now a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson.

A host of colourful and comic characters leap from the pages in the latest novel from highlypraised author, Suzette A. Hill.

A gorgeous tale about the secrets revealed by a collection of family jewels by internationally successful author, Kate Lord Brown.

An addictive, gripping and emotionally powerful novel from the author of The Atlas of Us.

London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John’s Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the crime and bringing meaning to her gruesome death and it seems her whole social circle have secrets to hide and grudges to bear.

When Grace Manners takes up residence on Wittering Manor estate, she little realises working alongside the eccentric Fraser Stratton will change her life. Grace has struggled to make ends meet and the little cottage on the estate is both a refuge and a workshop for her jewellery business. It’s only when Grace uncovers the story behind a diamond brooch she inherited that she becomes drawn into a family secret that threatens to destroy what little she has left…

Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. In the Depression Era, Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers ‘Most Spectacular Show on Earth’. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world: Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act; August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the circus’s animal trainer); and Rosie, the seemingly untrainable elephant Jacob cares for. “ This marvelously exciting and satisfying book has been given the engaging audio production it deserves.”

Who, for example, is the limping midnight visitor? Is the bibulous priest as ingenious as he seems? And will Mrs Burkiss ever yield her keys to the broom cupboard?

“ Sweepingly romantic… heartbreaking at times; a vivid, gripping read.”

“ A perfect mixture of funny and acerbic, with a cast of colourful characters and a school of well-deployed red herrings, A Little Murder is wholly delightful.”

AUDIOFILE

“ Water for Elephants is fun, sweet and thrilling and will pull you into the mysterious life of the circus so far that you won’t want to leave.”

“ An ambitious and deeply poignant story that will take you into another world.” “ Beautiful, heartbreaking, uplifting… Really worth a read.”

“ I found myself bewitched… a deliciously winding narrative that takes us into the heart of battle, the locked rooms of family secrets, and the alluring promise of finally finding true love.”

“ This dry, funny British gem, with its eccentric cast of characters, will leave readers laughing and eagerly awaiting the next.”

GUARDIAN

Willow is forced to question everything she knew about Charity, her late mother, and Hope, the aunt she’s lived with since she was a child. But who can she really trust? No one has been telling the truth.

HEAT ON THE ATLAS OF US

KATHERINE WEBB ON THE PERFUME GARDEN

LAURA WILSON, AUTHOR OF STRATTON’S WAR

Willow’s memories of her parents are sun-drenched and full of smiles, love and laughter. But a mysterious invitation to a photographic exhibition exposes a secret that’s been buried since a tragic accident years ago.

HELLO ON THE ATLAS OF US

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ON THE PERFUME GARDEN

PUBLISHERS’ WEEKLY

SOP Availability

Narrated by

Emma Gregory Modern Fiction

LAMP5

TBC

LAMP5

TBC

LAMP5

TBC

LAMP10

Genre Romance

Genre Crime

Genre Romance

Genre

Duration

11.5 hours

ISBN 9781510018501

10.25 hours

ISBN 9781510016026

13 hours

ISBN 9781510016019

10.5 hours

ISBN 9780008136697

DECEMBER

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Secrets She Left Behind

The Scoundrel and the Debutante

Loss of Innocence

Cromwell’s Blessing

Diane Chamberlain

Julia London

Richard North Patterson

Peter Ransley

An emotional family saga from bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult.

A thrilling regency romance, from bestselling author Julia London.

A sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968.

The price for a country. The price for a King. The price for a marriage. The dramatic story of Tom Neave continues…

America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane – spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha’s Vineyard – life could not be safer, nor the future more certain. But the Vineyard’s still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged, yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic young man, Blaine is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for.

1647: The King has surrendered to Parliament. Lord Stonehouse, to show his loyalty to Parliament, has named grandson Tom as his successor. But Lord Stonehouse’s son, Richard, is Tom’s estranged father and a Royalist. Parliament itself is deeply divided and King Charles tries to exploit the divisions between them. When Richard arrives from France with a commission to snatch the King from Parliamentary hands, he and Tom are set on a collision course.

“ This may be Richard North Patterson’s best work: surprising and different, yet with the same ability to penetrate the minds of others – especially women, which is a rare gift.”

“ An intelligent and imaginative tale of a pivotal year in English history.”

The sudden disappearance of Sara Weston is a mystery to her seventeen-year-old son, Keith. Keith is healing from an arson attack, and in Sara’s absence, he must face a challenging situation alone: the release of his half-sister, Maggie, from prison. Maggie, who was partially responsible for the fire. Somehow the two must find a way to overcome the past because Maggie and her family may be all Keith has left. “ [A] finely tuned family drama, with beautifully drawn characters and a string of twists that will keep you guessing right up to the end.”

The Cabot sisters had shocking plans to rescue their family from certain ruin and now Prudence Cabot is left standing in the rubble of scandal. Now regarded as an unsuitable bride, she’s tainted. Yet this unwilling wallflower is ripe for her own adventure. And when an irresistibly sexy American stranger on a desperate mission enlists her help, she simply can’t deny the temptation. “ Julia London strikes gold again. Warm, witty and decidedly wicked – great entertainment.” STEPHANIE LAURENS ON THE DEVIL TAKES A BRIDE

STYLIST

SUNDAY TIMES

STEPHEN FRY

“ Essential reading for Jodi Picoult fans.”

“ A snapshot of America at a pivotal moment in history, and a beautifully written coming-of-age novel.”

DAILY MAIL

ANTONIA FRASER

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Modern Fiction 13.5 hours

ISBN 9781510018570

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ISBN 9781510018549

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Historical Fiction 10.25 hours

ISBN 9781510016040

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Gordon Griffin Historical Fiction 12.75 hours

ISBN 9780008130237

OCTOBER

Avid

Avid An imprint dedicated to the increasingly popular genre fiction – specifically supernatural, horror, fantasy and sci‑fi. This quarter’s authors include Robin Hobb, Raymond E. Feist and Joe Abercrombie.

Rise of a Merchant Prince

Starborn

Raymond E. Feist

Lucy Hounsom

The second book in the bestselling Serpentwar series, following Shadow of a Dark Queen.

Death and destruction will bar her way…

After a harrowing brush with the armies of the Emerald Queen, Roo Avery is now free to choose his own destiny. But nothing can prepare him for the dangers of his new life, where the repayment of a debt can be as deadly as a knife in the shadows and betrayal is always close at hand. The war with the Emerald Queen is far from over and the inevitable confrontation will pose the biggest threat yet…

On the day Kyndra comes of age, she accidentally disrupts an ancient ceremony. So when an unnatural storm targets her superstitious community, Kyndra is blamed. She fears for her life until two strangers save her, wielding powers not seen for an age. Together, they flee to the hidden citadel of Naris, where Kyndra will be tested to unlock her own magic. If she survives the ordeal, she’ll discover a force greater than she could ever have imagined.

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

“ Evocative, original world-building and a wonderfully feisty heroine: top marks to Lucy Hounsom.”

WASHINGTON POST

KAREN MILLER

“ File under guilty pleasure.”

“ What a mix: immersive world-building, secret societies, a flawed and hugely likeable protagonist, and awesome magic. There’s a lot to like here, but be warned, this book will seriously damage your sleep.”

GUARDIAN

JOHN GWYNNE

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Peter Joyce Fantasy & Supernatural 18 hours

ISBN 9780008117399

AVID3 Genre Duration

Avita Jay

Fantasy & Supernatural 18.25 hours

ISBN 9781510009950

The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Whisperer in Darkness

Cibola Burn

Goblins

Fool’s Quest: Part One

H. P. Lovecraft

James S. A. Corey

Charles Grant

Robin Hobb

Two classic tales from the master of science fiction, H. P. Lovecraft.

The exhilarating fourth novel in the bestselling Expanse series, following the Hugo-nominated Abaddon’s Gate.

The first title in the X-Files audiobook series inspired by the classic and much-loved television series

“Hobb is one of the great modern fantasy writers.”

The rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity’s home planets. James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail. And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great civilisation which once stood here is gone. And that something killed them.

Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI – the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. These are the cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what’s really out there… and panics.

Avid

NOVEMBER

Avid

OCTOBER

The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Whisperer in Darkness are counted amongst H.P. Lovecraft’s most popular stories. In the first we are transported to the decrepit coastal town of Innsmouth, whose amphibianlike citizens betray a dark and sinister secret. The second takes us to Vermont, where a university professor becomes embroiled in a mindbending, celestial mystery after strange things are seen floating in the rivers. Dark, brooding and suspenseful, this is Lovecraft at his very best.

the times

“ Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be.”

Betrayed by his own people, the Fool has made his way back to the Six Duchies. But as Fitz attempts to heal his old friend in Buckkeep Castle, his young daughter Bee is abducted from Withywoods by pale and mysterious raiders. Fitz must find a way to rescue his beloved Bee. Can he bear to take up the tools of his old trade again, even to avenge his dearest friend and save his child? This is the second book in Robin Hobb’s Fitz and the Fool series. “ In today’s crowded fantasy market Robin Hobb’s books are like diamonds in a sea of zircons.”

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

“ A little slice of heaven.” GUARDIAN

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Science Fiction 6.25 hours

ISBN 9781510015661

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Science Fiction 21.5 hours

ISBN 9781510012721

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Fantasy & Supernatural 6.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014633

AVID3 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Action & Adventure 15.75 hours

ISBN 9780008146108

DECEMBER

Avid

Trigger Mortis

Coming soon

by Anthony Horowitz

Half A War

Time’s Eye

A Cold Silence

Joe Abercrombie

Arthur C. Clarke

Alison Littlewood

A classic coming-of-age tale set in a vivid and richly-imagined world from Sunday Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie.

Real power is beyond human control, and as two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting.

A chilling horror novel, the follow up to the Richard & Judy Book Club pick A Cold Season.

Princess Skara has been left with only words. She must conquer her fears and sharpen her wits to a lethal edge if she is to reclaim her birthright. The deep-cunning Father Yarvi has made allies of old foes and stitched together an uneasy peace. But now the ruthless Grandmother Wexen has raised the greatest army since the elves made war on God. And when Mother War spreads her iron wings, she may cast the whole Shattered Sea into darkness…

Firstborn are unknown to humankind – until they act. In an instant, Earth’s timeline is carved up and reassembled into a patchwork for different eras, from prehistory to the year 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these devices responsible for creating the rifts in time? Are they cameras? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still?

“ This is my favourite Abercrombie book yet.”

“ Rural village… an itchy tensioncranker of parental paranoia.” SFX ON A COLD SEASON

“ This is a very spooky story… Disturbing in a Midsomer Murders kind of way.”

“ Wonderfully entertaining… You won’t set the book down either to eat or sleep or work if you can help it.”

PATRICK ROTHFUSS

“ The action is frenetic, the characters are as sharp as the blades they wield, and the humour is biting. It’s sure to garner him a whole new legion of fans.”

Ben Cassidy has strict instructions from his mother Cass: he must never go back to Darnshaw, his childhood home. Then an old friend dies unexpectedly, and he breaks his promise to attend her funeral. But Jessica died because of a game, Acheron. It promises to grant your deepest desire – for a price. Friendship. A finger. A murder. Your soul. Acheron – Would You?

Featuring original material by Ian Fleming.

DAILY EXPRESS ON A COLD SEASON

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“ By the end, when two of history’s most ambitious conquerors meet, we are… thoroughly invested in the characters.”

DEREK LANDY

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

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Ben Elliot Fantasy & Supernatural 12.25 hours

ISBN 9780008143282

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TBC

Science Fiction 11.75 hours

ISBN 9781510016071

AVID3

Gareth Bennett-Ryan

Genre Horror Duration

Bond returns in a thrilling new adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

11.25 hours

ISBN 9781510016064

Available from January 2016

OCTOBER

Jammer

Jammer Commercial, mass-market fiction and non-fiction with a contemporary twist. This quarter features authors such as Trisha Ashley, Peter May and Scott Mariani.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths

The Third Woman

Kevin Dutton

Jonathan Freedland

A fascinating exploration into the mind of the psychopath – revealing what we can learn from it.

A chilling high-concept thriller from No. 1 bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland.

Psychopath. No sooner is the word out than images of murderers, suicide bombers and gangsters flash across our minds. But unlike their box-office counterparts, not all psychopaths are violent, or even criminal. In fact, they are fearless, confident, ruthless and focused – qualities tailormade for success in twenty-first-century society. In this groundbreaking adventure into the world of psychopaths, renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals a shocking truth: psychopaths have something to teach us.

Journalist Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she never thought she would be investigating her own sister’s murder. Then she uncovers evidence that suggests that Abi was the third victim in a series of killings that’s been hushed up as part of a major conspiracy. But the government dictates what the ‘truth’ is. With her life on the line, Madison must give up the story, or face the consequences…

“ The Wisdom of Psychopaths is a surprising, absorbing, and perceptive book… I found it altogether fascinating.” PHILIP PULLMAN

“ Dutton tackles an elusive, important and much neglected aspect of the mind; our personality. He presents some highly original insights and does so in a provocative and humorous style.” V. S. RAMACHANDRAN, AUTHOR OF THE TELL-TALE BRAIN

Jonathan Freedland has previously written bestselling thriller books under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. “ A propulsive, satisfying novel which burns with moral indignation.” GUARDIAN

“ Ingeniously constructed… a page-turner which maintains the tension.” OBSERVER

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David Timson Science Fiction 8.75 hours

ISBN 9781510009844

JAM5

Jennifer Woodward

Genre Crime Duration

13.75 hours

ISBN 9780007543489

OCTOBER

Jammer

All the Little Pieces

The Killing Room

The Insect Farm

Are You Watching Me?

Jilliane Hoffman

Peter May

Stuart Prebble

Sinéad Crowley

A gripping new psychological thriller from bestselling author Jilliane Hoffman.

The Killing Room is the third in the acclaimed China Thriller series from Peter May, author of The Lewis Man and The Chessmen.

Stuart Prebble’s eagerly awaited new novel The Insect Farm will linger long in the mind of its readers.

“Dear Elizabeth, I’ve been watching you. I hope to see you… Soon.”

Eighteen mutilated women in a Shanghai mass grave. But this is only the beginning of a horrific case for Investigator Li Yan and Mei Ling, Head of Shanghai’s Serious Crime squad. Ling is a formidable woman, and she appears to threaten Li Yan’s relationship with pathologist Margaret Campbell. But when Campbell discovers that the victims were subjected to live autopsies, she knows she’ll need all the help she can get.

Brothers Jonathan and Roger Maguire each have an obsession. For Jonathan, it is his girlfriend Harriet. For Roger, it is the elaborate universe he has constructed in a shed, populated by millions of tiny insects. But when their lives are abruptly shattered by a sudden and violent death, Jonathan is drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with the police. Does Roger know more than he is letting on?

“ A masterwork of sheer momentum… compelling.”

“ Only rarely do a gripping psychological crime story and a literary writer’s insight and masterful style coincide. But The Insect Farm has that distinction.”

As Faith Saunders drives home in the pouring rain, a young woman appears out of nowhere, pleading for help. With her daughter Maggie asleep in the backseat, Faith refuses to let the stranger in. When the missingperson posters go up, Faith’s guilt consumes her. She has one chance to convince a jury of what happened. If she fails, two killers will be set free. And they know exactly where to find Faith and her family… “ Guaranteed to follow in the best-selling footsteps of Cornwell, Reichs and Slaughter.” GUARDIAN

GLASGOW HERALD

“ Gripping, well-crafted suspense… a belter of a book.”

“ Stunningly original, highly topical and extremely well written.”

SUNDAY EXPRESS

SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

JEFFREY DEAVER

Rescued from her dark past by the owner of a drop-in centre for older men, Liz Cafferky soon finds herself as the charity’s face – and the unwilling darling of the Dublin media. Amidst her claustrophobic fame, Liz barely notices the letter. But then one of the centre’s clients is brutally murdered, and she receives another, more sinister note… Sinéad Crowley’s first novel was nominated for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year. “ Chilling, riveting and brilliantly written, you’ll be up reading this way into the night!” CLOSER

“ The opening few pages of The Insect Farm so grabbed me that I couldn’t stop reading. This is one of the most original, surprising, and even shocking suspense thrillers that I’ve come across in a long time.” DAVID MORRELL

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JAM5

Anne Wittman

JAM5

Peter Forbes

JAM5

Genre Crime

Genre

Duration

14 hours

ISBN 9780007566600

12.5 hours

ISBN 9781510009837

Peter Noble Modern Fiction 9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510009851

JAM10

Aoife McMahon

Genre Thriller Duration

9 hours

ISBN 9781510009875

OCTOBER

Jammer

The Caveman

The First Bad Man

Gun Street Girl

Kitchens of the Great Midwest

Jørn Lier Horst

Miranda July

Adrian McKinty

J. Ryan Stradal

Only three houses away from the policeman’s home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months.

Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, and infused with fierce maternal love

The fourth in the Sean Duffy series by acclaimed crime writer Adrian McKinty.

Cheryl; a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman who lives alone, haunted by a baby boy. When Cheryl’s bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl’s eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee – the selfish, cruel blond bombshell – who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime.

Belfast, 1985. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy is initially left cold by the murder of a wealthy couple, shot dead while watching TV. And when their troubled son commits suicide, leaving a note that takes responsibility for the deaths, the case is closed. But something doesn’t add up. Soon Duffy is on the trail of a mystery that will take him into the white-hot heart of the biggest political scandal of the decade.

A joyful, quirky and heartwarming novel about the family you lose, the friends you make and chance connections that can define a life.

Viggo Hansen was a man nobody ever noticed, even though he lived in the midst of a close-knit community. His death doesn’t hit the headlines, but there is something about the case that catches the attention of William Wisting’s journalist daughter, Line, and she decides to write a newspaper article with a different twist for the festive season: the portrait of a completely anonymous and obscure person whose death goes unremarked and unmourned. “ Horst’s beautifully paced and compelling narrative ensnares the reader as it unveils the darkest side of human nature.”

“ The First Bad Man brings together all of July’s talents – it’s a book that must be read, a book that must be purchased – in duplicate – one for you, one for a friend. Don’t think you can loan this book – you’ll never get it back” A. M. HOMES

CARO RAMSEY

“ The Caveman is not just an intriguing, fast-paced thriller, but a thoughtful meditation on loneliness, and a moving testament to the value of each and every human life.”

“ A superb satire of its time and place.”

Who is Eva Thorvald? To her single father, a chef, she’s a recipe tester and the love of his life. To the chilli chowdown contestants of Cook County, Illinois, she’s a fire-eating demon. She’s an enigma, and when we first meet her, she’s ten, secretly cultivating chilli peppers in her wardrobe. Over the years, the people she meets will shape her – and she, them – in ways unforgettable, riotous and profound. “ A charming, fast-moving round robin tale of food, sensuality and Midwestern culture, Mr Stradal has delivered one extremely tasty, well- seasoned debut.”

IRISH TIMES

“ Adrian McKinty is back with the same perceptive commentary on social conditions and an acute awareness of political realities in the Belfast of the eighties.”

JANET FITCH, AUTHOR OF WHITE OLEANDER

IRISH INDEPENDENT

NICOLA UPSON

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JAM10

Genre Thriller

Genre

Duration

10 hours

ISBN 9781510009905

Miranda July Modern Fiction 8 hours

ISBN 9781510009899

JAM10

TBC

JAM10

Genre Crime

Genre

Duration

9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510009868

Caitlin Thorburn Modern Fiction 11.75 hours

ISBN 9781510009882

NOVEMBER

Jammer

Jammer I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That

The Martyr’s Curse

The Things We Do for Love

Blood Mist

Ben Goldacre

Scott Mariani

Alice Peterson

Mark Roberts

The very best journalism from one of Britain’s most admired and outspoken science writers.

The exhilarating and addictive new thriller in the Ben Hope series by the master bestseller, Scott Mariani.

“This is a feelgood book you won’t be able to put down.” irish independent

“A genuinely innovative crime writer with a taste for the macabre and unexpected.” daily mail

It’s enrolment night for ‘Life Drawing for Beginners’ and each of the prospective students has their own reason for being there…

Two massacred families, with signs of ritual killings. A nine-year-old-child, abandoned in the snow. As Liverpool holds its breath, DCI Eve Clay hunts a sadistic killer who knows more about her past than she does. Her search will take her deep into the tunnels beneath Liverpool, boarded up and forgotten since World War Two. There, deep underground, she will come face to face with true evil for the first time.

In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. This is a collection of the best of his journalism from one of our wittiest, most indignant and most fearless commentators on the worlds of medicine and science. “ You’ll laugh your head off, then throw all those expensive health foods in the bin.” OBSERVER

Ex-SAS major Ben Hope has found sanctuary in a remote monastery in the French Alps. But when a team of merciless killers slaughter the innocent monks Ben’s revenge quest draws him into a bewildering mystery of stolen treasure, deception and murder. As he works to unravel the clues he is confronted with a terrifying reality that threatens to cruelly reshape the future of humanity. What is the significance of an ancient curse dating back to a heretical burning?

“ This book is like chatting with a friend over a cup of tea – full of gossip and speculation, and all the things that make life interesting.”

“ Slick, serpentine and very, very entertaining… If you’ve got a pulse, you’ll love Scott Mariani.”

“ This is a book to make you enraged – properly, boneshakingly furious… A work of brilliance.”

SIMON TOYNE

DAILY TELEGRAPH

For friends Meg, Anna and Fiona the class is a welcome distraction: Anna’s husband has just left her for a younger woman, Fiona has just found out that she’s pregnant but has to ask herself the reason why she hasn’t told her husband yet, while Meg is just there to support her friends – or is she?

“ Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart… Scott Mariani packs a real punch.” ANDY MCDERMOTT

“ A sprawling, gritty, violent, tribal crime epic with a deeply rooted sense of place and a gut-punch ending.” C. J. BOX

“ Not only a fine debut, but a fine mystery novel, period. I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.”

THE IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY

“ Meaney weaves wonderful, feelgood tale of a consistently high standard. And that standard rises with each book she writes.”

JOHN CONNOLLY

IRISH EXAMINER

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Jot Davies General Non Fiction 12.75 hours

ISBN 9780008103866

JAM5 Genre Duration

Colin Mace Action & Adventure 11.75 hours

ISBN 9780008136758

JAM5

Julia Barrie

JAM5

TBC

Genre Romance

Genre Crime

Duration

11.5 hours

ISBN 9781510012462

9.25 hours

ISBN 9781510012479

NOVEMBER

Jammer

Daunderlust

Blood Relatives

Before He Finds Her

Left of the Bang

Peter Ross

Stevan Alcock

Michael Kardos

Claire Lowdon

Narrated by Bafta Award winning actor Robbie Coltrane, star of Harry Potter and Cracker.

An incredible novel: a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders.

She’s only alive because he thinks she’s already dead…

Powerful, radically honest and very, very funny, this is the best novel yet about the ‘lost generation’ of young Londoners today.

Peter Ross’s articles from around Scotland provide a piece-by-piece portrait of a nation as it changes. They show Scotland as she really is, a hopeful country not without problems and pain, but a nation made great by the people who live, love, laugh and graft there. From anatomists who find dissection beautiful to chip-shop owners who sing arias while serving fish suppers, the Scots in these pages come over as eccentric, humorous, moving and extraordinary. A six time winner at the Scottish Press Awards, Peter Ross is one of Scotland’s best feature writers.

Leeds, late 1975 and a body has been found on Prince Philip Playing Fields. Ricky, teenage delivery van boy for Corona pop, will be late for The Matterhorn Man. In the years that follow until his capture, the Yorkshire Ripper and Rick’s own life draw ever closer with unforeseen consequences. Set in a time in England’s history of upheaval and change – both personal and social – this is a story told in an unforgettable voice. “ Refreshing, even radical… Blood Relatives could never be accused of being dull.” GUARDIAN

“ The impression left by Daunderlust is of a nation teeming with vibrancy, character and individuality.”

For failing concert pianist Tamsin Jarvis, the pressure is mounting. She thinks she is happy with her adoring schoolteacher boyfriend Callum, but when Chris comes into their lives, that starts to change. In a few months Chris will be gone, leaving for his first tour of Afghanistan. Nothing seems to be working out the way Tamsin wants it to – in fact, she’s not even sure what it is she wants. “ A remarkably compelling and shrewd look at the way we live now. Clear-eyed, audacious and disarmingly honest.” WILLIAM BOYD

“ A novel as human as it is suspenseful, as patient as it is thrilling.”

RACHEL CUSK

“ A book of extraordinary depth… a gently inspiring testament to the truth.”

“ Brilliant. Before He Finds Her is one of the most innovative and compelling thrillers to come along in recent years.” JEFFREY DEAVER

“ Blood Relatives is full of daring, authenticity and wit. It is a work of brutal, hilarious poetry.”

ALASTAIR MABBOTT, THE HERALD

Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a party, then murdered his wife and three-year-old daughter and disappeared. But everyone is wrong. Ramsey’s daughter got away. Meg, now known as Melanie, is nearly eighteen and sick of hiding. Melanie’s determined to confront her father, but can she find him before he finds her?

“ Lowdon flies deftly between the perspective of each character and it is here that her talent really lies… She takes time with the fears and hopes of each one, conjuring up a tension that builds painfully slowly.”

GREGG HURWITZ

THE TIMES

HUGH MACDONALD, SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS

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Robbie Coltrane General Non Fiction 9 hours

ISBN 9781510012486

JAM10

TBC

JAM10

TBC

JAM10

Genre Crime

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Duration

10.25 hours

ISBN 9780008130459

10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510012493

TBC

Modern Fiction 11 hours

ISBN 9780008146993

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

Jammer

Freedom’s Child

The Accident

Every Woman for Herself Killing Ways

Jax Miller

C. L. Taylor

Trisha Ashley

Alex Barclay

A heart-stopping thriller about a woman, who will stop at nothing to save her daughter.

A gripping psychological thriller about the deadly secrets your children can keep.

A hilarious account of divorce and dating from Sunday Times bestseller, Trisha Ashley.

There’s a lot people don’t know about Freedom Oliver. They don’t know that Freedom is not her real name. That she has spent the last eighteen years living under Witness Protection. That she put her two children up for adoption. Then Freedom’s daughter goes missing, and everything changes. Tracked by her husband’s sadistic family, who are thirsty for revenge, as she gets closer to the truth, Freedom faces an even more dangerous threat.

Sue Jackson has the perfect family, but when her teenage daughter Charlotte deliberately steps in front of a bus and ends up in a coma she is forced to face a new reality. Retracing her daughter’s steps she finds a horrifying entry in Charlotte’s diary. In her hunt for evidence, Sue begins to mistrust everyone and is forced to look further, into the depths of her own past. What if she is the reason that Charlotte is in danger?

When Charlie’s husband Matt tells her he wants a divorce she has to start from scratch. Single, broke and approaching 40 she is forced to return to her childhood home. Charlie finds her new life refreshing. Now that she’s single she’s got no need to be the perfect wife.

An intense and gripping thriller from bestselling author Alex Barclay, this is Ren Bryce’s most shocking case yet…

“ Original, compelling and seriously recommended.” LEE CHILD

“ An enjoyable rollercoaster of a suspense novel with multiple twists.”

“ One of the best writers around!” “ A warm-hearted and comforting read.”

“ Utterly compelling. I could not put this gripping, heart-stopping page-turner down.”

KARIN SLAUGHTER

Together, can they defeat this monster? Or will he take them both down? “ The rising star of the hard-boiled crime fiction world, combining wild characters, surprising plots and massive backdrops with a touch of dry humour.”

KATIE FFORDE

DAILY MAIL

“ A terrific read from a powerful new voice.”

But just as she begins to feel settled, handsome, badtempered actor, Mace North, moves in nearby and starts mixing things up in more ways than one…

FBI Special Agent Ren Bryce takes on a depraved serial killer fueled by a warped sense of justice. A master of evasion, each life he takes ramps up Ren’s obsession with finding him. Then one victim changes everything and brings Ren face to face with a detective whose life was destroyed by the same pursuit.

CAROLE MATTHEWS

MIRROR

ROWAN COLEMAN

“ [Her] twists never feel forced; and the denouement, when it comes, is almost unbearably intense and shocking.” IRISH INDEPENDENT

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Laurence Bouvard

JAM10

Jenny Funnell

JAM5

Genre Thriller

Genre Crime

Genre

Duration

10.5 hours

ISBN 9780008145873

9.75 hours

ISBN 9780008138219

TBC

Modern Fiction 9 hours

ISBN 9780008129309

JAM5

TBC

Genre Crime Duration

10.75 hours

ISBN 9780008153014

DECEMBER

Jammer

The Blue

Post Mortem

Solomon Creed

The Redeemers

Lucy Clarke

Kate London

Simon Toyne

Ace Atkins

Gripping and unpredictable, The Blue is the newest novel from Richard & Judy pick Lucy Clarke.

A complex, intelligent, thrilling crime novel by an author who has walked the beat.

The first in an electrifying new thriller series from Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Toyne. Perfect for fans of Lee Child and The Bourne Identity.

An electrifying crime novel from bestselling author Ace Atkins set in the real Deep South.

With a quick spin of the globe, Kitty and Lana escape their grey reality and journey to the Philippines. There they discover ‘The Blue’ – a beautiful yacht, with a wandering crew. But the tide turns when death creeps quietly on deck. A dangerous swell of mistrust and lies threatens to bring the crew’s adventures to an end – but some won’t let paradise go… whatever the price. “ Kept me guessing, and wanderlusting, all the way through… the ultimate holiday read.” EMYLIA HALL

A long-serving beat cop in the Met and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in London’s East End. Left alive on the roof are a five year old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths. Within hours, Lizzie has disappeared, and DPS officer Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth around the grisly deaths, in an investigation which takes her into the dark heart of policing in London. Kate London is a former police officer in the Metropolitan Police Service. Like all police officers she started in uniform, and then moved into the CID as a detective constable. “ Intelligent, atmospheric, captivating – this book draws you in and doesn’t let you go. A must read.”

“ Beautifully written… a gripping page turner.” GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Who is Solomon Creed? A plane crashes in the Arizona desert. One lone figure emerges alive from the wreckage. He has no memory of his past, and no idea of his future. He only knows he must save a man. But how do you save someone who is already dead?

He is only in his early 30s, but now Quinn Colson is jobless – voted out of office as sheriff, thanks to county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers from bigger and better places, but before he goes, he’s got one more job to do – bring down Stagg’s criminal operations. At least that’s the plan… “ Atkins can run rings around most of the names in the crime field.” ELMORE LEONARD

“ Among the best current thrillers.”

“ Atkins is one of the finest crime and thriller writers working today.”

SUNDAY EXPRESS

“ Intriguing and engaging… Relentless pace. An exciting and interesting read.”

DAILY MAIL

SUN

ROSAMUND LUPTON

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Scarlett Mack Modern Fiction 10.75 hours

ISBN 9780008146061

JAM5

Antonia Beamish

JAM5

Joseph Balderrama

JAM10

TBC

Genre Crime

Genre Thriller

Genre Crime

Duration

11.25 hours

ISBN 9781510018976

13.25 hours

ISBN 9780008121273

11 hours

ISBN 9781510018945

DECEMBER

Jammer

Baby Love

Run, Mummy, Run

Body of Lies

The Wallcreeper

Maureen Carter

Cathy Glass

David Ignatius

Nell Zink

The third title in a series of crime novels starring DS Bev Morriss.

A gripping story of abuse and escape from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

The book behind the major motion picture starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Russell Crowe.

A good police officer doesn’t get emotional, but some cases just make you want to cry… Taken off a high-profile rape investigation to lead the hunt for a missing baby, Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is torn professionally and personally. When the baby-snatching turns into something more sinister it forces Bev to face uncomfortable feelings of her own – and when she takes her eye off the ball for a split second, she finds herself in serious trouble.

When Aisha spots an ad for a ‘personal introductory service for professionals’ in the newspaper, she could never have guessed it would lead to such a perfect marriage. But you should be careful what you wish for.

Roger Ferris is one of the CIA’s soldiers in the war on terrorism. He left Iraq with a shattered leg and a mission – to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as ‘Suleiman’. But when his scheme begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan’s intelligence service. But can Ferris trust him?

Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before – this is one of the most exciting novels published this year.

Maureen Carter is the creator of two critically acclaimed crime series.

“ A moving read that Cathy Glass fans will devour.”

Soon she is trapped in a cycle of horrific abuse and imprisonment. With two young children to protect, Aisha must draw on what strength she has left to find an escape.

THE SUN

“ Listeners are in for a treat… [Dick] Hill’s performances… add dimension, subtlety, shading, and a master narrator’s finesse to the work as a whole.” AUDIOFILE

“ A hugely touching and emotional true tale.”

The Wallcreeper is nothing more than a portrait of marriage, complete with all its requisite highs and lows: drugs, dubstep, small chores, birding, breeding and feeding. “ Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range.”

“ Body of Lies is fiction but reads like fact. CIA officers admire Ignatius because more than any other writer he understands the nuances of their trade. Fascinating.”

STAR MAGAZINE

Interlaken, Berne, 21st century. Several things happen after the car hits the rock. Tiff ceases to be pregnant. Stephen captures the most wonderful bird – fleet, stealthy, and beautiful – a real ‘lifer’. And the wallcreeper, the wallcreeper says “twee”.

JONATHAN FRANZEN

“ The most exciting debut novel I’ve read recently.” GUARDIAN

GEORGE TENET, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR

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Genre Crime

Genre

Duration

9.25 hours

ISBN 9781510015098

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Modern Fiction 10 hours

ISBN 9780008129927

JAM10

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JAM10

Laurence Bouvard

Genre Thriller

Genre Literature

Duration

12.25 hours

ISBN 9781510018990

5 hours

ISBN 9780008143213

OCTOBER

Jammer Teen

Jammer Teen Ideal for engaging teenagers, whether new or voracious readers. Including authors such as Darren Shan and Virginia Bergin. The titles we select will also be popular with many adults.

The Storm

One of Us

Virginia Bergin

Jeannie Waudby

In this sequel to The Rain Ruby’s fight for survival continues in a world where the rain is deadly.

Two sides. No choice.

Three months after the killer rain first fell, Ruby is beginning to realise that she cannot survive alone. When a chance encounter lands her back in the army camp, Ruby thinks she is safe. But being safe has a price, and if Ruby wants to stay she must keep her eyes – and her mouth – shut. “ A gripping- page turner with moments of surreal humour and great tenderness – not to mention dread as the raindrops fall.”

When sixteen-year-old K narrowly survives a bomb attack, she agrees to cross the line: to go under cover, befriending the radical young group held responsible. But it’s hard making friends when you’re lying. And what K discovers is far from black and white. Even enemies become real people – and one boy is special. Can she ever tell him who she really is? Can love unite them all? “ There are echoes of Orwell and Kafka in this tense thriller, which thoroughly respects its readers’ intelligence.” LOVEREADING4KIDS

BOOKSELLER ON THE RAIN

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Avita Jay

JAMT2

Melody Grove

Genre Thriller

Duration

10.75 hours

ISBN 9781510009974

10 hours

ISBN 9781510009967

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

Jammer Teen

Only Ever Yours

The Vampire’s Assistant

The Lost and the Found

Fire Colour One

Louise O’Neill

Darren Shan

Cat Clarke

Jenny Valentine

Winner of the Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and shortlisted for the Young Adult Book Prize 2015.

“Fast-paced and full of macabre touches.” j. k. rowling

Can everything truly be found again?

A bold and brilliant novel for young adults about love, lies and redemption, from awardwinning author, Jenny Valentine.

freida and isabel have been best friends their whole lives. Now, aged sixteen, they expect to be selected as companions – wives to wealthy and powerful men. But as the intensity of the final year takes hold, isabel starts to self-destruct. And then into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. freida must fight for her future, even if it means betraying the only friend she has ever known…

Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy until his visit to Cirque du Freak. Now, as he struggles with his new life as a vampire’s assistant, he tries desperately to resist the one temptation that sickens him, the one thing that can keep him alive. But destiny is calling: The Wolf Man is waiting. “ Shan is uncannily skilful in sucking readers into his macabre world.”

“ Clarke excels at genuine page-turners with a heart of darkness and I read this in one greedy sitting.”

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

“ A dark dream. A vivid nightmare. The world O’Neill imagines is frightening because it could come true. She writes with a scalpel.”

When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger sister. Faith’s childhood was dominated by Laurel’s disappearance, and her parents’ broken marriage. Thirteen years later, a young woman is found in the garden of the Logans’ old house, disorientated. Laurel is home at last, safe and sound. But before long Faith begins to wonder if everything that’s lost can be found again…

Iris’s father, Ernest, is at the end of his life and she hasn’t even met him. Her best friend, Thurston, is somewhere on the other side of the world. Everything she thought she knew is up in flames. Now her mother means to get her hands on Ernest’s priceless art collection. But Ernest has other ideas. There are things he wants Iris to know after he’s gone. And the truth has more than one way of coming to light. “ A beautifully written story, soaked in love and important things.”

BOOKSELLER

STEVEN CAMDEN, AUTHOR OF TAPE

JEANETTE WINTERSON

“ Stunning. Rich in prose, with a profound depth to the characters and themes. Extremely moving.”

“ Utterly magnificent… gripping, accomplished and dark.” MARIAN KEYES

SARAH LEAN, AUTHOR OF A DOG CALLED HOMELESS

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Emma Weaver

JAMT2

Genre Thriller

Genre

Duration

9.5 hours

ISBN 9781510012745

TBC

Fantasy & Supernatural 5 hours

ISBN 9781510018778

JAMT2 Genre Duration

Jane Collingwood Modern Fiction 9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510016088

JAMT2 Genre Duration

Lucy Middleweek Modern Fiction 5 hours

ISBN 9780008143916

OCTOBER

Doctor Who

Doctor Who A new Standing Order Plan for 2015–16. Official BBC full-cast dramas, with music and sound effects in stereo, featuring former doctors including Colin Baker, Peter Davison and Paul McGann.

Three’s a Crowd

Unregenerate!

Colin Brake

David A. Mcintee

On an almost lifeless planet, Earth Colony Phoenix is struggling to survive. The colonists, utterly dependent on technology and unable to leave the security of their Habitat Domes, have developed severe agoraphobia. The TARDIS crew arrive on an apparently abandoned space station and soon discover that they and the remaining colonists are in the gravest danger. To survive, the Doctor, Peri and Erimen must uncover the colony’s darkest secrets before it is too late.

In a run-down asylum, screams echo in the halls as mysterious creatures roam, terrorising the staff. Patients complain of betrayal rather than illness, and no-one is quite what they seem. Why does a medical facility need to be under armed guard? What procedures are the staff carrying out, and to what purpose? As the answers begin to be uncovered, the Doctor finds that the past may yet come back to haunt him…

Something inhuman is stalking the Colony… and it’s hungry!

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Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.75 hours

ISBN 9781781787779

DRCD3 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.75 hours

ISBN 9781785750007

OCTOBER

Doctor Who

The Council of Nicaea

Death in Blackpool

Worldwide Web

The Eight Truths

Caroline Symcox

Alan Barnes

Eddie Robson

The year is 325AD. In the city of Nicaea, the first great Church council, called by the Roman Emperor Constantine, is due to begin. The Doctor, Peri and Erimem are there simply to watch events unfold. But none of them are ready for what greets them in Nicaea Even in the face of murder and injustice, the time travellers must force themselves to stay apart. Yet what is history to one person is the future to another. Is it possible for history to be rewritten?

Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her mam running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Her dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner. And in the afternoon, Aunty Pat, haring up to the house on the back of a moped weighed down with ridiculous presents. Christmas 2009 didn’t turn out like that. Christmas 2009, the Doctor turned up…

Thanks to the Eightfold Truth, Metebelis crystals cover the Earth, and the Eight Legs, giant spiders from that distant world, are poised to take control of the planet. As the Doctor attempts to deal with the invasion, Lucie Miller finds herself playing host to the Great One. Can she break free of the spider leader’s control, or will she be lost forever?

London, 2015: The Doctor’s looking for a lost space probe. Lucie Miller’s feeling just plain lost. A chance encounter with an old sparring partner leads Lucie to the Eightfold Truth – a bunch of crystal-bearing cranks who reckon a rebel sun is on its way to purge the Earth. The apocalypse is upon us. The Doctor races to unmask the Eightfold Truth – and uncovers an old and deadly enemy.

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Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.75 hours

ISBN 9781785750014

DRCD6 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.25 hours

ISBN 9781785750205

DRCD6 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.25 hours

ISBN 9781785750182

DRCD6 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1 hours

ISBN 9781785750168

NOVEMBER

Doctor Who

Terror Firma

Live 34

Thicker Than Water

Leviathan

Joseph Lidster

James Parsons

Paul Sutton

Brian Finch

Centuries ago on the war-torn planet Skaro a great scientist created the most evil creatures the Universe would ever know… Daleks. It was at their genesis that the scientist, Davros, first met and was defeated by the Doctor. Except Davros survived. Alone. In the dark. With only thoughts of revenge keeping him alive. The Doctor is back. Davros is waiting. Their destiny is now.

“LIVE 34. Sport, weather, business, local news, interplanetary affairs. Live, independent, accurate, comprehensive. Reports are coming in of an explosion… On the line now is the leader of the FDP… The President is about to begin his address… We can see bodies in the wreckage…”

Three years after Világ was all but laid waste by the Killorans, the Doctor is back. Now elected Principle Triumvir, head of a tripartite government, is working to secure a peaceful future for the planet. But he has to contend with opposition from his daughter, Sofia, who heads a public campaign demanding the destruction of all alien artefacts. Emotions soon boil over into violence, a violence that seems to have gripped the entire city.

No one lives to old age in the village. When their Time is come, they are taken and never seen again. And, should anyone try to break with the established order of things, then the fury of Herne the Hunter is unleashed. When the TARDIS materializes near a castle in this mediaeval society, the Doctor and Peri befriend Gurth, a terrified youth who is attempting to flee his fate. And Herne is closing in…

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Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.5 hours

ISBN 9781785750021

DRCD3 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.75 hours

ISBN 9781785750045

DRCD3 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.5 hours

ISBN 9781785750038

DRCD6 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.75 hours

ISBN 9781781781821

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

Doctor Who

Mission to Magnus

The Nightmare Fair

Other Lives

Scaredy Cat

Philip Martin

Graham Williams

Gary Hopkins

Will Schindler

The Doctor and Peri face enemies at every turn on the planet Magnus. Also on Magnus is the slug-like Sil, still bitter from his defeat on the planet Varos and seeking to make his fortune from the most potentially destructive ends. And, deep within the planet, there is something else. Another old enemy of the Doctor’s. And the future is looking decidedly colder…

The TARDIS has been drawn to Blackpool in the year 1985, where the Doctor intends to investigate a dangerous space/time vortex… while enjoying some local attractions along the way. But an old enemy is watching from his base deep within the amusement park, a timeless being who craves revenge.

London, 1851. While the Doctor and Charley are drawn into the murky world of nineteenth-century politics, C’rizz struggles to maintain his dignity against growing odds. What begins as an attempt to prevent murder quickly becomes a desperate race to avert revolution. Separated from the TARDIS, the travellers are left to wonder if they’ll get their own lives back or be forever entangled with the lives of others.

Millennia ago, the people of the planet Caludaar pledged never to set foot on their sister planet Endarra. But what secrets does the planet hold? There are laws even the Doctor won’t break. And while C’rizz learns that some tragedies can’t be averted, Charley must decide who the enemy actually is. For death walks on Endarra, and this time she won’t be denied.

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Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.75 hours

ISBN 9781781781807

The Celestial Toymaker has returned. The game is on. And, should he lose, the Doctor will pay the ultimate forfeit…

DRCD6 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.75 hours

ISBN 9781781781784

DRCD3 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 2 hours

ISBN 9781785750076

DRCD3 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1.25 hours

ISBN 9781785750052

DECEMBER

Doctor Who

Singularity

White Ghosts

The King of Sontar

The Crooked Man

James Swallow

Alan Barnes

John Dorney

The Somnus Foundation knows the fate of mankind; they promise a tomorrow where humanity will evolve into a godlike form of infinite power. They will lead us there, to a destiny that spans the stars. This is how the future will unfold. Beneath the towering headquarters of the Somnus in the streets of Moscow, a dark power is building, and a conspiracy that stretches across eternity is nearing completion.

A planet so dark that it exists in near-permanent night. A planet that enjoys just a single day’s light once every thousand years. Exactly what happens on the planet in its rare daylight hours – that’s what a geographical survey headed by Senior Tutor Bengel is stationed here to establish. They, the Doctor and Leela are about to discover that when daylight comes, the White Ghosts rise…

Dowcra base. The third Elite Sontaran Assassination Squad closes in on its target. A dozen trained killers, but even they will be unable to bring down the invincible Strang. Manipulated by the Time Lords, the TARDIS also arrives on Dowcra. And the Doctor is set to encounter the greatest Sontaran ever cloned…

When they stumble across a grotesque series of murders at the coast, the TARDIS travellers realise the local constabulary is out of its depth. Something supernatural has come to town, something evil. And it all seems to be tied in to a particular young family. Monsters lurk behind strange doors. Tragic secrets wait to be uncovered. And somewhere, deep within, the Crooked Man sits. He is waiting for you.

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Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 2 hours

ISBN 9781785750069

DRCD6 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1 hours

ISBN 9781785750120

DRCD6 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1 hours

ISBN 9781785750113

DRCD6 Genre Duration

Multiple Narrators Science Fiction 1 hours

ISBN 9781785750137

OCTOBER

Blackstone

My Ántonia

Invisible Murder

Willa Cather

Lene Kaaberbøl

“She is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s greatest American writers.” observer

The second instalment in the bestselling series starring Nina Borg, following the bestselling The Boy in the Suitcase.

Through Jim Burden’s endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature’s most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Àntonia’s desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Len Lingard. Holding the pastoral society’s heart, of course, is the bewitching, free spirited Àntonia.

Blackstone A new Standing Order Plan for 2015–16, representing internationally bestselling American authors across a variety of genres. This quarter includes James Sallis, Lee Goldberg and Saul Bellow.

“ Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic.”

In the ruins of an abandoned Soviet military hospital in Hungary, two impoverished Roma boys are scavenging for old weapons to sell, when they stumble upon something significantly more valuable. Meanwhile, in Denmark, Red Cross nurse Nina Borg puts her life on the line when she tries to treat a group of Hungarian Gypsies who are living illegally in a Copenhagen garage. What are they hiding? And what is making them so sick? “ Fans of Nordic crime fiction, rejoice: something is rotten in Denmark.”

HELEN DUNMORE

NEW YORK POST

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Genre Classics

Genre Crime

Duration

7.25 hours

ISBN 9781510010017

11.25 hours

ISBN 9781510009981

A Separate Peace

The Geraldi Trail

Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu

The Long-Legged Fly

John Knowles

Max Brand

Lee Goldberg

James Sallis

Widely regarded as a classic of American literature, A Separate Peace is John Knowles’ masterpiece.

This is Max Brand at his storytelling best, introducing one of his most intriguing characters – whose adventures are only just beginning.

Based on the award-winning television series, Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu will appeal to anyone who enjoys lighthearted, comedic whodunits.

From the renowned author of Drive, and the winner of Edgar, Anthony, Agatha awards for best novel, James Sallis.

Monk is horrified to hear about the blue flu affecting San Francisco’s police department, until he discovers that it is part of contract talks with the city. And he is delighted when the situation gives him the opportunity to get back on the force to catch the killer of an astrologer and solve a series of fatal assaults.

There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night – and it is part time Private Investigator and blues aficionado Lew Griffin’s job to find them. A prisoner of the bottle, Griffin knows every hidden corner of Hell. But the disappearance of a militant woman activist is about to carry the brilliant, tormented P.I. ever closer to a nightmare that threatens to hit him where he lives… and more brutally than he ever imagined possible.

Blackstone

NOVEMBER

Blackstone

OCTOBER

Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War Two, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. “ Exceptional power and distinction.”

James Geraldi thought he was finally getting his life in order – he was square with the law and ready to settle down with his beautiful fiancée, Mary. Yet the thief who only stole from other thieves finds himself in trouble again when an old friend rides into town with a posse hot on his tail. Now wanted both by the law and the hardcases he’s robbed, he must appease his bride-to-be while evading his most dangerous enemy. “ This is vintage Brand, and it’s certain to please fans of the traditional western.”

THE TIMES

“ A model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written.”

“ Not so much a detective story as a story about a detective… but one that exploits the conventions of the genre with quietly distinctive power.”

BARNES & NOBLE

BOOKLIST

OBSERVER

“ Goldberg’s succinct writing style – with an emphasis on witty dialogue, laugh-out-loud hijinks, and nonstop action – will make a devoted Monk fan of anyone who picks up this surprisingly entertaining read.”

KIRKUS REVIEW

“ Effectively meets the challenges of translating the screen concept to the page… conveying both the sleuth’s quirks and his genius.”

“ Brand is one of the top three western novelists of all time.” TOMBSTONE EPITAPH

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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Historical Fiction 6.25 hours

ISBN 9781510009998

BKCD3

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Genre Western

Genre Crime

Duration

8.5 hours

ISBN 9781510012783

7.25 hours

ISBN 9781510012776

4.5 hours

ISBN 9781510012790

DECEMBER

Blackstone

The Victim

A Gate at the Stairs

Oil!

Saul Bellow

Lorrie Moore

Upton Sinclair

A complex and fascinating novel about responsibility, community and maturity from award-winning author, Saul Bellow.

A Gate at the Stairs is the most acclaimed novel from one of America’s most brilliant, awardwinning writers.

The book that inspired the Oscar winning film There Will Be Blood.

Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a downat-heel stranger in the park one day and finds himself being accused of ruining the man’s life, he half believes it. He can’t shake the man loose, can’t stop himself becoming trapped in a mire of self doubt, can’t help becoming… a victim.

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a ‘half-Jewish’ farmer’s daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university – escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics.

“ A kind of Dostoyevskian nightmare… written with unusual power and insight.”

When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. “ A masterly work… alternating between the playful and the tragic… replays commonplace observations from everyday life in new and subversive ways.”

NEW YORK TIMES

“ Anything by Bellow is worth a dozen other novels.” SPECTATOR

Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair’s story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organisers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel. “ A tremendous piece of work.”

Official BBC full-cast dramas with sound effects

NATION

“ A marvelous panorama of Southern California life. It is storytelling with an edge on it.” NEW REPUBLIC

INDEPENDENT

“ A masterpiece.” DAILY MAIL

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Genre Literature

Genre

Duration

9.5 hours

ISBN 9781510016101

TBC

Modern Fiction 12 hours

ISBN 9781510016118

BKCD3

TBC

Genre Literature Duration

A new standing order plan for 2015 – 2016

20 hours

ISBN 9781510016095

See page 45 for the collection

OCTOBER

Playaway clipper

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

The Sudden Departure of The Frasers

All the Single Ladies

The Watched

Louise Candlish

Jane Costello

Casey Hill

Welcome to Lime Park Road. A picture-perfect street with a secret at its heart.

Be careful what you wish for…

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

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.”

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? 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.”

Casey Hill is the pseudonym of husband and wife writing team Melissa and Kevin Hill. “ Casey Hill is in the business of creating old-fashioned mystery stories.”

COSMOPOLITAN

GLAMOUR

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?

IRISH INDEPENDENT

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

SOP

PA6

Narrated by Genre Duration

CLIPPER

SOP Julie Teal Modern Fiction 14.5 hours

ISBN 9781510007666

PA6

Narrated by Genre Duration

CLIPPER

SOP Jane Collingwood Modern Fiction 12.25 hours

ISBN 9781510007697

PA6

Narrated by

Caroline Lennon

Genre Crime Duration

9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510007703

OCTOBER

Playaway clipper

The Lady from Zagreb

The Turning Point

The Slaughter Man

The Vanished Ones

At the Ruin of the World

A Cold Killing

Philip Kerr

Freya North

Tony Parsons

Donato Carrisi

John Henry Clay

Anna Smith

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.

The unputdownable, tearjerking new novel from Freya North.

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

448 AD. The Roman Empire is crumbling.

When Canadian musician Scott Emerson and British children’s author Frankie Shaw meet by chance, a profound connection is made. Their homes are thousands of miles apart: Frankie and her children live in North Norfolk while Scott’s roots lie deep in the mountains of British Columbia. Over oceans and time zones, they make sacrifices and take risks. For the first time in a long while, it seems life could be very good. But fate has a twist in store and the real turning point comes when tragedy strikes.

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?

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

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

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 than he’d anticipated. “ Richly layered, […] Remarkable.” SUNDAY TIMES ON A MAN WITHOUT BREATH

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

“ Compelling […] Elegantly constructed.” FINANCIAL TIMES ON A MAN WITHOUT BREATH

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

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“ 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.

THE TIMES

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… “ Chilling and compelling.” KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS

“ As perfectly paced and neatly plotted as any Ian Rankin novel.” DAILY MAIL ON TO TELL THE TRUTH

JEFFREY DEAVER ON THE MURDER BAG

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“ 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.

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.

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SOP Jeff Harding Historical Fiction 13.75 hours

ISBN 9781510007680

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OCTOBER

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The Well

Sophie and the Sibyl

Everything I Never Told You

Rush Hour

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

Emma and her Daughter

Catherine Chanter

Patricia Duncker

Celeste Ng

Iain Gately

David Lagercrantz

Linda Mitchelmore

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

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

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

The birth, growth and triumph of commuting.

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

Can ‘second love’ be true love?

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.

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 of who she can trust. “ The Well has the pulse of a thriller combined with a futuristic evocation of a Big Brother society.” ALLISON PEARSON

“ There was so much that impressed me… I loved this book!” JESSIE BURTON, AUTHOR OF THE MINIATURIST

“ Sophie and the Sibyl is wonderful; I was transfixed. It’s not just the fiendishly clever blending of reallife and fiction, I was completely gripped all the way through.” KATHRYN HUGHES

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

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“ Colourful, engaging and hugely enjoyable.”

VOGUE

THE SUNDAY 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.”

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

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

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

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

GUARDIAN (BOOK OF THE WEEK)

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

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.

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ISBN 9781510007741

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Juanita McMahon

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ISBN 9781510007789

13.25 hours

ISBN 9781510008229

NOVEMBER

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The Fifth Gospel

The Soldier’s Daughter

You Are Dead

The Day We Disappeared

Deadline

London Rain

Ian Caldwell

Rosie Goodwin

Peter James

Lucy Robinson

John Sandford

Nicola Upson

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 multimillion-copy bestselling crime series.

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

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

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?

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?

Annie has a secret. It’s a heartbreaking 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?

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

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

“ 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.”

NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST

PEOPLE MAGAZINE ON THE RULE OF FOUR

KARIN SLAUGHTER

“ 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.”

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

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

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

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

SUN

“ Few do it better than Sandford.”

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

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SOP Jack Davenport Historical Fiction 15.5 hours

ISBN 9781510011588

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ISBN 9781510011571

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ISBN 9781510011618

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Sandra Duncan

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ISBN 9781510011595

11 hours

ISBN 9781510011601

NOVEMBER

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The Good Girl

The Final Silence

Sometimes the Wolf

Past Crimes

Quite A Good Time To Be Born

House of Ashes

Fiona Neill

Stuart Neville

Urban Waite

Glen Erik Hamilton

David Lodge

Monique Roffey

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 spellbinding story of family, violence and unintended consequences.

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

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

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.

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…

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

The City of Silk is restless, its people suffering in the grip of corruption. Then, one hot July evening, The Leader gathers his followers, halftrained 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…

“ What makes Stuart Neville so special is that he never forgets the human heart that beats inside the bleakest darkness.”

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

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.

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.” VOGUE

STEPHEN KING

VAL MCDERMID

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

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

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

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

SUNDAY MIRROR

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

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

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ISBN 9781510011649

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9.25 hours

ISBN 9781510011625

10.75 hours

ISBN 9781510011663

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SOP David Timson Biography & Autobiography 15.5 hours

ISBN 9781510011670

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ISBN 9781510011656

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

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The Other Child

The Floating Book

Skyfaring

Summer at Shell Cottage

Hand of God

The Quality of Silence

Lucy Atkins

Michelle Lovric

Mark Vanhoenacker

Lucy Diamond

Philip Kerr

Rosamund Lupton

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

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

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

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

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.

In Skyfaring, airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying. On a journey from day to night he records his thoughts on subjects 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.

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…

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.

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

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

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.”

INDEPENDENT

RACHEL HORE

“ Well-written, full of humour and filled with a reminder about what it means to be kind.”

SPORT ON JANUARY WINDOW

“ Sparkling tale of love and friendship.”

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

HEAT ON THE YEAR OF TAKING CHANCES

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

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

CLOSER ON THE YEAR OF TAKING CHANCES

BOOKSELLER

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?

“ Highly entertaining and deliciously gossipy.” IRISH INDEPENDENT ON JANUARY WINDOW

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SOP Katharine Mangold Modern Fiction 10 hours

ISBN 9781510011694

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ISBN 9781510011700

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SOP John Moraitis Travel & Geography 12.75 hours

ISBN 9781510011687

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SOP Juanita McMahon Modern Fiction 13.25 hours

ISBN 9781510014107

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Duration

11.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014039

9.25 hours

ISBN 9781510014046

DECEMBER

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Tightrope

Enough Rope

What Remains

Black Rabbit Hall

The Harvest Man

I Take You

Simon Mawer

Barbara Nadel

Tim Weaver

Eve Chase

Alex Grecian

Eliza Kennedy

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

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

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…

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.”

Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war 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.

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

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

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Historical Fiction 14.25 hours

ISBN 9781510014077

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

“ Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller.”

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

“ Shiver-inducingly creepy. A racy read.”

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JEFFERY DEAVER

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.

“ I Take You is the funniest book I’ve read all year… Eliza Kennedy makes infidelity sexy again!” GARY SHTEYNGART

Genre Crime 10.75 hours

“ Will keep you riveted from page one.”

DAILY EXPRESS

SOP Paul Thornley

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.

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…

DAILY MAIL

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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…

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…

17.25 hours

ISBN 9781510014022

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SOP Antonia Beamish Modern Fiction 13.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014060

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ISBN 9781510014084

Katharine Mangold Modern Fiction 9.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014091

DECEMBER

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Last Man Standing

The Illuminations

The Lost Child

How to Catch a Russian Spy

The Spider in the Corner of the Room

In Dubious Battle

Sir Roger Moore

Andrew O’Hagan

Caryl Phillips

Naveed Jamali

Nikki Owen

John Steinbeck

A selection of memorable behind-the-scenes movie anecdotes from the veteran actor.

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

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.

The fascinating story behind a legendary double-agent operation.

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

A fast-paced story of social unrest.

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.

“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.”

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 laughout-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.

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

“ 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.” EVENING STANDARD

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SOP Jonathan Keeble Biography & Autobiography 6 hours

ISBN 9781510014121

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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 anti-hero of Wuthering Heights and one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys. “ 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.” PICO IYER

CLIPPER

SOP Cathleen McCarron Modern Fiction 9 hours

ISBN 9781510014114

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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.

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.

CLIPPER

SOP Julia Franklin

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?

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Narrated by

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

CLIPPER

SOP William Hope

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.

PA15

Narrated by

CLIPPER

SOP Yolanda Kettle

PA15

Narrated by

Tom Stechschulte

Genre Literature

Genre Thriller

Genre Classics

Duration

8.75 hours

ISBN 9781510014138

10 hours

ISBN 9781510014145

10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014169

10 hours

ISBN 9781510014152

OCTOBER

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Love Me Tender

The Ballymara Road

A Flower That’s The Traitor Free (Part 1)

The Saffron Trail

Anne Bennett

Nadine Dorries

Sarah Harrison

Jonathan Holt

Rosanna Ley

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.

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

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

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

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.” DAILY POST

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.”

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

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

SUNDAY EXPRESS

LITERARY REVIEW

“ Engaging… cinematic and powerful.”

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. “ Elegant storytelling at its very best.” VERONICA HENRY

THE TIMES

SOP

LAMPA5 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Maggie Mash Historical Fiction 18.75 hours

ISBN 9780008128852

LAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Emma Gregory

LAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Gabrielle Glaister

LAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Michael Fenner

LAMPA5 Narrated by

Julie Teal

Genre Saga

Genre Crime

Genre Saga

Duration

9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510008281

13 hours

ISBN 9781510008274

10.25 hours

ISBN 9781510008304

14.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008298

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

Styx and Stones Keane’s Charge Will and Tom

The Paid Companion

The Burning Room

Ben Cheetham

Carola Dunn

Iain Gale

Matthew Plampin

Amanda Quick

Michael Connelly

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

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…

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

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.

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 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. “ Fast-moving action and lots of twists make this… a most enjoyable read.” THE TIMES ON BLOOD GUILT

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.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“ 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.” BOOKLIST

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.”

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. “ 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.” SUNDAY TIMES

“ One of the hottest writers in romance today.”

“ 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.”

USA TODAY

“ Everything Amanda Quick writes is an instant classic.” IRIS JOHANSEN

MAIL ON SUNDAY

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

BERNARD CORNWELL

SOP

LAMPA10 Narrated by

SOP Andrew Wincott

LAMPA10

SOP

Narrated by

Mia Chiaromonte

Genre Crime

Genre

Historical Fiction

Duration

11.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008328

7.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008335

LAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP David Timson Historical Fiction 9.25 hours

ISBN 9781510008311

LAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Leighton Pugh Historical Fiction 10.25 hours

ISBN 9780008127190

LAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Bianca Amato Historical Fiction 11.75 hours

ISBN 9781510008342

LAMPA5 Narrated by

Titus Welliver

Genre Crime Duration

10.25 hours

ISBN 9781510011823

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Justice for the Damned

NOVEMBER

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The Throwaway The Life Children Intended

Death Descends Survivor on Saturn Villa

Shadow on the Crown

Mexico Set

Diney Costeloe

Kristin Harmel

M. R. C. Kasasian

Lesley Pearse

Patricia Bracewell

Len Deighton

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…

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

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

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.

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.

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

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. “ Diney Costeloe has tackled an important subject. We should never forget this terrible injustice!” JOHN HUMPHREYS

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.” 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.” ROMANTIC TIMES ON THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING

“ One of the most delightful and original… novels of the year… a series that could well become a cult.” DAILY MAIL ON THE MANGLE STREET MURDERS

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

SOP

LAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Anne Dover

LAMPA5 Narrated by

Genre Saga

Genre

Duration

18 hours

ISBN 9781510011816

SOP Liza Ross Modern Fiction 11 hours

ISBN 9781510011809

LAMPA5 Narrated by

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.” “ Characters it is impossible not to care about.”

SOP Alison Dowling

LAMPA10 Narrated by

Genre Crime

Genre Saga

Genre

Duration

13.5 hours

ISBN 9781510011793

SUNDAY TIMES

DIANA GABALDON, AUTHOR OF OUTLANDER

DAILY MAIL

Narrated by

DAILY MAIL

“ The poet of the spy story.”

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

SOP Emma Gregory

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

“ Deighton’s best… until the next.”

DAILY MAIL

CLOSER

LAMPA5

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.

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.

17 hours

ISBN 9781471283840

SOP Maggie Mash Historical Fiction 16.75 hours

ISBN 9780008143015

LAMPA10 Narrated by

James Lailey

Genre Crime Duration

13.5 hours

ISBN 9780007566112

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

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The Golden Age of Murder

The Museum of Things Left Behind

You, Me & Other People

The Kelly Sisters

No Place for a Lady

Perfect Daughter

Martin Edwards

Seni Glaister

Fionnuala Kearney

Maureen Lee

Gill Paul

Amanda Prowse

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

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…

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

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

“ 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.”

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? 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.

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

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.

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

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.” DAILY MAIL

“ A powerful page-turner.” CLOSER

SEATTLE POST

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LAMPA10 Narrated by

SOP Leighton Pugh

LAMPA10 Narrated by

Genre Mystery

Genre

Duration

16.5 hours

ISBN 9780008131173

SOP Jot Davies Modern Fiction 13 hours

ISBN 9780008143763

LAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Multiple Narrators Modern Fiction 13 hours

ISBN 9780008119690

LAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Noreen Leighton

LAMPA5 Narrated by

Genre Saga

Genre

Duration

10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014244

SOP Jilly Bond Historical Fiction 12.5 hours

ISBN 9780008148195

LAMPA5 Narrated by Genre Duration

Amanda Prowse Modern Fiction 8.75 hours

ISBN 9781510014237

DECEMBER

Spider’s Web

The Milliner’s Secret

Our Land at War

The Wedding Cake Tree

Michael Ridpath

Harry Sidebottom

Ben Cheetham

Natalie Meg Evans

Duff Hart-Davis

Melanie Hudson

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 highranking 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.

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.

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

“ Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship.” THE TIMES

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

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.” THE TIMES ON BLOOD GUILT

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

Natalie Meg Evans’ first novel, The Dress Thief, was the winner of the Festival of Romance Best Historical Novel Award. “ A truly accomplished and delicious debut novel.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH

LAURIE GRAHAM ON THE DRESS THIEF

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LAMPA5 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Peter Noble Historical Fiction 12.25 hours

ISBN 9781510014220

LAMPA5 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Colin Mace Historical Fiction 10.5 hours

ISBN 9780008122690

LAMPA10 Narrated by

SOP Cameron Stuart

LAMPA10 Narrated by

Genre Thriller

Genre

Duration

11 hours

ISBN 9781510014275

“ Duff Hart-Davis tells their fascinating story, which will be new to many readers, remarkably well.”

Historical Fiction 18.25 hours

ISBN 9781510014251

“ I laughed and I cried while reading this book. Thoroughly enjoyable.” THE SUN

LITERARY REVIEW

SOP Julie Teal

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 – war-weary Royal Marine, Alasdair Finn.

LAMPA10 Narrated by

SOP Hugh Kermode

LAMPA10 Narrated by

Gabrielle Glaister

Genre History

Genre Romance

Duration

13.75 hours

ISBN 9780008143589

11.25 hours

ISBN 9781510014282

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OCTOBER

Swords Around the Throne

The Show

A Devil Under the Skin

The Fourth Sacrifice

Make Something Up

Ian Ross

Tilly Bagshawe

Anya Lipska

Peter May

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

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

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

A great collection of stories from the author of Fight Club.

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?

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

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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.” CONN IGGULDEN

“ Ian Ross blazes in the world of Empire and legions… This is up there with Harry Sidebottom and Ben Kane.”

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

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

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

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.

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

“ A masterwork of sheer momentum… compelling.” GLASGOW HERALD

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

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

NEW YORK TIMES

PAUL FINCH

HEAT

M. C. SCOTT

SOP

LAMPA10

SOP

Narrated by

Jonathan Keeble

Genre

Historical Fiction

Duration

12.75 hours

ISBN 9781510014268

JAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Scarlett Mack

JAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Michael Fenner

JAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Peter Forbes

JAMPA5 Narrated by

Genre Romance

Genre Crime

Genre

Duration

14.5 hours

ISBN 9780008120542

8.25 hours

ISBN 9780008130046

13.5 hours

ISBN 9781510008236

Multiple Narrators Modern Fiction 11 hours

ISBN 9781510008243

OCTOBER

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Love Notes for Freddie

The Silk Factory

The Island Escape

A Night in with Audrey Hepburn

The Sun is God The Invisible Guardian

Eva Rice

Judith Allnatt

Kerry Fisher

Lucy Holliday

Adrian McKinty

Dolores Redondo

One dance step can change everything…

A beautiful, eerie story of love and memory.

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

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.

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…

A hilarious and heartwarming 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.

“ Genuinely and deeply moving.”

“ Such a funny, feel-good read… with terrific authentic characters.”

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.”

THE TIMES

JANE LYTHELL, AUTHOR OF THE LIE OF YOU

“ A novel of rare insight, exquisitely written.”

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 offers 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

“ Has so many facets to it that it becomes utterly compelling.” PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES

“ McKinty gets better and better.”

LUCY ATKINS, AUTHOR OF THE MISSING ONE

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

“ An exciting new voice.”

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…

IAN RANKIN

“ So witty and fun.”

MICHAEL MORPURGO

HEAT

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 TIMES

ELLE

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SOP Multiple Narrators Historical Fiction 11 hours

ISBN 9781510008250

JAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Antonia Beamish Modern Fiction 13 hours

ISBN 9780008121211

JAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Lucy Paterson Modern Fiction 12.25 hours

ISBN 9780008129231

JAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Anna Parker-Naples Modern Fiction 8.25 hours

ISBN 9780008131067

JAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Gerard Doyle Historical Fiction 7.75 hours

ISBN 9781510008267

JAMPA10 Narrated by

Emma Gregory

Genre Crime Duration

13.25 hours

ISBN 9780008121600

NOVEMBER

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Revolution

Orkney Twilight

Book of Numbers

The Fixer

The Ghosts of Altona

Green Glowing Skull

Russell Brand

Clare Carson

Joshua Cohen

Joseph Finder

Craig Russell

Gavin Corbett

“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.

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.

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. “ 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.”

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… 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.

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

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.”

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.”

“ 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.”

LISA GARDNER

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 KennedyLogan 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.

IRISH TIMES

MICHAEL CONNELLY

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

INDEPENDENT

EMMA DONOGHUE

SOP

JAMPA5 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Russell Brand General Non Fiction 9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510011717

JAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Scarlett Mack

JAMPA5

SOP

Narrated by

Kirby Heyborne

Genre Crime

Genre

Modern Fiction

Duration

12 hours

ISBN 9781510011731

23 hours

ISBN 9781510011755

JAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Jeff Harding

JAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Peter Noble

JAMPA10 Narrated by

Genre Crime

Genre

Duration

10.5 hours

ISBN 9781510011748

12.5 hours

ISBN 9781510011724

Adam Moore Modern Fiction 10 hours

ISBN 9780008130107

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

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The Sisters

Stripped

No Way Out

The Monopolists

The Wronged

One Mile Under

Claire Douglas

Brian Freeman

David Kessler

Mary Pilon

Kimberley Chambers

Andrew Gross

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

Everyone keeps secrets in Vegas. Especially about murder.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

“ Freeman ably juggles multiple plot strands while never losing sight of the human dimension… Confirmation of a major talent.”

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.” NEWS OF THE WORLD

“ A total white knuckle, stayup-all-night thrill ride.” HARLAN COBEN

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

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

GUARDIAN

COSMOPOLITAN

GUARDIAN

SOP

JAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Scarlett Mack Modern Fiction 10.25 hours

ISBN 9780008128913

JAMPA10 Narrated by

SOP Joe Barnett

JAMPA10 Narrated by

SOP William Hope

JAMPA10 Narrated by

SOP Chris Sorensen

JAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Annie Aldington

JAMPA5 Narrated by

Christian Hoff

Genre Crime

Genre History

Genre Crime

Duration

13.5 hours

ISBN 9781510011779

12 hours

ISBN 9780008129125

7.75 hours

ISBN 9781510011762

13 hours

ISBN 9780007567799

13 hours

ISBN 9780008103156

DECEMBER

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This Changes Everything

Taking Pity

The Dying Season

I Followed the Rules

A Great Day at the Office

In the Name of Love

Naomi Klein

David Mark

Martin Walker

Joanna Bolouri

Dr John Briffa

Patrick Smith

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…

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.

We seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. Exposing the work of ideologues who know the battle, Naomi Klein 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. “ Klein is a brave and passionate writer who always deserves to be heard, and this is a powerful and urgent book.” OBSERVER

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

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

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

DAILY MAIL

MIRROR

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. “ Hilarious.” SUN

“ Pure chick-lit heaven.” NOVELICIOUS

MARGARET ATWOOD

SOP

JAMPA5 Narrated by Genre Duration

SOP Liza Ross

Business, Money & Economics 22 hours

ISBN 9781510014190

JAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Toby Longworth

JAMPA5 Narrated by

SOP Peter Noble

JAMPA10 Narrated by

Genre Crime

Genre

Duration

10 hours

ISBN 9781510014176

9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510014183

Susie Riddell Modern Fiction 7 hours

ISBN 9781510014206

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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JAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

Dr John Briffa Body, Mind & Spirit 7.5 hours

ISBN 9780007564347

JAMPA10 Narrated by

Peter Noble

Genre Crime Duration

8.5 hours

ISBN 9781510014213

DECEMBER

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Exclusively to Ordinary Joe

Mislaid

Jon Teckman

Nell Zink

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.

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 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

SOP

JAMPA10

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Narrated by

Leighton Pugh

Genre

Modern Fiction

Duration

9 hours

ISBN 9780008143343

JAMPA10 Narrated by Genre Duration

Laurence Bouvard Historical Fiction 7.75 hours

ISBN 9780008143176

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