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Black Widow

The Swimming Pool

Dusk

Of Love and Desire

Chris Brookmyre

Louise Candlish

Maureen Lee

Louis de Bernières

There is no perfect marriage. There is no perfect murder.

“I can’t take my eyes off the water. Can you?”

A gripping suspenseful thriller like no other – from the outstanding Sunday Times bestselling author, Maureen Lee.

A beautiful collection of poems, with the author’s own exclusive exploration behind the collection, read in his own unique voice. A poetry insight not to be missed, from the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières.

Diana Jager’s life crumbles when her details are released on the internet as revenge for her anti-sexism blog. Then she meets Peter. Within six months, they are married. Within six more, Peter is dead in a road accident; a nightmare end to their fairy-tale romance.

But Peter’s sister Lucy doesn’t believe in fairy-tales, tasking maverick reporter Jack Parlabane with discovering the dark truth behind the woman the media is calling ‘Black Widow.’ “ Tense, intense and quite, quite brilliant.”

JENNY COLGAN

It’s summer when Elm Hill lido opens, having stood empty for years. For Natalie Steele, constantly striving to be the perfect wife, mother and teacher, it offers an opportunity for escape. She can’t believe her luck when the charismatic Lara Channing draws her into her elite circle of friends, but is this new popularity too good to be true? Why are dark memories of a summer long ago threatening to surface? Has Natalie been swept dangerously out of her depth? “ Exquisitely written and addictively dark, The Swimming Pool is sheer perfection.”

As the summer break begins, lifelong friends Norah and Daisy are looking forward to one last summer together.

That is until they fall under the spell of charismatic newcomer, Jack Hannay. But as the summer draws to a close, Daisy refuses to accept that it is over. She insists on one last visit to Jack’s boat where something so horrific happens that leaves them suffering the effects for years to come…

Maureen Lee’s award-winning novels have earned her many fans and appear regularly on the Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller list.

CLARE MACKINTOSH, AUTHOR OF I LET YOU GO

“ Unapologetically dark, with that irresistible sense of foreboding. […] Redefines the term ‘unputdownable’” HEAT

Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems, written over a lifetime, capturing its many forms: from rapture, infatuation and urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Bernières’ first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality and emotion of his poems, which are full of stories and the truth of lived experience. “ There are poems in this collection that certainly bear comparison with the great. […] Here is lost love and the sadness of memory transformed into words that glitter – mined like jewels from the heart.”

DAILY MAIL

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When She Was Bad

The Love of a Lifetime

A Pale View of Hills

The Summer That Melted Everything

Tammy Cohen

Melissa Hill

Kazuo Ishiguro

Tiffany McDaniel

Tammy Cohen returns with 2016’s most gripping thriller – a recommended read for all fans of Clare Mackintosh, Liane Moriarty and Girl on the Train.

Beth is about to be swept off her feet like a movie star…?

The debut novel from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author, Kazuo Ishiguro.

Hollywood movies are Beth’s passion. Her boyfriend Danny has always been the embodiment of her perfect Hollywood hero – though after seven years together the romance has settled into something more predictable.

Then Beth receives an anonymous delivery of a coffee cup with a cryptic message, which starts a series of clues directing her to some of NYC’s most popular landmarks. Has Danny realised their relationship needs a boost – or could it be charming colleague, Ryan, who wants to sweep her off her feet?

Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the suicide of her daughter, Keiko. A visit from her other daughter Niki sends Etsuko retreating into the depths of her memory. She finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the horrors of the bomb and World War Two. As Etsuko examines her relationship with her daughters and struggles to cope with her guilt, the lines between the past and the present start to blur.

The Summer That Melted Everything is a captivating story about community, redemption and the dark places where evil really lies.

You see the people you work with every day; but what can’t you see? Amira, Sarah, Paula, Ewan and Charlie have worked together for years – they know how each other likes their coffee, whose love life is a mess, whose children keep them up at night. But their comfortable routine life is suddenly shattered when an aggressive new boss walks in… Now, there’s something chilling in the air. Who secretly hates everyone? Who is tortured by their past? Who is capable of murder?

“ An original and remarkable genius.”

“ A fresh, clever psychological thriller. I loved it!”

When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the heatwave-scorched town of Breathed, Ohio, nobody expects that he will turn up, especially as a tattered thirteen-year-old boy.

Fielding, the son of Autopsy, brings the boy home, and he is welcomed into the family. The Blisses believe the boy, who calls himself Sal, is a runaway. Then, as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal – the townsfolk begin to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be… “ A wonderfully original, profoundly unsettling, deeply moving novel that delivers both the shock of fully realized reality and the deep resonance of parable.”

NEW YORK TIMES

CLARE MACKINTOSH

ROBERT OLEN BUTLER, PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN

“ Tammy Cohen is rapidly becoming one of my favourite authors.”

EMMA KAVANAGH

“ Imagine To Kill a Mockingbird, seen through the eyes of Neil Gaiman. McDaniel’s prose is rich and magical, full of passages of exquisite, strange beauty that ache with bitter truths and old sorrows.”

JAMES SIE, AUTHOR OF STILL LIFE LAS VEGAS

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The Mandibles: A Family 2029 – 2047

Imagine Me Gone

Barkskins

Missing, Presumed

Lionel Shriver

Adam Haslett

Annie Proulx

Susie Steiner

The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prizewinning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin.

With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives.

From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Brokeback Mountain, comes an epic, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests.

“ DS Manon Bradshaw is a messed-up, big-hearted detective in the best tradition!” harriet lane

When Margaret’s fiance, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or leave. She decides to marry him. This is the story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith, when their three children help their mother to care for Michael. Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gutwrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable poignancy the depth of family love.

In the seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters – barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship and is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away and becomes a fur trader. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years – their travels overseas, pestilence, Indian attacks and cultural annihilation.

It is 2029: the Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America’s soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. The dollar is in meltdown. A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Their inheritance turned to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also – as the effects of the downturn start to hit – the challenge of sheer survival. “ Shriver’s intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining.”

“ Imagine Me Gone is a beautiful, elegant, harrowing story of the dissonant music of family, a poignant book that makes you eager, once more, for the complications of the world.”

FINANCIAL TIMES

“ All too chillingly plausible […] a profoundly frightening portrait of how quickly the agreed rules of society can fall apart without money to grease the wheels.”

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COLUM MCCANN

“ Imagine Me Gone is literature of the highest order.

It manages to be both dreadfully sad and hilariously funny all at once. It is luminous with love.”

Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep, the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace. Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor. Manon knows the first 72 hours are critical: you find her, or you look for a body. And as soon as she sees a picture of Edith Hind, a Cambridge post-graduate from a well-connected family, she knows this case will be big. “ A treat in store for those who love their crime fiction rich in psycholog y, beautifully written and laced with dark humour…”

LUCIE WHITEHOUSE

“ It hits the sweet spot between literary and crime fiction – gripping.”

ERIN KELLY

“ A sublimely good writer.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH

“ One of the greatest American writers.”

INDEPENDENT

PETER CAREY, MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER FOR TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG

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Juanita McMahon

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The Crossing

Cry, Mother Spain

The Brain

Samantha Hunt

Cormac McCarthy

Lydie Salvayre

David Eagleman

A contemporary gothic novel – Mr Splitfoot tracks two women in two different eras as they march toward a mysterious reckoning.

“The Crossing […] towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity.” sunday times

“This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.”

Ruth and Nat are orphans, packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later, Ruth’s niece Cora finds herself accidentally pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and full of intention. She is on a mysterious mission, leading Cora across the entire state of New York on foot. Where is Ruth taking them? And who, or what, has she hidden in the woods at the end of the road?

Sixteen-year-old Billy and his brother Boyd are fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch. Billy captures the animal – but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. Billy returns, finding himself and his world have irrevocably changed.

His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise.

Powerful and deeply personal, Cry, Mother Spain unites two different experiences of one horrific conflict, making up a complex tapestry of love, faith and revolution.

“ Hypnotic and glowing, Mr. Splitfoot insists on its own ghostly presence.”

“ McCarthy speaks to us in the thrilling, apocalyptic tones of an Old Testament prophet. We must treasure him.”

NEW YORK TIMES

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

“ The historical and the fantastical entwine like snakes in Samantha Hunt’s fiction. […] There’s a rare pleasure in this blend of romance and phantoms.”

Summer 1936: Montse is fifteen years old and her country is on the brink of civil war. Her tiny village in the north east of Spain is a world away from the tensions beginning to overspill in other parts of the country, but when her brother José returns from working in a nearby town, brimming with anarchic zeal, Montse is captivated. Swept away by the fervour of the revolution, caught between love, family and honour, her sheltered life will be abruptly changed forever. “ Lydie Salvayre orchestrates her story like a true maestro.”

BIBLIOBS

“ McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH

“ The great originality of this novel […] is the blending of the universal and personal experiences of the Spanish Civil War.”

Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It’s a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see: you. “ Entertaining and profound: page-turning neuroscience from a bit of a genius.”

GUARDIAN

“ The poster boy of neuroscience with ideas that will stretch your mind.”

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Cassandra Campbell & Emily Woo Zeller Modern Fiction 11.5 hours

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Richard Poe

Modern Fiction 14.5 hours

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Maggie Mash

Historical Fiction 7.75 hours

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David Eagleman 5.75 hours

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Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

Daughters of Castle Deverill

Commonwealth

William Topaz McGonagall

Sara Pascoe

Santa Montefiore

Ann Patchett

An unintentionally hilarious, self-celebratory autobiography from the world’s worst poet.

Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe. It’s a laugh-out-loud investigation to help us understand and forgive our animal urges and insecurities.

A sweeping story of family and history, from the author of the top ten bestseller Songs of Love and War.

Told with equal measures of humour and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a powerful and tender tale of family, betrayal and the farreaching bonds of love and responsibility.

William Topaz McGonagall is widely renowned as one of the world’s worst-ever published poets. Yet his poetry was hugely popular around the world – Spike Milligan was obsessed with him. But how do we account for this morbid fascination with verse of little or no discernible merit whatsoever? He didn’t discover he was a poet until the comparatively advanced age of 52, when he underwent something of an epiphany.

Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other. Here’s a book that deals with all of it, that jokes about femininity and sexuality so we can talk about it all for a bit longer. Animal combines autobiography and evolutionary history to create a funny, fascinating insight into the forces that mould and affect modern women. “ A tremendously exciting voice: timely, intelligent and buzzing with comedic charm. […] Pascoe has something to say and a thoroughly engaging way of saying it.”

THE TIMES

It is 1925 and the war is long over. But much has been lost and life will never be quite the same. Castle Deverill, cherished ancestral home to the Deverill family in the west of Ireland, has burned to the ground. But young and flighty Celia Deverill is determined to restore the sad ruins to its former glory. But dark shadows are gathering once more as the financial markets start to shake, and everything that felt so certain is thrown once again into doubt…

The second epic installment in the Deverill Chronicles. “ Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore.

Everything she writes, she writes from the heart.”

It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening uninvited, where he notices a heartstoppingly beautiful woman. When Bert kisses Beverly Keating, his host’s wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families. In 1988, Franny Keating, now twentyfour, meets one of her idols, the famous author Leon Posen. After telling him about her family, she unwittingly relinquishes control over their story. Franny never dreams that the consequences of this encounter will extend into the lives of her scattered siblings and parents. “ There is a stillness and beauty to Ann Patchett’s writing that takes the breath away. […] Patchett’s mastery of language is matched only by her narrative abilities.”

JOJO MOYES

“ Santa Montefiore is the new Rosamunde Pilcher.”

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DAILY MAIL

“ Enchanting prose and wondrous storytelling.”

ECONOMIST

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Sara Pascoe

Biography & Autobiography 10.5 hours

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Laurence Bouvard Modern Fiction 10.75 hours

ISBN 9781510044197

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The Noise of Time

Sleeper’s Castle

Brighton

Ali Smith

Julian Barnes

Barbara Erskine

Michael Harvey

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prizewinning author of How to be both.

Art and power collide in Julian Barnes’s first novel since the Booker-winning The Sense of An Ending.

Two women, centuries apart… One endless nightmare tearing Wales apart – and only they can stop it.

“ You came back here to bury your past…

Thing is, you gotta kill it first.”

Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art – via a bit of skulduggery – Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. Autumn is a take on popular culture and a meditation in a world growing ever more bordered; what constitutes richness and worth? Autumn is the first instalment in Seasonal: four standalone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical, exploring what time is and how we experience it.

In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the ‘Big House.’ Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now, and few who are taken to the Big House ever return.

Hay-on-Wye, 1400: War is brewing in the Welsh borders.

For two hundred years, the Welsh people have lain under the English yoke, dreaming of independence. In the walls of Sleeper’s Castle, Catrin finds herself caught in the middle of a doomed war.

A story about the collision of art and power, about human compromise, cowardice and courage; it is the work of a true master.

“ Ali Smith’s novels soar higher every time.”

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Hay-on-Wye, 2015: Miranda has moved to Sleeper’s Castle to escape and grieve. But every time she closes her eyes she dreams vividly and makes a connection with a young girl, who’s screaming, who’s reaching out… who only Miranda can help. Is she losing herself to time? “ Her forte is mood, atmosphere and the toe-curling frisson.”

ELIZABETH BUCHAN, SUNDAY TIMES

Brighton, 1975: A working-class Boston neighbourhood is simmering with violence and racial tension. Fifteenyear-old Kevin Pearce gets caught up in Brighton’s undertow and a crime that forces him to flee the city. Twenty-seven years later, Kevin returns after winning the Pulitzer Prize for an article on the wrongful conviction of a man from Brighton. But when he’s asked for his advice on a murder case, he’s plunged into a web of deception which will test his loyalties to the limit. “ Brighton is a masterpiece of crime fiction, filled with fascinating characters and sparkling dialogue and visceral atmosphere and riveting tensions, plus no shortage of terrific twists.”

CHRIS PAVONE, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE EXPATS

“ Barbara Erskine’s storytelling talent is undeniable.”

THE TIMES

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Daniel Philpott

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Charlotte Strevens

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Paul McCartney: The Biography

A Deadly Thaw

A Wild Swan and Other Tales

Pierre Lemaitre

Philip Norman

Sarah Ward

Michael Cunningham

“A really excellent suspense novelist.” stephen king

The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with approval from McCartney himself – from the bestselling biographer Philip Norman.

The new novel from Sarah Ward, author of the hugely-popular In Bitter Chill.

In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation.

Sophie is haunted by the things she can’t remember – and visions from the past she will never forget. One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what happened. And whatever the truth, her side of the story is no match for the evidence piled against her. Her only hiding place is in a new identity. A new life, with a man she has met online. But Sophie is not the only one keeping secrets… “ Lemaitre is worthy of all the fuss.”

INDEPENDENT

“ Crime fiction of the highest class.”

DAILY MAIL

Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul’s story is told by rock music’s foremost biographer, with McCartney’s consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood – blighted by his mother’s death but redeemed by the father who introduced him to music.

Philip Norman is the bestselling biographer of John Lennon, Elton John, and Mick Jagger, and the author of the classic Beatles biography Shout!

2004: In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew.

Spring 2016: A year after Lena’s release from prison, Andrew is found murdered in a disused mortuary. Who was the man Lena killed twelve years ago and why did she lie about his identity? When Lena disappears, her sister, Kat, follows a trail of clues delivered by a teenage boy. Sarah Ward’s second novel confirms her place as one of the UK’s most exciting new crime writers. “ The most engaging debut I have come across in a long time.”

YRSA SIGURDARDOTTIR, PRAISE FOR IN BITTER CHILL

Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A lazy Jack prefers living in his mother’s basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, Michael Cunningham. “ Short, contemporary, disturbing, and alluring, a transporting and enthralling read.”

“ A twisted, skilful and entirely intriguing mystery.”

QUENTIN BATES, PRAISE FOR IN BITTER CHILL

INDEPENDENT

“ With a light touch and bags of sardonic elegance, Cunningham impishly expands on these timeless narratives.”

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Jonathan Keeble

Biography & Autobiography 30.75 hours

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Work Like Any Other

Winter

Ghost Fleet

Christopher Husberg

Virginia Reeves

Len Deighton

P. W. Singer and August Cole

Book one of The Chaos Queen quintet – not to be missed.

Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, and J. M. Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of rural Alabama in the 1920s.

The epic prelude to the classic spy trilogy, Game, Set and Match: Winter follows the fortunes of a German dynasty during two world wars.

Ghost Fleet has drawn praise as a new kind of techno-thriller while also becoming the new must-read for military leaders around the world.

Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity.

But when his wife Marie inherits her father’s failing farm, Roscoe uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness. Then everything changes. A young man is electrocuted on their land. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter and he must now carve out a place in a violent new world.

Winter takes us into a complex family drama, into the lives of two German brothers – both born close upon the turn of the century, both so caught up in the currents of history that their story is one with the story of their country, from the Kaiser’s heyday through Hitler’s rise and fall. A novel that rings powerfully true; a rich and remarkable portrait of Germany in the first half of the twentieth century.

What Will World War Three Look Like? Ghost Fleet is a page-turning imagining of a war set in the not-toodistant future. Navy captains battle through a modernday Pearl Harbor, fighter pilots duel with stealthy drones, teenage hackers fight in digital playgrounds, Silicon Valley billionaires mobilize for cyber-war and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on who can best blend the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future.

Pulled from the sea, pierced by arrows and close to death, Knot has no memory of who he was and a Tiellan woman, whose people have long been oppressed by humans, is married to and abandoned

by Knot on the same day. In her search for him, she will discover her control of magic, but risks losing herself entirely. Their fates and those of others will intertwine, in a land where magic and daemons are believed dead, but dark forces still vie for power. “ Has me thrilled for the future of fantasy.”

STEVE DIAMOND

“ Virginia Reeves has a gift for bringing to life all the tensions that emerge wherever people, place and progress collide.

I absolutely loved it.”

KEVIN POWERS, AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW BIRDS

“ A potent mix of icy honesty and heart-wrenching tenderness.”

“ Deighton’s research and plotting are as surefooted as ever, while the pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel.”

“ A novel that reads like science fiction but bristles with rich detail about how the next World War could be fought.”

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

VICE

“ A monumental work […] brilliantly executed.”

“ A wild book, a real page-turner.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH

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JIM CRACE

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Fantasy & Supernatural 17.5 hours

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Jeff Harding

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9.75 hours

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24.75 hours

ISBN 9780008170028

Rich Orlow

Science Fiction 14.75 hours

ISBN 9781510044357

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Sorrow without End

Mind Over Money: The Psychology of Money and How To Use It Better

Hidden Figures

Good Cop Bad War

Priscilla Royal

Claudia Hammond

Margot Shetterly

Neil Woods

“ Royal continues her excellent medieval mystery series with another haunting whodunit.” booklist

Mind Over Money will change the way you view the cash in your wallet and the figures in your bank account forever.

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space.

A fascinating true story of an undercover policeman who infiltrated some of Britain’s biggest drug gangs – a narrative-driven true crime read and a fascinating story of working under pressure.

1271, East Anglian coast: Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory. The dagger in the man’s chest is engraved with a strange, cursive design. Was this the act of a member of the Assassin sect, or was the weapon meant to mislead? Ralf’s decision to take the corpse to the priory means he is caught up in a maelstrom of conflict, both personal and political. Meanwhile, the murderer watches and waits… “ The well-developed plot […] keeps the reader guessing.”

MYSTERIOUS REVIEWS

A day doesn’t go by without money coming into our interactions. But how much do we really understand it? Why do we behave the way we do with it? And why does it have such a hold on us? Award-winning BBC Radio 4 presenter Claudia Hammond explores the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, biology and behavioural economics; revealing some simple and effective tricks that will help you think about, use and save money better.

A fascinating and practical guide to the science of money, by Radio 4’s voice of psychology. “ Mind Over Money is both a fascinating exploration of the ways money messes with our heads, and a practical guidebook for how to avoid getting fleeced.”

OLIVER BURKEMAN

Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as ‘human computers’ calculated the numbers that would launch rockets into space. Among these were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, and even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women helped America achieve a decisive victory over the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.

As an undercover police officer with the drugs squad Neil Woods regularly risked his life on the streets dealing with some of the most violent and unpredictable criminals in Britain. Good Cop, Bad War is a unique story about a man with a striking ability to infiltrate and extinguish drug gangs, but who, as the success of his operations grows, becomes disillusioned with the ‘war on drugs,’ as he sees how it demonizes those who need help, whilst empowering ‘the very worst elements in society.’ This is an action-packed true account read like no other. “ Undercover, you’re never just acting; you’re only ever a different version of yourself.”

NEIL WOODS, AUTHOR

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Biography & Autobiography 8.75 hours

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Saturday Requiem

The Shadow Sister

Days Without End

Linda Fairstein

Nicci French

Lucinda Riley

Sebastian Barry

The new Alexandra Cooper thriller from New York Times bestselling author, Linda Fairstein.

Saturday Requiem is the next dark, gripping and sophisticated psychological thriller in the sensational Frieda Klein series, from masterclass author, Nicci French.

The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley’s spellbinding series, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster.

From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry comes a powerful and unforgettable new novel, chronicling a young Irish immigrant’s army years in the American Indian and Civil wars.

New York City is one of the fashion capitals of the world, well-known for its glamour and style. Yet high fashion means high stakes, as Alex Cooper discovers when designer Wolf Savage is found dead in an apparent suicide, days before the biggest show of his career.

When Savage’s daughter insists his death was murder, the case becomes a media sensation. Soon Alex is investigating the family secrets Savage kept so well hidden, just as things are about to get deadly on the catwalk… “ The Queen of Intelligent Suspense.”

It was an open and shut case when eighteen-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family; she’s been incarcerated ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to assess Hannah, she reluctantly agrees. What she finds horrifies her…

Frieda is haunted by the thought that Hannah might be as much of a victim as her family. Frieda soon begins to realise that she’s up against someone who’ll go to any lengths to protect themselves… “ Dark, nerve-tingling and addictive.”

LEE CHILD

When their father dies, Star D’Aplièse and her six sisters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world, are left with few clues to their heritage. But Star – the most enigmatic of the sisters – is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow her first clue, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world… “ What an absolutely fantastic storyteller – I was immediately immersed in the story, and absolutely compelled.”

KATHERINE WEBB

DAILY EXPRESS

“ A champion teller of detective tales.”

“ [Barry’s] words have a stony allure of the Irish poets and the lyrical pull of an epic storyteller.”

THE BOSTON GLOBE

“ Nicci French’s sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition.”

USA TODAY

Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in they find these days to be vivid. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America’s past.

“ Sebastian Barry’s handling of voice and cadence is masterly.

His fictional universe is filled with life, quiet truth, and exquisite intimacy.”

SOPHIE HANNAH

COLM TÓIBÍN, AUTHOR OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD-WINNING BROOKLYN

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Everyone is Watching

Transit

Razor Girl

Himself

Megan Bradbury

Rachel Cusk

Carl Hiaasen

Jess Kidd

A beautiful and beguiling novel of New York told through the lives of some of those who have defined the city: Robert Moses, Edmund White, Walt Whitman and Robert Mapplethorpe.

The exciting new novel from award-winning author Rachel Cusk; one of Granta’s ‘Best of British’ writers.

The new full-tilt, razor-sharp, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the bestselling author of Bad Monkey, Star Island and Nature Girl.

This beautiful and blackly comic debut novel creates in crystal-clear, musical language, an unforgettable world of strange kindnesses, bloody violence and buried secrets.

Reality TV star Buck Nance incites a riot in a bar and vanishes in the melee. His agent Lane Coolman has been accidentally taken hostage by two petty criminals who now think they can turn a quick profit by ransoming an LA talent agent. The mystery of Buck’s disappearance draws in a range of characters from across the island including a redheaded con artist named Merry who, using a razor blade and a high-speed car has developed a signature way of luring in her victims.

When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland’s west coast, he brings only his handsome face, a photograph of his long-lost mother, and a determination to do battle with the village’s lies.

Mahony also somehow wakes the dead from their graves, with their foggy memories and hidden stories, floating greyly amongst the unseeing living. No one though – living or dead – will be able to guess what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby.

New York: A city that inspires, that draws people in… A city where everyone is watching, waiting to see what will happen next. Everyone is Watching is a novel about the people who have defined New York through their lives, perspectives and iconic works. New York itself solidifies; Complex, rich, sordid, tantalizing, it is constantly changing and evolving. Both intimate and epic in its sweep, Everyone is Watching is a love letter to New York and its people – past, present and future.

In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions – personal, moral, artistic, practical – as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to and believe in life.

“ Beautiful, kaleidoscopic […] everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on.”

“ One of the most daringly original and entertaining pieces of fiction I’ve ever read.”

EIMEAR MCBRIDE, BAILEYS PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING

“ Everyone is Watching is an astonishing debut.

Megan Bradbury has written a subtle and powerful novel of New York, its architects, artists and - her greatest achievement – the consciousness of the city itself.”

OBSERVER ON OUTLINE

“ Brilliant […] absorbing, thought-provoking.”

Outrageously funny, fast-paced and uniquely addictive, Razor Girl will keep you utterly gripped until the final page. “ This is the ultimate […] read for anyone with a taste for Hiaasen’s skewed view of a Florida slouching toward Armageddon.”

EVENING STANDARD ON OUTLINE

JANE MURPHY, BOOKLIST

JEAN MCNEIL

“ Beautiful, haunting and veined with wicked wit, Himself is a mystery you want to tear through, written in prose you want to savour.”

SIMON WROE, AUTHOR OF CHOP CHOP

“ Jess Kidd is a genius. Her prose sparkles with wit, savagery and startling originality. I loved it.”

TASHA KAVANAGH, AUTHOR OF THINGS WE HAVE IN COMMON

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Modern Fiction 6.25 hours

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Jeff Harding

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Kill Me Twice

Reader, I Married Him

Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone

Foxlowe

Anna Smith

Tracy Chevalier

G. S. Denning

Eleanor Wasserberg

A beautiful model’s death uncovers an ugly conspiracy stretching all the way to Westminster in Rosie Gilmour’s darkest case to date.

“ T he success of this book owes much to [Chevalier’s] enthusiasm […] it’s quite amazing to see the quality of work on show” evening standard

“A must for all those who like their Holmes on the wilder side.” george mann, author of sherlock holmes: the spirit box.

A compulsive and chilling debut about a girl growing up in a cult.

A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Brontë, stemming from the immortal words from Jane Eyre. The twenty-one stories in Reader, I Married Him are inspired by Jane Eyre and shaped by its perennially fascinating themes of love, compromise and selfdetermination. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, this collection brings together some of the finest voices in fiction today, to celebrate the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s novel and its beloved narrator.

Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius. Warlock Holmes is an idiot. A font of arcane power, certainly.

But he’s brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn’t deduce his way out of a paper bag. The only thing he has really got going for him are the might of a thousand demons and his stalwart companion. Thankfully, Dr Watson is always there to aid him through the treacherous shoals of Victorian propriety and save him from a gruesome death every now and again.

“ This collection is stormy, romantic, strong – the Full Brontë.”

“ I laughed like a loon.”

When rags-to-riches Scots supermodel Bella Mason plunges to her death from the roof of a Madrid hotel, everyone assumes it was suicide. Except that one person saw exactly what happened to Bella that night, and she definitely didn’t jump. But Millie Chambers has no one she can tell – alcoholic, depressed herself and now sectioned by her bullying politician husband, who would believe her? And that’s not all Millie knows. Being close to the heart of Westminster power can lead to discovering some awful secrets…

THE TIMES

“ Thrilling and compelling.”

KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS

“ [Smith] is an excellent wordsmith and her stories are wonderfully crafted, as well as being exciting and gripping.”

“ A clever idea well-executed; a treat for fans of short fiction and for Brontë’s many ardent fans.”

KIRKUS REVIEWS

EUROCRIME

JAMES LOVEGROVE, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE AGE OF ODIN

“ With more twists than a Victorian corset, this is Sherlock for the mash-up generation. Tongue-in-cheek, knowing tales, with dollops of Penny Dreadful and a side salad of Atlantis.”

We were the Family, but we weren’t just an ordinary family. There was me – my name is Green – and my little sister, Blue. There was October, who we called Toby, and Ellensia, Dylan, Liberty, Pet and Egg. There was Richard and there was Freya. We were close to the ancient way of living and the ancient landscape. We knew the moors, and the standing stones. And we had Foxlowe, our home, where we were free. There really was no reason for anyone to want to leave. “ Mesmerising, gripping and beautifully written. It completely sweeps you up from beginning to end. I loved it.”

KATE HAMER, AUTHOR OF THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT

“ Wasserberg has a strong and distinctive voice and this is an excellent debut.”

CLARE MACKINTOSH, AUTHOR OF I LET YOU GO

WILLIAM SUTTON, AUTHOR OF LAWLESS AND THE DEVIL OF EUSTON SQUARE

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ISBN 9780008174163

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Robert Garson

Fantasy & Supernatural 10 hours

ISBN 9781510046924

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ISBN 9780008190781

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DECEMBER

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The Rage of a Demon King

A Buccaneer at Heart

Hotel Honolulu

Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942 – 1944

Raymond E. Feist

Stephanie Laurens

Paul Theroux

Paddy Ashdown

The third nail biting novel in the bestselling Serpentwar series.

A riveting blend of Regency-era high seas adventure, mystery and passionate romances between four couples.

“ An engrossing tragicomedy which no writer worth the name could fail to recount.”

A riveting three-way spy story, set in occupied France.

After a decade of captaining diplomatic voyages, Captain Robert Frobisher decides that establishing a home – with hearth and wife – should be his next challenge. But an unexpected mission intervenes.

Miss Aileen Hopkins is set on finding her younger brother Will, a naval lieutenant who has mysteriously disappeared. And when Robert Frobisher appears, they both realize that joining forces is the surest path to meeting all the challenges before them.

Newly married and having recently taken over the management of a hotel in Honolulu, a former writer is drawn into the lives of his guests and the distinctive customs and rhythms of the distant island. As witness to the many contrasting chronicles of the hotel’s characters, he ultimately returns to writing once again.

The result is this novel in eighty distinct episodes, a Chaucerian sequence of strange pilgrims and islanders confronting each other and their fate, in the rooms of the seedy hotel.

The Emerald Queen’s forces stand ready to launch a devastating invasion. Come the battle’s dawn, the magician Pug and his life-long friend Tomas will discover that something far worse than the Queen’s sorcery is afoot… An insatiable nightmare creature has entered their world, seeking to corrupt the source of life itself. When the final conflict is joined, reptile will stand against man and magician against demon… Those who battle for good must be victorious or all is doomed. “ Fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination.”

“ Stephanie Laurens’ heroines are marvellous tributes to Georgette Heyer: feisty and strong.”

WASHINGTON POST

“ A fine yarn […] vivid […] suspenseful […] the action is non‑stop.”

BOOKLIST

independent on sunday

“ What makes Hotel Honolulu so remarkable is the way it reveals the demons and doubts that beset a complicated man.”

CATHY KELLY

“ Stephanie Laurens never fails to entertain and charm her readers with vibrant plots, snappy dialogue, and unforgettable characters.”

HISTORICAL ROMANCE REVIEWS

SUNDAY TIMES

Game of Spies tells the story of a lethal spy triangle in between 1942 and 1944 in Bordeaux – and of France’s greatest betrayal by aristocratic and right-wing Resistance leader, Andre Grandclement. The story centres on three men: one British, one French and one German. The story follows the duel they fought out in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination: comrades sold fellow comrades, Allied agents and offered pilots to the Germans. “ The heroism of our boys is stirring stuff, history only makes real sense if you can see it from all sides.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH, ON A BRILLIANT LITTLE OPERATION

“ Paddy Ashdown has sifted the facts from the myths to write a fascinating and very personal account.”

INDEPENDENT, ON A BRILLIANT LITTLE OPERATION

“ Theroux has always been a remarkably vivid writer, and perhaps, never more so than here.”

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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Fantasy & Supernatural 24.5 hours

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Insanely Gifted

The Confidence Game

Jamie Catto

Maria Konnikova

From the creative dynamo, workshop leader and founder member of Faithless comes a manifesto for embracing our dark side and a blueprint for boosting our creativity.

A compelling investigation into the minds, motives and methods of con artists by a New York Times bestselling psychologist.

From infancy we are taught to edit ourselves, trimming out the darker, weirder, less acceptable parts in order to please others. But this addiction to approval is holding us back. Insanely Gifted shows how to transform our thinking and turn our inner demons into allies. Through techniques to become aware of our ‘Inner Critic,’ and exercises such as ‘Full Body Listening,’ Catto invites us to better know our deepest instincts and unlock our true power. “ Jamie Catto is kind, wise, open, boundlessly energetic, optimistic and passionate. I adore him.”

STEPHEN FRY

True con artists – the Bernie Madoffs, the Clark Rockefellers, the Lance Armstrongs – are elegant, outsized personalities; artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. They hold a deep, enigmatic fascination for us. But how do they do it? Why are they successful? Insightful and entertaining, The Confidence Game takes us into the world of the con, to examine not only why we believe in confidence artists but how our sense of truth can be manipulated by those around us. “ Konnikova has learned at least one thing from the con artists she studied: Always leave your marks wanting more.”

NEW YORK TIMES

“ One of the best science writers of our time examines the minds, motives, and methods of con artists-and the people who fall for their cons.”

“ Crucially, tangibly, useful.”

SUNDAY TIMES

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Predator

The Powder of Death

The Cavendon Luck

Cat Among the Pumpkins

Wilbur Smith

Julian Stockwin

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Mandy Morton

“Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared.” the times

Julian Stockwin is back with a fantastic standalone novel, a historical epic not to be missed.

As the clouds of war gather over Cavendon Hall, it is the younger generation who must step forward…

“ Funny, dark and moving. Anyone who has ever loved a cat will love this book.” nicola upson

The Powder of Death opens with a returned envoy to China meeting an English scholar in Oxford, in the mid13th century; their purpose is to share a deadly secret.

They vow that the knowledge of gunpowder must die with them. The novel tells the story of its re-discovery, one man’s obsession with the powder of death, and Edward III’s determination to use it to his advantage.

The nature of warfare is changed forever, and the world hears the death-knell of Knightly chivalry.

The great house of Cavendon Hall has a new generation of children playing in its halls and gardens. After the ravages of the Great War and the Great Depression, the future looks assured for the first time in a decade. But over Europe the storm clouds of war are gathering. And it must be the estate’s younger generation who step forward to play their part and fight for their country, young men and women from both above and below stairs.

Ex-SAS officer Hector Cross wants revenge for his wife’s murder. He wants Johnny Congo dead and so does the US government. Congo is on death row counting down the days. He wants out. He’s escaped before and knows he can again… When terrorist activity sparks panic on an oil super tanker, Cross is called into a mission that will test his emotional and physical limits. As Cross is thrown into the fire once more, he will not stop until he has snared his prey. “ No one does adventure quite like Smith.”

“ Stockwin’s page-turning prose, vividly drawn characters and ability to draw the reader right into these ancient times create a grand and compelling historical epic.”

DAILY MIRROR

“ The world’s leading adventure writer.”

DAILY EXPRESS

QUARTERDECK MAGAZINE, ON THE SILK TREE

“ A classic saga of loyalty, secrets, passion and intrigue […] if you’ve been suffering withdrawal symptoms from Downton, this is for you.”

Hettie and Tilly set out to investigate an old crime and a spate of new murders. Why is Mavis Spitforce dressed as a pumpkin? Can Irence Peggledrip really talk to cats from the spirit world? Did Milky Myers murder his family on Halloween; longer ago now than anyone can remember? These are the questions that the tabby duo must answer before the latest case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency can be solved. “ Original and intriguing […] a world without people which cat lovers will enter and enjoy.”

P. D. JAMES, ON THE NO. 2 FELINE DETECTIVE AGENCY

DAILY MAIL

“ Sweeping, fascinating and dramatic […] there’s even a nod to Emma Harte. The power and emotion come through on every page” ROMANTIC TIMES BOOK REVIEWS

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Ben Onwukwe 15.25 hours

ISBN 9780008168001

Greg Wagland 11.25 hours

ISBN 9781510043398

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Anna Bentinck Historical Fiction 16.25 hours

ISBN 9780008184285

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6 hours

ISBN 9781510043428

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OCTOBER

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The Farmer’s Daughter

Rattle His Bones

Saving Amelie

Fire And Sword

Mary Nichols

Carola Dunn

Cathy Gohlke

Harry Sidebottom

A beautiful and enchanting story of love, loss and hope at Briar Rose Farm.

The eighth instalment in this mystery series features Daisy Dalrymple at the Museum of Natural History – a place of fascination and murder.

Rachel’s every ideal is challenged as she and Jason walk a knife’s edge, asking others to do the same, for those they barely know, but come to love…

The third book in Sidebottom’s epic series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.

Daisy Dalrymple is excited to be showing her nephew and future stepdaughter the glories of Kensington’s Natural History Museum. But when they hear a tremendous crash, they are horrified to discover one of the curators dead – horribly murdered – atop of a pile of dinosaur bones. Together with her fiancé, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, Daisy is soon investigating a baffling case where professional grudges boil over into murder…

Increasingly wary of her father’s genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him will be her last. A letter from her friend changes everything. Married to SS officer Gerhardt Schlick, Kristine fears her husband views their daughter, Amelie, deaf since birth, as a blight on his Aryan bloodline. Rachel fears her father’s files may hold answers about Hitler’s plans for others like Amelie. Rachel turns to journalist Jason Young who connects her to the resistance…

“ The honourable Daisy Dalrymple brings her usual style and flair to this eighth instalment, set in 1920s London, in Dunn’s engagingly entertaining series.”

“ At times both emotional and suspenseful, this is a fantastic novel for those who love both historical fiction and human interest stories.”

June, 1944: Since her father’s stroke, Jean has been trying to run her parents’ farm almost single-handedly and is in desperate need of help. Karl, a German prisoner of war, turns out to be just what she needs.

Fraternisation with prisoners is forbidden, but as the weeks pass, Jean and Karl become closer – much to the dismay of Jean’s family and Karl’s compatriots. Can their love have a future when it seems every hand is against them? “ An engaging tale of romance, adventure and mystery.”

HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW

“ Mary Nichols weaves wonderful stories and gives excellent period detail, which makes reading her books a rich experience.”

ANNA JACOBS

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

ROMANTIC TIMES

“ Dunn evokes the life and times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy.

BOOKLIST, ON STYX AND STONES

“ A haunting story of the courageous few who worked tirelessly and at great risk to themselves to save people they did not know, whom they would not see again.”

Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors. The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne. The Senate must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus, but fighting erupts in the streets as ambitious men call for violent revolution. Can the new Augusti hold the city together as the empire’s farthest territories fight off bloody attacks from the Goths and the Persians in the east? “ Absorbing and brilliant […] Game of Thrones without the dragons.”

THE TIMES

“ Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship.”

THE TIMES

LIBRARY JOURNAL

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Depraved Heart

The Christmas Café

Battle For Rome

Christmas for the Halfpenny Orphans

Patricia Cornwell

Amanda Prowse

Ian Ross

Cathy Sharp

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-third engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series, starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

Set between Sydney and Edinburgh, this is a story of family ties, lost love, and the power of the past from bestselling author Amanda Prowse.

The Roman Empire is on the brink of civil war.

A gritty and compelling drama from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working when she receives a video link that appears to be from her niece, Lucy. But how can it be? It’s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches, she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece. The diabolical presence behind what unfolds seems obvious – but strangely, not to the FBI, who begin building a case that could send Lucy to prison for the rest of her life.

Bea has just lost her husband after thirty years of marriage. To distract herself from grief, she throws herself into her work running the Reservoir Street Kitchen in Sydney’s most fashionable district. But then an email from a café-owner in Edinburgh prompts her to take a trip to Scotland in the depths of winter; a journey of self-discovery into a secret past that she has tried to forget.

“ A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller.”

Amanda Prowse is the author of several novels, including the bestseller Will You Remember Me?

BBC

“ America’s most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction.”

THE TIMES

“ Powerful and emotional family drama that packs a real punch.”

HEAT

Only Maxentius, tyrant of Rome, stands between the emperor Constantine and supreme power in the west.

Aurelius Castus, promoted from the ranks for valour, is now a tribune in Constantine’s army. But as Constantine becomes increasingly devoted to Christianity, Castus is forced to ask himself whether he is backing the wrong man… The coming war will decide the fate of empire but also expose shadowy realms of treachery at the heart of Rome itself. “ Ian imbues any situation with some wonderful twists, reinforcing that nothing in life (and therefore within these pages) is as simple as it seems […] a writing masterclass in adding research and factoids that help rather than hinder the pace.”

THE BOOKBAG

Little twin sisters, Sarah and Samantha, are all alone in the world. Their father has abandoned them and they’ve found sanctuary at St Saviour’s Children’s Home in London’s East End. It seems they’re doomed to be separated as no one wants to take Sarah. Angela Morton has her hands full; she’s now in sole charge. But with Christmas approaching, and more than one orphan in desperate need, St Saviour’s is crying out for a miracle…

Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo’s in this gritty drama that will appeal to fans of Nadine Dorries and Kitty Neale.

“ A thumping good read.”

BEN KANE

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14.75 hours

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8.25 hours

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NOVEMBER

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Before the War

The Price of Blood

The Treacle Well

An Untimely Frost

Fay Weldon

Patricia Bracewell

Moira Forsyth

Penny Richards

Inventive, warm, playful and full of Weldon’s trademark ironic edge; this is a spellbinding historical novel from one of the best novelists of our time.

The second book in Bracewell’s outstanding Emma of Normandy series, set in 11th century England, when Vikings are on the brink of invasion.

“ T he writing is elegant and spare, with never a word wasted or […] an iota of sentimentality allowed.”

Solving crimes is not a dress rehearsal…

Consider Vivien in November 1922: she is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionable clothes, but she is plain and – almost worse in those times – intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as ‘the giantess.’ Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man’s child, and will die in childbirth in just a few months…

1006 AD: Queen Emma, the Norman bride of England’s King Æthelred, has given birth to a son. But the court is a setting for betrayal, as the ageing king struggles to retain his power. Elsewhere Viking threats to the crown are gaining strength. Emma must protect her only child, and her inner conflict between maternal instinct and royal duty will be played out against the bloody struggle for Britain’s rule.

“ A romp of a read full of Weldon wit and wisdom, as well as sumptuous period detail.”

DAILY MAIL

“ The quirky, singular writing style […] triumphs […] with its unique characters and playfully ironic voice.”

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

DAILY MAIL ON SHADOW ON THE CROWN

“ Readers of historical sagas and romances will embrace this rich narrative.”

LIBRARY JOURNAL DAILY MAIL ON SHADOW ON THE CROWN

the herald

Caroline and Daniel are twins whose mother died when they were babies. They grow up in a conventional family, their aunt and uncle raising them, and they are truly close only to each other. After their father’s remarriage, they’re sent to separate boarding schools.

When the twins become medical students, a serious accident occurs that somehow seems to happen without damage to either of them, but they cut themselves off from the rest of their family because of it; causing first bewilderment and then anger…

1881, Chicago: The life of the theatre is all Lilly Long has known, but after her savings are taken from her by a seductive scoundrel, Lilly vows to leave the stage and save others from a similar fate. When famed crime buster Allan Pinkerton opens his agency’s doors to a handful of women, Lilly persuades him to take her on…

Her first case is to solve the mystery of a pastor who disappeared with his family and the church’s funds.

Penny Richards has written over fifty novels, and is currently working on the next Lilly Long Mystery.

“ The Treacle Well identifies the deep stickiness of families and the powerful tug of their secrets. The reader grows more helpless and more vigilant, while also becoming involved with and fond of the characters Moira Forsyth has breathed into life.”

CANDIA MCWILLIAM

THE IRISH SUN

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21

DECEMBER

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The Lavender House

The Woolworths Girls

The Canary Girls

Off the Grid

Hilary Boyd

Elaine Everest

Rosie Archer

C. J. Box

A new novel on risking everything for a second chance at love, for fans of Erica James.

Can romance blossom in times of trouble?

In love and war, who can you trust?

There’s no hiding off the grid…

It’s 1938 and Sarah Caselton is preparing for her new job at Woolworths. Before long, she forms a tight bond with two of her colleagues – the glamorous Maisie and shy Freda, as well as beginning a blossoming romance with young assistant manager, Alan. But with the threat of war clouding the horizon, the young employees of Woolworths realize that there are bigger battles ahead.

It’s a dangerous time for the nation, and an even more perilous time to fall in love…

1944, Hampshire: Her face still bearing the scars from the explosion at the factory, Rita Brown is nonetheless back on her feet. She manages to keep calm and carry on with a little help from her friends at the factory. But trouble is soon afoot when she discovers someone there has been leaking secrets to the Germans. With D-Day on the horizon, Rita must work out who she can rely on – and fast.

Joe Pickett’s old friend, Nate Romanowski is off the grid; lying low while the FBI search for him. But they’re not the only ones looking for him. Nate finds himself confronted by agents who need his help assessing a potential terror threat in Wyoming’s Red Desert – in return they’ll make Nate’s criminal record disappear.

Meanwhile, Joe investigates a rash of crimes and secretive federal activity. As they pursue their quarries, both men will be drawn deep into a secret that could take them both down.

Nancy de Freitas is the glue that holds her family together. Then she meets Jim. Smoker, drinker and unsuccessful country singer, he should be completely unsuited to the very together Nancy. And yet, there is a real spark. But Nancy’s family don’t trust Jim one bit.

They’re convinced he’ll break her heart. Can she be brave enough to follow her heart? Or will she remain glued to her family’s side and walk away from one last chance for love? “ A gentle but emotionally charged drama.”

“ Heartwarming […] a must-read.”

WOMAN’S OWN

SUNDAY MIRROR

“ I found myself instantly gripped […] a romance in the Joanna Trollope vein.”

“ A warm, tender tale of friendship and love […] sweet as a Woolies Pick ‘n’ Mix.”

A new powerful and heart-warming saga featuring the same adored characters as The Munitions Girls.

“ Heart-stoppingly good.”

“ A gripping story packed with darkness and light, love and friendship, greed and betrayal.”

DAILY MAIL

“ Exhilarating […] gung-ho stuff.”

LANCASHIRE EVENING POST

MILLY JOHNSON

SUNDAY TIMES

THE TIMES

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Annie Aldington

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Helen Lloyd

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David Chandler

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22

DECEMBER

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The Prodigal Daughter

The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane

Faith

A Quiet Life

Prue Leith

Ellen Berry

Len Deighton

Natasha Walter

A shared passion… A love against the odds…

Take a trip to the Yorkshire village of Burley Bridge, where a very special little cookbook shop has just opened its doors…

Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the first novel in the classic spy trilogy Faith, Hope and Charity.

Sweeping and exhilarating, alive with passion and betrayal, A Quiet Life is the first novel from a brilliant new voice in British fiction.

Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are her life, and there isn’t an issue they can’t fix. Forty years later, Della Cartwright plans to open a very special little bookshop. She wants to share the hundreds of cookbooks her mother left to her – she wants to share their recipes with the world.

But with her family convinced it’s a difficult plan, Della starts to wonder if she’s made a terrible decision. One thing’s for sure – Della’s about to find out…

Bernard has known that he is not getting the full picture from London Central ever since discovering that his wife Fiona was a double agent. Werner Volkmann has been cast out by London Central as untrustworthy.

Yet Werner still seems able to pick up information that Bernard should have been told…

Since the disappearance of her husband, Laura Leverett has been living in limbo with her daughter in Geneva.

All others see is her conventional, charming exterior; nobody guesses the secret she is carrying. Her double life began years ago, when she set sail to London in 1939.

As she begins to move between two different worlds, she meets a man who seems to help her combine both… but is he hiding a secret bigger than hers?

After growing up in her family’s restaurant business, Angelica Angelotti wants to strike out on her own, so she moves to Paris to learn French cuisine.

Angelica’s career blossoms, but when her marriage fails her parents’ concerns are proved painfully right.

Moving back to run the inn on her family’s estate in Gloucestershire may feel like failure, but little does Angelica know that what awaits her there is the greatest challenge of her life – and a second chance at love.

With twelve cookery books under her belt, Prue gave up writing about food to concentrate on fiction. She has written five contemporary novels and a memoir, Relish.

The Prodigal Daughter is the second novel in a trilogy that began with The Food of Love.

“ A string of brilliantly mounted set-pieces […] superbly laconic wisecracks.”

“ Walter has taken us inside a life in hiding, in a novel about love, about political ideals and about the entrapment both create.”

THE TIMES

“ Warm, funny and poignant.”

“ The plotting in Faith is masterly, the atmospheric descriptions superb.”

THE DAILY MAIL

“ Brilliant […] manages to capture family life perfectly.”

LINDA GRANT

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

CHICK LIT REVIEWS

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Karen Cass Historical Fiction 15.5 hours

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OCTOBER

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Rebel of the Sands

The Fire Child

Strangers

Time to Say Goodbye

Alywn Hamilton

S. K. Tremayne

Paul Finch

S. D. Robertson

“ A hugely entertaining, lushly painted Western with a rich seam of Arabic culture, Djinni magic, breathless romance and show-stopping action sequences.”

The chilling new psychological thriller by S. K. Tremayne, author of the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller, The Ice Twins.

Dark, gritty and always an edge-of-your-seat read: the No. 1 bestseller, Paul Finch, is back with a standout new heroine.

A heart-rending story about the unique bond between a father and his daughter, for fans of Jojo Moyes and Nicholas Sparks.

When Rachel marries David, everything seems to fall into place. The move to beautiful Cornwall brings wealth, love, and an affectionate stepson, Jamie. But then Jamie’s behaviour changes. He makes disturbing predictions, claiming to be haunted by his late mother – David’s previous wife. As Rachel starts digging into the past, she begins to grow suspicious of her husband.

What exactly happened to cause his ex-wife’s untimely death? Rachel begins to fear there might be truth in Jamie’s words “You will be dead by Christmas.”

Unknown, alone, and fearing for your life. As PC Lucy Clayburn is about to find out exactly how this feels, going undercover is the most dangerous work there is.

But, on the trail of a prolific female serial killer, there’s no other option – and these murders are as brutal as they come. Lucy must step into the line of fire – a stranger in a criminal underworld that butchers anyone who crosses the line. And unknown to Lucy, she’s already treading it…

Will Curtis’ six-year-old daughter, Ella, knows her father will never leave her. After all, he promised her so when her mother died. What Will doesn’t know is that the promise he made to his little girl might be harder to keep than he imagined. When he’s faced with an impossible decision, Will finds that the most obvious choice might not be the right one. But the future is full of unexpected surprises.

bookseller

Rebel of the Sands is packed with train robberies, festivals under the stars, powerful Djinni magic and an electrifying love story. Dustwalk is Amani’s home. The desert sand is in her bones. But she wants to escape. More than a want.

A need. Then a foreigner with no name turns up to save her life, and with him the chance to run. But to where?

The desert plains are full of danger. Sand and blood are swirling, and the Sultan’s enemies are on the rise. “ Combining a whirligig narrative with a richly evoked fantasy desert setting, Hamilton barely lets the reader pause for breathe.”

METRO

“ A magnificently creepy thriller.”

SPECTATOR, ON THE ICE TWINS

“ Beautifully paced, teeming with psychological shivers” THE TIMES, ON THE ICE TWINS

“ Wonderfully dark and peppered with grim humour. Finch is a born storyteller and writes with the authentic voice of the ex-copper he is.”

PETER JAMES

“ An ingenious and original plot. Compulsive reading.”

RACHEL ABBOTT

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Soneela Nankani 9.5 hours

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Chloe Massey

JAM5

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11.75 hours

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Paul Tyreman Modern Fiction 9.5 hours

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OCTOBER

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The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid

Bad Press

Secret Sisters

Watching Edie

Craig Russell

Maureen Carter

Jayne Ann Krentz

Camilla Way

Private investigator Lennox returns in a new helping of fast-paced detective noir; set in 1950s Glasgow.

“ Carter has mastered the art of the crime thriller to ensure a page turner which will catch you out no matter how hard you try to second guess her.”

The New York Times bestselling author of Trust No One and River Road delivers a novel that twists and turns into a read that will leave you breathless.

A chilling psychological thriller about friendship, deception, betrayal and violence; perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl.

Madeline has returned to Washington after her grandmother’s mysterious death. And at her family’s old, abandoned hotel, a dying man’s last words convey a warning: the secrets she and Daphne believed were buried forever have been discovered. Now Madeline and Daphne will be reunited in friendship and in fear.

Madeline summons Jack Rayner and with his brother Abe’s assistance a high-tech magician, the four of them will form an uneasy alliance against a killer who will stop at nothing to hide the truth…

Beautiful and a little wild – Edie caused a stir when she walked into Heather’s life – back when they both had dreams for the future; before it all went horribly, terrifyingly wrong… Years later Edie is pregnant and alone, desperately trying to rebuild her life. But someone’s been watching her. It’s no coincidence that Heather shows up just when Edie needs her most. Edie’s about to learn that those who have hurt us deeply, or who we have hurt, never let us go…

Lennox liked Quiet Tommy Quaid. Perhaps it’s odd for a private detective to like – even admire – a career thief, but he was the sort of man everyone liked. It was the police who gave him his nickname, Quiet Tommy – because whenever they caught him, he always came quietly. People liked Tommy because he was exactly who and what he seemed to be. But when Tommy turns up dead, Lennox and the rest of Glasgow will find out just how wrong they were. “ A great writer at the very top of his game.”

birmingham mail

A serial killer’s targeting Birmingham’s paedophiles and crime reporter Matt Snow always gets there first; ahead of the pack of police. Is the murderer tipping him off? Snow isn’t revealing his source, but is the reporter breaking the news – or making it? Through it all, Bev has an exclusive of her own… a news item she’d rather didn’t get round the nick. Should she let DC Mac Tyler in on the secret – or keep quiet? “ Written in a no-nonsense pared down style which combined with an action filled plot leaves the reader gasping for breath and turning the pages.”

PETER JAMES

EUROCRIME

“ Maureen Carter is a writer of real class and if you haven’t read this series you’ve got a treat to come.”

“ Buckle up and expect to lose sleep, because just when you think you’ve figured it out, Secret Sisters will throw you a new curve.”

BOOKPAGE

THE WASHINGTON POST

“ This is the rarest of treats, a humdinger of a story told by an exceptional writer.”

BOOKLIST

“ A suspenseful, romantic escape.”

REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE

“ Beautifully written, compulsive.”

PEOPLE

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10.75 hours

ISBN 9781510043367

9.75 hours

ISBN 9781510046245

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NOVEMBER

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So Sad Today

The Secret of Orchard Cottage

The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts

The Lost Relic

Melissa Broder

Alexandra Brown

Annie Darling

Scott Mariani

So Sad Today is an unapologetic, unblinkingly intimate book that splays out a soul and a prose of unusual beauty.

The wonderful new novel from the bestselling author Alex Brown; perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley and Jill Mansell.

A delightful new series set in a quaint old bookshop, perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond and Jenny Colgan.

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

In 2012, Melissa Broder went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread, so she began @SoSadToday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into existential themes, from eating disorders, drug addiction and unusual fetishes, to love, death, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. Narrated by the author, this is a modern day memoir that is relatable to so many.

April Wilson’s life has been turned upside down after the loss of her husband, so she decides to visit her elderly great aunt, Edith. Arriving at the once breathtaking cottage and orchard, she’s dismayed to find it in a state of disrepair. Aunt Edith has become distracted, desperately trying to find out what happened to her sister, Winnie, who disappeared during World War Two. April gets to work in the orchard and begins to unravel the mystery – but can Orchard Cottage work its magic on her too?

Once upon a time in a crumbling London bookshop, Posy Morland spent her life lost in the pages of her favourite romantic novels. So when Bookend’s eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies she leaves the shop to Posy. As Posy and her friends fight to save their beloved but ailing bookshop, Posy’s drawn into a battle of wills with Sebastian, Lavinia’s stubborn grandson, about whom she’s started to have some rather feverish fantasies…

Like her favourite romantic heroines, will she get her happy ever after too?

Whilst visiting a former SAS comrade in Italy, a distracted Ben nearly runs over a young boy – and unwittingly walks into his deadliest mission yet. Ben’s involvement with the boy’s family runs deeper as he witnesses their brutal murder at a gallery robbery. A seemingly worthless Goya sketch was the principal target in the bloodbath heist. Now it’s up to Ben to find out the truth behind the elusive painting. Wrongly accused of murder and forced to go on the run, he must get to the heart of the conspiracy while he still has the chance. . .

“ So Sad Today is desperately honest. […] Sad and uncomfortable and its own kind of gorgeous.”

“ A lovely book to curl up and unwind with, as sweet and charming as homemade apple pie.”

“ Completely hilarious and breathtakingly romantic.”

“ This is an absolute delight to read […] you really won’t want to put it down.”

ROXANE GAY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BAD FEMINIST

MILLY JOHNSON

“ It would have been easy for Broder to stay anonymous and simply publish a book of @SoSadToday’s most popular tweets, but instead, she chose to challenge herself in what turned out to be a triumph of unsettlingly relatable prose.”

“ Warm, wonderful characters – a really lovely read.”

SARAH MORGAN, AUTHOR OF SLEIGH BELLS IN THE SNOW

CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN

“ Sophisticated, romantic, compelling and absolutely charming.

A brilliant new addition to the romantic comedy genre, I loved it.”

ALEX BROWN

NEWS OF THE WORLD

“ Smart, action-packed thriller {…] it’s completely addictive.”

CLOSER MAGAZINE

VANITYFAIR

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Melissa Broder

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ISBN 9781510044661

Gabrielle Glaister Modern Fiction 10.25 hours

ISBN 9780008153175

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Laura Kirman

JAM5

Genre Humorous

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William Rycroft Action & Adventure 11 hours

ISBN 9780008169978

26

NOVEMBER

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Beneath the Surface

Box 21

The Spice Box Letters

Dr. Knox

Jo Spain

Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström

Eve Makis

Peter Spiegelman

From top-ten Irish bestselling author, Jo Spain pens the highly anticipated second novel in the Inspector Tom Reynolds series.

The internationally bestselling authors of Three Seconds and Cell 8 introduce DCI Ewert Grens to the cruel reality of human trafficking.

Letters can conjure up more than just memories…

Late at night, two powerful men meet to discuss a long nurtured plan. One is desperate to know there is nothing standing in their way – the other assures him everything is taken care of. Hours later, a high-ranking government official called Ryan Finnegan is brutally murdered. Inspector Tom Reynolds is called in to uncover the truth. At first, all the evidence hints at a politically motivated crime, until a surprise discovery takes the investigation in a dramatically different direction…

Lydia Grajauskas will never forget the face. The face of the trafficker who brought her to Stockholm: the man responsible for three unrelenting years of forced prostitution and slavery. DCI Ewert Grens will never forget the name. The name of the prisoner the day his life was destroyed: the man responsible for twenty-five years of torturous heartache. Sweden will never forget their revenge…

A gripping new thriller about a doctor with a potent humanitarian impulse and an unhealthy appetite for risk, coupled with the knack for finding himself between a rock and a hard place.

“ This is crime writing at its most ambitious and morally complex.”

FINANCIAL TIMES

“ Fiendishly clever.”

IRISH EXAMINER ON WITH OUR BLESSING

Dr. Adam Knox runs a clinic near Los Angeles’s Skid Row, making house calls on those too famous or too criminal to seek other medical care. When a young boy is abandoned at his clinic, Knox is determined to find his family. Knox’s search for the boy’s mother leads him and his friend, former Special Forces operator Ben Sutter, into a labyrinth of human traffickers, Russian mobsters, and corporate security thugs, and to an utterly ruthless family. “ Fast paced, convincing and clever, this is a very superior thriller.”

MAIL ON SUNDAY ON THICK AS THIEVES

“ Her observations are consistently sharp and keep you engaged to the uplifting end.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

“ Brilliant! Fast paced, well researched and sensitive.”

“ Makis translates the darker sides of domestic life into engaging, vibrant prose.”

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

“ A high-impact Swedish thriller.”

IRISH SUNDAY INDEPENDENT ON WITH OUR BLESSING

Katerina inherits a spice box after her grandmother Mariam dies. It contains letters and a diary, written in Armenian. Katerina learns that Mariam’s childhood was shattered by the Armenian tragedy of 1915. Exiled from her home in Turkey and separated from her beloved brother, Mariam’s life was marred by grief. Katerina tries to find resolution in her own life as she completes Mariam’s story on a journey that takes her across Cyprus and then half a world away to New York.

DAILY EXPRESS

“ Spiegelman’s sharp prose pulls the reader straight through to the bittersweet end.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL ON RED CAT

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Jeff Harding

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10.75 hours

ISBN 9781510044623

11.75 hours

ISBN 9781510044630

7 hours

ISBN 9781510045262

13 hours

ISBN 9781510044654

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DECEMBER

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The Runner

5000 – 1 The Leicester City Story

The Goodbye Gift

The Story of Our Life

Peter May

Rob Tanner

Amanda Brooke

Shari Low

The penultimate novel in the China series, from Richard and Judy million-selling author of The Blackhouse.

The incredible as-it-happened story of Leicester City’s march to Premier League Victory.

A heart-breaking novel about friendship, love and sacrifice from bestselling author, Amanda Brooke.

Unwind, laugh and cry; feel uplifted with this bittersweet love story. Perfect for the fans of Jo-Jo Moyes and Marian Keyes.

A top Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of an international event. An Olympic weightlifter dies in the arms of his Beijing mistress. But the suicide was murder and both men’s deaths are connected to a sinister series of killings. Beijing detective Li Yan finds himself in charge of what could be his last investigation. Li’s only hope of a breakthrough is a champion runner, the only person who seems willing to talk, but then the runner disappears…

In August 2015 bookmakers priced Leicester at 5000-1 to win the Premier League – the same odds as Elvis being found alive. On 2 May 2016, Leicester won, to ecstatic celebrations in the city and around the world. Leicester Mercury ’s chief football writer, Rob Tanner, relives the great escape of 2015 to the curtain-closer at Stamford Bridge. Tanner’s book tells the inside story of Leicester City’s triumph – and the players who under Claudio Ranieri’s inspired leadership became the most unlikely champions in football history.

Lucy desperately needs a new heart. But getting the call to say a donor has been found will be a bittersweet relief, because for her to live, someone else must die.

Julia, Helen and Phoebe have been friends throughout their lives. Yet a deep friendship can hide many secrets, and as their relationship reaches crisis point, what has long been buried is going to come bubbling to the surface. With one tragic accident, these four lives will converge and Lucy will get her new heart.

“Colm strolled into my life fifteen years ago. If there’s ever such a thing as love at first sight, that was it for us both.

A few weeks later we married, celebrating with those who cared. This was going to be forever, the happy ever after… until it wasn’t. We discovered a devastating truth, one that blew away our future. What would you do if your husband slept with another woman?”

“ A new angle on this intriguing series […] a winning character.”

CRIME TIME

With incredible insider access, Tanner’s book tells the full tale of the English Premier League’s most remarkable story to date — the dream of anyone who has ever supported an underdog.

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

NEW YORK TIMES

Rob Tanner is the Leicester Mercury’s chief football writer and has been Leicester City FC correspondent for the past seven seasons.

“ A haunting and heart-breaking story that stayed with me long after I’d finished.”

FERN BRITTON

“ Unputdownable.”

“ Shari Low writes with humour and skill about the complicated subtleties of adult relationships.”

DOROTHY KOOMSON

“ There are only two words for Shari Low: utterly hilarious.

I laughed like a drain.”

CARMEN REID

KATIE FFORDE

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Sport, Hobbies & Leisure 7.5 hours

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Louise Barrett Modern Fiction 9.5 hours

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28

DECEMBER

Jammer

Jammer

Fatal Pursuit

The Canal Boat Café

Dance with the Dead

Loreena’s Gift

Martin Walker

Cressida McLaughlin

James Nally

Colleen M. Story

The real life disappearance of ‘the most beautiful car ever made,’ sparks a compelling new case for Bruno, Chief of Police.

The true romantic read – perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan and Holly Martin.

One dead woman. One new recruit. No proof.

A blind girl’s terrifying “gift” allows her to regain her eyesight – but only as she ferries the recently deceased into the afterlife.

Only four of Bugatti Type 57 Atlantics were ever built.

It was the car used by British racing ace, William Grover Williams, who became an undercover agent in Occupied France. Years later, two racing drivers, with a passion for antique cars, compete to find new clues as to the car’s hiding place in France. When a local researcher turns up dead, Bruno races to find the murderer and to track down the fate of the most beautiful car ever made. “ Walker is brilliant at capturing the murderous charms of rural France […] the setting is undeniably delicious.”

MIRROR ON THE DYING SEASON

“ The Bruno series […] is highly assured, full of quirky touches and characterised with real exuberance.”

Summer Freeman returns to rescue the Canal Boat Café, her late mother’s picturesque narrowboat, which has run into choppy waters. A family friend, Valerie, has been trying to keep things afloat, but is struggling.

Help comes in the shape of handsome wildlife photographer, Mason, who is showing more than a passing interest in Summer. Will the anchor of a steady life on land be too strong, or can Summer learn to cut loose and embrace life afloat? “ Like a lovely warm hug in a book.”

KIRSTY GREENWOOD

Aspiring actress Elizabeth Smart lands her centre stage role when her mutilated body is found dumped in a red light district… Clasped in her hand is a piece of hair belonging to an unidentified body of a woman murdered two weeks ago. PC Donal lands himself a place on the murder squad just as his unconventional brother, journalist Finton, unearths the secret double life of Elizabeth. The police are convinced it’s the act of a serial killer, but how does Donal convince them it’s not? “ With strong characters, hilarious dialogue and a thrilling plot, this book is a page-turner from the start.”

SUN

“ A lovely, warm gem of a series that stays with you […]

I loved it.”

Loreena Picket may be blind but she’s a dutiful niece and talented pianist for her uncle’s congregation… but they’re both hiding a terrible secret. Loreena can kill people with the touch of her hand. While her uncle sees her as an angel of mercy, helping usher the terminally ill members of his flock into the afterlife, Loreena has her doubts. The true nature of her talent will be tested and will force her to consider how far she is willing to go…

An exciting debut that crosses fantasy and literary fiction, Loreena’s Gift is a thought-provoking meditation on life and death and what ultimately lies beyond this world.

ALEXANDRA BROWN, ON PRIMROSE TERRACE

GOOD BOOK GUIDE ON THE DYING SEASON

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Aidan Kelly

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Alyssa Bresnahan Fantasy & Supernatural 12 hours

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29

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

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Jammer young adult | e ng ag ing fic tion a n d n on - fic tion for young a dult s ag e d 16+

Accidental Superstar

The Last Boy and Girl in the World

The Black Key

Talon

Marianne Levy

Siobhan Vivian

Amy Ewing

Julie Kagawa

Accidental Superstar by Marianne Levy is the first instalment in a hilarious series about a girl who accidentally finds fame singing online.

A stunning new novel about a girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows after a storm wreaks havoc on her hometown.

The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Lone City trilogy – and an ending not to be missed.

“ T here are a dozen soldiers hiding in that maze.

All hunting you. All looking to kill you.”

What if your town was sliding underwater and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave? While the adults plan for the future, Keeley Hewitt and her friends decide to go out with a bang. There are parties in abandoned houses and canoe races down Main Street. The goal is to make the most of every minute they still have together, and for Keeley that means taking one last shot at the boy she’s loved forever.

For too long, Violet and the people of the outer circles of the Lone City have lived in service of the royalty of the Jewel. But now, the secret society known as the Black Key is preparing to seize power. Now, after fighting so hard to escape the Jewel, Violet must do everything in her power to return not only to save her sister Hazel, who has been taken by the Duchess of the Lake, but the future of the Lone City…

“ A transcendent love story, as profoundly moving as it is fun.

This is Siobhan Vivian’s finest hour.”

“ With its taut, provocative plot and irresistible characters, The Jewel had me tearing through pages right up to the final, startling twist. I need the next book now!”

Katie Cox is used to going unnoticed, by her mum, her dad, even her best friend. But when a video of her singing in her bedroom goes viral, she becomes a superstar overnight. As the views skyrocket and a recording contract beckons, the real world starts to feel very far away. And now Katie’s riding high on her newfound fame. But the higher she goes, the further there is to fall…

Geek Girl meets Girl Online as a recording of Katie singing at home accidentally goes viral!

STEPHEN CHBOSKY, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

Ember Hill has a deadly secret. A dragon hiding in human form, she is destined to fight the shadowy Order of St George, a powerful society of dragon slayers. St George soldier, Garret, is determined to kill Ember and her kind… until her bravery makes him question all he’s been taught about dragons. Now a war is coming and Garret and Ember must choose their sides – fight to save their bond or fulfil their fate and destroy one another… “ The first in a new series, Talon leaves readers perfectly balanced between satisfaction and anticipation.”

BOOKPAGE

“ Kagawa knows just how to end a first volume for maximum cliff-hanger drama.”

ANDREA CREMER, PRAISE FOR THE JEWEL

“ Excellent world building skillful descriptions.”

BOOKLIST

BOOKLIST, PRAISE FOR THE JEWEL

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Caitlin Davies, Macleod Andrews & Chris Patton Fantasy & Supernatural 12.5 hours

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30

DECEMBER

OCTOBER

Avid |

If I Was Your Girl

The Pocket Wife

The Kingdom

William Campbell Powell

Meredith Russo

Susan Crawford

Fuminori Nakamura

Told in diary format, Expiration Day is the powerful and poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age and discovering what it means to be truly human by a talented debut novelist.

A book about loving yourself and being loved for who you really are.

What happens when you think you might have done something terrible… but you can’t remember it?

A dark and intense thriller set deep in the Tokyo underworld, from the bestselling author of The Gun.

Dana Catrell wakes from a drunken stupor in time to see an ambulance pull into her neighbour’s house a few doors down. Celia Steinhauser has been murdered. But Dana was at her house only a few hours ago. Celia wanted to show her a photo – a photo of Dana’s husband with another woman… Dana has blank spots about what happened to the rest of the afternoon: especially the difference between what actually happened and what she imagines has happened, with dream and reality becoming blurred…

Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute; carefully targeting powerful, high-profile men – who she then drugs takes incriminating photos of to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organisation she’s working for and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she doesn’t have to reveal anything about her identity.

But when a figure from Yurika’s past emerges, she finds herself in a trap that she can’t seem to find a way out of…

“ The Pocket Wife is an exceptional literary thriller debut that sensitively portrays a woman struggling with Bipolar Disorder, and the horrific possibility that she’s a murderer. Engrossing, thrilling, and page turning all the way through, this is one you won’t want to miss!”

“ Some of the darkest noir fiction to come out of Japan or any country in recent years […] Nakamura’s stories, however labelled, are memorable forays into uncomfortable terrain.”

It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley is a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids called teknoids manufactured by Oxted Corporation.

Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at high school that Tania realizes that her best friend, Sian, may be one. If Sian could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania’s life are not real?

Amanda Hardy is the new girl at school. Like everyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is holding back. Even from Grant, the guy she’s falling in love with. Amanda has a secret. At her old school, she used to be called Andrew. And secrets always have a way of getting out… “ Important and brave. Read this wonderful book, just read it.”

JENNIFER NIVEN, AUTHOR OF ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES

“ Real and raw and layered and wonderful..”

ALEX GINO, AUTHOR OF GEORGE

“ A remarkable and heart-filled look at what it means to be human. If you’re not in tears by the last chapter, you’ve a hard heart indeed.”

CORY DOCTOROW, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LITTLE BROTHER

CHEVY STEVENS

“ The Pocket Wife is haunting, gripping, and lyrical – a book you won’t want to put down. Susan Crawford is a bright new star.”

MYSTERY SCENE

“ This slim, icy, outstanding thriller, reminiscent of Muriel Spark and Patricia Highsmith, should establish Fuminori Nakamura as one of the most interesting Japanese crime novelists at work today.”

USA TODAY

DEBORAH CROMBIE

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13.25 hours

ISBN 9781510045385

Samia Mounts Modern Fiction 7 hours

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Expiration Day

31

24 Hours

Waiting for the Man

Bourne Enigma

Scarlet Widow

Claire Seeber

Arjun Basu

Eric Van Lustbader

Graham Masterton

“ A dark, twisting thriller that shows all too well how you can never escape the sins of your past.”

A journey of a man who is searching for purpose of life, all within surreal and bizarre circumstances.

Jason Bourne is back in this addictive instalment of the legendary series.

From the bestselling horror and crime writer, Graham Masterton, comes Scarlet Widow, a thriller not to be missed.

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NOVEMBER

Avid

OCTOBER

simon kernick

“Here today. Dead tomorrow? Last night, I almost died.

A fire consumed the hotel room where my best friend, Emily, and I slept. Emily was killed. But I can’t afford to cry, to grieve. It was meant to be me. And he’ll be coming for my daughter next. The press thinks it was me that died. At best, that gives me 24 hours. 24 hours to find Polly and disappear. 24 hours to stay alive.” 24 Hours is a fast-paced, intelligent psychological thriller that will leave you breathless. “ Fans of crime writer Nicci French will enjoy this.”

CLOSER MAGAZINE

“ 24 Hours is all it will take to read this high-octane thriller from Claire Seeber – I couldn’t put it down.”

CLARE MACKINTOSH, AUTHOR OF I LET YOU GO

Joe, a 36-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York company, feels disillusioned with his life. He starts dreaming of a mysterious man, seeing him on the street, and hearing his voice. Joe decides to listen to ‘the Man’ and so he waits on his stoop, day and night, for instructions. Waiting for the Man is a compelling and visceral story about the struggle to find something more in life. “ Waiting for the Man is a strangely engrossing, meticulously written allegory of the present moment.”

Jason Bourne is in Moscow to attend the wedding of his old friend and fellow spymaster General Boris Karpov.

But the General has an important message to deliver to Bourne – “a lifeline for the end of the world.” Before Bourne can decipher this warning, Karpov’s wedding ends in chaos. Bourne discovers that the Russian has betrayed the Kremlin to forewarn him of the crippling disaster about to engulf the world. Bourne has just four days to discover the nature of the catastrophe and put a stop to it. “ Move over 007, Bourne is back.”

DOUGLAS COUPLAND, AUTHOR OF WORST. PERSON. EVER. AND GENERATION X

“ Waiting for the Man hides a chilling truth under its lighthearted surface: the American Dream is a trap.”

DAILY MIRROR

Beatrice Scarlet is the apothecary’s daughter. She can mix medicines to save lives – but she can’t save the lives of her parents. An orphan at just sixteen, Beatrice marries and emigrates to America.

New Hampshire, 1756: In the farming community where Beatrice now lives, pigs are found dead with slices of looking-glass embedded in their mouths. According to scripture this is the work of Satan, but Beatrice suspects the hands of men. She must act quickly to unmask the killer – or become the next victim herself… “ A skilfully written and wonderfully unnerving thriller.”

“ Slickly paced […] all-consuming.”

BOOKSHELF BUTTERFLY

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“ Graham Masterton has perfected an eerie start that gets you intrigued right from the get go. […] It’s so fast-paced and never once misses a beat nor does it ever let-up on the speed.”

QUILL & QUIRE

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Scarlet Widow

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ISBN 9781510043589

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DECEMBER

OCTOBER

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Avid

Peter Pan Must Die

The Brother

Until the Dawn

Jane Lythell

John Verdon

Joakim Zander

Elizabeth Camden

Meet Liz Lyon: respected TV producer, stressed-out executive, guilty single mother and woman of the hour.

Ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney brings his analytical brilliance to a shocking murder that couldn’t have been committed, at least not the way the police say it was…

Smart, gripping and urgent, the new blockbuster from the bestselling author of The Swimmer.

Delve into this top-notch dramatic historical romance from a rising star author, Elizabeth Camden.

Growing up poor, Yasmine vowed she would always protect her little brother from harm. She broke her promise on the day she left home, abandoning Fadi to his life in the Stockholm slums. Now, years later, Yasmine still carries the guilt of leaving him behind.

Then she hears a rumour that he has been killed by a US drone in Syria. What happened to turn her brother into one of the CIA’s most wanted men? The answer will shock her. It will shock you too.

Sophie van Riijn needs access to the highest spot in her village to report accurate weather readings. Fascinated

by Dierenpark, an abandoned mansion atop a windswept cliff, Sophie knows no better option despite a lack of permission from the absent owners. Quentin Vandermark intends to put an end to the rumours that have plagued his family by tearing down the mansion. But when the secrets of the Vandermarks are no longer content to stay in the past, will tragedy triumph or will hope prevail?

“ A thriller with rare ambition and breadth.”

“ Once again, Camden delivers a masterpiece of literature. […]

Sharp, witty dialogue and a tale of generational tragedy will keep readers entertained and enthralled until the very last word.”

StoryWorld is the nation’s favourite morning show and producer Liz Lyon wants to keep it that way. Her job is to turn real-life stories into thrilling TV – and keep a lid on the scandals that happen off-stage. But then simmering tensions erupt at the station, trapping Liz in a game where she doesn’t know the rules. As the power struggle intensifies, can Liz keep her cool, her job and her safety? “ The plotting is unpredictable as well as plausible and character driven – not an easy trick to pull off.”

INDEPENDENT, ON THE LIE OF YOU

The daunting task that confronts Gurney, once the NYPD’s top homicide cop: determining the guilt or innocence of a woman already convicted of shooting her charismatic politician husband. Gurney quickly finds himself waging a dangerous battle of wits with a thoroughly corrupt investigator, a disturbingly cordial mob boss, a gorgeous young temptress, and a bizarre assassin whose child-like appearance has earned him the nickname Peter Pan. But the identity of the villain at the mystery’s center turns out to be the biggest shock of all…

DAILY MAIL

“ It’s always a pleasure to watch a keen mind absorbed in a difficult puzzle, which is how Dave Gurney distinguishes himself in John Verdon’s tricky whodunits.”

“ Timely, relevant and exciting.”

BOOK REVIEWS

LITERARY REVIEW

“ Camden’s delicately written romance – spiced with murder, superstition, and ancient secrets – will inspire readers.”

NEW YORK TIMES

“ Verdon’s cleverness again shines in Peter Pan Must Die.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NOVEMBER

Rosa

Rosa

A Wild Pursuit

Wildflower Bay

Second Time Around

Wildfire in His Arms

Eloisa James

Rachael Lucas

Colette Caddle

Johanna Lindsey

An exquisite historical romance; written by the queen of Regency seduction, Eloisa James.

“ Original, atmospheric, intriguing, romantic and funny – I loved it!” christina jones

It is a scandal whispered around London that follows wilfully wild Lady Beatrix Lennox. However, Beatrix sees no reason not to go after what – and who – she wishes.

And she wants Stephen Fairfax-Lacy, the handsome Earl of Spade. Beatrix couldn’t be more different from the earl’s ideal future bride, but she brings out the wildness in him. She may be used to being on top in affairs of the heart, but that will soon change…

Isla’s got the designer clothes and dream job as head stylist at an exclusive salon. She’s been so singleminded in this quest that she’s forgotten to have a life outside of it. When her aunt is in desperate need at her own salon, Isla heads to the remote island of Auchenmor to help.

An emotional story about family, second chances and what happens when, in the blink of an eye, life changes forever…

A passionate new tale from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey, featuring one of her most intriguing heroes…

After a freak accident and eight weeks in a coma, Suzie Connors’ family are elated when their mother finally wakes up absolutely fine. Except she’s not.

Degan Grant is heading to California when he is called to apprehend three outlaws and turn them over to the law. But one of the outlaws, Maxine, is sassy, spirited – and insists she is innocent. Degan finds his desire for his beguiling prisoner sparking into a wildfire of passion between them. But they will have to risk confronting their pasts if they are to have any chance of a future in each other’s arms…

“ Smart heroines, sensual heroes, witty repartee and a penchant for delicious romance, […] readers will be hooked from beginning to end.”

BOOK REVIEWS

Finn is thirty-five and reality has just hit him hard. Now his best friends are about to have a baby and everything is changing. When into his life walks Isla… “ Wonderful escapism with a gloriously romantic setting.”

Blissfully unaware of her children’s shock at having to deal with the changes in their mum, Suzie intends to live life to the full, with or without their approval. Then her daughter, Sharon, is faced with some major issues of her own and the one person she would have turned to – her mother – is no longer there for her. “ Caddle can whip up a tremendous love story.”

KATIE FFORDE

IRISH INDEPENDENT

“ [Lindsey] incorporates her signature captive/captor plotline with sassy dialogue, plenty of verbal sparring, lots of heat and a bit of humour, all in perfect proportions.”

ROMANTIC TIMES

“ If you like Marian Keyes, you’ll love Colette Caddle.”

“ Many wonderful heroes have been created by Johanna Lindsey, and those who live in the Old West are always a favourite. Wildfire in His Arms has one surprise after another, and the twists are inventively riveting.”

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Deirdre O’Connell

ROSA 3

Tad Branson

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Genre Romance

Genre Romance

Genre Romance

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The One We Fell in Love With

Lizzie’s Secret

The Nearly-Weds

Scandal’s Bride

Paige Toon

Rosie Clarke

Jane Costello

Stephanie Laurens

“ You’ll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted.”

A gritty, heart-warming and wholesome drama about two girls united in friendship and tested in love. Perfect for the fans of Katie Flynn and Nadine Dorries.

What’s the worst thing that could happen to a blushing bride?

“ L aurens’s writing shines.” publishers weekly

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DECEMBER

Rosa

NOVEMBER

marian keyes

Phoebe is caught between a rock and a hard place: either settle down and get married, or return to the French Alps to pursue her passion. Eliza is in love with someone who is no longer hers. In fact, he probably never was… Rose is out of a job and out of a boyfriend.

But these very different girls have one thing in common.

Angus. The one they fell in love with… “ I blubbed, I laughed and I fell in love […] utterly heartwrenching!”

GIOVANNA FLETCHER

London, 1938: Lizzie Larch is a twenty-year-old hat maker in London’s east end. She is happy and popular, but she carries a secret. Seven years ago she was viciously attacked and recovered in a private sanatorium where she miscarried a child. Lizzie has no memory of the night of the attack, but secrets cannot stay secret for too long. When she starts courting her boss’ nephew, a shocking revelation surfaces; threatening to destroy their new-found happiness.

After being jilted at the alter Zoe Moore flees to Boston, America, where she works as nanny to five-year-old Ruby Miller and her little brother Samuel. Ruby and Samuel lost their mother in an accident; their father Ryan Miller is so wrapped-up in his grief that he barely notices his two children. Whatever happened to the loving man she keeps hearing about from his neighbours? “ A real page turner.”

WOMAN

“ Jane Costello is fast becoming one of our favourite authors.”

COSMOPOLITAN

“ Beautifully written and a thoroughly enjoyable read.”

When Catriona Hennessy, honourable Scottish Lady of the Vale, receives the prediction ‘he will father your children,’ she is vexed. How can she unite with a rake like Richard Cynster – a masterful man with a scandalous reputation? More shocking still is her guardian’s will that decrees that she and Richard be wed within a week! Though charmed by his commanding presence, she will not – cannot – give up her independence! “ When it comes to dishing up lusciously sensual, relentlessly readable historical romances, Laurens is unrivalled.”

BOOKLIST

“ One of the most talented authors on the scene today […]

Laurens has a real talent for writing sensuous and compelling love scenes.”

GOODREADS

“ Very engaging story.”

NETGALLERY

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Multiple Narrators Modern Fiction 12 hours

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ISBN 9781510047051

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Simon Prebble

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13.75 hours

ISBN 9781510047044

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