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July – September 2016 CD, MP3 CD, Playaway & OneClickdigital
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Dear Librarian, With the summer break approaching, we’ve got an exciting new range of audiobooks that will offer your library borrowers a great choice of titles to listen to in the sunshine. For a start, Marian Keyes shows us her hilarious observations on the absurdities of modern day life in our Clipper imprint with her brilliantly satirical memoir, Making It Up As I Go Along. The queen of crime, Val McDermid, returns with a psychological thriller, Splinter the Silence with protagonist Tony Hill, a psychological profiler, returning to hunt a terrifying killer with no fear of getting caught. Harriet Evans returns to our Clipper imprint with A Butterfly Summer, a heart stopping romance about coming home and unearthing family secrets. And finally, we have a fantastic new crime novel from the bestselling Tony Parsons, where we join DC Max Wolfe once again in the revenge filled thriller, The Hanging Club. Lamplight returns filled with favourite saga and cosy crime authors, including the latest saga from Mary Gibson, where May, upon becoming a gunner girl in the midst of World War Two, makes new friends, rivals, and painful choices in love, in the beautifully written Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys. Bestselling author, Amanda Prowse returns to Lamplight with Another Love, a poignant drama exploring alcoholism and coming to terms with what matters most in life. Kate Lord Brown sets a beautiful scene over an Irish summer, where baking meets love in her new novel, The Taste of Summer.
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Exclusive, bestselling content from Australia At the forefront of new talent, building upon a strong literary heritage. Purchase the collection today – see the order form for more details
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Our brand new Avid imprint is full to the brim with fast-paced thrillers. To set it off, we have The Pale House by Luke McCallin, the gripping sequel to The Man from Berlin, set in the brutal late World War Two era. Avid goes from strength to strength with the addition of Matt Johnson, who sets a tense scene in the London based thriller, Wicked Game. The well-established Joanna Fluke also returns to the imprint with her brand new title, Eyes.
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And finally, Jammer is packed with mass-market bestselling fiction and non-fiction titles, including C. L. Taylor, who sheds light on the dark and twisted nuances of family, in the psychological thriller, The Missing. TV presenter and bestselling author, Fern Britton provides a beautiful summer read with The Postcard, multi-million copy bestseller Jonas Jonasson returns with a madcap new novel, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All.
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For the best value, signing up to our Standing Order Plans will ensure that you receive 20% discount on the list price, and supply you with a selection of the newest and most popular titles, exclusively from W. F. Howes. We hope you enjoy our titles in this brochure, and please do get in touch if you have any feedback. With best wishes, The Editor
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Representing award-winners, shortlisted titles and top bestsellers. This quarter includes new titles from Marian Keyes, Lucinda Riley, Val McDermid and Tony Parsons.
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Dilly’s Lass
Making It Up As I Go Along
Rosie Goodwin
Marian Keyes
A mother must fight to re-unite her family in the aftermath of the First World War, in this new novel from much-loved author Rosie Goodwin.
A bold, brilliant novel bursting with Marian’s hilarious and heartfelt observations on modern life, love and much more.
One thing unites the wealthy Farthing family and hardworking Dilly Carey – Olivia, the daughter Dilly gave to the Farthings years before. Dilly is still living with the consequences when unmarried Olivia arrives on her doorstep, with a baby girl in tow, begging for help. Olivia has a secret she only feels safe telling Dilly. Sworn to secrecy, Dilly agrees to help. She will find a way for Olivia to keep her daughter without revealing the true circumstances of her birth. A wonderfully heartfelt portrayal of families beginning to rebuild after World War One.
“ When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is in a class of her own.” DAILY EXPRESS
“ Goodwin is a master of her craft: she excels in writing about the complexity of relationships, the hardships of life, the ties of family and the joys of love and friendship.” LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
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You’ll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won’t be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life – because each and every one of us is clearly making it up as we go along. She has wonderful and tickling words of advice for those fast approaching fifty.
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The Hanging Club
Papercuts
Strictly Between Us
Bryant & May – Strange Tide
Tony Parsons
Colin Bateman
Jane Fallon
Christopher Fowler
The third book in Tony Parsons’ bestselling DC Max Wolfe series: Someone just brought back the death penalty…
“ He just seems to get better and better.” ian rankin
Rumours, secrets and lies. It’s all in a day’s work!
Eccentric, octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May from the Peculiar Crimes Unit return in mystery No.13 from the multi-award-winning author, Christopher Fowler.
A band of vigilante executioners roam London’s hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British troops. As the bodies pile up and riots explode all over the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe embarks on his most dangerous investigation yet; hunting a gang of killers who many believe to be heroes…
Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is losing money and Rob Cullen has absolutely no idea that he’s the man to save it. It’s been a long time since Rob had a real story to get his teeth into, just as well then that he can rely on the Express crew to back him up. They’re like a family. A dysfunctional, highly unpopular and povertystricken family. “ Genuinely hilarious […] exciting, exhilarating, a whirlwind of invention. The perfect summer read.” BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH ON THE MYSTERY MAN
“ Chick lit with an edge.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH
PETER JAMES
“ Sparkling and unpredictable.” ELLE
“ Comic thrillers that are actually comic and thrilling.”
“ This is brilliant stuff.”
Tamsin and her best friend Michelle have been inseparable since they were teenagers. Even now they spend all their time together, along with Patrick, Michelle’s perfect husband. So when Tamsin hears a rumour that Patrick is having an affair, she is furious and plots a scheme to catch him in the act, using her assistant Bea as live-bait. It should be fool proof. After all, Tamsin can trust Bea with anything, or can she?
GUARDIAN
The Thames is London’s most important yet neglected artery. When a young woman is found chained to a post in the tide, no-one can understand how she came to be drowned there. That’s only part of the problem; Bryant’s deteriorating condition prevents him from handling the case. To make matters worse, May makes a fatal error of judgement that knocks him out of action. In an adventure that’s as twisting as the river, will there be anything left of the Peculiar Crimes Unit when it’s over? “ Devilishly clever.” VAL MCDERMID
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After the Last Dance
The Tears of Angels
The Birdwatcher
The Samaritan
Sarra Manning
Caro Ramsay
William Shaw
Mason Cross
After the Last Dance is an extraordinary story of two women, separated by time but connected by fate, that will make you believe in the redemptive power of unexpected love.
Past crimes cause new murder in this tense and twisting psychological thriller.
The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense, intelligence and powerful humanity about fathers and sons, grief, guilt and facing the darkness within.
From the author of The Killing Season comes the thrilling new Carter Blake novel.
Kings Cross station, 1943: As the bombs fall, Rose loses her heart to a pilot but will lose so much more before the war has done its worst. Las Vegas, present day: A beautiful woman in a wedding dress walks into a seedy bar and asks the first man she sees to marry her. So when Jane meets Rose, now a formidable older lady, there’s no love lost between them. But with time running out, can Rose and Jane come together to make peace with the secrets that have haunted their lives? “ What a fascinating book. Such a gripping and unusual story of love and war – everyone needs a Rainbow Corner!”
A few days before the summer solstice, a 92-year-old woman is found burned to death in her home. On the same day, a man’s mutilated corpse is discovered, his arms ripped from their sockets, with a Tarot card depicting ‘The Fool’ inserted in his mouth. When the victim is identified as someone for whom the police have been looking for almost a year, detectives Anderson and Costello find themselves caught up in a case where nothing is as it seems. “ Masterful writing, vivid characters, and a highly imaginative, terrifying, and byzantine plot.”
Police Sergeant William South has a reason for not wanting to be on the murder investigation… he is a murderer himself. But the victim was his only friend – like him, a passionate birdwatcher. South is warily partnered with the strong-willed Detective Sergeant Cupidi, and together they find the body violently beaten, forced inside a wooden chest. As South desperately investigates, he knows there is no crime, however duplicitous or cruel, that can compare to the great lie of his childhood.
BOOKLIST
“ Combines nostalgic period detail with an emotional intensity found only in the very best crime fiction.”
RACHEL HORE, AUTHOR OF A WEEK IN PARIS
SUNDAY TIMES ON THE BOOK OF SCARS
“ Glorious, vivid and deeply seductive, with an ending that will make you weep for what once was.”
When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered, LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows she’s seen this MO before. The press dubs the killer ‘The Samaritan,’ a sadistic serial killer, who preys on lone female drivers who have broken down. When the police investigation grinds to a halt, that’s when Carter Blake is enlisted; a skilled man hunter and as the slaughter intensifies, Blake must find a way to stop it… “ A sprawling American epic delivered with panache.” INDEPENDENT
“ Even jaded genre readers will be absorbed by Cross’s second thriller […] Cross makes the most of perspectives […] building up to a logical but surprising climax.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
LUCY ROBINSON, AUTHOR OF THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF ALL TIME
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Anatomy of a Soldier
The Travelers
A Fall of Moondust
When We Were Orphans
Harry Parker
Chris Pavone
Arthur C. Clarke
Kazuo Ishiguro
A fiercely dramatic novel about one man’s journey of survival and the experiences of those around him, told through the perspective of forty-five objects, creating an unforgettable story.
A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Expats and The Accident.
A Fall of Moondust is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension by the field’s foremost author.
Will Rhodes is an award-winning correspondent for The Travelers, on assignment at a luxury Argentinian resort. But Will’s life is about to be turned upside down when a new flirtation turns into something far more dangerous; realizing only too late. It turns out he’s been targeted; little does he know the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense and deadly conspiracy – and that the people closest to him may pose the greatest threat of all.
Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment.
When We Were Orphans is a story of memory, intrigue and the need to return; a childhood vision of the world surviving deep into adulthood, shaping and distorting a person’s life.
Captain Tom Barnes is leading British troops in a war zone. On all sides of this conflict, people are about to be caught up in the violence… We see the characters not as they see themselves, but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a drone, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, dog tags, an exploding IED and the medical implements that are subsequently employed. “ It is a novel of concentrated ferocity and chilling accomplishments, tense and unflinching but alive to every nuance of feeling.”
“ The best book yet about man’s most dramatic journey, the most exciting science fiction novel for years.” EVENING STANDARD
“ [He was] awesomely informed about physics and blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered.”
“ I love Chris Pavone’s writing, it’s smart and elegant and brilliantly intertwines intrigue with menace.”
NEW YORK TIMES
PETER JAMES
SUNDAY TIMES
HILARY MANTEL
EDNA O’BRIEN
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“ You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.” “ Ishiguro is the best and most original writer of his generation, and When We Were Orphans could be by no other writer. It haunts the mind. It moves to tears.”
“ A brilliant book, direct from the battle zone.”
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England, 1930s: Christopher Banks has become the country’s most celebrated detective, his cases are the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards war, Banks realises he must return to the city and at last solve the mystery – that only by his doing will civilisation be saved from the approaching catastrophe.
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All The Pretty Horses
Dragons
A Dog Called Hope
Cure
Cormac McCarthy
Liam Byrne
Damien Lewis
Jo Marchant
“ One of the greatest American novels of this or any time.” guardian
Dragons is both a rousing celebration of British business genius and a fascinatingly informative narrative of a neglected but essential strand of our island’s story.
A story of heartfelt devotion and companionship.
Cure takes us on a remarkable journey and offers a new and thought-provoking view of what it means to be human.
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized… A place where dreams are paid for in blood. “ A darkly shining work […] executed with consummate skill and much subtlety – the effect is magnificent.” OBSERVER
Britain’s rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers, as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men. Dragons tells the story of British business endeavours through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne traces a fascinating and eye opening entrepreneurial line.
“ An exhilarating, exceptional novel.”
Special Forces soldier Jason Morgan was left crippled by a mission that went wrong. As the pain spiked to unbearable levels, he agreed to have surgery to block the pain. But the doctors’ promises that he would keep his mobility proved misplaced. After the surgery the pain was less, yet he’d lost the ability to move his legs. This is the story of how Napal, a black Labrador service dog, enabled Jason to rebuild his life, and to find true peace against all the odds. A Dog Called Hope is the moving and heart-warming story of how Jason rediscovered his life’s mission, his strength as a father and, through his beloved dog, his hope.
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The field of mind-body medicine is plagued by wild claims that mislead patients and instil false hope. But as scientists in a range of fields uncover solid evidence that our minds influence our bodies quite profoundly, there is now great promise too. Jo Marchant attempts to use scientific research to find out if alternative medicines work, if our thoughts, beliefs and emotions influence our physical health and can we train our brains to heal our bodies? “ Cure beautifully describes the cutting-edge research going on in the fascinating – and until now, often unexplored – area of mind-body medicine.” HENRY MARSH, AUTHOR OF DO NO HARM
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The Butterfly Summer
Dilly’s Hope
False Nine
A Divided Spy
Harriet Evans
Rosie Goodwin
Philip Kerr
Charles Cumming
A delightful new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Happily Ever After and A Place for Us.
The final instalment of a new trilogy from much-loved author, Rosie Goodwin.
Just because football is a game, it doesn’t mean you have to play fair…
Perfect for fans of John le Carré, Charles Cumming is “the master of the modern spy thriller.”
Widow, Dilly Carey, has struggled out of poverty to make a life for herself. Dilly should be content, but she is troubled by the one secret she must never share, the true parentage of her daughter, Olivia, who Dilly gave away at birth. It’s time for Dilly to make her peace with the choice that she was forced to make but will she also find a way to a new happiness – and a new love?
Football manager Scott Manson needs a new job, but finding one in the star-studded world of international football isn’t easy. A new position in Shanghai turns out to be part of an elaborate sting operation – and in Barcelona, he’s not hired as a football manager, but as a detective. Barca’s star player is missing, and Scott has a month to track him down. As Scott follows the trail from Paris to Antigua, he encounters the rotten heart of the beautiful game…
You follow the hidden creek towards a long-forgotten house. They call it Keepsake, a place full of wonder… and danger. Locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you’ve been waiting all your life to hear. This house is Nina Parr’s birth right. It holds the truth about her family – and a chance to put everything right at last. “ Harriet Evans is a master at creating characters you feel like you know inside out.” HEAT
“ Goodwin is a master of her craft: she excels in writing about the complexity of relationships, the hardships of life, the ties of family and the joys of love and friendship.” LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
“ A gripping whodunnit set in the world of football.”
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Thomas Kell, former MI6 officer, devoted his life to the service, but was left with nothing except grief and a simmering anger against the Kremlin. Then Kell is offered an unexpected chance at revenge and embarks on a mission to recruit a top Russian spy, who is in possession of a terrifying secret… As the mission reaches boiling point, the threat of a catastrophic terrorist attack looms over Britain. Kell is faced with an impossible choice. Loyalty to MI6 – or to his own conscience?
SPORT
“ Rosie Goodwin excels at tugging-the-heartstrings.”
“ (Charles Cumming is) the master of the modern spy thriller.”
“ An entertaining read.”
LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO
MAIL ON SUNDAY
THE TIMES
“ Charles Cumming is a man put on this earth to perpetuate the spy thriller.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
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A Hero of France
The Missing Hours
The Witness
The High Mountains of Portugal
Alan Furst
Emma Kavanagh
Simon Kernick
Yann Martel
Let Alan Furst take you on a journey through the cobbled streets and smoky salons of Europe as the continent stands on the brink of war.
“ Is it a forgetting or a deception?”
The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds and The Final Minute.
Lost in Portugal and lost to grief, with nothing but a chimpanzee… The extraordinary new novel from the author of Man Booker winning, Life of Pi.
Spring 1941: Britain is losing the war, but the fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up. These courageous men and women – young and old, aristocrats and nightclub owners, teachers and military heroes – run an escape line for British airmen down to Spain. In Rouen and Orleans, in secret hotels and on the streets, they prise open Europe’s sealed doors to lead British fighters to freedom…
One moment, Selena Cole is in the playground with her children and the next, she has vanished without a trace. A woman returns twenty hours later, Selena is found safe and well, but with no memory of where she has been. What took place in those missing hours, and are they linked to the discovery of a nearby murder? “ Dark, tense and convincing, this is a brilliantly executed and engrossing thriller.” SUNDAY MIRROR ON FALLING
After Jane Kinnear sees her lover murdered and is taken to a police safe-house, it soon becomes clear that he was an MI5 informant with information about an imminent terrorist attack. DI Ray Mason is a man with a controversial past, but his effectiveness at getting results means that he’s now been given the task of preventing the attack. But can he be trusted? Jane tries to piece things together, but what she doesn’t know is that the killer has already found out who she is. And now he’s coming for her…
Lisbon, 1904: A young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the location of an extraordinary artefact that – if it exists – would redefine history. He sets out in an old automobile in search of this treasure. Some thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist finds himself at the centre of a murder mystery. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his wife; he comes to his ancestral village with an unusual companion – a chimpanzee…
“ [Furst] remains at the top of his game.” “ Full of Kernick’s trademark cheerful amoral characters, it’s irresistible entertainment.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“ The grandmaster of the historical espionage genre.”
SUNDAY MIRROR
THE BOSTON GLOBE
THE TIMES
“ His best since Life of Pi […] miraculous.”
“ A spectacularly fast moving and captivating read.” LOVEREADING
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“ Replete with every bizarre and beautiful thing on earth […] his many fans will delight.”
WASHINGTON POST
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Written in Dead Wax
Hard Cold Winter
The Killing Files
Curtis Sittenfeld
Andrew Cartmel
Glen Erik Hamilton
Nikki Owen
From the bestselling author of Prep, American Wife and Sisterland comes this brilliant retelling of Austen’s classic, set in modern day Cincinnati.
“ An irresistible blend of murder, mystery and music.” ben aaronovitch, bestselling author of rivers of london.
Former Army Ranger and thief Van Shaw is thrust into a maelstrom of danger; as lethal and unpredictable as the war he left behind…
No matter how fast you run, the past always catches up with you…
He is a record collector and a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective and some people take this more literally than others. For example, the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy, yet shadowy, client. And so begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all…
When an old crony of Van Shaw’s late grandfather calls in a favour, he treks deep into the remote forest of the Olympic Mountains in search of a missing girl. Discovering a brutal murder scene, Van finds himself caught between a billionaire businessman on the one side and vicious gangsters on the other. In an attempt to survive, a desperate Van may just need every ally he can get, especially as someone prepares to unleash a firestorm on Seattle that could burn them all to ashes.
“ The Vinyl Detective is one of the sharpest and most original characters I’ve seen for a long time.”
“ This guy has got what it takes.”
The Bennet sisters have been summoned to come home to suburban Cincinnati to look after their father as he recovers from surgery. However, soon enough they are being berated for their single status by their mother. For two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas family’s BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men. Pride & Prejudice is catapulted into our modern world singing out with hilarity and truth.
“ A gripping and tense thriller.” HEAT
“ Powerful and gripping.”
LEE CHILD
KIMBERLY CHAMBERS
DAVID QUANTICK
“ Sheer joy […] Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice.”
Dr Maria Martinez is out of prison and on the run. Members of ‘The Project,’ a ruthless underground organisation, are after her. To survive, she has to keep one step ahead. A file exists, the contents of which could mean life or death for Maria. She must find it and then retreat to the safety of her family home in Spain. Little does she know that this might be the most dangerous place of all…
“ Marvellously inventive and endlessly fascinating.”
JESSIE BURTON, AUTHOR OF THE MINIATURIST
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“ If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it.” ELLE
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Boyhood Island: My Struggle Book 3
The Fallen
Tyrant of the Mind
The Operators
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Tarn Richardson
Priscilla Royal
Michael Hastings
“ Via his visceral, immersive art, Knausgaard makes the heart visible.” independent
1915: War threatens to engulf the Inquisition as dark forces muster within the Catholic Church.
Jealousy, lust, fear, and treachery lead to murder…
Six rollercoaster weeks that brought down America’s top general, from the Rolling Stone journalist who broke the story.
Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father. Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at selfdefinition is frustrating. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.
Prior to his murder, a desperate priest sends a secret letter to his brother serving in the Italian Army. The young soldier carries with him this letter which holds the key as to why terrible satanic rituals are being committed. Drawn into this conspiracy and hunted by agents of The Darkest Hand, old rivals must put aside their differences to discover the contents of the letter before it’s too late…
Winter, 1271: When the beloved grandson of the castle lord, Baron Adam, falls ill he sends for his daughter, Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal and her nurse to save the child. Soon after they arrive, an important guest is murdered. The prioress’ brother, bloody dagger in hand, stands over the corpse. All others may believe in his guilt, but Eleanor is convinced of his innocence. As passions rise and time runs short, they struggle to find the real killer. “ This realistic medieval fare will appeal to devotees of Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael series.”
“ Rare and ruthless […] Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times.”
General Stanley McChrystal, commander of international and US forces in Afghanistan, was living large, with staff calling him a ‘rock star.’ Journalist Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone looked on as McChrystal and his staff let off steam, partying and openly bashing the Obama administration. When Hastings’ piece appeared a few months later, it set off a political firestorm: McChrystal was ordered to Washington, where he was unceremoniously fired. Hastings gives us a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of Allied military commanders, their high-stakes manoeuvres and often bitter bureaucratic in-fighting.
LIBRARY JOURNAL
“ An insightful look at how powerful some of the US’s top generals really are, and also unwraps some of the chaos behind allied military command and the so-called ‘war on terror’.”
GUARDIAN
“ Knausgaard’s Proustian attention to detail and scrupulous analysis of emotional nuance is almost maddening – but ultimately magnificent.”
THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST
“ Hastings offers a fiercely intelligent analysis of how the American military spun the war in Afghanistan.”
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The Last Stalinist
Little Sister
Splinter the Silence
Alexander Masters
Paul Preston
David Hewson
Val McDermid
Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery.
The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain’s turbulence in the 20th century.
She had a voice which would come back to haunt them…
Splinter the Silence is an adrenaline-fueled roller coaster guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat: the latest in the Hill & Jordan series.
In 2001, 148 tattered notebooks were discovered lying in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. The pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few weeks before the books were thrown out. Over five years, the award-winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity and real history of their author, with an astounding final revelation.
From 1939 to 1975, the Spanish Communist Party, effectively lead for two decades by Santiago Carrillo, was the most determined opponent of General Franco’s Nationalist regime. Drawing on the numerous, continuously revised accounts Carillo created of his life, Spain’s greatest modern historian Paul Preston unravels the legend of a devastating and controversial figure at the heart of 20th century Spanish politics.
“ It’s been years since I’ve been so delighted by a book and so surprised by it. When I’d finished I felt bereft, as if I’d lost an old friend.” ZADIE SMITH ON STUART: A LIFE BACKWARDS
“ The Last Stalinist is yet another reminder that Paul Preston remains the most reliable historian in the English speaking world for anyone wishing to understand the complicated power struggles between left and right in Spanish politics over the course of the 20th century.” SPECTATOR
“ I feel so strongly about this strange, funny, sad book that I hardly know where to begin. My enthusiasm feels almost limitless.”
Kim and Mia Timmers were just eleven years old when they were imprisoned in a local psychiatric institution, accused of murdering the man they believed to be responsible for the death of their family. Now, ten years later, they are due for release. Detective Pieter Vos is given cause to re-open the case when the girls disappear. His investigation takes an unexpected turn when it becomes clear that someone is posing as Little Jo – Kim and Mia’s other sister – who was killed along with their parents… “ Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing.”
When psychological profiler Tony Hill comes across a series of suicides among women tormented by vicious online predators, he begins to wonder if there is more to these tragedies than meets the eye. Could it be murder? But what kind of serial killer wants his crimes to stay hidden? Tony and DCI Carol Jordan begin the hunt for the most dangerous and terrifying kind of killer – someone who has nothing to fear and nothing to lose… “ The real mistress of psychological gripping thrillers; no one can plot or tell a story like she can.” DAILY EXPRESS
LINWOOD BARCLAY ON THE HOUSE OF DOLLS
“ When Hewson hits his stride it feels like you’re being treated to a masterclass in crime writing […] an essential new series.”
“ McDermid remains unrivalled.” OBSERVER
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Betrayal
A Mother’s Love
When the Floods Came
Lucinda Riley
The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
Santa Montefiore
Clare Morrall
A story of motherly love and the bonds of love between us.
Clare Morrall creates a startling vision of the future in a world not so very far from our own, in a thrilling story of suspense.
“ It is said that anyone who comes to stay at ‘Pandora’ for the first time will fall in love…” It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, ‘Pandora,’ is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family. At the difficult age of thirteen, her son, Alex, is torn between protecting his mother and learning the truth about his real father. Both Helena and Alex know that life will never be the same, once Pandora’s secrets have been revealed… A stunning new contemporary novel from the author of the Seven Sisters series.
Betrayal is a ground-breaking work of investigative journalism, now brought brilliantly to life on the screen; nominated for 6 Oscar awards. On 31 January 2002, the Boston Globe published a report that sent shockwaves around the world. Their findings, based on a six-month campaign by the ‘Spotlight’ investigative team, showed that hundreds of children in Boston had been abused by Catholic priests, and that this horrific pattern of behaviour had been known – and ignored – by the Catholic Church. Instead of protecting the community it was meant to serve, the Church exploited its powerful influence to protect itself from scandal – and innocent children paid the price. “ The fullest account to date of the egregious priestly and episcopal mistakes, sins and crimes that occurred at the epicenter of what almost became a national crisis.”
Celeste is mourning the tragic death of her young son, Jack, who died from leukaemia. So when she learns that her nephew is coming to stay, she doesn’t think she can bear to have another child in the house. But when Bruno arrives, she has no choice but to make him feel welcome and loved, even though her heart is breaking. And, when he starts to show some insight into what Jack was like, Celeste dares to dream there might be something more than meets the eye…
In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been largely cut off. Survivors are few and far between, most of them infertile. Children are a rare commodity. For 22-year-old Roza Polanski, life with her family in their isolated tower block is relatively comfortable. But when a stranger called Aashay Kent arrives, everything changes. Roza can’t shake the feeling that there’s more to Aashay than he’s letting on. Is there more to life beyond their isolated bubble?
“ Everything she writes, she writes from the heart.” “ I was enchanted from the very first page. The author’s descriptions of war-torn Exeter are so vivid, I felt I was there.”
JOJO MOYES
“ Santa Montefiore is the new Rosamunde Pilcher.”
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
DAILY MAIL
“ Morrall writes with poise and delicacy.” THE SUNDAY TIMES
NEW YORK TIMES
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Public Library and Other Stories
The Watchers
Tales of Persuasion
Holly Müller
Ali Smith
Neil Spring
Philip Hensher
An unforgettable, nightmarish coming-of-age story set in rural Austria towards the end of the Second World War. Rich in folklore and period detail this stunning debut has a unique atmosphere that captivates from the beginning.
A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How To Be Both, winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize, the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
A chilling tale based on true events from the bestselling author of The Ghost Hunters, now a major ITV drama starring Rafe Spall.
Ten daring stories from “a writer who seems capable of anything.” guardian
1944, Nazi-controlled Austria: For thirteen-year-old Ursula, life in her village remains almost as it was. But when Russian prisoners escape from the local concentration camp, her friend goes missing and her brother’s allegiance to the Hitler Youth emerges in shocking ways, Ursula finds herself alone and surrounded by threat. Ursula is forced to recognise that danger comes not only from the enemy at the door but from the enemy within…
Why are books so very powerful? The stories in this collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us and shock us, change us and challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once and how they remind us to pay attention to the world that we make. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history.
“ A powerful and absorbing novel that pulls you deep into the troubled war years of its young heroine. Love and loyalty are the book’s real themes, and the manipulation of the innocent. Brilliantly done.” ESTHER FREUD
“ A brilliant, comprehensive, unpredictable defence of public libraries. You can travel anywhere on Ali Smith’s library ticket.” OBSERVER
“ A moving portrait of a girl forced to come of age in a world at war.”
“ Spring’s fast-paced but often deliciously creepy novel has an orphaned hero, a spooky, isolated farmhouse and things that go bump in the night […] highly readable.”
Philip Hensher’s backdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency: from turmoil in Sudan following the death of a politician in a plane crash, to southern India where a Soho hedonist starts to envisage the crump and soar of munitions. Each story, regardless of location, reveals a great writer at the peak of his powers. “ A novel that is always a joy to read. […] Read it and allow yourself to become a better person.” INDEPENDENT
“ Splendidly thought out and extraordinarily readable.” GUARDIAN
HERALD SCOTLAND
“ Smith’s world is incredibly generous – it’s a place where all sorts of stories and human connections are possible.”
SUNDAY TIMES
At the height of the Cold War, officials at the Ministry of Defence conducted a highly secret investigation into unusual events that occurred along a strip of rugged Pembrokeshire coastline. The events made national headlines: objects hovering in the sky, ghostly figures peering into windows and poltergeists plaguing a terrified family. Thirty years later, the official files were finally released for public scrutiny and prompted a new witness to come forward. His testimony rocked the very foundations of the British Government. This is his story.
METRO
“ A triumph of creativity […] Pick it up as soon as you can and see if you can unravel the mystery of the Broad Haven Triangle – the conclusion will shock and amaze you.” VADA MAGAZINE
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Girls on Fire
City of Blades
My Brilliant Friend
Catherine Ryan Howard
Robin Wasserman
Robert Jackson Bennett
Elena Ferrante
There’s no evidence of a murder, but a person is missing. And what’s a missing person minus a body? Not a murder. It’s a disappearance…
Starting and ending with tragedy, Girls on Fire stands alongside The Virgin Suicides in its brilliant portrayal of female adolescence; but with a power and assurance all of its own.
Do the dead sleep soundly in the land of death, or do they have plans of their own?
Moving and enchanting – shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2015.
The day Adam Dunne’s girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from business trip to Barcelona, his life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads, “I’m sorry – S,” sets off real alarm bells. Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called The Celebrate, and to a woman who disappeared in eerily similar circumstances. Adam must try to outwit a predator who seems to have found the perfect hunting ground…
Hannah Dexter is a nobody, ridiculed at school by golden girl Nikki Drummond. But then Nikki’s boyfriend walks into the woods and shoots himself. In the wake of the suicide, Hannah finds herself befriending new girl Lacey, bonded by their shared hatred of Nikki. Lacey transforms good girl Hannah and they share in their lust for chaos and rebellion, thinking that they are invulnerable. But Lacey has a secret, about her life before and it’s a secret that will change everything.
A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death. Now the city’s god is dead and the city itself lies in ruins. So it makes perfect sense that General Turyin Mulaghesh – foulmouthed hero of the battle of Bulikov – has been exiled there. At least, it makes the perfect cover story. The truth is that the general has been dispatched to investigate a discovery with the potential to change the world – or destroy it.
Growing up on the tough outskirts of Naples in the 1950s, two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between Elena and Lila.
“ City of Stairs is a smooth novel of near perfection and the best Epic Fantasy novel I’ve read this year. I cannot recommend this novel highly enough.”
“ There is a savage honesty to the work of Elena Ferrante that is both unsettling and comforting at once. Here is an author who has poured every ounce of herself onto the page.”
Distress Signals is Catherine Ryan Howard’s debut thriller.
“ Like lightning in a bottle […] a captivating, terrifying novel and one you won’t forget.”
SFF WORLD ON CITY OF STAIRS
THE IRISH TIMES
MEGAN ABBOTT
“ I can really think of no better praise than to simply say I loved it, though that seems inadequate commendation for such a supremely talented author.”
“ A book so wonderful, so terrible, so nightmarishly compelling that I hardly knew what to say when I finished reading it. Wasserman has wrapped up a love story inside a murder mystery, a promise and a testament inside a confession.”
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KELLY LINK
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The Secret War: Part Two
Key Person of Influence
The Dream Shall Never Die
Linda Spalding
Max Hastings
Daniel Priestly
Alex Salmond
Winner of the Governor General Prize for fiction, Canada’s most acclaimed literary prize
Through a series of snapshots come the secret stories of spies and intelligence officers from bestselling author of Catastrophe, Max Hastings.
Daniel Priestly is named as one of the top 25 entrepreneurs in London influencing the business scene – do not miss out on this fascinating, eye opening read.
Salmond explains how the YES campaign energised the entire Scottish nation, rewriting the rulebook for political campaigning; not just in the UK but throughout the world.
Every industry revolves around key people of influence: their names come up in conversation, they attract opportunity and most importantly, earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a key person of influence. This book shows that there is a strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by reading this book.
This is the inside story of the campaign that rocked the United Kingdom to its foundations, and the implications of the Scottish independence movement for the future of British politics. Alex Salmond has been a passionate supporter of Scottish independence his whole life. In a riveting daily diary, Salmond takes us into the heart of the YES campaign, revealing what was said and done behind the scenes as the referendum reached its dramatic climax.
In 1798 Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker, sets out with two horses, a wagon full of belongings, his five children and a 15-year-old orphan wife. When Daniel suddenly trades a horse for a young slave, Onesimus, it sets in motion a struggle in his conscience that will taint his life forever, and a chain of events that lead to two murders and the family’s strange relationship with a runaway slave named Bett. Stripped down and as hard-edged as the realities of pioneer life, Spalding’s writing is nothing short of stunning. The Purchase is a resonant, powerful and timeless novel.
Max Hastings examines the espionage and intelligence machines of all sides in World War Two, and the impact of spies, code-breakers and partisan operations on events. Written on a global scale, the book brings together accounts from British, American, German, Russian and Japanese sources to tell the story of a secret war waged unceasingly by men and women often far from the battlefields but whose actions profoundly influenced the outcome. “ No other general history of the war amalgamates so successfully the gut-wrenching personal details and the essential strategic arguments […] Hastings has triumphed.” THE TIMES
“ Majestic […] it is impossible to emerge without a sense of the sheer scale of human tragedy […] Hastings shapes all these stories, almost miraculously, into a single coherent narrative.”
“ The style is natural and fluid. He has some controversial suggestions but that’s what makes it such an interesting, rejuvenating read; rather than spouting the same old ideas, the proposed changes are revolutionary and disruptive.”
“ A riveting account of the campaign that rocked the Westminster establishment and changed Scotland for ever. A must-read book for all of us who believe that Scotland should have equal rights with all other nations.” SEAN CONNERY
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Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys
A Letter From America
Mary Gibson
Geraldine O’Neill
A Bermondsey factory girl joins the fight against Hitler in the wonderful new novel, from the bestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts.
Late 1960s, Tullamore, County Offaly: Life is full of exciting possibilities for Fiona Tracey as she prepares to leave Ireland to work for a wealthy family in New York. Then, a sudden tragedy forces Fiona to postpone her departure. As her mother sinks into illness and depression, Fiona’s responsibilities mount, and she uncovers information which explodes old family secrets…
As London goes up in flames during the Blitz, two sisters from Bermondsey find their lives changed out of all recognition… When a bombing raid destroys nearly everything she holds dear, May joins the ATS and becomes a gunner girl. Peggy, May’s elder sister, is trapped in a stifling marriage yet amid the chaos of war, a route to freedom beckons. From war will come hardship and tragedy, as well as new, unexpected friendships and love affairs. “ A cracking tale full of warmth and history.” BELLA MAGAZINE
“ A fabulous, fascinating read.” VANESSA FELTZ
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Buried
The Little Runaways
Conspiracy
Rosanna Ley
Graham Masterton
Cathy Sharp
Iain Gale
From bestselling author Rosanna Ley comes an exotic tale of love, family and friendship set between England and Cuba.
From the bestselling horror writer who has now turned his talent to crime writing.
A gritty drama that will appeal to fans of The Throwaway Children and authors such as Nadine Dorries and Kitty Neale.
In the fourth of this acclaimed Peninsular War adventure series, Maverick Keane goes undercover in Napoleon’s Paris for his most daring espionage mission yet.
Cuba, 1958: When Elisa first meets Duardo she knows he’s the love of her life. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to fight in Castro’s army, and Elisa is forced to leave behind her homeland and rebuild her life in distant England. England, 2012: Grace has a troubled relationship with her father and this year more than ever she could do with a shoulder to cry on. She’s begun to develop feelings for her best friend Theo, however is the passion Grace feels for Theo enough to risk her family’s happiness.
In Blarney, Cork, an old millworker’s cottage guards its secrets. In 1921, a mother, father and their two young children disappeared from this house. And now, ninetyfive years later, their mummified bodies have been discovered under the floorboards. As DS Katie Maguire investigates, the flames of old family rivalries flare up once more… and Katie is caught in the crossfire. “ One of this country’s most exciting crime novelists […] he has established the engaging character of Irish Detective; Superintendent Katie Maguire in a series of three fine crime novels. If you have not read one, read all four now.”
When Terry and Nancy arrive at St Saviour’s Children’s Home, they are shell-shocked after being orphaned in a fire. Terry is terribly damaged by his experiences, though the concerned staff, especially Angela Morton, suspect that there is something more sinister behind his disturbing behaviour. Angela shares her anxieties with a psychiatrist, Mark Adderbury, and together they must get to the bottom of what really happened, but the truth may be harder to take than they realise…
Wellington has handed Keane his least favourite job – he is to get himself captured by the French, escape and make his way to Paris to work undercover. There are rumours of unrest against Napoleon’s regime and Keane’s task is to work out which, if any, the British should support. Keane finds himself in an unknown, confusing political and social world, where even the contacts seem dubious. Whom can Keane trust in his own double agent role? “ Richard Sharpe would be delighted to have James Keane on his side! Iain Gale’s creation is a wonderfully imaginative addition to the fascinating tales of Britain’s defiance of Bonaparte.”
DAILY MAIL
“ Elegant storytelling at its very best.” VERONICA HENRY
“ A gorgeous, mouth-watering dream of a holiday read.”
BERNARD CORNWELL
RED ONLINE
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Love, or Nearest Offer
Another Love
Carola Dunn
Laura Childs
Adèle Geras
Amanda Prowse
Daisy’s in danger of heading off the rails!
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning finds herself in hot water when a body surfaces at the grand opening of Charleston’s Neptune Aquarium…
What if your estate agent could find you not just your perfect house, but your perfect job, your perfect partner… your perfect new life?
Romilly had worked hard for her stunning house in one of Bristol’s most fashionable suburbs. She adored her daughter and handsome husband and, sure, life was sometimes exhausting – but nothing that a large glass of wine couldn’t fix. But then, as deep-buried insecurities surfaced, everything started to unravel. A glass of wine became a bottle; one bottle became two. Once, Romilly’s family were everything to her. Now, after years of hiding the drinking, she must finally admit that she has found another love…
Daisy’s embarking on a journey to Edinburgh. Once the journey begins Daisy finds a pint-sized stowaway on board – Belinda, the daughter of dreamy Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, Daisy’s beau. Daisy and Belinda run into a bickering Scottish clan en route to the deathbed of the head of the family. But before the express reaches its first stop, one of the greedy McGowans has turned up dead. Is it murder? Daisy’s willing to bet her first-class ticket it is. “ Cunning […] appropriate historical detail and witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece.”
For the opening of a new aquarium Theodosia has been hired to cater the private party to honor dignitaries and donors. Things are going swimmingly – until Theodosia discovers a body entangled in a net, drowned in one of the aquarium’s state-of-the-art tanks. The victim is Theodosia’s ex, Parker Scully, who the EMT believes has drowned accidently. But when Theodosia notices what look like defensive wounds on his hands, she realizes that someone wanted Parker dead…
On paper, Iris Atkins is an estate agent, but she has a gift: Iris is able to see into people’s lives and understand exactly what is missing and what they need – and not just in bricks-and-mortar terms either. Of course, this doesn’t leave much time for examining her own problems and while she may know what’s best for everyone else, she doesn’t necessarily know what’s best for herself – and what she finds out could make her happier than she’d ever dreamed of.
“ A gut-wrenching and absolutely brilliant read.” THE IRISH SUN
“ A gritty, unputdownable read.”
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“ This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries.” BOOKLIST
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The View From the Corner Shop
A Better Man
The Listerdale Mystery
Pamela Hart
Kathleen Hey
Leah McLaren
Agatha Christie
A sweeping historical love story set in Australia during World War One.
The power of her diary lies in its juxtaposition of the everyday and the extraordinary, the homely and the universal, small town life and the wartime upheavals of a nation.
What if the only way to end your marriage was to be the perfect husband?
A selection of tantalizing mysteries, some light-hearted, some romantic and some very deadly…
Newlyweds Ruby and Jimmy Hawkins are sure their love will survive the trauma and tragedy of war. But as Jimmy fights in Gallipoli, Ruby is forced to take a job at a city timber merchant’s yard – thrown into a man’s world fraught with complications. And as the lives of those around her begin to shatter, Ruby must change to find her way. But is she still the same woman Jimmy fell in love with? “ Evokes World War One Sydney to the point where the reader can almost feel the salty wind blowing off the harbour as the troops are shipped out through the Heads.”
Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. Among the chorus of voices she brings us, Kathleen herself shines through as a strong and engaging woman who refuses to give in to doubts or misery and who maintains her keen sense of humour, even under the most trying conditions.
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Maya wants Nick to be less of a workaholic. Nick wants a divorce. But divorce is expensive. Then an unlikely solution presents itself: Nick needs to act like a better man. Then Maya will become happier and Nick’s payout to her will be far cheaper. But as Nick pretends to be a better man he becomes one and remembers why he fell in love with Maya. Everything seems to be back on track. Until Maya finds out exactly what Nick had been planning… “ This brilliantly written read is original, surprising, funny and clever. I raced to the end, totally engrossed by McLaren’s forensic examination of the demise of this very modern marriage. Wonderful – I loved it.”
Twelve ingenious, witty mysteries showing the author at her best, including tales of the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a strange encounter on a train; a retired inspector’s hunt for a murderess and a mystery writer’s arrest for murder. All have one thing in common: the skilful hand of Agatha Christie. “ The acknowledged Queen of Detective fiction.” OBSERVER
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“ A brilliant fresh take on the collapse of a modern marriage. Well-observed, beautifully written but mostly screechingly funny. I laughed, I gasped. Give it to all your friends.” CAMILLA LONG
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Art in the Blood
The People We Were Before
The Factory Girls
The Taste of Summer
Bonnie MacBird
Annabelle Thorpe
Rosie Archer
Kate Lord Brown
In this new adventure for the classic characters, in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Watson’s friendship is tested to the limits.
If war is madness, how can love survive?
A traditional, World War Two-set saga following a group of women working in an armaments factory on the Hampshire coast.
Over a glorious Irish summer of baking and bunting, hearts will be broken and secrets revealed in this gorgeous new novel from Kate Lord Brown.
A snowy December, 1888. A strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris. Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful cabaret star, writes that her illegitimate son by an English lord has disappeared. Racing to Paris with Watson at his side, will Holmes find the missing boy and stop a rising tide of murders? To do so he must stay one step ahead of a dangerous French rival and the interference of his own brother, Mycroft. “ In a world with more than its share of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, it is rare for one to soar above the rest, but Bonnie MacBird’s Art in the Blood achieves this singular feat and deserves a tip of the deerstalker.”
Yugoslavia, summer 1979: A new life… But nine-yearold Miro knows the real reason why his family moved to the village of Ljeta, a tragedy he tries desperately to forget. When he marries his childhood sweetheart, it seems as though life is perfect. However, war breaks out and destroys the life Miro has managed to build. Driven by anger and grief, he flees to Dubrovnik. There he begins a journey that will take him ever deeper into danger. The war will change him and everyone he loves, forever. A bold, dark, romantic debut set in war-torn 1990s Croatia, for fans of Victoria Hislop and Louis de Bernieres.
It’s 1944, after D-Day. Doodlebugs are the latest threat to war-battered southern England. Local crook Samuel Golden is still finding ways to exploit people’s hardship for his own gain. Heroine, Em, who we first met in The Munitions Girls, finds herself caught up in one such scheme whilst having to deal with her daughter’s unexpected pregnancy. Female friendship; wartime drama; mothers and daughters; and finding a good man in the end – it’s all there in this sparkling new saga from Rosie Archer.
Every summer, in a rambling castle in Ireland, TV crews descend to film the nation’s favourite cookery competition. For Diana, a celebrated TV chef, it’s a way to keep her castle running. Bea, the cupcake queen, is determined to remind everyone why she deserves her own TV show. Connor, the bad boy of the restaurant world, is determined to put his lurid past behind him. And food blogger Darcy finds that returning home to the castle means stirring up some long-buried feelings for someone she’d never quite forgotten.
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“ Vivid period detail, a superb, labyrinthine plot, snappy pacing and, most importantly, a deep respect for the classic characters.” BRYAN COGMAN PRODUCER OF GAME OF THRONES
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The Witches of Cambridge
Girl Waits with Gun
The Ashes of London
A Murder of Crows
Menna van Praag
Amy Stewart
Andrew Taylor
P. F. Chisholm
The Cambridge University witches have been meeting for as long as the university has been around. They meet mainly to discuss books, though they do so on the roofs of the colleges. Only those invited can join, this includes Kat (a great spell-caster and professor) and Cosima, Kat’s sister, café owner and witch, however, when she begins casting spells to attract a mate everything starts to go wrong – she sets off a chain of events that turns each of the witches’ worlds upside down…
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten, true story of one of the US’s first female deputy sheriffs.
From the bestselling author The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller, set during the time of the Great Fire of London.
September 1592: the dark streets of London are full of people up to no good.
“ Reminiscent of Love Actually and P.S. I Love You […] recommended to readers who want to be charmed by the possibilities of love.” LIBRARY READS
Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mould. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world by a family secret. When a ruthless factory owner runs down their buggy, a dispute over damages turns into a war as he unleashes his gang. The sheriff enlists her help, and it turns out that Constance has a knack for outwitting the criminal element, which might just lead her onto a new path in life. “ Girl Waits with Gun is fresh, funny and utterly compelling – and Constance Kopp and her sisters are not just great investigators, but completely original women.” THE GUARDIAN
London, September 1666: The Great Fire rages through the city, even the impregnable cathedral of St Paul’s is reduced to ruins. Among the crowds watching its destruction is James Marwood, the son of a disgraced printer and reluctant government informer. A semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes of St Paul’s, in a tomb that should have been empty. Under orders from the government, Marwood is tasked with hunting down the killer; the investigation leading into treacherous waters… “ The Ashes of London is a chilling murder mystery and an equally transporting historical novel. A genuine pleasure from start to finish.” PETER SWANSON
“ Taylor’s mastery of plot and character show to great effect in a story that has a depth few other historical crime novels can match.”
The redoubtable Sergeant Dodd and that dashing Elizabethan gunslinger Sir Robert Carey are in London where Carey’s powerful father, Lord Hunsdon, wants him to solve the mystery of a corpse that has washed up from the Thames River onto Her Majesty’s privy steps. Now, Sergeant Dodd and Carey must work together to find the identity of the corpse and its murderer. “ The renegade English professor in me let out a howl of delight.” JOANNE DOBSON, AUTHOR OF THE KAREN PELLETIER MYSTERIES
“ Sir Robert Carey is back at last in this fifth novel in P. F. Chisholm’s Sir Robert Carey series, with the redoubtable Sergeant Henry Dodd matching wits with Sir Robert’s mother, the darling and deadly Lady Hunsdon. Well worth the wait.” DANA STABENOW, EDGAR-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE KATE SHUGAK NOVELS
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This title is not available in our Standing Order Plans A masterpiece from the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta
The Revelations of Carey Ravine
Spy Sinker
Debra Daley
Len Deighton
A beautiful historical mystery for fans of Sarah Waters, Amitav Ghosh’s The Sea of Poppies, and Jamaica Inn.
The long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy, Hook, Line and Sinker, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
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“ A remarkable feat.”
“ Gripping, tautly plotted and hauntingly beautiful: Debra Daley is a writer to watch.”
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“ A glorious, intricate period romance: a perfect mix of Georgian high society blended with wild Irish magic. Em is a feisty heroine and the denoument is as perfect as it is unexpected.”
Bernard Samson is surrounded by puzzles and none more complex than Fiona, his wife. But as a mystery, she is by no means alone. Can a man love two women at the same time? Tessa Kosinski, Bernard’s socialite sister-in-law, is not the ‘other woman’. She is as faithful to Bernard and Fiona as she is unfaithful to her doting husband. But she is vulnerable, and slowly she is drawn from the bright lights of London to the murkiest corners of Berlin.
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Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All
The Missing
Jonas Jonasson
C. L. Taylor
A madcap new novel from the one-of-a-kind author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden.
You love your family. They make you feel safe. You trust them. But should you?
Hitman Anders is fresh out of prison and trying to keep his head down when he meets a female Protestant vicar (who happens to be an atheist), and a receptionist at a one star hotel (who happens to be currently homeless). Together they cook up an idea for a very unusual business that’s going to make them all a fortune – but then all of a sudden, and to everyone’s surprise, Anders finds ‘Jesus’… “ Pure, ingenious fantasy […] it’s “feel-good” set to stun level.” GUARDIAN, ON THE GIRL WHO SAVED THE KING OF SWEDEN
When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, his mother, Claire, blames herself. She’s not the only one. There isn’t a single member of Billy’s family that doesn’t feel guilty. But the Wilkinson’s’ are so used to keeping secrets from one another, that it isn’t until six months later, after an appeal for information goes horribly wrong, that the truth begins to surface… “ The Missing has a delicious sense of foreboding from the first page, luring us into the heart of a family with terrible secrets and making us wait, with pounding hearts for the final, agonizing twist. Loved it.” FIONA BARTON, AUTHOR OF THE WIDOW
“ Imaginative, laugh-out-loud bestseller.” THE TELEGRAPH, ON THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW
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Black Water
Outstanding
Blowback
Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama
Louise Doughty
Kathryn Flett
Peter May
George Lucas
From the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love and redemption.
A sharp-eyed modern morality tale about mothers and daughters and how we raise our children.
From the bestselling crime and thriller writer comes the fifth book in The Enzo Files.
An original radio drama based on the motion picture features an expanded version of the movie story.
Harper wakes every night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut halfway up a mountain in Bali. He is afraid that his past as a mercenary has caught up with him and that his life may now been in danger. As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Rita, a woman with her own tragic past and they begin a passionate affair – but can Rita and Harper save each other while they are putting each other very much at risk?
Eve Sturridge is the passionate headteacher of Ivy House, an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ prep school. When Danish A-listers, Stefan and Anette Sorenson, jet in and choose Ivy House over other schools, Eve is justifiably proud. Zoe is Eve’s pretty seventeen-year-old daughter. When glamorous Stefan Sorenson proposes that Zoe interns at his company, inviting her to accompany him to New York, Zoe is over the moon, while Eve is too focused on Ivy House to smell danger… “ A book to devour in one greedy session. Seriously hard to put down.” JENNY ECLAIR
“ Funny, clever and achingly honest […] a wonderful insight into contemporary relationships.”
When France’s top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world’s press to make a shattering announcement, rumours abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars. Instead, on arrival at his restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made. Seven years on, the identity of his killer also remains an enigma…
When this series was first broadcast on National Public Radio in 1981, it generated the largest response in the network’s history. Writer Brian Daley adapted the film’s highly visual script to the special demands and unique possibilities of radio. Sound engineer Tom Voegeli, whose brilliant blending of the actors’ voices, the music, and hundreds of sound effects takes this intergalactic adventure into a realm of imagination that is beyond the reach of cinema.
“ May’s flair for narrative, characterization and evocative descriptions of various locales and historic tidbits […] fresh and delightfully readable – catnip for armchair sleuths.” KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW
“ Peter May is a writer I’d follow to the ends of the earth.” NEW YORK TIMES
SALLY BRAMPTON
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What She Never Told Me
The Secret in Their Eyes
The Postcard
Who Stole My Spear?
Kate McQuaile
Eduardo Sacheri
Fern Britton
Tim Samuels
What do you do when you find out that your whole life could be a lie?
Benjamín Chaparro is a man haunted by his past…
The new witty and warm novel from the bestselling author and TV presenter, Fern Britton.
Louise Redmond left Ireland for London before she was twenty. Now, more than two decades later, she is summoned home. Her mother is on her deathbed, and it is Louise’s last chance to learn the whereabouts of a father she never knew. Stubborn to the end, Marjorie refuses to fill in the blanks. Then Louise unexpectedly finds a lead and begins to suspect that the memories she most treasures could be a delicate web of lies…
Benjamin, although a retired detective, remains obsessed with the decades-old case of the rape and murder of a young woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the details of the investigation, he is reacquainted with his similarly long, unrequited love for Irene Hornos. Set in the Buenos Aires of the 1970s, The Secret in Their Eyes reveals the underpinnings of Argentina’s Dirty War, and asks what justice really means.
Penny Leighton, TV Producer and wife of the local vicar Simon Canter, is struggling to cope with motherhood. When Simon engages the services of a nanny, Ella, as a way of helping Penny, it only serves to push her further away from him and from their only child, Jenna.
A modern day guide to being a man; ‘But surely being a man is the easiest thing in the world?’ Think again…
“ What She Never Told Me pulls you in from the first page in its exploration of love and identity, and the complicated bonds that tie families together. An absorbing read.” KAREN PERRY, AUTHOR OF THE BOY THAT NEVER WAS
“ McQuaile displays great empathy for her characters in this tale of an Ireland where the past can never be left behind.”
Now a major film starring Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman.
After the death of the woman Penny called her mother, memories of her troubled childhood are brought to the surface. As a distraction, she finds herself drawn to the new village doctor. “ Another ripping good read.”
“ Sacheri builds a startling psychological mystery about the secrets of a country corroded by state terror, and the secrets of a heart so suffocated that it cannot utter its simple, pure desire.” MICHAEL GREENBERG
This is a must-read for fans of Jon Ronson and Matt Haig!
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
“ Complicated friendships and tales of a chaotic love life make this a must-read.” WOMAN
SINEAD CROWLEY, AUTHOR OF CAN ANYBODY HELP ME?
Award-winning broadcaster and journalist Tim Samuels asks whether this is the most absurd and challenging time to be a man. Trapped in bodies barely changed since caveman days, males are now contending with corporate culture, lifelong commitment, rampant depression and crazy expectations to be a success at work and home. Funny, insightful and brutally honest, Who Stole My Spear? is a book for men and women alike who are questioning what we regard as ‘normal’ these days; how should men actually be living?
“ Tim Samuels knows it isn’t always easy to be a man. […] The book is important as well as charming: something for many men, and as importantly women, to read, learn and be consoled by.” ALAIN DE BOTTON
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Stalker
The Shadow Project
Pen 33
The Woman Who Ran
Lars Kepler
Scott G. Mariani
Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström
Sam Baker
The much-anticipated fifth thriller in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.
Only one man can foil a plot set to change the course of history…
The first DCI Ewert Grens thriller – an unforgiving collision between a time-hardened policeman and a truly heinous crime.
When someone is under your skin, there is only so far you can run…
A video-clip is sent to the National Criminal Investigation Department. Someone has secretly filmed a woman through her window from the garden. The next day, she is found dead after a frenzied knifeattack. The police receive a second film of another unknown woman. There is no way of identifying her before time runs out. The woman’s husband is traumatised by the violent scene. Criminal psychiatrist Erik Maria Bark is called in to hypnotise the man in order to unlock his memories of the murder scene.
Ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope is enjoying life at Le Val, the facility in Northern France where he trains others in the art of hostage rescue, until a chance incident forces him to take on the role of bodyguard to the Swiss billionaire, Maximilian Steiner. The victim of a recent abduction attempt, Steiner believes that a neo-Nazi terror group are bent on seizing a prized document from his personal collection. Ben finds himself embroiled in a sinister project that has lain dormant since 1944. “ Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart […] Scott Mariani packs a real punch.” ANDY MCDERMOTT
“ Hurtles along […] full of nuanced detail which sets it far above the average thriller. You’ll be terrified.” EVENING STANDARD
Bernt Lund harbours a sickness – he is a monster: in the mind of society, in the mind of his nine-year-old victims’ parents and in the mind of his fellow inmates. Lennart Oscarsson has a situation; the worst scenario imaginable for the head of Aspsås prison’s Department for Sexual Crimes. These two men’s actions are about to hand DCI Ewert Grens the most profoundly sickening and impossibly sensitive case of his career, and in Stockholm’s history. This is an unflinching exploration of what people – whether criminals or victims – are capable of when they choose to relinquish self-control.
“ James Bond meets Jason Bourne meets The Da Vinci Code.”
Helen Graham is a new arrival in a tiny Yorkshire village, renting dilapidated Wildfell Hall. The villagers are intensely curious – what makes her so jumpy and why is she so evasive? Their interest is Helen’s worst nightmare. With everything she knows in fragments, from her marriage to her career as a war photographer, how can she work out who to trust and what to believe? Most days she can barely remember who she is… “ Superbly executed, with a creeping sense of dread that builds to an explosive finish.” CLARE MACKINTOSH
“ Wildly gripping and unputdownable. This is a brilliant book.” MARIAN KEYES
J. L. CARRELL, AUTHOR OF THE SHAKESPEARE SECRET
“ Ferocious, visceral storytelling that wraps you in a cloak of darkness.” DAILY MAIL
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’Til Death Do Us Part
All Their Minds in Tandem
The Rule of Fear
The Singles Game
Amanda Quick
David Sanger
Luke Delaney
Lauren Weisberger
The author of the New York Times bestseller Garden of Lies returns to Victorian London in an all-new novel of deadly obsession.
Twin Peaks in the 1800s: an enigmatic stranger unearths a small town’s secrets…
The new novel by Luke Delaney, ex-Met detective and author of the terrifyingly authentic DI Sean Corrigan series.
An exciting, new novel from Lauren Weisberger the author of The Devil Wears Prada.
Calista Langley operates an exclusive “introduction” agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning. Desperate for help Calista turns to Trent Hastings, a reclusive author of popular crime novels. It becomes clear that the danger may be coming from Calista’s own secret past.
1879, New Georgetown, West Virginia: A mysterious figure by the name of ‘The Maker’ has entered this small community and almost immediately upon doing so, started entering the minds of the townsfolk. As we enter these characters’ lives and lightly tread our way through their brains, their bedrooms, their backstories and beyond, we will see what it is they all hope for and hide – and learn just why ‘The Maker’ has chosen to meet them.
Sergeant Jack King is tasked with cleaning up the notorious Grove Wood estate, and he is determined to rise to the challenge. But it’s not just drug dealers and petty thugs his team have to worry about. Someone on the estate is preying on children, and they need to find the culprit, fast. Soon, King finds himself over his head and the line between right and wrong starts to blur. “ The feeling of being at the heart of a police investigation seeps from every page.”
“ Quick’s ambitious Victorian historical mixes witty, occasionally self-referential banter with gothic undertones and a solid thriller plot.”
DAILY MAIL
“ Luke Delaney knows the London crime scene like the back of his hand and uses this inside knowledge to the full.”
PUBLSIHERS WEEKLY
THE TIMES
“ The icing on this irresistible literary confection is Quick’s distinctive sense of wit, which remains just as delicious as ever.”
When Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Silver makes a pact with the devil, infamously brutal tennis coach, Todd Feltner, she finds herself catapulted into a world of stylists, private parties and secret dates with Hollywood royalty. Under Todd it’s no more good-girl attitude: he wants warrior princess Charlie all the way. But as the warrior princess’s star rises, both on and off the court, it comes at a high price. Is the real Charlie Silver still inside? The Singles Game is a brilliantly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high – and no-one plays by the rules. “ Sparkling with Sex and the City-style glamour, this entertaining sequel comes a decade after the debut novel which became a smash-hit film.” HELLO
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The Bachelor
A Spring Betrayal
Star of Africa
All Things Cease to Appear
Tilly Bagshawe
Tom Callaghan
Scott Mariani
Elizabeth Brundage
“ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of anything but a wife?”
As the ice melts, winter’s crimes are laid bare…
Ben Hope is one of the most celebrated action adventure heroes in British fiction and Scott Mariani is the author of numerous bestsellers.
Elizabeth Brundage has crafted a novel that is a community’s landscape spanning twenty years, as well as an an intimate portrait of a disturbed mind. This is fiction at its most piercing, ambitious and chilling.
Henry Saxton-Brae has it all – a titled, self-made millionaire, his fiancée just happens to be a supermodel. To top it all, he’s just bought Hanborough Castle. Flora Fitzwilliam has been summoned to restore Hanborough to its former glory. She soon discovers that it’s not just the house that needs fixing, and Flora seems to be the only person who sees the real Henry SaxtonBrae. Can she make Henry see that his bachelor days are behind him?
Inspector Akyl Borubaev finds himself caught up in a mysterious and gruesome new case: several children’s bodies have been found buried together beneath the ice. In search for the truth, Borubaev himself is framed for his involvement in the production of child pornography. With the investigation at a dangerous standstill, Borubaev sets out to save his own integrity and to deliver his own savage justice on behalf of the many dead who can’t speak for themselves… The next novel featuring Inspector Akyl Borubaev, from the critically acclaimed author of A Killing Winter.
“ Fast-paced, fun and thoroughly entertaining.”
Ben Hope is trained to identify danger. So when he finds out that someone very important to him is working on a US container ship in the treacherous seas off the East African coast, he fears the worst. Within days the ship is hijacked by pirates. Taking matters into his own hands, Ben embarks upon the most daring rescue mission of his career. There is something on board the ship that’s more precious than life itself – and a bloodthirsty tyrant will kill to possess it. “ Slick, serpentine and very, very entertaining […] If you’ve got a pulse, you’ll love Scott Mariani; if you haven’t, then maybe you crossed Ben Hope.”
DAILY MAIL
“ You’re always guaranteed a corking characters and a fast-paced read with a Bagshawe story, and this doesn’t disappoint.”
SIMON TOYNE
“ Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart […] Scott Mariani packs a real punch.”
HEAT
ANDY MCDERMOTT
Upstate New York: The farm stood at the foot of the hill within an aching emptiness of fields and wind. The Clare’s got it cheap. George knew why, though he didn’t let on to his wife, Catherine, who has the feeling they’re not alone. She is helped by the Hale boys, though they never tell her what happened to their mother in this house. As the Clare’s’ marriage splinters, so does the border between sanity and rage; between this world and the inexplicable beyond. “ At once high art and a spellbinding thriller, this is a book of many wonders, including a character as creepily sinister as any created by Patricia Highsmith.” BEVERLY LOWRY
“ A dynamic portrait of a young woman coming into her own [and] of a marriage in free fall. […] It rises to [great] literary heights and promises a soaring mix of mysticism.” BOOKLIST
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Up From the Grave
The Empire Strikes Back
Jeaniene Frost
George Lucas
There’s always one more grave to dig.
The Empire Strikes Back takes you once more into a galaxy of pure sound and limitless imagination for an adventure you’ll never forget.
Vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband, Bones, should have known better than to relax their guard, because a shocking revelation sends them back into action. A rogue CIA agent is involved in horrifying secret activities that threaten to raise tensions between humans and the undead to dangerous heights. Now Cat and Bones are in a race against time to save their friends from a fate worse than death. “ Emotional stakes and body counts are high in Frost’s exciting and dramatic seventh Night Huntress novel.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
National Public Radio’s 1981 adaptation of Star Wars was one of the most successful presentations in the history of radio-and a very tough act to follow. Nevertheless, two years later, the members of the Star Wars production team eagerly returned to create a radio version of The Empire Strikes Back. Like its predecessor, this electrifying drama boasts an outstanding cast; a greatly expanded script, with many scenes not found in the movie; and audio engineering of unparalleled excellence. This outstanding radio drama is essential listening for fans of Star Wars or sci-fi of any kind.
“ I always open a Frost book with happy anticipation.” CHARLAINE HARRIS
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Flawed
Never Evers
Cecelia Ahern
Tom Ellen
The gorgeous, thought-provoking first young adult novel, from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern.
Romance. Mayhem. Hamsters. Not your average school trip…
Flawed is set in a powerfully realised society where perfection is valued above humanity, with an intense love story at its centre. Good-girl Celestine has always agreed with the system, but following an act of kindness towards one of the ‘Flawed,’ she herself is excluded and soon she is fighting for her own survival – and for love. Flawed is hugely accessible, emotionally resonant and with a character who will seize the hearts of anyone who meets her. “ Cecelia Ahern is an undisputed master when it comes to writing about relationships […] Moving, real and exquisitely crafted.”
On the school ski trip, Mouse knows certain classmates can’t wait to see her fall flat on her face. Meanwhile, Jack looks forward to danger and girls, but hasn’t a clue about either. That’s until French teen sensation Roland arrives in the resort – who Jack’s a dead ringer for. When Roland persuades Jack to be his stand-in for a day, Jack, in disguise, declares his feelings for Mouse. But what happens when he’s no longer a pop star – will it be music and magic on the slopes? “ Never Evers is exactly what a teen book should be. I gobbled it whole in a day. Everyone who likes enjoying life should read it.” HOLLY BOURNE, AUTHOR OF AM I NORMAL YET?
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“ Exceptional […] both heart-breaking and uplifting.” DAILY EXPRESS
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London Belongs to Us
The Lighthouse Land
Am I Normal Yet?
The Memory Hit
Sarra Manning
Adrian McKinty
Holly Bourne
Carla Spradbery
A fast-paced, darkly funny love letter to London: boys with big hair and the joys of staying up all night.
“ Doyle displays his ability with Irish accents and slang.” audiofile
“ One of the most honest voices I’ve ever read.”
A gripping thriller that will keep you guessing…
When Jamie’s mother inherits a small Irish island and moves her little family, her troubled son sees a chance to start over after suffering from cancer. Jamie learns that he is heir to an ancient title – Laird of Muck, Guardian of the Passage and realises he has certain otherworldly responsibilities. With the help of a mysterious object he discovers in the old lighthouse, Jamie sets out on a dangerous interstellar mission that could change the course of his life and the universe forever.
All Evie wants is to be normal. And now that she’s almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as ‘the-girl-who-went-nuts,’ there’s only one thing left to tick off her list… a boyfriend. But relationships can mess with anyone’s head – something Evie’s new friends Amber and Lottie know only too well. The trouble is, if Evie won’t tell them her secrets, how can they stop her making a huge mistake?
Nostalgex: a drug that stimulates memory. In small doses, a person can remember the order of a deck of cards. In larger doses it allows the user detailed access to their past, to focus on previously unnoticed details. On New Year’s Day, Jess and Cooper’s worlds collide. They must work together to look into their pasts to uncover what really happened on that fateful New Year’s Eve. But what they find is that everything is a lie…
“ An involving look at feminism, friendship and the secrets we hide even from those who know us best.”
“ A pleasingly dark teen thriller with fun, fresh characters. Spradbery is a debut author to watch.”
Seventeen-year-old Sunny has always been a little bit of a pushover. But when she’s sent a picture of her boyfriend kissing another girl, she knows she’s got to act. What follows is a mad, twelve-hour dash around London. Along the way Sunny meets a whole host of characters she never dreamed she’d have anything in common with. As Sunny discovers, a whole range of people are willing to help a girl on a mission to get her romantic retribution.
“ In this fantasy-like space-travel trilog y opener, a grieving boy finds his strength in a distant land […] An entertaining adventure.” KIRKUS REVIEWS
“ This thought-provoking sci-fi adventure offers universal appeal, excitement, and a one-of-a-kind hero whose courage and compassion will inspire any reader.”
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JAMES DAWSON
“ Wow, just finished Am I Normal Yet?, which was absolutely fantastic! What a well needed, moving, and brill book!” FOYLES
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Avid
Avid thrillers A new imprint for 2016–17, dedicated to fast-paced thrillers and suspense novels. This quarter includes new titles from Francesca Kay and New York Times bestseller Joanne Fluke.
The Considerate Killer
The Long Room
Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis
Francesca Kay
The Nina Borg series continues with fastpaced, gripping adventures.
Set in London in the early eighties, award-winning novelist Francesca Kay’s new novel tells the story of a man who falls for the wrong woman.
On her way home from the shops, Nina Borg is attacked. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn’t for what he’s just done, but for what he plans to do to. For the first time, she’s the primary target of a hit, and it slowly dawns on her that this case is connected to a surprising and dangerous friendship among three young men from Manila. “ Powerful […] Kaaberbøl and Friis tackle social justice issues head-on.” MYSTERY SCENE
What happens to a man who has his ear pressed to the lives of others but not much life of his own? When Stephen Donaldson joins The Institute, he anticipates excitement, romance and new status. This becomes a reality when he is assigned a new case: PHOENIX, in which he becomes mesmerized by the voice of the target’s wife. Dangerously in love and very lonely, Stephen sets himself up for a vertiginous fall that will forever change his life. “ The Long Room seems like the sort of novel that might have won the Booker around 1981. It says much about the author’s […] sensitivity to […] human behaviour that it wouldn’t look out of place in 2016.” INDEPENDENT
“ Kay’s atmospheric novel is partly a portrait of damage, and her unworldly protagonist a painfully vulnerable figure – which, as he becomes increasingly reckless, makes for some sweaty-palmed reading. […] This skillfully calibrated thriller will keep you guessing.” DAILY MAIL
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The Pale House
Eyes
Wicked Game
Siren
Luke McCallin
Joanne Fluke
Matt Johnson
Annemarie Neary
On the ruined edge of what they were told was a thousand-year Reich, there are those who seek to continue the fight beyond the battlefield…
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Hannah Swensen mysteries comes a new thriller that is more than meets the eye…
Wicked Game is an action packed thriller about a man who is forced to confront his past in order to face a threat that may wipe out his future. But is it too late?
He stole her life. And now she wants it back.
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When German intelligence officer Captain Reinhardt is reassigned to a new branch of the military police, his position separates him from the allies he has made. This includes a circle of fellow dissenting Germans who formed a resistance cell against the Nazis. Reinhardt witnesses a massacre of civilians in Yugoslavia, only to discover there is more to the incident than anyone believes. When five mutilated bodies turn up, he knows the stakes are growing more important – and more dangerous…
Losing everything can make a person do crazy things. No one knows that better than Connie Wilson after losing her fiancé in a car accident. It is almost too much to bear… until Connie comes up with a plan to stay close to Alan forever – and she’s finally found just the man to help her. There’s only one thing standing in her way: his wife. Connie will have to stay one step ahead of a detective who is as determined to save her as Connie is to destroy her…
Robert Finlay is looking forward to returning to uniform policing and a less stressful life. But fate has other plans. Finlay’s traumatic past is about to return to haunt him. A policeman is killed by a bomb blast and a second is gunned down; both were former Army colleagues from Finlay’s own SAS regiment. And so begins a game of cat and mouse, a wicked game in which Finlay is in embroiled in a fight against a determined and unidentified enemy. “ Terse, tense and vivid writing. Matt Johnson is a brilliant new name in the world of thrillers. And he’s going to be a big name.”
“ An utterly credible picture of a place and time, and a complex, exceptional character in action.”
PETER JAMES
CRIME REVIEW
Róisín Burns has spent years becoming someone else; her life in New York is built on lies. A figure from her Belfast childhood flashes up on the news; Brian Lonergan has also reinvented himself. He is now a rising politician, but scandal is brewing in Ireland and Róisín knows the truth. Armed with the evidence, she travels back across the Atlantic to hunt him down. But Lonergan is one step ahead… and when Róisín arrives on the island, someone else is waiting for her. “ Siren is a brave and searing study of characters isolated and estranged from society for very different reasons. It is a beautifully written tale of how we can never escape our past no matter how much others might want us to do so. Gripping, riveting and full of suspense.” LIZ NUGENT, AUTHOR OF UNRAVELLING OLIVER
“ From the first page to the last, an authentic, magnetic and completely absorbing read.” SIR RANULPH FIENNES
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Avid
Introducing a brand new imprint, guaranteed to make you swoon!
Falling Awake
Stiletto
Twisted River
Jayne Ann Krentz
Daniel O’Malley
Siobhán MacDonald
From the bestselling author of Light in Shadow and Truth or Dare.
The second novel in Daniel O’Malley’s The Checquy Files series: Myfanwy Thomas returns to clinch an alliance between deadly rivals and avert supernatural war.
An unmissable psychological thriller about two families in crisis and a house swap gone terribly wrong…
Isabel Wright analyses the dreams of others for sleep research. It’s satisfying, lucrative work, but it can be emotionally draining at times – especially when one of her subjects, known only as ‘Client Number Two,’ captures her imagination through his compelling dream narratives. His real name is Ellis Cutler, a loner who is more than he seems. And a waking nightmare begins. For a suspicious hit-and-run leads them into a perilous web of passion, betrayal and murder; forcing them to walk the razor-thin line between dreams and reality. “ Hearts will flutter. Spines will tingle.”
THE CHECQUY: A centuries-old covert organization that protects the nation from supernatural threat. THE GRAFTERS: A centuries-old supernatural threat. After centuries of rivalry and bloodshed The Checquy and The Grafters are on the verge of joining forces and only one person has the supernatural skills to get the job done – Myfanwy Thomas. But as a wave of gruesome atrocities sweep London, old hatreds ignite and negotiations grind to a halt…
PEOPLE MAGAZINE
“ Tightly written and packed with twists and shockers at every turn, this top-notch thriller keeps readers on the edge of their seats.”
“ Packed full of twists, O’Malley creates a lively and absorbing world.” DAILY EXPRESS ON THE ROOK
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A house swap offers two couples the perfect chance to soothe their troubled marriages. Kate and Mannix O’Brien live in a lovely Limerick house they can barely afford, Hazel and Oscar Harvey live on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Hazel has mysterious bruises and Oscar is hiding something. But the house swap will be anything but a perfect break. And the body in the car boot is just the beginning… “ MacDonald’s dark and twisted tale of American tourists caught up in recession-hit Ireland will change the way you look at house swaps forever.” ALEX MARWOOD, AUTHOR OF THE WICKED GIRLS
“ Twisted River is a superb thriller – gripping, surprising, and terrifically rewarding” CHRIS PAVONE, AUTHOR OF THE EXPATS
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How to Find Your (First) Husband
Girl on the Run
Rosie Blake
Jane Costello
Isobel travels the globe to find her first husband, via Cornwall, Devon and a remote Malaysian island, but is he really what she is looking for?
He’s a real catch… If only she could catch him up!
Isobel is eight years old and marrying Andrew Parker, the boy of her dreams, in the school playground. Life is perfect. Then the ceremony is over, and a week later so is the marriage. Twenty years on and Isobel is dressed as a prawn handing out promotional fliers. Her career is going nowhere and her love life leaves a lot to be desired. Then, she catches sight of Andrew, her first husband, and wonders if she can rekindle a playground romance?
Abby Rogers has been on health kicks before – they involve eating one blueberry muffin for breakfast instead of two. When Abby is encouraged to join her sporty best friend’s running club – by none other than its gorgeous new captain – she finds a mysterious compulsion to exercise. Then her colleague Heidi turns up at work and makes a devastating announcement, one that will change her life – and Abby’s – forever. “ Jane Costello is one of our favourite authors.” COSMOPOLITAN
“ Packed with likeable characters and witty one-liners.”
“ Rosie captures worst-case-scenarios and turns them into hilarious anecdotes.”
SUNDAY MIRROR
HELLO
“ Wonderfully likeable characters and a realistic plot.” THE SUN
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Devil’s Bride
Return to Glory
The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart
Rosalia’s Bittersweet Pastry Shop
Stephanie Laurens
Sara Arden
Anna Bell
Rosanna Chiofalo
Can passion drive Honoria to face the enchanting peril of a lifelong adventure of the heart?
In Glory, Kansas, the bakery not only brings together ingredients for sweet treats, but is the place where a wounded hero can forge a forever kind of love. Back in his hometown, Jack McConnell has returned battlescarred, but Betsy only sees the hero who once saved her life and set her heart on fire. Now she’s burning to save him in return. However, Jack realizes the only way he’ll be worthy of the hero’s mantle she’s pinned to his shoulders is to save Betsy one last time – from himself.
A hilarious new romantic comedy for fans of Lindsey Kelk and Jane Costello from Anna Bell, the bestselling author of Don’t Tell the Groom.
In Rosanna Chiofalo’s touching novel, a unique pastry shop features mouth-watering creations that have the power to change one woman’s life…
Abi’s left inconsolable when Joseph dumps her, saying they are incompatible. When Joseph returns a box of her possessions, she finds a bucket list of ten things. What better way to win him back than by completing the list?
Food writer, Claudia, has sampled dishes by the world’s greatest chefs. But when she hears about a remarkable pastry shop operated out of a convent in a sleepy Italian hillside town, she wants to write a book featuring their desserts and their creator – Sorella Agata. Sorella tells of the young woman, Rosalia, who inspired her, who was kidnapped and separated from her family. Claudia discovers a deep, fascinating story – one that affirms food can do more than nourish the body…
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When Devil, the most infamous member of the Cynster family, is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria, he astonishes the entire ton by offering his hand in marriage. But Honoria wasn’t about to bend to society’s demands, she craved adventure and was set on seeing the world. Could her passion for Devil cause her to embrace the enchanting peril of a lifelong adventure of the heart?
But Abi’s terrified of heights – not ideal when the list includes abseiling down a building. Completing the list is going to need all Abi’s courage, but as she heals her broken heart one task at a time, the newly confident Abi might just have a surprise in store…
“ Her lush sensuality takes my breath away!” LISA KLEYPAS
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Sophie Dupont assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. In private, she paints the Devon coast, popular with artists – including handsome Wesley Overtree. Captain Stephen Overtree is accustomed to taking on his brother Wesley’s responsibilities. However, Stephen is stunned to learn Wesley has sailed for Italy and left his host’s daughter in serious trouble. Stephen feels duty-bound to act and so proposes to Sophie to save her from scandal. However, Sophie finds herself torn between her first love and this brooding man she barely knows.
Maeve Maloney may be nearing eighty, but she keeps Sea View Lodge as shipshape as her parents did during Morecambe’s heyday. But now, only her employees recognise the heartbreak hidden beneath her spikiness. Until, that is, Vincent shows up. He is the only man alive to have known her twin sister, Edie. If only Maeve could confront the secret past she shares with Vincent, she might finally see what it means to love and be loved – a lesson that her twin may have been trying to teach her all along.
A beautiful, touching and heartbreaking story of love, loss and friendship in 1960s Brighton. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Mary Gibson and Katie Flynn.
“ Regency romance with secrets, hidden rooms, and of course, romance […] Julie Klassen has hit this one out of the ballpark.”
“ Emma Claire Sweeney’s fiction is sensitive and stylish. She writes with courage, honesty and richness that demand to be read.” SALLY CLINE, AWARD-WINNING BIOGRAPHER AND FICTION WRITER
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Dottie Perks has forged a new life for herself in London, a new job and a loving boyfriend. She’s safe, happy and loved. What more could she ask for? But when Dottie visits her home in Brighton, the last person she expects to see is her first love; Ralph Bennett. As old feelings come rushing to the surface, Dottie struggles to deny the strong chemistry between them. She can’t throw away everything to be with Ralph… can she? “ I loved this novel so much, even though it’s probably the most heart-breaking story I’ve read all year […] it will totally absorb you and capture your heart.” THAT THING SHE READ
“ Klassen has combined all kinds of reader-favourite elements in this mystery romance […] A gem for Regency and inspirational readers alike.”
“ I absolutely loved this book and couldn’t put it down. It has all the ingredients for a perfect read: fantastic, loveable and very real characters, an emotional and compelling storyline, and a brilliant setting in time and place.”
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