OneClickdigital October-December 2015

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DIG I TA L AU DIOBOOK S N EW R E L E A SE S October – December 2015

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Dear Librarian,

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As OneClickdigital goes from strength-to-strength as a service, we’re proud to present our new eAudio releases for fourth quarter. Here you’ll find a collection of the leading authors and titles including many top ten bestsellers and a range to meet all literary tastes in your library.

Our innovative Multicap format exclusive to W. F. Howes provides fantastic value; with simultaneous access up

Multicap Collections/SOPs

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One User Collections/SOPs

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Lamplight

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Avid

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Last but not least, do not miss Nudged, an imprint designed to ignite children with a life-long passion for reading! This quarter we have bestselling authors Alexander McCall Smith, Huw Powell and Lauren Child (the author of the Charlie & Lola children’s series), within our list.

Doctor Who

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We hope you agree this is an exciting eAudio collection – available exclusively on OneClickdigital. Our Standing Order Plans (SOPs) provide best value as well as a continuous flow of bestsellers with 20% discount. Plus, if you sign up to receive one of our children’s Standing Order Plans alongside an adult plan, we’ll give you 33% off the children’s plan.

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to a high cap of 100 lends, members can always get the books they want, when they want them. Even better they can tell their friends to borrow the same titles and join reading groups. This quarter’s Multicap plans include The Slaughter Man by Tony Parsons, a chilling crime thriller and run-away No.1 bestseller follow-up to The Murder Bag; Sunday Times bestseller Jane Costello’s All the Single Ladies and Tim Weaver’s What Remains, another high demand crime thriller chasing down an elusive killer.

This quarter’s One User plans feature some very high profile authors and titles from partners such as HarperCollins. Love him or hate him Russell Brand’s Revolution is a number one bestseller and, with the author’s narration, a lively eAudiobook! Why not have a listen and join the debate? We also launch The Fourth Sacrifice, the new bestselling crime novel from Peter May, the second in the acclaimed China Thriller series. Meanwhile, romance fans will love Kerry Fisher, Freya North, Tilly Bagshawe and Lucy Diamond.

The Lamplight imprint features traditional authors and genres, and has been a huge success since launching.

This quarter we feature more essential titles including Anne Bennett’s heartrending novel Love Me Tender, and Maureen Lee’s wonderful tale of three sisters in 1920s New York, The Kelly Sisters. For something a little darker, try Michael Connelly’s detective page-turner The Burning Room or Jonathan Holt’s Italian thriller The Traitor.

Please enjoy our brochure and if you would like any further information on the titles or help selecting please do get in touch.

With best wishes, The Editor

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Multicap

MultiCap Designed to meet true demand, our simultaneous multi-access Multicap SOPs include a mixture of bestselling and awardwinning titles from across our imprints.

This quarter includes authors such as Jane Costello, Tony Parsons and Peter James.

The Sudden Departure of the Frasers

All the Single Ladies

Louise Candlish

Jane Costello

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

Be careful what you wish for…

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

Samantha Brooks’ boyfriend has made a mistake: Jamie has booked himself a one-way flight to South America. Solo. But Sam isn’t giving up without a fight.

She hatches a plan that involves dirty tricks, plotting, and a single aim: to win him back. But by the time Jamie finally wakes up, a gorgeous new pretender has entered Sam’s life. Which begs the question… does she still want him back?

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

COSMOPOLITAN

GLAMOUR

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

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

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Julie Teal

Modern Fiction 14.5 hours 9781510010406

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Modern Fiction 12.5 hours 9781510010413

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The Watched

The Lady from Zagreb

The Slaughter Man

The Vanished Ones

Casey Hill

Philip Kerr

Tony Parsons

Donato Carrisi

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1942, there are worse places to be than Zurich and detective Bernie Gunther has seen his fair share of them. So when a superior asks him to track down a glamorous German actress believed to be hiding in Zurich, he takes the job. The actress, it emerges, is the daughter of a fanatical Croatian fascist, the sadistic commandant of a notorious concentration camp and Bernie finds himself involved in something much more sinister than he’d anticipated.

SUNDAY TIMES ON A MAN WITHOUT BREATH

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

“ Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic.” “ Shiveringly intelligent.”

LEE CHILD ON THE MURDER BAG

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

“ Richly layered, […] Remarkable.”

IRISH INDEPENDENT

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

THE TIMES

JEFFREY DEAVER ON THE MURDER BAG

“ Compelling […] Elegantly constructed.”

FINANCIAL TIMES ON A MAN WITHOUT BREATH

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Caroline Lennon Crime 9.75 hours 9781510010420

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Jeff Harding

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The Well

At the Ruin of the World

Sophie and the Sibyl

Rush Hour

Catherine Chanter

John Henry Clay

Patricia Duncker

Iain Gately

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

448 AD. The Roman Empire is crumbling.

The birth, growth and triumph of commuting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

ALLISON PEARSON

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

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

“ Colourful, engaging and hugely enjoyable.”

THE SUNDAY TIMES

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

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

KATHRYN HUGHES

JESSIE BURTON, AUTHOR OF THE MINIATURIST

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

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

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

GUARDIAN (BOOK OF THE WEEK)

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

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Juanita McMahon Thriller 15.75 hours 9781510010468

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Lee Maxwell-Simpson Historical Fiction 17.5 hours 9781510010451

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Helen Johns

Historical Fiction 10.75 hours 9781510010444

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Jot Davies

General Non Fiction 12 hours 9781510010475

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OCTOBER

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The Earth is Singing

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Emma and her Daughter Emerald City

Vanessa Curtis

Marlon James

Linda Mitchelmore

Chris Nickson

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

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

Can ‘second love’ be true love?

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the threats escalate, her dreams turn to nightmares and Laura finds herself desperately fighting for her reputation – and her life.

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

“ The other unbeatable reader is the great Lorelei King. As the feisty Laura Benton, she is the heroine of Emerald City […] the first of a promising series of mystery thrillers.”

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

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

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

SOPHIE KING

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

THE TIMES

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

MARGARET KAINE

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

A haunting, incendiary work.”

IRVINE WELSH

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Melody Grove

Historical Fiction 7.75 hours 9781510010512

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Multiple Narrators Historical Fiction 26 hours 9781510010529

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Juanita McMahon Romance 13.25 hours 9781510010482

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Lorelei King

Modern Fiction 6 hours 9781510010505

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The Templar Revelation

The Soldier’s Daughter

You Are Dead

The Day We Disappeared

Lynn Picknett

Rosie Goodwin

Peter James

Lucy Robinson

The classic investigation that inspired The Da Vinci Code.

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

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

A gripping and unpredictable story of two young women running from their pasts.

We defy you to guess the twist…

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

Bryony Valentine lives at home with her mother Lois, father James and two younger siblings. For as long as Bryony can remember, she has been soft on the boy next door, Eddie, but her best friend Ruth has feelings for him too. When the war begins, Eddie is called up to serve, as is James, whilst the three Valentine children are dispatched to Cornwall. Will the Valentine family ever unite, and will Bryony ever see Eddie again? “ A gifted writer. Tells a cracking story and does so with an insight into people that is rarely found.”

WASHINGTON TIMES

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

KARIN SLAUGHTER

NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST

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

Annie has a secret. It’s a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn’t have – yet Annie isn’t broken. Kate has run away. But it’s proving difficult to reinvent herself, however, with one person always on her mind. Nobody is really who they seem. Even Annie and Kate aren’t entirely sure who they are any more. Can they work it out, before their pasts catch up with them for good? “ What a book! Fabulous characters, dark secrets and a clever, compulsive plot that will take you completely by surprise. Read it!”

LUCY DIAMOND

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

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

LANCASHIRE EVENING POST

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David Timson History 20.75 hours

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Charlie Sanderson Saga 13.5 hours 9781510012806

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Daniel Weyman Crime 13.75 hours 9781510012813

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Julia Barrie

Modern Fiction 15 hours 9781510012844

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Deadline

London Rain

The Fixer

Quite a Good Time to be Born

John Sandford

Nicola Upson

Joseph Finder

David Lodge

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

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

You can run. You can hide.

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

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

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

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

SUN

“ A startling thrill ride… one man’s fight for survival becomes a journey to the light.”

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

MICHAEL CONNELLY

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

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

When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into – and renovate – the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father’s stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril – and change everything he thought he knew about his father.

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

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

DAILY TELEGRAPH

LISA GARDNER

SPECTATOR

“ Few do it better than Sandford.”

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

DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Sandra Duncan Crime 11 hours 9781510012837

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Jeff Harding Crime 10.5 hours

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David Timson

Biography & Autobiography 15.5 hours 9781510012899

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NOVEMBER

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The Good Girl

Skyfaring

Sometimes the Wolf

Past Crimes

Fiona Neill

Mark Vanhoenacker

Urban Waite

Glen Erik Hamilton

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

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

A spellbinding story of family, violence and unintended consequences.

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

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

Sheriff Patrick Drake tried to lead an upstanding life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Travel & Geography 12.75 hours 9781510012868

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Jeff Harding Crime 10.75 hours

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With A Zero At Its Heart The Floating Book

House of Ashes

Wrote for Luck

Charles Lambert

Michelle Lovric

Monique Roffey

D. J. Taylor

“Poetic, tender and funny.” guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wrote For Luck ranges from North Norfolk to Chicago, from sordid old antique dealers to glamorous young writers, from glorious local gossips to frustrated academics. The stories abound with gleeful absurdity and waspish humour. But they are also rich in melancholy and the heady sadness of people struggling to find a place in the world. Some are fascinatingly strange; others are uncomfortably familiar. Some are simply hilarious – and all are touchingly human.

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

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

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

INDEPENDENT

ANGELA JACKSON, AUTHOR OF THE EMERGENCE OF JUDY TAYLOR

“ These short stories are sophisticated morsels of modern life, needle-sharp, and touchingly aware of the social subtext… Excellent.”

OBSERVER

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

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

BIG ISSUE

THE TIMES

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

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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Black Rabbit Hall

Hand of God

The Quality of Silence

Tightrope

Eve Chase

Philip Kerr

Rosamund Lupton

Simon Mawer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SPORT ON JANUARY WINDOW

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

“ Highly entertaining and deliciously gossipy.”

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What Remains

The Harvest Man

How to Catch a Russian Spy

I Take You

Tim Weaver

Alex Grecian

Naveed Jamali

Eliza Kennedy

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

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

The fascinating story behind a legendary double-agent operation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“ Will keep you riveted from page one.”

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“ Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller.”

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“ Shiver-inducingly creepy. A racy read.”

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

Meet Lily Wilder – the luckiest woman in the world.

She has a dream job, friends who adore her and a total catch of a fiancé. Lily is also completely incapable of being faithful to just one man. Will loves Lily, but does he really know her? As the wedding approaches, Lily’s nights of booze, laughter and questionable decisions become a growing reminder that the happiest day of her life might turn out to be her worst mistake yet. “ Wickedly smart, hilariously funny, sexy, clever… the most enjoyable read I have had in YEARS. I completely loved it.”

JANE GREEN

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

Eliza Kennedy makes infidelity sexy again!”

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This Changes Everything

The Illuminations

Hold the Dark

The Lost Child

Naomi Klein

Andrew O’Hagan

William Giraldi

Caryl Phillips

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

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

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

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

We seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. Exposing the work of ideologues who know the battle, Naomi Klein challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups. It’s time to stop running from the full implications of the crisis and begin to embrace them. “ Klein is a brave and passionate writer who always deserves to be heard, and this is a powerful and urgent book.”

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

MARGARET ATWOOD

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

Wolves have come for the children, three have been taken from an isolated Alaskan village, including the sixyear-old boy of Medora and Vernon Slone. Wolf expert Russell Core arrives in Keelut to investigate the killings and learns of the horrifying darkness at the heart of Medora. As Core attempts to rescue Medora from her husband’s vengeance, he comes face to face with the untamed animal in the soul of every human being. “ A taut, muscular and often unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness. Epic, relentless… a beautifully realised novel.”

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

DENNIS LEHANE

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

“ Thrilling.”

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

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Best in Class Award-winners from W. F. Howes

In the Name of Love

In Dubious Battle

The Weightless World

Patrick Smith

John Steinbeck

Anthony Trevelyan

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

A fast-paced story of social unrest.

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

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

Lena Sundman was rude, dysfunctional, and young.

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

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

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

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

Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Award

Winner of the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

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

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One User One User eAudiobooks work just like the physical equivalent, each copy can only be downloaded by one person at a time. Our One User SOPs include a mix of titles from all of our imprints. This quarter features authors such as Russell Brand, Peter May and Freya North.

The Show

The Fourth Sacrifice

Tilly Bagshawe

Peter May

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

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

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

Will Laura be able to weather the storm, or will her big idea turn out to be her biggest mistake? “ Full of scandal, sex and secrets, all of which combine to keep you hooked till the very end.”

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

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

GLASGOW HERALD

CLOSER

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

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

NEW YORK TIMES

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The Turning Point

Love Notes for Freddie

A Cold Killing

The Silk Factory

Freya North

Eva Rice

Anna Smith

Judith Allnatt

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

One dance step can change everything…

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

A beautiful, eerie story of love and memory.

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

But fate has a twist in store and the real turning point comes when tragedy strikes. “ Brimming with emotional drama and packing a huge twist, this story will keep you guessing until the very end.”

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

This is the story of summer 1967, when the sun burned down on the roof of the Shredded Wheat factory, and a boy called Freddie danced to the records he had stolen.

This is what happens when three people are bound together by something that can’t be explained by any equation.

THE TIMES

“ A novel of rare insight, exquisitely written.”

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

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

“ Chilling and compelling.”

KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS

“ Brilliantly written, hugely engaging and full of glorious detail, this book is a must-read.” “ A swoon of a read… vintage style drips from every page.”

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

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

But she has her own reasons to stay hidden…

MICHAEL MORPURGO

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The Island Escape

A Devil Under the Skin

Everything I Never Told You

Make Something Up

Kerry Fisher

Anya Lipska

Celeste Ng

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

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

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

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

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

And who is the murderous enforcer stalking the streets of London?

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

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

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

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

“ So witty and fun.”

LUCY ATKINS, AUTHOR OF THE MISSING ONE

“ Twenty-one stories and a novella to disturb and delight.” “ [A] moving tale… of daughters for whom cultural disconnect is but the first challenge.”

JANE LYTHELL, AUTHOR OF THE LIE OF YOU

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

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

PAUL FINCH

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Too Charming

A Night in with Audrey Hepburn

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

The Sun is God

Kathryn Freeman

Lucy Holliday

David Lagercrantz

Adrian McKinty

Does a girl ever really learn from her mistakes?

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

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

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

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

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

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

“ I laughed my slippers off!”

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ALEXANDRA BROWN, AUTHOR OF CUPCAKES AT CARRINGTON’S

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

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

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

IAN RANKIN

“ McKinty gets better and better.”

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The Invisible Guardian

Revolution

The Fifth Gospel

A Summer to Remember

Dolores Redondo

Russell Brand

Ian Caldwell

Victoria Connelly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“ Revolution is funny, full of charm, and engaging.” “ Has so many facets to it that it becomes utterly compelling.”

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

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General Non Fiction 9.75 hours 9781510012516

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

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

LISA JEWELL

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

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The Final Silence

The Ghosts of Altona

The Other Child

Red Notice

Stuart Neville

Craig Russell

Lucy Atkins

Bill Browder

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

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

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

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

When Rea finally forces it open she discovers inside a chair, a table – and a leather-bound book. Inside its pages are locks of hair, fingernails: a catalogue of victims. Horrified, Rea turns to the only person she can think of: DI Jack Lennon.

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

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

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

“ A great writer at the very top of his game.”

VAL MCDERMID

PETER JAMES

“ A moving and suspenseful tale of the secrets a family keeps.”

“ Storytelling at its very best.”

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

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

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

RACHEL HORE

MICHAEL CONNELLY

November, 2009: Sergei Magnitsky is led to an isolation cell in a Moscow prison and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes. Magnitsky’s brutal killing has remained uninvestigated to this day. Red Notice is a searing exposé on the Russian authorities responsible for the murder, slicing deep into the heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths. “ Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile foreign city… but it’s all true, and it’s a story that needs to be told.”

LEE CHILD

SUNDAY MIRROR

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

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A Summer Breeze

Orkney Twilight

Book of Numbers

Game Changer

Colette Caddle

Clare Carson

Joshua Cohen

Tim Bowler

The magical new bestseller from bestselling Irish author Colette Caddle.

Jim says he’s an undercover policeman.

His daughter Sam thinks he’s a liar.

The breakout novel from a prodigiously talented author.

A gripping thriller from the Carnegie awardwinning storyteller.

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

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

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

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

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

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Claire Douglas

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David Kessler

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Everyone keeps secrets in Vegas.

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

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

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

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

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

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Kimberley Chambers

Lucy Diamond

Andrew Gross

David Mark

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

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

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

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

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

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

Harriet’s looking forward to a break with her lovely husband Robert and teenage daughter Molly. But unknown to Harriet, Robert is hiding a secret – and so, for that matter, is Molly…

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

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

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

In the background, Little Vinny thinks he’s one step ahead of his dad; he’s still keeping a secret he’ll take to his grave – even if that means that he sends more people to theirs first…

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Joanna Bolouri

Kat French

Barbara Nadel

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

Some rules are made to be broken…

Finding love isn’t always black and white…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Dying Season

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson’s Own Hero

A Great Day at the Office

Nikki Owen

Martin Walker

Max Adams

Dr John Briffa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“ A compelling narrative.”

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

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Ordinary Joe

Stephanie Laurens

Holly Smale

Jon Teckman

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

The Geek is back!

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

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

Harriet Manners knows that humans have 70,000 thoughts per day. And that the average person eats a tonne of food a year, though her pregnant stepmother is doing her best to beat this. But Harriet doesn’t know what she’ll do once the new baby arrives. And with her summer ruined, modelling in Japan seems the perfect getaway. Can Harriet cope with Tokyo, her competitive model flatmates and her errant grandmother’s ‘chaperoning’?

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

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

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

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Love Me Tender

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Anne Bennett

Nadine Dorries

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

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

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

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

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Justice for the Damned

Sarah Harrison

Jonathan Holt

Rosanna Ley

Ben Cheetham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Carola Dunn

Iain Gale

Matthew Plampin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The British and French armies have retreated from the city of Coimbra, leaving it in ruins. Infiltrating the streets are Spanish guerrilla fighters, local Portuguese determined to avenge the horrors inflicted upon them and intelligence agents determined to find the hidden book of ciphers. James Keane and his men are sent into the midst of this, not only to prevent the book falling into enemy hands, but also to discover which of the guerrilla groups are to be trusted.

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The Burning Room

The Throwaway Children

The Life Intended

Death Descends on Saturn Villa

Michael Connelly

Diney Costeloe

Kristin Harmel

M. R. C. Kasasian

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

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

Kristin Harmel presents a bittersweet story of love and loss.

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

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

MAIL ON SUNDAY

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

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

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

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

MARIE CLAIRE ON THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING

“ The kind of book that stays with you…

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

“ Diney Costeloe has tackled an important subject.

We should never forget this terrible injustice!”

DAILY MAIL ON THE MANGLE STREET MURDERS

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

ROMANTIC TIMES ON THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING

JOHN HUMPHREYS

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

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

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

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Survivor

Shadow on the Crown

Mexico Set

The Golden Age of Murder

Lesley Pearse

Patricia Bracewell

Len Deighton

Martin Edwards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DAILY MAIL

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

“ The poet of the spy story.”

LIVERPOOL DAILY POST

SUNDAY TIMES

DAILY MAIL

CLOSER

“ Deighton’s best… until the next.”

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

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

“ Characters it is impossible not to care about.”

DIANA GABALDON, AUTHOR OF OUTLANDER

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The Museum of Things Left Behind

You, Me & Other People

The Kelly Sisters

No Place for a Lady

Seni Glaister

Fionnuala Kearney

Maureen Lee

Gill Paul

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

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

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

All’s fair in love and war…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1854: Lucy Harvington, ill-educated beyond how to be a wife, has travelled to the Crimea with her handsome and impetuous officer husband Charlie. As the day of battle dawns she can only pray her husband survives.

If he doesn’t, what will become of her? Dorothea Gray, volunteer nurse at the Westminster Hospital, is determined to follow her little sister Lucy to the front and to serve her country alongside her heroine Florence Nightingale.

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

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Coming soon

Perfect Daughter

Shadows of War

Blood & Steel

The Spider’s Web

Amanda Prowse

Michael Ridpath

Harry Sidebottom

Ben Cheetham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DAILY MAIL

THE TIMES

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

CLOSER

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

“ Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship.”

SHOTS

“ A powerful page-turner.”

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

The case has long since gone cold. But Anna made a promise to look after her little sister. And it’s a promise she intends to keep no matter how long it takes…

THE TIMES ON BLOOD GUILT

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

CRAIG RUSSELL

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DECEMBER

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The Milliner’s Secret

Our Land at War

The Wedding Cake Tree

Swords Around the Throne

Natalie Meg Evans

Duff Hart-Davis

Melanie Hudson

Ian Ross

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thoroughly enjoyable.”

“ Hugely enjoyable. The author winds up tension into an explosion of fast-paced events.”

THE SUN

CONN IGGULDEN

LITERARY REVIEW

“ A truly accomplished and delicious debut novel.”

Rewarded for saving the emperor’s life in battle, centurion Aurelius Castus is promoted to the Corps of Protectores, the elite imperial bodyguard, the swords around the throne. But he soon discovers the court to be just as hazardous as the battlefield; behind the gilded facade of empire, there are spiralling plots, murderous betrayals and dangerous seductions. And one relentless enemy.

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

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

LAURIE GRAHAM ON THE DRESS THIEF

M. C. SCOTT

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

THE LADY ON THE DRESS THIEF

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Avid An imprint dedicated to the increasingly popular genre fiction – specifically Supernatural, Horror, Fantasy and Science-Fiction. This quarter includes bestsellers Raymond E. Feist, H. P. Lovecraft and Mark Lawrence.

City of Stairs

Shadow of a Dark Queen

Robert Jackson Bennett

Raymond E. Feist

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

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

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

When the gods were destroyed and worship of them banned, reality folded; now stairs lead to nowhere and alleyways have become portals to the past. Now the murder of a diplomat has begun whispers of an uprising. Only one woman may be willing to pursue the truth – but it is likely to cost her everything. “ City of Stairs is a compulsively readable and thought-provoking tale that confirms the author as one of the genre’s most exciting talents.”

Ancient powers are readying themselves for a devastating confrontation. A dark queen has raised her standard and is gathering armies of unmatched might. Into this battleground of good and evil a band of desperate men are forced, among them are some unlikely heroes – Erik, a bastard heir denied his birth right, and his friend Roo, an irrepressible scoundrel with a penchant for thievery. They are accompanied by the mysterious Miranda, upon whom all must wager their lives. “ Fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination.”

SCIFI NOW

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

WASHINGTON POST

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The Vagrant

Foxglove Summer

Abaddon’s Gate

Tombley’s Walk

Peter Newman

Ben Aaronovitch

James S. A. Corey

A. W. Gray

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

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

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

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

Avid

NOVEMBER

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OCTOBER

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

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

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

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

THE SUNDAY EXPRESS

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

Series fans will find this installment the best yet.”

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

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

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

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“ As brilliant and funny as ever.”

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

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Online adult learning in your library

The Liar’s Key

The Three-Body Problem

At the Mountains of Madness

Mark Lawrence

Cixin Liu

H. P. Lovecraft

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

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

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

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

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

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

“ A milestone in Chinese science fiction.”

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

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

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ROBIN HOBB

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

“ The best kind of science fiction.”

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

CLIVE BARKER

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

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

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Doctor Who

Three’s a Crowd

Unregenerate!

Colin Brake

David A. Mcintee

On an almost lifeless planet, Earth Colony Phoenix is struggling to survive. The colonists, utterly dependent on technology and unable to leave the security of their Habitat Domes, have developed severe agoraphobia. The TARDIS crew arrive on an apparently abandoned space station and soon discover that they and the remaining colonists are in the gravest danger.

To survive, the Doctor, Peri and Erimen must uncover the colony’s darkest secrets before it is too late.

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

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

Doctor Who A new Standing Order Plan for 2015–16.

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

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who

The Council of Nicaea

Death in Blackpool

The Eight Truths

Worldwide Web

Caroline Symcox

Alan Barnes

Eddie Robson

Eddie Robson

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

Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her mam running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Her dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner. And in the afternoon, Aunty Pat, haring up to the house on the back of a moped weighed down with ridiculous presents.

Christmas 2009 didn’t turn out like that. Christmas 2009, the Doctor turned up…

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

Thanks to the Eightfold Truth, Metebelis crystals cover the Earth, and the Eight Legs, giant spiders from that distant world, are poised to take control of the planet.

As the Doctor attempts to deal with the invasion, Lucie Miller finds herself playing host to the Great One. Can she break free of the spider leader’s control, or will she be lost forever?

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Terror Firma

Live 34

Thicker Than Water

Leviathan

Joseph Lidster

James Parsons

Paul Sutton

Brian Finch

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

“LIVE 34. Sport, weather, business, local news, interplanetary affairs. Live, independent, accurate, comprehensive. Reports are coming in of an explosion…

On the line now is the leader of the FDP… The President is about to begin his address…

We can see bodies in the wreckage…”

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

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

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Mission to Magnus

The Nightmare Fair

Other Lives

Scaredy Cat

Philip Martin

Graham Williams

Gary Hopkins

Will Schindler

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

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

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

Millennia ago, the people of the planet Caludaar pledged never to set foot on their sister planet Endarra.

But what secrets does the planet hold? There are laws even the Doctor won’t break. And while C’rizz learns that some tragedies can’t be averted, Charley must decide who the enemy actually is. For death walks on Endarra, and this time she won’t be denied.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Singularity

White Ghosts

The King of Sontar

The Crooked Man

James Swallow

Alan Barnes

John Dorney

John Dorney

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

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

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

When they stumble across a grotesque series of murders at the coast, the TARDIS travellers realise the local constabulary is out of its depth. Something supernatural has come to town, something evil. And it all seems to be tied in to a particular young family.

Monsters lurk behind strange doors. Tragic secrets wait to be uncovered. And somewhere, deep within, the Crooked Man sits. He is waiting for you.

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Hunk and Thud: Wrestling Trolls: Match Two

Andrew Cope

Jim Eldridge

The purrrfect spy is prowling a neighbourhood near you…

The second slam-down audiobook in the hilarious Wrestling Trolls series.

Shakespeare, the Spy Cat, is standing in for Lara and her Spy Pups once again. This time evil oldies are intent on destroying the internet and returning Britain to ‘the good old days’ where life was slower and young people respected their elders. Can Spy Cat stop their plot to shoot down satellites from the top of The Shard?

Jack is doing fantastically well as the Wrestling Trolls training coach, Big Rock is winning matches, and the group are on their way to more gold than they can count.

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Harvey Drew and the Bling Bots

Completely Cassidy: Accidental Genius

Barry Loser and the Holiday of Doom

Princess Ellie’s Moonlight Mystery

Cas Lester

Tamsyn Murray

Jim Smith

Diana Kimpton

Harvey Drew and the Toxic Spew crew return for another out-of-this-world adventure!

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Another fantastic instalment in Diana Kimpton’s Princess Ellie series.

Harvey thinks he has the best job in the world: he’s the captain of a real live space ship! Except it’s the Toxic Spew – the most dysfunctional garbage ship in the galaxy. The crew get word of a stranded cargo ship, full of very valuable Techno-tium. Whoever rescues the cargo gets to claim it. So the crew aims their ship towards the treasure. But they don’t bet on running into the Bling Bot pirates from planet Sy-Boorg!

Meet Cassidy. With her embarrassing dad, pregnant mum, loser brother and knicker-chewing dog, she’s almost invisible in her family. So she’s hoping Year 7 is her time to shine, especially since a test proved she’s Gifted & Talented. The only problem is she picked her answers at random. But surely the school wouldn’t make a mistake about her genius?

“My best friend Bunky is sort of like my pet dog, so it was weird when he suddenly started fancying a cat one day.”

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Princess Ellie is pony-mad! And she hates boring royal rules. She can’t wait to go camping with her best friend Kate and her ponies, Moonbeam and Rainbow. There’ll be no servants, no governess and – best of all – no rules!

But when she hears strange noises in the night, Ellie starts to get scared. Will she solve the moonlight mystery? “ Brilliantly addictive… An irresistible blend of glitz, glamour, horses and adventure… a must-read for girls with a penchant for palaces, princesses and ponies.”

Barry Loser is a Roald Dahl Funny Prize awardwinning series.

“ A total cringe-fest and total fun!” “ Hugely original and wildly funny, a true page turner that will delight any child.”

Barry can’t wait to tell his friends that they’ve been invited on his family caravan holiday to Plonkton.

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BLACKPOOL GAZETTE

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Ballet Stars: Perfect Pirouette

The Great Fire

Love From Paddington

Feel the Fear

Jane Lawes

Ann Turnbull

Michael Bond

Lauren Child

It’s Tash’s first term at Aurora House, the school where dancing dreams come true.

“In sixteen hundred and sixty-six, London burned like rotten sticks.”

The fourth book in the scarily awesome Ruby Redfort series.

She’s thrilled to be living with other girls who love ballet as much as she does! But when Tash starts to worry that her dancing isn’t as good as her new friends’, she decides to take a big risk. Will her plan lead to a perfect pirouette… or a perfect disaster?

Left alone and homeless by the Great Plague, Sam struggled to survive. He was lucky to get a job working for the Giraud family. But Andre, the son of his boss, doesn’t make life easy. Then a fire breaks out on Pudding Lane. Before anyone fully realises what’s happening, London’s burning… and this fire can’t be put out. Now it’s time for Sam to prove what he’s really worth. If he can get out alive…

Sealed with a sticky paw! First class correspondence from the nation’s favourite bear, Paddington.

Jane Lawes began ballet and tap dancing classes when she was three. She now works in publishing by day, and as an author by night and at weekends.

“ This is an exciting adventure, which in its short length succeeds in evoking a strong sense of time and place.”

“Dear Aunt Lucy, I expect this will come as a great surprise to you, but not only have I arrived in England, but I have an address! I’m staying at number 32 Windsor Gardens and it isn’t at all like the Home for Retired Bears…”

This delightfully engaging series of letters from Paddington to his Aunt Lucy showcases his uniquely charming and hilarious take on the world.

“ Cool, punchy, stylish.”

THE SUN

“ Lauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood.”

GUARDIAN

“ I’ve always had great respect for Paddington…

He is a British institution.”

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Ruby Redfort: Undercover agent, code-cracker and thirteen-year-old genius. This time Ruby must pit her wits against a seemingly invisible foe. How do you set your sights on catching a light-fingered villain if you can’t even see him?

STEPHEN FRY

“ Michael Bond’s accident-prone bear… has become one of the most enduring of children’s characters.”

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The Nowhere Emporium The Popcorn Pirates

The Accidental Prime Minister

Interworld

Ross Mackenzie

Alexander McCall Smith

Tom McLaughlin

Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves

Scottish Children’s Book Award winner Ross MacKenzie unleashes a riot of imagination, colour and fantasy in this astonishing adventure.

It’s going to be an EXPLOSIVE adventure!

A hilarious story of one boy’s meteoric rise to power!

Interworld is the latest bestseller from award-winning writers, Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves.

When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident. Before long, the ‘shop from nowhere’ and its owner, Mr Silver, draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic and enchantment. Recruited as Mr Silver’s apprentice, Daniel learns the secrets of the Emporium’s vast labyrinth of passageways and rooms – containing wonders beyond anything Daniel has ever imagined.

The inhabitants of the Popcorn Islands lead a peaceful and comfortable existence – that is, until pirates attack Captain Foster’s ship on its way to America and steal half the popcorn harvest. So Lucy, Hermione and Sam offer to accompany the captain and his dog Biscuit on the next trip to keep a lookout for danger. But danger is exactly what they run into! Now the pirates aren’t just after more popcorn… they want new recruits too!

Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and most popular authors. He has written novels for adults and children alike.

The Nowhere Emporium is perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Cornelia Funke and Neil Gaiman.

When Joe tells a local news reporter exactly what he would do if he were leader of the country, the video goes viral and Joe’s speech becomes famous all over the world! Before long, people are calling for the current leader to resign and give someone else a go… and that’s how an ordinary boy like Joe ended up with the most extraordinary job. Now the fun can really start! “ A totally hilarious story, brilliantly written… with clear undercurrents of reality.”

“ A fast-paced compulsively readable tale.”

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“ Dramatises a common fantasy for many of us – what we might do if we were Prime Minister.”

“ A mind-stretching ride.”

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Joey Harker is the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension.

This walk between worlds makes Joey prey to armies of magic and science, both determined to harness Joey’s power to travel between dimensions. The only thing standing in their way is Joey – or to be more precise an army of Joeys, all from different dimensions…

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The Bell Between Worlds Harry and Hope

The Secrets of Sam & Sam

How to Fly With Broken Wings

Ian Johnstone

Sarah Lean

Susie Day

Jane Elson

A glorious epic fantasy, The Mirror Chronicles will take you into another world and on the adventure of a lifetime…

A story about family, friendship and belonging, from bestselling author, Sarah Lean.

Meet the very different twins and their very different problems in this funny, heartwarming story of modern family life for boys and girls.

Touching on themes such as friendship and bullying, this is a charming tale about overcoming obstacles and finding friendship in unlikely places.

Sam likes being a twin. He likes having two mums.

He likes cheese sandwiches and his dog and drawing comics with his friend Pea.

Willem has Asperger’s Syndrome and two main aims in life: to fly and to make at least two friends of his own age. As he stands on the edge of a wall, Sasha gives him a wink. Might she become his friend? As he flies through the air he wishes he could fly and escape. Instead he comes crashing down and breaks his ankle. Sasha is determined to put things right.

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Sylas Tate has led a lonely existence since his mother died. But then the tolling of a giant bell draws him into another world known as the Other, where he discovers that he has an inborn talent for the nature-influenced magic of the Fourth Way, and that his mother might have come from this strange parallel place. Meanwhile, evil forces are stirring, and an astounding revelation awaits Sylas as to the true nature of the Other…

Hope lives with her artist mum in the Pyrenees. It’s always been just the two of them… Until Frank, a freespirited traveller, arrives with his donkey, Harry. Hope and Frank form a close bond, so it’s hard for both of them when Frank decides it’s time to move on. Hope promises to look after Harry the donkey and comes to realise that even when someone is far away, they are always near to your heart. “ Sarah Lean weaves magic and emotion into beautiful stories.”

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“ This highly-charged adventure is a delightful pageturner for both children and adults alike.”

His twin sister Sammie likes being a twin too. She knows that she’s perfect best friend material for somebody – the girls in her class just haven’t realised yet. Both Sam and Sammie – and everybody in their lives seems to be keeping secrets – which ones will come out?

Friendship, familes, fun and secrets in this brand-new story about modern life from Susie Day.

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The Yoghurt Plot

Ballet Stars: Amazing Arabesque

The Lost Sword

Shoutykid: How Harry Riddles Got Nearly Almost Famous

Fleur Hitchcock

Jane Lawes

Huw Powell

Simon Mayle

Another delightful, family-friendly adventure from the author of Shrunk!

The second in the Ballet Stars series from much-loved children’s author, Jane Lawes.

The funniest kid in fiction is back and he’s got a lot to SHOUT about!

Humming in the kitchen of Bugg and Dilan’s new home is a huge, mysterious fridge. Even when Bugg turns off the power, the light stays on. Plus, it’s full of strangelooking yoghurts in glass jars with wax-paper lids. They bravely eat some and the yoghurts take them back to 1974! What follows is a desperate scramble across time and space, as the siblings try and right a 40-year-old time crime…

It’s Tash’s second term at Aurora House, the school where dancing dreams come true. She’s thrilled to be back, but with their first ballet exam coming up, the pressure is on. And when her friend Anisha starts acting strangely in class, Tash is worried. Can she figure out Anisha’s problem and help her friend pass the exam before it’s too late?

Star Wars meets Pirates of the Caribbean in this second swashbuckling quest for Jake Cutler and friends!

“ Fleur Hitchcock’s books are always fun.”

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Jane Lawes began ballet and tap dancing classes when she was three. She now works in publishing by day, and as an author by night and at weekends.

Jake Cutler is the 13-year-old ruler of the secret planet Altus and he’s on the run from the Interstellar Navy.

He and his crew are wanted over the disappearance of the ISS Colossus, the most powerful ship in the Navy’s fleet. But that’s not the only reason Jake’s being hunted. If he’s found, he’ll be forced to reveal the location of a fortune of crystals which the Interstellar Navy plans to start an intergalactic war with… It’s up to Jake to stop them!

“My name is Harry Riddles, and I live with my mum, my dad, my EVIL sister and my twin baby brothers in our house in Cornwall. But if my dad has his way we might not live here much longer. He’s got this crazy idea to take us all sailing round the world for like, two years!”

Follow Harry’s hilarious ups and downs told through laugh-out-loud letters, emails, texts and more!

“ A great action-packed read.”

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The most embarrassing dad in the world is back in this hilarious series from TV and radio-comedy writing talent, Nigel Smith.

Within the confines of Oaktree boarding school, Millie Hendrick and her friends are privileged kids in a future world, where robots are hired help for everyone. But Millie has never trusted the Units. They’re just… creepy. When pupils start disappearing, and no one else shares her increasing terror, how can Millie find out whether she is the only person who can see the truth, or if she is simply going crazy?

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