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Dear Librarian, Welcome to our summer Clipper, Lamplight and Center Point Westerns collections.

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Lamplight is the home of traditional reading tastes, from sagas and mysteries to historical fiction. Catherine Alliott, Bernard Cornwell and Amanda Prowse all feature in this quarter along with Elizabeth Buchan’s I Can’t Begin to Tell You; the compelling story of a family divided by War. In Clipper, you’ll find bestselling fiction and non-fiction, including new crime and mysteries from Peter James, Michael Robotham, Philip Kerr and Jacqueline Winspear. Look out for fantastic non-fiction including More Fool Me by Stephen Fry and So, Anyway… The Autobiography by John Cleese. In addition, we mark the centenary of the battle of Waterloo with 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates.

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Centerpoint Western Titles July – September 2015

January Window Philip Kerr

Life or Death Michael Robotham

Whispers Under Ground Ben Aaronovitch

978 1 47129 706 9 – 464pp

978 1 47129 707 6 – 512pp

978 1 47129 708 3 – 416pp

Everyone knows football is a matter of life and death… but this time, it’s murder.

The chilling new psychological thriller from one of the most brilliant crime authors of today.

A gripping outing for PC Grant in the Top 10 Sunday Times bestselling series from Ben Aaronovitch.

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eter Grant is learning magic fast. And it’s just as well - he’s already had run ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a terrifying killer in Soho. Now something horrible is happening in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up the tube system that honeycombs the ancient foundations of London.

And delays on the Northern line is the very least of it. Time to call in the Met’s Economic and Specialist Crime Unit 9, aka ‘The Folly.’ Time to call in PC Peter Grant, Britain’s last wizard.

cott Manson: team coach for London City FC and all-round fixer for the lads. Players love him, bosses trust him. But now the team’s manager has been found dead at their home stadium.

Even Scott can’t smooth over murder - but can he catch the killer before he strikes again?

‘An entertaining read.’ THE TIMES ‘A gripping whodunnit set in the world of football.’ SPORT

udie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of his own gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is. For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by prison guards, inmates and criminal gangs, who all want to answer this same question, but suddenly Audie vanishes, the day before he’s due to be released. Everybody wants to find Audie, but he’s not running. Instead he’s trying to save a life… and not just his own.

‘Life or Death is a nerve-shredding thriller with the heart and soul so often missing from lesser crime and suspense novels. I couldn’t stop reading.’

STEPHEN KING ‘Superbly exciting thriller, […] beautifully written and full of poignancy.’ SUNDAY MIRROR

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‘A thrilling read that will have you checking corners of London when you’re out, to see what may be lurking about.’ TIME OUT ‘Witty, well plotted, vividly written and addictively readable.’ THE TIMES on Rivers of London

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Tell No Tales Eva Dolan

Sophie and the Sibyl Patricia Duncker

The Book of Lost and Found Lucy Foley

978 1 47129 711 3 – 544pp

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978 1 47129 713 7 – 464pp

A brilliant, playful novel of George Eliot, of literature, of surprising romance and a relationship between an author and her publisher.

In many ways, my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.

The car that ploughs into the bus stop early one morning leaves a trail of death and destruction behind it.

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S Ferreira and DI Zigic are called in from the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit to handle a hit-and-run, but with another major case on their hands, they are relieved when there seems to be an obvious suspect. But the case isn’t that simple and with tensions erupting in the town, the media are soon hounding them for answers. Ferreira believes that local politician Richard Shotton, head of a recently established right-wing party, must be involved somehow. Journalists have been quick to acclaim Shotton, with his Brazilian wife and RAF career, despite his extremist views, but is his party a cover for something far more dangerous?

‘Powerful… Once again, Dolan writes brilliantly about the liminal existence of migrant workers, and the political subplot is bang up-to-date.’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Tell No Tales is a powerful authentic, superbly written story, which proves that her brilliant début was no fluke. Eva Dolan is definitely the real deal.’

HOWARD LINSKEY

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erlin, September 1872: The Duncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business. Irresponsible Max is as fond of gambling and brothels, whereas the older, wiser, Wolfgang is making the profit. When Max’s bad habits get out of hand, Wolfgang sends him to the town of Homburg, to dance attendance upon a celebrity author - the enigmatic Sibyl, also known as George Eliot - she soon has Max bewitched. Yet Wolfgang has an ulterior motive: for his brother to consider wealthy Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. Both women have Max in thrall - one with her youth and passion, the other with her wisdom and fierce intelligence.

‘Sophie and the Sibyl is wonderful; I was transfixed. […]

Most of all of course I love George Eliot, the Sibyl. I’m not sure now that I’ll ever be able to read any novel by her in the same way again.’ KATHRYN HUGHES 5

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ertfordshire, 1928: The paths of Tom and Alice collide against a haze of youthful, carefree exuberance. And so begins the love story.

Paris, 1939: Alice is living in the City of Light, but the pain of the last decade has already left its mark. There’s a shadow creeping across Europe when she and Tom find each other once more.

London, 1986: Bequeathed an old portrait from her grandmother, Kate Darling uncovers a legacy that takes her to Corsica, Paris and beyond. And as the secrets of time fall away, a love story as epic as it is life-changing slowly reveals itself.

‘A glamorous, seductively immersive read […][Foley] is a talent to watch.’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Wildly romantic and very enjoyable; a super debut.’

DAILY MAIL

July 2015

A Trick of the Mind Penny Hancock

A Week in Paris Rachel Hore

After the Storm Jane Lythell

978 1 47129 709 0 – 384pp

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Have you committed a crime… or are you the victim of one?

The streets of Paris hide a dark past…

Some secrets destroy you.

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ob and Anna have only just met Owen and Kim. Now they’ve boarded their handsome old boat to travel to a far off island in the Caribbean. With only the four of them on board, it should be paradise - lazy afternoons spent snorkelling, long nights enjoying the silence and the solitude of the sea. But why does Owen never sleep? Why is he so secretive about his past?

And why does Kim keep a knife zipped into her money-belt? Anna can usually get people to talk... but this time, does she want to?

riving to the cottage she’s newly inherited from her Aunty May, Ellie senses she is on the edge of something new. She’s so excited is she that she barely notices when the car bumps against something on the road. That evening Ellie hears a news flash on the radio. A man was seriously injured in a hit and run on the very road she was driving down. Then Ellie remembers the thump she heard. Could she have been responsible? Unable to hold her doubts at bay, she decides to visit the victim, little knowing that the consequences of this decision will change her life forever.

Praise for the author: ‘Background is Hancock’s great talent; the river and seaside backgrounds are so welldrawn that you can almost smell the way the air changes from one location to the other.’

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eptember, 1937: Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist. But then war breaks out and the city of light falls into shadow. 25 years later: Fay Knox, a talented young violinist, visits Paris on tour with her orchestra. She barely knows the city, so why does it feel so familiar? She realises her connection with these streets runs deeper than she ever expected. As Fay traces the past, she discovers dark secrets hidden years ago, secrets that cause her to question who she is and where she belongs…

‘A tour de force. Rachel’s Paris is rich, romantic, exotic and mysterious.’ JUDY FINNIGAN ‘An elegiac tale of wartime love and secrets.’

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‘Fascinating and clever. […] Jane definitely has a talent for writing psychologically scarred, complicated people. I finished the novel wanting to hug all four and remembering them long after I’d finished reading.’

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‘Penny Hancock has produced a slick, well-paced psychological thriller that gets its hooks into you and doesn’t let go.’ CRIME REVIEW

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July 2015

This is the Life Alex Shearer

Honeyville Daisy Waugh

A Dangerous Place Jacqueline Winspear

978 1 47129 727 4 – 368pp

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Even when you have received a death sentence, you still have to live…

“I don’t have much advice to give anyone; I’ve learned very little in my life; but here’s a gem of wisdom. Don’t take a dying man’s kettle away. You won’t be doing him any favours. Nor yourself either.”

This is the story of Louis, who never quite fitted in, and of his younger brother who always tagged along. Two brothers on one final journey together, wading through the stuff that is thicker than water. Tender-hearted, at times achingly funny, This is the Life is a moving testimony to both the resilience of the human spirit and to the price of strawberries.

‘This is a lovely touching book. The subject is a poignant one, handled with tact, insight and, most of all, with love’. ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ‘Beautifully done… A fine book on mortality and siblinghood.’ LIBBY PURVES

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A hooker. A mistress. A murder. This town was built on sin.

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he town of Trinidad, Colorado was a tough place to be a woman in 1913. But it was the best place in the West to find one, if you had the cash - Honeyville, they used to call it. A murder throws Inez and Dora together – two women from opposite sides of town - in a town built for men. Against all odds, the well born girl and the high class hooker are drawn together in friendship. But this is a town that is rotten to the core, and beyond the rustling of silk skirts, the dancing and laughter, deadly unrest is building…

‘Waugh brings this rather obscure corner of history to vivid, passionate life. […] Intelligent historical fiction at its best.’ THE TIMES ‘Gripping, glamorous and poignant, it’s a cracking tale that will keep you hooked from beginning to end.’

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Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place...

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he year 1937 finds Maisie, reeling from recent personal tragedies. The happiest period of her life has ended abruptly and after a period of time seeking solace in America and India, she decides to return home. But as her ship sails closer to England, she is overcome with fear that she is still not ready to take up her past life. She disembarks in Gibraltar, ignoring an ominous warning from the ship’s captain. Gibraltar is perilous this key British stronghold is a hub of clandestine activity, overrun with intelligence operatives, double agents, and refugees fleeing the Spanish Civil War just across the border.

Praise for the author: ‘Another winner from Winspear.’ BOOKLIST ‘Winspear elegantly weaves historical events with Maisie’s own suffering—the bombing of Guernica is particularly well-done - all while constructing an engaging whodunit.’ KIRKUS REVIEWS

July 2015

The Dandelion Years Erica James

You Are Dead Peter James

The Bamboo Stalk Saud Alsanousi

978 1 51000 350 7 – 576pp

978 1 51000 331 6 – 576pp

978 1 51000 337 8 – 400pp

A gorgeous tale of friendship and love from Sunday Times bestseller Erica James.

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shcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seen as a little girl. A rambling pink cottage on the edge of the Suffolk village of Melbury Green. Now an adult, Saskia is still living at Ashcombe and as a book restorer devotes her days tending to the broken, battered books, daydreaming about the people who had once turned their pages. When she discovers a notebook carefully concealed in an old Bible - and realising someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to hide a story of their own - Saskia finds herself drawn into a heart-rending tale of wartime love...

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he last words Nick Walton hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call - she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished. That same afternoon, workmen digging up a park in another part of the city, unearth the remains of a woman in her early twenties, who has been dead for 30 years. At first, to Roy Grace and his team, these two events seem totally unconnected. But then another young woman in Brighton goes missing - and yet another body from the past surfaces…

‘Utterly gripping.’ DAILY MIRROR ‘The twists and turns in this unconventional love story will keep you guessing until the end.’ WOMAN

‘An authentic, well-researched and compelling read.’

DAILY EXPRESS

‘This is a gentle, well-written read, stuffed full of engaging characters you’ll root for from the start.’

DAILY MAIL

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The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the lives of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of identity, race and religion.

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osephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid bows to family and social pressure, sending her back home with her baby son, José. Brought up struggling with his dual identity, José clings to the hope of returning to his father’s country when he is eighteen. With a Filipino face, a Kuwaiti passport, an Arab surname and a Christian first name, will his father’s country welcome him?

Praise for the author: ‘Alsanousi is a voice of conscience.’ THE INDEPENDENT

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August 2015

We Are All Made of Stars Rowan Coleman

The Soft Whisper of Dreams Christina Courtenay

The Watched Casey Hill

978 1 51000 348 4 – 400pp

978 1 51000 346 0 – 272pp

978 1 51000 336 1 – 448pp

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

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

‘I immediately read The Memory Book and it’s WONDERFUL.’ MARIAN KEYES

Some dreams shouldn’t come true…

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addie Browne thought she’d grown out of the recurring nightmare that plagued her as a child – the swing in the garden, the arms which grab her from behind and try to take her away…

But after a shocking family secret is revealed, it comes back to haunt her. In an attempt to forget her troubles, Maddie travels to Devon to spend time with her friends, Kayla and Wes. However, it becomes clear that relaxation will not be on the agenda after a disturbing encounter with a gypsy fortune teller. Not to mention the presence of Wes’s dangerously handsome brother, Alex. And then there’s the fact that Maddie’s nightmare of a dream seems to be coming true…

The Soft Whisper of Dreams is the follow-on to Christina Courtenay’s novel The Secret Kiss of Darkness.

Christina Courtenay has twice won the Historical Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association. She last won in 2014 with The Gilded Fan.

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The new forensic thriller from the international bestselling author of Taboo and Torn.

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orensic investigator Reilly Steel hopes that a relaxing stay at the Florida beach home of her old FBI mentor, Daniel Forrest, will help settle her doubts about her career choice. When Daniel’s son, policeman Todd Forrest, is called to the scene of a gruesome murder he is distraught. Not just because of the grotesque nature of the crime but because he recognises the victim as Daniel’s goddaughter. In an attempt to find swift resolution on her old friend’s behalf, Reilly finds herself drawn into the investigation. And when another murder occurs, Reilly can’t help but feel that she has come across something like this before…

Casey Hill is the pseudonym of husband and wife Melissa and Kevin Hill. Melissa is already a number 1 bestseller in her native Ireland with her novels about contemporary women’s lives. A desire to delve into darker aspects of fiction led her to team up with Kevin and create the Reilly Steel series.

August 2015

Inside Enemy Alan Judd

Too Close to Home Susan Lewis

Blue Labyrinth Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

978 1 51000 334 7 – 336pp

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978 1 51000 333 0 – 480pp

‘A masterful storyteller, with an intricate knowledge of his subject.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

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harles Thoroughgood is now the recently-appointed chief of a reconstituted MI6, married to his predecessor’s widow and tasked with halting the increasingly disruptive cyber-attacks on Britain, which are threatening government itself and all the normal transactions of daily life - not to mention a missing nuclear missile-carrying submarine. At the same time another aspect of Charles Thoroughgood’s past emerges with the murder of one of his former agents and the escape from prison of a former colleague turned traitor, whom Charles Thoroughgood had helped convict.

‘Belongs to the classic tradition of spy writing.’

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The compelling and heart-rending new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors.

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enna and Jack Moore have moved their family to Wales for a fresh start. For vivacious, happy-go-lucky fifteen-year-old Paige, the future is full of promise. But suddenly everything changes.

Paige becomes more and more withdrawn. The closeness she once shared with her mother a distant memory. It then starts becomes clear that Jack has secrets too... Preoccupied with her children, her husband’s fidelity and their fledgling publishing company, Jenna doesn’t realise the extent of her eldest daughter’s unhappiness until the unthinkable happens. And then the nightmare is only just beginning…

‘A heartbreakingly real family drama.’ ESSENTIAL

‘A masterful storyteller, with an intricate knowledge of his subject.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

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From the international bestselling thriller writers, Preston & Child, comes another chilling investigation…

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corpse, stiff with rigor mortis and bound in heavy ropes has been dumped on the doorstep of FBI Special Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The murder has the hallmarks of the perfect crime: no witnesses, no motive, no evidence… except one enigmatic clue - a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased.

The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California’s desolate Salton Sea where an ingenious killer is determined to make him pay for the long-buried sins of his forefathers.

‘A collision between past and present that will leave you breathless.’ LEE CHILD ‘White hot bestselling suspense. Simply brilliant!’

LISA GARDNER

August 2015

The Girl in the Photograph Kate Riordan

Sometimes the Wolf Urban Waite

Who is Tom Ditto? Danny Wallace

978 1 51000 338 5 – 528pp

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For fans of Kate Mosse and Kate Morton comes a haunting novel about two women separated by decades but entwined by fate.

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hen Alice Eveleigh arrives at Fiercombe Manor during the long, languid summer of 1933, she finds a house steeped in mystery and brimming with secrets. Sadness permeates its empty rooms and the isolated valley seems crowded with ghosts, none more alluring than Elizabeth Stanton, whose only traces remain in blurred photographs. What happened a generation ago to make her vanish? As the sun beats down relentlessly, Alice becomes ever more determined to unearth the truth about the girl in the photograph - and stop her own life from becoming an eerie echo of Elizabeth’s…

‘A sweeping saga of secrets and ghosts.’

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘A well-executed, brooding, creepy atmosphere.’

SUNDAY MIRROR

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This time, no one will be spared...

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heriff Patrick Drake tried to lead an upstanding life and maintain some financial stability until his wife passed away. Then he fell in with some unsavoury men 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, who just happens to be a deputy. Bobby hasn’t had it easy, either. He’s carried the weight of his father’s guilt and forsaking his own dreams. Yet no matter how much distance he’s tried to put between himself, his father, his grandfather, and the past, small town minds can have very long memories...

‘A hell of a good novel, relentlessly paced and beautifully narrated.’ STEPHEN KING ‘More artistry than would seem possible in a conventional thriller. […] (The) descriptions of the stark beauty of the mountains have a calming effect on the intensity of the cinematic action scenes.’

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Gone Girl meets Nick Hornby with a dash of The IT Crowd on the side. One of the smartest, funniest, wittiest novels of the year.

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om got a note from his girlfriend. It says she hasn’t left him, but she’s gone. But where the hell is she? When is she coming back? And what is Tom supposed to do in the meantime?

With each new clue to Hayley’s whereabouts, Tom is forced to question whether he truly knows his girlfriend at all. Because who is Hayley really, anyway? Who is this other strange girl following him? And who, for that matter, is Tom Ditto?

‘This is a terrific novel. […] The plot is wild and unexpected, with a dash of sinister, and it’s incredibly funny.’ THE TIMES ‘An air of mystery and of a past being reconstructed, with a booster shot of comedy. […] The toe-curling embarrassment of much of Tom’s life is well realised.’

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August 2015

The Woman Who Stole My Life Marian Keyes

The Supreme Macaroni Company Adriana Trigiani

The Spider’s Web Ben Cheetham

978 1 51000 534 1 – 528pp

978 1 51000 533 4 – 400pp

978 1 51000 539 6 – 384pp

Marian’s stunning new novel The Woman Who Stole My Life is about losing the life you had and finding a better one.

The heart-warming new novel from bestselling Richard & Judy Bookclub author, Adriana Trigiani.

ne day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed, resulting in a car crash that changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar and along the way, wrenching her whole family apart. Is this all because of one ill-advised act of goodwill? For the first time real, honest-togoodness happiness is just within her reach. But is Stella Sweeney, Dublin housewife, ready to grasp it?

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Praise for the author: ‘When it comes to writing pageturners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is in a class of her own.’ DAILY EXPRESS

‘I don’t know how Adriana goes into her family’s attic and emerges with these amazing stories, I’m just happy she does.’

KATHRYN STOCKETT, bestselling author of The Help.

‘Chatty and warm-hearted, Keyes’s talent is to tell it how it is.’ INDEPENDENT

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he Angelini Shoe Company in Greenwich Village has been creating sumptuous shoes for a hundred years. And now it falls to Valentine Roncalli, heir to the family firm, to turn its esteemed past into a glorious future. Uniting both professionally and romantically with master craftsman Gianluca Vechiarelli, Valentine is determined to make her mark. Once their wedding celebrations are over, she wakes up to the reality of juggling the demands of a business and her new family. And as she is confronted by painful choices, she must fight for everything she wants and savour all she deserves.

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February 14th, 1993: Sheffield United supporters remember it as the day their team won a famous victory against Manchester United.

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he date is lodged in Anna Young’s brain for a different reason.

That was the day her thirteen-year-old sister, Jessica, was abducted... Fast forward twenty years. The case has long since gone cold. But Anna won’t let it die. She made a promise to look after her little sister. And it’s a promise she intends to keep no matter how long it takes... A detective has one thing on his mind.

Jim Monahan is determined to bring down a sadistic sex-ring. But everywhere he turns he finds himself entangled in a web of political power and silence. Then comes a bizarre twenty-yearold clue that might just blow the whole thing apart...

Ben Cheetham self-published Blood Guilt, his first novel in the Steel City series, in 2011. It sold over well over 100,000 copies.

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The Lady of Misrule Suzannah Dunn

Taking Pity David Mark

Tightrope Simon Mawer

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978 1 51000 535 8 – 432pp

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Lady Jane Grey’s reign lasted for nine days. But her story echoes through history.

Taking Pity is a police procedural thriller that pulls no punches.

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scorting Lady Jane Grey from throne room into imprisonment is Elizabeth Tilney, who surprised even herself by volunteering for the job. Anyway, it won’t be for long, which is a good thing because the two sixteen-year-olds couldn’t be less compatible.

As Jane’s captivity extends into the increasingly turbulent last months of 1553, the two girls learn to live with each other, but Elizabeth finds herself drawn into the difficult relationship between the newlyweds. And when, at the turn of the year, events take an unexpected and dangerous direction, her newfound loyalties are put to the test.

hey 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 has tightened its stranglehold on Hull, intending to take everything that remains from those who dare to stand in their way. This is the story of three officers who can take no more and a merciless nemesis that takes no chances, no prisoners and no pity.

David Mark was a journalist for over fifteen years, including seven years as a crime reporter with the Yorkshire Post in its Hull office.

Praise for the author: ‘Suzannah Dunn is that rarity among contemporary novelists: a genuine stylist. Her prose is like truffles – rich, rare, dark, but never cloying.’ WENDY PIRRAM

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s Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943, Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn’t understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life.

Praise for The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: ‘Streamlined and tautly paced. […] (Mawer) always keeps the pace brisk, the underlying tension high.’ GUARDIAN

‘A remarkable writer, a lyricist of ordinary life and ordinary people transfigured by extreme emotions.’

DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Tightrope is the complex and enigmatic story of a woman whose search for personal identity and fulfilment leads her to shocking choices.

‘An absorbing novel full of treachery, twilight and terror.’ TELEGRAPH 13

September 2015

The Faithful Couple A. D. Miller

Shadows of War Michael Ridpath

Swords Around the Throne Ian Ross

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978 1 51000 536 5 – 528pp

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A brilliantly clever and insightful novel that deals with the most universal of themes - friendship, and the way our past actions shape our lives.

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alifornia, 1993: Neil Collins and Adam Tayler, two young British men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in San Diego. They strike up a friendship that, while platonic, feels as intoxicating as a romance; they travel up the coast together, harmlessly competitive, innocently collusive, wrapped up in each other. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that, years later, they will desperately regret. The Faithful Couple follows Neil and Adam across two decades, through girlfriends and wives, success and failure, children and bereavements, as power and remorse ebb between them.

‘Lucid and engaging… The Faithful Couple is a thoughtful, frequently witty and insightful book.’

GUARDIAN ‘Witty, moving and beautifully observed, it carries you along on a wave of sheer brilliance. This is an exceptional novel and Miller is the real deal.’ MAIL ON SUNDAY

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Just because it’s quiet doesn’t mean that it’s not deadly.

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ctober, 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. There are those who believe the war no one wants to fight should be brought to a swift conclusion, even if it means treachery. A year ago, Conrad de Lancey came within seconds of assassinating Hitler. Now the British Secret Service want him to go back into Europe and make contact with a group of German officers. But this is the Shadow War and it’s not only disaffected Germans who are prepared to betray their country to save it...

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

The second novel in this epic series, set at the end of the Roman Empire, only one man’s courage stands between the rebels and victory.

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

‘Hugely enjoyable. The author winds a tension spring to an explosion of fast-paced events. If you like Scarrow you’ll love this.’ CONN IGGULDEN ‘Lifts the curtain on a neglected but fascinating period of Roman history with a deft hand and a keen eye.

Highly recommended.’ ANTHONY RICHES

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September 2015

Fatal Act Leigh Russell

The Looking Glass House Vanessa Tait

The Dying Season Martin Walker

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978 1 51000 537 2 – 416pp

The sixth and latest DI Geraldine Steel Mystery by bestselling author Leigh Russell.

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glamorous young TV soap star dies in a car crash. Returning for her sixth case, Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel is baffled as the driver of the second vehicle miraculously survives… and vanishes. Another young actress is murdered and once again, the killer mysteriously disappears. Geraldine unwittingly risks her life in the struggle to track down a serial killer who leaves no clues.

Praise for the author: ‘Leigh Russell is one to watch.’

LEE CHILD ‘A brilliant talent in the thriller field.’ JEFFERY DEAVER

What happened before Alice fell down the rabbit hole?

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xford, 1862: As Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, she is thrust into a strange new world. Mary is desperate for change, but there is a problem: Mary does not like children, especially the precocious Alice Liddell. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the Christ Church mathematics tutor she is flattered by his attentions and Mary begins to believe that she could be more than just a dowdy governess. One sunny day, Mr Dodgson tells the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But Mary is determined to become Mr Dodgson’s muse - and will turn all the lives around her topsy-turvey in pursuit of her obsession.

Vanessa Tait is the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Looking Glass House is her first novel, inspired by family treasures and stories of the ‘original’ Alice.

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

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runo, chef de police, is invited to the 90th birthday of a powerful local patriarch - a war hero with high-level political connections in France, Russia and Israel. There Bruno 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.

‘Martin Walker’s delightful Bruno series makes you want to buy a ticket and immerse yourself in la France Profonde.’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

September 2015

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse Piu Marie Eatwell 978 1 47129 732 8 – 384pp

The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

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897: An elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C. Druce.

Behind her application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had been none other than the eccentric and massively wealthy 5th Duke of Portland, and that the - now dead - Duke had faked the death of his alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce’s coffin would be found to be empty. The legal case that followed would last for ten years. Its eventual outcome revealed a dark underbelly of lies lurking beneath the genteel facade of late Victorian England.

‘A lively account of the light shone on the lies, deceit and hypocrisy of Victorian society.’ THE TIMES ‘A brilliant forensic analysis of the intriguing Druce case, and wonderfully revealing of the many layers beneath Victorian respectability.’ MR JUSTICE HADDON-CAVE, Judge on Richard III case.

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More Fool Me Stephen Fry

Do No Harm Henry Marsh

978 1 47129 729 8 – 368pp

978 1 47129 733 5 – 352pp

Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable, More Fool Me.

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n his early thirties, Stephen Fry had, as they say, ‘made it.’ What could possibly go wrong? As the 80s drew to a close, he discovered a most enjoyable way to burn the candle at both ends, and took to excess like a duck to breadcrumbs. Writing and recording by day, and haunting a never ending series of celebrity parties, drinking dens, and poker games by night, in a ludicrous and impressive act of bravado, he fooled all those except the very closest to him. More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden.

Stephen Fry is a leading light in film, theatre, radio and television the world over, receiving accolades in spades and plaudits by the shovel. He is also the bestselling author of four novels, as well as being a producer, director, actor and presenter.

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Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the Guardian First Book Award and Longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.

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hat is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences when it all goes wrong? Do No Harm offers an unforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated to operating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity. With astonishing candour and compassion, Henry Marsh reveals the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital and above all the need for hope when faced with life’s most agonising decisions.

‘Exquisitely attuned to the tense and transient bond between doctor and patient […] and hilariously impatient of hospital management, Marsh draws us deep into medicine’s most difficult art and lifts our spirits.’ IAN McEWAN

July 2015

1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo Stephen Bates 978 1 51000 340 8 – 352pp

My History Antonia Fraser

In Your Prime India Knight

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1815 was the year of Waterloo, the British victory that ended Napoleon’s European ambitions and ushered in a century largely of peace for Britain.

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

Humane, witty, wise and full of practical advice - India Knight’s guide to ageing is the book every woman has been waiting for.

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‘For me, the study of History has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life.’

“Our mothers’ fifty is not our fifty. We have no map, no blueprint, no nothing. We have no sense of what is and isn’t age-appropriate, or even of whether age-appropriateness is still relevant. We’re supposed to be grown-up, but we seldom feel it.”

Part guide, part memoir, part manual, India Knight seeks to provide proper, weighty answers to the questions women are asking themselves now. Covering a wide range of subjects from clothes and cosmetics, being a parent to older children, having older parents and what that entails and of course, the menopause, In Your Prime is the definitive, much-needed guide to approaching middle age with confidence and panache.

tephen Bates paints a vivid portrait of every aspect of Britain in 1815. Overseas, the bounds of Empire were expanding, while at home the population endured the chill of economic recession. As Jane Austen busied herself with the writing of Emma, John Nash designed Regent Street, Humphrey Davy patented his safety lamp for miners and Lord’s cricket ground held its first match in St John’s Wood, and a nervous government infiltrated dissident political movements and resorted to repressive legislation to curb free speech.

‘An illuminating portrayal of a pivotal year for the nation.’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

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orn Antonia Pakenham, the eldest of the eight children of the future Lord and Lady Longford, her childhood was spent in Oxford. Evacuation at the beginning of the war to a romantic Elizabethan manor house nearby was an inspiration for historical imaginings. There were adventures in Anglo-Ireland at Dunsany Castle and Pakenham Hall, each offering her treasured links to the past which became private obsessions. This magical memoir, told with inimitable humour and style, will take many readers back to their own discovery of History.

‘My History is a hugely enjoyable squishy romp, the literary equivalent of a big crumbling meringue at a society wedding.’ THE TIMES

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‘I love India and her no-nonsense, honest and utterly hilarious guide to navigating the post-45 years.’

MARIAN KEYES

August 2015

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson’s Own Hero Max Adams 978 1 51000 543 3 – 432pp

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson’s Own Hero is a portrait of a forgotten British naval hero and the glory years of the age of sail.

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dmiral 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 he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunnery, a battle commander the equal of his friend and rival in love - Nelson. Collingwood’s service took him to Boston, where he fought during the American War of Independence and to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray. It took him to Corsica, Sicily, and Menorca, where he began as a young midshipman and ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean.

‘Particularly effective in portraying the orchestrated chaos below deck in battle.’ SPECTATOR ‘A compelling narrative.’ LITERARY REVIEW

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The Romanovs: The Final Chapter Robert K. Massie 978 1 51000 542 6 – 448pp

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The autobiography of a comedy giant, John Cleese.

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his is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-superMare went on to become a self-confessed legend. Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance at the age of eight and five-sixths, his endlessly peripatetic home life and his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach. He discusses his hamster-owning days at Cambridge and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman. And so on to his dizzying ascent via scriptwriting for Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman and others to the heights of Monty Python.

Told with considerable charm and a refreshing amount of candour, the story is one of a vulnerable soul gradually finding a degree of security from behind a carapace of cutting wit.’

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The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia’s last tsar and his family.

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n July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventythree years before. Were these the bones of the Romanovs? If so, why were the bones of the two younger Romanovs missing?

Was Anna Anderson, celebrated in newspapers, books, and film, really Grand Duchess Anastasia? This book unearths the truth.

‘A tangled, extraordinary tale of intrigue... Masterful.’

THE WASHINGTON POST ‘As gripping as a well-wrought murder mystery.’

JOSEPH FINDER, author.

September 2015

I Can’t Begin to Tell You Elizabeth Buchan

The Ladies of Missalonghi Colleen McCullough

A Mother’s Story Amanda Prowse

978 1 47129 781 6 – 592pp

978 1 47129 738 0 – 224pp

978 1 47129 737 3 – 368pp

Elizabeth Buchan brings us a beautifully told story of courage, love and lies in wartime Europe.

This is an endearing tale, full of wit, warmth and romance, from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds.

The unforgettable new novel from bestseller Amanda Prowse.

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hen the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror - her husband of twentyfive years - collaborates with the enemy to save his family home.

Lured by British Intelligence into a covert world of resistance, Kay’s betrayal of her husband is complete as she risks her home and children to protect an SOE agent who won’t even tell her his name. As her family - especially her headstrong daughter - is drawn further into danger, Kay is faced with a wrenching moral dilemma. Who will be sacrificed next for the cause? Can she and Bror ever find their way back to one another?

Gripping, fascinating. […] Kay is prepared to sacrifice marriage, home, children and her life for the cause.’

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he Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron, nestled in the Blue Mountains, for generations. Wealthy, powerful and cruel, they get what they want, every time. Missy Wright lives with her widowed mother and crippled aunt in genteel poverty. Hurlingfords by birth, all three are victim to the family’s rule of inheritance - the men take it all. Plain, thin and unforgivably single, it seems Missy’s life is destined to be dreary.

But then a stranger arrives in town - a divorcee from Sydney. And she opens Missy’s eyes to the possibility of a happy ending.

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

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‘Impressive, […] nerve-janglingly engrossing, […]

Buchan brings the period vividly to life.’

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The Case of the Hail Mary Celeste Malcolm Pyrce

Wish You Were Here Catherine Alliott

978 1 47129 735 9 –368pp

978 1 51000 341 5 – 448pp

“It was Tuesday the second of December 1947 when Jenny the Spiddler walked into my office: almost a month before they nationalised my mother.”

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ack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God’s Wonderful Railway and all that the good men of England fought for in two world wars, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers and purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, German spies and ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous.

Praise for the author: ‘Malcolm Pryce is the king of welsh noir . Edgar Allen Poe meets Phoenix Nights in a flurry of blood-stained absurdity.’

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The new novel from number one bestselling author of thirteen novels, Catherine Alliott.

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hen Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the South of France, in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance to escape the confines of Clapham for a blissful break. But Flora didn’t anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming along too. And with James developing a schoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora distracted by ghosts from her past, their dream holiday suddenly takes some unexpected turns…

Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story Andrea Bennett 978 1 51000 342 2 – 384pp

A joyful and hilarious tale of some very spirited septuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstacles to save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator.

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erhaps you’re not a member of the Azov House of Culture Elderly Club? Perhaps you missed the talk on the Cabbage Root Fly last week? Galina Petrovna hasn’t missed one since she joined the Club, when she officially became old. But she would much rather be at home with her three-legged dog Boroda.

Boroda isn’t ‘hers’ exactly, they belong to each other really, and that’s why she doesn’t wear a collar. And that’s how Mitya The Exterminator got her. And that’s why Vasily Semyonovich was arrested. And Galina had to call on Zoya who had to call on Grigory Mikhailovich. And go to Moscow.

‘A huge treat. Hilarious yet poignant.’

SOPHIE KINSELLA

‘The ‘bonkers’ book that ‘it is impossible not to be moved by.’ DAILY MAIL

‘Effortless and hilarious. Pryce is in a league of his own.’

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July - August 2015

The Pagan Lord Bernard Cornwell

The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George

No Safe House Linwood Barclay

978 1 51000 343 9 – 416pp

978 1 51000 351 4 – 448pp

978 1 51000 637 9 – 464pp

The Little Paris Bookshop is a delightful, bittersweet tale about the distance one man will travel for the sake of love and friendship.

The sequel to the Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller No Time for Goodbye.

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

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lfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king.

Wessex survives but peace cannot hold. The Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will never rest until the emerald crown is theirs. Uhtred, once Alfred’s great warrior but now out of favour with the new king, must lead a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, that great Northumbrian fortress, Bebbanburg. Loyalties and men will fall, as every Saxon kingdom is drawn into the bloodiest battle yet - A war which will decide the fate of every king, and the entire English nation.

Praise for the author: ‘Bernard Cornwell is always in full command of his material and The Pagan Lord demonstrates his unobtrusive skills as a novelist.’

SUNDAY TIMES ‘Nobody in the world does this better than Cornwell.’

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n a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop - or rather a ‘literary apothecary,’ for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only person he is unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a broken heart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, the love of his life fled Paris. His memories and his love have been gathering dust - until now. The arrival of an enigmatic new neighbour inspires Jean to unlock his heart, unmoor the floating bookshop and set off for Provence, in search of the past and his beloved.

‘One of those books that gets you thinking about whom you must give it to as a gift even while you’re still reading it, because it makes you happy.’

HAMBURG MORNING POST ‘Enchanting and moving. […] Rarely have I read such a beautiful book!’ TINA MAGAZINE 25

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even years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry is just trying to keep his family together. And the entire town is reeling from the senseless murder of two elderly locals. But when Terry’s daughter, Grace, foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. They must stay alive. Because now they have all been unwillingly drawn into the shadowy depths of their seemingly idyllic hometown…

‘Brilliantly plotted, with witty dialogue that crackles in the best hard-boiled tradition, you’ll race through this fast-paced and brilliantly twisty thriller.’

SUNDAY MIRROR ‘Barclay takes the didn’t-see-it-coming twist (of which he is master) to cosmic levels here and has the reader open-mouthed at his ingenuity throughout.’

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August – September 2015

The Apartment in Rome Penny Feeny

The Wedding Cake Tree Melanie Hudson

The Liar Nora Roberts

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When the past comes to your door, what can you do except let it in?

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

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hotographer Grace Buchanan has always known that, one day, she’d swap her day job for the peace of her beloved 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 she hardly knew Rosamund at all and that inheriting St Christopher’s hangs on one big, inconvenient condition: Grace must travel the country for two weeks with a mysterious stranger, Alasdair Finn. Caught in a perfect moment in time, Grace and Alasdair walk in Rosamund’s footsteps. As Grace slowly uncovers the truth about her mother’s incredible life, Alasdair and Grace can’t help but question their own futures.

ina’s life is good. She is independent. She loves her adopted home in Italy and she is passionate about her work as a photographer. Maybe her lover isn’t all she might hope and her beautiful apartment is in need of repair, but you can’t have everything all the time. And anyway, she’s all wrapped up in her latest artistic project, shots of the young men who arrive in Italy as refugees, destitute and vulnerable. Until one day, Sasha, a lonely British teenager at summer school, crosses Gina’s path, and unwittingly sets her world spinning. Sasha’s innocent romance creates complications neither of them could have imagined…

In the vein of Marian Keyes or Celia Ahern, this is the perfect summer read: touching, sun-drenched and, ultimately, inspirational.

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Thoroughly enjoyable.’ THE SUN

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Betrayed by the man she loved. Can she ever trust again?

The brand-new novel of love, drama and hope from legendary Nora Roberts.

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hen her husband Richard dies in a freak accident, Shelby Pomeroy is devastated. But his death reveals a horrible truth - Richard was a liar and a cheat. Now Shelby is left with the consequences. Heart-broken but unbowed, Shelby is determined to fix her problems - if only for the sake of her daughter Callie.

Returning home to Tennessee and the family she thought she’d lost for ever, she discovers a new sense of strength and freedom.

And hope, too, in the handsome form of carpenter Griffin Lott a straight-dealing man who couldn’t lie to her if he tried.

Nora Roberts is the number one New York Times bestseller of more than 200 novels. With over 450 million copies of her books in print, she is indisputably one of the most celebrated and popular writers in the world.

September 2015

Devil’s Graze Frank Bonham

Rustlers’ Bend Will Ermine

Tonopah Range Alan LeMay

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978 1 62899 399 8 – 240pp

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rides for Oregon concerns the adventures encountered by Hugh Lamerick when he undertakes the dual tasks of driving a herd of horses and leading a wagon of strong, courageous women. Dramatic clashes between individuals and armies during the bloody struggle in Captain Satan. And Hop Yard Widow is distinguished for its highly unusual background of Oregon’s hop fields and for its equally unusual love triangle. The pitfalls of modern-day logging in the rugged Sierra Nevada of northern California form the basis for The Long Fall. Marshal Gus Hobbs, who will hang anyone for a fee except an innocent man, is at his relentless best in Hangin’ Hobbs’s Hemp Stampede.

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om Yancy was the eighth person to go out in gun-smoke as murders multiplied in the gold-rush town of Rock Creek.

Maybe Yancy knew who was fingering the lucky prospectors in the diggin’s at Rustlers’ Bend. But he wasn’t going to be identifying anyone now. It was Sheriff Kize Farraday’s guess that one gang of blacklegs was responsible for all the killings and rustling, and that someone well-known and trusted in the community was in on it and feeding them information. When Sheriff Farraday appears to be closing in on the true culprits, he becomes a marked man.

How many more will give their lives before the guilty are brought to justice?

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issouri Sloper and Elmer Law, having given up their range riding jobs to wander, have drifted into the desert town of Molech. With the wind blowing from the southeast, a dark sulphurous cloud has descended upon the town from the nearby smelter - so everyone heard the shots that killed Walt Rathbone, but no one saw the killing. When Sloper stumbles over the fallen man, he and Law carry him to the saloon and would have been lynched for his murder if Horntoad Holt hadn’t intervened…

July 2015

Black Mike Wayne D. Overholster

Bullets for the Doctor Wade Everett

Amber’s Mirage and Other Stories Zane Grey

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etween the 1850s and the 1870s from Texas to Arizona Territory, the land was raw and violent. Trained, welleducated men stayed away from the frontier, sure of easier livings in the East… except for a chosen few. Some men sought out the toughest jobs because they knew they could handle anything that came at them. Men like Walter Judson Ivy and Ted Bodry — doctors in the old West. Both doctors were lucky if they got paid in hens or anything else they could put on the table. It was a rough, tough, backbreaking job, among people who gave nothing in a land that ground men into dust.

n thirty years of prospecting, old Jim had never discovered ‘Amber’s Mirage,’ - a shining cliff above a spring that ran heavy with gold. But then, his young sidekick took up the search to find the gold. A search that would cost him two years away from wild Ruby, the woman he loved. In The Horse Thief, Dale Brittenham finds and returns Edith Watrous’ stolen horses, but is accused of being part of the gang of horse thieves that has been raiding the valley. Barely escaping, he determines to break up the gang and clear his name. Three shorter stories are also included in this book: The Saga of the Ice Cream Kid, Don: The Story of a Lion Dog, and Fantoms of Peace.

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am Cassidy comes home to find himself in a series of tense confrontations. His father owns the bank in town and expects Sam to work for him. Sheriff Ben Faraday, for whom Sam worked the previous summer as a deputy, is suffering from a terminal disease and wants Sam to become a deputy again. ‘Black Mike’ Nickels wants to expand his use of the public land and bring in more sheep, backed by guns. Sam wants to marry Kitty Nickels, Black Mike’s daughter, despite both their fathers’ objections. Sam’s decision to become a deputy means he will be the enemy of Black Mike, he will be disinherited by his father and his only allies will be his mother, Kitty Nickels, and the ailing Ben Farraday.

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Tombstone Trail Leslie Scott

The Great Yellowstone Steamboat Race Robert J. Steelman 978 1 62899 193 2 – 264pp

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an Hollis was just a decent cowboy looking for a job when he stopped at the Monk Holliday’s saloon. Monk took a liking to him and offered him a job dealing at his poker table till something better turned up. Ran Hollis took him up on the offer and would have liked the job well enough except for Cal Taylor, who took an instant dislike to him. Taylor had a bad reputation - he had tough characters riding for him. When Taylor tried to cheat at the poker table, the challenge was met with guns blazing and ended with Taylor on the floor and Ran holding the smoking gun…

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lec Munro’s reputation preceded him all along the banks of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers: he was a stubborn Scot who piloted the fastest stern-wheeler in the Territory. But Munro would need more than his reputation to see him through his latest mission: the delivery of a stockpile of supplies to Fort Mahone, six days upriver. Two hundred miles of treacherous water lay ahead — with murderous Sioux at every bend, a vengeful skipper steaming along in his wake hoping to see the Rose of Dundee and her captain at the bottom of the Yellowstone River. Anyway he tried adding up the score it came out the same: Alec Munro stood to lose more on this trip up the Yellowstone River than he did to gain . . . if he survived it.

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White Butte Guns Wayne C. Lee 978 1 62899 319 6 – 200pp

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ole Waldron had an uneasy feeling as he headed for his ranch in Nebraska that was he half owned. Cole’s army buddy, Roy Galvin, had willed his share of the ranch to Cole when he’d been fatally wounded three days before their army enlistment was up. Now that Cole’s Army stint is over, he’s coming to tell Roy’s sister and uncle and aunt that Roy is dead.

Cole has never meant to keep “his” half of the ranch. He’s always planned to give it to young Elizabeth Galvin and to make sure she was in full control of the place.

August - September 2015

Gunman’s Moon Lauran Paine

Dakota Man Frank Bonham

The Border Trumpet Ernest Haycox

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dd Partnership finds gunfighter Lewis Morgan caught in a snowstorm, taking refuge in a barn. He wakes in the night and surprises two men who appear to have been waiting to ambush the owner in the morning. The next morning he meets the owner, Deputy U.S. Marshal Andrew Tully, who does not appear to be overly concerned about the night visitors. Later that day as Tully steps out of his office, a shot is heard and the marshal goes down… Gunman’s Moon opens with Katherine Willard’s arrest, after she shot and killed gunman Ralph Bolley who was trying to break into her house. Sympathy is all with Katherine, believing it was self-defence, but at the preliminary hearing Judge Horace Heber elicits the testimony from the local coroner.

Deputy Sheriff Bob Lefton believes her innocence and now he must prove it.

he Texan Buys a Gun-Bride is set in the Republic of Texas in 1841, featuring a fiddle-playing, bullwhip-wielding hero caught up in land squabbles and land fraud. In Whiskey Creek Stampeders, Glenn Carnagey returns to Oregon’s rough-and-tumble Rouge River mining country, where he is determined to break the stranglehold Charlie Hammaker has on the area. Bonanza Railroad finds a rancher-turned-miner, a high-balling railroad man and the daughter of a refining company owner, forming a partnership to build a sixteen-mile shortline railroad in Nevada’s rich silver mining country. Cowman-on-the-Spot tells the actionpacked story of a violent war between cattlemen and lumbermen in Wyoming. Dakota Man concerns an ex-Union soldier’s purchase of land with a guaranteed 2,500 head of longhorn cattle.

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he Third US Cavalry was stationed at Camp Grant under the command of Major Warren. They were tough, brave men, hardened by years of desert skirmishes and desperately outnumbered as they pitted themselves against a huge force of Apache led by Antone, the craftiest, most merciless fighter around. Major Warren had devised a plan to keep Antone and his warriors on the run until they became weary and discouraged.

Lieutenants Phil Castleton and Tom Benteen served under Warren’s command and both appeared to have bright futures ahead of them. As the rivalry between the two officers escalates, it will lead to bold actions on each man’s part to catch Antone, risking not only their own lives, but the lives of those who serve with them.

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