Wavesound Large Print New Releases Brochure April-June 2015

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Large Print New Releases April – June 2015

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Loyalty Reward Scheme 20% off titles by all authors included in your current quarter’s Standing Order Plan Available from May: The Bones Beneath

Save 20% off all other titles by Mark Billingham available from Clipper Large Print *20% discount on Mark Billingham titles applies to customers signed up to LP 12 or LP Complete plans To purchase at this special rate, please contact your area representative: call us on (02) 9417 5088 or email info@wavesound.com.au, mentioning this offer.

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Dear Librarian, This autumn’s collection will delight fans of crime fiction! New titles include exciting thrillers from heavyweights Jeffery Deaver, Mark Billingham, Philip Kerr and the latest DCI Banks investigation from Peter Robinson.

Ali Smith returns with her new novel How to Be Both. Already a winner of the Costa Novel of the Year and Goldsmiths Prize for original fiction; it is now also nominated for the prestigious Folio Prize. You’ll also find International Dylan Thomas prize winner To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris, a dazzling comedy about the meaning of life, the certainty of death, and the importance of good oral hygiene.

Travelling to Infinity by Jane Hawking, the true story behind BAFTA Award winning film The Theory of Everything can be found in our non-fiction plan. Alongside it is Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd, a fresh look at the very first icon of the silver screen.

We’re thrilled to welcome bestselling authors Rachel Joyce and Cathy Kelly. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy is the parallel story to the worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Cathy Kelly’s sparkling new novel, It Started With Paris, is full of her trademark warmth and insight, a delightful tale spinning out from a once-in-a-lifetime moment.

Enjoy the new brochure and please get in touch with your feedback!

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The Editor

INDEX • April 2015 Large Print titles 4-10 • May 2015 Large Print titles 10-20 • June 2015 Large Print titles 20-26 • Order form and standing orders centre spread 3

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The Skin Collector Jeffery Deaver

Research Philip Kerr

Moon Over Soho Ben Aaronovitch

978 1 47129 476 1 – 512pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 475 4 – 432pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 481 5 – 432pp – $60.50

Master of suspense and number one bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with the eleventh exhilarating novel in the Lincoln Rhyme series…

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opycat, or revenge? They have never seen a murder like it.

A talented tattoo artist is using poison instead of ink. His victim is a young woman. And on her skin he’s left a message: ‘the second.’ Drafted in to investigate, NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme and his associate Amelia Sachs find the scene has been scrubbed of evidence. All except for one trace - a scrap of paper that connects this case with one they will never forget. And like the ‘Bone Collector’ before him, Rhyme and Sachs find themselves pitted against a twisted serial killer…

‘The most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable, and there is an excellent climax. If you want thrills, Deaver is your man.’ GUARDIAN

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Bestselling novelist John Houston’s wife found murdered in their luxury apartment in Monaco…”

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ouston is the richest writer in the world, publishing many bestsellers a year - so many that he can’t possibly write them himself. He has a team that feeds off his talent – ghost writers, agents, publishers. So when he decides to take a year out to write something of quality, a novel that will win prizes and critical acclaim, a lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods. Now Houston, the prime suspect in his wife’s murder, has disappeared.

The scenario reads like the plot of one of Houston’s million-copyselling thrillers...

Philip Kerr is the author of nine acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels. If The Dead Rise Not won the 2009 CWA Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical Crime Novel.

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Peter Grant is not just a lowly detective Constable, he’s also apprenticed to the last wizard in Britain: policing will never be the same again!

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was my dad’s vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that’s how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it’s why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing.

Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant, had apparently dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig in Soho. He wasn’t the first. No one was going to let me exhume corpses to see if they were playing my tune, so it was back to old-fashioned legwork, starting in Soho.

‘Told in a narrative voice that seasons laconic humour with a dash of cynicism, the novel is fascinated with the geography and history of London.’

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Half a King Joe Abercrombie

The Blazing World Siri Hustvedt

Summer of the Dead Julia Keller

978 1 47129 478 5 – 320pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 483 9 – 544pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 484 6 – 512pp – $60.50

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

A polyphonic tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author that was nominated for the Man Booker Prize.

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rince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted.

But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the shattered sea itself. Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge. Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, he finds they can do more to help him become the man he needs to be than any court of nobles could.

Even with loyal friends at his side, Yarvi’s path may end as it began – in twists, traps and tragedy…

‘Abercrombie writes fantasy like no one else.’

GUARDIAN ‘A fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from page one and refused to let go.’

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

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rtist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men. The story unfolds through extracts from Burden’s notebooks, as well as testimonies and one thing is clear: Burden’s involvement with the last of her ‘masks’ turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with his bizarre death.

‘This novel is a puzzle, a mystery, a dance, filled with intrigue, a truly wonderful intellectual work that makes you think and laugh and tickles the brain.’ DAILY MAIL ‘The Blazing World is a dazzling novel, the kind that makes you cry (or nearly cry) as well as think.’

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The third in Julia Keller’s brilliant Bell Elkins series.

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he first death came unexpectedly. An old man attacked outside his home, his murder a shock to the town. Then the second death came and with it - fear. For Raythune County’s prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins, the killings in Acker’s Gap are all she can think about. Everything - the oppressive summer heat, her absent daughter, her troublesome sister - fade into the background as she tries to work out who could be responsible.

As the tension escalates and suspects begin to emerge, Bell comes head-to-head with a killer bent on destroying all those who stand in their way...

‘A rare talent and a must read.’ KARIN SLAUGHTER ‘Be careful opening this book because once you do you won’t be able to close it. A killer novel.’

TOM FRANKLIN

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The Two Week Wait Sarah Rayner 978 1 47129 477 8 – 448pp – $60.50

The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix Paul Sussman 978 1 47129 479 2 – 496pp – $60.50

The Awakening of Miss Prim Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera 978 1 47129 486 0 – 384pp – $60.50

What if the thing you most longed for was resting on a two week wait?

‘My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old – or will be in ten days’ time, when I kill myself…’

A delightful tale of literature, philosophy and the search for happiness.

fter a health scare, Brighton-based Lou is forced to confront the fact that her time to have a baby is running out. She can’t imagine a future without children, but her partner doesn’t seem to feel the same way, and she’s not sure whether she could go it alone. Meanwhile, up in Yorkshire, Cath is longing to start a family with her husband, Rich. No one would be happier to have a child than Rich, but Cath is infertile. Could these strangers help one another out? The Two Week Wait is a memorable, moving pageturner about two very different women, each yearning to create a family of her own.

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aphael Ignatius Phoenix has had enough. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, he is determined to take his own life as the old millennium ends and the new one begins. But before he ends it all, he wants to put the record straight, and that includes making sense of his own long life. He decides to write it all down and, eschewing the more usual method of pen and paper, begins to record his story on the walls of the isolated castle that is his final home. Raphael remembers the multitude of experiences, the myriad encounters and of course, the ten murders he committed along the way…

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‘Sarah Rayner explores an emotive subject with great sensitivity.’ SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘The things that made (Sussman) such a distinctive writer - his boundless imagination (and) his love of the bizarre.’ MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘A book that gives you a warm glow and lets you escape. […] A thought-provoking read full of beauty and the simplicity of everyday life.’

THE LADY MAGAZINE

‘A topical subject treated with insightfulness and care that makes for a wholly absorbing story with a touching ending that’ll prompt a tear or two.’

EASY LIVING

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‘Sussman’s first written and last published novel has shades of Vonnegut, Donleavy and Golding’s Pincher Martin. Loved it.’ JONATHAN GRIMWOOD, author of The Last Banquet.

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rudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving intellectual, is dashing yet contrarian, always ready with a critique of her cherished Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. Prudencia hoped for friendship in San Ireneo but she didn’t suspect that she might find love - nor that the course of her new life would offer challenge and heartache as well as joy, discovery and fireside debate.

‘An exquisitely delicate, distinctive and inspiring story that will leave your heart undone, open to the beauty of the little things in life.’ ELLE MAGAZINE

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Some Veil Did Fall Kirsty Ferry

Suspicion Joseph Finder

Quiet Dell Jayne Anne Phillips

978 1 47129 482 2 – 416pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 485 3 – 448pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 480 8 – 576p – $60.50

What if you recalled memories from a life that wasn’t yours, from a life before?

His nightmare began with a quick handshake and a friendly smile...

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hen Becky steps into Jonathon’s atmospheric photography studio in Whitby, she is simply a freelance journalist in search of a story. But as soon as she puts on the beautiful Victorian dress and poses for a photograph, she becomes somebody quite different… Becky is overcome with visions and flashbacks from a life that isn’t her own - disturbing and filled with fear. As she and Jon begin to unravel the mystery behind her strange experiences, the natural affinity that they have for each other continues to grow and leads them to question - have they met somewhere before?

Perhaps not just in this life but in another?

Kirsty Ferry won the English Heritage/Belsay Hall National Creative Writing competition in 2009 and has had articles and short stories published.

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anny Goodman would do anything for his teenage daughter Abby. But Danny is broke, and he can no longer afford the school she adores. The only person he can borrow money from is Thomas Galvin, Abby’s best friend’s father and a well-known millionaire. But on the day he takes the loan, the authorities turn up at his door. Galvin is a wanted criminal - and this is their chance to bring him down. Now Danny has a choice. Face prison for accepting dirty money, or go undercover in a dangerous sting operation to betray his new best friend...

‘I’m looking forward to reading Suspicion by Joseph Finder, a thriller writer of the highest caliber.’

JACKIE COLLINS ‘The narrative is light, the observation acute and the plot is jaw-clenching. A great summer read.’

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A chilling novel based on a real life multiple murder by a con-man who preyed on widows – a story that has haunted Jayne Anne Phillips since childhood.

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n Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a widow with three children, is lonely and pressed for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to marry and care for her and her children. Asta agrees to go with him to West Virginia to see his house there, and then to bring her children. Weeks later, all are dead. Emily Thornhill, a journalist, covers the case and becomes deeply invested in understanding what happened to this beautiful family, and determined to make sure that Powers is convicted.

‘Phillips offers […] a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.’

STEPHEN KING ‘An extraordinary book – the best she has written.’

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Charlie Chaplin Peter Ackroyd

Disobeying Hitler Randall Hansen

Killers of the King Charles Spencer

978 1 47129 489 1 – 368pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 488 4 – 496pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 487 7 – 448pp – $60.50

A fresh look at Chaplin from the masterful Peter Ackroyd.

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e was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years after his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it? Peter Ackroyd’s new biography turns the spotlight on Chaplin’s life as well as his work, from his humble theatrical beginnings in music halls to winning an honorary Academy Award.

Everything is here, from the glamour of his golden age to the murky scandals of the 1940s and eventual exile to Switzerland.

‘Ackroyd brings a novelist’s as well as a biographer’s eye to the story of a man who “seemed to epitomise the human condition itself, flawed and frail and funny.”‘ INDEPENDENT ‘Compact, engrossing, intelligent.’ SUNDAY TIMES

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An intriguing account of German resistance in the last year of WWII.

Charles Spencer tells the shocking stories and fascinating fates of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant.

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n the last months of the war, Hitler ordered the poisoning, blocking and wrecking of all ports across Europe. He ordered the destruction of all industries, railroads, bridges, utilities supplies, archives and museums in Europe and the destruction of the most beautiful city in the world – Paris. Thanks to the determination and bravery of a few, including those who paid with their lives, Hitler’s orders were often disobeyed. The result was a profound and lasting effect on the war and its aftermath. In this fascinating and gripping book, Randall Hansen explores the extraordinary phenomenon of disobedience and its consequences.

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anuary, 1649: After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and hold Charles I to account for the appalling slaughter endured by his people… On an icy winter’s day on a scaffold outside Whitehall, the King of England was executed. Charles Spencer explores this violent clash of ideals through the individuals whose fates were determined by that one, momentous decision.

These are the shocking stories of the men who dared to kill a king.

Randall Hansen is a political scientist and historian at the University of Toronto. His fields of research are migration and citizenship, eugenics and population policy and the effect of war on civilian populations.

‘The virtues of a thriller and of scholarship are potently combined.’ TOM HOLLAND

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‘Very good. Dense and well-researched […] the stories are extraordinary. Spine-tingling detail.’

THE TIMES

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The English Girl Margaret Leroy

The Collector Nora Roberts

Hard Times Charles Dickens

978 1 47129 492 1 – 320pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 490 7 – 592pp – $60.50

978 1 40749 991 8 – 448pp – $49.50

A breath-taking historical novel set in 1930s Vienna, about an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times.

The thrilling new novel of love, murder and suspense from Nora Roberts - the world’s greatest storyteller.

First published in 1854, Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens.

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ila Emerson is fascinated by other people’s lives. As a housesitter, she loves looking after the glamorous, sophisticated homes she could never afford herself. And as a writer, she enjoys watching the world go by, dreaming up stories for the people she sees from her window. But then one day she witnesses something only too real - the brutal and shocking murder of a young woman living across the street in New York. And now, because of what she saw, Lila’s own life is in immediate danger from an audacious, single-minded assassin who kills for profit and for pleasure.

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STEPHEN KING

Charles Dickens was a political reporter and journalist as well as a novelist. His novels have captured and held the public’s imagination.

hen seventeen-year-old Stella Whittaker is offered the chance to study at the Academy of Music in Vienna it’s a dream-come-true. Seduced by the elegant beauty of the city, Stella explores the magnificent palaces, gardens and fashionable coffee houses, and after a chance meeting in an art gallery, falls in love with Harri Reznik, a young Jewish doctor. But as the threat of war casts a dark shadow over Europe, Stella soon discovers that both the household where she lives and the city she has come to call home are not as welcoming as they once seemed…

‘Gripping and heart-warming; you won’t want to put it down.’ IRISH TATLER ‘Margaret Leroy writes with candour and intelligence, capturing the menace of suddenly finding that the world may not be at all as you’ve thought it.’

HELEN DUNMORE

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rguably Dickens’ greatest triumph, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to ‘Mr Sleary’s Horse-Riding’ circus and a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.

‘The most successful novelist on planet Earth.’

WASHINGTON POST

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Dubliners James Joyce

The Bones Beneath Mark Billingham

It Started With Paris Cathy Kelly

978 1 40749 910 9 – 288pp – $49.50

978 1 47129 445 7 – 480pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 446 4 – 560pp – $60.50

Joyce’s first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. ubliners is a sequence of stories depicting middle-class Catholic life in Dublin. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience.

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Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, James Joyce’s psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction.

Tom Thorne returns in this utterly gripping, brilliantly plotted thriller…

Sunday Times bestseller Cathy Kelly returns with a funny, emotional, heart-warming new novel.

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om Thorne is back in charge - but there’s a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried twenty-five years before - but only if Thorne agrees to escort him. Unable to refuse, Thorne gathers a team and travels to a remote Welsh island. Thorne is determined to get the job done and return home before Nicklin can outwit them. Nicklin knows this island well and has had time to plan ahead. New bodies are added to the old, and Thorne finds himself facing the toughest decision he has ever had to make...

‘Brilliantly evoking the spooky island atmosphere, the tension of this macabre thriller is lightened by humour and believable characters.’ SUNDAY MIRROR

t the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his girlfriend. In that second, everything changes, not just for the happy couple, but for the family and friends awaiting their return in Ireland... Leila’s been nursing a broken heart since her husband upped and left her, but she’s determined to put on a brave face for the bride. Vonnie, a widow and exceptional cake-maker, is just daring to let love back into her life, although someone seems determined to stop it. Grace finds the impending wedding of her son means that she’s spending more time with her ex-husband.

‘By the end of Kelly’s novels, I always feel I’ve made new friends. As warm-hearted and wise as ever.’

WOMAN & HOME

‘Strong plotting and an all-too-plausible villain reveal just how good Billingham is, and confirm Thorne as a memorable, flawed hero.’ DAILY MAIL

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The Well Catherine Chanter

Five Days Left Julie Lawson Timmer

First Impressions Charlie Lovett

978 1 47129 454 9 – 512pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 455 6 – 448pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 447 1 – 512pp – $60.50

‘One night is enough to swallow a lifetime of lives.’

A heart-breaking and uplifting read about the ultimate life choice.

A novel about old books, young love and Jane Austen.

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ook lover and Jane Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has barely started her new job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure publication: the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their enquiry draws Sophie into a web of mystery surrounding the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice, with ultimately dangerous consequences... Sophie’s quest, which also sees her dealing with several love interests on the way, explores love in all its forms – as well as the joys of a life lived in books.

hen Ruth Ardingly and her family first drive up from London in their grime-encrusted car and view The Well, they are enchanted by a jewel of a place, a farm that appears to offer everything the family are searching for. But The Well’s unique glory comes at a terrible price. 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. As The Well envelops them, Ruth’s paradise becomes a prison, Mark’s dream becomes a recurring nightmare and Lucien’s playground, a grave.

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

ALLISON PEARSON

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ara is a successful lawyer and a devoted wife and mother.

Struggling with a devastating illness, she has set herself five days to make the hardest decision, for the sake of her family. Scott lives a thousand miles away and is a foster parent to a troubled eight-year-old. Scott is facing his own five day countdown until his beloved foster son is returned to his biological mother. Mara and Scott connect through an online forum and find a friendship to help guide them through the most difficult and momentous week of their lives.

‘Combines tension, humour and a life-affirming poignancy.’ SUNDAY MIRROR ‘Unique, gripping, and viscerally moving.’

JODI PICOULT

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‘An inventive tale with elements of romance and suspense, wrapped around a bookish mystery that will please lovers of old libraries and Austen fans.’

DEBORAH HARKNESS

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The Lie Of You Jane Lythell

Spare Brides Adele Parks

How To Be Both Ali Smith

978 1 47129 450 1 – 368pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 449 5 – 560pp – $60.50

978 1 47128 793 0 – 352p – $60.50

Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks turns her laser-sharp perception and empathy to a forgotten generation of women.

Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2014 - passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else.

One woman’s fear is another woman’s weapon... ‘’When I look back on my relationship with Kathy I marvel at how naive she was; how little she knew. But then, she always thought she had everything - the job, the baby, the friends… and him.

She thought she was safe. She thought that nothing could touch her perfect world… She should never have trusted me.’’ A woman sets out to destroy a female colleague in this chilling psychological thriller.

‘Pumps up suspense like Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. […]

Delivered in a sharp, pragmatic style that is gripping and readable, but behind the adventure the plot hints at a bigger, more complex questions about our society.’ THE SCOTSMAN ‘Fascinating (and) clever, […] the author’s real skill is her ability to invent memorable original characters. A thrilling read.’ DAILY MAIL

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he 1920’s: A time of hope, promise and parties, but not all the men came home after the war. Meet the spare brides young, gorgeous and unexpectedly alone. Ava relishes the freedom of being single whilst Sarah fears no one can replace her hero husband. Beatrice finds it hard to shine next to her dazzling friends and Lydia is married, rich and privileged - so isn’t she one of the lucky ones? Then a chance encounter changes everything – the angry, damaged and dangerously attractive, Edgar Trent is an irresistible temptation, and the old rules no longer apply...

ow to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life’s givens get given a second chance.

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‘Here are some seriously fab frocks in Adele Parks’ latest novel. Dramatic and swooningly romantic, this is historical fiction with real heart.’ MARIE CLAIRE

‘Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today.’

DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘You’ll love the drama, the gorgeous dresses, grand houses and, in particular, the handsome but damaged love interest.’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

‘I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul.’ EVENING STANDARD

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Doctor January Rhoda Baxter

Follow Me Follow You Laura E. James

White Fire Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

978 1 47129 452 5 – 304p – $60.50

978 1 47129 451 8 – 400pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 448 8 – 544pp – $60.50

If you keep looking back, you might miss what’s standing right in front of you…

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ix months after a painful break-up from Gordon, Beth’s getting her life back on track. She’s even beginning to see Hibs, her lab partner, as more than just a lousy lothario in a lab-coat and goggles. So when Gordon arrives back from America without warning, expecting to be welcomed back into Beth’s arms, she’s totally thrown. She quickly begins to see that Gordon isn’t the man she thought he was… Hibs has always held a candle for Beth, but he can only wait so long for her to realise there’s more to life than being patronised and bullied by the one who’s meant to love and protect her.

You save me and I’ll save you…

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ictoria Noble has pulled the plug on romance. As director of the number one social networking site, EweSpeak, and being single mother to four-year-old Seth, she wrestles with the worklife balance. Enter Chris Frampton, Hollywood action hero and Victoria’s first love. His return from LA has sparked media attention and with secrets threatening to fuel the fire, he’s desperate to escape. But finding a way forward is never simple.

Although his connection with Victoria has lasted the test of time, has he been adrift too long to know how to move on? With the risk of them breaking, will either follow their heart?

Laura E. James is a graduate of the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s New Writers’ Scheme, a member of her local writing group, Off The Cuff, and one eighth of The Romaniacs.

From the authors of internationally bestselling thrillers comes another spine-tingling tale…

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olorado, 1876: At a remote mining camp high in the Rocky Mountains, eleven silver miners are killed, their bodies horribly mutilated, flesh devoured. Bear attack? Not everyone thinks so. 136 years later, the cemetery where the miners were buried is being cleared for new development. Forensic pathologist Corrie Swanson has arranged to study the bones. What she discovers will expose a conspiracy that’s as lethal today as it was a century ago. As the winter snows fall, Corrie’s life depends on unravelling a dark secret, the key to which may just lie in a lost Sherlock Holmes story, a tale allegedly so horrifying that its author never dared publish it…

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

LISA GARDNER

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War at the Edge of the World Ian Ross

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary Anita Anand 978 1 47129 456 3 – 544pp – $60.50

Travelling to Infinity Jane Hawking

The enthralling story of an extraordinary woman and her part in the defining moments of recent British Indian history.

A major motion picture, The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne as Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife, Jane.

978 1 47129 453 2 – 448pp – $60.50

The epic first instalment in a sequence of novels set at the end of the Roman Empire, during the reign of the Emperor Constantine.

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enturion Aurelius Castus - once a soldier in the elite legions of the Danuge - believes his glory days are over, as he finds himself in Britain, battling to protect an empire in decline. When the king of the Picts dies, Castus is selected to lead the Roman envoy sent to negotiate with the barbarians beyond Hadrian’s Wall. Here he will face a supreme challenge in a mission that will test his honour. As he struggles to avert disaster and keep his promise to a woman he has sworn to help, Castus discovers that nothings about this doomed enterprise was ever what it seemed.

Ian Ross has been researching and writing about the later Roman world and its army for over a decade.

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n 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the Kashmir to the cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistible to the British, who plundered everything. Exiled to England, the dispossessed Maharajah transformed his estate at Elveden in Suffolk into a Moghul palace. Sophia, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, was raised a genteel aristocratic Englishwoman. Sophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality.

Her causes were the struggle for Indian independence, the fate of the Lascars, the welfare of Indian soldiers in the First World War – and the fight for female suffrage.

‘A wonderful debut, written with real spirit and gusto.

Anita Anand has produced a winner.’

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

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n this compelling memoir from Stephen Hawking’s first wife, Jane Hawking, relates the inside story of their extraordinary marriage. As Stephen’s academic renown soared, his body was collapsing under the assaults of motor neurone disease, and Jane’s candid account of trying to balance his 24-hour care with the needs of their growing family will be inspirational to anyone dealing with family illness. The inner-strength of the author, and the self-evident character and achievements of her husband, make for an incredible tale that is always presented with unflinching honesty… In this exceptionally open, moving and often funny memoir, Jane Hawking confronts the acutely complicated and painful dilemmas of her first marriage.

‘Jane writes about her former husband with tenderness, respect and protectiveness.’

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Triumph: Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics Jeremy Schaap 978 1 47129 458 7 – 320pp – $60.50

My Husband Next Door Catherine Alliott

Fool’s Gold Zana Bell

978 1 47129 462 4 – 544pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 460 0 – 368pp – $60.50

The remarkable story of one of the most iconic clashes in sports and world history.

Step into Alliott country with the fabulously funny and wonderfully heart-warming story.

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n 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goose-stepping, an African-American athlete won a staggering four Olympic gold medals. Jesse Owens, the son of sharecroppers, had single-handedly crushed Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports. But it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man. This is the incredible true story of the moment a black athlete beat Hitler at his own games.

‘Schaap leaves readers with a vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ‘30s Germany and America.’

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hen Ella married the handsome, celebrated artist Sebastian Montclair at just nineteen she was madly in love. Now, those blissful years of marriage have turned into the very definition of an unconventional set-up. Sebastian resides in an outhouse across the lawn from Ella’s ramshackle farmhouse. With a home crowded by hostile teenage children, gender-confused chickens and an ex-husband living under her nose, Ella finds comfort in the company of the very charming gardener, Ludo. Then out of the blue Sebastian decides to move on, catching Ella horribly unawares. How much longer can she hide from what really destroyed her marriage… and the secret she continues to keep?

‘Another huge treat from Catherine Alliott. It’s hilarious yet poignant, with wonderful characters, including all the animals! I lapped up every page.’

SOPHIE KINSELLA ‘An entertaining read that’s as light as the summer breeze.’ DAILY EXPRESS 19

Love – is it worth its weight in gold?

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t’s 1866 and the gold rush is on. Left to fend for herself in the wilds of New Zealand’s west coast, Lady Guinevere Stanhope is determined to do whatever it takes to rescue her ancestral home and restore her father’s good name. Forced out of his native Ireland, Quinn O’Donnell dreams of striking gold. His fiercely held prejudices make him loath to help any English person, let alone a lady as haughty and obstinate as Guinevere. But when a flash flood hits, Quinn is compelled to rescue her, and their paths become entwined in this unchartered new world.

Zana Bell grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe and studied English Literature at the University of Cape Town. She began writing, just for the fun of seeing whether she could actually complete a novel and immediately became hooked.

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Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Little Women Louisa May Alcott

9781471201738 – 544pp – $49.50

9781471201752 – 368pp – $49.50

One of the most cherished love stories in English literature.

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hen Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. Jane Austen’s 1813 masterpiece has a lasting effect on everyone who reads it.

‘I read all of Jane Austen’s novels very early on and learnt to love her economy of style and precision. She still seems to me the finest writer in the English language’ PHILIPPA GREGORY

The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. ittle Women is the much-loved story of the March sisters; Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. The girls grow up amidst the turmoil and hardships of the American Civil War. There is Meg, the eldest; Jo, the tomboy who longs to be a writer; Beth, shy, timid, and delicate, who brings out the protective instinct in others and Amy, the youngest and brightest and in her own estimation, the most important. The household is presided over by Mrs March, ‘Marmess,’ who tries to rule with kindness and to create harmony amongst her four little women.

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Life in the March household is full of adventures and accidents as the four very different sisters follow their varying paths to adulthood.

‘Jane Austen is one of my favourite writers... very acute, very perceptive, and writing in close and honest detail about the tiny preoccupations of women’s lives.’

HELEN FIELDING

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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Rachel Joyce 978 1 47129 595 9 – 384pp – $60.50

From the author of the worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, comes an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.

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hen Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again, only this time she must tell Harold everything. In confessing to secrets she has hidden for twenty years, she will find atonement for the past. Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. She was wrong. It was the beginning.

‘Touching […] a quiet, gentle, moving novel. Joyce’s writing has a simplicity that sings and she captures hope best of all.’ THE OBSERVER ‘If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you’ll be thrilled with this sequel.’ THE SUN

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Abattoir Blues Peter Robinson

The Dolls House M. J. Arlidge

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Joshua Ferris

978 1 47129 594 2 –512pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 602 4 – 384pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 597 3 – 512pp – $60.50

Bank is back – and the hunt is on.

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hen two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Then a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War Two hangar nearby, and a caravan belonging to one of the boys is burned to the ground.

Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them. But when a motor accident throws up a gruesome discovery, the investigation spins into a higher gear.

As Banks and his team struggle desperately to find the missing key to the puzzle, they find themselves in a race against time where it’s their turn to become the prey.

‘Peter Robinson deserves a place near, perhaps even at the top of the British crime writers’ league.’

THE TIMES ‘It’s neither the setting nor even the characters that makes Robinson’s work so satisfying, but the plotting of Swiss-watch precision.’ INDEPENDENT

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The Doll’s House is the new twisting and terrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series from M.J. Arlidge.

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woman wakes up and opens her eyes. She knows immediately that she’s not in the bed she went to sleep in.

It’s just the beginning of her nightmare. Across town, a child discovers a woman’s body buried on the beach. Then another female victim is found. Yet neither friends nor family had even reported either woman missing. How could their killer be getting away with murder? For Detective Inspector Helen Grace, she’s searching for a monster who’s not just twisted, but also clever and careful. Helen begins to realise that time might be running out for someone who is still alive...

‘DI Helen Grace is a genuinely fresh heroine […] Arlidge weaves together a tapestry that chills to the bone.’

DAILY MAIL ‘Helen Grace. […] Determined, tough and damaged, she must unravel a terrifying riddle of a killer kidnapping victims in pairs. Mesmerizing!’ LISA GARDNER 21

Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2014 and Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.

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aul O’Rourke - dentist extraordinaire, reluctant New Yorker, avowed atheist, disaffected Red Sox fan, and a connoisseur of the afternoon mochaccino - is a man out of touch with modern life. While his dental practice occupies his days, his nights are filled with darker thoughts, as he alternately marvels at and rails against the optimism of the rest of humanity. So it goes, until someone begins to impersonate Paul online. What began as an outrageous violation of privacy soon becomes something far more soulfrightening: the possibility that the virtual ‘Paul’ might be a better version of the man in the flesh…

‘Joshua Ferris has proved his astonishing ability to spin gold from ordinary air. […] As brave and adept as any writer out there.’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Enormously impressive: profoundly and humanely engaged with the mysteries of belief and disbelief […] dismayingly funny in the way that only really serious books can be.’ GUARDIAN

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Not Quite Nice Celia Imrie

Taken For Dead Graham Masterton

The Secrets Sisters Keep Sinead Moriarty

978 1 47129 599 7 – 464pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 598 0 – 576pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 601 7 – 448pp – $60.50

A gloriously funny and charming debut novel about the joys and challenges of living abroad from one of the nation’s best-loved actresses.

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heresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, she sells her house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer. The village sparkles like a diamond on the French Mediterranean coast. It is also home to the odd rock icon and Hollywood movie star and as Theresa soon discovers; a closeknit set of foreigners. As Theresa settles into seaside life she embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. However, life is never quite as simple as it seems and as skeletons start to fall out of several closets, Theresa begins to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as nice as it first appeared!

It is a sunny Saturday in county Cork…

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n Irish wedding is in full swing. Drunk uncles are toasting the bride. The Ceilidh band have played for hours. But the cutting of the cake will bring the wedding to a horrifying end. For there, grinning gruesomely up from the bottom tier, is the severed head of the local baker. Katie Maguire, of the Irish Garda, does not have any leads - until another local businessman goes missing in horrific circumstances. The murders appear to link to The Kings of Erin, a terrifying gang of torturers and extortionists. But these are dangerous men. And they will stop at nothing to throw Katie off the trail.

‘One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time.’ PETER JAMES

‘Utterly delicious in every way.’ JOANNA LUMLEY ‘A warm, light-hearted, fast-paced tale that fans of Peter Mayle will enjoy.’ JOANNE HARRIS

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The Secrets Sisters Keep is the story of three sisters, three life-altering problems and one eternal truth.

Nobody knows you quite like a sister!

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he Devlin sisters rely on each other - but some things are just too painful to share, even when your sisters are your best friends. Mum-of-four Julie thought that if her family had more money, life would be easier. Lawyer Louise is used to having life go exactly as she wants it to. So accepting that she cannot control everything in her world is beyond her. Former model Sophie can just about cope with getting older - that’s until her ex-husband finds a younger model. All three women think that some battles are best fought alone. Maybe they need to think again...

Praise for the author: ‘Sinead Moriarty can bring readers from hilarity to heartbreak with great deftness.’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT ‘One of the brightest voices in modern women’s fiction.’ BELLA

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The Age of Magic Ben Okri

The Honours Tim Clare

Your Beautiful Lies Louise Douglas

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978 1 47129 596 6 – 512pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 618 5 – 384pp – $60.50

The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.

Northern Lights meets Neil Gaiman in this box of delights…

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ight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travelers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way. An intoxicating and dreamlike tale unfolds. Allow yourself to be transformed.

‘Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence.’

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ‘This novel offers the reader not just a story, but a series of intriguing revelations on the mysterious blurring of the lines between life and death, illusion and reality, good and evil.’ DAILY MAIL

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t is 1935 and war is looming in Great Britain. Alderberen Hall is a sprawling country estate shadowed by suspicion and paranoia.

Thirteen-year-old Delphine Venner is determined to uncover the secrets of the elite society that has taken in her mother and unstable father. As she explores the house and discovers the secret network of hidden passages that thread through the estate, Delphine uncovers a world more dark and dangerous than she ever imagined. With the help of head gamekeeper Mr Garforth, Delphine must learn the bloody lessons of war and find the soldier in herself in time to battle the deadly forces amassing in the woods.

Praise for the author: ‘Tim Clare writes with a poet’s eye and a thriller writer’s pace that held me spell bound till the last page.’ CHRIS RIDDELL ‘Astutely brilliant. It is rare to find such a riveting, fantastical, adventure matched by such poetic flair.

A rich, gripping delight.’ MATT HAIG 23

A stunning novel about the scars betrayal can leave behind, and the lengths we’ll go to conceal them...

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nnie Howarth is living a restless life in a restless town. It’s 1984 and for a mining community in South Yorkshire, the strikes mean tensions are high. Then a murdered girl is found on the moors and anxiety levels are pushed to breaking point.

Married to the Chief of Police, Annie should feel safe. But Annie is keeping her own secrets. Ten years ago the man she loved was ripped from her life in a scandal and now his return will put her family, her marriage, even her life, at risk.

An atmospheric and suspenseful novel you’ll find impossible to put down - perfect for fans of C.L. Taylor and Lucie Whitehouse.

‘Your Beautiful Lies […] kept me guessing until the last few pages and the explosive ending took my breath away.’ C.L. TAYLOR, author of The Accident

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Master of War – Defiant Unto Death David Gilman 978 1 47129 600 0 – 448pp – $60.50

Frozen Grave Lee Weeks

Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles Clare Balding 978 1 47129 607 9 – 368pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 624 6 – 496pp – $60.50

The field of battle is not only arena in which Blackstone will have to fight for his life...

A serial killer with a cold heart. A race against time to save the next victim…

Clare Balding’s brilliant new book of very British adventures.

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he Black Prince has launched a devastating raid deep into France, laying waste to everything in his path. In response, the French have mustered an army that outnumbers the English forces 10 to 1 and are determined to drive their hated foe from the land after years of bloody conquest. Sir Thomas Blackstone, the British archer knighted on the field of Crecy, has used the intervening years to forge his own war band and has hacked out his own fiefdom in central France. He knows the English are outnumbered, outmaneuvered and exhausted... but that will not stop him from fighting his way to one of history’s greatest military victories.

he first body is found in London’s East End - a middle-aged woman, brutally murdered. The second body turns up in a disused quarry, attracting the attention of DI Carter and DC Willis.

They had just interviewed the dead man about his links to the first crime - somebody wanted to stop him talking. Then the third body is found and it becomes clear a serial killer is on the loose.

From the author of the bestselling Dead of Winter and Cold As Ice comes a page-turning new thriller that will have you hooked from start to finish.

David Gilman had a varied career including firefighter, soldier and marketing manager, before turning to writing full time. He is an award-winning author and screenwriter.

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n the Balding family, walking just took too long - Clare galloped through the countryside and she galloped through life. Then, starting out in her broadcasting career, she was asked to present a series of walks with interesting people. Some fifteen hundred miles of footpaths later, she’s discovered the true glories of Britain and caught the walking bug. Now she wants to get her whole family hooked, by taking them on the 71-mile footpath that runs past their home on the Hampshire Downs. Along the way there are charming diversions and life-changing rambles, including her take on the 2012 Olympics. This is Clare’s story of walking home.

‘Who needs politicians agonising about national and regional identities? Clare Balding has effortlessly encapsulated all we love best about Britain.’ TELEGRAPH ‘Even the most reluctant of walkers will be tempted to don wellies after reading Clare’s wonderful descriptions.’

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The Italians John Hooper

Harry’s Last Stand Harry Leslie Smith

That Summer in Ischia Penny Feeny

978 1 47129 606 2 – 416pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 605 5 – 176pp – $60.50

978 1 47129 608 6 – 416pp – $60.50

Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles.

A lyrical invective that shows what the past can teach us and how the future is ours for the taking.

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n November 2013, 91-year-old Yorkshireman, RAF veteran and ex-carpet salesman Harry Leslie Smith’s Guardian article, ‘This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time’ – was shared over 80,000 times on Facebook, starting a huge debate about the state of society.

Now he brings his unique perspective to bear on NHS cutbacks, benefits policy, political corruption, food poverty, the cost of education and much more. From the deprivation of 1930s Barnsley and the terror of war to the creation of our welfare state, Harry has experienced how a great civilisation can rise from the rubble.

But at the end of his life, he fears how easily it is being eroded.

ohn Hooper’s marvellously entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians.

Looking at the facts that lie behind - and often belie - the stereotypes, his revealing book sheds new light on many aspects of Italian life: football and Freemasonry, sex, symbolism and the reason why Italian has twelve words for a coat hanger, yet none for a hangover.

‘What’s not to love? A thoroughly researched, wellwritten, ageless narrative of a fascinating people.’

KIRKUS ‘John Hooper gets under the skin of a fascinating people in a remarkable and compelling way.’

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‘A kind of epic poem, one that […] should be required reading for every MP, peer, councillor, civil servant and commentator.’ GUARDIAN

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A vivid and evocative tale of secrets, love and families.

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n her early years, Allie and her mother Helena were always on the move - relationships never lasted and old friends slipped away. But when Allie inherits Helena’s childhood home, she sees snatches of her mother’s tormented past. Determined to find out what keeps driving her mother away, Allie follows a lead to the island of Ischia. She is drawn into a community that still remembers the dramatic events of 1979, when a young boy was kidnapped and an English au pair took the blame. As clues to a decades-old mystery slowly rise to the surface, can Allie discover what really happened that summer in Ischia?

‘Sun-drenched, dark and intriguing. I loved the way she painted Italy.’ KATE LONG ‘A delightful holiday read.’ DAILY MAIL

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The Grand Duchess of Nowhere Laurie Graham

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome

978 1 47129 610 9 – 464pp – $60.50

978 1 47120 176 9 – 224pp – $49.50

978 1 47120 174 5 – 272pp – $49.50

Perhaps there is one great love in everyone’s life…

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or Princess Victoria Melita, known as Ducky, her great love was a Romanov, a member of the doomed Russian monarchy. As an adult, Ducky is confined in an unhappy marriage.

Desperate for a new life, she begins to look for something more – the adventure leading her far beyond England’s bounds, from Malta to the French Rivera, Finland and St Petersburg. As Russia unravels in 1917 and the Romanov dynasty falls, Ducky - now reunited with her Romanov love - is right at the heart of it. The life of her family in danger, she must act bravely to stand a chance of escape.

‘A fascinating glimpse into a vanished world.’

SUNDAY TIMES ‘I loved this book and didn’t want to reach the end.’

DAILY MAIL

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In 1922, F Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write “something new-something extraordinary and beautiful and simple, intricately patterned”. That novel became The Great Gatsby.

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ay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties where everybody who is anybody is seen. Day and night his mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character, for Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting though no one knows what for. No one knows of his longing for Daisy Buchanan…

Through the narration of Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s neighbour, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s.

A comic masterpiece that has been loved since it was first published in 1889, by Jerome K. Jerome.

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artyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a ‘T.’ But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J’s small fox-terrier Montmorency.

Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian ‘clerking classes,’ it hilariously captured the spirit of its age.

‘One of the greatest works of American literature...a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth’ THE TIMES

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