Fiction

Stella Rimington / Close Call (Hardback)

 The international arms trade is about to become a national problem...In 2012, in a Middle Eastern souk, CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked. At the time he was infiltrating rebel groups in the area. No one was certain if his cover had been...

Julia Gregson / Monsoon Summer (Hardback)

 Oxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by the war and nursing a tragic secret, Kit Smallwood flees to Wickam Farm to recuperate. There she throws herself into helping Daisy set up a charity sending midwives to India.Daisy's plan is fraught with danger. With...

Lynda La Plante / Buried (Hardback)

 SOME THINGS SHOULD REMAIN BURIED . . .The gripping first book in a brand new thriller series by the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.__________________DC Jack Warr and his girlfriend Maggie have just moved to London to start a new life...

Tessa Hadley / Late in the Day

 'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian KeyesThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novelAlex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their...

June Francis / Many a Tear Has To Fall

 Will a new romance only lead to more heartbreak?With her modelling career in tatters and her long-term relationship with her sailor boyfriend at an end, Maggie Gregory returns to her family in Liverpool to decide what to do with the rest of her...

Michael Spring / Running for Shelter

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Frank Muir / The Walpole Orange

 William Grundwick has a problem. As secretary of the Walpole Club he's duty-bound to arrange whatever function the Events Committee decides is appropriate to celebrate the Club's 250th birthday. It's just that what they have decided upon seems to...

Lilian Roberts Finlay / Always in My Mind

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Owen Whittaker / A Little Trouper

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D. E. White / The Forgotten Child

 WOW!!!... Kept me constantly turning the pages and on the edge of my seat.' NetGalley reviewer, 5 starsEleven years ago, Holly's brother disappeared and his girlfriend was killed.Holly has tried her best to forget the traumatic events of her past,...

Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind : A History of a Fascination

  "Mountains of the Mind" pursues an investigation into our emotional and imaginative responses to mountains, and how these have changed over the last few centuries. It is rich with literary and historical references, and punctuated by...

Adam Thorpe / Still

  Outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past...'...

John Ironmonger / The Coincidence Authority

 For fans of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Mark Watson and Mark Haddon, here is a cleverly written mystery about fate, circumstance, destiny and coincidence from COSTA AWARD-shortlisted author, John Ironmonger. This...

Ally Bunbury / Inheritance

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Bob Champion / Champion's Story

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Caroline Tiger / The Newlywed's Instruction Manual

  "The Newlywed's Instruction Manual" is the perfect follow-up to Bride and Groom and a natural companion to "The Home Owner's Manual". And like these fun and informative guides, our latest offering covers all the touchy topics that accompany...

Rachael Treasure / River Run Deep

 After a terrible argument with her father over their family property, Rebecca throws her kit into the back of her ute and heads north with her sheepdogs. A job as a trainee farmhand takes her into the rowdy world of country dances, Bundy rum and...

Ann Granger / That Way Murder Lies

 A chilling secret from the past leads to a violent murder in the present...Mitchell and Markby must put their wedding plans on hold when an old friend seeks their help in That Way Murder Lies, the fifteenth English village murder mystery in Ann...

Annie Groves / Christmas for the District Nurses

 'An evocative tale' Woman MagazineThe East End of London has been devastated by the Blitz and the people are struggling to come to terms with their ravaged city. Rationing bites ever deeper and and everything that makes life better is in short...

Vanessa Savage / The Woods

 'Highly recommended' Nuala Ellwood'Tense and creepy . . . brilliant' Harriet Tyce'Hooks readers in and keeps them dangling will the very last page' Daily Mail'Without a doubt the best book I've read this year' Reader Review *****'Spine-chilling in...

Sophia Money-Coutts / What Happens Now?

 Will have you in fits of laughter... move over, Bridget Jones!' New'Surprisingly funny and very saucy' OK!'A laugh-a-minute page-turner, perfect for poolside reading!' HELLO!'Surprisingly saucy and distractingly funny' GRAZIA'No question about it,...

Philip Kerr / Hitler's Peace

 The New York Times bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels reimagines the end of World War 2 in this gripping standalone spy thriller.Autumn 1943. Since Stalingrad, Hitler has known that Germany cannot win the war. The upcoming Allied...

Orson Scott Card / Shadow Puppets : Book 3 of the Shadow Saga

 Orson Scott Card's award-winning Ender series is a genuine classic of science fiction. In SHADOW PUPPETS, the third book in the new series following ENDER'S SHADOW and SHADOW OF THE HEGEMON, he follows the fates of Ender's fellow pupils from Battle...

Alastair Campbell / Saturday Bloody Saturday

 Football manager Charlie Gordon is struggling with one defeat after another at the club he loves. Only a decent Cup run is keeping him in work, but tensions are running close to the surface ahead of the next round: Chelsea away.Footballers fall...

Kate Bradley / To Keep You Safe

 For fans of What You Did and The Dilemma comes a nail-biting suspense thriller that asks: how far would you go to save a child that isn't yours?You don't know who they are. You don't know why they're hunting her. But you know she's in danger.What...

Kay Langdale / The Way Back to Us

 'Kay Langdale has got the knack of writing books that you carry on sitting in an empty carriage for a few extra minutes to finish, to stay a little longer with her characters' Lucy Dillon (author of A Hundred Pieces of Me)'There's no doubt Langdale...

Rosemary Goodacre / Until We Meet Again

 The Great War drove them apart - but love kept them togetherSummer 1914: Shy young woman, Amy Fletcher, lives a quiet life in Sussex. An office worker, she lives at home, along with her parents and spirited younger brother, Bertie. But her life is...

M. C. Beaton / Death of a Macho Man

 The unconventional Hamish Macbeth finds that his own impetuousness places him at the center of a murder investigation. Everyone in the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh called Randy Duggan 'the Macho Man'. Duggan went around the village and...

Dee Williams / Pride and Joy

  For sixteen-year-old Mary Harris, growing up in Rotherhithe in 1934 has its ups and downs. She has a good job in a biscuit factory and a best friend, Liz, who's fun to be with, but she's worried about her younger brother Eddie. Eddie is a...

Charles McCarry / The Shanghai Factor

 An American spy in China. Name: Unknown. Status: Sleeper.He's meant to be laying low, polishing his Mandarin and awaiting further instructions from Washington. But Shanghai is a difficult city to sleep in, especially when his nights are taken over...

Malise Ruthven / Islam: A Very Short Introduction

  Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Islam. Malise Ruthven's Very Short Introduction contains essential insights into issues such as why...

Ernest Cline / Armada

 PRE-ORDER NOW - READY PLAYER TWO: THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO READY PLAYER ONE_______________________'[A] masterful tale of Earth's desperate struggle against a powerful alien foe.' - Andy Weir, bestselling author of The...

Dodie Smith / A Tale of Two Families

 From the author of I Capture the Castle comes a delightful, funny tale of complicated sibling relationships, friendship, and forbidden love, set in 1970s EnglandSuspecting her husband, George, of dalliances in the city, May decides it is high time...

E. W. Hornung / Raffles

 Raffles is a public-school cad and master burglar, with an aptitude for cricket and a passion for crime - a loveable rogue who steals from the rich not to give to the poor, but rather to subsidize his own splendid lifestyle (he has an unimpeachable...

Kathleen Rooney / Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk

  In 2011, with poets Dave Landsberger and Eric Plattner, Rooney co-founded the Chicago not-for-profit poetry collective Poems While You Wait, which composes typewritten poetry on demand at local libraries, street & music festivals, museums,...

Amanda Craig / The Lie of the Land

 A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR.' A very good read indeed' Matt Haig'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' India Knight'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years'...

Robert McLiam Wilson / Eureka Street (Hardback)

  By the author of "Ripley Bogle", this is a story of love set against the backdrop of Belfast. The mysterious letters "OTG" start appearing all over the city. The IRA and UVF issue death threats, but when Jake discovers the meaning, he too...

India Knight / The Dirty Bits - For Girls (Hardback)

  'One day someone came back from half-term with Delta of Venus, by Anais Nin...Well. Well. The book briskly did the rounds, getting tattier and tattier with each reading. Mouths dropped open in shock. Eyes popped with disbelief. Did people...

Joe Lovejoy / Sevn Goran Eriksson (Hardback)

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Pam Ayres / Surgically Enhanced (Hardback)

  Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. Her work is popular with fans of all ages, and her wry observations on the peculiarities of modern life will raise a smile from...

Josephine Hart / Sin (Hardback)

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Polly Williams / The Egg Race (Hardback)

  Stevie Jonson is thirty-four. She's broody. And she's set to marry not-quite the-man-of-her-dreams in two weeks' time. Just as the reality of her marriage sinks in, Stevie's path collides with that of Katy Norris, a thirty-six-year-old...

Julian Barnes / The Only Story (Hardback)

 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about...

Scott Turow / The Laws of Our Fathers (Hardback)

  Der Sohn eines Politikers ist des Mordes angeklagt. Im Gerichtssaal treten sich sowohl auf seiten des Gerichts, als auch der Verteidigung, der Presse und des Publikums Menschen gegenüber, die sich alle seit den wilden 68ern von einem...

Melissa Hill / Keep You Safe (Hardback)

 'If you like Jodi Picoult try Melissa Hill'Woman & Home'I was completely gripped' Sarah Morgan'Brimming with powerful issues'Evening Post'This emotive story will touch your heart'My WeeklyGood mother or bad ... who decides?Widowed nurse Kate...

Garrison Keillor / Lake Wobegon Days (Hardback)

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Jim Maloney / The Husbands' Book : For the Husband Who's Best at Everything (Hardback)

  Marriage is one of the oldest and most respected of all our traditions. "The Husbands' Book" is a lighthearted celebration of the role of beloved husbands. From their penchant for DIY - however ill-advised - and knowledge of all things to do...

Saul Bellow / Ravelstein (Hardback)

  Rather than listen to Ravelstein's complaints about the death of culture and learning, Chick suggests he write a book about it. Ravelstein does - it becomes a bestseller, but then Ravelstein dies. Brave, dark, bleakly funny: an elegy to...

Jaye Carroll / Loving the Stars

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Melissa Bailey / Beyond the Sea

 The second novel from Melissa Bailey, author of The Medici Mirror. Perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine.One summer's day, Freya's husband and son vanish at sea.A year on, and struggling to cope, Freya returns to the lighthouse-keeper's cottage on a...

Mills & Boon / Modern / 2 in 1 / One Wild Night With Her Enemy / The Billion-Dollar Bride Hunt : One Wild Night with Her Enemy (Hot Summer Nights with a Billionaire) / the Billion-Dollar Bride Hunt

 Sky-high stakes...in business and in the bedroom!Executive assistant Cassie has orders to spy on tech tycoon Luke. While he's ultra-arrogant, he's also aggravatingly irresistible... Before Cassie knows it they're jetting off to his private...

Mills & Boon / Modern / 2 in 1 / Claiming His Hidden Heir : Claiming His Hidden Heir (Secret Heirs of Billionaires) / Princess's Pregnancy Secret (One Night with Consequences)

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