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Joe Abercrombie Half the world

Set in the same world as ‘Half a king’, ‘Half a world’ follows a new protagonist, Thorn, a fifteen-year-old girl in training for the king's army. But even as she's learning the ways of war, she's also growing up...and falling in love for the first time

Catherine Alliott Wish you were here

When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a château in the South of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance to escape the confines of Clapham, the weight of the mortgage and anxieties over their future, for a blissful break. But Flora didn't anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of

family baggage to come too.

Michael Arditti Widows and orphans

The 'Francombe & Salter Mercury' has served the residents of two South Coast resorts for over 150 years. Hit by both the economic decline and the advent of new technology, Duncan Neville, the latest member of his family to occupy the editor's chair, is struggling to keep the paper afloat. Duncan's personal life is in similar disarray as he juggles the

demands of his elderly mother, disaffected son, harassed ex-wife and devoted secretary.


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M.C. Beaton Death of a liar

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie.

This time, though, she is telling the truth.

David Benioff Game of thrones - season IV

Blu-ray. As the season begins, encouraged by the Red Wedding slaughter in the Riverlands that wiped out many of their Stark nemeses, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne remains intact. But can they survive their own egos as well as new and ongoing threats from the south, north and east?

Alex Berenson Twelve days

John Wells and his former CIA bosses Ellis Shafer and Vinnie Duto have uncovered a false-flag operation to convince the President to attack Iran. But with no hard evidence, no one at Langley or the White House will listen. The President has set a deadline for Iran to give up its nuclear program, and the mullahs in Tehran - furious and frightened - have

responded with a deadly terrorist attack.

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Parker Bilal The burning gates

PI Makana has a new client: the powerful art dealer Aram Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn't want to be found. The art world is a far cry from the shady streets and dirty

alleyways of the Cairo that Makana knows, but he discovers that this side of the city has its own dark underbelly.

Jessica Blair Just one more day

While reporting to the Air Ministry in London, Carolyn Maddison meets a good-looking, charismatic pilot, Charlie Wade, currently employed in propaganda work. He believes that with her calm demeanor and resilience, Carolyn should work as an Intelligence officer, and suggests she serve on an active bombing station. At her side throughout the courses and

postings that follow is Lucy Gaston, naturally quick-witted and sparky, a perfect foil for her friend.

Tom Burgis The looting machine

An investigative journey into the ways the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' sheds light on the shadowy networks that connect Goldman Sachs, BP, the Hong Kong underworld and the murderous cabals that rule some oil states.


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Robyn Cadwallader The anchoress

England, 1255: Sarah is only 17 when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seven paces by nine, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, and to commit herself to a life of prayer and service to God.

Karen Campbell Rise

Justine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man who between them have almost broken her, she heads north to the mountains and the valleys of the Highlands. She is looking for somewhere to hide. Michael and Hannah are also running. With their two sons and their tattered marriage they have come to the village of Kilmacarra. They are looking for somewhere they can once again call home. In a place of standing

stones - an ancient landscape in a country on the brink of change - a shocking accident causes their lives to intersect.

Rory Clements Holy spy

In London's smoky taverns, a conspiracy is brewing: a group of wealthy young Catholic dissidents plot to assassinate Elizabeth, free Mary Queen of Scots - and open England to Spanish invasion. But the conspirators have been infiltrated by Sir Francis Walsingham's top intelligencer, John Shakespeare. Shakespeare, however, is torn: the woman he loves

stands accused of murder. In a desperate race against time he must save her from the noose and the realm from treachery.

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David Crane Went the day well?

A sweeping political, social, military and cultural overview of United Kingdom on the eve, and then the day, of the greatest battle fought by British arms.

Sam Delaney Mad men and bad men

From the moment Margaret Thatcher met the Saatchi brothers, election campaigns would never be the same again. Suddenly, every aspiring PM wanted a fast-talking, sharp-thinking ad man on their team to help dazzle voters. But what were the consequences of their fixation with the snappy and simplistic? Sam Delaney embarks on a journey to expose the shocking truth behind the general election campaigns

of the last four decades.

Anita Diamant The Boston girl

Told against the backdrop of World War I, and written with the same immense emotional impact that has made Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, 'The Boston Girl' is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in the early 20th century, and a window into the lives of all women seeking to understand the world around them.


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Margaret Dickinson Welcome home

Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for over 20 years, sharing a tough life as the wives of fishermen in Grimsby. It was no surprise that Edie's son, Frank, and Lil's daughter, Irene, would fall in love and marry at a young age. But the declaration of war in 1939 changes everything. Frank goes off to fight, and Irene and baby Tommy, along with Edie's

youngest son, are sent to the countryside for safety.

Zoran Drvenkar You

When a snowstorm halts traffic on a German autobahn, drivers are forced to spend the night in their cars. As day breaks, scores of people are found dead. Theories are rife. Was it an argument? Was it drugs, revenge or madness? At first everyone agrees that several people must have acted together. No-one could have committed such an atrocity alone. It is only

over time that theories come to focus on an individual perpetrator, and the Traveller is born.

Piers Moore Ede Kaleidoscope City

Piers Moore Ede first fell in love with Varanasi when he passed through it on his way to Nepal in search of wild honey hunters. In the decade that followed it continued to exert its pull on him, and so he returned to live there, to press his ear to its heartbeat and to discover what it is that makes the spiritual capital of India so unique.

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Cecilia Ekbäck Wolf winter

Swedish Lapland, 1717. A group of disparate settlers struggles to forge a new life in the shadow of the grim mountain Blackasen whose dark mythology lies at odds with the repressive, almost feudal control exerted by the church. Into this setting, Maija, her husband and two daughters arrive, yearning to forget the traumas that caused them to abandon their native Finland and start anew.

Katie Fforde Vintage wedding

Beth, Rachel and Lindy are looking for new beginnings. Beth is planning her sister's wedding via Skype in order to avoid their domineering mother. Rachel has decided to get on with her new life in the country post-divorce, and has just finished decorating her new home. And single-mother Lindy is looking for something creative to do with her time now that her young sons don't need

her quite so much.

David Fincher Gone girl

DVD. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behaviour have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?


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Katie Flynn A summer promise

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has been in the family for generations, but her grandmother is struggling to cope. Determined that no matter what happens, the two of them will not be forced into the workhouse. Though life is tough, Maddy manages to gain a scholarship to the local

school. As war is declared, Maddy and her friends join up, leaving the beautiful Dales for the dangerous work of manning the Ack Ack sites.

Alexandra Fuller Leaving before the rains come

In 1992 Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this sequel to 'Don't let's go to the dogs tonight', she charts their 20 years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the mountains of Wyoming.

Claire Fuller Our endless numbered days

1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of 'The Railway Children' and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared.

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Neil Gaiman Trigger warning

'Trigger Warning' is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghost stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explores the realm of experience and emotion. It will open your eyes to the inexhaustible supply of darkness around you, the magic and the monsters, the myths and the miracles, and to finding truths in the most extraordinary of places.

Dan Gilroy Nightcrawler

DVD. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible

windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents.

Matthew Glass Fishbowl

Suspense. As a gifted Ivy League student, Andrei Koss hit upon an idea that would revolutionise social networking and move it on by a generation. Enlisting the help of his best friends, Ben and Kevin, he turned their dorm room into an operations base, where flashes of creative brilliance and all-night coding sessions led to the creation of Fishbowl. He is now

the 21-year-old CEO of a multi-billion-dollar empire. But everyone wants a piece of it.


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Michele Gorman The Curvy Girls Club

Pixie, Ellie, Katie and Jane have been best friends since meeting at Slimming Zone. Tired of being judged on the number of calories they consume, they decide to form a different kind of club. The fun evenings they spend together, not worrying about their size, make them happier than they've been for years! But the club doesn't stop real life from getting

in the way and together the girls have to address some much bigger issues than just their weight. Will Pixie ever be brave enough to leave her abusive husband Trevor?

Kate Hamer The girl in the red coat

Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children's festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. As days become weeks with her new family, 8-year-old Carmel realises that this man believes she has a special gift. While her mother

desperately tries to find her, Carmel embarks on an extraordinary journey, one that will make her question who she is - and who she might become.

Daniel Handler We are pirates

A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay.

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Elizabeth Haynes Behind closed doors

10 years ago, 15-year-old Scarlett Rainsford vanished while on a family holiday in Greece. Was she abducted, or did she run away from her severely dysfunctional family? Lou Smith worked the case as a police constable, and failing to find Scarlett has been one of the biggest regrets of her career. No one is more shocked than Lou to learn that Scarlett has

unexpectedly been found during a Special Branch raid of a brothel in Briarstone.

Peter Helton Indelible

Chris Honeysett has accepted a role as tutor at the Bath Arts Academy and agreed to take part in an anniversary exhibition. But preparations are disrupted by a series of peculiar events: a naked, wild-haired figure is glimpsed running through the woods; strange symbols are carved onto trees and gateposts; a metal sculpture takes on a mysterious life of its own. The

incidents, which are initially assumed to be student pranks, escalate in menace and intensity.

Antonia Honeywell The ship

Oxford Street burned for three weeks. The British Museum is squatted by ragtag survivors. The Regent's Park camps have been bombed. The Nazareth Act has come into force if you can't produce your identity card, you're going to be shot. Lalla, 16, has grown up sheltered from the new reality by her visionary father, Michael Paul. But now the chaos has reached their

doorstep.


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Jörn Lier Horst The caveman

Only three houses away from a policeman's home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months. Viggo Hansen was a man nobody ever noticed, even though he lived in the midst of a close-knit community. His death doesn't hit the headlines, but there is something about the case that catches the attention of William Wisting's journalist

daughter, Line, and she decides to write a newspaper article.

Celia Imrie Not quite nice

Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice. 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.

Bill James Blaze away

Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer. Lamb is the greatest informant Harpur has ever dealt with - might be the greatest informant any police officer has ever dealt with - and although Jack ended this arrangement some time ago, Harpur still feels indebted

to him.

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Miranda James Arsenic and old books

In Athena, Mississippi, librarian Charlie Harris is known for his good nature - and for his Maine coon cat, Diesel, that he walks on a leash. Charlie returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but taking the plunge into a recent acquisition will have him in over his head.

Tania James The tusk that did the damage

When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers and then captured, it is only a matter of time before he breaks his chains and begins terrorising the countryside. Meanwhile, studious Manu and his wayward brother, Jayan, are drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting, while his family life grows ever more complicated. Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend.

Raj Kamal Jha She will build him a city

As night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Her now grown-up child is a puzzle with a million pieces whom she hopes, through her words and her love, to somehow make whole again. Meanwhile, as the last train from Rajiv Chowk Station pulls away, a young man rides the metro and dreams of murder. In another corner of the

city, a newborn wrapped in a blood-red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away.


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Denis Johnson The laughing monsters

Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment. He must find Michael Adriko - maverick, warrior and the man who has saved Nair's life three times and risked it many more. The two men have schemed, fought and profited together in the most hostile regions of the

world. But on this new level - espionage, state secrets, treason - their loyalties will be tested to the limit.

Mari Jungstedt The dangerous game

When Jenny is spotted by a high-profile modelling agency, she goes from schoolgirl to celebrity overnight. Agnes used to be a model too - but now she lies in a hospital bed, slowly being destroyed by an eating disorder. An attempted murder during a lavish photoshoot means that Jenny's and Agnes's lives will soon intersect in the most terrifying of ways.

Oliver Kamm Accidence will happen

Are standards of English alright - or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? And what about ending a sentence with preposition, or for that matter beginning one with 'and'? We learn language by instinct, but good English, we are told, requires rules. From splitting infinitives to dangling prepositions, this erudite, entertaining, and deeply

reassuring guide demonstrates that many of the so-called rules of good style are little more than folklore mixed with prejudice and can be cheerfully disregarded.

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Alex Kava Breaking Creed

Ryder Creed and his dogs have been making national headlines after intercepting several major drug stashes being smuggled through Atlanta's airport. But their newfound celebrity has also garnered some unwanted attention. When Creed and one of his dogs are called in to search a commercial fishing vessel, they discover a secret compartment. But the Colombian cartels'

latest shipment isn't drugs. This time, its cargo is human.

Jonathan Kellerman Motive

Even hundreds of closed cases to his credit can't keep LAPD police lieutenant Milo Sturgis from agonising over the crimes that don't get solved - and the victims who go without justice. Victims like Katherine Hennepin, a young woman strangled and stabbed in her home. A single suspect with a solid alibi leads to a dead end - one even psychologist Alex Delaware's expert insight

can't explain. The only thing to do is move on to the next murder case - because there is always a next one.

Laurie R. King Dreaming spies

1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive home to find a stone. The stone is inscribed with the same name that they last saw in the Tokyo garden of the future emperor of Japan. It is the first indication that the investigation they did for him a year ago might not be as complete as they had thought. In Japan there were spies; in Oxford there are dreams. In both places, there

is a small, dark-haired woman, and danger.


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Peter Kosminsky Wolf Hall

Blu-ray. Wolf Hall presents an intimate portrait of Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance), the brilliant consigliere to King Henry VIII (Damian Lewis), as he manoeuvres the corridors of power at the Tudor court. Directed by BAFTA award-Winner Peter Kosminsky, this powerful series follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of Cromwell -

a pragmatic and accomplished power broker.

Catherine Lacey Nobody is ever missing

Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home, her career and her loving husband. As the people she has left behind scramble to figure out what has happened to her, Elyria embarks on a hitchhiker's odyssey, testing fate by travelling in the cars of overly kind women and deeply strange

men, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks.

Hans Olav Lahlum Satellite people

Oslo, 1969. When a wealthy man collapses and dies during a dinner party, Norwegian Police Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen, known as K2, is left shaken. For the victim, Magdalon Schelderup, a multimillionaire businessman and former resistance fighter, had contacted him only the day before, fearing for his life. It soon becomes clear that every one of Schelderup's ten dinner guests is a suspect in the case.

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Mike Leigh Mr. Turner

Mike Leigh writes and directs this biographical drama about British artist J.M.W. Turner, who is here portrayed by Timothy Spall. The film explores the last 25 years or so of Turner's life in which he suffers greatly after the loss of his beloved father William (Paul Jesson) and has relations with his housekeeper Hannah Danby (Dorothy Atkinson) and,

later, landlady Sophia Booth (Marion Bailey), with whom he lives in Chelsea until his death.

Charles Lewinsky Melnitz

1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of

the night.

David Lodge Quite a good time to be born

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ In this memoir of his life up to the publication of his breakthrough book, Changing Places, David looks back over his childhood and youth, including his undergraduate years at University College London, where he met Mary, his future wife,

in freshers’ week.


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Edward Marston Shadow of the hangman

In this first instalment of the 'Bow Street Rivals' series twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen catch wind of a projected assassination but the target is unknown. Trouble ensues when a woman from the Home Office vanishes; a mysterious lady turns up at the archery shooting gallery; and Paul's gambling addiction worsens.

George R.R. Martin Windhaven

The islands of Windhaven, a forgotten planetary outpost, are held together by the flyers who travel between the communities. Birth dictates who looks on in envy and who actually flies. Maris defies this law, borrows wings and takes to the air.

Margaret Mayhew The seventh link

The village of Frog End may be peaceful, but that doesn't mean that the Colonel's life there is quiet - not with his friendly but nosy neighbour Naomi, desperate to know what he's keeping in his new shed; the curious Miss Butler, who tracks his every move with her German U-boat captain's binoculars; and the attentions of the local vicar, who's keen to involve him

in church affairs. That's not forgetting the demands of the aloof, imperious cat Thursday, who seems to have adopted the Colonel.

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Paul McAuley Something coming through

The Jackaroo have given humanity 15 worlds and the means to reach them. They're a chance to start over, but they're also littered with ruins and artifacts left by the Jackaroo's previous clients. Miracles that could reverse the damage caused by war, climate change, and rising sea levels. Nightmares that could for ever alter humanity - or even destroy it.

Larry McMurtry The last kind words saloon

Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge - more often with a mean look than a pistol - the taciturn Wyatt now idles away his time between bottles, while the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc is more adept at poker than extracting teeth. With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the

Great Plains enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West that forged their myths disappears.

Karim Miské Arab jazz

Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan neighbourhood where multicultural citizens live, love and worship alongside one another. This peace is shattered when Ahmed Taroudant's melancholy daydreams are interrupted by the blood dripping from his upstairs neighbour's brutally

mutilated corpse. The violent murder of Laura Vignole, and the roast pork placed next to her, set imaginations ablaze across the neighbourhood, and Ahmed finds himself the prime suspect.


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Sara Moliner The whispering city

Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in the exclusive Tibidabo district, the police scramble to seize control of the investigation.

Lena Mukhina A girl’s life in the Siege of Leningrad

The heartbreaking diary of a 16-year-old Russian high school student who was living in Leningrad during the Nazi invasion in 1941.

Annie Murray War babies

From the bestselling author of 'Chocolate Girls' comes a novel set on the struggling suburban streets of Birmingham during World War II.

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Mary Nichols We’ll meet again

1940. London is facing the full wrath of the blitz and amid the chaos Sheila Phipps is orphaned after a devastating air raid claims her family and her home. She is evacuated to Bletchley to live with her aunt Constance, where she forms an unlikely friendship with Prudence Le Strange, who is working in the code breaking unit at Bletchley.

William Nicholson The lovers of Amherst

The story of two loves: one past, one present, both intimately entwined with Emily Dickinson's life.

Katharine Norbury The fish ladder

Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out - accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie - with the idea of following a river from the sea to its

source.


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Phillips Payson O’Brien How the war was won

This text challenges the view that the Second World War was decided by land battles. It argues that victory was due to the production and allocation of American and British air and sea weaponry that was used to destroy over half of the Axis's equipment before it reached the battlefield.

James Oswald Prayer for the dead

The search for a missing journalist is called off as a body is found at the scene of a carefully staged murder. In a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath Edinburgh, the victim has undergone a macabre ritual of purification. Inspector Tony McLean knew the dead man, and can't shake off

the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eye.

James Patterson 14th deadly sin

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that pushed them all to the edge. After her near-death experience, Yuki is seeing her life from a new perspective and is considering a change in her law career. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy has healed from her gunshot

wound and has published a book on the infamous serial killers she helped to bring down. Lindsay is just happy that the gang are all still in one piece. But a new terror is sweeping the streets of San Francisco.

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Mary Portas Shop girl

The moving and hilarious true story of the early years of Mary, Queen of Shops.

Amanda Prowse A mother’s story

Jessica is expecting her first child. But why isn't she transformed by maternal feelings? Where is the all-consuming love she's supposed to feel for her child? No-one told her you don't always love your baby. Perhaps it’s best if Jessica keeps that dark secret to herself for now.

Kwei Quartey Murder at Cape Three Points

At Cape Three Points on the beautiful Ghanaian coast, a canoe washes up at an oil rig site. The two bodies in the canoe - who turn out to be a prominent, wealthy, middle-aged married couple - have obviously been murdered; the way Mr Smith-Aidoo has been gruesomely decapitated suggests the killer was trying to send a specific message - but what, and to whom, is a mystery.


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Lissa Rankin The fear cure

Dr Lissa Rankin realized that fear is not just a nuisance emotion that makes us unhappy; it's a serious risk factor for disease that threatens our longevity. The body's physiological response to fear raises patients' risk for conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer. Dr Rankin presents a breakthrough understanding of fear, courage and

health, exploring the psychospiritual roots of disease and charting a path back to wellness.

Margaret Rayman Healthy eating to reduce the risk of dementia

Dementia affects nearly 36 million people worldwide, with 7.7 million new cases every year, and it has a dramatic impact on sufferers and their families. There is evidence, however, that a healthy lifestyle, especially

in mid-life, can help to reduce the risk of developing dementia. Margaret Rayman and her team of nutritional experts lay down some clear and effective guidelines to show you how to adapt your diet and lifestyle to help protect you against this disease.

Richard Rhodes Hell and good company

Celebrated historian Richard Rhodes explores the Spanish Civil War through the stories of the reporters, writers, artists and doctors who witnessed it.

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Mike Ripley Mr Campion’s fox

The Danish Ambassador has requested Albert Campion's help on 'a delicate family matter'. He's very concerned about his eighteen-year-old daughter, who has formed an attachment to a most unsuitable young man. Before he can act on the matter, however, both the Ambassador's daughter and her beau disappear without trace.

J.D. Robb Obsession in death

A crisp winter morning in New York. In a luxury apartment, the body of a woman lies stretched out on a huge bed. On the wall above, the killer has left a message in bold black ink: FOR LIEUTENANT EVE DALLAS, WITH GREAT ADMIRATION AND UNDERSTANDING. Famous for her high-profile cases and her marriage to billionaire businessman

Roarke, Eve Dallas has learned to deal with intense public scrutiny and media gossip. But now Eve has become the object of a singular and deadly obsession.

Rosa Roberts The big painting challenge

Fully illustrated and including 18 step-by-step projects, from landscape and portraits to still life and seascapes, 'The big painting challenge' is an essential introduction to the world of visual art.


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Jane Robinson In the family way

Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. This book tells secrets kept for entire lifetimes - long-silent voices from the workhouse, the Magdalene Laundry or the distant mother-and-baby home. Anonymous childhoods are recalled, spent in the care of Dr Barnardo or a Child Migration scheme halfway

across the world.

Eugene Rogan The fall of the Ottomans

For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1914 it had been drastically weakened and circled by numerous predators waiting to finish it off. Following the Ottoman decision to join the First World War on the side of the Central Powers the British, French and Russians

hatched a plan to finish the Ottomans off: an ambitious and unprecedented invasion of Gallipoli.

Naomi Schillinger Grow all you can eat in 3 square feet

An innovative guide to maximising even the smallest gardening space so you can grow delicious fruit and vegetables, in abundance, at home.

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Jean Seaton Pinkoes and traitors

During the Margaret Thatcher years, Britain experienced mass unemployment, trade union strikes, bloody war in Northern Ireland and the Falklands, and an existential threat to its public service broadcaster, the BBC. Pounded by a coherent free market argument, the BBC had to justify its right to the Licence Fee and its independent place in the

'unwritten' British constitution.

Hampton Sides In the kingdom of ice

In 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and a frenzy of publicity. The ship and its crew, captained by the heroic George De Long, were heading for glory and one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. But it was not long before the Jeannette was trapped in crushing pack ice. Amid the rush of water and the

shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest

supplies.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi Guantánamo diary

Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into

U.S. custody.


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Rob Magnuson Smith Scorper

An eccentric American visits the small Sussex town of Ditchling, searching for stories about his grandfather. A tale of twitching curtains, severed hands and peculiar sexual practices, as well as a book about Eric Gill's artistic legacy, 'Scorper' is a strange and beautiful English comic masterpiece, with added bird bones.

Will Smith Mainlander

Jersey, 1987: the storm clouds are gathering over Colin Bygate. Sitting on a headland stewing over the discovery that his wife used to date Rob de la Haye, a brash hotelier who is everything that Colin is not, he spots a pupil near the edge of the cliff. Worried that the boy may have intended to jump, he drives him home, hoping that his gloomy imagination was playing tricks. But when the boy fails to turn up to school the next day,

Colin feels duty bound to track him down, pitting him against the island establishment.

Erica Spindler The first wife

Despite the ten-year age gap and the differences in their backgrounds, Bailey was meant to be with Logan - she's sure of it. It's natural that they should marry as soon as they can. But when Logan brings Bailey home to his magnificent estate on ninety wooded acres, her dreams of happily-ever-after begin to unravel. She can't ignore the rumours about what happened to Logan's

first wife and when a local woman goes missing, all signs point to her husband.

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Danielle Steel Prodigal son

Twin boys grow up in the same family, in the same town. Dramatically different, they become bitter enemies, even as children: one good, one bad. One leaves his peaceful hometown, but when all else fails, the prodigal son returns, twenty years later. The reunion of brothers, sweet and healing at first, exposes shattering revelations of good and evil.

Jón Kalman Stefánsson The heart of man

Set in the awe-inspiring wilderness of the extreme north, 'The Heart of Man' is a profound exploration of life, love and desire - a tale worthy of the sagasmiths of old.

Jacques Strauss The curator

1976, rural South Africa: a family massacre has taken place, and the only witness is a black maid. Hendrik Deyer is the principal of a state-run school camp who lives nearby with his wife and their two sons, Werner and Marius. As Hendrik becomes obsessed with uncovering what happened, his wife worries about her neighbours, a poor white family whose malign

influence on her son Werner is - she believes - making his behaviour inexplicably strange and hostile. Then, one night, another tragedy changes each of their lives irrevocably.


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Peter Swenson The kind worth killing

Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it? Back in Boston, Ted's wife Miranda is busy site managing the construction of

their dream home, a beautiful house out on the Maine coastline.

Dana Thomas Gods and kings

In the first decade of the 21st century, the fashion world was dominated by two very different but equally successful - and turbulent - figures. But then, within 12 months, Alexander McQueen had committed suicide, and John Galliano's career had unravelled in public after he was arrested for an anti-Semitic tirade at a Paris bar. Dana Thomas uses the story of these two

charismatic figures to look behind the closed doors of the notoriously secretive fashion world.

Claire Thompson The five o’clock apron

Faced with the daily challenge of what to cook for her three young children, chef and mum Claire Thomson made it her mission to inspire parents stuck in a teatime rut. Every day she makes a ‘proper’ tea, tweeting it at 5pm - from that her blog '5 o’clock apron' was born and a popular Guardian column on cooking for children followed.

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Charles Todd A fine summer’s day

New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd takes readers on a trip to Ian Rutledge's past, with the story of the last case the Scotland Yard detective tackles before he goes off to fight in World War I.

Anne Tyler A spool of blue thread

'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon'. This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting

older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home.

S.J. Watson Second life

How well can you really know another person? And how far would you go to find out the truth about them? When Julia learns that her sister has been violently killed, she knows she must get to the bottom of things. Even if it means jeopardising her relationship with her husband and risking the safety of her son. Getting involved with a stranger online. Losing control.

Perhaps losing everything.


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Kathleen Winter Boundless

In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the legendary Northwest Passage - connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans - alongside marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers.

Hubert Wolf The nuns of Sant' Ambrogio

The true story of a scandal of epic proportions at the Roman convent of Sant'Ambrogio in the late 1850s. Discovered recently in a Vatican archive by one of the world's leading papal historians, it is a tale of deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church.

Ella Woodward Deliciously Ella

Ella Woodward is the author of must-read food blog www.deliciouslyella.com which has one million visitors every month from all over the world. Ella started the blog after being diagnosed with a rare illness called Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS), which left her unable to get out of bed and desperate to find

something that helped. When conventional medicine failed, she turned to dieticians and overnight gave up meat, gluten, dairy, sugar and anything processed.

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