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Isabel Allende Ripper

For Amanda Martin and her friends, Ripper started off as just a game. But then the murders began and San Francisco found itself once more in the grip of a cold-blooded killer. The police can't crack the case alone, and the killer is creeping ever closer to Amanda herself. Will she and her online accomplices solve the mystery before it's

too late?

Virginia Andrews The unwelcomed child

Elle Edwards, who has been told she's a product of her mother's sinful mistake, has never gone to school, never met a teenager her own age, never even been allowed off of her grandparents' property. Convinced that their granddaughter is infected with evil, Myra and Prescott Edwards believe that only the harshest child-rearing

methods will prevent Elle from becoming an instrument of the devil.

James R. Banker Piero della Francesca

Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the 15th century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. But who was Piero, and how did he become the person and artist that he was? This

book integrates the story of Piero's artistic and mathematical achievements with the full chronicle of his life.


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Toby Barlow Babayaga

From the author of 'Sharp Teeth' comes a novel of postwar Paris, of star-crossed love and Cold War espionage, of bloodthirsty witches and a police inspector turned into a flea ... and that's just the beginning.

David Barrie Sextant

David Barrie tells how and why the sextant was invented; how offshore navigators depended on it for their lives in wild and dangerous seas until the advent of GPS - and the sextant's vital role in the history of exploration.

M.C. Beaton Death of a policeman

Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure and this presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth. Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police officer, visit the town

of Lochdubh to monitor exactly what Hamish does every day.

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Sally Beauman The visitors

Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922 to recover from the typhoid that killed her mother, 11-year-old Lucy is caught up in the intrigue and excitement that surrounds the obsessive hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb. As she struggles to comprehend an adult world in which those closest to her are often cold and unpredictable, Lucy longs for a friend she can

love.

Simon Beckett Stone bruises

Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from whom, but we do know he's abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of an isolated, lonely part of rural France at the height of a sweltering summer. Desperate to avoid the police, he takes to the hedgerows and country lanes only to be caught in the vicious jaws

of a trap.

Alex Berenson The counterfeit agent

In an Istanbul hotel, a source warns that Iranian forces intend to kill a CIA station chief. Ex-CIA agent John Wells is called in to investigate, but before he can get very far, the tip comes true. Which means the next warning the source gives will be taken very seriously indeed. And it's a big one: a radioactive package has been put on a ship

from Dubai to the United States.


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Parker Bilal The ghost runner

It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo's streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of the wife and daughter he lost, is shaken out of his grief when a routine

surveillance job leads him to the horrific murder of a teenage girl.

Benjamin Black The black eyed blonde

It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Soon Marlowe will find himself not only under the

spell of the black-eyed blonde, but tangling with one of Bay City's richest families and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune.

Michael Booth The almost nearly perfect people

Who are the almost nearly perfect people? And why? In this thought-provoking, often humorous book, Michael Booth embarks on a journey through all five Nordic countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland, to discover who these people are, the secrets of

their success, and what they think of each other.

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Tom Bower Branson

This biography is the full story of the Virgin man: his friendships, his ambitions, his drug-taking, law-breaking and steam-rolling tactics. It is a tale of greed, ambition and ruthless self-creation.

Barbara Taylor Bradford Cavendon Hall

Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them. One stately home: Cavendon Hall, a grand imposing house nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Two best friends: DeLacy Ingham, daughter of the earl, and Ceci Swann, daughter of the valet. Inseparable from childhood, but with two very different

destinies. But the year is 1913, and soon life as the two families of Cavendon Hall know it is about to change irrevocably.

Claire Cameron The bear

Anna is five. Her little brother, Stick, is three. They are camping with their parents in Algonquin Park, in three thousand square miles of wilderness. Something big is moving in the shadows. Their father is terrified. Their mother is screaming. Then, suddenly, silence. Alone in the woods, it is Anna who has to look after Stick, battling hunger and the elements to stay alive.


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Cody Cameron Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2

Animated family adventure DVD featuring the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Neil Patrick Harris, James Caan and Benjamin Bratt. Following his invention of a machine capable of turning water into food, madcap scientist Flint Lockwood (voice of Hader) is offered employment at the Live Corp Company, a prestigious facility where the

greatest minds are given free rein to pursue their ideas.

M.J. Carter The strangler vine

India. 1837. William Avery, a fresh young officer in the East India Company, arrives in Calcutta expecting to be seduced by its ancient traditions. Nine months later he hasn't learnt a word of Hindoostani, is in terrible debt, and longs to return home before the cholera epidemic finishes him off.

Kimberley Chambers Payback

When the enemy is one of your own, the payback is twice as hard. The Butler brothers are the Kings of the East End, and their motto is 'what goes around, comes around'. In their world, family counts; so when the truth about Vinny's nephew's death comes to light, it rocks the Butlers to the core. One by one, Vinny's friends and family are turning against him.

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Elliott Colla Baghdad Central

Baghdad, September 2003. The US occupation is not yet a disaster but the CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and decimated the police in its policy of de-Ba'athification of Iraqi society. Inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji is a mid-level Iraqi cop who deserted his post back in April. Nabbed by the Americans and imprisoned in Abu Ghraib, Khafaji

is offered one way out: work to rebuild the Iraqi Police Service.

Robin Cook Cell

George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable

personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing.

Josephine Cox The runaway woman

Lucy Lovejoy married her childhood sweetheart at 16, but since then she's lost a little more of herself with each passing year. With her 40th birthday approaching, Lucy discovers that her good-for-nothing husband is having an affair with her sister, Sitting on a bench one day, she looks back at her life, and feels like she's done nothing with

it. So, mustering up all of her courage, she decides to leave her family and home.


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Richard Curtis About time

Blu-ray. The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim’s father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can’t change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life, so he decides to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend. But as his

unusual life progresses, Tim discovers that, in the end, making the most of life may not need time travel at all.

Guy Cuthbertson Wilfred Owen

In this new biography Guy Cuthbertson provides a fresh account of Owen's life and formative influences: the lower-middle-class childhood that he tried to escape; the places he lived in, from Birkenhead to Bordeaux; his class anxieties and his religious doubts; his sexuality and friendships; his close relationship with his mother and his

childlike personality.

Fred D’Aguiar Children of paradise

An accident brings a young girl to the attention of the Preacher, the all-powerful leader of a religious cult secluded in the jungle. Trina has only dim memories of the life she lived with her mother before they joined the community and the closed, close society is all she knows. When she is singled out for special favour, it becomes clear that the

gaze of the Preacher can be a dangerous thing.

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Craig Davidson Cataract City

Cataract City, a dead-end border town overlooking Niagara Falls. Owen Stuckey and Duncan Diggs are fast friends as kids but as they grow into young men, they begin to drift apart. As Duncan becomes increasingly desperate to escape, he finds himself at the opposite end of the law to Owen.

Jill Dawson The tell-tale heart

Patrick, a 50-year-old professor of American Studies, drinker and womaniser, has been given six months to live. In a rural part of Cambridgeshire, a teenager dies in a motorcycle accident. When his heart is transplanted into Patrick's chest, the lives of two strangers are forever conjoined.

Alain de Botton The news

Alain de Botton explores our relationship with 'the news' in this book full of his trademark wit and wisdom. Following on from his bestselling 'Religion for Atheists', Alain de Botton turns now to look at the manic and peculiar positions that 'the news' occupies in our lives. We invest it with an authority and importance which used to be the preserve of

religion - but what does it do for us?


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Robert Dinsdale Gingerbread

In the depths of winter in the land of Belarus, where ancient forests straddle modern country borders, an orphaned boy and his grandfather go to scatter his mother's ashes in the woodlands. Her last request to rest where she grew up will be fulfilled.

Clare Dowling A special delivery

Aisling Brady is miserable. So is her husband Mossy. The three kids are too. Yet nobody dares say a thing. Instead, the Bradys keep their heads down and grimly look forward to another miserable Christmas in Dublin. What Aisling doesn't know is that - this year - they will get the most unexpected gift of all. One that will bring joy

and heartbreak, hope and a string of sleepless nights. As their world is turned upside down, questions have to be asked. But are the Bradys ready to face the truth about themselves?

John Dufresne No regrets, Coyote

It's Christmas Eve in Eden, Florida, and Wylie 'Coyote' Melville, professional therapist and hobbyist forensic consultant, is called to the scene of a horrific crime at a quiet suburban address. Wylie has enough on his plate as it is - his father is slipping deeper into the clutches of Alzheimer's, his new kitten Django is wreaking havoc with the

soft furnishings and a homeless man has taken up residence on his front lawn.

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Geoff Dyer The contest of the century

By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the world stage, challenging America's recent supremacy. This is not another book about

China's economic rise: this is instead about what comes next.

Nicholas Epley Mindwise

Arguably our brain's greatest sense is the ability to understand the minds of others - our sixth sense. In 'Seeing Human', renowned psychologist Nicholas Epley shows that this incredible capacity for inferring what others are thinking and feeling is, however sophisticated, still prone to critical errors. We often misread social situations, misjudge others' characters, or guess the wrong

motives for their actions.

Irving Finkel The ark before Noah

British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth


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Stewart Foster We used to be kings

Six years ago Tom's brother died. The next day he came back. For the past three years they've been in a care home for troubled children, a place where Dr Smith tries to silence the voice of Jack in Tom's head. But Tom doesn't want that. He's already lost his brother once, he's not going to lose him again. And so, when they go in front of

the review board, they will have to pretend Jack has gone so they won't be sent to the Young Men's Institution.

Adam Foulds In the wolf’s mouth

Set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of the last war, 'In the Wolf's Mouth' follows the Allies' botched 'liberation' attempts as they chase the Germans north towards the Italian mainland. Focusing on the campaigns of two young soldiers, the novel addresses the brutish, blundering inaccuracy of war.

Lisa Gardner Fear nothing

All Boston Detective D.D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene. Now D.D. is seriously injured and unable to return to work. Then a second victim is found with the same calling cards left at the scene: champagne and a single red rose. Only D.D. may have seen the killer, but she recalls nothing from the night that may have cost

her everything.

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Robert Glancy Terms and conditions

Frank has been in a car accident. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank believes he has lost more. He is missing memories - of those around him, of the history they share and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he is a lawyer who specialises in small print. But the picture that emerges, of his marriage, his

family and the career he has devoted years to, is not necessarily a pretty one.

Adrian Gilbert Challenge of battle

Based on years of research by best-selling historian Adrian Gilbert, this is a magisterial account of the British Army at war in 1914.

Janet Gleeson The lifeboat baronet

Death from shipwreck was a tragic reality of life in the early 19th century. Exiled on the Isle of Man, Sir William Hillary, handsome, charismatic and adventurous, decided to atone for his chequered past and do something to prevent it. His journey from regency rake to national hero led him to leave his slave-owning family in Liverpool, travel

abroad, mingle with royalty, marry an heriess and, during the Napoleonic War, head the largest volunteer army in Britain.


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Bill Granger Bill’s Italian food

Divided into themed chapters - from quick and easy suppers and deliciously stress-free meals for friends, to no-fuss oven-baked comfort food, lazy weekend food and big Italian-style get-togethers – this book by bestselling TV cook Bill Granger brings fresh ideas to your kitchen.

Paul Greengrass Captgain Phillips

Blu-ray. The Maersk Alabama became the first US cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years when heavily armed Somalis boarded the vessel on the 8th of April 2009. As commander of the ship, Captain Richard Phillips Tom (Hanks) inevitably found himself at the heart of events. Held hostage by the pirates under the command of

Muse (Barkhad Abdi), Phillips attempts to protect both his crew and ship to the best of his ability. However, he gradually comes to realise that they have a story, too.

Elly Griffiths The outcast dead

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle. She believes the body may be that of infamous Victorian murderess Jemima Green. Called Mother Hook for her claw-like hand, Jemima was hanged in 1867 for the murder of five children in her care. DCI Harry Nelson has no time

for long-dead killers. Immersed in the case of three infants found dead, one after the other, in their King's Lynn home, he's convinced that a family member is responsible,

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David Grossman Falling out of time

The story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. In a small village a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son. The man - called simply the 'Walking Man' - paces in ever-widening circles around the town.

Mireille Guiliano French women don’t get facelifts

In the natural sequel to her international bestseller French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano tackles the delicate subject of ageing, showing how women of forty and beyond can 'attack' the upcoming decades with attitude and style.

Trine Hahnemann The Scandinavian cookbook

Trine Hahnemann presents an insight into a food culture that is both traditional and ultra-modern, with a collection of 100 recipes representing the essence of Scandinavian cooking.


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The Hairy Bikers’ Asian adventure

This TV tie-in cookbook to 'The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure' BBC series, airing in 2014, follows the boys' travels through Thailand, Korea, Japan and Vietnam to put together their favourite Asian dishes. Journeying through the spice plantations, cardamom hills, buzzing street stalls, rice paddies and abundant coastlines of the great

eastern continent, Si and Dave find the most exciting authentic recipes for you to cook at home.

M.R. Hall The burning

In the icy, languid days following Christmas, a dense fog has settled over the Wye Valley. Local Coroner Jenny Cooper, still reeling after being abandoned by her partner for the festivities, is called to the scene of a dreadful tragedy: a house has been burned to the ground, revealing its terrible secrets. Before the fire began, a man, Ed

Morgan, shot his two stepdaughters dead, before turning the gun on himself. His infant son is still missing.

Joanne Harris The gospel of Loki

With his notorious reputation for trickery and deception, and an ability to cause as many problems as he solves, Loki is a Norse god like no other. While Loki is planning the downfall of Asgard and the humiliation of his tormentors, greater powers are conspiring against the gods and a battle is brewing that will change the fate of

the worlds.

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James Hawes Englanders and Huns

If Britain had stayed out of the Great European War of 1914, whose general line up (France and Russia v. Germany and Austria) and whose obvious flashpoint (the Balkans) had been clear to thinking men since 1879, Britain's history really would have ended, and not in tears.

Mandasue Heller Respect

Chantelle is a good student who only wants to pass her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew up. But now her feckless mother has taken off for Spain and she's single-handedly raising her tearaway nine-year-old brother Leon. But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have given him a mobile phone, a knife - and some drugs to hide in her flat.

David Hewson The killing III

Detective Inspector for homicide Sarah Lund is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random killing at the docks is the beginning of an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Troels Hartmann


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Matt Hilton The lawless kind

Ex-counterterrorist soldier Joe Hunter has been called to Mexico to bring an end to a cartel that preys on the people they smuggle across the US border. Once the mission's ended, however, Joe's mission leader and mentor, CIA Black Ops director Walter Hayes Conrad, confesses that the bloody mission is not the real reason Joe has

been summoned south of the border.

Wendy Holden Haatchi and Little B

On a bitterly cold night in January 2012, Haatchi the dog was hit over the head and abandoned on a railway line to be hit by a train. The driver saw the adorable five-month old Anatolian Shepherd moments too late. Somehow, the terrified puppy survived. A Facebook appeal brought him to the attention of a couple of kind-hearted dog lovers,

Colleen Drummond and Will Howkins, who are also the dad and stepmum of Owen.

David Hosp Game of death

Imagine being able to create and experience your deepest dreams and your darkest fantasies. Boston entrepreneur and techno whizz-kid Nick Caldwell, with the help of his long-time friend and colleague Yvette, has devised a programme where people can do just that all from the safety and comfort of their home. NextLife is an exciting young company which promises its subscribers

the chance to experience anything they want.

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Jonathan Kellerman Killer

Psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware is in the cross-hairs of a vengeful killer after a baby goes missing.

Simon Kernick Stay alive

It's a sunny afternoon, and you're deep in the country on a river trip with your family. You're nearing journey's end when a shot rings out - and your whole life changes in an instant. A woman is coming towards you, chased by three gunmen. It's clear she's in terrible danger. And now you are too. Because, although you don't know it, she

harbours a deadly secret.

John Lee How to make a million slowly

Well known private investor, journalist and politician John Lee, shares invaluable investing lessons with this authoritative how-to guide that is based on tried and tested methods.


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Judith Lennox One last dance

As the twentieth century draws to a close, Esme Reddaway knows that she must uncover the truth. A truth that began during the First World War when Devlin Reddaway fell passionately in love with Esme's elder sister, Camilla, and promised to rebuild his ancestral home, Rosindell, for her.

Luana Lewis Don’t stand so close

Stella has been cocooned in her home for three years. Severely agoraphobic, she knows she is safe in the stark, isolated house she shares with her husband, Max. The traumatic memories of her final case as a psychologist are that much easier to keep at a distance, too. But the night that Blue arrives on her doorstep with her

frightened eyes and sad stories, Stella's carefully controlled world begins to unravel around her.

Rory MacLean Berlin : imagine a city Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centres

of the world. Rory MacLean provides a richly varied, unexpected tour of the city's history.

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Sally Magnusson Where memories go

Sally Magnusson cared with her two sisters for her mother, Mamie, during her long struggle with dementia, until her death in 2012. This moving and honest account of losing a loved one day by day to an insidious disease is both deeply personal and a challenging call to arms.

Jill Mansell The unpredictable consequences of love

When Josh Strachan, newly returned to his home in north Cornwall from sunny California, first meets Sophie Wells, he's immediately smitten. Sophie's pretty, she's funny, she has lots of friends and she clearly loves her job as a photographer, despite the sometimes tricky clients. There's just one problem:

Sophie has very firmly turned her back on love. And no one - even Sophie's scatty best friend Tula - will tell him why. Josh is sure Sophie likes him, though, and he's just got to find out what's put her off romance.

Yaron Matras I met lucky people

Our images of 'Gypsies' are shaped by books, film, and often fantasy. Occasionally we hear news reports about the suspicions and tensions that surround encounters between Gypsies and their neighbours. Few of us have had an opportunity to get to know more about the culture, the history, and the aspirations of the Romani people.


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Armistead Maupin The days of Anna Madrigal

The ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's 'Tales of the City' series follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters - Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane - as she embarks on a road trip that takes her deep into her past.

Adrian McKinty In the morning I’ll be gone

When MI5 come knocking, Sean Duffy knows exactly what they want, and what he'll want in return, but he hasn't got the first idea how to get it. Of course he's heard about the spectacular escape of IRA man Dermot McCann from Her Majesty's Maze Prison. And he knew, with chilly certainty, that their paths would cross. But finding

Dermot leads Sean to an old locked room mystery, and into the kind of danger where you can lose as easily as win.

Jack Monroe A girl called Jack

Jack is a cash-strapped single mum living in Southend. When she found herself with a shopping budget of just 10 a week to feed herself and her young son, she addressed the situation with immense resourcefulness, creativity and by embracing her local supermarket's 'basics' range. Learn with Jack Monroe's 'A Girl Called Jack' how

to save money on your weekly shop whilst being less wasteful and creating inexpensive, tasty food.

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Annie Murray Meet me under the clock

Growing up in Birmingham, Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When the Second World War breaks out, Sylvia is still dreaming of her forthcoming marriage to fiance Ian while Audrey jumps at the career opportunities the WAAF throws her way. Audrey joins the ranks at RAF Cardington but

soon finds that her new freedom also brings temptation

William Nicholson Reckless

1945. The Second World War has gone on too long. Shops are closed 'for the duration'. Trains run a restricted service 'for the duration'. Life has paused, for the duration. A little girl, Pamela, is growing up fast. A young Englishman, Rupert Blundell, vows there'll be no more wars. Both are waiting for their lives to begin. Then comes

Hiroshima.

Margie Orford Water music

A terrified, frozen child is found close to death on an icy Cape Town mountainside. No-one reported her missing, where does she come from? Who does she belong to? Dr Clare Hart is baffled - and then another young woman disappears, and a frightening pattern begins to emerge. Rosa is a gifted but troubled young cellist, and her

grandfather is at his wits end. Why did she walk out of her music school that day? Where has she gone now? As winter tightens its grip, Clare must find Rosa and unravel the secrets of these two cases.


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Helen Oyeyemi Boy, snow, bird

'Boy, Snow, Bird' is a deeply moving novel about three women and the strange connection between them. It confirms Helen Oyeyemi's place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of her generation.

David Park The poets’ wives

What does it mean to be a poet's wife, his muse and lover, there for the heights of inspiration and the quotidian of the day-to-day, and often, too, the drudgery of being in a supporting role to 'the great man'? In this novel, David Park explores this complicated relationship, through three luminous characters.

Adele Parks Spare brides

New Year's Eve, 1920: the Great War is over, and a new decade of glamour beckons. But, for a generation of women who survived the trauma of war, life will never be the same. With countless men lost, it seems that only wealth and beauty will secure a husband from the few who returned, but lonely Beatrice has neither attribute.

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Brian Payton The wind is not a river

In the bloody turmoil of war, John Easley, a journalist mourning his lost brother, is driven to expose a hidden and growing conflict: the Japanese invasion and occupation of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. But when his plane is shot down he must either surrender or struggle to survive in a harsh wilderness. Three thousand miles to the

south, Helen Easley cannot accept her husband's disappearance - an absence that exposes her sheltered, untested life.

Tim Pears In the light of morning

It is May 1944, and in Eastern Europe the Second World War is reaching a dramatic and bloody crescendo. High above the mountains of occupied Slovenia, an aeroplane drops three British parachutists - brash MP Major Jack Farwell, radio operator Sid Dixon and young academic Lieutenant Tom Freedman - to assist the

resistance in their battle against the Axis forces.

Zoe Pilger Eat my heart out

Ann-Marie is 23, her life has collapsed, and she's blaming everyone but herself. Heartbroken, skint and furious, she's convinced that love - sweet love! - is the answer to all of her problems, until she meets legendary feminist Stephanie Haight, a woman who could be her saviour - or her final undoing.


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David Pilling Bending adversity

'Bending adversity' provides a fresh and surprising portrait of Japan and the Japanese. Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one of the world's largest economies and a country which exerts a remarkable cultural fascination. David Pilling's book is an entertaining, deeply knowledgeable analysis of a group of islands which have shown great resilience.

Matthew Reilly The tournament

England, 1546. A young Princess Elizabeth is surrounded by uncertainty. The Black Death stalks the land and with it deadly conspiracies against her. She is not currently in line for the throne, but she remains a threat to her older sister and brother. In the midst of this fevered atmosphere comes an unprecedented invitation

from the Sultan in Constantinople. He seeks to assemble the finest players of chess from the whole civilised world and pit them against each other.

Anthony Riches The emperor’s knives

In 'The Empire's Knives', the action moves to Rome itself for the seventh novel in the 'Empire' sequence.

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J.D. Robb Concealed in death

There is nothing unusual about billionaire Roarke supervising work on his new property - but when he takes a ceremonial swing at the first wall to be knocked down, he uncovers the body of a girl. In fact, 12 dead girls concealed behind a false wall. Luckily for Roarke, he is married to the best police lieutenant in town.

James Scott The kept

In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Elspeth Howell returns home to find her family brutally murdered. The only survivor is her 12-year-old son who witnessed it all. Wounded, frightened and with retribution in their hearts, mother and son set out into the frozen wilderness

to track down the red-scarfed men who killed their loved ones in cold blood. Their journey leads them to a rough-hewn settlement on the edge of ice-filled Lake Erie, a merciless place where violence abounds.

Tom Rob Smith The farm

Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes.


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Hazel Soan’s Watercolour rainbow

'Watercolour rainbow' is an inspiring yet practical book on colour. Hazel Soan sets out to encourage and inspire all watercolour artists to make really radiant and colourful paintings. She takes each main colour in the palette in turn - chapter by chapter - and shows how to use the pigments to their maximum effect with lots of practical hints and

tips throughout, as well as projects in focused detail.

John Sutherland Jumbo

Jumbo, Victorian England's favourite elephant, was born in 1861 in French Sudan, imported to a Parisian zoo and later sold on to London, where – for seventeen years – he dutifully gave children rides and ate buns from their hands, all the while being tortured at night to keep him docile.

Peter Swanson The girl with a clock for a heart

George Foss never thought he'd see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar. When George first met her, she was an 18-year-old college freshman She and George became, so George was devastated when he got the news that she had committed suicide over

Christmas break. But, as he stood in the living room of the girl's grieving parents, he realised the girl in the photo on their mantelpiece was someone else.

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Barbara Taylor The last asylum

'The Last Asylum' begins with Barbara Taylor's visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London - a picture of luxury and repose. But this is the former site of one of England's most infamous lunatic asylums, the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients -

among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself.

Jane Thynne The winter garden

Clara Vine is now deeply entrenched in the secret services in pre-war Berlin. Trusted for her good work and quick thinking she is asked to go deeper undercover. This time she finds herself in a Nazi Bride School, where innocent young German women are schooled on the art of being a wife - and their future husbands are top ranking Nazis.


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Robert Wainwright Sheila

Born on an Australian sheep station, Sheila Chisholm wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, and died a Russian princess. A person unknown to most, Sheila is a spellbinding account of an utterly fascinating woman.

John Wilcox Bayonets along the border

North West India, July 1897. Simon and Alice Fonthill are travelling with their old friend Jenkins to Marden, India for an anniversary party with the Guides Corps. But when they are ambushed on their journey, they realise that the land may not be as peaceful as they first believed.

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Toby Wilkinson The Nile

Egypt is the most populous country in the world's most unstable region. It is the key to Middle East peace, the voice of the Arab world and the crossroads between Europe and Africa. Its historical and strategic importance is unparalleled. In short, Egypt matters. And the key to Egypt - its colourful past, chaotic present and uncertain future

- is the Nile.

Robert Wilson You will never find me

Charlie Boxer messed up his family life. Trying to rebuild a relationship with Amy, his teenage daughter, hasn't been easy. But Charlie only realises just how wrong things have gone when he finds her empty room and a note: you will never find me.


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Naomi Wood Mrs. Hemingway

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley s best friend. She is also Ernest Hemnigway’s lover. Hadley is the first Mrs.

Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, Ernest's literary career will blaze a trail, but his marriages will be ignited by passion and deceit.

Jennifer Worth Letters to the midwife

When the books in the 'Call the Midwife' series became bestsellers, Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described. This book features some of the fascinating letters she received, including letters about becoming a missionary and the

curious list of things she would need.

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