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INDEX • January 2014 Large Print titles 4-10 • February 2014 Large Print titles 10-20 • March 2014 Large Print titles 20-26

Dear Librarian,

As Clipper Large Print goes from strength-to-strength, we begin 2014 with some of the biggest names in crime fiction. David Baldacci, a thriller writer at the top of his game,returns with The Hit, the second novel in his Will Robie, master assassin, series. Shortlisted for the Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award, Solo by William Boyd isa brand new James Bond Novel. It’s 1969 and Bond is about to go it alone, recklessly motivated by revenge…The Cuckoo’s Calling is a remarkable, elegant mystery steeped inthe atmosphere of London. It’s also the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Stormbird is the first book in a new series from bestselling historical fiction author Conn Iggulden. Set during the Wars of the Roses, he brings this extraordinary period of Britishhistory dramatically to life. In Doctor Sleep, Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining. ‘This is the master on topform, drawing his readers in with his amazing storytelling power’ DAILY MAIL

Alongside these, we have Iain Banks’ momentous first novel, The Wasp Factory and The Discourtesy of Death, William Brodrick’s fifth novel in his Father Anslem series, willnot fail to entertain, while Costa First Novel Award nominated Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera and Costa Biography Award nominated Hannns and Rudolf by ThomasHarding, ensure that there’s something for every reader.

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With best wishes for the New Year,

The Editor

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The Wasp Factory Iain Banks978 1 47125 072 9 – 272pp

Wars of the Roses: Stormbird Conn Iggulden978 1 47125 064 4 – 608pp

The Cuckoo’s Calling Robert Galbraith978 1 47125 065 1 – 672pp

Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private worldof Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say theleast…

Frank lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village.Frank’s mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brotherEric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measuresout his eccentricities on an imperial scale.Iain Banks’ celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality,imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it entersa mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life anddeath are alien to our society; and compulsive, because the humourand compassion of that mind reach out to us all.

‘A Gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality...macabre, bizarre and...quite impossible to put down’

FINANCIAL TIMES

‘One of the most brilliant first novels I have comeacross’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

The master of historical fiction, Conn Iggulden, retells thegripping story of the English civil war in his new Wars ofthe Roses series

King Henry V - the great Lion of England - is long dead. In 1437the pious and gentle Henry VI, the Lamb, comes of age and

accedes to the throne but his poor health and frailty of mindrender him a weakling king. With England’s territories in Franceunder threat, and rumours of revolt at home, fears grow thatHenry and his advisers will see the country slide into ruin.As storm clouds gather over England, King Henry and hissupporters find themselves besieged abroad and at home. Who,or what, can save the kingdom before it is too late?

The Wars of the Roses series will be a benchmark forhistorical fiction, showcasing Conn Iggulden at his finest.

Praise for the author:‘This is energetic, competent stuff; Iggulden knows hismaterial and his audience’ INDEPENDENT

‘Iggulden is in a class of his own when it comes to epic,historical fiction’ DAILY MIRROR

Published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith,international best seller J. K. Rowling stunned the worldwith her debut crime novel

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has

committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, andcalls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case.Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically andpsychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him afinancial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more hedelves into the young model’s complex world, the darker thingsget - and the closer he gets to terrible danger…

‘The Cuckoo’s Calling reminds me why I fell in love withcrime fiction in the first place’ VAL McDERMID

‘Her crime debut beguilingly shows that she canrenounce magic and yet be magical’ SUNDAY TIMES

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The Victory Cynthia Harrod-Eagles978 1 47125 066 8 – 672pp

The Darkening Hour Penny Hancock978 1 47125 071 2 – 480pp

Screwed Eoin Colfer978 1 47125 080 4 – 384pp

The tense and darkly atmospheric new psychological thrillerfrom the author of award-winning Tideline

Amiddle class woman at her wits’ end and a struggling migrantworker with few options for survival. When tensions boil

over, who will be the first to snap? Will it be Theodora, finallybreaking under the pressure? Or Mona, desperate to find a wayout?

Two women. Two stories. Who do you believe?

‘Beautifully worked and with a sharp eye for themenace in the commonplace’ DAILY MAIL

‘Brilliantly written and totally gripping. I loved it’S J WATSON

Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels, turns hisoutstanding talent to a world as criminally funny as it isdark and compelling.

Ex-army sergeant Daniel McEvoy is ready to say goodbye toNew New Jersey’s lawless underworld and concentrate onhis new life as club owner and bona fide boyfriend. But when he’sabducted and driven into the Hudson by a vengeful crime boss,he realises that the New Jersey underworld isn’t ready to saygoodbye to him.

If Dan is to survive, he will have to evade bad guys onboth sides of the law and find his missing aunt...

From the winner of the RNA Novel of the Year Awardcomes the thrilling twelfth installment in The MorlandDynasty series

1803: Napoleon is poised to invade England, with only Nelson’sweather-beaten ships in his way, but the French fleet are not theonly threat to the fortunes of the Morland family. From thefashionable salons of Beau Brummell’s London to the shot-torndocks at Trafalgar, the Morlands face danger and personal tragedy,as well as love and fulfilment.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ first novel won the YoungWriter’s Award in 1972 and she's been writing novelsever since.

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Black Bear Aly Monroe978 1 47125 081 1 – 512pp

Something in Common Roisin Meaney978 1 47125 069 9 – 608pp

Sacrifice Max Kinnings978 1 47125 070 5 – 480pp

They shouldn’t have fitted together. Yet somehow they did.

Our lives are defined by other people. Some are with us fromthe start: parents, siblings, childhood friends. Others find us

later: work colleagues, lovers. But occasionally there are peoplewhose paths cross ours in unexpected ways - people who aredestined to change our lives profoundly. One rainy afternoon twovery different women meet, and through a twist of fate, Helen andSarah become unlikely friends. This is the story of their friendship- from its traumatic beginning to its most unforeseen end.

‘A lovely and absorbing book by a novelist who has agift for conveying the charm of the ordinary’

IRISH INDEPENDENT

‘A book to bring some sunshine into your life’WOMAN’S WAY

Max Kinnings’ second novel featuring Ed Mallory, a blindhostage negotiator, is a high tension, fast paced thrillerthat will keep you gripped until the very end

London, Christmas Morning. 09:13am. Disgraced hedge fundmanager Graham Poynter hides shamefully in his Belgraviamansion.10:16am. A masked intruder stands over Poynter and his terrifiedfamily, while the last remaining security guard hangs impaled on arailing spike outside the house.10:38am. Surrounding the scene are police helicopters, specialforces teams, and Ed Mallory who must stop this twistedretribution.

‘A tense blockbuster with worryingly crediblecharacters’ THE TIMES on Baptism

‘This thriller has more twists than a bagful of snakes -and as much bite ... A must read’

PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH on Baptism

‘Confirms Aly Monroe’s genius for creating tension’DAILY TELEGRAPH

Sent to Manhattan as part of the British effort to buildintelligence into the new United Nations Organisation ‘fromthe foundations up’, Agent Peter Cotton wakes up in the OgdenClinic on East 76th Street, a private facility reserved for veryspecial patients and veterans.He is told he was found badly bruised, slumped in a doorway,and that he had been injected with at least three ‘truth-drugs’. Heis lucky to be alive.Unable to be certain what is real and what hallucinatory, Cottonmust piece together what has happened to him, but what hediscovers is even more unsettling. His biggest uncertainty? Whyhe has been allowed to live.

‘Riveting stuff’ THE TIMES

‘Monroe is terrific at evoking this world’ GUARDIAN


The Tower Simon Toyne978 1 47125 067 5 – 640pp

The City of Shadows Michael Russell978 1 47125 068 2 – 560pp

The Second Life of Amy Archer R S Pateman978 1 47125 073 6 – 432pp

A missing woman. Two mysterious murders. A cityshrouded in secrets.

Dublin 1934: Detective Stefan Gillespie arrests a Germandoctor and encounters Hannah Rosen desperate to find her

friend Susan, a Jewish woman who had become involved with apriest, and has now disappeared.When the bodies of a man and woman are found buried in theDublin mountains, it becomes clear that this case is about morethan a missing person. Stefan and Hannah trace the evidence allthe way across Europe to Danzig.In this strange city where the Nazi Party are gaining power, Stefanand Hannah are inching closer to the truth and soon findthemselves in grave danger…

‘This debut novel is a superb, atmospheric thriller…highly recommended’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

Ten years ago she disappeared without a trace...now she’sback.

On 31st December 1999, ten-year-old Amy Archer wentmissing from her local playground. Her body was never

found and the lives of her parents, Beth and Brian, were torn apart.On the tenth anniversary of the disappearance, Beth is alone, stillstruggling with the enormity of her grief and the horror of notknowing the fate of her only child. But the fear and confusion haveonly just begun, and Beth’s world is turned upside down when astranger knocks on her door, claiming to know what happenedto Amy.Beth is introduced to a little girl who is the uncanny double of hermissing daughter, who knows things that only Amy wouldremember; the name of her favourite toy, the place where shescratched her initials, what Beth likes for breakfast. But this can’tbe Amy, she hasn’t aged a day...

‘A gripping and well-written tale’ LITERARY REVIEW

The final instalment in the bestselling conspiracy thrillertrilogy by Simon Toyne

The forbidden Citadel at the heart of the ancient Turkish cityof Ruin opens its gates for the first time in history. Why now,

after centuries of secrecy?A deadly disease has erupted within, and threatens to spreadbeyond its walls. Infected charity worker Gabriel Mann may holdthe cure – but can one dying man stop an epidemic?This much is clear: something big is coming. Something that willchange everything. But will it be a new beginning or the End ofDays?

‘Intriguing and engaging… Relentless pace. An excitingand interesting read.’ THE SUN on Sanctus

‘A fast moving, thoroughly enjoyable, adventure… Thesort of novel to devour in one sitting’

KATE MOSSE on Sanctus

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Confessions of an Air Ambulance Doctor Dr Tony Bleetman978 1 47125 075 0 –336pp

The Reluctant Bride Beverley Eikli978 1 47125 077 4 – 448pp

Close to the Wind Zana Bell978 1 47125 082 8 – 400pp

Can honour and action banish the shadows of old sins?

Emily Micklen has no option after the death of her loving fiancé,Jack, but to marry the scarred, taciturn, soldier whorepresents her only escape from destitution. Major AngusMcCartney is tormented by the reproachful slate-grey eyes of thestrikingly similar women: Jessamine, his dead mistress, and Emily,the unobtainable beauty who is now his reluctant bride. Emily’sloyalty to Jack’s memory is matched only by Angus’sdetermination to win his wife with honour and action.

Angus and Emily may find love, but will the pastsecrets they uncover divide them forever?

‘We are not going any further until you tell me why yetanother fiancé seems intent on wringing your neck.’

Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawingrooms she’s used to, into a world of danger when she

escapes her fiendish fiancé to engage in a mad dash across theworld to save her brother, before an unknown assassin can findhim. Meanwhile, Captain Harry Trent is setting sail for NewZealand. Thrown together, unable to trust anyone, Georgianaand Harry are intent on fulfilling their missions despite thedistractions of the other.

But liberty comes at a price and the closer they get, the morethey must question the true cost of being free.

Masquerades, deceptions and subterfuge in thisexciting historical romance from Zana Bell

A dramatic account of the highs and lows of anemergency air ambulance doctor

Confessions of an Air Ambulance Doctor is the first ever behind-the-scenes account of life onboard an air ambulance. Drug

addicts, lorry crashes, open-heart surgery, stab wounds, headlesschickens, mating llamas, and strip routines - it’s all in a day’s workfor emergency doctor Tony Bleetman and his team.Whether they are landing in the middle of the M1 or at amaximum security jail, Tony and his crew Helimed 999 are thefirst on the scene in the most critical of emergencies.

This gripping read will make you laugh, cry and marvelat the wonders of life (and death) in equal measure.


Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe978 1 47125 079 8 – 480pp

Restaurant Babylon Imogen Edwards-Jones &Anonymous 978 1 47125 076 7 – 336p

Jessi-Cat Jayne Dillon978 1 47125 074 3 – 208pp

The saucy secrets of the world’s finest kitchens

What makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need todrop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the

next nine months, while somewhere equally delicious is as emptyand inhospitable as the Gobi desert?In Restaurant Babylon, Imogen Edwards-Jones and heranonymous industry insider lift the lid on all the tricks of the foodtrade and what really makes this £90 billion a year industry tick.So please do sit down, pour yourself some heavily marked-upwine and make yourself comfortable (although we’ll need thattable back by 8.30 sharp).

‘Shocking and at times jaw-dropping, this is a must-read’HEAT

‘A gloriously behind-the-scenes account of London'sdebauched hospitality business’ OBSERVER

The inspiring story of Jessi-cat, named Best Friend andNational Cat of the Year 2012 by the Cats ProtectionAwards

Lorcan was seven years old when his mother first heard himsay ‘I love you’. The words were not directed at her, but atJessi-cat, the family pet. Lorcan suffers from autism and selectivemutism, rendering him unable to speak in certain situations. Thisall began to change with the arrival of a kitten named Jessi-cat.Jessi-cat is the stirring tale of how the affection and attention of aconstant loving companion allowed a little boy to start to connectto the world around him.

‘A selectively mute boy’s extraordinary bond with thefamily cat has inspired his mother to tell their story’

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

“I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.”

Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders isforced to make her own way in life. She duly embarks on a

career that includes husband-hunting, incest, bigamy, prostitutionand pick-pocketing, until her crimes eventually catch up with her.One of the earliest and most vivid female narrators in the historyof the English novel, Moll recounts her adventures with irresistiblewit and candour – and enough guile that the reader is leftuncertain whether she is ultimately a redeemed sinner or asuccessful opportunist.

‘Still fresh, centuries on’ FREYA NORTH

‘Bold, beautiful and brilliantly resourceful, Moll wasideally qualified to be the heroine of one of the firstEnglish novels’ GUARDIAN

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Solo William Boyd978 1 47125 411 6 – 384pp

The Hit David Baldacci978 1 47125 412 3 – 560pp

Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne978 1 47125 078 1 – 336pp

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they aremistakes which it is useful to make, because they leadlittle by little to the truth.”

The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to jointhe intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his

companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they traveldown a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland, on a journey whichwill lead them to the centre of the earth. Along the way theyencounter various hazards and witness many incredible sightssuch as the underground forest, illuminated by electricity, theGreat Geyser, the battle between prehistoric monsters, thestrange whispering gallery, giant insects and the vast subterraneansea with its ferocious whirlpool.

Although published in the nineteenth century, Journeyto the Centre of the Earth has lost none of its powerand potency to excite and engage the modern reader.It is supreme escapist entertainment for all ages.

‘The prose of Boyd is frankly superior to that of Fleming...A bloody good thriller. A triumph.’ OBSERVER

It’s 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, JamesBond – British special agent 007 – is summoned toheadquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, atroubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war,and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening theestablished regime.Moving from rebel battlefields in West Africa to the closed doorsof intelligence offices in London and Washington, this novel is atonce a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted story, and a masterfulstudy of power and how it is wielded – a brilliant addition to theJames Bond canon.

‘A formidable literary achievement... It succeedswonderfully.’ DAILY MAIL

‘A terrific twisting thriller... A tremendous Bond story.’SUNDAY TIMES

‘The page-turner of the season’ THE TIMES

When government hit man Will Robie is given his next targethe knows he’s about to embark on his toughest mission

yet. He is tasked with killing one of their own, after evidencesuggests that fellow assassin Jessica Reel has been turned. She’sleaving a trail of death in her wake, including her handler. The trapis set: send a killer to catch a killer. But what happens when youcan’t trust those who have access to the nation’s most secretintelligence?

‘Baldacci inhabits the skin of his creations - tripping usup with unexpected empathy and subtle identification’

SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘One of the world’s biggest-selling thriller writers,Baldacci needs no introduction ... Brilliant plotting,heart-grabbing action and characters to die for.’

DAILY MAIL


The Swedish Girl Alex Gray978 1 47125 422 2 – 464pp

The Soldier’s Bride Maggie Ford978 1 47125 414 7 – 528pp

The Woman Who Walked into the SeaMark Douglas-Home 978 1 47125416 1 – 432pp

A warm and heartwarming saga set in World War One,perfect for fans of Katie Flynn

Letty Bancroft longs to be married but her father has otherideas - he wants his daughter to stay at home and help runhis East End shop.Heartbroken, Letty must remain unwed while her sweetheartgoes off to fight in France. But her love affair has hadconsequences that will see her more determined than ever to bea soldier’s bride...

‘A natural storyteller’ RUTH RENDELL

‘Pacy ... Believable ... Its authentic tone has you hooked’SOUTHEND EVENING ECHO

The second Sea Detective mystery, from crime author MarkDouglas-Home

Ayoung woman stands on a remote beach in North WestScotland, gazing out to sea. Watching her is Cal McGill, the

Sea Detective, an oceanographer with a reputation for solvingcrimes by tracking human bodies. Soon Cal is helping her unravelthe events of twenty-six years ago when a different womanwalked across this sweep of sand and into the waves, apparentlydrowning herself and her unborn child. As McGill questions theofficial history, he’s forced to confront his personal demons as wellas the jealousies and tensions of a divided coastal community,determined to keep its secrets buried.

‘This is a classic whodunnit.’ THE SCOTSMAN

‘Elegantly written and compelling, it introduces a new,thoroughly modern hero into the crime-fighting canon.’

THE HERALD

‘Gray is the new master of Scottish crime writing.’SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS

Eighteen-year-old Kirsty Wilson can’t believe her luck whenshe lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by thebeautiful Eva Magnusson. But her initial delight turns to terrorwhen Kirsty finds Eva lying dead in their home and their maleflatmate accused of her murder. Kirsty refuses to accept that he isguilty and sets out to clear his name.But it is not long until another woman is brutally murdered.Horrified, the police realise that Kirsty could be right. Is it possiblethat they've put the wrong man behind bars?

‘Brings Glasgow to life the same way Ian Rankin evokesEdinburgh’ DAILY MAIL

The ninth instalment in this thrilling series from TheMedieval Murderers uncovers and attempts to solve age-old mysteries

AD 848. Bernwyn of Lythe spurns marriage and chooses toremain a virgin, dedicated to Christ. When she is found

murdered in a chapel, butterflies found resting on her body aretaken to be a sign from God. But what if Bernwyn was not all sheseemed? Could her saintly deeds have been mistakenly attributedto her, and the people have set up a shrine to a false virgin?

‘With the combined imaginations of Bernard Knight…Susanna Gregory, Ian Morson, and Philip Gooden, thisis a thoroughly enjoyable read’

DAILY MAIL on The Sacred Stone

‘The various excellent crime writers each weave aclever and inventive tale around a central theme’

GOOD BOOK GUIDE on King Arthur’s Bones

A gripping forensic thriller featuring investigator ReillySteel, from the bestselling husband and wife author teamKevin and Melissa Hill

When an ex-cop is found dead in a bath of ice, the Dublinpolice believe it to be a revenge killing. Shortly afterwards,

a journalist is found drowned in his own septic tank. Yielding littleevidence, Reilly Steel concludes that she may be dealing with akiller who knows about crime scene investigation, using a veryspecific blueprint for the crimes. Who is the killer’s next victim?And what’s his endgame?

Praise for the author:

‘Very special...an outstanding debut forensic thriller’ THE BOOKSELLER

‘With this well-paced out-and-out crime story,featuring an attractive and intelligent new heroine,[Melissa Hill] looks set to find a whole new audience’

IRISH INDEPENDENT

Torn Casey Hill978 1 47125 417 8 – 432pp

‘Among the current batch of Nordic writers, the newLarsson is one to be followed with the most minuteattention’ INDEPENDENT

In the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfacesin the River Torne in the far north of Sweden. RebeckaMartinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna, her sleeptroubled by visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the bodybelong to the girl in her dream?Joining forces with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Martinssonwill need all her courage to face a killer who will kill again to keepthe past buried under half a century of silent ice and snow.

The fourth investigation in the Rebecka Martinssonseries, from award winning Swedish author Asa Larsson

‘Larsson’s laid back style makes her unflinching probingof the icy depths of the human heart all the morechilling’ TELEGRAPH

Until Thy Wrath Be Past Asa Larsson978 1 47125 418 5 – 400pp

The False Virgin The Medieval Murderers978 1 47125 413 0 – 544pp


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Where Women Are Kings Christie Watson978 1 47125 420 8 – 400pp

The Resistance Man Martin Walker978 1 47125 419 2 – 400pp

A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki978 1 47125 415 4 – 656pp

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013

Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shoreof her Canadian beach home. She suspects it might be debris

from the 2011 tsunami. Within it lies a diary that expresses thehopes and dreams of a young girl. With every turn of the page,she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery, in which 16-year-old Nao Yasutani is trying to find a reader and friend whofinally understands her.

‘Funny, heartbreaking, moving and profound... Thewarmth, compassion, wisdom and insight with whichOzeki pieces all these stories together will have thereader linked in a similarly profound way to thisfantastic novel’ INDEPENDENT

‘Bewitching, intelligent and heartbreaking...Ozeki isone of my favorite novelists and here she is at herabsolute best’ JUNOT DIAZ

The new novel from the writer of the acclaimed CostaFirst Novel Award winner, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away

Elijah, seven years old, has a history of disruptive behaviour.His adoptive mother Nikki believes that she and her husbandObi are strong enough to accept his difficulties - and that her beingwhite will not affect her ability to raise a black son. HoweverDeborah, Elijah’s birth mother, is ever-present. Just as Elijah startsto settle in, a surprise event rocks their fragile peace and the resultis devastating.

Praise for the author:

‘Life changes irrevocably [amid] the complexities offamily, politics and race. [A] colourful, bittersweet[and] affecting novel.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Christie Watson’s affecting but unsentimental debutearns its place in the sun.’ THE INDEPENDENT

‘Walker is brilliant at capturing the murderous charms ofrural France, with the aid of his charming St Denis chief ofpolice Bruno’ DAILY MIRROR

Bruno, chef de police, can’t get a moment’s peace. He’suncovered a cache of old bank notes and is also dealing with

a wave of burglaries. The victims include the recently retired headof Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee, which brings old flameIsabelle back to St Denis. The next burglary ends in murder: thevictim’s bludgeoned body found by his lover - the primesuspect…

Martin Walker is a prize-winning journalist and theauthor of several acclaimed works of non-fiction, aswell as the Bruno Courrèges mystery series.

How many ways can one woman love?

When Tamara Rix’s sister Lyddie is involved in a hit-and-runaccident that leaves her in need of constant care, Tamara

resolves to remain in the village she grew up in.But when Lyddie’s teenage sweetheart Jed Cassius returns toMiddledip, he brings news that shakes the Rix family to their core.Jed’s life is shrouded in mystery, particularly his job, but despitehis strange background, Tamara can’t help being intrigued by him.Can Tamara find a balance between her love for Lyddie andgrowing feelings for Jed, or will she discover that some kinds oflove just don’t mix?

Sue Moorcroft won the Festival of Romance BestRomantic Read Award with her novel Love & Freedomand was shortlisted for the 2013 Romantic Novel ofthe Year Award

‘It’s the most marvellous discovery for everyone who lovesliterature’ IAN McEWAN

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteento study agriculture. A seminar on English literature

changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father’s farm.Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. Hislife is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember himrarely.Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this noveluncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts,defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded byhistory, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. It is anovel to be savoured.

‘Stoner is a brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise, andelegant novel’ NICK HORNBY

‘A terrific novel of echoing sadness’ JULIAN BARNES

Stoner John Williams978 1 47125 421 5 – 384pp

Set in Wyoming in 1887, a story of a man and a womanbrought together through need, not love…

Widower Connor Maguire advertises for a wife to raise hisyoung daughter, Bridget, to work the homestead and to

bear him a son. Ellen O’Sullivan longs for a home, a husband anda family. On paper, she is everything Connor needs in a wife.However, it soon becomes clear that Ellen has not been entirelytruthful.As their personal feelings blur the boundaries of their deal, theybegin to wonder if a bargain struck makes a marriage worthkeeping.

‘Liz Harris’s vivid portrayal of 1880s mid-west Americaas a place ruled by the elements where neighbourlytrust is essential to survival, is another sure hit’

DAILY MAIL

A Bargain Struck Liz Harris978 1 47125 427 7 – 416pp

Is This Love? Sue Moorcroft978 1 47125 426 0 – 416pp


This definitive biography paints a portrait of a deeplyoriginal thinker who became an inspiring, thoughreluctant, prophet for our times

For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’s Narnia series hascaptured the imagination of millions. In C. S. Lewis: A Life, DrAlister McGrath recounts the unlikely legacy of this Oxford don,who spent his days teaching medieval English Literature and hisnights writing a bestselling fantasy series for children.Accessible and engaging, this is a fascinating portrayal of a creativegenius who continues to inspire millions of readers around theworld.

‘[A]s McGrath’s compelling narrative shows, thewriter’s life is often just as interesting as his work,whatever C. S. Lewis might have said.’ INDEPENDENT

‘One comes away with a renewed sympathy for aprovocative, perceptive, contrarian and somewhattormented soul.’ WALL STREET JOURNAL

‘A penetrating and illuminating study’ N.T WRIGHT

Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC ChiefNews Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in whichwomen’s lives changed during World War One

In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One brokeout and a generation of men went off to fight, women emergedfrom the shadows of their domestic lives. Now a visible force inpublic life, they began to take up essential roles - from transport topolicing, munitions to sport, entertainment, and even politics.Kate Adie charts the seismic move towards equal rights with menthat began a century ago and asks what these women achievedfor future generations. This is history at its best - a vivid, compellingaccount of the pioneering women who helped win the war.

‘This is history at its most celebratory... The book ischatty, personal and packed with plenty of anecdote’

TELEGRAPH

‘Kate Adie provides a compelling account of howwomen’s lives changed during World War One.’

IRISH TATLER

Fighting on the Home Front Kate Adie978 1 47125 425 3 – 464pp

A collection of state secrets that those in power mighthave preferred to go unnoticed…

Stored in Whitehall’s archives are everything from blood-chillingwarnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of dailylife in the corridors of power. Adam Macqueen, author of thehighly acclaimed bestseller Private Eye: The First 50 Years, presentsus with some of the most unlikely revelations since the OfficialSecrets Act was inaugurated one hundred years ago. Not onlyabout Mrs Thatcher’s ironing board, but Ted Heath’s car, HaroldMacmillan’s bedroom carpet, Imelda Marcos and her son BongBong’s trip to Buckingham Palace and President Eisenhower’sparticular problem with Winston Churchill’s trousers.

‘A hugely enjoyable bran tub of revelations about ourrulers’ fancies and foibles over the past century’

DAVID KYNASTON

‘Hilarious’ DAILY MAIL

The Prime Minister’s Ironing Board Adam Macqueen978 1 47125 423 9 – 400pp

C. S. Lewis: A Life Alister McGrath 978 1 47125 424 6 – 544pp


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The Discourtesy of Death William Brodrick978 1 47125 677 6 – TBCpp

Three Men on the Bummel Jerome K. Jerome978 1 47125 429 1 – 288pp

The Diary of a Provincial Lady E. M. Delafield978 1 47125 428 4 – 850pp

Three Men on the Bummel is a masterfully humorousdepiction of the Victorian era

‘What is a “bummel”?’ said George. ‘How would you translateit?’ ‘A “bummel”,’ I explained, ‘I should describe as a

journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating itbeing the necessity of getting back within a given time to the pointfrom which one started…’After considerable indecision the bummel takes our heroes toGermany’s Black Forest where they manage to disrupt thetranquil way of life usually enjoyed by the denizens, whose curiousbehaviour they closely observe and record in their account of thissecond epic journey. Even without that dog, chaos and mayhemreign supreme…

‘Jerome wrings the most improbable humour from themost mundane situations’ INDEPENDENT

A delightful and witty celebration of the suburban Britishhousewife

Behind this rather prim title lies the hilarious fictional diary of adisaster-prone lady of the 1930s, and her attempts to keep

her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos.There’s her husband Robert, who, when he’s not snoozingbehind The Times, does everything with grumbling reluctance; hergleefully troublesome children; and a succession of tricky servantswho invariably seem to gain the upper hand. And if her domestictrials are not enough, she must keep up appearances. Particularlywith the maddeningly patronising Lady Boxe, whom our ProvincialLady eternally (and unsuccessfully) tries to compete with.

‘She converts the small and familiar dullness of life intolaughter’ THE TIMES

‘I reread, for the nth time, E. M. Delafield’s dry, causticDiary of a Provincial Lady, and howled with laughter’

INDIA KNIGHT

‘Glorious, simply glorious’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

A brilliant crime novel which explores the most acutemoral questions surrounding how we end our lives, fromthe winner of the CWA Gold Dagger

An anonymous letter is sent, accusing Peter Henderson, of agrotesque murder: the calculated killing of Jenny, his disabled

partner, who everyone believed to have died peacefully, twoyears previously, from a sudden attack of cancer.Now though, Anselm has been told the truth behind the soothinglie, and he must move cautiously to expose the killer. And so hebegins his most delicate investigation yet, unaware that Jenny’sadoring father is haunted by the memory of torture and shoot-to-kill operations in Northern Ireland; that he remains capable ofanything; that he has set out to execute Peter Henderson.

‘William Brodrick’s crime novels have the great (andunusual) merit of being unlike anyone else’s, not leastbecause his series hero, Father Anselm, is a Gray’s Innbarrister turned Suffolk monk’

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The May Bride Suzannah Dunn978 1 47125 685 1– 464pp

Dancing with the Virgins Stephen Booth978 1 47125 694 3 – 560pp

Doctor Sleep Stephen King978 1 47125 678 3 – 672pp

Stephen King returns to the characters and territory ofone of his most popular novels ever, The Shining

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where hespent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for

decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair,alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshiretown, with an AA community that sustains him and a job at anursing home where his remnant ‘shining’ power provides thecrucial final comfort to the dying. Then Dan meets the evanescentAbra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining everseen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to abattle for Abra’s soul and survival…

‘Thirty-six years on from his horror classic, The Shining,Stephen King’s sequel shows he still has plenty ofcreative steam.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Stephen King’s frightscapes are among the mostincredible in literature, yet one believes in themunquestioningly.’ SPECTATOR

‘The body of the woman sprawled obscenely among thestones… She looked like a dead woman, dancing.’

In a remote part of the Peak District stand the Nine Virgins, aring of stones overshadowed by a dark legend. Now, a tenthfigure is added to the circle – the body of Jenny Weston isdiscovered, her limbs arranged so she appears to be dancing.Weeks earlier Maggie Crew had been attacked on the moors. Isthere a maniac on the loose, knifing woman at random? DC BenCooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry struggle to make senseof the murders. But the moors have witnessed more bloodshedthan either realises, and violence is to beget more violence beforethe answer is found.

The second Cooper and Fry case from acclaimedcrime author Stephen Booth, available for the firsttime in large print.

‘Another first-rate mystery… Booth is particularlygood at creating credible characters’

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Marrying the King was Jane Seymour’s destiny, and herrevenge…

Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her brother,Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf Hall. Katherine Filliol isa breath of fresh air for the Seymour family. But the family is soontorn apart when an allegation is made against Edward’s wife.And when Jane is sent to serve Katharine of Aragon, she is forcedto witness another wife being put aside. Changed forever by whathappened to Katherine, Jane comes to understand that in a worldwhere power is held entirely by men, there is a way in which shecan still hold true to herself.

‘Suzannah Dunn...weaves...a love story that is bothmoving and believable...of second chances at love, andpassion reawakened.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Mesmerising and beautifully written.’ SCOTSMAN


The Doll’s House Louise Phillips978 1 47125 681 3 – 560pp

The Carrier Sophie Hannah978 1 47125 684 4 – 528pp

The Moment Claire Dyer978 1 47125 679 0 – 336pp

From the Sunday Times top ten Bestseller,Sophie Hannah

When her plane is delayed overnight, Gaby Struthers findsherself forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: a

terrified young woman named Lauren. She blurts out somethingabout an innocent man going to prison for a murder he didn’tcommit, and Gaby soon suspects that Lauren’s presence on herflight can’t be a coincidence. Because the murder victim is FrancineBreary, the wife of the only man Gaby has ever truly loved.Tim Breary has confessed, and even provided the police withevidence. The only thing he hasn’t given them is a motive. Heclaims to have no idea why he murdered his wife . . .

‘A tale of the power that weakness and passivity canhave over strength and action, and how theories oflove and duty can lead us astray . . . Intriguing.’

GUARDIAN‘A leading writer of psychological suspense . . . As ever,Hannah excels. Her books are so distinctive that theydeserve to be placed in a separate sub-genre of their own.’

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Twenty-five years apart. One day to decide the future.

Paddington station, nine a.m., rush hour. As the crowds ebb andflow, time suddenly stands still for two people: Fern and Elliott,ex-lovers who parted twenty-five years before and never expectedto see each other again.But here they are, face to face, and the connection is as powerfulas it was the day they first met.They tentatively arrange to meet again that evening when both willbe travelling back through the station. As their emotions go roundin circles, so does the Paddington clock, counting down the minutesto eight p.m. - and the moment the future is in their hands.

‘Beautifully written, with perfect form and pace. Fernand Elliott’s vivid emotional journey will stay with me’

HILARY BOYD

‘A man, a woman, and a ‘what-if’ moment that will giveyou goose bumps. A genuine contender for the crownof this year’s One Day’ LOUISE CANDISH

Winner of the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year

Thirty-five years ago Adrian Hamilton drowned. His death wasreported as a tragic accident but the exact circumstances

remained a mystery. Now his daughter Clodagh, visits ahypnotherapist who uncovers memories of her father’s death.And other memories come to light - the death of her baby sister.Meanwhile criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson is called to helpan investigation after a body is found in a Dublin canal. When Katestudies the killing, she discovers a sinister connection to theHamilton family.What happened in the Hamilton house all those years ago? Andwhat connects them to the recent murder?

‘Chilling, mesmerising. Gets under your skin and stayswith you’ NIAMH O’CONNOR

‘A gripping, suspenseful story peopled with well-drawncharacters’ IRISH INDEPENDENT


The Echo James Smythe978 1 47125 683 7 – 352pp

The Amber Road Harry Sidebottom978 1 47125 680 6 – 512pp

Marriage Material Sathnam Sanghera978 1 47125 686 8 – 416pp

The Amber Road is the sixth book in Harry Sidebottom’sacclaimed Warrior of Rome series

AD 264: The Roman Empire is torn in two. The westernprovinces - Gaul, Spain and Britain - have been seized by the

pretender Postumus. To the east, on the plains of northern Italy,the armies of the emperor Gallienus muster. War is coming.Everyone must choose a side.On a mission shrouded in secrecy and suspicion, Ballista mustjourney the Amber Road to the far north to Hyperborea, backto his original home and the people of his birth. Yet not allwelcome Ballista’s return.Does treachery pose the greatest danger?

‘Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship’THE TIMES

‘The best sort of red-blooded historical fiction’ANDREW TAYLOR

An epic tale of family, love and politics spanning thetwentieth century, told with humour, tenderness andinsight, and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award

Returning to the Black Country after the unexpected death ofhis father, Arjan Banga finds everything he has tried to leave

behind - a lethargic pace of life, insular rituals and ways of thinking.But when his mother insists on keeping their shop open, he findshimself being dragged back, forced into decisions about hisimminent marriage back in London.Marriage Material tells the story of three generations through theprism of a Wolverhampton corner shop - itself a microcosm ofthe South Asian experience in the country: a symbol ofindependence and integration, but also of darker realities.

‘A stunning novel... touching and funny and feels sofresh... it just leaps off the page. I adored it.’ DEBORAHMOGGACH, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

‘Enormously enjoyable… Sanghera’s forte is wry comedytinged with pathos… [A] warm, keenly observant andimmensely appealing novel.’ SUNDAY TIMES

The stunning sequel to James Smythe’s criticallyacclaimed literary science-fiction novel The Explorer

Twenty years after the disappearance of the infamous Ishiguro– the first manned spacecraft to travel deep into space –

humanity are setting their sights on the heavens once more.Under the direction of identical twin brothers Tomas and MirakelHyvönen – this space craft has a bold mission: to study what isbeing called ‘the anomaly’ – a vast blackness of space into whichthe Ishiguro disappeared. But soon these scientists learn that thereare some things beyond our understanding. As the anomalybegins to test the limits of Mira’s sanity – will Tomas be able tosave his brother from being lost in space too?

‘It’s like an episode of Star Trek written by JM Coetzee’GUARDIAN

‘Beautifully written, creepy as hell… as clever in itsunravelling as it is breathlessly claustrophobic’

LAUREN BEUKES on The Explorer


Yours Truly Kirsty Greenwood978 1 47125 689 9 – 400pp

Before We Met Lucie Whitehouse978 1 47125 682 0 – 432pp

Never Coming Back Tim Weaver978 1 47125 744 5 – TBCpp

A whirlwind romance. A perfect marriage.

Hannah Reilly has seized her chance at happiness. Until theday her husband fails to come home…

The more questions Hannah asks, the fewer answers she finds.But are the secrets that Mark has been keeping designed toprotect him or protect her? And can you ever really know whathappened before you met?

‘An eerie page-turner.’ RED

‘A post-Du Maurier domestic gothic thriller…Whitehouse is a skilful, attentive writer’ GUARDIAN

Never Coming Back is the brilliant new missing personscase in the David Raker series

When Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie’s house, shefinds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner’s

cooking, the TV’s on. Carrie, her husband and their twodaughters are gone. When the police draw a blank, Emily asksmissing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It’s clearsomeone doesn’t want the family found. But as he gets closer tothe truth, Raker begins to uncover evidence of a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing countless lives. And worse, intrying to find Emily’s missing family, he might just have madehimself the next target ...

‘Never Coming Back is a taut and thrilling novel, his bestyet. We can’t recommend it highly enough.’

RICHARD MADELEY

‘Terrific thriller…it’s a cracker’ JUDY FINNIGAN

‘Kookier than Kinsella, but just as comical. Fabulous feel-good fun!’ ALI McNAMARA

Newly engaged Natalie will do anything for a quiet life and iftelling a few white lies keeps her friends and family happy,

then so what? It’s not like they’ll ever discover what she’s reallythinking...Until one night, thanks to a pub hypnotist, Natalie’s most privatethoughts pop out of her mouth. Things get very messy, especiallywhen some home truths offend her fiancé. Natalie must trackdown the hypnotist before her wedding is cancelled, but whenshe has no way to break the hypnotist’s spell, Natalie is forced toface the truths she has been avoiding her whole life ...

‘I cannot tell a lie... this book is fabulous’LUCY DIAMOND

‘Funny, feel-good and full of characters to fall in lovewith, Yours Truly is a brilliant debut from an excitingnew voice in women’s fiction. A truly gorgeous read’

VICTORIA FOX


Under Another Sky Charlotte Higgins978 1 47125 687 5 – 400pp

Hanns and Rudolf Thomas Harding978 1 47125 695 0 – 512pp

Emma Linda Mitchelmore978 1 47125 690 5 – 416pp

Shortlisted for The Costa Biography Award, this is the truestory of Hanns Alexander, the son of a prosperousGerman family who fled Berlin in the 1930s

Rudolf Höss was a farmer who became the Kommandant ofAuschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of

over a million men, women and children.In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British WarCrimes Investigation Team hunt down the senior Nazi officialsresponsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen.Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators,Rudolf Höss his most elusive target. This book reveals for the veryfirst time the full, exhilarating account of Höss’ capture.

‘Fascinating and moving...This is a remarkable book,which deserves a wide readership.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essentialhistory.’ JOHN le CARRÉ

It isn’t easy to look forward when the past is so closebehind you

Life hasn’t always been kind to Emma Le Goff. But now finally,her life appears to be looking up. She and her childhoodsweetheart, Seth Jago, are set to marry. However, they discover that the past is more difficult to forgetthan they could have ever imagined, Emma continues to behaunted by the mysterious circumstances surrounding her family,and Seth is hounded by a jealous ex-lover set on revenge.

Seth plans for their escape to Canada, but when the charismaticMatthew Caunter returns to Devon, Emma finds herself uncertainwhether a move to Canada is really what she wants …

‘Linda Mitchelmore has a gift for making you feel rightthere, in the story, with her lovely warm characters.’

SOPHIE KING

Under Another Sky was shortlisted for the 2013 SamuelJohnson Prize for Non-Fiction

What has ‘Roman Britain’ meant to the British people sincethe Romans left? And what does Roman Britain mean to

us now? How has it been reimagined, in story, song and verse?Charlotte Higgins leads us through the history, and by using someof Britain’s most intriguing ancient monuments, Under Another Skyinvites us to see the British landscape, and history, in an entirelyfresh way.

‘Mesmerising. Sophisticated and passionate. Shepersonalises the story in a diaristic, almost poetictone.’ GUARDIAN

‘An utterly original history, lyrically alive to the hauntingpresence of the past and our strange and familiarancestors.’ SUNDAY TIMES


The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers978 1 47125 691 2 – 448pp

Anna of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett978 1 47125 692 9 – 304pp

Sane New World Ruby Wax978 1 47125 688 2 – 336pp

‘Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that Ihad never encountered in fiction, but only in life’

MARGARET DRABBLE

Against a brilliantly observed background of life in theStaffordshire Potteries, Anna of the Five Towns is both a novel

about a gossipy, myopic, savage community and at its heart ayoung girl dominated by her miserly father. Anna Tellwrightstruggles to find freedom and independence, wanting both toplease her father and help Willie Price, whose father killed himselfafter falling into bankruptcy. Meanwhile Anna is courted by thetown’s most eligible bachelor but does her heart already belongto Willie?

Arnold Bennett was for some thirty years thedominant novelist and critic in Britain

‘[A] wonderful, painfully funny and instructive book’TELEGRAPH

Ruby Wax - comedian, writer and mental health campaigner -shows us how our minds can jeopardise our sanity. With her

own periods of depression and now a Masters from Oxford inMindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to draw from, she explainshow our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxietyand stress. If we are to break the cycle, we need to understandhow our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in afrenetic world. Helping you become the master, not the slave, ofyour mind, here is the manual to saner living.

‘Ruby Wax has an extraordinary mind, and she hasbrought it to bear with trademark wit and searinghonesty on the subject of that mind, and the minds ofall us… A ruby beyond price.’ STEPHEN FRY

‘In Sane New World, Wax touches upon her ownanxieties and fears with honesty and humour... [she]hauls a stigmatised fact of life kicking and laughing intothe open.’ THE TIMES

Published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands is consideredthe first modern spy novel

When Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Daviessuggesting a Baltic sailing trip, the vision of a manned yacht,

stunning scenery and excellent duck shooting quickly works itscharm. But Carruthers’ hopes for a holiday are quickly dashed.There has been suspicious German activity along the coast. TheMedusa, manned by the sinister Dollman, has already tried todestroy Davies. What are the Germans up to? Nothing less thana plot to invade Britain. And only these two courageousEnglishmen can stop them.

‘Unputdownable. a classic British adventure story,influencing both John Buchan and Ken Follett’

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