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The Summer of Secrets
Alison Lucy
An ill-fated marriage leads to a disastrous honeymoon but years later the repercussions of the holiday see three young women seeking a potentially dangerous truth. Great escapist summertime reading. Perfect for fans of Veronica Henry and Tasmina Perry.
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/05/2012

All That I Am
Anna Funder
May 2012 Debut of the Month. An historical 'flash-back' novel based on the life of the author's friend. It recounts the challenges faced by German emigres living abroad during the rise of Hitler...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

The Perfect Location
Kate Forster
Rose Nightingale is an Australian actress still recovering from a bad marriage. Sapphira De Mont is the world's most beautiful movie star, but hides a secret addiction and a broken heart. Calypso Gable is a young star on the rise...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

The Map of Time
Felix J. Palma
An epic, ambitious and page-turning mystery that will appeal to fans of The Shadow of the Wind, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Time Traveller's Wife London, 1896. Andrew Harrington is young, wealthy and heartbroken. His lover Marie Kelly...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

The Playdate
Louise Millar
May 2012 Debut of the Month. This gripping contemporary thriller will have you turning the pages, and re-evaluating people you call friends. How do you know whether it’s dangerous to leave your children...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2012

That Summer in Ischia
Penny Feeny
May 2012 Debut of the Month. With intrigue, lost friendships and set on a sun-drenched Italian island, this is one of these stories that you just want to keep on reading. 25 years...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012

The Chaperone
Laura Moriarty
May 2012 Book of the Month. I am reminded of the 20s musical number "Anything Goes" here, for in "The Chaperone" it certainly does. This is 20s New York, the girl being chaperoned...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012

Sacrilege
S. J. Parris
We loved her debut Heresy, with the ex-monk turned secret agent Giordano Bruno and the follow up historical mystery, Sacrilege, is just as gripping. Assassinations, threats of plague and dark secrets hidden in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral prove...
Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012

A Private Affair
Lesley Lokko
A Private Affair is the new spellbinding tale of love and friendship, glamour and guilt, secrets and deceit from bestselling author Lesley Lokko.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Special Edition of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary. Barcelona, a city of secret police and secret love. In it a bookseller’s son finds a forgotten novel and stumbles upon a mystery...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012

The Queen's Secret
Victoria Lamb
This romantic, historical fiction debut is based around the real visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Kenilworth castle in 1575 that historians believe was the last chance for Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, to persuade her to marry him....
Format: Hardback - Released: 16/02/2012

Far to Go
Alison Pick
Longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction, FAR TO GO is a powerful and profoundly moving story about one family's epic journey to flee the Nazi occupation of their homeland in 1939. Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

The Paris Wife
Paula McLain
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 28 April 2011. A heart-wrenching story of ambition and betrayal that captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

Heartstone
C. J. Sansom
Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed against his young ward, Hugh Curteys, by Sir Nicholas Hobbey, Shardlake and his assistant Barak...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/06/2011

Sister
Rosamund Lupton
Nothing can break the bond between sisters ...When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Sunday lunch to say that her younger sister, Tess, is missing, she boards the first flight home to London. But as she learns...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/08/2010

The Beach Hut
Veronica Henry
July 2010 Book of the Month. This is a lovely canvas on which to tell a series of family stories over some fifty years as we follow the interactions between beach house owners...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/05/2010

The Island
Victoria Hislop
Winner of Newcomer of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007.Something a bit different, a bit special. A well-researched family history which takes the present day characters back to Crete and the horrors of leprosy. From 1939...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 10/04/2006

The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory
This is an absolutely cracking read, gripping from the very start. Gregory creates an intriguing story that's historically true and she mixes fact with fiction seemlessly that you find the whole story completely believable. Anne Boleyn's sister led an extraordinary...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 07/10/2002