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The Marches
Rory Stewart
A very personal history of the boundary between Scotland and
England, endlessly walking the border country Rory Stewart realises
it is really another country, a middleland with its own lost...
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Razor Girl
Carl Hiaasen
Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2017
for Comic Fiction. Shortlisted for the
Last Laugh Award at the CrimeFest Awards 2017. A
return to Hiaasen land is always welcome...
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When My Ship Comes in
Sue Wilsher
A dramatic and emotional saga set in 1950s Essex from a great new
voice. Keep the family together, that's what her old mum always
said. Put up and shut up....
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Deep Down Dead
Steph Broadribb
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Yet another assured British
thriller debut, again set overseas, this time in deepest America
where Lori Anderson, a young woman with...
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Gilded Cage
Vic James
Vic James’ magical yet chilling debut novel describes an
alternate contemporary world in which, since the 1640s, Britain has
been divided between the Equals, a ruling Aristocracy who have
magical...
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Paris for One and Other Stories
Jojo Moyes
I love short stories, they have the power to give us a fleeting,
yet memorable glimpse into other lives. Lives of strong, beautiful
characters as they face the challenges that...
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The House on Sunset Lake
Tasmina Perry
A stirring and intoxicating story of love and twisted secrets
waiting… lurking. Spanning twenty years, this tale
introduces Jim and Jennifer in 1995 when they meet in Savannah,
before a...
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 Stay With Me
Ayobami Adebayo
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
2017. A surprising, emotional, and courageous novel, one
where the words and feelings gradually unwind from the page and
take up residence...
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Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney
A novel to meddle with your reasoning and taunt your gut
instincts… Amber is in hospital in a coma, her thoughts are
knocking at the door of her awareness as...
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When I Was Invisible
Dorothy Koomson
April 2017 Book of the Month. An absolute page-turner of a novel,
at times uncomfortable, yet powerful and oh so compelling. Roni and
Nika meet when...
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The Gustav Sonata
Rose Tremain
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for
Historical Fiction 2017. Shortlisted for
the Costa Novel Award 2016. Profoundly moving tale of love
and devotion, told in a steady, lucid style...
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The House of Fame
Oliver Harris
Nick Belsey, from Hampstead CID, is a crooked cop, or at any rate a
cop who bends the rules as far as they can be bent. Although, by
hook or...
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Letters to Strabo
David Smith
A fictional travelogue of Finn, a free-spirited American and
budding travel writer, journeying around Europe and the Middle East
in the 1970’s. Letters to Strabo is an evocative, candid
and...
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Black Water Lilies
Michel Bussi
April 2017 Book of the Month. Simply superb, ’Black Water
Lilies’ has leapt straight into my heart and soul. Thirteen
days in the heart of Claude...
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Secrets of a Happy Marriage
Cathy Kelly
A gorgeously warm, loving, and occasionally tempestuous tale set
within a large family as they learn to cope with grief, new loves,
and family revelations. Bess has found love in...
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All Our Wrong Todays
Elan Mastai
This brain-twisting, heart-flipping, wryly funny time-travel debut
about the shifting sands of personal identity seems set to become
one of those zeitgeisty novels that captures readers in the way
Matt...
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This Love
Dani Atkins
How one book can hold such aching heartbreak, beautiful tenderness,
and vibrant emotion, I really don’t know. Sophie works from
home and keeps her heart hidden, then in one life-changing...
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Arrowood
Mick Finlay
April 2017 Debut of the Month. London 1895, gloriously brought to
life in all its grizzly glory. Arrowood is a weathered Private
Investigator with a soft...
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A Dangerous Crossing
Rachel Rhys
April 2017 Debut of the Month. All aboard for an Agatha
Christie-esque mystery set on a ship bound for the distant shores
of Australia in 1939....
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Well of the Winds
Denzil Meyrick
A stimulating, fascinating and so very readable addition to the
‘D.C.I. Daley Series’. The past is haunting the present
as murder visits an island off the coast of Kintyre. Denzil...
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The People at Number 9
Felicity Everett
April 2017 Debut of the Month. Solid, surburban couple with two
boys at the local school have their safe, perhaps a little
monotonous, life disrupted by...
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The Cutaway
Christina Kovac
April 2017 Debut of the Month. A compelling and stylish
psychological thriller from a fine new voice in crime fiction.
Indomitable Virginia Knightly is a TV...
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The Stolen Child
Sanjida Kay
April 2017 Book of the Month. Terrific, truly a one-sitting read so
be warned and allow space for it to be so. Zoe and Ollie adopt...
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Quicksand
Malin Persson Giolito
April 2017 Debut of the Month. Provocative and compelling, this
mind and heart-breaking tale really shouldn't be missed. After a
school shooting, 18 year old Maja...
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The Shadow Land
Elizabeth Kostova
April 2017 Book of the Month. This is a beautifully crafted novel.
Those familiar with Kostova’s writing will be delighted to
know that her beautiful, descriptive...
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Keeping it Real
Justina Robson
A heroine who's half robot and all attitude, a world of quantum
strangeness; SF that has remembered how to have fun from the UK's
most successful female SF writer. Special...
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The Bomb Girls' Secrets
Daisy Styles
In the Phoenix Munitions Factory everyone has their secrets ...As
WWII rolls across Europe, Kitty boards a ship set for England;
leaving her cruel father for war work in a...
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The Mersey Daughter
Annie Groves
The brand new Wartime drama novel from bestselling author Annie
Groves, perfect for fans of Christmas on the Mersey and Child of
the Mersey. As the bombs rain down...
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Invisible Planets Collected Fiction
Hannu Rajaniemi
Mindblowingly inventive and beautifully written short stories from
the most exciting new name in SF. Drawn from antholgies, magazines
and online publications and brought together in book form for
the...
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Mothering Sunday
Graham Swift
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical
Fiction 2017. From the jubilant “You shall go to the
ball!” of the preface, and the “Once upon a time”
opening, this...
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Blue Light Yokohama
Nicolas Obregon
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. A beautifully plotted police
procedural set in Japan by a new British author, this wonderfully
crafted suspense sees a pair of...
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The Lauras
Sara Taylor
April 2017 Book of the Month. A captivating and subtly beautiful
novel, where heart-catching surprises lie in wait. Alex recalls
life on the road at the...
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Reservoir 13
Jon McGregor
April 2017 Book of the Month. Aged 13 a girl goes missing. The
whole village turns out to search. Over the course of thirteen
chapters and...
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The Cows
Dawn O'Porter
April 2017 Debut of the Month. Oh my word, this is an eyebrow
raising, mouth openingly good read. A contemporary tale about three
women, muddling and...
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Martin Luther
Lyndal Roper
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2017.
This year is the anniversary of the events that we hold responsible
for the beginning of the European Reformation in 1517. As it...
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The Hate u Give
Angie Thomas
April 2017 NewGen Debut of the Month. In a Nutshell:
Fighting for Justice | Black Lives Matter | Stunning,
vital wake-up call of a novel about racism,...
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Castle of Water
Dane Huckelbridge
April 2017 Debut of the Month. An emotional, heart-stopping, and
mesmerising debut novel. 34 year old retired banker and burgeoning
artist Barry from New York, and...
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Good as Gone
Amy Gentry
April 2017 Debut of the Month. A clever, convincing, and unexpected
tale. 13 year old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom
eight years ago, her...
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All Grown Up
Jami Attenberg
An edgy, astute, robustly dynamic tale, taking snapshots of a life
and allowing them to parade provocatively in front of you. Andrea
is nearly 40, she doesn't have children, or...
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Watching Edie
Camilla Way
In alternating chapters headed “Before” and
“After” and narrated by both Heather and Edie, this is
one truly compulsive read. Menace hangs over the whole thing.
“Before” was seventeen years...
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Their Finest
Lissa Evans
It's 1940. After a short spell promoting the joy of swedes for the
Ministry of Food, Catrin Cole finds herself writing dialogue for
'Just an Ordinary Wednesday', a heart-warming but...
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The Plague Charmer
Karen Maitland
Told by many voices, some wise, some wicked, this is the story of a
close community under unbearable strain. What is the breaking point
where neighbours and even sisters will...
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The Wolf Road
Beth Lewis
April 2017 Debut of the Month. Uniquely voiced, elementally
powerful literary thriller that crackles with page-turning tension.
Aged seven, gutsy Elka ran away from her nana...
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The Fourteenth Letter
Claire Evans
London 1881. A bride is murdered on at her engagement party,
setting in chain a twisting, riveting mystery full of memorable
characters in Claire Evans' dramatic debut novel perfect for...
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How to be Human
Paula Cocozza
April 2017 Debut of the Month. Here is a woman, Mary, who
desperately needs something and even we, the reader, are not
entirely sure what. She...
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Dangerous Lady
Martina Cole
Dangerous Lady is the iconic first novel by Sunday Times No.1
bestseller Martina Cole which catapulted her to fame and made her
the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian). This...
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Floating A Life Regained
Joe Minihane
Floating is the story of Joe Minihane's attempt to retrace the
greatest swimming exploration of our time while facing up to his
struggles with anxiety by diving right in. A...
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All That Man Is
David Szalay
Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age,
All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men
as they are...
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
2017. Written with exquisite intimacy, wit and moral
complexity, Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life
one of the...
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My Name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 and the Baileys Women's
Prize for Fiction 2016. An exquisite story of mothers and daughters
from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.
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The Cutthroat
Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
The latest action-packed historical blockbuster featuring Isaac
Bell, from Sunday Times bestseller Clive Cussler. Women are being
brutally murdered all over America ...it's going to take an
extraordinary mind to...
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War Cry
Wilbur Smith, David Churchill
A love story in the time of heroes, War Cry is the latest
breathtaking episode in Wilbur Smith's epic account of one beloved
family. In a triumphant return to his...
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Blood Tide
Claire McGowan
Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire returns in Blood Tide, the
fifth novel in Claire McGowan's series. Paula is sent to
investigate the disappearance of a couple from a remote island
off...
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The Harrowing
James Aitcheson
1066, The Norman Conquest: Five strangers. Five secrets. No refuge.
No turning back. Priest, Lady, Servant, Warrior, Minstrel: each has
their own story; each their own sin. As enemies past...
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The Blade Artist
Irvine Welsh
The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel - ultra violent
but curiously redemptive - and it marks the return of one of modern
fiction's most infamous, terrifying characters, the...
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Death of a She Devil
Fay Weldon
Sequel to The Life and Loves of a She Devil. Lewis is a new kind of
'heroine'. He's an ultra-confident, twenty-something man. But he
won't be satisfied with his...
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Pussy
Howard Jacobson
Prince Fracassus is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic; has
no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no idea and no words in
which to express them. Could he, in that case, be...
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A Traitor in the Family
Nicholas Searle
In A Traitor in the Family, bestselling author, Nicholas Searle,
tells a story of shocking, intimate betrayal. Can a treacherous act
of the most personal kind ever be, in this...
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Work Like Any Other
Virginia Reeves
From an astonishing new voice, this debut charts the life of Roscoe
T Martin, first as a farm owner with a fractured family, then as
prison inmate... Placing itself perfectly...
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Die of Shame
Mark Billingham
From number one bestseller Mark Billingham - author of Time of
Death and In the Dark, both soon to be major BBC series - comes the
year's most...
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The Light of Paris
Eleanor Brown
Two parallel stories, set in two time frames, where second chances
and the links between two women flicker and burn with energy. In
Chicago during 1999, Madeleine tells her own...
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The Ice Beneath Her
Camilla Grebe
A debut solo novel for a leading Swedish crime author who had,
until now, collaborated with other writers on various series. A
young woman is found beheaded inside the house...
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The Museum of You
Carys Bray
Now that Clover is twelve she can have a key to her home while her
father drives the local bus and she can remain there alone. She has
the allotment...
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The Crow Girl
Erik Axl Sund
If you thought The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was the epitome of
Nordic noir's savage darkness, think again. Graphic, violent and
weaving a thread of evil with the...
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A Hero in France
Alan Furst
Still set against Furst's familiar background of the dark years of
WW2, this new offering full of treachery and intrigue for once
eschews the tropes of espionage and restricts itself...
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Sunset City
Melissa Ginsburg
A wonderful portrait of a self-destructive woman at odds with the
world and herself. Set in Houston, Texas, the tale of Charlotte
Ford whose life has proven a great disappointment...
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The Beautiful Dead
Belinda Bauer
Oh my, this is a clever, chilling, and penetrating read. 29 year
old TV crime reporter Eve Singer looks for murder and mayhem, but
she needs to watch out, as...
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Black Water
Louise Doughty
Fluctuating between the riots and massacre in Indonesia in 1965 and
the second coup in 1997 with the unrest of 1998, this is a powerful
tale of espionage and love. ...
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The Butchers of Berlin
Chris Petit
This is a tough, violent thriller which illustrates the chaos in
Germany in 1943. Suffering setbacks in the war and severe
shortages, Berlin is in the middle of a rushed...
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Fire Damage
Kate Medina
Captivating from the outset, this is the first in the ‘Jessie
Flynn Investigation’ series, and what a fabulously readable
and dramatic story it is too. 29 year old Dr Jessie...
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Murderabilia
Craig Robertson
If Ian Rankin controls the crime scene in Edinburgh, it's becoming
clear that Craig Robertson has a firm grip on matters murderous in
Glasgow and this outstanding and disturbing stand...
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The One Man
Andrew Gross
Something of a departure for erstwhile James Patterson collaborator
Andrew Gross, and a powerful, breathless thriller with a
difference. It's 1944 and the American nuclear programme is
stalling and the...
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The State of Grace
Rachael Lucas
In a Nutshell: Living with Asperger’s * Dealing with
change * New beginnings “Being human is a
complicated game”, and that’s certainly the case for
fifteen-year-old Grace, the sparkling protagonist of...
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Based on a True Story
Delphine de Vigan
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. With shades of Ingmar Bergman's
film Persona and the 1992 Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh
movie Single White Female, this...
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Sirens
Joseph Knox
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Justifiably already
highly-praised, this debut by a young Manchester author deserves
all the generous encomiums and more lavished on it. A...
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The Pictures
Guy Bolton
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Yet another British beginner
with a tale set overseas, in this case in Hollywood in 1939 at the
time The Wizard...
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Written in Bones
James Oswald
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Scottish farmer and writer James
Oswald is definitely prolific, to say the least, as this is already
his seventh Detective Inspector...
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Tall Oaks
Chris Whitaker
Maxim Jakubowski's April 2017 Book of the Month.
Shortlisted for the Last Laugh Award at the CrimeFest
Awards 2017. A first British crime novel, albeit set...
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The End of the Day
Claire North
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Charlie just happens to be the
harbinger of death. He never wanted the job, but he had no choice
in the...
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What You Don't Know
JoAnn Chaney
Maxim Jakubowski April 2017 Highly Recommended. Serial killer
novels come and go, mostly exploitative as well as repetitive, but
this American debut rings the differences with...
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An Honorable Man
Paul Vidich
A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. An assured cold war thriller set
in the 1950s in paranoiac Washington D.C. at the height of the
McCarthy hearings. The...
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Sleeper's Castle
Barbara Erskine
A sweeping saga of a tale, linking the past and the present through
two women’s dreams and a house that straddles time. This is
the first Barbara Erskine novel I’ve...
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Smoke
Dan Vyleta
Darker than dark but tonally lighter than light, this is a keeper
and a bolt from nowhere, almost like an adult version of the Harry
Potter books with a touch...
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The Funhouse
Dean Koontz
The carnival is a world apart, endlessly travelling from town to
town, providing thrills and magic for new kids every week. And the
biggest, most popular attraction is the Funhouse...
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Eagle Rising
David Devereux
Jack's back! And this time he must face a terrifying supernatural
threat from Europe's recent past. Someone has been mad enough to
revive the most terrifying evil of the last...
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Hunter's Moon
David Devereux
David Devereux has combined the action writing of McNab and Ryan
with dark supernatural thrills and produced a blistering new breed
of supernatural thriller. This is Dennis Wheatley for the...
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New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
Cli-fi (climate-fiction) has come into it’s own in the last
15 years or so, but with Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel,
'New York 2140', it really has hit a peak....
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Here be Witches
Sarah Mussi
In a Nutshell: Merlin-esque mythology in the modern world
| Set in stunning Snowdonia, this spellbinding sequel to
Here Be Dragons shimmers with atmosphere, adventure and a love
story of...
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Sand
Wolfgang Herrndorf
This is a darkly sophisticated literary thriller from a master
storyteller and star of the German literary scene. North Africa,
1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of...
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Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for
Historical Fiction 2017. Winner of 2016
Costa Book of the Year and Winner of the Costa Novel Award
2016. This big-hearted, beautiful and...
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A Country Road, A Tree
Jo Baker
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical
Fiction 2017. An enthralling work of literary fiction
exploring Samuel Beckett’s life in Occupied France.
It’s autumn, 1939 and a...
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The Vanishing Futurist
Charlotte Hobson
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical
Fiction 2017. An exuberant, kaleidoscopic debut set in the
turbulent times around the 1917 Russian revolution, told through
the eyes of an...
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The Good People
Hannah Kent
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical
Fiction 2017. Three women are at the heart of this
beguiling, elemental novel, in which the dialogue dances, and the
force of...
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Soldier Spy
Tom Marcus
A footsoldier's account out on the street. A vivid picture of
surveillance' Midweek, Radio 4 'Gripping. One of the most
successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time' Sun
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Checkmate
Malorie Blackman
At last the book to tie up the loose ends of the Noughts and
Crosses sequence and it certainly doesn’t disappoint in
anyway. The originality of the plot is breathtaking...
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Double Cross
Malorie Blackman
This thrilling new title in award-winning Malorie Blackman’s
cleverly observed series, which began with Noughts and Crosses,
captures the drama and potential violence of growing up –
especially in a...
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Knife Edge
Malorie Blackman
The terrific sequel to Noughts and Crosses and continues the story
of Sephy and Callum and their families. Full of mystery, suspense,
romance and even murder, you’ll go through numerous...
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Noughts & Crosses
Malorie Blackman
Selected by a distinguished independent panel of experts
including our editorial expert, Julia Eccleshare, for Diverse
Voices - 50 of the best Children's Books celebrating cultural
diversity in the UK....
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Henry IV
Chris Given-Wilson
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2017.
Not one of the famous Henrys, not a “V” or an
VIII”, but a modest “IV”, more unfamiliar to us
general readers and...
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Sleep in Early Modern England
Sasha Handley
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2017. We
face many clashing opinions about sleep today. But spare a thought
for the hapless person in pre C18 England, harried by thoughts...
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Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses
Carole Matthews
A heart-warming and poignant novel of romance, family and second
chances, Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses is Sunday Times bestselling
Carole Matthews at her outstanding best. Perfect for fans of...
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The Words in My Hand
Guinevere Glasfurd
Shortlisted for The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
2017. A gloriously readable and emotional fictional tale
based on the relationship between Dutch maid Helena Jans van der
Strom and...
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The Sport of Kings
C. E. Morgan
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
2017. The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of
lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. A
spiralling...
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First Love
Gwendoline Riley
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
2017. Drawing the reader into the battleground of her
relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an
ongoing conflict in...
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Night School
Lee Child
In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon,
they sent him back to school. Night School takes Reacher back to
his army days, but this time...
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The Kept Woman
Karin Slaughter
A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta warehouse. It's the body
of an ex-cop, and from the moment Special Agent Will Trent walks in
he knows this could be...
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Magic
Danielle Steel
It starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in
Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes
place outside a...
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The Coal Miner's Daughter
Maggie Hope
At their first meeting a bond of sympathy and affection is
established between Hannah, a pitman's daughter, and Timothy
Durkin, son of a land agent. Once married, however, Hannah feels...
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Conclave
Robert Harris
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel,
one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will
cast their votes in the world's most...
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The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena
You never know what's happening on the other side of the wall. Your
neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter
at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she...
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I See You
Clare Mackintosh
Lose yourself in the twisty, gripping number one bestseller from
Richard & Judy Book Club winner, Clare Mackintosh, author of I
Let You Go - you won't be able to...
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The Thirst
Jo Nesbo
A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on
her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly
vicious killer. He's in your...
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