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Emma Donoghue Akin Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great- nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael’s ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have taken for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they know as they unpick their painful story and begin a new one together. Charnwood
From the bestselling author of Room
“A charming journey of discovery... Donoghue is a wonderful writer and the book is full of charm, nuance and a strong sense of place... The writing, humour and humanity will remain with you, as will the questions it asks.” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
“...an important, touching novel that stays with you long after you’re done reading it.” THE INDEPENDENT
General Fiction 438pp
Jim Eldridge Erica James Murder At The Manchester Museum Swallowtail Summer 1895: Former Scotland Yard detective Daniel Wilson, made famous from For many years, Alastair and his best friends Danny and Simon have spent his days working the Jack the Ripper case, and his archaeologist sidekick summers together with their families at his gorgeous holiday home, Linston Abigail Fenton are summoned to investigate the murder of a young End, against the idyllic backdrop of the Norfolk Broads. The memories are woman at the Manchester Museum. Though staff remember the woman ingrained in their hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion as a recent and regular visitor, no one appears to know who she is and she at dusk, hours spent seeking out the local swallowtail butterflies. There’s has no possessions from which to identify her. Seeking help from a local no reason to believe the good times won’t continue down the generations, journalist, Daniel hopes to unravel this mystery, but the journey to the truth though there are surprises in store for them all... After Alastair’s wife Orla is fraught with obstacles... passes away in a tragic accident, he goes travelling – and when he returns, it’s not just adventures and memories he brings back, but Valentina, his new love interest. Is this just a holiday romance? What will Alastair’s decisions mean for the long-time friends?
The Museum Mysteries Series “A glorious summer story which sizzles with passion; idyllic A whodunnit that will keep you location, compelling characters guessing... and lives so interwoven, that their secrets have the power to change everything. I wanted it to go on forever.” CATHY BRAMLEY
Mystery 396pp General Fiction 522pp
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Jim Kelly Christobel Kent The Night Raids A Secret Life A lone German bomber crosses the East Coast of Britain on a moonless A girls’ night out. night in the long, hot summer of 1940 and drops his bomb over One little mistake. Cambridge’s railyards. The shell falls short of its mark and lands in a maze- Be careful who you let in... When Georgie is persuaded to join two old like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city’s medieval friends for ladies’ night, she’s planning to have a little fun, to behave like centre. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the woman she was before marriage and motherhood changed everything the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, beside her shattered bed in for good. But the next morning, the events of the night before are blurry a terraced house on Earl Street, two fingers on her left hand severed, in and hard to understand. Now Georgie is starting to wonder just what she’s what looks like a brutal attempt by looters to steal her rings. But when the invited into her life... next day her teenage granddaughter, Peggy, a repair worker at Marshall
airfield, is reported missing, Brooke realises there is more to the situation Charnwood than meets the eye.
The Nighthawk Series “A highly superior slice of domestic noir.” THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Readers’ Reviews “Great characters, great stories, beautiful written” “If you wanted a masterclass on how to pace a narrative of suspense, this would be “Another winner...” it. Thrilling, heartbreaking, unputdownable.” A.N. WILSON
Historical Mystery 378pp Thriller 366pp
Beth Morrey Saving Missy It was bitterly cold, the day of the fish-stunning. So bitter that I nearly didn’t go to watch... Missy Carmichael’s life has become small. Grieving for a family she has lost or lost touch with, she’s haunted by the echoes of her footsteps in her empty home; the sound of the radio in the dark; the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock; a fish-stunning. Spiky and defensive, Missy knows that her loneliness is all her own fault. She deserves no more than this; not after what she’s done. But a chance encounter in the park with two very different women opens the door to something new. Another life beckons for Missy, if only she can be brave enough to grasp the opportunity. But seventy-nine is too late for a second chance...isn’t it?
“Bittersweet, tender, thoughtful and uplifting. Reminds you that everyone deserves a second chance. I loved it.” NINA STIBBE
“A thought-provoking, uplifting read that is far from predictable.” THE INDEPENDENT
General Fiction 384pp
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S.K. Tremayne Anne Tyler The Assistant Redhead By The Side Of The Road Newly divorced Jo is delighted to move into her best friend’s spare room Micah Mortimer isn’t the most polished person you’ll ever meet. His almost rent-free. The high-tech luxury Camden flat is managed by a numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, though meticulous tech tool, a Home Assistant called Electra, who takes care of he has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his the heating and the lights – sometimes Jo even turns to her for company. days running errands for work – his Tech Hermit sign cheerily displayed Then, late one night, Electra speaks one sentence that rips Jo’s fragile on the roof of his car – maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and world in two: I know what you did. Jo is horrified, because in her past she going for regular runs. He is content with the steady balance of his life. But did do something terrible. Something unforgivable. Only two other people then the order of things starts to tilt. His woman friend Cass (he refuses to in the whole world know her secret. And they would never tell anyone. call anyone in her late thirties a ‘girlfriend’) tells him she’s facing eviction Would they? As a fierce winter brings London to a standstill, Jo begins to because of a cat. And when a teenager shows up at his door claiming to
Charnwood understand that the Assistant on the shelf doesn’t just want to control her; be his son, Micah is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly it wants to destroy her... equipped to handle.
The most gripping and “Tyler’s warmly comedic, quickly original psychological thriller read tale, a perfect stress of 2020! antidote, will delight her fans and provides an excellent ‘first’ for readers new to this master of “One of my top reads of the subtle and sublime brilliance...” year.” LISA JEWELL BOOKLIST
“Characteristically tender... Suffused with feeling and very moving.” KIRKUS REVIEWS
Thriller 408pp General Fiction 192pp
Sarah Butler Jack & Bet Jack Chalmers is a man of few words, married to a woman of many. He and Bet have been together for seventy years – happily so, for the most part. All Jack and Bet want is to enjoy the time they have left together, in the flat they have tried to make their home. Their son Tommy has other ideas: he wants them to live somewhere with round-the- clock care, hot meals, activities. Bet thinks they can manage just fine. When they strike up an unlikely friendship with Marinela, a young Romanian woman, Bet thinks she has found the perfect solution – one that could change Marinela’s life as well as theirs. But this means revisiting an old love affair, and confronting a long-buried secret she has kept hidden from everyone, even Jack, for many years.
“...a tender and deeply affecting novel about everyday people living everyday lives... Full of beauty, pain and joy, I loved Jack & Bet.” LAURA BARNETT
“...a moving yet unsentimental story about family and love and the secrets we live with.” PAUL MCVEIGH
General Fiction 318pp
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Kate Ellis Anna Jacobs The Burial Circle Finding Cassie On a stormy night in December, a tree is blown down on an isolated When the teenage girl who's been hanging around near the house knocks Devon farm. A rucksack is found caught amongst the roots – and next on the door and tells her she's her granddaughter, Cassie is shocked rigid. to it is a human skeleton. The discoveries revive memories for DI Wesley There's only one way this can be true: if Evie is the daughter of the baby Peterson: a young hitchhiker who went missing twelve years ago was last Cassie gave away for adoption when she was herself a troubled teenager. seen carrying a similar backpack. Suddenly a half-forgotten cold case has Is this a trick? Or is Evie's tale true? When she finds out why the girl has turned into a murder investigation. Meanwhile, in the nearby village of come to find her, it brings a tangle of other problems that she can't ignore. Petherham, a famous TV psychic is found dead in suspicious circumstances This was the last thing she expected to be dealing with as she moves into whilst staying at a local guesthouse. Could a string of mysterious deaths in her new home in a leisure village in Wiltshire. Petherham over a hundred years ago be connected to the recent killings?
As Wesley digs deeper, it seems the dark whisperings of a Burial Circle in Charnwood the village might not be merely legend after all...
The Penny Lake Series The Wesley Peterson Series
“A beguiling author who interweaves past and present.” THE TIMES
Mystery 420pp Romance 354pp
Emily Koch Keep Him Close Alice’s son is dead. Indigo’s son is accused of murder, but she is determined to prove his innocence. Searching for evidence, she is helped by a kind stranger who takes an interest in her situation. Little does she know that her new friend has her own agenda. Alice can’t tell Indigo who she really is. She wants to understand why her son was killed – and she needs to make sure Indigo’s efforts to free Kane don’t put her remaining family at risk. But how long will it take for Indigo to discover her identity? And what other secrets will come out as she digs deeper? No one knows a son like his mother. But neither Alice nor Indigo know the whole truth about their boys, and what happened between them on that fateful night.
“This is domestic noir as it’s meant to be done; riveting and beautifully written.” JO SPAIN
“A beautiful and heart-breaking story that I can’t stop thinking about. Simply stunning.” JO JAKEMAN
Thriller 408pp
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Rosamund Lupton Three Hours Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds. It is a morning’s lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods. It is an eternity waiting for news. Or a countdown to something terrible. It is 180 minutes to discover who you will die for and what men will kill for. In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. Children and teachers barricade themselves into classrooms, the library, the theatre. The headmaster lies wounded in the library, unable to help his trapped students and staff. Outside, a police psychiatrist must identify the gunmen, while parents gather,
Charnwood desperate for news. In three intense hours, all must find the courage to stand up to evil and save the people they love.
“It’s beautifully, elegantly written, SO gripping, intelligent, timely, affecting and moving.” MARIAN KEYES
“An incredible, unbelievably powerful book... I forgot how to breathe as it explored what it means to be human – for better or for worse. It’s taut, it’s tight, it’s appalling, it’s uplifting, it’s extraordinary. Simply stunning.” DINAH JEFFERIES
“Beautifully written, emotionally note-perfect and nail-bitingly tense. It’s BRILLIANT.” TAMMY COHEN
Suspense 414pp
Nina Stibbe Adele Parks Reasons To Be Cheerful Just My Luck When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city, For fifteen years, Lexi and Jake Greenwood have participated in a lottery they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted out by the syndicate with their friends, the Pearsons and the Heathcotes, playing tall buildings, couldn’t shine and the rain was poisoned by the toxic fumes the same six numbers every single time. Over dinner parties, fish-and- that poured from the sock factories. My skin would be covered in pimples chip suppers and summer barbecues, they’ve discussed the important from the hell of it all. stuff – the kids, marriages, jobs and houses – and laughed off their So begins a young woman’s journey to adulthood. Lizzie Vogel leaves disappointment when they failed to win anything more than a tenner. her alcoholic, novel-writing mother and sets off for Leicester to work for But then, one Saturday night, the unthinkable happens. There’s a rift in a racist, barely competent dentist obsessed with joining the Freemasons. the group. Someone doesn’t tell the truth. The syndicate falls apart. The Soon Lizzie is heading into the murky depths of grown-up life: where next week, Lexi buys a lottery ticket using the same six numbers. And, her driving instructor becomes her best friend, her first boyfriend prefers on Saturday, those six numbers come up in the draw. Lexi and Jake now birdwatching to sex, and independence for a teenage girl might just be possess a lottery ticket worth almost £18 million. And their friends are another word for loneliness... determined to claim a share of it...
The Lizzie Vogel Series “Stupendous! ...It drew me in and I couldn’t put it down. As ever, Adele Parks does not “Pitch perfect vintage comedy.” disappoint – you’’ll love it.” THE GUARDIAN RUTH JONES
“It is SO SO funny, charming, “Utterly gripping and fiendishly odd-in-the-best-way and twisty. You’ll never do the lottery gorgeously uplifting! A delight again.” VERONICA HENRY from start to finish.” MARIAN KEYES
General Fiction 384pp Suspense 486pp
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Joanna Trollope Mum And Dad It’s been twenty-five years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke, it’s left to their three grown children in London to step in. Businessman Sebastian’s wife, Anna, has never quite seen eye to eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor in the City, is distracted by problems with her partner, Nic, and the secretive lives of their three daughters. And Jake is determined to convince his new wife, Bella, that moving to Spain with their eighteen-month-old would be a good idea. As the children descend on the vineyard, it becomes clear that each has their own idea of how best to handle their mum and dad, as well as the family business... Charnwood
“Trollope writes about family relationships with intelligence and clear-eyed sympathy.” THE TIMES
General Fiction 360pp
Harry Brett Josephine Cox & Gilly Middleton Good Dark Night Two Sisters For the first time in years, Tatiana Goodwin feels in control. She has The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their father’s farm. Ellen, loyal survived events that would make most people give up and go into hiding. and honest, loves the countryside. Gina, impulsive and unreliable, craves Yet Tatty is still here, surrounded by her loyal family and even daring to excitement and yearns for something more than drudgery and toil. But life expand the Goodwin empire. But when her son, Ben, gets kidnapped by a for the sisters and their mother is tainted by their father’s black moods. His rival gang and the blame lies with her, the ghosts of Tatty's past catch up. worst treatment is often aimed at Gina, who has given up trying to please Now it is down to the ever-loyal Frank to do everything he can to get Ben the man who seems to despise her. Grindle Hall, the big manor house, is back and keep the family together. What he doesn't realise is that there owned by the Stellion family and seems to offer them both a chance of is a new threat in town, and all those old trusted sources are answering betterment. Ellen is delighted to be given a job helping her uncle Tom in to a different power. The Goodwins' lives are at serious risk, and only a the beautiful gardens of the house. Taking a darker road, however, Gina heartbreaking sacrifice can save them... tricks her way into the Stellions’ lives – and her actions will soon have fateful consequences...
The Goodwins Series
“An atmospheric and riveting tale.” THE GUARDIAN
“Harry Brett writes a fun plot with witty elegance.” THE TIMES
Crime 396pp General Fiction 438pp
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Jeffery Deaver Alice Feeney The Goodbye Man I Know Who You Are In pursuit of two young men accused of terrible hate crimes, Colter Shaw Meet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t stumbles upon a clue to another mystery. In an effort to save the life of remember where from. Except one person. Someone knows Aimee very a young woman – and possibly others – he travels to the wilderness well. They know who she is and they know what she did. of Washington State to investigate a mysterious organization. Is it a When Aimee comes home and discovers her husband is missing, she community that consoles the bereaved? Or a dangerous cult under the doesn’t seem to know what to do or how to act. The police think she’s sway of a captivating leader? As he peels back the layers of truth, Shaw hiding something – and they’re right, she is – but perhaps not what they finds that some people will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden. thought. Aimee has a secret she’s never shared, and yet, she suspects that All the while, he must unravel an equally deadly enigma: locating and someone knows. As she struggles to keep her career and sanity intact, her deciphering a message hidden by his father years ago, just before his past comes back to haunt her in ways more dangerous than she could Charnwood death – a message that will have dramatic consequences... ever have imagined.
The Colter Shaw Series “Twisty and gripping.” JANE FALLON “[An] outstanding sequel to 2019’s The Never Game... “Clever, compulsive, crazy – you Deaver balances suspense and will NEVER guess the ending of plausibility perfectly... This is a this one!” LOUISE CANDLISH perfect jumping-on point for readers new to one of today’s top contemporary thriller writers.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thriller 582pp Suspense 390pp
Katie Fforde A Springtime Affair Gilly runs her own B&B business from her much-loved family home, which she doesn't want to part with – at any price. But that's before she meets handsome estate agent Leo, and soon she begins to wonder whether selling up might not be such a bad idea after all. Meanwhile, Gilly's daughter, Helena, has a budding romance of her own. A talented weaver, she's becoming very close to her new landlord, Jago, who's offered to help her at an upcoming craft fair. It's what friends do, and they are just friends. Aren't they? With spring in full bloom, Helena and Gilly begin to ask themselves the same question: might their new loves lead to happily ever after?
A Sunday Times Bestselling Author
“A heartwarming mum and daughter tale about finding love again.” HEAT
Romance 420pp
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Phaedra Patrick Clare Pooley The Secrets Of Sunshine The Authenticity Project Single dad Mitchell Fisher has said a firm goodbye to romance. He relishes Septuagenarian Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. his job cutting off the padlocks that couples fasten to his hometown's So he begins The Authenticity Project – a small green notebook containing famous Victorian bridge. Only his young daughter, Poppy, knows that the truth about his life. behind his prickly veneer, Mitchell is deeply lonely – and he still grieves Leaving the notebook on a table in his friendly neighbourhood café, Julian the loss of her mother. Then one hot summer's day, everything changes never expects Monica, the owner, to track him down after finding it. Or when Mitchell bravely rescues a woman who falls from the bridge into the that she’ll be inspired to write down her own story. river. He's surprised to feel an unexpected connection to her, but then she Little do they realize that such small acts of honesty hold the power disappears. Desperate to find the mysterious woman, Mitchell teams up to impact all those who discover the notebook and change their lives with her spirited sister Liza to see if she's left any clues behind. There's just completely. one – a secret message on the padlock she left on the bridge... Charnwood The Authenticity Project is a story about being brave and putting your real self forward...and finding out that it’s not as scary as it seems. In fact, it looks a lot like happiness. “A charming, unforgettable story.” HARPER’S BAZAAR “It has such an intriguing premise, wonderful characters “We love this sweet story about and is utterly truthful about the self-discovery.” TAKE A BREAK lies that we all tell. It’s a clever, uplifting book that entertains and makes you think.” SOPHIE KINSELLA “Beautifully written, thought provoking and uplifting... Pooley’s characters will stay with you long after you turn the final page. It was a joy to read.” MIKE GAYLE
General Fiction 414pp General Fiction 444pp
Susie Steiner Remain Silent Newly married and navigating life with a toddler as well as her adopted adolescent son, Manon Bradshaw is happy to be working part-time in the cold cases department of the Cambridgeshire police force. Beneath the surface, however, she is struggling with the day-to-day realities of what she assumed would be domestic bliss: fights, fatigue, and going to couples’ counselling alone. But when Manon is on a walk with her young son in a peaceful suburban neighbourhood and discovers the body of a Lithuanian immigrant hanging from a tree with a mysterious note attached, she knows her life is about to change. Suddenly she is back on the job full-force, trying to solve the suicide – or is it a murder? – In what may be the most dangerous and demanding case of her life.
The Manon Series
“Flew through it, laughing out loud at her gags. And then cried at the end. Perfect. Loved it.” FIONA BARTON
“...made me laugh, kept me guessing till the end and made me care long after I’d closed the book.” ERIN KELLY
Crime 378pp
8 Magna Family Saga Hardcover July
Donna Douglas Kate Eastham Nightingale Wedding Bells Daughters Of Liverpool East London: War rages on, but for the Nightingale nurses, wedding bells Liverpool, 1868: Shrouded in secrecy, Alice Sampson gives birth to a are ringing... beautiful baby girl. But the former nurse’s happiness is blighted by the Anna is over the moon when her sweetheart returns from the front line. knowledge that as a penniless, unwed mother, her future and that of her child can only be one of shame. Then a knock at the door brings a
Magna As he recovers from his injuries, they make plans to be married, but the horrors of the trenches cast a long shadow. Caring for shell-shocked miracle: she is invited to return to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and her soldiers brings untold challenges for Grace, and her parents have very beloved ward. With the help of her friends and the welcome attentions of different dreams for her future. Meanwhile, Dulcie has her sights firmly set Reverend Seed, the hospital chaplain, Alice slowly starts to rebuild her life. on her own happy ending. And yet sometimes we find love where we least Everything is looking up – until her baby’s father unexpectedly shows up expect to. Each of the nurses has her own battle to fight, but they must to claim the child he knew nothing about. Suddenly Alice is in danger of rally together if they’re to find true happiness. losing everything...
Readers’ Reviews “A warm and satisfying story.” MY WEEKLY
“Another great book in this wonderful series...”
“Heartwarming...”
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Evie Grace Annie Groves The Seaside Angel Wartime For The District Nurses Margate, 1884: When seventeen-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family Alice Lake and her friend Edith have had everything thrown at them home, she never dreamed she’d find her feet working as a nurse on the in their first year as district nurses in London’s East End. From babies children’s ward at the Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary. She adores her patients born out of wedlock to battered wives, they’ve had plenty to keep them and the sea air, and looks forward to a time when she’ll have put away occupied. As rationing takes hold and Hitler’s bombers train their sights on enough money so her younger sister can join her. But when her sister London, Edith tries to battle on bravely while bearing her own heartache, suddenly turns up unannounced, she brings more trouble than Hannah but there’s no escaping the reality of being at war, or the new terror of bargained for. As Hannah is forced to risk everything to keep her sister the bombing raids. The girls find themselves caught up in the terrible out of trouble, she must somehow find the strength to save herself, too... aftermath, their nursing skills desperately needed by the shaken locals on their rounds. With the men away fighting for king and country, it’s up to the nurses to keep up the spirit of the Blitz, and everyone is counting on them...
“Grace’s skill is in bringing The District Nurses Series her characters vividly to life while maintaining an authentic historical background... It’s Readers’ Reviews warmhearted and moving.” “An amazing read...” PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH “Another great book by Annie Groves...” “Delivering wonderfully vivid characters alongside expertly crafted detail... A heartwarming, relatable and redemptive read.” WOMAN’S OWN
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9 Magna Family Saga Hardcover July - August
Gemma Jackson Anna Jacobs Impossible Dream Gifts For Our Time Dublin, 1898: Hoping to amass a fortune, Captain Charles Whitmore is Germany, 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that preparing to set off on a long sea voyage, deliberately leaving his wife she’ll ever see her parents again. Once in England she is taken in by elderly Georgina almost penniless to fend for herself and the servants. Georgina, Mrs Pelling, who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had. But who has been desperate to break free from a life of violent marital abuse, in 1945 Mrs Pelling dies and her money-grabbing niece turfs Christa out is relieved that he will be gone for some years, but nevertheless the with only a suitcase to her name. Luck comes her way when a lady she Magna future is frightening. Then help comes from an unexpected quarter: an saves from being mugged turns out to be Mayne Esher’s friend Daniel’s organisation that helps women escape lives of abuse or genteel poverty mother. Taking pity on Christa, they bring her to Rivenshaw, where they makes Georgina an offer. They propose that her house should become plan to start a new life as part of the Esher building firm. There Christa is a school designed to train women to seek employment in the American welcomed with open arms, and she soon develops a love for the place, Southwest. The very idea is at once shocking and appealing. Can Georgina the people – and Daniel... step into the unknown and lead the women under her care into the future?
Readers’ Reviews The Rivenshaw Series “Wow. What a brilliant read...” “The final instalment in the “Great read, a real page gripping, uplifting Rivenshaw turner...” series set at the end of WWII. Anna Jacobs’ books are deservedly popular. She is one of the best writers of Lancashire sagas around.” HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW
432pp 450pp
Kerry Bell Margaret Kaine Hope Comes To Emmerdale A Life Of Secrets World War II rages on. Rationing, blackouts, evacuees and military training Deploring social injustice, Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency, camps have become the norm in the village of Beckindale, but happiness concealing the fact that she’s a member of the aristocracy. But Deborah has been found during these hard times. Lily Dingle is getting married, has become accustomed to keeping secrets. It began eight years ago in Annie Pearson has returned after volunteering with the Wrens, and there 1918 when her dashing French lieutenant was tragically killed. Amid an are new neighbours to get to know...including a female vet, of all things. undercurrent of social unrest and with the General Strike looming ahead, The new inhabitants are about to learn things are never dull here. Deborah meets two very different men, handsome Theodore Field MP and Exploring the lives of these much-loved families during World War II, the charismatic union firebrand Evan Morgan. Deborah is torn between including favourites such as the Sugdens and the Dingles, Hope Comes To her feelings for Theo and the magnetism between herself and Evan. But Emmerdale is an upbeat and nostalgic novel about community, friendship then she is astounded by a mystery, one she is desperate to solve. And and love. when its explosive secret is revealed, she discovers that she has been both manipulated and betrayed...
“Just as in the TV series, family life is at the heart of this Readers’ Reviews engrossing story as the personal “Recommended...” dramas, passions, triumphs and disasters play out amidst all the “Thoroughly enjoyed it!” turmoil and uncertainties of wartime in a tightly-knit village community... Beautifully written and researched...filled with warmth, real-life dramas, rich period detail and fascinating characters...” LANCASHIRE POST
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10 Magna Family Saga Hardcover August
Freda Lightfoot Nicola Pryce Peace In My Heart The Cornish Dressmaker The war is over, and Evie Talbert eagerly awaits the return of her three Cornwall, 1796: Seamstress Elowyn Liddicot’s family believe they’ve children from their evacuated homes. But her carefree daughters and son secured the perfect future for her, in the arms of Nathan Cardew. But are barely recognisable – their education has been disrupted, the siblings then one evening Elowyn helps to rescue a dying man from the sea, and split up, and the effect on them has been life-changing. Her son has everything changes. William Cotterell, wild and self-assured, refuses to Magna developed serious behavioural problems, and with her daughters, there's leave her thoughts or her side – but surely she can’t love someone so jealousy and a nervous disorder that cannot be explained... unlike herself? With Elowyn’s dressmaking business suddenly under threat, Evie's husband also has problems. Having returned from being in action, her family’s pressure to marry Nathan increasing, and her heart decidedly he suffers nightmares and fits of rage. He's no longer the gentle, quiet at odds with her head, Elowyn doesn’t know who to trust anymore. And man Evie married. Peace may finally be here, but Evie's family is in shreds. when William uncovers a sinister conspiracy that affects her whole world, Now she must rebuild a loving home to achieve the happiness she's can Elowyn find the courage to support the people she loves in the face always dreamed of... of all opposition?
The Post War Saga Trilogy The Cornish Saga
“A story full of love, tenderness, “A most enjoyable read set in shocking deceit and the power the wild and majestic landscape of the family to overcome of Cornwall. It will delight adversity.” LANCASHIRE LIFE Poldark fans.” ELLIE DEAN
348pp 486pp
Lynette Rees Daisy Styles The Workhouse Waif The Bomb Girl Brides After the death of her father in a mining accident, Megan and her family Britain, 1944: The life of a Bomb Girl isn’t usually glamorous. But Maggie had no choice but to move to the local workhouse. Separated from her is getting married, so she is going to make sure her wedding day is – even mother and five siblings, young Megan must learn how to stand on her if she does have to spend every other day slaving on the factory floor. This own two feet. But conditions at the workhouse are grim, despite the blasted factory was not what Julia had in mind, either. She had always kindnesses of other inmates – the tasks are gruelling, and Megan is dreamed of attending Oxford University rather than getting her hands constantly denied permission to visit her mother. dirty, and the easy laughter of the other women intimidates her terribly. It’s on one of the days she’s sent out on errands that her fate changes. She But they are all here together in this munitions factory in a Lancashire meets a young boy who’s stealing apples from the local market, as well as mill town, sharing firsts, pitching in and getting on. Despite rationing, a friendly well-to-do lady with the most melodious voice she’s ever heard. dangerous hard work and new situations, these Bomb Girls are going to With her newfound friends, can she find a new life for herself? do their best at work, and in love.
The Winds Of Fortune Series The Bomb Girls Series
Readers’ Reviews Readers’ Reviews “A wonderful, heart-warming, “Heart-warming, entertaining moving read...” and so much more...”
“Fantastic book...” “I highly recommend this book, well worth 5*...”
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11 Magna Family Saga Hardcover September
Karen Dickson Anne Doughty The Shop Girl’s Soldier The Girl From Galloway Southampton, 1905: Ellie-May and Jack have been inseparable since birth. 1845: Since following her heart and moving from her comfortable home They are best friends, having grown up together on the same street. But in Scotland to the harsh mountainside of Ardtur, County Donegal, Hannah when Jack and his mother fall on hard times they are thrown into the McGinley hasn’t had the easiest life. But surrounded by her two children workhouse, and he and Ellie-May are forced into a goodbye. Four years and her loving husband Patrick, she has found happiness. When her later, now aged sixteen, Jack returns to Southampton and is reunited with daughter returns home with news that her school may close as one of Magna Ellie-May. Quickly they both realise that their feelings for each other go the teachers is moving away, Hannah feels compelled to take the vacant beyond friendship, and with Jack home for good the pair are finally free to post. With the schoolmaster Daniel having lost his sight, Hannah knows be together. But when WWII approaches, Jack’s duty to his country is hard that he won’t be able to manage the children alone. But the money from to ignore and when he enlists to fight, they are once again torn apart. Will teaching is poor, and as the potato crops begin to fail all around them, Ellie-May and Jack find their way back to each other before it’s too late? times are getting tougher still. Will Hannah be able to help her family and save the school?
“An exciting, fresh and talented The Hamiltons Series new voice – a five-star read!” CAROL RIVERS A stunning novel of love, family and overcoming the odds.
Readers’ Reviews “I love ALL the books from this author...”
“Brilliant...”
486pp 354pp
Nicola Pryce Lynette Rees The Cornish Lady The Matchgirl Educated, beautiful, and the daughter of a prosperous merchant, Angelica 1888: In the East End of London, things are difficult for young Lottie and Lilly has been invited to spend the summer in high society. Her father’s her family. Her father has just passed away, and having fallen out with wealth is opening doors and attracting marriage proposals, but Angelica Lottie’s rich aunt, her mother cannot appeal to her for help. Nowadays still feels like an imposter among the aristocrats of Cornwall. When they have to make do and mend: with four younger siblings, there are six her brother returns home, ill and under the influence of a dangerous mouths to feed, and money is tight. Lottie ought to have soft hands like man, Angelica’s loyalties are tested to the limit. Her one hope lies with a lady, but they are chapped and sore, for conditions at the match factory coachman Henry Trevelyan, a softly spoken educated man with kind eyes. where she works are dire. The girls get treated badly by the management, But when Henry seemingly betrays Angelica, she has no one to turn to. and there is a severe risk to their health. But then a young journalist, Annie Who is Henry, and what does he want? And can Angelica save her brother Besant, begins asking questions. Will Lottie and the other girls welcome from a terrible plot that threatens to ruin her entire family? her help, even when it could cost them their jobs – and their livelihoods?
The Cornish Saga The Winds Of Fortune Series
Readers’ Reviews Readers’ Reviews “A must read...” “Wow....yet another wonderful “Thoroughly enjoyable...” well written book by this author...”
“Fascinating story...”
502pp 336pp
12 Magna Family Saga Hardcover September
Pam Weaver Glenda Young Sing Them Home Belle Of The Back Streets 1942: A German aircraft crashes into a house in Worthing and causes “Any rag and bone!” Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she complete devastation to the local community. Three strangers meet for plies her trade along the back streets of Ryhope. She learnt the ropes from the first time that day – Pip, Stella and Lillian. Lillian’s little girl Flora has her dad when he returned from the war. But when tragedy struck, Meg been hurt in the crash and is rushed to hospital. As she comes through her had no choice but to continue alone. Now the meagre money she earns Magna ordeal, she finds her mother and her two new ‘aunties’ by her bedside. is the only thing that stands between her family’s safety and a predatory The three new friends quickly bond over shared experiences; all their rent collector... Many say it’s no job for a woman – especially a beauty like husbands are overseas in the fighting forces. They also have the same Meg. When she catches the eye of charming Clarky it looks like she might love of singing and soon form the Sussex Sisters, Worthing’s answer to the have found a chance of happiness. But could Adam, Meg’s loyal childhood Andrews Sisters. When D-Day finally arrives, it’s the promise of a brighter friend, be the one who really deserves her heart? future they have all been longing for. But the men who return home Readers’ Reviews are altogether different from the husbands they waved off... “Sad, happy and exciting, this book is a real drama and I can’t wait for the next one by this “What a terrific read – saga wonderful author...” fans everywhere will love it and be asking for more from this talented author.” ANNIE “Fantastic... Highly GROVES recommended...”
“An engaging and gripping post- war saga...a hard-hitting story of female friendship tested against the odds.” TAKE A BREAK 450pp 438pp
Isis Softcover Due to popular demand – Isis New Release titles are now all in Softcover
Simon Beckett Stevyn Colgan The Scent Of Death The Diabolical Club Formerly a busy hospital, St Jude’s now stands derelict, awaiting Strange things are going on in Black Dog Wood. A blindfolded skeleton Isis demolition: these days, its only visitors are addicts and dealers. So when has been unearthed, there have been sightings of some kind of monster, a partially mummified corpse is found in the hospital’s cavernous loft, the and rumours abound of naughty goings-on at night. And then the local police believe it must be the result of a tragic accident or a drug deal gone MP, Sir Giles Luscott-Whorne, is accused of murder. Giles’s best chance to wrong. Forensics expert Dr David Hunter can’t say how long the body prove his innocence lies with retired police detective Frank Shunter. Can has been there, but he’s certain it’s that of a young woman, and that she he discover whodunit? And what connects all of these curious events to was pregnant. It soon becomes clear that the hospital has yet to give up a long-lost manuscript by crime author Agnes Crabbe? In this sequel to all of its secrets. The sudden collapse of the attic floor reveals a bricked- A Murder To Die For, Stevyn Colgan once again takes us back to South up chamber with beds still inside. Some of them are occupied... As the Herewardshire for a comedy of deadly proportions. investigation springs more surprises, one thing is certain: St Jude’s hasn’t claimed its last victim. “A challenging mystery.” MATT LUCAS The Dr David Hunter Series “I hope fictional people never stop getting murdered inside “Masterful storytelling and Stevyn Colgan’s head. I never macabre forensic details make want this brilliant, hilarious series his novels utterly chilling reads.” to ever end.” DAN SCHREIBER TESS GERRITSEN Readers’ Reviews “Simon Beckett’s sixth “Utter brilliance, a really novel featuring the forensic good laugh and excellent anthropologist David Hunter is whodunnit...” arguably his best...a superbly “Delightful and very funny strong read.” THE TIMES whodunnit...”
Mystery 584pp Mystery 360pp
13 Isis Softcover July
Billy Connolly Elly Griffiths Tall Tales And Wee Stories Now You See Them Isis The Best Of Billy Connolly Brighton, 1964: Edgar Stephens has been promoted to superintendent In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, and is married to his former sergeant, Emma Holmes. Edgar’s wartime Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. Back partner in arms, magician Max Mephisto, is a movie star in Hollywood, in the sixties, Billy played the banjo in the folk clubs of Scotland and, while his daughter Ruby has her own TV show. The funeral of an old improvising between songs, learned what made audiences laugh. Soon he friend highlights just how much the gang’s lives have changed in the last was recognised as one of the most exciting comedians of his generation. eleven years. Edgar is struggling with fresh responsibilities and the new Billy never wrote scripts, always creating his comedy freshly on stage, and swinging Brighton of rioting mods and rockers; Emma is chafing against he brought a beautiful sense of the absurd to his shows as he riffed on the restrictions of life as a housewife. Bob Willis, meanwhile, is tackling his family, hecklers, swimming in the North Sea, or naked bungee jumping his biggest case since his promotion to DI: a schoolgirl missing from high- – as well as sex, politics, and religion. Tall Tales And Wee Stories brings class boarding school Roedean. It looks like she’s run away, but there are together the best of Billy’s storytelling for the first time. An inspirational disturbing similarities to the disappearances of a young local nurse and a and riotously funny read, it’s a fitting celebration of our greatest ever tearaway modette... comedian. The Stephens and Mephisto “A read that entirely fits the Series personality of the extreme personality who wrote it, A must-read for fans of Connolly’s raucous run through Agatha Christie, cosy crime his life is as furious, funny and and TV series such as foul-mouthed as you’d expect. Grantchester and Midsomer His stand-up knack for easy Murders storytelling shines through.” THE SUNDAY TIMES “Wry, emotionally intelligent and quietly satisfying.” “Wild and whirling...it reads like THE SUNDAY TIMES a talking book.” THE OBSERVER
N/F: Autobiography 354pp Mystery 348pp
Stacey Halls Rebecca Tope The Foundling The Staveley Suspect London, 1754: Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at Simmy Brown has a lot on her mind. Not just keeping her florist business London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she afloat, but the challenge of developing a long-term relationship with has never known – but is astonished when she is told she has already Christopher while coping with her father’s failing health. It is also only a claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has few weeks until Mother’s Day, which is her busiest day of the year, though taken her little girl and why... In a quiet, gloomy townhouse on the edge of it also brings up painful memories of personal loss. But in taking an order London, a young widow has not left the house in a decade. When her close for a retirement party in Staveley, Simmy is unwittingly pulled into her most friend, an ambitious young doctor at the Foundling Hospital, persuades her challenging investigation yet. When a daughter starts accusing her own to hire a nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone mother of murder, Simmy feels she has no choice but to offer assistance. new into her home and her life. But her past is threatening to catch up And as Detective Inspector Moxon himself flounders in the face of a with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart... crime with so many unpleasant implications, Simmy must leave her own concerns behind to track down the killer.
“A gripping and moving read.” The Lake District Mysteries LIBBY PAGE Readers’ Reviews “A masterpiece of storytelling... “An enjoyable mystery...” I can’t recommend it highly enough.” KATIE LOWE “A great read...”
Historical Fiction 360pp Mystery 336pp
14 Isis Softcover August
Chris Atkins Stephen Leather A Bit Of A Stretch Light Touch Isis The Diaries Of A Prisoner Working undercover is all about trust – getting the target to trust you Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice. But what do get “spice” than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an you do when you believe an undercover cop has crossed the line and eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty’s Prison Service. Like most people, aligned herself with the international drugs smuggler she was supposed documentary-maker Chris Atkins didn’t spend much time thinking about to be targeting? When Lisa Wilson stops passing on intelligence about prisons. But after becoming embroiled in a dodgy scheme to fund his her target, MI5 sends in Dan “Spider” Shepherd to check that she’s on latest film, he was sent down for five years. His new home would be HMP the straight and narrow. Now two lives are on the line – and Shepherd Wandsworth, one of the largest and most dysfunctional prisons in Europe. discovers that the real danger is closer to home than he realised. As Spider With a cast of characters ranging from wily drug dealers to senior officials finds his loyalties being tested to the limit, an SAS killer is on a revenge bent on endless reform, this powerful memoir uncovers the horrifying mission in London, and only Spider can stop him... reality behind the locked gates. Filled with dark humour and shocking stories, A Bit Of A Stretch reveals why our creaking prison system is sorely costing us all.
The Spider Shepherd Series
“Shocking, scathing, “A writer at the top of his entertaining...” THE GUARDIAN game.” SUNDAY EXPRESS
“...highly readable and thought- “As tough as British thrillers provoking...” THE DAILY MAIL get...gripping.” IRISH INDEPENDENT
N/F: Memoir 420pp Thriller 510pp
Edward Marston Owen Nicholls Points Of Danger Love, Unscripted 1861: Jarvis Swarbrick MP, universally admired for his work towards For film projectionist Nick, love should mirror what he sees on the big unifying East Anglia’s tangle of railway networks, is travelling by train screen. And when he falls for Ellie on the eve of the 2008 presidential with his wife when he is threatened by an armed robber. Swarbrick defies election, it finally does. For four blissful years, Nick loved his job splicing the man and is promptly shot dead. As the only detective in Britain with film reels together in the local cinema. Life seemed...picture-perfect. enough expertise for the job, Inspector Colbeck is brought in to investigate But now it’s 2012, Ellie has moved out, and Nick’s trying to figure out the tragedy. But as Swarbrick’s glowing reputation begins to crumble, where it all went wrong. the line of investigation isn’t clear: is this the act of a bungling burglar, With Ellie gone and his life far from the happy ending he imagined, Nick a business rival, a disgruntled son, or a jealous lover? Whoever it is, they wonders if their romance could ever again be as perfect as the night they are determined to involve Colbeck in their fight. Is the Railway Detective met. Can love really be as it is in the movies? following the right track, or will he need to switch points to bring the murderer to justice?
The Inspector Robert Colbeck “This will tug at your heart Railway Detective Series strings.” BEST MAGAZINE
“A master storyteller.” “A nostalgic read for fans DAILY MAIL of Nick Hornby and David Nicholls...[a] smart, funny novel.” HEAT Reader Review “Another Colbeck masterpiece...”
Mystery 384pp Romance 396pp
15 Isis Softcover August - September
Jack Sheffield M.J. Tjia Changing Times The Death Of Me Isis Ragley, 1963: For the residents of the small Yorkshire village, the war is The Continent, 1864: Two bomb attacks, three deaths. Clues to an finally starting to feel like a distant memory. Gone are the days of rationing elaborate assassination plot are intercepted in Paris, and the authorities and sacrifice, replaced with the joys of spin dryers and Beatlemania. But believe the assassin’s lair lies in Soho, London. When Heloise Chancey, Lily Feather can’t quite forget the events of the war and the years that courtesan and professional detective, takes on a wealthy client who followed. Buried in her past remains a terrible secret that threatens her requests that she meet a mysterious man in his stead, she never dreams it fragile family. After the death of their mother, Lily’s brother Freddie has will lead to her going undercover to spy upon the nest of plotters and end come to depend on her and her husband. On the cusp of adulthood, their murderous conspiracy. Danger keeps her company as she hunts evil Freddie’s life is simple – but then he stumbles across his family’s secret, down to its devilish source. Meanwhile, her Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, and his life is changed forever. A dark history lies between Freddie, Lily and returns to Heloise’s house to find it has been ransacked – and soon she the truth, and they begin to question how much they’ll have to sacrifice finds herself trapped in a deadly nightmare of deceit and madness. Will she along the way... be able to escape before time runs out?
The Jack Sheffield Series The Heloise Chancey Series
“Wry observation and “Victorian atmosphere abounds heartwarming humour in equal in a twisty, exciting tale of measure.” ALAN TITCHMARSH danger and lost love.” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Overflowing with amusing anecdotes.” DAILY EXPRESS “A terrific adventure.” NORTHERN READER
General Fiction 366pp Historical Mystery 294pp
Simon Brett Frances Brody Blotto, Twinks And The Great Road The Body On The Train Race 1929, London: In the darkness before dawn, a railway porter discovers a Once again, the plumbing at Tawcester Towers is causing consternation for man’s body as he unloads a special goods train from Yorkshire, all means the Dowager Duchess, so she gives her blessing for Blotto to take part in of identification stripped away. Hitting a dead end, Scotland Yard call on the Great Road Race in his beloved Lagonda...so long as he wins. The first indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton for help. In Yorkshire, fears of unrest prize of 10,000 pre-war sovereigns will help towards repairing the leaky in the coalfields mean that Kate must conduct her investigation with the ancestral home. Blotto elects to take chauffeur Corky Froggett as his spare utmost secrecy. And when she discovers that another murder occurred mechanic, and the team are pitted against Europe’s finest in a race that around the same time as that of the mysterious body on the train, she is takes them across the Alps to the Colosseum in Rome. Everyone will resort convinced there must be a connection. Soon she begins to uncover a web to dastardly deception and fiendish sabotage to ensure Blotto’s Lagonda is of intrigue that edges her closer to the truth. But with attempts being not the first car over the finishing line. Meanwhile, Twinks is despatched by made on her life, Kate needs all the strength and resourcefulness she can her mother to the Highlands to paint – and bag herself a wealthy husband, muster before she becomes the next victim... but she’s determined not to be left out...
The Blotto & Twinks Series The Kate Shackleton Series
“One of British crime’s most “Intricate... Readers must be on assured craftsmen...perfect their toes to catch the subtle entertainment.” THE GUARDIAN hints Brody skilfully drops.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“...a truly chilling climax.” BOOKPAGE
Mystery 240pp Historical Mystery 400pp
16 Isis Softcover September
Elly Griffiths S.J.I. Holliday The Stranger Diaries Violet Isis Reclusive Gothic writer R. M. Holland was most famous for his chilling Carrie’s best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the- story The Stranger. His house is now a school, Talgarth High, rumoured world trip they’d planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone. Violet to be haunted by the ghost of Holland’s murdered wife. The rumours also is also travelling alone after splitting up with her boyfriend in Thailand. She claim Holland was her murderer. Clare Cassidy teaches at Talgarth High is desperate for a ticket on the Trans-Siberian Express, but there is nothing and is writing a biography of Holland. When her friend and colleague available. When the two women meet in a Beijing hotel, Carrie makes the is found dead, a line from The Stranger by her side, Detective Sergeant impulsive decision to invite Violet to take her best friend’s place. Thrown Harbinder Kaur isn’t sure whether Clare is a valuable expert witness or together in a strange country, and the cramped cabin of the train, the a suspect. Grieving and afraid, Clare turns to her diary – but then other women soon form a bond. But as the journey continues through Mongolia writing begins to appear in it; writing that isn’t hers. Someone has been and into Russia, things start to unravel – because one of these women is in her house and read her darkest secrets. A strange and deadly game is not who she claims to be... being played out, with Clare at its heart...
A Times Crime Book of Mail On Sunday Book of The Year The Year
The Richard & Judy Book Club “A tense, immersive thriller that Pick kept me guessing.” IAN RANKIN “Utterly bewitching...a pitch- perfect modern Gothic.” AJ FINN “Compelling, gripping and horrifically entertaining.” “Compelling, intelligent and LIZ NUGENT increasingly mesmerising.” PETER JAMES
Mystery 480pp Thriller 368pp
Lara Maiklem M.P. Wright Mudlarking A Sinner’s Prayer Mudlark: a person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river St. Pauls, Bristol, 1970: A new decade, and JT Ellington has stepped away or harbour. from the private-eye game to scratch a living, respectable at last. Still his Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years nights are full of guilt and ghosts no prayers will banish – but it’s not in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to until the past comes calling in the unwelcome form of Superintendent Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, and Georgian clay Fletcher that his resolve is truly tested. Fletcher has a job for JT. A young pipes to Victorian toys. These objects tell her about London and its lost man, Nikhil Suresh, has disappeared just days before his wedding. Now ways of life. Moving from the river’s tidal origins in the west of the city rumours abound and his family is distraught. With blood money in his to the point where it meets the sea in the east, Mudlarking is a search pocket, JT is plunged into a demi-monde of vice, violence and passion. for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, which Lara calls the An extraordinary, malevolent enemy is intent on destroying him. Seeking longest archaeological site in England. As she has discovered, it is often survival and redemption, JT must play as dirty and dangerous as those the tiniest objects that tell the greatest stories. who want him dead.
Lost And Found On The River Thames The JT Ellington Series
Top Sunday Times Bestseller “Page turning historical detective A BBC Radio 4 Book of fiction at its finest.” The Week DERMOT O’LEARY
An Observer Book of The Year “This is terrific crime fiction – evocative, socially aware and gripping...” “Brilliant...” THE SUNDAY MARK BILLINGHAM TELEGRAPH
“Fascinating...” THE GUARDIAN
N/F: History 304pp Mystery 400pp
17 Aurora Softcover July
B.M. Carroll Favel Parrett Who We Were There Was Still Love Twenty years after they went their separate ways, friends and enemies are Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street. A man steps out suddenly. Eva coming together for their school reunion. Katy, who is desperate to show runs into him and hits the pavement hard. His anger slaps her, but his hate that she’s no longer the shy wallflower. Annabel, who ruled the school until will change all, as war forces so many lives into small brown suitcases... a spectacular fall from grace. Zach, popular and cruel, but who says he’s a Prague, 1980: Young Ludekˇ is free. And he sees everything. The world can Aurora changed man. And Robbie, always the victim, who never stood a chance. go to hell for all he cares, because Babi is waiting for him in the warm flat. As the reunion nears, a terrible event that binds the group together will She is his whole world... Melbourne, 1980: Malá Liska’sˇ grandma holds resurface. Because someone is still holding a grudge, and will stop at her hand as they climb the stairs to their third-floor flat. Here, Mána and nothing to reveal their darkest secrets... Bill have made a life for themselves and their granddaughter. A life imbued with the spirit of Prague and the loved ones left behind. Because there is still love, no matter what.
“Parrett beautifully captures “Addictive.” LIANE MORIARTY one family’s complicated twentieth-century inheritance.” “Riveting.” JANE CORRY AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
Crime 426pp General Fiction 204pp
J.P. Pomare Christian White In The Clearing The Wife And The Widow Amy has only ever known what life is like in the Clearing. She knows what Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, to do to please her elders, and how to make sure life in the community this is a story told from two perspectives. Kate Keddie is devastated when remains happy and calm. Until a newcomer, a younger girl, joins the her husband goes missing without a trace. But then she finds out he quit ‘family’ and offers a glimpse of the outside world. Freya is living an his job months earlier without telling her, and lied about the trip he was isolated life with her son and their dog, going to great lengths to keep supposed to be on. Where is he, and what is he hiding? Abby Gilpin is contact with the outside world like an everyday mum while being utterly an island local whose world is turned upside down when she’s forced to terrified by it. When news breaks of a missing girl – a child the same age confront the evidence that her husband is a murderer. However, nothing on as Freya’s son, Billy – Amy’s and Freya’s stories intertwine, and the secrets this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together of the past will crawl inexorably into the present. This rural Aussie town’s can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. dark underbelly is about to be exposed – and lives will be destroyed...
Readers’ Reviews “The plot never stops and the “Great read!” clever twist is thrilling.” LIBRARY JOURNAL “Atmospheric and gripping...” “Just when you think you have worked things out, he pulls back the curtain to reveal his cunning sleight of hand.” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Thriller 360pp Mystery 312pp
18 Aurora Softcover August
Richard Anderson Sarah Barrie Small Mercies Devil’s Lair After enduring months of extreme drought on their modest freehold, After the violent death of her husband, Callie retreats to a cottage in farming couple Dimple and Ruthie face uncertain times on more than one the grounds of an old mansion in Tasmania. The place is a balm to her front. Ruthie receives the news every woman dreads. Meanwhile, Wally shattered nerves, and the locals seem friendly, particularly horseman Oliver, a wealthy landowner, appears on the local radio station warning Connor Atherton and his siblings at the nearby property, Calico Lodge. Aurora small farmers that they are doomed, and the sooner they leave the land to But the mansion has a sinister past, one associated with witchcraft and large operators like him, the better. Bracing for a fight on all fronts, Dimple murder. As Callie is threatened by odd events in the night, and strange and Ruthie decide to take a road trip to confront Oliver. Along the way, not dreams overtake her sleep, she begins to doubt her own sanity. What’s only is their resolve tested, but their relationship as well. Desperate not to really going on beneath the surface of this apparently peaceful town? dwell on the past but to face up to the future, Dimple and Ruthie make a As events escalate, Callie starts to realise that the mansion may hold the crucial decision they soon regret. And when the storm clouds finally roll in key to unlocking the mystery, but the truth might have as much power to across the land they love, there's more than rain to contend with. destroy as it does to save.
“A fine-grained study of marriage “Utterly addictive suspense and and land in crisis” riveting storytelling set in a JOCK SERONG darkly gothic Tasmania.” SARAH BAILEY
General Fiction 222pp Mystery 498pp
AnneMarie Brear Fiona Palmer Where Rainbows End Matters Of The Heart It’s 1850, and the Noble family have travelled to the other side of the world Western Australia, 2019: The Bennets are a farming family struggling to to start a new life after scandal drove them from their native England. make ends meet. Lizzy, passionate about working the land, is determined Pippa Noble is determined to reclaim their honour by making her father’s to save the farm. Spirited and independent, she has little patience for her plan for an outback farm a reality, although her ambition is frowned upon mother’s focus on finding a suitable man for each of her five daughters. by a society that has very set ideas about a woman’s place. Pippa learns The dashing Charles Bingley, looking to expand his farm holdings, buys the hard way about the unforgiving nature of the bush, sometimes with the neighbouring property of Netherfield Park, and he and Lizzy’s sister devastating consequences. And when unfortunate circumstance leads to Jane form an instant connection at a dance. But it is Charlie’s best friend, her tending the farm alone, it is the friendship of neighbouring estate farming magnate Will Darcy, who leaves a lasting impression when he owner Gil Ashford that helps her through. Then an unexpected visitor from slights Lizzy, setting her against him. Can Lizzy and Will put judgements England arrives, putting Pippa’s dreams in jeopardy. But she will hold on and pride aside to each see the other for who they really are? Or in an age to her family’s land, even if it means losing everything else... where appearance and social media rule, will prejudice prevail?
Readers’ Reviews Readers’ Reviews “What an amazing story...!” “Great read...”
“Another great read...” “Fantastic...”
Historical Romance 366pp Romance 342pp
19 Aurora Softcover September
AnneMarie Brear Sherryl Clark Beneath A Stormy Sky Dead And Gone 1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia, Louisa Reynolds is Judi Westerholme has been through it. Brave and strong-willed, she’s just aided by an aboriginal girl and a kindly doctor, eventually making a fresh about coping in her new role as foster parent to her orphaned niece, taking start in the town of Albany. Unexpected new friendships with two men, a job at the local pub to help make ends meet. Then the pub’s landlord old gentleman George and dashing Connor, give her joy – but when and Judi’s friend, army veteran Pete ‘Macca’ Macclesfield, is murdered, Aurora she accepts an invitation to stay at George’s sheep station, the locals and her world is suddenly turned upside down. Despite warnings from the are scandalised. Louisa’s growing feelings for Connor are shattered by city police to keep out of it, Judi can’t help but get involved in the search a revelation – and it is gentle George who she suddenly marries. Only, for Macca’s killer. But she soon becomes deeply entangled with some settling into station life comes with its own problems, financial and ruthlessly dangerous men. She must act fast and think smart to work out otherwise. Confronted by a devastating fire and a gang of bushrangers, what they want – before anyone else gets hurt... Louisa feels as though her world is spinning out of control. Can she save the sheep station? And how long can she deny the love she feels for Connor?
The Judi Westerholme Series Readers’ Reviews “Poignant, powerful and searingly emotional...” “Will linger in your mind long after you have read it.” LEIGH RUSSELL “Fantastic read, you won’t be able to put it down...”
Saga 504pp Crime 420pp
Rhonda Forrest Nicola Moriarty Two Heartbeats The Ex When Jess heads west for a fresh start in a small mining town, she soon Finally, Georgia has found the one. Luke is kind, handsome, and makes her learns that the dusty outback plains are a far cry from her former life in feel safe – which is what she needs after everything she’s been through. the city – but she finds herself loving the isolation and local people she The only problem is his ex-girlfriend. lives with. All she has to do is keep her head down and work hard to Luke says Cadence just can’t accept the breakup, and that explains the create a better life for herself and Johnno, the only person she has ever texts, the emails, the notes... truly cared about. As relationships develop and change, Jess discovers the warmth of a welcoming family and a circle of friends who look out for her. When everything starts to go wrong at work, at home, in her old However, problems arise when she collides with her new boss Daniel, who friendships and her happy new relationship with Luke, Georgia starts to is suspicious of her background story. Has Jess told him everything, or is feel truly afraid. there a hidden secret to justify his earlier distrust of her? Cadence wants what she has. What would she do to get it? And can Georgia trust anyone at all?
Readers’ Reviews “Gripping, dramatic and with “Another great Aussie read from twists you won’t see coming. I a very talented author!” loved this book.” SALLY HEPWORTH
“Couldn’t put it down...” “An extremely twisty tale of obsession and revenge...will quickly get under your skin – be prepared for some late nights ‘til you finish it!” HEAT
Rural Romance 414pp Mystery 408pp
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TT Isis Softcover backlist July
Esi Edugyan Lissa Evans Edward Isis Washington Old Baggage Marston Black Soon to be a Major Under Attack Shortlisted for the 2018 TV Series The Home Front Man Booker Prize Detective Series
474pp 330pp 390pp Alexander James Runcie Sally Urwin McCall Smith The Road To A Farmer’s Diary The Department Grantchester Of Sensitive The Grantchester Crimes Mysteries The Varg Series
288pp 384pp 324pp
August
Fern Britton Roddy Doyle Caroline Coming Home Charlie Savage Dunford A Death Overseas The Euphemia Martins Mysteries
444pp 222pp 186pp Elly Griffiths J.D. Robb Christopher Smoke And Leverage In Skaife Mirrors Death The The Stephens And The In Death Series Ravenmaster Mephisto Series
336pp 462pp 234pp
September
Bridget Collins Carrie Hope Christopher The Binding Fletcher Fowler When The Curtain Hall Of Mirrors Falls The Bryant & May Series
534pp 330pp 492pp Henning Alexander Peter Mankell McCall Smith Wohlleben After The Fire A Distant View The Secret Of Everything Network Of The Isabel Dalhousie Nature Series
498pp 276pp 252pp
22 Sagebrush Western Softcover July Allan Vaughan Elston Clement Hardin The Sheriff Of San Miguel The Oxbow Deed Kirk Calloway might be taken for a Unjustly imprisoned, Jess Kingman is cowboy, a sheriff, or a buffalo hunter; he released after twelve years along with has been all three. Right now he’s trailing fellow inmate Dal Chantry. They ride a covered wagon, four white mules, and to Jess’s Montana ranch, the Cross K, a beautiful woman. Four bullet-riddled intending to make a new start. Jess’s men at a supper table, cattle-rustling on daughter Millie has been running the a grand scale, and a fantastic wager are spread since her mother died. But when some of the things he discovers when he Jess and Dal haul up at the ranch, they arrives in New Mexico, and it isn’t long find nothing except the long-abandoned before he’s pulled into investigating the homestead. Why are cattle from a disappearance of the only witness to the neighbouring ranch grazing on Cross K dirty dealings of a local cattle outfit with land? Jess is sure that Luke Blaine, his ties to the wealthiest man in the district. old enemy who railroaded him to prison, is behind it all. 259pp 151pp Sagebrush Western August Clay Fisher Francis W. Hilton Santa Fe Passage Hell-Crazy Range 1839: Kirby Randolph is a tough mountain Tobias Pepper – generally called “Tobasco” man. Hauling up to St. Louis in his – returns to his father’s ranch after four steamer full of hides and pelts, he soon years at law school minus a gun. Tobasco, finds love and opportunity in the city. the fighting pride of the range, has The love is in the form of Aurélie St. Clair, apparently gone eastern! But trouble the most beautiful – and toughest – girl is brewing in the form of rustlers and he’s ever seen. She runs him over, shoots homesteaders. Tobasco must prove that him, and tells him she has no use for a brains have the advantage. No time can mountain man in her life. But she wants be lost: there’s a water shortage, the her wagon train to get through to Santa home is surrounded by desperadoes, and Fe. Kirby swears he’ll get it there. Though Peggy Elliot, his boyhood sweetheart the hostile Kiowas and Comanches they seems to be in league with them. Can meet on the way have other ideas... Tobasco show that a lawyer’s education can beat a rustler? 274pp 203pp
September Clifton Adams William E. Vance Gambling Man Death Stalks The Cheyenne Trail Jeff Blaine has been raised by his Aunt When Dave Coppers arrives in Cheyenne, Beulah and Uncle Wirt after his mother he’s returning to the frontier town of died and his father Nate left town. Twelve his childhood to serve as an undercover years later Nate returns, looking for his agent for the U.S. Secret Service. Ten years son. But Nate’s a gambler and a hellraiser earlier, a million dollars in Treasury notes – and upon learning that Jeff is following – en route to the Treasury Department in his footsteps, Beulah spreads a for the authorized signatures that would poisonous lie that ensures he disappears validate them – was stolen from a Union again. When Jeff, now a young man, Pacific train. Recently some of the stolen discovers his aunt’s treachery, he vows bills, complete with signatures, have never to forgive her. Then he hears Nate begun surfacing in Chicago and other is running from a firing squad. The only midwestern cities. Coppers’ mission: thing that will save him is $5000. And the locate the stolen currency and apprehend only way to get it is by robbing a bank... the clever forger. 222pp 257pp
23 Linford Western Softcover July
Matt Cole Ethan Flagg The Dead, The Dying And Day Of The Hired Gun The Damned
240pp 248pp Art Isberg Bill Sheehy Will Keen, Indian Scout Spanish Gold Fever Linford Western Linford
256pp 288pp
August
Will Black Scott Gese Blood River Guns And Dreamers
240pp 224pp Richard Smith Walton Young A Dark Dawn In Texas Days Of Dust And Heat
240pp 288pp
September
Colin Bainbridge Bill Grant Long Rider Blood Feud
224pp 264pp Harry Jay Thorn Tom R. Wade The Dark Trail To Nowhere Bad Blood In Kansas
256pp 320pp
24 Linford Romance Softcover July
Vivien Adelaide Suzanne Ross Hampshire Jolley Jones Hearts And Susie’s Scare What The Heart Flowers Wants
320pp 328pp 256pp Elizabeth Margaret Denise Robins McGinty Mounsdon Meet Me In Her Forgotten The Jade Turtle Monte Carlo Love Linford Romance Linford
256pp 264pp 232pp
August
Jo Bartlett Francesca Anne Hewland Twice In A Capaldi The Bride Is Lifetime Danger For Missing Daisy
312pp 328pp 328pp Dawn Knox Chrissie Alan C. Wild Spirit Loveday Williams The Plotland Series The English Return To Au Pair Tasmania
328pp 256pp 328pp
September
Kate Wendy Kremer Penny Oates Finnemore His Daughter’s Love Child Never To Be Told Duty
320pp 320pp 320pp Ken Preston Sarah Purdue Gail Richards Surfing Into Summer Of A Match For Danger Weddings The Footman
320pp 320pp 320pp
25 Charnwood Hardcover Order Form July 978 1 4448 4553 2 DONOGHUE, Emma Akin GF €28.99 978 1 4448 4550 1 ELDRIDGE, Jim Murder At The Manchester Museum M €28.99 978 1 4448 4548 8 JAMES, Erica Swallowtail Summer GF €28.99 978 1 4448 4552 5 KELLY, Jim The Night Raids HM €28.99 978 1 4448 4555 6 KENT, Christobel A Secret Life TH €28.99 978 1 4448 4511 2 MORREY, Beth Saving Missy GF €28.99 978 1 4448 4558 7 TREMAYNE, S.K. The Assistant TH €28.99 978 1 4448 4556 3 TYLER, Anne Redhead By The Side Of The Road GF €28.99
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Magna Family Saga Hardcover July 978 0 7505 4818 2 DOUGLAS, Donna Nightingale Wedding Bells FS €28.99 978 0 7505 4812 0 EASTHAM, Kate Daughters Of Liverpool FS €28.99 978 0 7505 4810 6 GRACE, Evie The Seaside Angel FS €28.99 978 0 7505 4815 1 GROVES, Annie Wartime For The District Nurses FS €28.99 978 0 7505 4757 4 JACKSON, Gemma Impossible Dream FS €28.99 978 0 7505 4803 8 JACOBS, Anna Gifts For Our Time FS €28.99
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26 Isis Softcover frontlist July 978 1 78541 880 8 BECKETT, Simon The Scent Of Death M €26.99 978 1 78541 893 8 COLGAN, Stevyn The Diabolical Club M €26.99 978 1 78541 906 5 CONNOLLY, Billy Tall Tales And Wee Stories: NF/A €26.99 978 1 78541 902 7 GRIFFITHS, Elly Now You See Them M €26.99 978 1 78541 909 6 HALLS, Stacey The Foundling HF €26.99 978 1 78541 883 9 TOPE, Rebecca The Staveley Suspect M €26.99
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July 978 1 78541 747 4 EDUGYAN, Esi Washington Black HF €19.95 978 1 78541 744 3 EVANS, Lissa Old Baggage GF €19.95 978 1 78541 746 7 MARSTON, Edward Under Attack M €19.95 978 1 78541 745 0 MCCALL SMITH, Alexander The Department Of Sensitive Crimes GF €19.95 978 1 78541 748 1 RUNCIE, James The Road To Grantchester M €19.95 978 1 78541 749 8 URWIN, Sally A Farmer’s Diary NF/A €19.95
August 978 1 78541 756 6 BRITTON, Fern Coming Home GF €19.95 978 1 78541 758 0 DOYLE, Roddy Charlie Savage LIT €19.95 978 1 78541 759 7 DUNFORD, Caroline A Death Overseas M €19.95 978 1 78541 757 3 GRIFFITHS, Elly Smoke And Mirrors M €19.95 978 1 78541 760 3 ROBB, J.D. Leverage In Death C €19.95 978 1 78541 761 0 SKAIFE, Christopher The Ravenmaster NF/G €19.95
September 978 1 78541 768 9 COLLINS, Bridget The BindIng HF €19.95 978 1 78541 770 2 FLETCHER, Carrie Hope When The Curtain Falls GF €19.95 978 1 78541 771 9 FOWLER, Christopher Hall Of Mirrors M €19.95 978 1 78541 772 6 MANKELL, Henning After The Fire M €19.95 978 1 78541 769 6 MCCALL SMITH, Alexander A Distant View Of Everything GF €19.95 978 1 78541 773 3 WOHLLEBEN, Peter The Secret Network Of Nature NF/N €19.95
27 Aurora Softcover July 978 1 78782 415 7 CARROLL, B.M. Who We Were C €26.99 978 1 78782 414 0 PARRETT, Favel There Was Still Love GF €26.99 978 1 78782 413 3 POMARE, J.P. In The Clearing TH €26.99 978 1 78782 431 7 WHITE, Christian The Wife And The Widow M €26.99
August 978 1 78782 408 9 ANDERSON, Richard Small Mercies GF €26.99 978 1 78782 402 7 BARRIE, Sarah Devil’s Lair M €26.99 978 1 78782 333 4 BREAR, AnneMarie Where Rainbows End HR €26.99 978 1 78782 429 4 PALMER, Fiona Matters Of The Heart R €26.99
September 978 1 78782 371 6 BREAR, AnneMarie Beneath A Stormy Sky SAGA €26.99 978 1 78782 345 7 CLARK, Sherryl Dead And Gone C €26.99 978 1 78782 438 6 FORREST, Rhonda Two Heartbeats RR €26.99 978 1 78782 432 4 MORIARTY, Nicola The Ex M €26.99
Publisher Selections Softcover September 978 1 4448 4565 5 CHRISTIE, Agatha Giant’s Bread RS €26.99 978 1 4448 4566 2 CHRISTIE, Agatha Unfinished Portrait RS €26.99 978 1 4448 4567 9 CHRISTIE, Agatha Absent In The Spring RS €26.99 978 1 4448 4568 6 CHRISTIE, Agatha The Rose And The Yew Tree RS €26.99 978 1 4448 4569 3 CHRISTIE, Agatha A Daughter’s A Daughter RS €26.99 978 1 4448 4570 9 CHRISTIE, Agatha The Burden RS €26.99
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July 978 1 78541 854 9 ELSTON, Allan Vaughan The Sheriff Of San Miguel W €20.95 978 1 78541 855 6 HARDIN, Clement The Oxbow Deed W €20.95
August 978 1 78541 856 3 FISHER, Clay Santa Fe Passage W €20.95 978 1 78541 857 0 HILTON, Francis W. Hell-Crazy Range W €20.95
September 978 1 78541 858 7 ADAMS, Clifton Gambling Man W €20.95 978 1 78541 859 4 VANCE, William E. Death Stalks The Cheyenne Trail W €20.95
28 Linford Western Softcover July 978 1 4448 4539 6 COLE, Matt The Dead, The Dying And The Damned W €12.29 978 1 4448 4540 2 FLAGG, Ethan Day Of The Hired Gun W €12.29 978 1 4448 4532 7 ISBERG, Art Will Keen, Indian Scout W €12.29 978 1 4448 4543 3 SHEEHY, Bill Spanish Gold Fever W €12.29
August 978 1 4448 4537 2 BLACK, Will Blood River W €12.29 978 1 4448 4542 6 GESE, Scott Guns And Dreamers W €12.29 978 1 4448 4536 5 SMITH, Richard A Dark Dawn In Texas W €12.29 978 1 4448 4535 8 YOUNG, Walton Days Of Dust And Heat W €12.29
September 978 1 4448 4538 9 BAINBRIDGE, Colin Long Rider W €12.29 978 1 4448 4541 9 GRANT, Bill Blood Feud W €12.29 978 1 4448 4533 4 THORN, Harry Jay The Dark Trail To Nowhere W €12.29 978 1 4448 4534 1 WADE, Tom R. Bad Blood In Kansas W €12.29
Linford Romance Softcover July 978 1 4448 4516 7 HAMPSHIRE, Vivien Hearts And Flowers R €12.29 978 1 4448 4518 1 JOLLEY, Adelaide Susie’s Scare R €12.29 978 1 4448 4520 4 JONES, Suzanne Ross What The Heart Wants R €12.29 978 1 4448 4523 5 MCGINTY, Elizabeth Her Forgotten Love R €12.29 978 1 4448 4525 9 MOUNSDON, Margaret The Jade Turtle R €12.29 978 1 4448 4528 0 ROBINS, Denise Meet Me In Monte Carlo R €12.29
August 978 1 4448 4513 6 BARTLETT, Jo Twice In A Lifetime R €12.29 978 1 4448 4554 9 CAPALDI, Francesca Danger For Daisy R €12.29 978 1 4448 4577 8 HEWLAND, Anne The Bride Is Missing R €12.29 978 1 4448 4521 1 KNOX, Dawn Wild Spirit R €12.29 978 1 4448 4574 7 LOVEDAY, Chrissie The English Au Pair R €12.29 978 1 4448 4531 0 WILLIAMS, Alan C. Return To Tasmania R €12.29
September 978 1 4448 4581 5 FINNEMORE, Kate Never To Be Told R €12.29 978 1 4448 4578 5 KREMER, Wendy His Daughter’s Duty R €12.29 978 1 4448 4582 2 OATES, Penny Love Child R €12.29 978 1 4448 4571 6 PRESTON, Ken Surfing Into Danger R €12.29 978 1 4448 4575 4 PURDUE, Sarah Summer Of Weddings R €12.29 978 1 4448 4583 9 RICHARDS, Gail A Match For The Footman R €12.29
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