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Dear Librarian,

Welcome to our summer Clipper, Lamplight and Center Point Westerns collections.

Lamplight is the home of traditional reading tastes, from sagas and mysteries to historical fiction. Catherine

Alliott, Bernard Cornwell and Amanda Prowse all feature in this quarter along with Elizabeth Buchan’s I

Can’t Begin to Tell You; the compelling story of a family divided by War.

In Clipper, you’ll find bestselling fiction and non-fiction, including new crime and mysteries from Peter James,

Michael Robotham, Philip Kerr and Jacqueline Winspear. Look out for fantastic non-fiction including More

Fool Me by Stephen Fry and So, Anyway… The Autobiography by John Cleese. In addition, we mark the

centenary of the battle of Waterloo with 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates.

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Whispers Under Ground Ben Aaronovitch978 1 47129 708 3 – 416pp

Life or Death Michael Robotham978 1 47129 707 6 – 512pp

January Window Philip Kerr978 1 47129 706 9 – 464pp

A gripping outing for PC Grant in the Top 10 SundayTimes bestselling series from Ben Aaronovitch.

Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And it’s just as well - he’salready had run ins with the deadly supernatural children of

the Thames and a terrifying killer in Soho. Now somethinghorrible is happening in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up thetube system that honeycombs the ancient foundations of London.And delays on the Northern line is the very least of it. Time tocall in the Met’s Economic and Specialist Crime Unit 9, aka ‘TheFolly.’ Time to call in PC Peter Grant, Britain’s last wizard.

‘A thrilling read that will have you checking corners ofLondon when you’re out, to see what may be lurkingabout.’ TIME OUT

‘Witty, well plotted, vividly written and addictivelyreadable.’ THE TIMES on Rivers of London

The chilling new psychological thriller from one of themost brilliant crime authors of today.

Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armedrobbery in which four people died, including two of his own

gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered andeverybody believes that Audie knows where the money is. Forten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatenedalmost daily by prison guards, inmates and criminal gangs, who allwant to answer this same question, but suddenly Audie vanishes,the day before he’s due to be released. Everybody wants to findAudie, but he’s not running. Instead he’s trying to save a life…and not just his own.

‘Life or Death is a nerve-shredding thriller with theheart and soul so often missing from lesser crime andsuspense novels. I couldn’t stop reading.’

STEPHEN KING‘Superbly exciting thriller, […] beautifully written andfull of poignancy.’ SUNDAY MIRROR

Everyone knows football is a matter of life and death…but this time, it’s murder.

Scott Manson: team coach for London City FC and all-roundfixer for the lads. Players love him, bosses trust him. But now

the team’s manager has been found dead at their home stadium.Even Scott can’t smooth over murder - but can he catch the killerbefore he strikes again?

‘An entertaining read.’ THE TIMES

‘A gripping whodunnit set in the world offootball.’ SPORT

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The Book of Lost and Found Lucy Foley978 1 47129 713 7 – 464pp

Sophie and the Sibyl Patricia Duncker 978 1 47129 712 0 – 400pp

Tell No Tales Eva Dolan 978 1 47129 711 3 – 544pp

A brilliant, playful novel of George Eliot, of literature, ofsurprising romance and a relationship between an authorand her publisher.

Berlin, September 1872: The Duncker brothers, Max andWolfgang, own a thriving publishing business. Irresponsible

Max is as fond of gambling and brothels, whereas the older, wiser,Wolfgang is making the profit. When Max’s bad habits get out ofhand, Wolfgang sends him to the town of Homburg, to danceattendance upon a celebrity author - the enigmatic Sibyl, alsoknown as George Eliot - she soon has Max bewitched. YetWolfgang has an ulterior motive: for his brother to considerwealthy Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. Both women haveMax in thrall - one with her youth and passion, the other with herwisdom and fierce intelligence.

‘Sophie and the Sibyl is wonderful; I was transfixed. […]Most of all of course I love George Eliot, the Sibyl. I’mnot sure now that I’ll ever be able to read any novel byher in the same way again.’ KATHRYN HUGHES

The car that ploughs into the bus stop early one morningleaves a trail of death and destruction behind it.

DS Ferreira and DI Zigic are called in from the PeterboroughHate Crimes Unit to handle a hit-and-run, but with another

major case on their hands, they are relieved when there seemsto be an obvious suspect. But the case isn’t that simple and withtensions erupting in the town, the media are soon hounding themfor answers. Ferreira believes that local politician Richard Shotton,head of a recently established right-wing party, must be involvedsomehow. Journalists have been quick to acclaim Shotton, withhis Brazilian wife and RAF career, despite his extremist views, butis his party a cover for something far more dangerous?

‘Powerful… Once again, Dolan writes brilliantly aboutthe liminal existence of migrant workers, and thepolitical subplot is bang up-to-date.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Tell No Tales is a powerful authentic, superbly writtenstory, which proves that her brilliant début was nofluke. Eva Dolan is definitely the real deal.’

HOWARD LINSKEY

In many ways, my life has been rather like a record of thelost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.

Hertfordshire, 1928: The paths of Tom and Alice collideagainst a haze of youthful, carefree exuberance. And so

begins the love story.Paris, 1939: Alice is living in the City of Light, but the pain of thelast decade has already left its mark. There’s a shadow creepingacross Europe when she and Tom find each other once more.London, 1986: Bequeathed an old portrait from her grandmother,Kate Darling uncovers a legacy that takes her to Corsica, Paris andbeyond. And as the secrets of time fall away, a love story as epicas it is life-changing slowly reveals itself.

‘A glamorous, seductively immersive read […][Foley] isa talent to watch.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Wildly romantic and very enjoyable; a super debut.’DAILY MAIL

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After the Storm Jane Lythell978 1 47129 710 6 – 352pp

A Week in Paris Rachel Hore978 1 47129 714 4 – 544pp

A Trick of the Mind Penny Hancock978 1 47129 709 0 – 384pp

The streets of Paris hide a dark past…

September, 1937: Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire onthe banks of the Seine to pursue her dream of becoming a

concert pianist. But then war breaks out and the city of light fallsinto shadow. 25 years later: Fay Knox, a talented young violinist,visits Paris on tour with her orchestra. She barely knows the city,so why does it feel so familiar? She realises her connection withthese streets runs deeper than she ever expected. As Fay tracesthe past, she discovers dark secrets hidden years ago, secrets thatcause her to question who she is and where she belongs…

‘A tour de force. Rachel’s Paris is rich, romantic, exoticand mysterious.’ JUDY FINNIGAN

‘An elegiac tale of wartime love and secrets.’TELEGRAPH

Have you committed a crime… or are you the victim of one?

Driving to the cottage she’s newly inherited from her AuntyMay, Ellie senses she is on the edge of something new. She’s

so excited is she that she barely notices when the car bumpsagainst something on the road. That evening Ellie hears a newsflash on the radio. A man was seriously injured in a hit and run onthe very road she was driving down. Then Ellie remembers thethump she heard. Could she have been responsible? Unable tohold her doubts at bay, she decides to visit the victim, little knowingthat the consequences of this decision will change her life forever.

Praise for the author: ‘Background is Hancock’s greattalent; the river and seaside backgrounds are so well-drawn that you can almost smell the way the airchanges from one location to the other.’

PROMOTING CRIME BLOGSPORT

‘Penny Hancock has produced a slick, well-pacedpsychological thriller that gets its hooks into you anddoesn’t let go.’ CRIME REVIEW

Some secrets destroy you.

Rob and Anna have only just met Owen and Kim. Nowthey’ve boarded their handsome old boat to travel to a far

off island in the Caribbean. With only the four of them on board,it should be paradise - lazy afternoons spent snorkelling, longnights enjoying the silence and the solitude of the sea. But whydoes Owen never sleep? Why is he so secretive about his past?And why does Kim keep a knife zipped into her money-belt? Annacan usually get people to talk... but this time, does she want to?

‘Fascinating and clever. […] Jane definitely has a talentfor writing psychologically scarred, complicatedpeople. I finished the novel wanting to hug all four andremembering them long after I’d finished reading.’

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A Dangerous Place Jacqueline Winspear978 1 47129 721 2 – 416pp

Honeyville Daisy Waugh978 1 47129 722 9 – 416pp

This is the Life Alex Shearer 978 1 47129 727 4 – 368pp

A hooker. A mistress. A murder. This town was built on sin.

The town of Trinidad, Colorado was a tough place to be awoman in 1913. But it was the best place in the West to find

one, if you had the cash - Honeyville, they used to call it. Amurder throws Inez and Dora together – two women fromopposite sides of town - in a town built for men. Against all odds,the well born girl and the high class hooker are drawn togetherin friendship. But this is a town that is rotten to the core, andbeyond the rustling of silk skirts, the dancing and laughter, deadlyunrest is building…

‘Waugh brings this rather obscure corner of history tovivid, passionate life. […] Intelligent historical fiction atits best.’ THE TIMES

‘Gripping, glamorous and poignant, it’s a cracking talethat will keep you hooked from beginning to end.’

HELLO!

Even when you have received a death sentence, you stillhave to live…

“I don’t have much advice to give anyone; I’ve learned very little inmy life; but here’s a gem of wisdom. Don’t take a dying man’s kettleaway. You won’t be doing him any favours. Nor yourself either.”This is the story of Louis, who never quite fitted in, and of hisyounger brother who always tagged along. Two brothers on onefinal journey together, wading through the stuff that is thicker thanwater. Tender-hearted, at times achingly funny, This is the Life is amoving testimony to both the resilience of the human spirit andto the price of strawberries.

‘This is a lovely touching book. The subject is apoignant one, handled with tact, insight and, most ofall, with love’. ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

‘Beautifully done… A fine book on mortality andsiblinghood.’ LIBBY PURVES

Four years after she set sail from England, leavingeverything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at lastreturns, only to find herself in a dangerous place...

The year 1937 finds Maisie, reeling from recent personaltragedies. The happiest period of her life has ended abruptly

and after a period of time seeking solace in America and India,she decides to return home. But as her ship sails closer toEngland, she is overcome with fear that she is still not ready totake up her past life. She disembarks in Gibraltar, ignoring anominous warning from the ship’s captain. Gibraltar is perilous -this key British stronghold is a hub of clandestine activity, overrunwith intelligence operatives, double agents, and refugees fleeingthe Spanish Civil War just across the border.

Praise for the author: ‘Another winner fromWinspear.’ BOOKLIST

‘Winspear elegantly weaves historical events withMaisie’s own suffering—the bombing of Guernica isparticularly well-done - all while constructing anengaging whodunit.’ KIRKUS REVIEWS

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The Bamboo Stalk Saud Alsanousi 978 1 51000 337 8 – 400pp

You Are Dead Peter James 978 1 51000 331 6 – 576pp

The Dandelion Years Erica James978 1 51000 350 7 – 576pp

They were marked for death…

The last words Nick Walton hears from his fiancée, LoganSomerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call - she screams

and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene withinminutes, but Logan has vanished. That same afternoon, workmendigging up a park in another part of the city, unearth the remainsof a woman in her early twenties, who has been dead for 30years. At first, to Roy Grace and his team, these two events seemtotally unconnected. But then another young woman in Brightongoes missing - and yet another body from the past surfaces…

‘Utterly gripping.’ DAILY MIRROR

‘An authentic, well-researched and compelling read.’DAILY EXPRESS

A gorgeous tale of friendship and love from SundayTimes bestseller Erica James.

Ashcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seenas a little girl. A rambling pink cottage on the edge of the

Suffolk village of Melbury Green. Now an adult, Saskia is still livingat Ashcombe and as a book restorer devotes her days tending tothe broken, battered books, daydreaming about the people whohad once turned their pages. When she discovers a notebookcarefully concealed in an old Bible - and realising someone hasgone to a great deal of trouble to hide a story of their own - Saskiafinds herself drawn into a heart-rending tale of wartime love...

‘The twists and turns in this unconventional love storywill keep you guessing until the end.’ WOMAN

‘This is a gentle, well-written read, stuffed full ofengaging characters you’ll root for from the start.’

DAILY MAIL

The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the livesof foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts theuniversal problems of identity, race and religion.

Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from thePhilippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an

idealistic only son. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety ofyouth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomespregnant, with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashidbows to family and social pressure, sending her back home withher baby son, José. Brought up struggling with his dual identity,José clings to the hope of returning to his father’s country whenhe is eighteen. With a Filipino face, a Kuwaiti passport, an Arabsurname and a Christian first name, will his father’s countrywelcome him?

Praise for the author: ‘Alsanousi is a voice ofconscience.’ THE INDEPENDENT

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The Watched Casey Hill978 1 51000 336 1 – 448pp

The Soft Whisper of Dreams Christina Courtenay978 1 51000 346 0 – 272pp

We Are All Made of Stars Rowan Coleman978 1 51000 348 4 – 400pp

Some dreams shouldn’t come true…

Maddie Browne thought she’d grown out of the recurringnightmare that plagued her as a child – the swing in the garden,

the arms which grab her from behind and try to take her away… But after a shocking family secret is revealed, it comes back tohaunt her. In an attempt to forget her troubles, Maddie travels toDevon to spend time with her friends, Kayla and Wes. However,it becomes clear that relaxation will not be on the agenda after adisturbing encounter with a gypsy fortune teller. Not to mentionthe presence of Wes’s dangerously handsome brother, Alex. Andthen there’s the fact that Maddie’s nightmare of a dream seemsto be coming true…

The Soft Whisper of Dreams is the follow-on toChristina Courtenay’s novel The Secret Kiss ofDarkness.

Christina Courtenay has twice won the HistoricalNovel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists’Association. She last won in 2014 with The Gilded Fan.

We Are all Made of Stars is an uplifting and heartfeltnovel about life, loss and what happens in between, frombestselling author Rowan Coleman.

Stella Carey exists in a world of night. Married to a soldier whohas returned from Afghanistan who is injured in body and

mind, she leaves the house every evening as Vincent locks himselfaway, along with the secrets he brought home. During hernursing shifts, Stella writes letters for her patients to their lovedones - some full of humour, love and practical advice, otherssteeped in regret or pain – promising to post them after theirdeaths. Until one night Stella writes the letter that could give herpatient one last chance at redemption, if she delivers it in time…

‘I immediately read The Memory Book and it’sWONDERFUL.’ MARIAN KEYES

The new forensic thriller from the international bestsellingauthor of Taboo and Torn.

Forensic investigator Reilly Steel hopes that a relaxing stay atthe Florida beach home of her old FBI mentor, Daniel Forrest,

will help settle her doubts about her career choice. When Daniel’sson, policeman Todd Forrest, is called to the scene of a gruesomemurder he is distraught. Not just because of the grotesque natureof the crime but because he recognises the victim as Daniel’sgoddaughter. In an attempt to find swift resolution on her oldfriend’s behalf, Reilly finds herself drawn into the investigation. Andwhen another murder occurs, Reilly can’t help but feel that shehas come across something like this before…

Casey Hill is the pseudonym of husband and wifeMelissa and Kevin Hill. Melissa is already a number 1bestseller in her native Ireland with her novels aboutcontemporary women’s lives. A desire to delve intodarker aspects of fiction led her to team up with Kevinand create the Reilly Steel series.


Blue Labyrinth Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child978 1 51000 333 0 – 480pp

Too Close to Home Susan Lewis978 1 51000 332 3 – 576pp

Inside Enemy Alan Judd 978 1 51000 334 7 – 336pp

‘A masterful storyteller, with an intricate knowledge of hissubject.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

Charles Thoroughgood is now the recently-appointed chiefof a reconstituted MI6, married to his predecessor’s widow

and tasked with halting the increasingly disruptive cyber-attackson Britain, which are threatening government itself and all thenormal transactions of daily life - not to mention a missing nuclearmissile-carrying submarine. At the same time another aspect ofCharles Thoroughgood’s past emerges with the murder of oneof his former agents and the escape from prison of a formercolleague turned traitor, whom Charles Thoroughgood hadhelped convict.

‘Belongs to the classic tradition of spy writing.’GUARDIAN

‘A masterful storyteller, with an intricate knowledge ofhis subject.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

From the international bestselling thriller writers, Preston& Child, comes another chilling investigation…

Acorpse, stiff with rigor mortis and bound in heavy ropes hasbeen dumped on the doorstep of FBI Special Agent, Aloysius

Pendergast. The murder has the hallmarks of the perfect crime:no witnesses, no motive, no evidence… except one enigmaticclue - a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased.The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shoreof California’s desolate Salton Sea where an ingenious killer isdetermined to make him pay for the long-buried sins of hisforefathers.

‘A collision between past and present that will leaveyou breathless.’ LEE CHILD

‘White hot bestselling suspense. Simply brilliant!’LISA GARDNER

The compelling and heart-rending new novel fromthe Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of BehindClosed Doors.

Jenna and Jack Moore have moved their family to Wales for afresh start. For vivacious, happy-go-lucky fifteen-year-old Paige,

the future is full of promise. But suddenly everything changes.Paige becomes more and more withdrawn. The closeness sheonce shared with her mother a distant memory. It then startsbecomes clear that Jack has secrets too... Preoccupied with herchildren, her husband’s fidelity and their fledgling publishingcompany, Jenna doesn’t realise the extent of her eldest daughter’sunhappiness until the unthinkable happens. And then thenightmare is only just beginning…

‘A heartbreakingly real family drama.’ ESSENTIAL


Who is Tom Ditto? Danny Wallace978 1 51000 347 7 – 368pp

Sometimes the Wolf Urban Waite 978 1 51000 335 4 – 368pp

The Girl in the Photograph Kate Riordan 978 1 51000 338 5 – 528pp

This time, no one will be spared...

Sheriff Patrick Drake tried to lead an upstanding life and maintainsome financial stability until his wife passed away. Then he fell

in with some unsavoury men and ended up convicted of one ofthe biggest crimes in local history. Twelve years later Patrick is onparole under the watchful eye of his son Bobby, who just happensto be a deputy. Bobby hasn’t had it easy, either. He’s carried theweight of his father’s guilt and forsaking his own dreams. Yet nomatter how much distance he’s tried to put between himself, hisfather, his grandfather, and the past, small town minds can havevery long memories...

‘A hell of a good novel, relentlessly paced andbeautifully narrated.’ STEPHEN KING

‘More artistry than would seem possible in aconventional thriller. […] (The) descriptions of thestark beauty of the mountains have a calming effect onthe intensity of the cinematic action scenes.’

NEW YORK TIMES

For fans of Kate Mosse and Kate Morton comes ahaunting novel about two women separated by decadesbut entwined by fate.

When Alice Eveleigh arrives at Fiercombe Manor during thelong, languid summer of 1933, she finds a house steeped

in mystery and brimming with secrets. Sadness permeates itsempty rooms and the isolated valley seems crowded with ghosts,none more alluring than Elizabeth Stanton, whose only tracesremain in blurred photographs. What happened a generation agoto make her vanish? As the sun beats down relentlessly, Alicebecomes ever more determined to unearth the truth about thegirl in the photograph - and stop her own life from becoming aneerie echo of Elizabeth’s…

‘A sweeping saga of secrets and ghosts.’GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

‘A well-executed, brooding, creepy atmosphere.’SUNDAY MIRROR

Gone Girl meets Nick Hornby with a dash of The ITCrowd on the side. One of the smartest, funniest,wittiest novels of the year.

Tom got a note from his girlfriend. It says she hasn’t left him,but she’s gone. But where the hell is she? When is she

coming back? And what is Tom supposed to do in the meantime?With each new clue to Hayley’s whereabouts, Tom is forced toquestion whether he truly knows his girlfriend at all. Because whois Hayley really, anyway? Who is this other strange girl followinghim? And who, for that matter, is Tom Ditto?

‘This is a terrific novel. […] The plot is wild andunexpected, with a dash of sinister, and it’s incrediblyfunny.’ THE TIMES

‘An air of mystery and of a past being reconstructed,with a booster shot of comedy. […] The toe-curlingembarrassment of much of Tom’s life is well realised.’

OBSERVER

February 14th, 1993: Sheffield United supportersremember it as the day their team won a famous victoryagainst Manchester United.

The date is lodged in Anna Young’s brain for a different reason.That was the day her thirteen-year-old sister, Jessica, was

abducted... Fast forward twenty years. The case has long sincegone cold. But Anna won’t let it die. She made a promise to lookafter her little sister. And it’s a promise she intends to keep nomatter how long it takes... A detective has one thing on his mind.Jim Monahan is determined to bring down a sadistic sex-ring. Buteverywhere he turns he finds himself entangled in a web ofpolitical power and silence. Then comes a bizarre twenty-year-old clue that might just blow the whole thing apart...

Ben Cheetham self-published Blood Guilt, his first novelin the Steel City series, in 2011. It sold over well over100,000 copies.

Marian’s stunning new novel The Woman Who Stole MyLife is about losing the life you had and finding a better one.

One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeneyattempts a good deed, resulting in a car crash that changes

her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number(for the insurance, it turns out). But in this meeting is born theseed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles fromher old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar and alongthe way, wrenching her whole family apart. Is this all because ofone ill-advised act of goodwill? For the first time real, honest-to-goodness happiness is just within her reach. But is Stella Sweeney,Dublin housewife, ready to grasp it?

Praise for the author: ‘When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make youthink, Keyes is in a class of her own.’ DAILY EXPRESS

‘Chatty and warm-hearted, Keyes’s talent is to tell ithow it is.’ INDEPENDENT

The Woman Who Stole My Life Marian Keyes 978 1 51000 534 1 – 528pp

The heart-warming new novel from bestselling Richard &Judy Bookclub author, Adriana Trigiani.

The Angelini Shoe Company in Greenwich Village has beencreating sumptuous shoes for a hundred years. And now it

falls to Valentine Roncalli, heir to the family firm, to turn itsesteemed past into a glorious future. Uniting both professionallyand romantically with master craftsman Gianluca Vechiarelli,Valentine is determined to make her mark. Once their weddingcelebrations are over, she wakes up to the reality of juggling thedemands of a business and her new family. And as she isconfronted by painful choices, she must fight for everything shewants and savour all she deserves.

‘I don’t know how Adriana goes into her family’s atticand emerges with these amazing stories, I’m just happyshe does.’KATHRYN STOCKETT, bestselling author of The Help.

The Supreme Macaroni Company Adriana Trigiani978 1 51000 533 4 – 400pp

The Spider’s Web Ben Cheetham978 1 51000 539 6 – 384pp

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Tightrope is the complex and enigmatic story of awoman whose search for personal identity and fulfilmentleads her to shocking choices.

As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitaryfigure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is

Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her Britishcontrollers in autumn 1943, Paris. One of a handful of survivingagents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstoodarrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors ofRavensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned toan England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn’tunderstand, Marian searches for something on which to groundthe rest of her life.

Praise for The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: ‘Streamlinedand tautly paced. […] (Mawer) always keeps the pacebrisk, the underlying tension high.’ GUARDIAN

‘An absorbing novel full of treachery, twilight andterror.’ TELEGRAPH

Lady Jane Grey’s reign lasted for nine days. But her storyechoes through history.

Escorting Lady Jane Grey from throne room into imprisonmentis Elizabeth Tilney, who surprised even herself by volunteering

for the job. Anyway, it won’t be for long, which is a good thingbecause the two sixteen-year-olds couldn’t be less compatible.As Jane’s captivity extends into the increasingly turbulent lastmonths of 1553, the two girls learn to live with each other, butElizabeth finds herself drawn into the difficult relationship betweenthe newlyweds. And when, at the turn of the year, events takean unexpected and dangerous direction, her newfound loyaltiesare put to the test.

Praise for the author: ‘Suzannah Dunn is that rarityamong contemporary novelists: a genuine stylist. Herprose is like truffles – rich, rare, dark, but nevercloying.’ WENDY PIRRAM

‘A remarkable writer, a lyricist of ordinary life andordinary people transfigured by extreme emotions.’

DAILY TELEGRAPH

The Lady of Misrule Suzannah Dunn 978 1 51000 627 0 – 400pp

Taking Pity is a police procedural thriller that pulls nopunches.

They have taken DS Aector McAvoy’s family. They have takenDCI Colin Ray’s foundation. They have taken DS Trish

Pharaoh’s fight. Now the ruthless criminal network has tightenedits stranglehold on Hull, intending to take everything that remainsfrom those who dare to stand in their way. This is the story ofthree officers who can take no more and a merciless nemesis thattakes no chances, no prisoners and no pity.

David Mark was a journalist for over fifteen years,including seven years as a crime reporter withthe Yorkshire Post in its Hull office.

Taking Pity David Mark978 1 51000 535 8 – 432pp

Tightrope Simon Mawer978 1 51000 626 3 – 480pp


The second novel in this epic series, set at the end of theRoman Empire, only one man’s courage stands betweenthe rebels and victory.

Rewarded for saving the emperor’s life in battle, centurionAurelius Castus is promoted to the Corps of Protectores, the

elite imperial bodyguard, the swords around the throne. But hesoon discovers the court to be just as hazardous as the battlefield;behind the gilded facade of empire, there are spiralling plots,murderous betrayals and dangerous seductions. And onerelentless enemy…

‘Hugely enjoyable. The author winds a tension springto an explosion of fast-paced events. If you like Scarrowyou’ll love this.’ CONN IGGULDEN

‘Lifts the curtain on a neglected but fascinating periodof Roman history with a deft hand and a keen eye.Highly recommended.’ ANTHONY RICHES

A brilliantly clever and insightful novel that deals with themost universal of themes - friendship, and the way ourpast actions shape our lives.

California, 1993: Neil Collins and Adam Tayler, two youngBritish men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in

San Diego. They strike up a friendship that, while platonic, feelsas intoxicating as a romance; they travel up the coast together,harmlessly competitive, innocently collusive, wrapped up in eachother. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other tobehave in ways that, years later, they will desperately regret. TheFaithful Couple follows Neil and Adam across two decades,through girlfriends and wives, success and failure, children andbereavements, as power and remorse ebb between them.

‘Lucid and engaging… The Faithful Couple is athoughtful, frequently witty and insightful book.’

GUARDIAN‘Witty, moving and beautifully observed, it carries youalong on a wave of sheer brilliance. This is an exceptionalnovel and Miller is the real deal.’ MAIL ON SUNDAY

The Faithful Couple A. D. Miller978 1 51000 629 4 – 320pp

Just because it’s quiet doesn’t mean that it’s not deadly.

October, 1939: War has been declared, but until the armiesmassed on either side of the French/German border

engage, all is quiet on the Western Front. There are those whobelieve the war no one wants to fight should be brought to a swiftconclusion, even if it means treachery. A year ago, Conrad deLancey came within seconds of assassinating Hitler. Now theBritish Secret Service want him to go back into Europe and makecontact with a group of German officers. But this is the ShadowWar and it’s not only disaffected Germans who are prepared tobetray their country to save it...

‘Michael Ridpath, no stranger to big sales figures, hasanother hit on his hands.’ SHOTS

Shadows of War Michael Ridpath978 1 51000 536 5 – 528pp

Swords Around the Throne Ian Ross978 1 51000 538 9 – 496pp


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The Dying Season Martin Walker978 1 51000 537 2 – 416pp

The Looking Glass House Vanessa Tait978 1 51000 540 2 – 304pp

Fatal Act Leigh Russell978 1 51000 541 9 – 448pp

The sixth and latest DI Geraldine Steel Mystery bybestselling author Leigh Russell.

Aglamorous young TV soap star dies in a car crash. Returningfor her sixth case, Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel is

baffled as the driver of the second vehicle miraculously survives…and vanishes. Another young actress is murdered and once again,the killer mysteriously disappears. Geraldine unwittingly risks herlife in the struggle to track down a serial killer who leaves no clues.

Praise for the author: ‘Leigh Russell is one to watch.’LEE CHILD

‘A brilliant talent in the thriller field.’ JEFFERY DEAVER

The Dordogne town of St Denis may be picturesque andsleepy, but it has more than its fair share of mysteries…

Bruno, chef de police, is invited to the 90th birthday of apowerful local patriarch - a war hero with high-level political

connections in France, Russia and Israel. There Bruno encountersa family with more secrets than even he had imagined. When oneof the other guests is found dead the next morning and the familytry to cover it up, Bruno knows it’s his duty to prevent the victimfrom becoming just another skeleton in their closet. Even if hisdigging reveals things Bruno himself would rather keep buried.

‘Martin Walker’s delightful Bruno series makes youwant to buy a ticket and immerse yourself in la FranceProfonde.’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

What happened before Alice fell down the rabbit hole?

Oxford, 1862: As Mary Prickett takes up her post asgoverness to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church,

she is thrust into a strange new world. Mary is desperate forchange, but there is a problem: Mary does not like children,especially the precocious Alice Liddell. When Mary meets CharlesDodgson, the Christ Church mathematics tutor she is flatteredby his attentions and Mary begins to believe that she could bemore than just a dowdy governess. One sunny day, Mr Dodgsontells the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But Mary isdetermined to become Mr Dodgson’s muse - and will turn all thelives around her topsy-turvey in pursuit of her obsession.

Vanessa Tait is the great-granddaughter of AliceLiddell, the little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll towrite Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The LookingGlass House is her first novel, inspired by familytreasures and stories of the ‘original’ Alice.

Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the GuardianFirst Book Award and Longlist for the Samuel JohnsonPrize for Non-Fiction.

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel tohold someone’s life in your hands, to cut through the stuff

that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live withthe consequences when it all goes wrong? Do No Harm offers anunforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated tooperating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity. Withastonishing candour and compassion, Henry Marsh reveals theexhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busymodern hospital and above all the need for hope when faced withlife’s most agonising decisions.

‘Exquisitely attuned to the tense and transient bondbetween doctor and patient […] and hilariouslyimpatient of hospital management, Marsh draws usdeep into medicine’s most difficult art and lifts ourspirits.’ IAN McEWAN

The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one ofthe most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of thelate Victorian and Edwardian eras.

1897: An elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strangerequest of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the

exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C. Druce.Behind her application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had beennone other than the eccentric and massively wealthy 5th Duke ofPortland, and that the - now dead - Duke had faked the death ofhis alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce’s coffinwould be found to be empty. The legal case that followed wouldlast for ten years. Its eventual outcome revealed a dark underbellyof lies lurking beneath the genteel facade of late Victorian England.

‘A lively account of the light shone on the lies, deceitand hypocrisy of Victorian society.’ THE TIMES

‘A brilliant forensic analysis of the intriguing Drucecase, and wonderfully revealing of the many layersbeneath Victorian respectability.’ MR JUSTICEHADDON-CAVE, Judge on Richard III case.

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing CorpsePiu Marie Eatwell 978 1 47129 732 8 – 384pp

Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his lifestory in the unputdownable, More Fool Me.

In his early thirties, Stephen Fry had, as they say, ‘made it.’ Whatcould possibly go wrong? As the 80s drew to a close, he

discovered a most enjoyable way to burn the candle at both ends,and took to excess like a duck to breadcrumbs. Writing andrecording by day, and haunting a never ending series of celebrityparties, drinking dens, and poker games by night, in a ludicrousand impressive act of bravado, he fooled all those except the veryclosest to him. More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by aman driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him hehas long kept hidden.

Stephen Fry is a leading light in film, theatre, radio andtelevision the world over, receiving accolades in spadesand plaudits by the shovel. He is also the bestsellingauthor of four novels, as well as being a producer, director,actor and presenter.

More Fool Me Stephen Fry978 1 47129 729 8 – 368pp

Do No Harm Henry Marsh 978 1 47129 733 5 – 352pp


Humane, witty, wise and full of practical advice - IndiaKnight’s guide to ageing is the book every woman hasbeen waiting for.

“Our mothers’ fifty is not our fifty. We have no map, no blueprint, nonothing. We have no sense of what is and isn’t age-appropriate, oreven of whether age-appropriateness is still relevant. We’re supposedto be grown-up, but we seldom feel it.”Part guide, part memoir, part manual, India Knight seeks toprovide proper, weighty answers to the questions women areasking themselves now. Covering a wide range of subjects fromclothes and cosmetics, being a parent to older children, havingolder parents and what that entails and of course, themenopause, In Your Prime is the definitive, much-needed guide toapproaching middle age with confidence and panache.

‘I love India and her no-nonsense, honest and utterlyhilarious guide to navigating the post-45 years.’

MARIAN KEYES

1815 was the year of Waterloo, the British victory thatended Napoleon’s European ambitions and ushered in acentury largely of peace for Britain.

Stephen Bates paints a vivid portrait of every aspect of Britainin 1815. Overseas, the bounds of Empire were expanding,

while at home the population endured the chill of economicrecession. As Jane Austen busied herself with the writing of Emma,John Nash designed Regent Street, Humphrey Davy patented hissafety lamp for miners and Lord’s cricket ground held its firstmatch in St John’s Wood, and a nervous government infiltrateddissident political movements and resorted to repressivelegislation to curb free speech.

‘An illuminating portrayal of a pivotal year for thenation.’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

1815: Regency Britain in the Year of WaterlooStephen Bates 978 1 51000 340 8 – 352pp

Antonia Fraser’s memoir describes growing up in the1930s and 1940s but its real concern is with her growinglove of History.

‘For me, the study of History has always been an essentialpart of the enjoyment of life.’

Born Antonia Pakenham, the eldest of the eight children of thefuture Lord and Lady Longford, her childhood was spent in

Oxford. Evacuation at the beginning of the war to a romanticElizabethan manor house nearby was an inspiration for historicalimaginings. There were adventures in Anglo-Ireland at DunsanyCastle and Pakenham Hall, each offering her treasured links to thepast which became private obsessions. This magical memoir, toldwith inimitable humour and style, will take many readers back totheir own discovery of History.

‘My History is a hugely enjoyable squishy romp, theliterary equivalent of a big crumbling meringue at asociety wedding.’ THE TIMES

My History Antonia Fraser978 1 51000 349 1 – 400pp

In Your Prime India Knight 978 1 51000 339 2 – 304pp



The Romanovs: The Final ChapterRobert K. Massie 978 1 51000 542 6 – 448pp

So, Anyway… The Autobiography John Cleese978 1 51000 544 0 – 512pp

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson’s Own HeroMax Adams 978 1 51000 543 3 – 432pp

The autobiography of a comedy giant, John Cleese.

This is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. Cleese

describes his nerve-racking first public appearance at the age ofeight and five-sixths, his endlessly peripatetic home life and his firstexperiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothingabout the subjects he was expected to teach. He discusses hishamster-owning days at Cambridge and his first encounter withthe man who would be his writing partner for over two decades,Graham Chapman. And so on to his dizzying ascent viascriptwriting for Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman andothers to the heights of Monty Python.

Told with considerable charm and a refreshing amountof candour, the story is one of a vulnerable soulgradually finding a degree of security from behind acarapace of cutting wit.’

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson’s Own Hero is a portraitof a forgotten British naval hero and the glory years of theage of sail.

Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastlemerchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his

nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, amaster of gunnery, a battle commander the equal of his friend -and rival in love - Nelson. Collingwood’s service took him toBoston, where he fought during the American War ofIndependence and to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell inlove with Mary Moutray. It took him to Corsica, Sicily, andMenorca, where he began as a young midshipman and ended hiscareer as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean.

‘Particularly effective in portraying the orchestratedchaos below deck in battle.’ SPECTATOR

‘A compelling narrative.’ LITERARY REVIEW

The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of thetwentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia’s last tsarand his family.

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow gravenear Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar

where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. Were these the bones of the Romanovs? Ifso, why were the bones of the two younger Romanovs missing?Was Anna Anderson, celebrated in newspapers, books, and film,really Grand Duchess Anastasia? This book unearths the truth.

‘A tangled, extraordinary tale of intrigue... Masterful.’ THE WASHINGTON POST

‘As gripping as a well-wrought murder mystery.’JOSEPH FINDER, author.


A Mother’s Story Amanda Prowse978 1 47129 737 3 – 368pp

The Ladies of Missalonghi Colleen McCullough 978 1 47129 738 0 – 224pp

I Can’t Begin to Tell You Elizabeth Buchan978 1 47129 781 6 – 592pp

Elizabeth Buchan brings us a beautifully told story ofcourage, love and lies in wartime Europe.

When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born KayEberstern is sickened when Bror - her husband of twenty-

five years - collaborates with the enemy to save his family home.Lured by British Intelligence into a covert world of resistance,Kay’s betrayal of her husband is complete as she risks her homeand children to protect an SOE agent who won’t even tell her hisname. As her family - especially her headstrong daughter - isdrawn further into danger, Kay is faced with a wrenching moraldilemma. Who will be sacrificed next for the cause? Can she andBror ever find their way back to one another?

Gripping, fascinating. […] Kay is prepared to sacrificemarriage, home, children and her life for the cause.’

DAILY MAIL

‘Impressive, […] nerve-janglingly engrossing, […]Buchan brings the period vividly to life.’

SUNDAY TIMES

This is an endearing tale, full of wit, warmth and romance,from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds.

The Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron,nestled in the Blue Mountains, for generations. Wealthy,

powerful and cruel, they get what they want, every time. MissyWright lives with her widowed mother and crippled aunt ingenteel poverty. Hurlingfords by birth, all three are victim to thefamily’s rule of inheritance - the men take it all. Plain, thin andunforgivably single, it seems Missy’s life is destined to be dreary.But then a stranger arrives in town - a divorcee from Sydney. Andshe opens Missy’s eyes to the possibility of a happy ending.

Colleen McCullough worked in neurophysiology at YaleMedical School for ten years, where she wrote therecord-breaking, international bestseller The Thorn Birds.

The unforgettable new novel from bestseller AmandaProwse.

Jessica has just had the wedding of her dreams, and now she’ssetting up a new home with her lawyer husband Matthew. Even

better - they are expecting a child. As they paint the nursery andshop for babygrows, she plans for the joy that motherhood willbring. But Jessica’s experience is far from joyous. Why isn’t shetransformed by maternal feelings? Where is the all-consuming loveshe’s supposed to feel for her child? No-one told her that beinga mum was so lonely and terrifying. No-one told her you don’talways love your baby. Perhaps it’s best if Jessica keeps that darksecret to herself for now...

Amanda Prowse is the author of six novels and fourcollections of short stories, including the bestsellingWhat Have I Done? which sold 250,000 copies.

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Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog StoryAndrea Bennett 978 1 51000 342 2 – 384pp

Wish You Were Here Catherine Alliott978 1 51000 341 5 – 448pp

The Case of the Hail Mary Celeste Malcolm Pyrce 978 1 47129 735 9 –368pp

The new novel from number one bestselling author ofthirteen novels, Catherine Alliott.

When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters areoffered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the South

of France, in return for one simple good deed, they jump at thechance to escape the confines of Clapham for a blissful break. ButFlora didn’t anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap offamily baggage coming along too. And with James developing aschoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora distracted by ghostsfrom her past, their dream holiday suddenly takes someunexpected turns…

‘Hilarious and full of surprises.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘A huge treat. Hilarious yet poignant.’SOPHIE KINSELLA

“It was Tuesday the second of December 1947 whenJenny the Spiddler walked into my office: almost a monthbefore they nationalised my mother.”

Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadreof railway detectives who trod the corridors of the GWR trains

in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God’sWonderful Railway and all that the good men of England foughtfor in two world wars, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgersand purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, Germanspies and ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks downtowards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himselfinvestigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, butsoon develops into something far darker and more dangerous.

Praise for the author: ‘Malcolm Pryce is the king ofwelsh noir . Edgar Allen Poe meets Phoenix Nights in aflurry of blood-stained absurdity.’

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘Effortless and hilarious. Pryce is in a league of his own.’TIME OUT

A joyful and hilarious tale of some very spiritedseptuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstaclesto save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator.

Perhaps you’re not a member of the Azov House of CultureElderly Club? Perhaps you missed the talk on the Cabbage

Root Fly last week? Galina Petrovna hasn’t missed one since shejoined the Club, when she officially became old. But she wouldmuch rather be at home with her three-legged dog Boroda.Boroda isn’t ‘hers’ exactly, they belong to each other really, andthat’s why she doesn’t wear a collar. And that’s how Mitya TheExterminator got her. And that’s why Vasily Semyonovich wasarrested. And Galina had to call on Zoya who had to call onGrigory Mikhailovich. And go to Moscow.

‘The ‘bonkers’ book that ‘it is impossible not to bemoved by.’ DAILY MAIL

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No Safe House Linwood Barclay978 1 51000 637 9 – 464pp

The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George978 1 51000 351 4 – 448pp

The Pagan Lord Bernard Cornwell978 1 51000 343 9 – 416pp

The Little Paris Bookshop is a delightful, bittersweettale about the distance one man will travel for the sake oflove and friendship.

On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runsa bookshop - or rather a ‘literary apothecary,’ for this

bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books willsoothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only person heis unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a brokenheart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, the love of hislife fled Paris. His memories and his love have been gathering dust- until now. The arrival of an enigmatic new neighbour inspiresJean to unlock his heart, unmoor the floating bookshop and setoff for Provence, in search of the past and his beloved.

‘One of those books that gets you thinking aboutwhom you must give it to as a gift even while you’restill reading it, because it makes you happy.’

HAMBURG MORNING POST

‘Enchanting and moving. […] Rarely have I read such abeautiful book!’ TINA MAGAZINE

The new novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number onebestselling series The Warrior Chronicles.

Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king.Wessex survives but peace cannot hold. The Danes in the

north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade andwill never rest until the emerald crown is theirs. Uhtred, onceAlfred’s great warrior but now out of favour with the new king,must lead a band of outcasts north to recapture his old familyhome, that great Northumbrian fortress, Bebbanburg. Loyaltiesand men will fall, as every Saxon kingdom is drawn into thebloodiest battle yet - A war which will decide the fate of everyking, and the entire English nation.

Praise for the author: ‘Bernard Cornwell is always infull command of his material and The Pagan Lorddemonstrates his unobtrusive skills as a novelist.’

SUNDAY TIMES

‘Nobody in the world does this better than Cornwell.’LEE CHILD

The sequel to the Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller No Timefor Goodbye.

Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced ahorrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the

echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry is just trying tokeep his family together. And the entire town is reeling from thesenseless murder of two elderly locals. But when Terry’s daughter,Grace, foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strangehouse, the Archers must do more than stay together. They muststay alive. Because now they have all been unwillingly drawn intothe shadowy depths of their seemingly idyllic hometown…

‘Brilliantly plotted, with witty dialogue that crackles inthe best hard-boiled tradition, you’ll race through thisfast-paced and brilliantly twisty thriller.’

SUNDAY MIRROR

‘Barclay takes the didn’t-see-it-coming twist (of whichhe is master) to cosmic levels here and has the readeropen-mouthed at his ingenuity throughout.’

FINANCIAL TIMES


The Liar Nora Roberts978 1 51000 634 8 – 592pp

The Wedding Cake Tree Melanie Hudson978 1 51000 546 4 – 400pp

The Apartment in Rome Penny Feeny978 1 51000 545 7 – 400pp

Can a mother’s secret past provide the answers for adaughter’s future?

Photographer Grace Buchanan has always known that, oneday, she’d swap her day job for the peace of her beloved

cottage, St Christopher’s – she just didn’t expect it to be sosoon. At the reading of her mother’s will, she’s shocked to learnthat she hardly knew Rosamund at all and that inheriting StChristopher’s hangs on one big, inconvenient condition: Gracemust travel the country for two weeks with a mysterious stranger,Alasdair Finn. Caught in a perfect moment in time, Grace andAlasdair walk in Rosamund’s footsteps. As Grace slowly uncoversthe truth about her mother’s incredible life, Alasdair and Gracecan’t help but question their own futures.

‘The emotional aspect of this story is weighed equallywith fantastic humour - I laughed and I cried. […]Thoroughly enjoyable.’ THE SUN

When the past comes to your door, what can you doexcept let it in?

Gina’s life is good. She is independent. She loves her adoptedhome in Italy and she is passionate about her work as a

photographer. Maybe her lover isn’t all she might hope and herbeautiful apartment is in need of repair, but you can’t haveeverything all the time. And anyway, she’s all wrapped up in herlatest artistic project, shots of the young men who arrive in Italyas refugees, destitute and vulnerable. Until one day, Sasha, alonely British teenager at summer school, crosses Gina’s path,and unwittingly sets her world spinning. Sasha’s innocent romancecreates complications neither of them could have imagined…

In the vein of Marian Keyes or Celia Ahern, this is theperfect summer read: touching, sun-drenched and,ultimately, inspirational.

Betrayed by the man she loved. Can she ever trust again?The brand-new novel of love, drama and hope fromlegendary Nora Roberts.

When her husband Richard dies in a freak accident, ShelbyPomeroy is devastated. But his death reveals a horrible

truth - Richard was a liar and a cheat. Now Shelby is left with theconsequences. Heart-broken but unbowed, Shelby is determinedto fix her problems - if only for the sake of her daughter Callie.Returning home to Tennessee and the family she thought she’dlost for ever, she discovers a new sense of strength and freedom.And hope, too, in the handsome form of carpenter Griffin Lott -a straight-dealing man who couldn’t lie to her if he tried.

Nora Roberts is the number one New York Timesbestseller of more than 200 novels. With over 450 millioncopies of her books in print, she is indisputably one of themost celebrated and popular writers in the world.


Tonopah Range Alan LeMay978 1 47129 743 4 – 272pp

Rustlers’ Bend Will Ermine978 1 62899 399 8 – 240pp

Devil’s Graze Frank Bonham978 1 62899 400 1 – 296pp

Tom Yancy was the eighth person to go out in gun-smoke asmurders multiplied in the gold-rush town of Rock Creek.

Maybe Yancy knew who was fingering the lucky prospectors inthe diggin’s at Rustlers’ Bend. But he wasn’t going to be identifyinganyone now. It was Sheriff Kize Farraday’s guess that one gang ofblacklegs was responsible for all the killings and rustling, and thatsomeone well-known and trusted in the community was in on itand feeding them information. When Sheriff Farraday appears tobe closing in on the true culprits, he becomes a marked man.How many more will give their lives before the guilty are broughtto justice?

Brides for Oregon concerns the adventures encountered byHugh Lamerick when he undertakes the dual tasks of driving

a herd of horses and leading a wagon of strong, courageouswomen. Dramatic clashes between individuals and armies duringthe bloody struggle in Captain Satan. And Hop Yard Widow isdistinguished for its highly unusual background of Oregon’s hopfields and for its equally unusual love triangle. The pitfalls ofmodern-day logging in the rugged Sierra Nevada of northernCalifornia form the basis for The Long Fall. Marshal Gus Hobbs,who will hang anyone for a fee except an innocent man, is at hisrelentless best in Hangin’ Hobbs’s Hemp Stampede.

Missouri Sloper and Elmer Law, having given up their rangeriding jobs to wander, have drifted into the desert town of

Molech. With the wind blowing from the southeast, a darksulphurous cloud has descended upon the town from the nearbysmelter - so everyone heard the shots that killed Walt Rathbone,but no one saw the killing. When Sloper stumbles over the fallenman, he and Law carry him to the saloon and would have beenlynched for his murder if Horntoad Holt hadn’t intervened…

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Amber’s Mirage and Other Stories Zane Grey978 1 62899 191 8 – 328pp

Bullets for the Doctor Wade Everett978 1 62899 316 5 – 240pp

Black Mike Wayne D. Overholster 978 1 62899 398 1 – 240pp

Between the 1850s and the 1870s from Texas to ArizonaTerritory, the land was raw and violent. Trained, well-

educated men stayed away from the frontier, sure of easier livingsin the East… except for a chosen few. Some men sought out thetoughest jobs because they knew they could handle anything thatcame at them. Men like Walter Judson Ivy and Ted Bodry —doctors in the old West. Both doctors were lucky if they got paidin hens or anything else they could put on the table. It was arough, tough, backbreaking job, among people who gave nothingin a land that ground men into dust.

Sam Cassidy comes home to find himself in a series of tenseconfrontations. His father owns the bank in town and expects

Sam to work for him. Sheriff Ben Faraday, for whom Sam workedthe previous summer as a deputy, is suffering from a terminaldisease and wants Sam to become a deputy again. ‘Black Mike’Nickels wants to expand his use of the public land and bring inmore sheep, backed by guns. Sam wants to marry Kitty Nickels,Black Mike’s daughter, despite both their fathers’ objections. Sam’sdecision to become a deputy means he will be the enemy of BlackMike, he will be disinherited by his father and his only allies willbe his mother, Kitty Nickels, and the ailing Ben Farraday.

In thirty years of prospecting, old Jim had never discovered‘Amber’s Mirage,’ - a shining cliff above a spring that ran heavy

with gold. But then, his young sidekick took up the search to findthe gold. A search that would cost him two years away from wildRuby, the woman he loved. In The Horse Thief, Dale Brittenhamfinds and returns Edith Watrous’ stolen horses, but is accused ofbeing part of the gang of horse thieves that has been raiding thevalley. Barely escaping, he determines to break up the gang andclear his name. Three shorter stories are also included in thisbook: The Saga of the Ice Cream Kid, Don: The Story of a Lion Dog,and Fantoms of Peace.

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White Butte Guns Wayne C. Lee978 1 62899 319 6 – 200pp

The Great Yellowstone Steamboat Race Robert J. Steelman 978 1 62899 193 2 – 264pp

Tombstone Trail Leslie Scott978 1 62899 317 2 – 232pp

Alec Munro’s reputation preceded him all along the banks ofthe Upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers: he was a

stubborn Scot who piloted the fastest stern-wheeler in theTerritory. But Munro would need more than his reputation to seehim through his latest mission: the delivery of a stockpile ofsupplies to Fort Mahone, six days upriver. Two hundred miles oftreacherous water lay ahead — with murderous Sioux at everybend, a vengeful skipper steaming along in his wake hoping to seethe Rose of Dundee and her captain at the bottom of theYellowstone River. Anyway he tried adding up the score it cameout the same: Alec Munro stood to lose more on this trip up theYellowstone River than he did to gain . . . if he survived it.

Ran Hollis was just a decent cowboy looking for a job when hestopped at the Monk Holliday’s saloon. Monk took a liking to

him and offered him a job dealing at his poker table till somethingbetter turned up. Ran Hollis took him up on the offer and wouldhave liked the job well enough except for Cal Taylor, who took aninstant dislike to him. Taylor had a bad reputation - he had toughcharacters riding for him. When Taylor tried to cheat at the pokertable, the challenge was met with guns blazing and ended withTaylor on the floor and Ran holding the smoking gun…

Cole Waldron had an uneasy feeling as he headed for hisranch in Nebraska that was he half owned. Cole’s army

buddy, Roy Galvin, had willed his share of the ranch to Cole whenhe’d been fatally wounded three days before their armyenlistment was up. Now that Cole’s Army stint is over, he’scoming to tell Roy’s sister and uncle and aunt that Roy is dead.Cole has never meant to keep “his” half of the ranch. He’s alwaysplanned to give it to young Elizabeth Galvin and to make sure shewas in full control of the place.

The Third US Cavalry was stationed at Camp Grant under thecommand of Major Warren. They were tough, brave men,

hardened by years of desert skirmishes and desperatelyoutnumbered as they pitted themselves against a huge force ofApache led by Antone, the craftiest, most merciless fighteraround. Major Warren had devised a plan to keep Antone andhis warriors on the run until they became weary and discouraged.Lieutenants Phil Castleton and Tom Benteen served underWarren’s command and both appeared to have bright futuresahead of them. As the rivalry between the two officers escalates,it will lead to bold actions on each man’s part to catch Antone,risking not only their own lives, but the lives of those who servewith them.

Odd Partnership finds gunfighter Lewis Morgan caught in asnowstorm, taking refuge in a barn. He wakes in the night

and surprises two men who appear to have been waiting toambush the owner in the morning. The next morning he meetsthe owner, Deputy U.S. Marshal Andrew Tully, who does notappear to be overly concerned about the night visitors. Later thatday as Tully steps out of his office, a shot is heard and the marshalgoes down… Gunman’s Moon opens with Katherine Willard’sarrest, after she shot and killed gunman Ralph Bolley who wastrying to break into her house. Sympathy is all with Katherine,believing it was self-defence, but at the preliminary hearing JudgeHorace Heber elicits the testimony from the local coroner.Deputy Sheriff Bob Lefton believes her innocence and now hemust prove it.

Gunman’s Moon Lauran Paine978 1 62899 318 9 – 368pp

The Texan Buys a Gun-Bride is set in the Republic of Texas in1841, featuring a fiddle-playing, bullwhip-wielding hero caught

up in land squabbles and land fraud. In Whiskey Creek Stampeders,Glenn Carnagey returns to Oregon’s rough-and-tumble RougeRiver mining country, where he is determined to break thestranglehold Charlie Hammaker has on the area. BonanzaRailroad finds a rancher-turned-miner, a high-balling railroad manand the daughter of a refining company owner, forming apartnership to build a sixteen-mile shortline railroad in Nevada’srich silver mining country. Cowman-on-the-Spot tells the action-packed story of a violent war between cattlemen and lumbermenin Wyoming. Dakota Man concerns an ex-Union soldier’spurchase of land with a guaranteed 2,500 head of longhorn cattle.

Dakota Man Frank Bonham978 1 62899 195 6 – 336pp

The Border Trumpet Ernest Haycox978 1 62899 197 0 – 368pp


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